A/N: Okay so after a really long time away from my computer I fixed the explanation errors in this chapter which took about 997 words to do, so please read and enjoy! I would also like to add that Fred and George act a little O.C. in this chapter but please try and understand that they are both under severe amounts of stress.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter anything that you do not recognize is mine! All names and characters that do not pertain to Harry Potter are mine!… I like typing the word mine…. Mine….mine… mine…MINE…lol… ok that's enough.
TradewindChapter Three: Found
It was a Monday morning and the night before had been a long one for Fred Weasley at first he had gotten into bed and then had this overwhelming feeling of anticipation, but he couldn't put his finger on what. I mean all he had planned on doing was going into work late and doing a few things around the shop, going out for a drink at Rosemerta's with the boys then coming home, but that all changed when he was awoken at six thirty in the morning, when his brother's head showed up in the floo.
"Fred! Fred! Wake up!" yelled George from the fireplace
"but mum I don't want another waffle" Fred said rolling over and pulling his pillow over his head
"Come on Fred! Wake up this is important!" George continued to yell
"But Geo! It's six in the morning!" Fred whined, rolling over to look at the hearth and kicking his feet
"That's not my fault if you wouldn't stay up half the night thinking about… thinking about… thinking about you know what then maybe you would be able to get up in the morning!"
"I went to bed, at a reasonable time last night thank you very much!" Fred said indignantly
"Oh really?" George countered looking disbelieving "and just when was that?"
"Four." Fred stated now sitting in front of the floo in his skivvies, looking down he added in an undertone "a.m."
"Ah Ha!" George shouted, "You see what I mean? You spend every single minute of your day and night obsessing, over her!" he finished giving his twin a look of pity
"I do not!" Fred answered "Ok… I do but Geo I can't help it, she is… was everything I ever wanted, everything I ever needed."
"I know Fred, and that's exactly why I called, I need to talk to you and I wanted to know if it was alright for me to stop by around eight-ish?"
"Of course it is you know, you're always welcome here." Fred said seriously
"Thanks Red" George said as his picture began to dim in the fireplace
"Wait Geo!" Fred called, just as his twin's picture had almost faded
"What?" George called back as his picture came back to its full light
"What are we talking about?"
"Oh nothing…" he said nonchalantly "Nothing but your favorite subject…"
"Oh" said Fred as realization hit him "Now I'm really interested, so at eight then?"
"Eight." And with that George's form slowly melted from the hearth and Fred was plunged into almost complete darkness
Pulling himself off the floor Fred walked back over to his bed and decided to sleep until seven thirty, choosing to get in some more sleep before getting ready for his brother's visit.
In no time at all seven thirty rolled around and Fred had pulled himself out of his bed, taken his shower, brushed his teeth, and put on a fresh set of clothes, and he was just deciding whether or not he really needed to comb his now neck length hair when he heard the tell-tale snap of someone appararating into his home.
"Fred?"
"George?"
"Yeah! Where are you?"
"I'm in my room!"
"Do you want me to wait?"
"No, no! Meet me in the living room!"
"Alright, but hurry!" George finished as he made his way to the small room. Just as he entered Fred apparated onto the sofa and gave him a short wave. After he had waved back and settled him self into a cushy arm chair across from his twin, they began to talk
"Now tell me oh brother of mine, what could possibly be so important that you couldn't wait till we got to the shop to tell me?" Fred asked as he propped his feet up on the coffee table
"Well?" George started
a long pause…
"Well what?" Fred asked beginning to get worried "You said earlier that it was about my favorite subject? Angelina? She's not hurt or anything? Is she? She's not dead? Oh my god, you've gotten a letter from the ministry and they've told you that she's dead, is that it?" Fred said becoming extremely anxious
"No, no Fred it's nothing like that! In fact I think you'll view it as good news… very good news but I'm scared to tell you because I don't want you running off and doing something brash." George said trying to comfort and reason with his brother at the same time
"Oh, Sorry about that George, I don't mean to get so worked up it's just when I think about it, I don't know where she is and if she passed on before I could tell her how I feel, or say good bye I just don't know what I'd do." Fred said pulling a hand through his hair
"I know, and that's why I wanted to tell you this in person, now promise me that you will hear me out and not run out the door screaming like a mad man or something." George said staring straight at his brother
"I promise" Fred said nonchalantly, putting his fingers up in a boy scout' honor salute for good measure
" Well you know, how we all agreed to have Dumbledore place that tracking spell on Angelina?"
"Yes, I remember" Fred said growing anxious
"And you know, how for the past three years we haven't been able to find her?"
"Yes, trust me, I know" Fred said getting a little annoyed
"Well yesterday when Dumbledore was looking at the map, her mark, it glowed." George finished heaving a great sigh of relief
As soon as the words had come out of his mouth Fred had frozen up as if he had been doused with a pail of cold water, he was excited, scared, elated, and horrified all at the same moment and it was making him devoid of his ability to speak, but after a few seconds had passed he found his voice and said…
"Are you saying, what I think you're saying?" Fred almost whispered
It was then that George's brotherly nature kicked in and he got up from his arm chair, crouched in front of his brother with one hand on his knee, looked him in the eye and said
"We've found her"
No sooner were the words out of his mouth than Fred had jumped up from the couch and pulled out his wand, with a quick flourish and a few magical words Fred's hat and cloak were flying towards him and landed in a neatly folded pile at his feet with that he turned to his brother and said
"Hold all my owls, as for the shop you don't really need me at least not until the start of new designing ideas for merchandizing, tell mum and dad that I've gone, and tell the boys that, that game of exploding snap will have to wait till another time." With that he reached down to pull on his cloak and hat, and was just about to cast another spell when George shouted
"Fred, now hold on a minute, you don't even know where she is, and if I do remember correctly her letter said that she didn't want to be found, so slow down and think this through before you go an' do something stupid or you mhmh mhh…" but George never got to finish his sentence for at that moment his face was covered with Fred's roughly discarded cloak
"Tell me George, how long have you known?" Fred said as his brother finally pulled the cloak off his face
"A week." He said simply and refused to make eye contact with his twin
"A week? A whole fucking week?" Fred shouted "and you didn't have the decency to tell me the moment you found out?"
"Fred you have to understand I was afraid that you would run off, in search of her, so I had to think of the best way to break it to you." George pleaded
"And it took you a week? And they call you the smart twin!"
"Fred come on now, that was a bit harsh." George said looking down at the floor
"You know what…, never mind Geo, just tell me where she is."
"I can't" George said taking a deep breath
"What do you mean you can't? Do you really think it wise to tell a desperate man that you know where the object of his affection is and then not tell him where to find it?" Fred said looking revolted.
"I was told by Dumbledore not to tell you, he thinks that it is in your best interest not to go searching for her!" George said trying to make him understand
"I don't give a shit as to what Dumbledore said, George were not in school anymore! Tell me, please! As a brother please tell me!" Fred was now shaking George by his shoulders
"Fred you don't mean that, you care what the old man thinks, you just… and there are consequences your life will be in danger if you follow her, I know you…" but once again he was interrupted
"Tell Me!" Fred said with fire in his eyes, he had now pushed George up against the wall and was staring at him straight on, "Tell me, or I'll make you tell me."
Frightened by his brother's actions George remained silent, by this point Fred was beyond desperate so he pulled out his wand took two steps back, shouted
"Vertiaverbatim" and George's mouth sprung open, after a short silence, the one phrase he had been looking for came out
"Off the South Eastern edge of Africa, In Tan-gati, on the throne of Amandala, there you will find her." And then he dropped to the floor clutching his throat
"Thank you" Fred said waving his wand again to undo the spell
After taking a deep breath George got off the floor and continued to speak,
"Fred this is heinous! You haven't even packed, or gotten vaccinated, you don't even know how long a trip it is and even if you did how the hell are you going to get there? Wait… don't tell me, I know your going to swim?' George said sarcastically
"If I have to, I hear gilly-weed grows pretty thick in the middle of the ocean."
"Fred seriously, your…"
"Look George just because I've never talked about it with you, doesn't mean that I'm not prepared."
"Are you telling that you've?"
"Since the day she left." And with that Fred waved his wand and a handsome black trunk with silver handles and engraving appeared on the coffee table
"Fred what is that?"
"Well Geo, large cases like this one are used to hold things and we big people like to call them trunks, or suitcases or bags, but I call this one my travel case."
"Ha, ha very funny red but you know what I mean, what's in it?"
"Well at the current moment it's packed to bursting with just about all the clothes I own, and a few other necessities. Oh the wonders a little shrinking charm can do"
"Ok, makes sense you've got one up on me, but what about vaccinations you can't just flit off to a foreign country without them, now can you? Hmm? You can't just whip up that sort of potion with a flick of your wand."
"Oh ye of little faith" Fred said turning to open the front pocket of his case "See this?" he said pulling out a medium sized flask filled to the brim with a sparking blue liquid "It's a unique little potion it's called a lugare enfermare potion
"Nice, but where'd you get it?"
"What you don't think I could have made it?"
"Fred?" George said giving him an 'oh please' look
"Hey I paid attention in potions!"
"Ok. Apparently you didn't hear me the first time I said this, so, I'll say it again where'd you get it?"
"Snape." Fred stated simply
"Snape?" George questioned suddenly looking at the flask as if it were poisoned
"Yes Snape, it was surprisingly easy to get it from him, he said something about admiring my love for Angelina, he also mentioned something along the lines of if he could have been given the choice to go after the woman he loved again he would."
"Wow, I never knew …"
"Snape had a heart? Yeah me neither, anyway the potion works like this you grasp it in your palm it heats it's self using your body heat then you say your destination, it changes color according to your destination, you drink it down, and presto your vaccinated."
"Doesn't sound too complicated, are you sure it will work?"
"If Snape brewed it I trust it"
"Well I guess that only leaves one thing, how are you going to get there?"
"I'm going to the International Portkey Dock, I've a shit load of anywhere kilometers saved up since I'm a frequent porter, and I've got a few hundred galleons saved up for emergencies so I can cover it if there's a price difference."
"Fred this is really starting to scare me." George said looking from the trunk to his brother "I mean is she really worth all this?"
"George you've got a good job, and a home as well as a loving wife and a baby on the way. But me, I don't have that. The only person I have ever loved was taken away from me, and that would be all right if we weren't perfect for each other. She's my mate George!" he said in a pleading voice "my drug and without her I can't get high, and I'm…I'm tired of feeling this way, like a part of me is missing. " He said putting the flask back in its pocket and closing his carrier.
"Fred I'm really sorry I never knew it ran that deep, and I under…"
"No Geo don't tell me that you understand because, you have no idea what it's like to be alone." Fred said retrieving his fallen cloak and hat "George I have to do this, I have to see if we can still make it, I don't know how long I'll be gone but I'm not coming back without her, that I can promise you."
"So you made up your mind then?" George questioned
"Years ago."
"Alright then, I guess all I can say is be careful." George whispered tears forming in his eyes
"Thank you George" Fred said pulling his brother into a hug
"You're welcome Fred" He said hugging him back
After a few moments the two said their last good byes, and Fred and his belongings were swept away in the green flames of the floo.
After making completely sure that his brother had gone, George ran to the Floo threw in some powder and yelled
"Albus Dumbledore's office!" after being spit rather violently from the fireplace he brushed himself off and got right down to business
"Professor Dumbledore, Professor Dumbledore?"
"Erm.. Hello, George! Right on schedule." The old man said walking out from behind his desk and looking at his muggle pocket watch "And how are you this morning?" He questioned
"I've been better, but I've come to say mission accomplished"
"Ah, so he took the bait then?" he said eyes twinkling
"Yes but he's genuinely angry with me now." George said sounding worried
"Why?"
"He feels like I don't understand him."
"Never fear everything will work it's self out in the end, you are not only his brother George but his twin, and no matter what, you two will always share that bond, and while in his head he may be angry with you his heart could never truly be."
"That's comforting"
"As it should be, but I'm sensing that you are still worried by something, what is it?"
"I feel like I've lied to him, I mean why couldn't we have just told him what's going on?"
"Because the prophecy specifically states that he must find her of his own accord."
"Then why the rush, I mean to wait three years and then suddenly up and go after her?"
"My sources tell me that there is a dark power rising on that island, and the sooner they are reunited the better. The sooner they reconcile the better the chance of the good half of the prophecy coming true"
"Now everything's starting to make sense."
"Of course it does, now if my intuition serves me right, you ought to be getting to that shop of yours or you'll have lost a weekday, and I have a date with my dear Minerva"
"Right you are" said George looking down at his watch "Oh but one last thing"
"and what could that be Mr. Weasley?"
"Are you sure that he'll be in good hands while he's over there?"
"Of course I do, the man that will guide him is an old friend of mine, one in whose hands I would place my life."
"Well that's good enough for me, Goodbye Professor."
"Goodbye Mr. Weasley" and with that the two disappeared in very different puffs of smoke.
A/N: Yea! For cliffies! Next chappie will be up soon and I'm already started on the next two chapters after this one! Please review! All reviews are greatly appreciated!