Title: Namesake
Author: smolder
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Angel the Series belongs to Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt. Harry Potter belongs to J.K Rowling.
A/N: These drabbles won't always be in strict chronological order.
A/N 2: Some of these drabbles will be about people surrounding Winifred's life or who will come into her life at a later date.
Everyone was so careful not to be the first to say it. To christen the infant with his twin's name so soon after his death, even if it was the most obvious nickname. Even if you did somehow look at the girl and just think: Fred.
Everyone called her by her full name. Winifred. Their eyes sometimes stuttering over to him if he was in the room. No nicknames. Just Winifred.
Except Luna. For someone who, as a child was the only one other than his Mother who called his brother Ronald instead of Ron, she sure had a never ending supply of pet names for her own girl. My Little Sunbeam, Super Spawn, Leveret, Whiskey-Eyes (which honestly made people more uncomfortable than Super Spawn) or she would just make highly accurate horse noises against the baby's stomach for her little "Whinny"- Fred.
But he knew as he gently laid back on Luna's couch, bringing the babe to rest on top of his chest, that if it was ever going to be seen as alright for the name to used again he was going to have to be the one to start. It was entirely stupid anyway, he missed his twin more than anything - a gaping wound that he knew would never never fully heal. A sense of balance and companionship that could never be replaced or duplicated. That did not mean, however, that the name Fred should never be used again, that he was somehow not strong enough to hear it .
From the back of the apartment, he heard Luna's shower start up. She had been running herself ragged lately and she hadn't exactly had an easy time of it before the little one was born. He was glad he had decided to come over and visit, she needed a few hours to herself to rest or she was going to get run down. Plus he still felt grateful that Luna didn't hold a grudge against him since he was, as many in his family were quick to remind him, at least partially responsible for the inebriation fueled conception.
George gazed at the head of soft brown hair and gently ran his hand down her back, smiling softly.
"You're going to be a right terror just like your namesake aren't ya, Fred?" he whispered.
Fred sleepily gummed one of the buttons on his shirt and George took that for agreement.
A/N 3: Whiskey was the name of Amy Acker's (the actress who played Fred) character on the television show Dollhouse. And Luna's patronus is a hare the baby of which is a leveret.
Yes, I am a nerd.
