Disclaimer: Neither Laura_Lovely or I own HP or any of the characters the reader may recognise. The only characters that we own are the two female original characters. StarKid also own the chapter title as well.

AN: WE ARE SO SORRY THIS HAS TAKEN US AN ABSOLUTE AGE TO COME BACK TO! We are now BOTH happy with how the story is looking so please enjoy, again x

- LL & LM

PS: This fic has a twitter so please feel free to follow that for updates: TUQFanfiction
PSS: Please don't hesitate to leave us a review! We love hearing what you all think of our work! :)

Sunday 18th August 1991

Georgia was laying on the living room sofa, at her home in Wales, hands behind her head tapping her feet and singing along to the music that was coming out of her Walkman that her parents had gifted her for her 13th birthday. She was waiting impatiently for her best friend to come over with her father, to collect her, so that she could go and stay with her at her family home in Devon for the final two weeks of the summer holidays. Her own parents were Muggles and as much as she loved them they had no concept of her magical life and it made going shopping for school supplies and heading to Kings Cross for the Hogwarts Express a little difficult. She couldn't wait to see her friend as she had so much to fill her in on! Yes, letters had been exchanged between but sometimes you just needed a girls-only catch up.

The third song had started to play when she heard a pop cutting through the music, she didn't think much of it as she was used to her earbuds breaking and needing to be replaced, by her dad, as she liked to have her music up a little too loud and her magical core interfered a lot with Muggle technology. Just as she paused the Walkman to inspect the headphones her eyes happened to notice a green light coming from the fireplace that had been temporarily linked to the floo network for easy travelling, taking a proper look at it she let out an excited squeal and throwing her Walkman and earphones onto the sofa she walked over to the fireplace and pulled her best friend into a hug "eeeeeek I am so glad you're here, finally! How was the journey?" She enquired, noticing Ruby looked a little flustered and her hair was slowly falling out of the bun she had obviously spent most of the morning perfecting.

Ruby dusted herself down and happily returned the hug, so glad to see her again. The two girls had met almost three years ago when they'd both been sorted into Gryffindor and Ruby had quickly befriended the brunette witch, introducing her to two of her other friends. Fred and George Weasley. They were twins and pranksters to boot. But having grown up over the hill from them, and their parents being friends meant Ruby had known them for longer than she could remember. Her summer so far had been the best four weeks of her life, she'd spent most of her time by the otter river with the twins or playing quidditch with them in their backyard. And just a few days earlier her older brother Onyx had arrived back for a short visit from Romania where he'd gone studying dragons with his best friend Charlie.

"Quick" the blonde witch laughed, more than glad to be back on her two feet. "I don't think I'll ever get used to that," she added, throwing an accusing look at the fireplace. Moments later a tall man with mousy brown hair stepped out of the fireplace behind her.

"Alright Mr Wilkins" Georgia greeted politely, in her thick Welsh accent.

"Hello, and I've told you. Ralph is fine" he chuckled, placing a hand on his daughter's shoulder.

"Maaaaaam! Roo is here!" Georgia called out the door.

"Hey Mrs. G!" Ruby yelled after her, thankful that she was letting Georgia come and stay with them before school started back up. Georgia's mum, Kay Goshawk, came hurrying into the room, and greeted Ralph. Thanking him for allowing her daughter to spend time at his home as she and her husband had to get back to working at their jobs. Kay fussed over her only child, making sure she looked presentable, giving her instructions to behave herself and to remember her manners. Georgia promised and finally they were off. Once at the Wilkins home, Ralph carried Georgia's school trunk off to the storage cupboard in the hallway to store it with Ruby's until they needed packing.

The brown haired girl had barely stepped out of the fireplace when suddenly someone wrapped their strong arms around her, lifting her from her feet and spinning her round. She let out a squeal of fright gripping the muscled arms for safety. Nearby she could hear the soft laugh of her best friend. Ralph stepped past them, pressing a kiss to his wife's cheek.

"Onyx Cairo! Put her down this instant" Rosa Wilkins warned her son sternly. He may have been nineteen but he wasn't too old for a telling off. Georgia relaxed upon hearing his name and her squeal turned into one of excitement as she was placed back down, feeling slightly dizzy. She wrapped her arms around the older boy and hugged him tightly. She hadn't seen him since the train ride home after her first year at Hogwarts, Onyx had graduated that year and left the country that summer. Georgia was sure he'd gotten taller, if that was even possible for the already gangly boy and his once blonde hair was longer than she remembered and dyed a deep purple that surprisingly suited him.

"I didn't know you were back!"

"Surprise" Ruby chuckled, rubbing the back of her neck. "He surprised us too, we didn't know he was visiting so I didn't get chance to tell you"

"Couldn't miss my baby sister's thirteenth birthday. It's not everyday you become a real teenager" Onyx rubbed his knuckles across the top of Ruby's head and she smacked his arm away throwing him a glare.

"It's good to see you again sweetheart" Rosa Wilkins welcomed, holding her own arms out for a hug.

"You too Mrs Wilkins, thank you for having me" Georgia smiled as she hugged the woman back.

"You're welcome anytime" Ralph spoke from the doorway.

"It's no trouble. Dinner won't be long, why don't you three kids head on outside until it's ready" This caused Onyx to pull a face behind his mother's back making the girls laugh at him.

"I'm not a child mum" he rolled his eyes.

"You'll always be my child," his mother replied. Onyx ducked out of her way moving across the living room to avoid her getting emotional again. "Come on Dad, didn't Arthur want your opinion on the new contraption he discovered?" Taking his father by the shoulders he steered him out of the house, leaving the girls to it. Rosa yelled after them that they'd better be back in time for dinner because she wasn't cooking for the fun of it. Georgia sighed inwardly as she watched Onyx lead Ralph out of the house, it would have been nice to have spent some time getting to know Onyx again, she was also acutely aware that she wasn't looking her best and she could kill Ruby for not giving her the heads up earlier, she could have dressed better!

Shaking her head at her family Ruby pulled Georgia with her "Come on, we can go to my bedroom" kicking their trainers off in the hallway the two girls raced up the stairs.

A few days later Ruby was sitting on the bottom of her bed one morning, curiously looking at the device that Georgia had been previously using, she picked it up with caution "What's this?" she asked.

"Muggle music player" Georgia explained.

"Like a Wizarding Wireless?" She inquired, examining the small item in her hand.

"Sort of, but better. You don't have to wait for someone to be broadcasting, the music is always there"

Ruby found it interesting that something so small could hold music all the time but still didn't understand how it was possible having never had much experience with Muggles. Taking her Walkman back Georgia handed Ruby the earphones. "Here, put those into your ears" she instructed before hitting the play button, forgetting the volume was still up high. Ruby jumped in fright when the music began to play loudly, her eyes wide. Unable to help herself Georgia burst out laughing before quickly apologizing and turning the volume down for her. After she'd let her friend listen to a couple songs Georgia took one of the earbuds back so that she could listen as well.

"That's so cool" Ruby said in awe, the songs were unlike anything she'd heard before. They were a lot softer than what her favourite band the Weird Sisters sang.

Georgia hummed her agreement "Know what else is cool?" Ruby shook her head no and her friend pulled the latest edition of their favourite Wizarding magazine, Hello Magic causing both girls to squeal in excitement. The two spent the next couple of hours catching up on things they hadn't gotten a chance to talk about yet and while flipping through the magazine, talk turned to school.

"Who'd you think will be our new Defence teacher this year?" Georgia asked pondering the thought, the past two Professors had been decent enough but had both left at the end of the year for different reasons.

"Dad said he's heard rumours at the Ministry that the old Muggle Studies Professor is returning to take over" Ruby shrugged not sure if there was any truth behind it, she knew nothing of him other than seeing him at the teachers table during meals in her first year. Turning their attention back to the magazine in front of them the two giggled at the cute Quidditch players moving across the pages promoting them to think of their other close friends.

"What do you think the boys will be up to right now?"

The boys of course being Fred and George Weasley, Gryffindors most notorious trouble makers. The once trio of friends had quickly accepted the short witch into their group, becoming almost inseparable during their first two years of Hogwarts. They joked that she was their lion cub and them her protectors. Because being muggleborn meant they'd had to teach her several various things about the Wizarding World, turned out things were completely different back in her muggle life and they found it oddly amazing. One of the biggest things being how to correctly use a quill, Georgia had struggled to adjust from her standard pencil and paper until the twins had sat with her one day and made her relax and let her magic flow from her core and into the Quill. She hadn't known she was able to control her magic in such ways before and was grateful they'd taught her how to do it because it made holding her wand feel more natural too and she'd started making progress in her transfigurations and charms classes after that because of it.

Georgia let her mind wander and then subtly, or so she thought, she picked up the book that she'd been reading on a nighttime from the dresser and opened the back cover, pulling out the stack of letters she'd received that summer and leafing through them she came to a stop at a letter with haphazard writing and read it again a smile forming at her lips.

"How can you read that?!" Ruby questioned as she frowned down at the small sentence that was pretty difficult to read to untrained, practiced, eyes.

Georgia shrugged "You get used to it when you sit down and help him with homework. Anyway, I believe Miss Wilkins that they are 'perfecting the boil cure cream'" she quoted the small sentence that Fred had written and then carefully put the letters back to keep them flat. Ruby let out a loud laugh, before shuddering at the memory from their first year in potions class. It still haunted her as though it was only yesterday it had happened.

They'd been learning how to brew their first ever potion, which just so happened to be one of the easier things to brew, a cure for boils. But the twins had been more focused on joking around and making the girls laugh in an attempt to get them told off by Professor Snape rather than watching the potion bubbling in front of them. The instructions, to take the potion off the heat before adding the porcupine quills to the mixture, had been underlined clearly by the Professor on the chalkboard as well as laid out in the book, Magical Drafts and Potions, sat on the desk in front of them. But having not been paying attention to class one of the red haired boys, they liked to blame each other for the mishap, added them while the potion was still heating. As a result the cauldron began to melt, and in a fluster to save it the cauldron got knocked over sending the sticky potion in all directions. After a long lecture from Snape he'd sent the four of them off to the Hospital Wing to have Madame Pomfrey remove the various boils that had erupted on their skin. The twins had apologised profusely to the new witch they'd met a month earlier, she hadn't meant to get hurt because of their antics and asked that she not let either of their big brothers know about the accident because they'd no doubt write home to their mum. Ruby has confirmed that they would tell and that being on the wrong side of Mrs Weasley wasn't much fun. Georgia hadn't liked the sound of it and didn't want her new friends to get into trouble as she hadn't made many yet so agreed to keep to their little secret and as a result the friendship had been formed.

Georgia returned her focus back to the Quidditch players, at least they were allowed to giggle over them, having a crush on one of her best male friends was not a thing Georgia could admit to! Especially not to either of the boys and definitely not to Ruby either. She would tease her mercifully and besides, she could never live up to their fellow housemate and Quidditch player Angelina Johnson. Letting out a sigh Georgia rested her head onto Ruby's shoulder and then stroked the corner of the page - it was something she had always done much to her friends and teachers annoyance but she didn't care, it was almost soothing.

"Sickle for your thoughts?" Ruby smiled, knowing fine well that her friend only used her shoulder as a cushion when she was lost in thought.

Georgia bit her lip "Nothing, just glad to be here that's all" she repeated again. It was half true, yes the other half of her wished it was Fred's shoulder she was resting her head onto but as that wasn't going to happen ever she had to make do with Ruby's.

"You know, we could always go visit Fred and George if you want. They're just over that hill back there" Ruby told her friend, pointing out of her bedroom window.

"But won't your mum be annoyed?" Georgia asked, biting her lip. She'd heard that Mrs Weasley was a feeder.

Ruby shook her head and jumped up off the bed "She's always telling me I need to be out getting some fresh air. As long as we tell her where we are so she can find us if she needs us it'll be fine. We could always invite Onyx for good measure" she added with a shrug, knowing her mother would feel better having the elder boy watching out for them.

"How long is he visiting for?" Georgia asked, grabbing her trainers.

"Not sure, why?" Ruby cocked her head to one side wondering why her friend cared.

"No reason" Georgia ducked her head, focusing on tying her laces. "It's just nice, it reminds me of our first year. It was always so nice having older friends to turn to, you know? I miss them being around"

Ruby hummed her agreement, pulling her hair up into a ponytail "Suppose so."

Onyx hadn't needed to be asked twice, he'd instantly agreed to join them, wanting to get out of the house for a while. He was getting bored not being constantly active. Rosa had been all too happy for them to go out, happy to have some free time to catch up on her house work. Even with the help of magic she still had a lot to get on with. All too long the three had crossed the hill, Onyx had challenged them to see who could reach the top first, and they were cutting through the small clearing of trees towards the Otter Stream that separated Ottery St Catchpole from the Muggle Village that Ruby lived in. Birds swooped above them, singing happily in the late morning sun and the sounds of running water could be heard getting closer. The clearing looked really peaceful and reminded Georgia of the rivers and beaches back home in Wales. The stream was filled with boulders that the water rapidly flowed round and the lack of a bridge caught her attention. "Umm, Roo..."

"Yeah?" The blonde turned to look at her.

"Didn't you say we had to cross the stream?" Ruby nodded in confirmation, twisting the daisies she'd picked from the grass together. "How exactly do we do that?"

"The rocks, they work as great stepping stones"

"Oh..." Georgia gulped, she wasn't the best at balancing. And worried she'd slip and fall into the water. "Are you sure that's a good idea?"

"I do it all the time, it's fine" Ruby shrugged, taking the lead and leaping easily from stone to stone until she reached the opposite side. "See?"

"Easy for you to say" Georgia scrunched her nose up, standing on the edge of the grassy bank, wondering if her shorter legs would make it if she jumped.

"Not very empathetic, my sister" Onyx chuckled standing beside the brunette.

"I heard that!" Ruby shouted.

"You were meant too" her brother teased, throwing a wink at Georgia who blushed. "Here, hop up. I'll take you across the stream" Onyx crouched low, holding his arms out backwards so he could give her a piggyback ride.

"What?" she squeaked.

"I won't drop you in, I'd only do that to Roo"

"Oi! I heard that as well" Ruby retorted.

"Good, means there's nothing wrong with your hearing" Onyx shouted back before reassuring Georgia that she would be safe and could trust him. Deciding to throw caution to the wind and channel her inner brave lion for once she allowed him to give her a piggyback ride. She wrapped her arms around him as tightly as she dared without strangling him and hid her face in the space between his neck and shoulder, ignoring how nice he smelt as she prayed to Merlin that he wouldn't slip and send them both into the water. Arriving on the other side of the stream felt like stepping into a whole other world, it wasn't something Georgia could explain and decided not to voice her thoughts as Onyx refused to put her down even though they were safely back on solid ground and Georgia wasn't going to complain, allowing him to carry her towards the Burrow.

The ramshackled house was nothing like she'd ever seen before with it's many floors that jutted out in different directions, held together with magic. The home with its wildly overgrown garden looked old and worn but it had clearly been built with love and it showed. She'd never been before but it looked welcoming and homey and she knew it would have a safe feeling inside. Ruby skipped up the mud path ahead of them and upon reaching the small wooden gate Onyx let Georgia down, offering her a mock bow.

"Fair maiden, we have arrived"

"Thank you kindly Knight" Georgia giggled while Ruby mimed throwing up before holding the gate open for them all to pass through. As the three of them approached, the red painted door suddenly swung open revealing a red haired woman, an apron tied around her waist. She looked mad as her eyes landed on Onyx.

"WHAT'S THIS? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO YOUR LOVELY HAIR?! YOU'D LOOK SO MUCH SMARTER IF IT WASN'T THAT RIDICULOUS COLOUR"

Onyx rolled his eyes, he'd known that the motherly woman wouldn't approve just as his own mother hadn't. But he was of age now and he liked it which was all that mattered to him.

"AND HOW DARE YOU RETURN HOME AND NOT BRING MY CHARLIE WITH YOU! WHERE IS HE? AVOIDING US?"

"No Molls, I swear he would have loved to have visited too. He misses you all so much and sends his love. The reserve is just a little busy right now, preparing for a new batch of baby dragon. It's kind of all hands on deck. I was lucky to get away and can't really stay in England long. Got the portkey booked for two days time"

Ruby hadn't known that and looked defeated, but Molly's features softened at Onyx's words. Pleased with the answer and happy to know her son would have visited if he hadn't been busy. It was typical Charlie to put others before himself and that made her proud of her son. Georgia looked taken aback as she slightly hid behind Ruby, hoping the other girl would protect her from the woman's wrath. Not that she'd done anything wrong but in her eyes, neither had Onyx. She'd heard that the twins' mam could be scary but witnessing it shook her.

Molly reached out and gently took Onyx's acheeks in her hands "You've got to stop growing young man, have you been looking after yourself, you're looking underfed"

"I'm fine, honestly" he chuckled "I'm eating enough"

"Come, sit. I've got leftovers from breakfast" not waiting to give the boy a choice. She pushed Onyx into the kitchen behind her before her gaze fell on the two girls.

"Oh Ruby dear, how wonderful to see you again" she pulled the blonde into a bone crushing hug that Ruby was all too happy to return. She loved the woman as much as her own mum. "It's only been a week Molly" she laughed.

"A week is a long time" she smiled patting the girls head as she released her from the hug. She then turned to Georgia and gave her a motherly smile too "And this must be Georgia, those troublesome twins of mine haven't stopped talking about you all summer"

Georgia blushed, wondering why they'd be so interested in talking about her and hoping they hadn't been saying bad things. Her worries were squashed as she too was pulled into a crushing hug that made her feel loved and safe. "It's so good to finally meet you"

"Likewise" Georgia smiled back.

"Are you girls hungry?"

Ruby shook her head "Mum made us pancakes this morning" Molly tutted at that.

"That just won't do, I've told her before. With growing children they need meat on their bones" Molly stepped back and gestured for them both to come in where they found Fred and George talking animatedly to Onyx who was sat at the kitchen table with two other young red heads that Georgia had only ever heard about. She was about to introduce herself to the two youngest Weasley siblings, and make sure that the twins realised they actually existed when she felt a pair of hands on her shoulders "And you must be the Muggleborn" Arthur Weasley said, causing Molly to tut from the kitchen.

"Leave her alone Arthur, she came here to see the boys, not to answer questions on any Muggle artifacts you may have discovered and put in your shed"

Georgia smiled politely "Honestly, it's no trouble at all Mrs Weasley, if I can help him understand Muggles then I'm sure he can help me understand the magical world some more" she shrugged "it's a win win really" she giggled and Arthur beamed before throwing her a fatherly wink "Come on then, let's go see my shed!"

"Told you he'd love her" Ruby piped up from the doorway which caused the five people sat around the table to look up and over at her "Who's loving who?" Ginny asked, a frown on her face.

"Arthur loving the fact that Georgia lives with Muggles," the Wilkins siblings said in unison.

"Wait, GiGi's here?!" Fred and George asked when the knut had dropped. Ruby laughed and shook her head "Yup, well she's now in the shed with your dad but yes she came with us, over the stream and everything" she threw Onyx a side eye.

The twins scraped their chairs back "Well we should go rescue her! Godric only knows how long he'll keep her there for"

Onyx let out a loud laugh, whilst leaning back on his chair - much to Molly's dismay. "To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if Arthur has taken her there to allow her some peace and quiet from all three of you." Ruby pouted and threw him a glare "Onyx Cairo! That is unfair and so untrue, take that back!" She stomped her foot for good measure causing Onyx to roll his eyes and then, putting his chair back on all four legs he returned to entertaining the youngest Weasley's with tales of dragons and Charlie. Which gave the elder three a chance to escape to the end of the garden. Fred and George wanted help with a prank they wanted to pull on Percy anyway and they knew that Georgia, being in their house, would be too polite to say no especially as they had a very good plan for how she'd lure Percy in anyway.

Deciding not to knock the twins pushed open the shed door and piled on top of Georgia with bone crushing hugs, she spluttered and tried to breathe "What is it with this family and bone crushing hugs?" She asked once she was let go, blushing when she remembered how kind Arthur had been to show her around the shed "S-Sorry" she soon added, but Arthur simply waved it away "No problem my dear, you'll soon get used to Molly and the twins' ways" he reassured her and she instantly relaxed before turning to look up at her red haired best friends "Finally remembered I existed then?" She teased and the twins blushed "Yeah, um, blame Onyx.. once he gets started on dragons he can't stop, he's as bad as Charlie!" The girls shared a look not believing a word.

"Anyway, what's so urgent that you had to interrupt my lesson with Arthur?" she scolded and the twins bit their lips before looking towards the door "Not here..." Fred said quietly and Arthur looked at the two of them "Boys..." he started "please behave, you've got guests and you know how your mother gets" he reminded them, knowing full well they wouldn't listen but it was worth a shot and Molly couldn't be mad at him for not trying to put a stop to any mischief they were about to get up too.

Georgia then turned to look at Arthur "Am I free to go?" She asked politely and the older man nodded "Of course my dear." She got down off the stool and then linking arms with Ruby she let the twins lead them out into the garden "Well, come on then?" She asked, looking at them with raised eyebrows and the twins shared a look "Well, we've finally perfected the boil cure cream and..." Fred started off before looking at George to take up the baton "...we've decided to try it out on Percy!" The younger twin finished off with a broad grin and the girls looked at one another "Right and you need us why?" The brunette questioned

"Because, Goshawk, you're Muggleborn and you can start off the prank by giving him one of these" Fred clarified, holding out his hand to show the bag of orange coloured sweets.

"Why me? Give him one yourself"

"Because Percy wouldn't suspect you. Plus you can tell him it's a muggle sweet you want him to try. I've thought it all out" Fred explained as though it should have been obvious.

Georgia rolled her eyes "Of course you have..."

"So... are you in?" George asked, looking hopeful.

"Fine, give them here. What am I meant to say if he asks what they are? What exactly are they?" She asked holding them up to have a closer look.

"Fireballs, they're going to set his mouth on fire" George beamed.

"Not literally" Fred quickly added, taking in her horrified look.

"What does this have to do with the boil cream?" Ruby inquired, looking confused how the two linked up.

"That would be giving away the best part of the prank Ruby-Roo, and a genius never gives up the secrets" Fred smirked, using her old childhood nickname. "You'll just have to wait and see"

The four of them hid round the side of the house, they'd seen Percy up in his bedroom through the window and decided now was the perfect time to put the prank into action. "Mum will know we're up to something if we all head inside so we need to split up" Fred spoke quietly and the others nodded.

"What's the plan?" George asked.

"I can take GiGi inside first, tell Molly I'm showing her where the bathroom is" Ruby offered.

"Perfect, then me and George can follow..."

"George and I"

"What?" Fred's eyebrows furrowed.

"It's not me and George. You should say George and I can follow" Georgia explained.

"Forget that" Fred waved her off while Ruby and George chuckled at him "Let's get back to the plan"

Plan in place Ruby led Georgia into the house explaining to Molly, who looked to be baking, that she was just showing the other witch to the bathroom. There was no sign of her brother, Ron or Ginny and she wondered for a moment what they were up too. Getting the okay from the woman they headed up the creaky staircase to the second floor landing that held both Percy's and the Twins bedrooms. Ruby held her finger to her lips motioning for Georgia to be quiet as she made her way to the twins bedroom. Pushing the door open just wide enough for them both to fit through. A few moments later they could hear the twins loud laughter as they ran through the ground floor of the Burrow. Molly could be heard shouting after them and then Fred's voice carried up the stairs as he told her they were grabbing their stuff to play some Quidditch. Georgia found it impressive how effortlessly they could come up with a cover story.

"Stage 1 is now in operation" Fred gave them the thumbs up as he and George slid through the partly opened door.

"You've got this" George grinned patting Georgia on the shoulder. "Door across the hall, that's Percy. Don't mind if he's annoyed you've disturbed him from homework"

Georgia gulped and nodded her head, clutching the bag of sweets as she crossed the hall and knocked on the wooden door. Upon hearing the boy shout come in she cast one last look at her three friends watching her from the opposite bedroom who were giving her encouraging smiles before she twisted the handle and headed inside. Fred and George held their breaths, Ruby squished between them so as to not be caught hiding behind their bedroom door waiting for Georgia to set up their test subject for a prank they'd so perfectly planned.

"What is this?!" Percy screamed and through the crack in the door they watched him run from his room and up the stairs to the next landing that held the bathroom. Georgia quickly returned to the twins slightly bigger bedroom and passed the sweets back to Fred. She felt guilty for lying to Percy but the adrenaline of doing something that broke the rules overpowered it.

"And in 5..." Fred began a whispered countdown, giving his older brother a chance to pick up his toothbrush and 'toothpaste'.

"4" George continued it

"3" they heard the tap go signalling that Percy had wet his toothbrush

"2"

"1" they finished in unison and right on cue.

"MUUUUM!" Percy wailed and the twins pressed their hands to their mouths to stifle their laughter as they heard their brother spitting out the not so minty paste he'd just put in his mouth "They're up to no good again!"

Footsteps could be heard pounding back down the stairs and through the crack of the door they watched Percy going the trademark Weasley red, right up to the tips of his ears. Suddenly his eyes were narrowed in a glare - he would find his twin troublemaker brothers and he would make them wish they had never been born!

The four friends gripped each other's arms tightly as they tried not to laugh too loudly as they heard him yell for their mother again while sputtering at the combination of unpleasant flavours in his mouth and then found themselves rolling around on the floor of their room in fits of quiet giggles. That was promptly stopped when the door burst open and they saw Molly Weasley standing over them, arms folded and a steely look in her eyes "Frederick Gideon! George Fabian!"

The use of their full names quickly sobered them up because it usually meant trouble. "Explain yourselves right this second! We have guests! Now is not the time to misbehave"

George looked at his elder twin before he turned back to look up at his mum "I-It was Fre-" this just made Molly angrier "NO! No George I am not listening, you have been alive on this planet for the last 13 years and you trying to play the 'I'm 13 minutes younger' card didn't wash from the moment you could talk." George let his bottom lip stick out in a pout, it had all been Fred's idea though! Yes, he may have laughed but that was because it was always funny to annoy Percy, he was the easiest to wind up and get a rise from. Besides Ron of course. And anytime a Weasley sibling went red it was hilarious, mostly because you never knew where their hair line ended and the tips of their ears started.

"And to drag those poor, well behaved girls into your silly games is not acceptable" Ruby steeled her features into something unreadable as she was usually the one encouraging the twins with their pranks. "Outside with the lot of you, right now"

Despite being caught and told off they couldn't deny that the prank on Percy had gone amazingly well, but did as they were told and headed back outside. Molly followed them to make sure they were out of her house and away from anything that could cause mayhem. "Now go, play. Or I'll find something useful for you to do that will burn off that excess energy"

Fred and George quickly nodded knowing that she'd have them doing chores for the rest of the afternoon otherwise. "Quidditch?" Fred asked his friends, knowing it would incorporate both play and burning off energy.

"Last one to the broom shed is a blast ended skrewt!" George shouted before racing off from the door that led to the garden from the kitchen. Georgia groaned but followed them all, she didn't like heights or Quidditch but she did enjoy hanging with her friends.

Before too long however a young female voice could be heard from the kitchen doorway "Teddy? Joji? Rooby? Can I play?" That was soon quickly followed up by "Ginvera, what have I told you? Not until you start Hogwarts, and as Charlie and Bill aren't here you can't go on one of their brooms"

"Ha!" Ron let out, running past them and after Fred and George as fast as his little legs would carry him. Determined to not be the blast ended Skrewt.

Ginny pouted "No fair!" She then turned to look at Onyx "Oni? Can't I go on your broom? Pleeeeease?"

Onyx picked her up by her waist and spun her round "As the prettiest princess ever has asked, I am only happy to oblige" he threw the Weasley matriarch a wink and she hit him with a tea towel "Be careful with her Onyx, please"

"Always" the oldest Wilkins sibling replied before taking the youngest Weasley outside to play a game of Quidditch with her brothers, with Georgia being the referee from the ground. They reached the orchard where Arthur had set up some makeshift goal posts for them many years ago.

"Weasley's Vs Wilkins'?" Georgia suggested sitting on the wooden swing hanging from one of the trees so that she could watch them.

"Works for me" Onyx nodded, hovering just above the ground so that he could lift Ginny onto Bill's old broom with him.

"You're going down Weasley's" Ruby taunted, Charlie's old comet in her hand.

"Never" Fred and George shouted in unison before grouping with Ron to talk tactics.

The rest of their afternoon was spent zig zagging up and down the orchard playing their own altered version of Quidditch that didn't include bludgers or a snitch. Georgia couldn't remember the last time she'd laughed so much, she had lost track of the score long ago and declared the game a draw when her friends landed back on the grass, faces red with exhaustion. Fred and George had grumbled that she'd fixed it and that they'd obviously won as they made their way back to the burrow to see if Molly had any treats awaiting them.