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Author's Note: Here is the sequel to Heart's Desire, the end for the three part beginning in Sorrow's Heart. I do hope you enjoy it. It might be slow in getting up just because I am trying to get my rhythm back into writing this. I will finish this story, so thank you for being patient.

A Breakthrough in Remembrance

George looked over his shoulder once the door shut. He hadn't meant to make Angelina leave, and yet he knew that he very much wanted her to go. It was getting harder to be around her and just be her friend. He knew that's what they had decided, but it still didn't make it any easier.

He shook his head; he needed to focus right now. He was trying to start creating again. He had been able to work through the last ones that they had set aside for a rainy day, but now new things should be coming out. Unfortunately he was lacking in that department.

No, he was going to focus and work on the item until he got it into something that actually worked. He had come up with a ghost of an idea from something long ago. George was going to stay there until he got it right. Angelina coming hadn't really helped his thought process. That and…that man. He felt his grip tighten. It wasn't going to happen. At all. Things were going to stay as they were; he looked at the metal, with a few improvements every so often.

He prodded the piece with his wand hoping that it would do what it was supposed to do. It just sat there.

Say there.

Doing nothing else.

Nothing but mocking him.

He threw the piece of metal to the other side of the room and was satisfied when he heard it hit the wall.

Slowly he let out the breath that he hadn't been aware he was holding. He looked up and thought about Fred and when it had been so easy for them to come up with ideas. Pages and pages of ideas. Together they were unstoppable.

But separated by the one thing that could not be remedied no matter what…George was stoppable.

There was nothing left. He couldn't be creative anymore.

Just as George was about to stand up a small voice, a voice that had been absent for quite a while spoke up, "Really?"

George sat up, that voice, it had been locked away somewhere deep inside of him. He remained frozen and waited hoping that it had more to say, "I can't believe you're giving up that easily."

He drew a small breath in, "Fred?"

"About time you heard me."

"You're dead you know?"

"Obviously, and you and I both know that this is not really me."

He pursed his lips together, he knew that it wasn't Fred, "But you're still Fred."

"And you're still George. Honestly brother, you need to remember."

George paused before he talked himself into St. Mungos. It quite obviously wasn't Fred, and yet it was. He sat for another few minutes before a memory came back that he hadn't thought about in a while.

Fred and George had just received their detention slips, Fred was to be with Snape while George was serving detention with Filch.

George just nodded and then looked over at his brother who had taken that opportunity to laugh, "What's funny?" George asked him.

Fred just gave him a look, "I'm with Snape, you're with Filch?"

George's face couldn't help but break out into a grin as laughter slipped out of him. "This is our first detention apart."

Alicia looked at the two of them, "You guys just got in trouble for purposely setting Snape's robe on fire and you're laughing?"

Angelina snatched the piece of paper from Fred's hand and then George's, "You're separate. That makes sense. Then you guys can't cause any trouble."

Fred grabbed the slips back from Angelina, "Well you're just naïve."

Her hands found their place on her hips, "Please I am not naïve. I am older than you."

"So, age doesn't—" Fred had started.

"mean that you—" George had continued knowing exactly what Fred was going to say.

"know everything. Just look at Percy." Fred turned and grinned back at George who nodded in agreement.

"What's going on?" Lee asked coming into the Common Room.

Alicia looked over at the other 11 year old boy, "Fred and George are laughing because they have separate detentions."

Lee looked over at the twins, "Wouldn't detention be better if you guys are together?"

"Lee, Lee, Lee," Fred shook his head and looked to George.

"Don't you realize—"

"We don't need to be in the same place to still be there." Fred finished.

"That doesn't make any sense." Angelina stated.

"Who said we had to make sense to you?" Fred said taking a step closer to the dark skinned girl.

"I wasn't trying to tell you that you had to make sense for just me. I meant in general."

"Who said we have to make sense to anyone else. Maybe you're slow on the uptake." Fred smiled.

Angelina shook her head, "Whatever, shall we Alicia?"

Alicia nodded and the two girls left.

"Care to explain to me?" Lee asked.

George shrugged and looked at his brother, "We're inseparable."

And that was true. He and Fred always knew the other…even though they weren't together. That was another reason why George had felt a part of himself die the night Fred was taken. But just because a part of him had died, didn't mean all of Fred had died.

A small smile made its way to his lips; things were not all lost. He knew that it didn't make up for Fred's death, but…everything was not all bleak.

He could still invent, he had done so before, he could do it again. He just had to focus and things would work out.

Remembering that had helped. He smiled fondly of those times when things were easier and Fred was there.

Lee.

George hadn't seen Lee in a while, perhaps a visit with him could help. After all he was a friend, an uncomplicated friend. And even though he knew Angelina meant it when she said he could come to her at anytime, things were too complicated and…awkward to at this point. If he had just a regular friend, that would help a lot.

He felt his chest for just a bit lighter, things were going to be okay. He would create something new, and…he and Lee were still friends. Angelina…hopefully things would work out just as well as he wanted…no, they should work out.

Standing up he decided that he should go out and see how the store was going and help close up before he went to visit Lee.