AN: Ok, please don't get mad at me for the time line, or if I completely butchered the seventh book, I didn't have it in front of me at the time, not to mention I basically went through this story by memory. So please tell me if I need to make a huge change.
Part 4: year 7
Elisabeth sat at the window as she waited for the group of wizards to return with Harry.
"why don't you sit over here darling?" Mrs. Weasley called from the living room couch. "I'm sure it's a lot comfortable than at the window."
"I won't be comfortable until everyone's back safe." Elisabeth leaned her head on her palm and watched for anyone.
"You worry to much." she smiled. "They will all be back before you know it."
Elisabeth turned her head towards her and gave a slight smile. Then she turned back to the outside, watching for some sign of life in the yard. She heard cracking from the back, she quickly got up and ran out the kitchen door and into the garden where two figures were walking up.
"Who's there?" she asked before raising her wand and illuminating the garden.
"It's only us." Bill held his hand up and blocked the light from his eyes.
"sorry." she lowered her wand and walked them into the house. "How was it out there?"
"It was quiet for a while." he began. "But near the end, we were jumped by a small group of death eaters."
"Was he there?"
"you-know-who?" he asked. "No, thank Merlin he wasn't." he looked across the kitchen at Fleur and gave a small smile. But that smile soon faded. "Mad eye's dead. We saw him fall off his broomstick."
As the hours passed, pair after pair entered the small kitchen, the only pairs that were left was George and Lupin's, and Hagrid and Harry's.
"I hope they're alright." Elisabeth took her seat.
Mrs. Weasley made her a cup of tea and set it in front of her. "Don't worry about them dear." she assured her. "Lupin will make sure nothing will happen to him."
Elisabeth took the cup into her hands and gave a small nod. She brought the cup to her lips when she heard the sound. Someone had apparated outside. She jumped up and started to run outside once more.
"George?" she ran through the door to the porch. She saw the bike and her heart fell to her stomach, it was Hagrid and Harry. George and Lupin would be the last ones, and each minute that ticked by was a silent reminder to her that he probably wouldn't come back.
She was a nervous wreck as the growing group filled the burrow's living room. She held a cup of tea in between her shaking palms, her fingers curved around the handle. She didn't drink the tea, it went from a tongue burning earl grey to a now ice cold cup of boiled leaves.
"It's going to be ok." Ginny comforted her. "They'll be here any minute now."
Mrs. Weasley glanced over at the family clock, each hand other than George's pointed to home, George's pointed in between traveling and home. It meant that they stopped somewhere, and that terrified Elisabeth. She looked over at Harry sitting on the other side of the room, looking at the empty owl cage that his once beloved Hedwig had stayed. Many visions flew through her head. Lupin coming into the burrow with George's limp body in his arms, or worse, reading the next day that a couple of muggles had found their bodies. Elisabeth started to hyperventilate as the clock ticked passed eleven o'clock.
Then finally the sound she waited for had come, a cracking sound coming from the front yard. She bolted to her feet and opened the front door…she gasped as she saw Lupin, with George's arm around his neck. George was staring at the ground and didn't seem to move. Her hand flew to her mouth, cutting off the heart aching cry.
"He's alright." Lupin walked on the porch. "He's just passed out for the moment.
Elisabeth followed right behind the werewolf and knelt down by the couch that he sat George down on. Her eyes widen as she saw the blood coming from his ear, she waved her wand over it and the blood cleaned itself off, leaving behind a hole where George's ear should've been.
"We were ambushed." Lupin told the adults. "And…" he talked in a whisper so that none of the teens could hear him.
"Snape?!" Mrs. Weasley covered her mouth. "Can we fix this?"
Lupin shook his head. "It was cursed off."
Elisabeth didn't care about what the adults had to say anymore, all that she wanted was to see George's green eyes look into hers again.
Please George, please. She begged. Open your eyes.
She brushed his hair off his forehead and held one of his hands. Fred stared over his twin from the back of the couch; he too wanted to see his brother wake up.
George breathed in deep as he woke up. "What's going on?" he winced as the pain finally registered into his brain, and his hand automatically touched his missing ear.
"Are you ok?" Fred asked.
"I feel." George paused. "Holy."
Elisabeth's face twisted into a confused frown.
"He's lost it." Fred said.
"No, I feel holey." George smiled as he pointed to the hole in his head. "Get it?"
Elisabeth let go of George's hand and walked over to the other side of the room, she hugged herself.
"I swear." she heard Fred say from the couch. "Of all the jokes you could've made, you picked holy." he laughed.
Elisabeth wiped her eyes with her right hand. She tried not to cry aloud and begun to breath fast and deeply to control herself.
"Are you alright?" Tonks came up behind her and put a hand on her shoulder.
"I don't know." she sniffed. "I think I need to sleep off this night."
Tonks led her upstairs, making sure to dodge the others as they reached the staircase.
George sat on the bed and looked down at Elisabeth's crying mound.
"I'm alright." he told her and pointed to the bandage that was over his ear now. "It's just a small scratch."
"That's not the problem." she quietly sniffed.
He climbed into bed and put his arm around her. "Tell me then." he whispered in her ear.
"I was so worried." she faced him, eyes puffy and wet. "I waited for hours and hours without any word from you. Then." she put her hand over his bandage. "You wake up and crack a joke." she tried to laugh through the tears.
"I tried to show you it wasn't as bad as it looked." he smiled.
Elisabeth stared at the hand that was now over the bandage. On it was the engagement band that George had given to her.
(He promised her a real ring when she graduated her seventh year.)
George leaned in and kissed her. "I didn't mean to worry you. I'm sorry."
She gave a tearful laugh. "I wish I could be mad at you for a minute. But I love you way too much." she kissed him longer than he did and put her arm around his waist, tracing lines across his hip bone.
"Me and Fred will be at our aunt's if you need us. You don't have to stay at Hogwarts if you don't want to." George said at breakfast.
"I know." Elisabeth ate the last of her toast. "I think me and Ginny will be alright there."
"I wonder who the head master will be." Ron wondered out loud. "You think it's McGonagall?"
"I would be surprised if it wasn't." Fred laughed. "She's the only one that could keep us in order." he elbowed George in the ribs.
Fleur was almost gliding through the kitchen humming 'here comes the bride'.
(Yes today's that day)
Elisabeth gave a sigh as she and Ginny walked up the stairs after Fleur and dressed into their lilac bridesmaid dresses. Then they helped Fleur into her gown.
"It's so beautiful down there." Fleur said looking out the window. "I just hope it doesn't rain."
"Don't jinx it." Elisabeth laughed and handed Fleur her bouquet.
Elisabeth and Ginny walked down the stairs and to the door leading to the garden. Fred and George were waiting at the door to escort the girls down the aisle.
"What are you thinking right now?" George whispered taking Elisabeth's arm and tucking it under his.
"I'm thinking," she paused. "That our wedding won't be this big."
(Well needless to say, if you read the book you would know what happens next at the wedding. You know who became headmaster and who didn't. And you would also know that the defense against the dark arts teacher and the muggle studies teachers were replaced by death eaters. Not to mention that the Slytherins basically rule the school now. I just wanted to put that in here…)
Five months later.
"I'm sorry half-blood but that answer is wrong." the teacher looked smugly at Elisabeth and Ginny. "I'm afraid I'll have to give you detention."
"What?!" Elisabeth yelled. "That answer was straight from the book. How's it wrong?"
"Let's just say that anything out of your mouth is a lie." he said.
Ginny tugged on Elisabeth's robe, trying to calm her down. "Just relax." she whispered to her.
"and while I'm still on the topic of you…" he looked down at a piece of parchment with the students names."Miss Faller was it?"
She nodded.
"That name seems very familiar…Oh that's right." his mouth broke into a wide grin. "Your dad is- whoops- I mean was Edward right?"
Elisabeth's jaw clenched shut.
"I remember him very well." he leaned on the desk so that only her and Ginny could hear. "He was a coward till the very end. Always the beggar." he chuckled. "Your mother on the other hand..."
Elisabeth balled up her hands tightly that her quill pen broke inside her palm.
"Oh, I'm sorry, did I upset you?" he arrogantly asked.
He walked to the front of the class, laughing to himself. "Remember you have detention at the end of school today."
Elisabeth could taste the blood inside her mouth as she bit almost completely through part of her lip.
"Just forget about him." Ginny said as they left the classroom.
"How can I?! He killed my parents! And he's still wearing that smile on his face!" she rubbed between her eyes trying to clear her thoughts. "And did you hear what he called me? A half-blood."
"Just tell McGonagall about--"
"She can't do anything!" Elisabeth yelled.
They looked around them; their conversation wasn't a private one anymore.
"I'm leaving tonight Ginny." Elisabeth whispered. "I'm going back to the burrow, and after that I'm meeting George at your aunt's."
"Please, don't leave me here." Ginny pleaded. "There's no one else here with me."
Elisabeth and Ginny both knew this was true. The past few months were filled with their own housemates disappearing in the night, leaving for their homes and the safety of family. Neville, Seamus, Dean, Luna, everyone. They were all gone now.
That night as Elisabeth started to pack there was a small rap at the door.
"Who is it?" she pushed her luggage under her bed.
"It's me." a voice said behind it.
"Seamus?" she ran to the door and opened it.
Seamus Finnigan stood in the doorway with a smile on his face. "Glad to see me?"
Elisabeth wrapped her arms around him and gave a huge hug. "I can't believe it's you."
They parted after they heard a noise from the boy's dorm across the hall.
"What are you doing here?" Elisabeth asked. "I thought you left two months ago."
"A group of us have been in the room of requirements."
Elisabeth's eyes widened. "Of course, how could I forget about that."
"We heard you were leaving."
She nodded. "The teachers here are--"
"Yeah, I know."
"Wait here, I'll bring Ginny with me."
"Alright I think we should try to help Harry here at Hogwarts." Neville gathered all the students into the center of the room.
Elisabeth watched from her cot, her job was to mainly get food for the ever growing group of students.
"But how?" Seamus asked. "It's not like we can fight those teachers."
"I heard Harry talking about Horcruxes." Ginny said. "I'm not entirely sure what they are but Harry told Ron and Hermione that one might be here in Hogwarts."
The group mumbled to themselves,
"I think we should try to find out more about these…Horcruxes, before we do anything else." Neville said. "But until then, we just have to keep doing what we've been doing for the past few weeks."
Ginny and Elisabeth had a new job now in the group, information gathering. Finding out about Horcruxes was the biggest thing to worry about now.
"Think we should ask McGonagall." Ginny said. "She wouldn't snitch us to the death eaters, or Snape."
"But she's never alone." Elisabeth corrected. "Our best bet is to ask around Hogsmead." then she rethought about that. "Wait, I think that's where most of the death eaters are now. I heard that they have sensors that tell when someone is coming."
They looked at each other.
"The library doesn't work! We can't ask our teachers! Not to mention if we leave the school we're caught by dementor wielding death eaters!" Ginny stomped around the empty corridor. "Will the universe give us a break?"
"I think we should find all the oldest artifacts in Hogwarts." Dean said. "I mean that might be what Horcruxes' are right?"
They all thought about it.
"It would have to be something connected to Hogwarts and you-know-who…" Neville added.
"The sword!" Seamus. "The Gryffindor sword! That's it! Its one of the oldest things here."
"Good one genius." Elisabeth said. "The sword is in the headmaster's office. How are we going to get in?"
(Well I don't think I have to tell you what happens…so I'll just skip ahead a little)
"Great job Finnigan." Elisabeth scowled.
Her wrists were being held behind her back by a death eater, a smelly death eater if I may add. Across from her Neville, Seamus, Dean and Ginny were in the same position.
"So you thought that you could steal the sword of Gryffindor?" Snape swept his bony finger around at each student. "Now that I think about it," Snape turned to Neville. "I thought you left the school."
"I did." Neville nervously lied.
Snape narrowed his eyes and looked at every one of them before sentencing them. But before Snape could open his mouth a bright white light dashed through the room. Aurors. They grabbed the children and apparated out of the death eater's lair.
Elisabeth and the others appeared in front of the burrow.
"George?" Elisabeth looked up at the guy that apparated with her.
"Hey love." he smiled. "Miss me?"
She wrapped her arms around him. "You were right; I should've stayed here with you. School was hell."
George laughed silently in her ear. "I told you so."
"We need to attack soon, while the death eaters don't see us coming." Kingsley said.
"But we need Harry here to lead the attack." Tonks argued. "He needs to kill you-know-who at Hogwarts."
"Fine we wait. For now." Kingsley said dismissing all the Aurors and students that were going to lead the attack.
Later that night Elisabeth and George lay in bed together.
"What's wrong?" George asked. "I thought you'd be happy. We're going to fight those death eaters." he played with the small strains of hair that fell in her face.
"It's not that I'm not happy." she frowned. "It's just that…" she held on to him tighter. "The fights coming sooner everyday. And well, what if something happens."
George kissed her forehead. "I promise you nothing will happen to us. We'll survive and live the way we always wanted."
"With the white picket fence and kids running around?" she laughed.
"yeah." he said. "I'll even build the fence myself."
She looked down and bit her lip then looked back up at him. "You might want to go start building that fence then."
He looked at her confused, then his eyes opened wide. "You're…"
She nodded. "I found out this morning. I took several tests just to be sure." she smiled wide as she saw the look on his face. "I pretty sure I'm about five months along…that was the last time we…."
George rolled on his back and ran a hand through his hair. "I can't believe I'm going to be a dad." he took a few deep breaths then turned his head and looked at Elisabeth; he could see that her smile had faded a little. He gave her a wink then kissed her again. "This is the best day of my life, by far."
"But…we have the worse luck ever, don't we?" she said. "We're going to go to war any day now."
He touched his forehead to hers. "I know." he wrapped his arms around her tighter. "We'll make it, I know it."
"I'm scared George. Anything can happen between tonight and…" her voice trailed off.
George closed his eyes and tried not to think about it. "We'll just cherish the days we still have before… the war."
"We should get married today." George said.
Elisabeth almost choked on the toast she was eating. "What?" she coughed.
"We should get everyone together and get married here."
"So soon?" she quieted down when she heard someone coming down the stairs. "What would your mother say?"
"Go for it?" he shrugged. "What's the worse--"
"Don't say that." Elisabeth put a finger over his lips. "Every time someone says that, it gets worse." she laughed as George started giving her his puppy dog eyes.
"Please?" he asked.
"She's your mother. You ask her." she pointed to the living room, where Mrs. Weasley was cleaning.
George chugged down the rest of his milk, took a deep breath and walked to the living room. He took one last glance back at Elisabeth.
She blew him a kiss. "Good luck." she mouthed. "I love you."
That calmed any nerves that he once had and he walked up to his mother.
"Are you peeking?" Ginny asked.
Elisabeth held both hands over her eyes. "no." she laughed. "Tell me what the surprise is."
"Ok, open your eyes."
Elisabeth's eyes opened to a beautiful white dress draped over a chair. "Ginny."
"It's beautiful isn't it?" Ginny grabbed it and held it up to Elisabeth's figure. " I got it in Diagoon alley. I think it will be perfect for the wedding." she looked up at Elisabeth. "Alright Beth. Let's hear the official count down."
She looked around her. Ginny, Hermione, and Fleur were waiting for her answer.
She took a deep breath and said. "Thirteen minutes and…" she paused as she glanced up at the clock."Nine seconds."
(She had been giving the countdown for about a week.)
Hermione gave a small whistle. "We don't have a lot of time do we?"
"I want to do her hair." Ginny said. "Hermione and Fleur, help me with the dress."
Elisabeth stepped into the spaghetti strapped dress. It was made out of the softest silk that Elisabeth had ever felt and the train came down perfectly, where she knew she wouldn't trip over it. Her slightly swollen stomach just made the dress even more beautiful. Ginny sniffed as she adjusted the dresses lacing in the back.
"Why are you crying?" Elisabeth turned to her. "I should be the one doing that." and as she said that her eyes started to tear.
Ginny wiped her eyes. "It's just that…I remember when I helped you during the Yule ball."
"That was ages ago." Elisabeth comforted.
It looked like Ginny was going to continue reminiscing about many other things before Mr. Weasley walked into the room, he was messing with his tie and the carnation that was now pinned to the breast pocket. "Come on darlings. The ceremony awaits." he continued to mess with the small tulip.
"Oh father." Ginny straightened the flower while taking her small bouquet and standing in front of the door.
Hermione and Fleur followed soon after.
"Mr. Weasley?" Elisabeth stepped away from the mirror. "I have a favor to ask of you."
George breathed deeply as the music started to play louder.
"You still have time to rethink about everything." Fred joked with him from his left. "Just calm down, you got yourself a good one."
George smiled to himself as the door's opened and revealed the bridesmaids. Fred nudged him as 'here comes the bride' played loudly. Elisabeth stepped inside in the archway of the trellis, arm-in-arm with his father. Mr. Weasley was smiling from ear to ear as he walked his new daughter-in-law down the aisle.
"She's beautiful." Fred whispered.
"She always is, but today she's…" George paused, there was no word to describe the feeling he felt now, or the word to describe how jaw dropping beautiful she was at that moment.
Elisabeth walked closer and closer to him, and her smile only grew bigger and bigger. She looked around her for a moment. Only the closest of family was there. All the Weasley siblings and a few members of the DA and the Aurors that were staying at the burrow at the time. Mr. Weasley squeezed Elisabeth's hand as they approached the alter.
"Thank you for asking me to give you away. You have no idea what that meant to Me." he kissed her on the cheek and took his place next to his wife. She was wiping big tears away with an abnormally large handkerchief.
Elisabeth handed her bouquet to Ginny and took George's hand.
The pastor opened his bible and read the same passage that was read at every wedding. Things on the line of how marriage is a wondrous thing, and how it shouldn't be taken lightly. Elisabeth didn't really pay attention to the words that the pastor said, all she could think about was how fast her heart was beating, and how she could feel George's heart through his palm, his was the same.
"Do you have the rings?" the pastor asked.
George turned to Fred while Elisabeth turned to Ginny. They held in their palms a small golden ring. George slid his ring over Elisabeth's left ring finger. The princess cut diamond ring fit perfectly.
He recited his vows for everyone to hear. "I knew I loved you the moment I saw you. We were friends for the longest time and even that never smothered the love I had for you. We've been through a lot in the last few years, and that didn't change anything. And I can't wait to start the rest of my life with you."
Elisabeth wiped the tears that started to fall on her cheeks. She took the ring in her hand and placed it on George's finger. "You probably summed up all my feelings just now." she laughed. "But there are a few things that I would change." she took a deep breath and looked deep into his eyes. "If you were to tell me five years ago that I would be here today, I probably wouldn't have believed you. You were everything that I wanted and everything that I could never have. And by some stroke of fate, you felt the same way about me."
George laughed a bit, knowing in his head that that was true.
"I never thought I could be happy like I am now. You've been there for me when I was the happiest in my life, and when I was so miserable I couldn't bare it myself. As I was thinking about what to say today I realized, you are everything that I wanted in a husband. You are a friend that I can goof off with, a boyfriend that is always there when I need a shoulder to cry on, and." her voice became hushed. "A lover that can keep me warm at night."
They both laughed as they quickly looked around at their crowd.
A slight blush came to Elisabeth's face as she finished her vows. "I couldn't ask for anything more in a person, and I can't wait for you to call me your wife." She could see that there was a small tear that tried to appear in George's eyes.
"I may now pronounce you, man and wife. You may now kiss the bride." the priest shut his bible.
George smiled as he lifted her veil and pulled Elisabeth into his arms, as he kissed her passionately.
"Are you guys ready?" Fred called behind him.
Elisabeth leaned over a Hogwarts student that had just been brought in cursed. The great hall was becoming crowded as people prepared themselves for the second wave of death eaters.
"Where the hell is Harry?" Elisabeth cried. "He should've been here by now."
"Don't worry about him." George wrapped his arms around her from behind. "I promise I'll be back."
She clung to his arms. "Don't leave me here alone. I can't stand not knowing if you're ok."
Fred came up to them. "We need to start heading out."
"George." Elisabeth cried, as she jumped to her feet and wrapped her arms around him. "promise you'll come back to me."
"I promise." he lifted her head and planted a firm kiss on her lips.
He disappeared around the corner towards the sound of curses and deathly cries.
"I need to help him." Elisabeth said to Tonks. "Please let me fight, I'm better than half the students that are fighting right now."
"No, George said to take care of you…and to take care of your son." Tonks rubbed her ever growing baby bump.
"Tonks!" Kingsley called from the great hall doors.
"I'll be back shortly." Tonks told Elisabeth. "Please help all these kids."
Elisabeth looked around her. All she saw was suffering and death.
I have to fight. She told herself. She grabbed her wand that was lying at her feet and ran out of the door before Tonks could stop her. The battle was heating up as stray curses flew. Elisabeth ran down corridor after corridor, every turn had a memory that was erased by a blast or a fallen ally.
"What the hell were you thinking?!" Tonks came up from behind and grabbed her arm. "Do you know what George would do to me if he saw you out here?"
Elisabeth turned in time to see a curse shot towards then. She pushed both of them out of the way. Tonks shot a few curses in the direction, and then they both heard a thud of a body hitting the ground. Elisabeth crawled away from Tonks as she started shooting more curses at the ever coming death eaters. She got to her feet and started running again, she had to find George, and she knew that for certain. She entered the room where the great hall spilled into the rest of the school, where the doors to Hogwarts were. There she saw Fred and George fighting side by side. Fred was the first to look at her.
"Lizzy?!" his face was of pure horror. Then the worst thing that could happen, happened.
A green light shot at Fred and he fell to the ground limp.
Elisabeth's eyes widened. "No!" she yelled and ran to his side.
His eyes were wide open; she closed them and cried on his chest. She was still aware of the curses flying around her. George looked down and screamed himself.
The next moment she knew, Elisabeth was flown across the room, her back hitting the wall. She fell on her knees.
"Well if it isn't Amelia's kid." a shrewd voice called, Beletrix Lastrange's voice.
Beletrix lowered her wand at Elisabeth's heavy breathing body. "Crusio!" she yelled.
Pain spread throughout her body, she felt the baby inside of her twitch at the unknown feeling that hurt him. She let out a scream, almost wishing that it would stop.
"I can stop the pain if you want." Lastrange laughed. "All you have to do is say the word."
Elisabeth clenched her teeth and held her tongue.
"You bore Me." she pouted, crouched down towards Elisabeth and touched her wand to her throat. "I might as well kill you." she stood straight and pointed the wand at Elisabeth.
Elisabeth screamed in her head. Idiot! Why did you have to leave the great hall?! Now you're going to die and leave George in even more pain!
She just hoped that George wasn't coming to her rescue; he didn't need to see her die. Elisabeth closed her eyes and waited for the two words that would seal her fate. The sounds round her became muffled.
"Avada cadver!"
(HA!! I tricked you…there's one more chapter left…I thought about this story and I loved this cliff hanger. Does Elisabeth die, or does she survive?
What happens to the rest of the Weasley's? Find out in the real last chapter)
(Oh and if you want to have some mood music I suggest these awesome songs.)
How can I not love you- the king and I
Broken- evanescence
Memories- temptation
Lay all your love on me- Abba. (Yes Abba…what?! They're f-ing awesome.)