A/N: Harry Potter and all its characters belong to JK Rowling I own nothing.

Thanks to all the people who've read and reviewed the first chapter.

2. Time to be alone

The week following the funeral was a blur to Angelina, people insisted on apparating into her flat at random intervals to check on her which was becoming increasingly annoying and after what seemed like the hundredth visit she nearly took Katie's head off.

"Why won't you all just leave me alone?" She screamed at her friend, she instantly felt guilty as she watched her friends resolve crumple before her and she looked very much like she was about to cry.

Angelina felt terrible and reprimanded herself how could she not have thought? She wasn't the only one suffering, Katie had lost one of her best friends in the war and Angelina had completely dismissed her pain.

"Kates?" she said softly "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snap; I just don't know what I'm supposed to do Katie! How am I supposed to go on living without him here by my side? I don't know how to do this!" she sobbed and for the first time the grief really swept over Angelina and the two girls held each other as they cried.

Several hours later Angelina and Katie sat in the small flat Angelina called home, talking for what seemed like the first time in ages;

"So what are you planning to do now?" Angelina questioned a now much happier Katie.

"Well… I'm going to move in with Lee and get a job here in London I think" giggled Katie nervously.

Angelina smiled, she'd always known that Lee and Katie would figure it out eventually, she just wished it hadn't taken something as drastic as the loss of their friend to make them see that they needed each other.

"How's George doing?" Angelina finally plucked up the courage to ask, she felt terrible for not having checked in with him since the funeral.

Katie paused and glanced at Angelina with a look that she couldn't quite place "Well……" replied Katie hesitantly.

"What is it Katie?" Angelina asked urgently, suddenly worried by her friends evasive attitude.

"Don't panic Ange." Reassured Katie, "I just meant…. Well…. He's not great."

"I never expected he would be Katie" replied Angelina scornfully "But please don't treat me like a child, I can handle it I'm not about to snap you know."

Katie smiled briefly, though this was soon replaced by the frown which had become the fixture of the faces of most of her beloved friends since the war began "Well he hasn't really left the flat since the funeral, Ron and Percy have been running the shop, and he just doesn't seem to care anymore Ange it's like his dreams….died with Fred! Alicia is at her wits end, she doesn't know how to help him."

Angelina felt a knot in her stomach; Katie had just described how she'd been feeling for the past few weeks. Like her future had been buried with Fred. She was completely lost in her daydreams when she realised that Katie was speaking to her.

"Ange? … Angie? … Angelina? …" Katie questioned with a concerned look.

"Oh I'm sorry Kates, was just in a world of my own for second there… You know what I think I should go and see George!" Said Angelina feeling as though a light bulb had been switched on in her head; she stood up suddenly, perhaps a little too suddenly because as she did everything went out of focus and suddenly everywhere was dark.

She could hear voices around her and when Angelina opened her eyes she was faced by four very familiar faces.

"She's waking up!" squeaked a concerned Katie.

"Hey Angie, how are you feeling?" Lee Jordan asked.

"She just fainted, how do you think she's feeling?" responded the annoyed voice of Alicia Spinnet.

"Well I was just asking! Seemed like the polite thing to do" grumbled a disgruntled Lee.

"Now, now children; this is not the time to be bickering." Oliver Wood gently reasoned with her friends.

Angelina couldn't help but smile as she sat up and looked at her friends who were all waiting anxiously for her to speak. "What are you all looking at?" she jokingly enquired.

"Oh Angie, we've been worried sick!" Alicia cried

"We should take you to a healer." Katie stated uncertainly

"Don't be stupid Kates; I just stood up too quick! I'll be absolutely fine in a few minutes." Angelina replied with more conviction than she felt.

Soon after evicting her friends begrudgingly from her flat, with promises to check in everyday. Angelina finally sat down and tried to rationalise with the voice in her head. You're just tired and stressed she reasoned and who could blame her she'd just attended her boyfriend's funeral last week, though Angelina still had a nagging thought in the back of her head that something wasn't quite right.