Christmas Eve, 1992

Georgia had been adamant that she didn't want to be lazy - as that wasn't in her nature - but she had lost the coin flip, much to her three friends' joy and that was why she now found herself laying on the sofa, slippered feet resting on George's lap whilst her head rested on Ruby's shoulder. Fred was squished in the corner and looked annoyed with that situation but hey at least Georgia was finally relaxing and being a normal 14 year old so he couldn't complain too much. She didn't want to say it but she had in fact enjoyed her morning spent lazing in her pajamas watching a Christmas movie with her friends. The twins were a lot more used to the Muggle contraption, neither of them could wait to go home in the Summer to fill their father in on all the cool new things they'd learnt about how Muggles live.

"You know what?" Fred hummed, blowing on his brother's ear to annoy him.

George ducked out of his way, before tearing his eyes away from the television to see what he wanted. "No, but I'm sure you're about to tell me anyways"

"We're going to ace our Muggle Studies exam at the end of the year" Fred smirked, looking proud of himself.

"I'll accept my thank you in sugar quills" Georgia joked, grinning at the two boys.

"As you wish Honeybadger" Fred replied, returning her smile as she blushed. He then fidgeted in his seat, he'd sat still for too long and needed to let his energy out.

"Why do you call her that?" Ruby cast a look at Fred, over Georgia's head.

"Because she may not be an actual Hufflepuff but she sure as hell acts like one, and have you actually ever read up on honeybadgers?" Fred asked, leaning over George who grabbed him in a headlock and rubbed his knuckles against his head.

"You can read?" he teased.

"Course I can, you prat" Fred huffed, shoving his twin off him. "So, have you?" he asked Ruby again, and she shook her head, having never had any need to.

"They're fearless and stand up to those bigger and stronger than themselves, not to mention unwavering, they protect those they love and do whatever it takes to do so. Now if that doesn't say Gia to you then I don't know what does" he raised his eyebrows at Ruby, challenging her to disagree with him.

"Who said anything about loving you, big head?" Georgia chimed in and Ruby and George sniggered.

"Good one Gia!" George laughed, holding his hand up to fist bump Georgia, with a giggle she humoured him by returning it.

"Who's side you on, traitor" Fred huffed, folding his arms over his chest and flopping back against the back of the sofa. Sensing that she wouldn't be able to keep the twins' attention captivated for very much longer, Georgia removed herself from her friends, sitting up on the sofa properly before standing and stretching.

"Come on, who's up to learn about another Goshawk Christmas tradition?" she asked, turning towards them.

"Me!" Ruby and George yelled, jumping up. Glad to be able to ease their stiff muscles. "Come on Mr Grumpy" Ruby added, ruffling Fred's hair, "I still love you" she smirked. "Let's go get that full Muggle experience so that I don't have to hear you whine about how hard your muggle studies homework is"

"All heart as always Wilkins" he rolled his eyes, a small smile on his face as he stood up to follow them.

If Kay had thought that having four teenagers all under one roof was difficult enough at the start of the holidays it was nothing compared to how she was feeling right now. The amount of energy they had seemed to have doubled and the level of noise increased and the more hyper they became the closer Christmas Day crept. Being the Eve of Christmas they'd declared it a pyjama day and had spent their morning being lazy. After they'd spent a couple of hours being taught how to play board games by Georgia resulting in the four of them rolling round the floor in fits of giggles Kay had managed to get them to sit still long enough to eat some dinner before Georgia had asked if they could do some baking.

"Any mess you make, you clean up yourself though, okay?" Kay warned.

"Of course Mrs G" Ruby nodded, giving her a smile.

Setting out all the ingredients onto the counter that they'd need to make Gingerbread Kay left them to it, going to hide in the living room in front of the tv for a few moments of peace.

"Boys..." Georgia said, looking at all three of her friends smirking as she'd called Ruby a boy, "Hands where I can see them" she instructed as she began weighing out the correct amount of each ingredient to make things easier for them.

Ruby gasped, put one hand on her hip and with the other hit Georgia upside the head. The brunette witch whined and pouted at that and then glared at her "I don't know why you're being all pouty, you called me a boy!" Ruby pointed out.

Fred and George were holding their stomachs to stop themselves keeling over with laughter. Georgia and Ruby glared at them before the brunette witch turned back to the counter, grabbed the book and flipped to the correct page "Okay so, thoughts? Gingerbread house? Gingerbread men? Plain Gingerbread?" She listed off the options.

"Gingerbread houses! We can be in teams" George grinned before edging nearer to his twin but Georgia caught that and pulled him back towards her by his belt loop "Nuh uh! G² need to stick together" she explained before throwing a wink at the other two, instantly noticing something flash across Fred and Ruby's faces but didn't quite know what...

Fred didn't know the first thing about baking and although he had nothing against Ruby he'd hoped to work with Georgia because she'd said she'd made gingerbread before which meant they'd definitely win. Being the eldest and being into Quidditch he was competitive and the one thing he hated was losing to his twin. Besides him Ruby was also displeased with the situation, she had wanted to be on George's team, the two of them worked well together because they generally had similar ideas and he'd actually listen to her unlike his cocky brother. But apparently it was a day for the pair of them to stick together, wrapping her arm around Fred's waist she stuck to his side. "Let's show them how it's done Weasley" she held her hand out to him for a high-five, which he happily returned, throwing an evil smirk at his brother, he was so going down.

Kay smiled to herself as she sipped her tea, happy that Georgia had friends that got her and were decent and kind, well brought up children to boot. She relaxed back against the sofa cushions, glad they seemed to have calmed down now they had a gingerbread house competition to focus on. That was until...

"FRED!" Georgia yelped before coughing and spluttering "Er mwyn fucks, mae angen hynny arnom!" (For fucks sake, we need that!) She carried on between coughs and splutters. The eldest twin, and friend, had grabbed the entire bag of flour and had walked over to the other counter in an attempt to flour bomb George but Georgia had gotten in the way and she had ended up with flour EVERYWHERE and the kitchen floor had fallen victim to the sibling war as well.

Fred stood there blinking whilst trying, and failing, not to snigger but it was incredibly hard not to when Georgia looked ridiculous covered in flour and angry as well. "Mam is gonna kill me" she added. Georgia's yelling had disturbed Kay's peace and she called out to find out what was going on, hoping they'd figure it out and she wouldn't have to move.

"What's going on?"

"Nothing!" Four voices called back in unison. The group of friends pressed their hands to their mouths to hide their laughter so they wouldn't give themselves away.

"Little mishap with quantities" Georgia lied, punching Fred hard in the arm.

"As long as you're all okay" Kay called back.

"We are Mrs G" Ruby replied, shoving Fred and George with a pointed look that told them they weren't funny. It lacked any real sense of warning though as she was still holding back her laughter. Grabbing the dustpan and brush from Georgia, Fred scrambled to the floor to clean up the mess he'd caused as George grabbed a wet cloth to wipe the remaining flour off the surfaces, removing all evidence of their mischief before they could get caught for it. Meanwhile Ruby led her female friend outside to help pat her down so that she wouldn't trail flour through the house when she went to get changed. It was just beginning to snow and the two squealed excitedly at the prospect of a white Christmas.

The girls shared a look before sniggering "I don't know why we're getting so excited. We have snow at Hogwarts every Christmas it's not like we've never seen snow before" Georgia shook her head before unravelling the hose and handing it to Ruby. The blonde looked at it curiously "ummmm Gia, why am I holding this?" She asked and Georgia blushed before explaining "Well whilst the majority of it was patted off of me and the twins are cleaning it up off the floor, my hair still has flour in it so, if you would be so kind..." she then indicated that she'd like Ruby to wash the flour out of her hair.

Once Georgia no longer resembled a snowman the two girls headed back inside, the shorter of the two shivering after being outside in the cold and now having wet hair. Glad to see that Fred and George had cleared the mess from the flour bomb she wrapped her arms around herself to reserve some heat. Having forgotten how long her hair could get when it was wet so didn't notice that it had dripped onto the shoulders of her pyjama top and was exposing her bra straps but Ruby had and she was looking quizzically at her.

"Why are you wearing a bra with your jarmas Gia?" She asked and the brunette blushed before simply replying,

"Boys. Now, where were we?" she asked, clearing her throat and changing the subject while ignoring her chattering teeth.

"You're freezing," Fred pointed out.

"No shit" Georgia replied, "It's snowing" she jerked her head towards the window where they could see the flakes growing bigger. Catching his brother's eye the two redheads moved forward to sandwich her in a bear hug, using their own body heat to warm her up, leaving Ruby to check on their trays of gingerbread that had been left cooking in the oven.

"Sorry about dumping the flour on you" Fred apologised, "It was meant for George"

"No harm done" she smiled.

"You feeling okay Freddie?" Ruby called out, pushing herself up to sit on the counter, "You know they look nothing alike, right? How did you manage to miss so badly?" she laughed.

"Shut it, Wilkins" his tone was light and she knew he was joking. As the back door opened she quickly slid to the floor, busing herself with moving her mixing bowl to the sink.

"Oh, hello" Lewis smiled, doing a double look at the bear hug happening in the middle of his kitchen. "Something smells good"

"You can let me go now" Georgia's voice came out muffled and the twins separated. "We're making gingerbread houses" she informed her dad.

"Ohh wonderful" he beamed, "Not sure why you'd want to but be careful if any of you head outside, it's like an ice rink by the door there" he warned them and sharing a look Ruby and Georgia burst into a fit of giggles, knowing exactly why.

Finally their gingerbread was cooked and while it cooled Georgia led her friends to the kitchen table, setting them up with bowls of icing sugar and water.

"What's this?" Fred asked, patting the powder with his spoon, watching as the dust floated up into the air.

"It's going to make the icing that we'll need to stick our houses together." Georgia explained, reaching out to still his hand. "And stop that, or you'll inhale that dust and choke"

"Eugh, it's not even nice" George scrunched his face up having stuck his fingers into the sugar and licked them.

"You don't eat it like that" Georgia chuckled, shaking her head. "Mix it in first"

"Not that fast!" Ruby chided Fred as he began flicking his icing sugar out of his bowl. "It's not a race"

"Do you want to win this thing or not?" He asked.

"We'll win on having the better looking house if you don't waste our icing" Ruby told him, feeling like she was dealing with a child.

"Why do we need a bowl of it each?" George questioned and Ruby couldn't help but notice how adorable he looked with his tip of his tongue sticking out the corner of his mouth in concentration as he continued to stir the gloopy mixture that was getting thicker.

"Because, one to stick our houses together. And the other to decorate with" Georgia grinned.

"Genius" Fred and George said together, bright smiles on their faces.

"Can I taste it now?" George asked with puppy dog eyes and Georgia nodded her head, telling him just a little because they needed it. Soon after, in a sticky mess, and on a sugar high their gingerbread houses were built, and actually standing much to their amazement. Arguing over who's looked the best Kay and Lewis deemed it a draw before they all began tucking into them. Undoing their hard work the Quartet took large chunks of their gingerbread and headed for the living room. Getting cozy in front of the roaring open log fire as they enjoyed their treat.

Between the warmth from the flames and the relaxing crackle they gave off the four of them began to feel sleepy, the excitement of the day they'd had slowly wearing off. As George hid another yawn Ruby rested her head on his shoulder, her eyes drooping, but neither wanting to admit defeat and head to bed before their friends. Stifling a yawn of her own Georgia stood up.

"Let's go leave milk and cookies out for Santa and then we can go to bed" She announced and Fred frowned at her.

"Say that again"

"What?"

"Is this another weird Muggle thing? I thought we'd established he wasn't real"

"If you don't believe. You won't receive" Georgia smirked at him and he shook his head, gesturing for her to lead the way. He may not understand her Muggle ways but he was enjoying learning more about the other side of her double life.

Having learnt another tradition and bidding Mr and Mrs Goshawk a goodnight Ruby and George had raced each other up the stairs, suddenly feeling more awake again as they challenged one another to be the first one to make it to their beds so they could blame Fred and Georgia for being the reason why Santa wouldn't come as they were still up.

"Gia?" Fred whispered as he noticed she had one foot on the bottom step.

"Mhm?" The brunette witch replied and turned to look up at him a sleepy smile on her face. It was late and she was excited about the next day.

"Would it be alright if I gave you your present now?" He asked, bouncing on the balls of his feet. She shook her head but a smile danced on her lips.

"Can't you wait, like" she checked her watch "a few more hours?" She questioned with a cheeky smile but was met with a head shake so sighing she nodded, stepping up onto the second step so that she was more eye level with him.

"Fine, Weasley, yes you may" he grinned and pulled out from his sweatshirt pocket a box, Georgia frowned, finding herself intrigued as he placed it into her hand.

"Open it" he whispered and she did as instructed and gasped at what was inside.

"F-Fred, it's..." she was speechless.

"Handmade" he said proudly and she had to grab hold of the banister to stop herself falling backwards as he'd made her legs turn to jelly.

"You made this? For me?" She asked in awe, slowly running the pad of her index finger over the metal that had been perfectly shaped to spell out her nickname, Gia, and then attached to a necklace so that she could wear it. The dot of the i holding a gem in her favourite colour, purple.

"I know it's not much"

"It's beautiful. No one has ever made anything for me before" she told him, her heart was ready to burst.

"So you like it?" He smiled.

"I love it! Thank you!" She said cheerfully before leaning forward and landing a kiss on his lips to show him how much she liked it. It only lasted a second but it sent tingles through her entire body, filling her stomach with butterflies. A blush crept across Fred's cheeks and he touched his lips with his fingers, having felt like he'd been electrocuted.

"Night Fred" she whispered before turning and jogging up the rest of the stairs.

"Gia!" He called after her, following her and meeting on the landing outside of their bedroom doors.

"It's fine Fred, I was thanking you for making me a necklace. Don't worry about it, I know you like Angelina," she shrugged. "We don't have to mention it ever again" giving him a small smile she disappeared into her room.

Groaning Fred went into the room he and George were sharing and leant his back against the back of the wooden door. His twin sitting crossed legged on his bed, looking at him.

"Leave it" Fred grumbled, feeling conflicted.

"What have you done?" George asked, sensing something was up.

"Nothing..."

"But?"

"Gia kissed me" he whispered and George's eyes went as wide as saucers. "Have you ever kissed anyone before Forge?"

"No" George shook his head, there wasn't anyone he wanted to kiss other than Ruby. But he wasn't sure she liked him like that and he didn't want to scare her off. "What was it like? Did you see the fireworks?" He was intrigued to see if the rumours were true.

"No" Fred tilted his head and George let out an oh. "My lips feel fuzzy" he added, running his tongue over them.

"That's gotta be a good sign, right? Do you like her?"

"I don't know, maybe?" Fred rubbed his hands over his face, really not sure what he was feeling. "But it doesn't matter anyways" he said, going to flop onto his bed.

"What do you mean? Of course it matters"

"She doesn't like me, she said it was just a thank you kiss. Said we can forget about it. She thinks I like Angelina" he muttered. Staring at the ceiling above his bed.

"Do you?" George asked, laying down and propping himself up on his elbow to continue his conversation with his twin. Wanting to know all his secrets.

"No!" Fred blurted out. Suddenly the bedroom door opened and they both looked up in time to see Ruby and Georgia dragging their pillows and quilt covers into the room.

"What's going on?" Questioned George, sitting up once more.

"We're too excited about Christmas to sleep so we're spending the night here" Ruby grinned and Georgia moved across the room to set up her makeshift bed on the floor by George's bed, he could feel the awkwardness between the two and threw a look at his brother.

"Don't tell me you're excited about a fake magic man" Fred teased them, hoping to ease the tension in the room and not let the kiss get between any of them.

"Says the one that wanted to stay up and meet him?" Ruby laughed, laying her blankets on the floor near Fred's bed, wondering why Georgia had gone to lay on the other side of the room.

"I wasn't to know that he wasn't real" Fred chuckled, climbing under his own covers.

"You better not plan on bickering all night" George interrupted from his bed, his tone light and teasing.

"If I'd known you were all this talkative at night I'd have stayed in my own room" Georgia informed them with a smile.

"No one asked you to invade"

"You saying you don't appreciate our presence?" She raised a questioning eyebrow at the younger twin.

"Absolutely love it, Goshawk. You can bless us with your face every night" George said in an exaggerated manner causing her to giggle. Glad that they were all still able to banter and she hadn't ruined Christmas with her spur of the moment decision to kiss the red head she'd been crushing on.