AN: Okay, just wanted to thank everyone again for the reviews. Also to say sorry to anyone they may have gotten offended whilst reading the last chapter. I meant no offence to anyone but Snape. Thank You!
!Waking Up in Someone's Arms!
Shony was the first to wake up; not really knowing how long she had been out she began to panic. When she tried to move a hushed voice whispered in her ear.
"Relax Shony, it's okay you're safe." It was George's gentle voice and his gentle touch stroking her hair. "Don't worry about Niki, she is okay. She is still asleep. Are you hungry, I get you whatever you want." George slowly helped Shony sit up.
"I'm thirsty. What am I wearing?" She looked down at herself and she, like Niki, was dressed in a white night gown. "How did I get into this?"
"Mum and Professor McGonagall dressed you both. Your other clothes were covered in sweat. What happened to you two?" George had taken a wet clothe from a basin by the bed and was wiping her face with it.
"Oh, well thank you." She mumbled. "I don't really feel like talking about what happened right, I just want to get dressed and eat something." She threw the covers from over her feet and threw her feet over the side of the bed. "Don't look at me like George, I can not stay in this bed. I've spent most of my life in a sick bed." She groaned as she looked at Niki's pale face, her eyes were closed but her lips were slightly dry. "I hope she is alright."
"She will be." Fred said as he entered the room and sat by Niki's bed taking a wet cloth and moistening Niki's lips with it, then her forehead. "She will be, now you need to get some food in you." He looked to George who stood up with a nod. "We will be downstairs, you better be down there in fifteen minutes dressed and ready to eat." Fred half teased.
Shony saluted him with a weak smile. "Yes sir!" She watched the two leave and close the door then she went to grab some clothes to change into. She kept her eyes on Niki. "God, I hope she is alright. What happened in that room-" She stopped sharply as she saw Niki stir. "Nik? You awake?"
"Of course I am, I wouldn't be moving if I wasn't." She tried to joke; her muscles were a little stiff from lying in bed so long. "Nice pajamas don't you think?" She smiled as she slowly got out of bed to get dressed. "Please tell me Molly dressed me?"
"Yeah, her and some chick named McGonagall." Shony said as she slipped her shoes on.
"Ah, that's good. For a moment I thought it was Fred, he would have loved a chance to see me in my knickers." She laughed, then seeing the look on Shony's face. "Underwear."
"Oh, right." Shony waited for her friend to get dressed and they went downstairs together.
"Oh thank god, you two are finally awake." Molly came running up to the girls, checking their temperatures and their pulses. "Are you two hungry?" Molly asked finally letting the two go. Before they were allowed to answer they were pushed into the kitchen and gently shoved into chairs.
"Um, well we are a bit hungry. Right Niki?" Shony smiled weakly at Molly's ability to turn into a mother hen at the drop of a hat.
"I'm starved actually. How long were we out?" Niki looked at Molly stretching out a kink in her spine.
"Four days, thankfully we were able to get potions down you." Fred answered as he entered the kitchen; he had apperated into the living room a few moments before.
"Wow, four days. No wonder I feel so thin." Niki joked as Molly piled food on her's and Shony's plate.
"It isn't funny you know, we have all been worried sick about you." This of course was Hermione, who was fallowed by Ginny, George, and Ron.
"I'm touched you care so much 'Mione." Shony teased. "Hey were is Harry?" She looked around hoping to see Harry.
"Oh, he is at Order HQ right now. He said he would be around later to check on you two." Ron sat down between Hermione and Ginny.
"Fhat's bery nice of hum." Shony said thru a mouthful of dinner rolls and mashed potatoes.
"Honestly Tashona, you are gonna end up choking yourself one day. Swallow before you talk." Niki rolled her eyes as Fred sat by her taking her free hand into his. Niki watched at George, at least, sat by Shony. Shony was busy eating with one hand and drinking with the other.
"Wha?" She tried to ask innocently but all she did was shoot corn out of her mouth, it stuck rather nicely to Niki and Fred's foreheads. She swallowed hard. "Sorry, really Niki. That was an accident."
Niki cleaned off her face and absent-mindedly cleaned off Fred as well. "Yeah, I'm sure it was. Just like the last time you shot food out of your mouth at me. I say it is pay back time." Niki grinned and filled her spoon full of mashed potatoes and was aiming to fire.
"Drop the fork." Came Lupin's calm voice. "Eat the food don't play with it." He entered into the kitchen fallowed by Harry.
On seeing the two up and smiling Harry's bad mood, that had seemed to last the whole time they were unconscious, had lifted away. "Good to see you two are getting back to your old ways." He smiled, even though it was hard for him.
Niki smiled back at Harry as she ate the potatoes off of the spoon. "Thanks a lot Harry, we will be back to our good ol' selves in no time!" Niki smiled again, she was watching a floating bucket of water. It was floating nicely over Shony's head.
"Don't even think about Nicole." Molly said with her back to them.
Niki put the bucket back down and pouted. "Bloody Mums, have eyes on the back of their heads no matter if they are wizards or not."
"Ha, you got in trouble!" Shony laughed shaking her fork at Niki's face, it had a piece of stake and kidney pie stuck on it. "You are supposed to be the older more grown up of us two, and look at you." She pointed her fork right at Niki's nose before she popped the bit of food in her mouth.
"If that's the case, I'm really sorry Shony. It must be awful being so childish all the time." Ginny laughed, she laughed even harder when she saw the confused look on Shony's face turn into understanding.
"Hey! That's not very nice!" Shony pouted. "George did you hear them?" She looked to George who was laughing and eating at the same time. "Oh, dang it!"
"Those two are acting like what happened four days ago, didn't even happen. What are they playing at?" Ron had taken Harry and Hermione outside for a moment to talk.
"I don't think they are playing at anything Ronald, I think they just don't want to think about what happened. It was so awful for them, they probably just don't want people knowing how much it effected them." Hermione, as always, was thinking very rationally about it all.
"Well, you'd think they'd want to talk about it or something. I mean at least tell the Order what they know." Ron put in leaning on a fence post.
"No, they don't. They told the Order all they knew long before that happened to them. I don't think they found out anything new. Besides, if they won't talk about it with Fred and George they wont tell them Order. They probably just want to put it behind them, and not think on it anymore then they think they have to." Harry had his hands in his pants pockets and was slouching against the wall of the broom shed.
"Yeah, I guess so. I mean if I had seen something like that, I'd probably have trouble talking about it." Ron finally admitted and began to pull his Chocolate Frog Cards from his pocket and looking thru them.
"Everyone, we hate to do this, but we must get back to our world. I know it is going to seem like forever till we can come back, but we will be back. We just need to check on Shony and mine's families. Now, if what Remus and me have come up with works, Fred and George's mirror necklaces will keep Shony and me up to date on everything. When the mirrors are in use time will slow for whoever uses the mirror here, but Shony and mine's time will stay the same." Niki took a deep breath, she and Shony both were wearing the same clothes they had on when they first got here, and they were clean and mended of course.
"We are going to leave everything of ours here, except for the necklaces and our wands. Don't want to risk someone from this world coming thru to ours, not that it will happen, but we want to be prepared if it does." Shony said as she hugged everyone tightly before stopping at George and hugging him extra tight and kissing him for a brief moment.
Niki had gone about hugging everyone as well, she hugged Harry twice, just for good measure and was now hugging Fred. They kissed each other for a brief moment then pulled away. "Well, see you soon we hope." She finally said as she and Shony stepped away from everyone.
"Bye ya'll see you soon. Keep in touch!" Shony waved as the bright flash of light appeared and they disappeared.
!Real World!
"Wow, looks like we made it. Lets go back inside." Shony grabbed Niki's hand and drug her back into the house. They both had figured that her parents would think they had been outside this whole time, so they decided to land just there. It was a bit strange for her to think about it, she was certain the idea wouldn't work, the book was inside not out so how would they end up outside with out the book being there. However confused Shony was it didn't really matter she made it home.
"Yep, looks like my guess was right. Us being in the book and learning magic has affected our abilities outside of it. If I'm right, and I think I am, we were able to end up outside because the magic surrounding us was so strong as we left we were able to get ourselves here." Niki was rather proud of her reasoning. She began to toy with her mirror necklace as she and Shony removed their shoes as they entered the house.
"There you two are, where were you?" Shona's mom asked as she walked out of the back room. "Niki your mom called, she said to call her back." She smiled her usual sweet smile.
"We were outside by the fruit trees, sorry we weren't paying attention if you called us." Niki said covering quickly, she looked over at Shony and saw her nod. "I'm going to go call my mom real quick. See what she wants." With that she went to the phone and called her mother. They talked for about ten minutes then her mom had to go.
"So, how's mommy 2?" Shony asked as Niki entered her bedroom and flopped down on the bed. Shony had the sixth Harry Potter book in her lap, it was closed of course.
"She's okay. Huh?" Niki looked down and saw her necklace glowing. "Hello Fred, miss me already? What it's been like ten days for you?" Niki smiled down at the face of Fred in her little mirror, though his face was so small his voice was clear and understandable.
"Yeah, we missed you. George should be giving Shona a ring in a moment." As he said that Shony's necklace glowed. "See, told you." He smiled down at his own little mirror seeing Niki's face in it. "Nothing real big has happened so far, I mean nothing to do with You-Know-Who. The joke shop is doing rather nicely though, those books of Shony's are saleing like hot cakes." Fred smiled thinking of all the cash.
"That's great to hear, both of the bits of news are great to hear. Anything in the Prophet about Malfoy's death?" Niki frowned a bit as she watched Fred shake his head. "I didn't think there would be, to the rest of the wizarding world he wasn't anything but a Death Eater."
For the next hour and half the four talked, it seemed Fred and George when in the same room just like Shony and Niki. Lupin's guess was right, it was like the time in Shony and Niki's world matched up with the time in Fred and George's world, or maybe it was the other way around. None of them really cared, they were just happy to talk to one another.
"Hey, we have to get going. Things we need to do, hope to talk to you again, bye Niki." Fred said with a smile, and a bigger smile when Niki kissed her mirror.
"Bye Fred, see you soon." She smiled as the mirror's magic turned off. "Just not soon enough." Niki looked at Shony, it seemed they both said the same line at the same time. They both broke into fits of giggles at the thought of how they were acting.
"What are you two giggling about?" This time it wasn't Shony's mom, it was her grand-ma. The one she and Niki called Grand-ma Lu.
"Grand-ma Lu!" Niki squealed as she hopped up and hugged her, being fallowed by Shony. "We were just talking about something funny." Niki smiled.
"Oh, that's good. I just came by to talk to your mom. So, can't wait till school starts Shony?" Grand-ma Lu asked with a smile.
"Nope, can't wait. It should be fun." Shony smiled as she remembered to stow her and Niki's wands in a safe place.
Some time later Shony and Niki were laying on the floor in her room, both were making things fly around the room with their wands, and if Niki was being anything like Shony was being, Niki was thinking of Fred like she was thinking of George. "Can we go back yet? Come on, you know it's been so long for them. It's been two months!"
"I know, and it's only been an hour for us, and I'm going just as crazy as you are. Well, we could go, your parents wont be home for another couple of hours so we wont be missed." Niki sat up and looked as Shony as they both floated their items back in their spots.
"Yeah, we could be with Fred and George for months and they would never know we left!" Shony smiled as she saw Niki stand up and pull the sixth Harry Potter book from out of her bag. "Yes, lets go!" She smiled as the book opened and the two joined hands, they both found it more of a security for themselves if they were together wherever they ended up.
!Harry Potter World!
With a bright flash of light they were inside the up stairs two room loft of Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes. It seemed to be nighttime and the twins were either asleep or down stairs working, a loud bang and the sounds of the twins cursing and the smell of burning hair told the two women that their men were not sleeping.
Niki and Shony turned on the lights up stairs and looked around at the mess. "Bachelors!" Niki moaned and with a few flicks of Shony and her's wands the loft was clean.
"I think we need to add more beetle wings, that should cut back on the fire problem." Fred was saying as he and George climbed up the stairs.
"Yeah, and a little less pepper powder. I just hope my eyebrows grow back, I'd hate to have to use magic to do it, it seems to want to grow back funny when I do it that way." George was saying until he bumped into the back of his brother. "Hey? What's the hold up?" He pushed past his brother and saw the shinny and clean loft. "Wasn't this a pigs mess when we left?" He asked looking around at their home.
"Yeah, it was." Fred pulled out his wand with George fallowing. As they entered the loft and turned into what was supposed to be a dinning room, they had never used it for it, they saw a big beautiful dinner table sat with six chairs but only four plates, four goblets, and four sets of silver ware. Candles were lit on the table and steaming bowls of food and chilled bottles of drink were placed around the sitting places. "What in the hell?"
"Miss us?" Shony asked as she stepped out, she was wearing a pretty blue-fringed shirt and clean low cut blue jeans. "Thought you two might be hungry."
"We hope you are at least." Niki said walking up next to Shony, she was wearing a matching outfit except her shirt was green.
"NIKI!" Fred yelled as George yelled for Shony. He ran to Niki throwing his arms around her and lifting her in the air spinning her around. "You're here, this is great! God, I've missed you so much, thought I'd go nuts before I saw you again." Fred had put her down but still hadn't let go. Niki had, of course, wrapped her arms around Fred's neck and was smiling up at him.
"Fred, you are already crazy. Still, it is nice to know you missed me so much. I missed you to, it may have only been an hour for me but it felt like forever anyway! What about you two?" She turned to look at Shony and George and her mouth dropped open. "Never mind, we can see how much you two missed each other." Niki grinned turning back to Fred.
George hadn't even bothered with picking Shony up, he hugged her once and not letting her go, planted a big kiss on her. The longer they didn't pull away the more passionate the kiss got. Neither he nor Shony were to concerned with talking at the moment, and if Niki had a problem with it she would just learn to get over it.
Fred laughed at his brother before he looked back at Niki. "Shall we give them some space?" He smiled as he led Niki into the dinning room. "I like what you did here, looks good. Looks homey." He smiled, then seeing that they were truly alone fallowed in George's footsteps.
All four of them ate dinner and cleaned up the meal together, Fred and George showed them to the two rooms, they had agreed to sleep in the living room.
"We aren't tired so if you two want to sleep in your own beds it's okay." Shony was saying as they all sat on some of the nice furniture in the living room. For a couple of pranksters their house was nice, it was colored in shades of gold, reds, and browns. Very nature looking, it even had a bit of green, very nicely done.
"No, we said you two would get the beds. So you two get the beds." George said as he wrapped his arms around Shony's middle while they half laid half sat on one of the sofas.
"So sweet." Niki teased with a grin. "Didn't know you had it in you." She was looking down at Fred, he had his head in her lap and she was brushing his hair with her fingers.
"You know us, we try." Fred smiled up at her, hugging her leg with his arms. "God, I missed you." He whispered up to her.
Niki smiled sweetly down at him. "Yeah, I missed you to." She kissed his forehead. "Now go to sleep."
The next morning Shony went to roll over and found her path barred by a larger body, George's body. She didn't jump, she looked around seeing that she and he had fallen asleep in the living room on the sofa right along with Fred and Niki. She knew nothing had happened so she simply cuddled up close to George's chest and buried her face in his neck. She felt his arms wrap tighter around her.
Niki was the next to half wake up, but the moment she saw who she was with she cuddled closer to him, half balling up and burring her face into the crook of his arm. She wasn't sure how she ended up laying down, last she remember she was playing with his hair. It didn't matter though; she was happy where she was.
Fred and George woke up to the sounds of running water. Fred looked toward the kitchen and saw Niki sitting at the table drinking a glass of orange juice, so he guessed Shony was taking a shower. "Morning, sleep well?" He asked as he walked into the kitchen, yawning and stretching.
"Slept good, thanks. Coffee?" Niki asked, offering a cup of coffee to Fred, who took it. "I had my fair share this morning. Breakfast is ready go and eat." Niki said pointing to the two plates of eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, toast, and two glasses of juice.
"Nice!" George said as he got up and headed to the table. "Thanks a lot Niki." George said as he began to eat.
"It wasn't just her, I helped." Shony had come out of the shower her hair still slightly wet. She walked over to George gave him a good morning kiss and sat down next to Niki at the table.
"Well thank you to Shona." Fred said as he kissed Niki then sat down at the table and began to eat. "What are your plans for today? Redecorating our house?" Fred teased as he took another piece of toast.
"Nope, we got a letter from the Order this morning they want us all there by noon." Niki said as she finished her juice and stood up, fixing her shirt. It seemed Fred and George had taken the liberty of bringing all of her and Shony's clothes to their house. She was now in a pair of jeans, a white t-shirt, with a sweater pulled over it. It had started to rain early that morning; after all it was September here.
"Right, I guess we should eat, clean up then get dressed right?" George asked looking at Shony.
"Yeah, that would help." She laughed pulling her hair back into a bun. She was wearing a pair of stretch denim pants, a t-shirt with a Weird Sisters logo on the front, and a zip up hoody over that. Neither she nor Niki had put on shoes yet.
After some time, and a few bad clothe choices on Fred and George's part, they were almost ready to go. The twins had to brush their teeth, according to Niki and Shona both, they had food in their teeth and it looked tacky.
"So, your families wont notice you missing if you are here for so long?" George was asking thru a mouth full of toothpaste.
"I doubt it George, they probably wont even notice them missing." Fred was saying, also, with a mouth full of toothpaste.
Niki and Shony rolled their eyes and in unison both said, "Spit!" The two laughed at the timing, and they both seemed to want to jinx the other, but thought better of it.
"Yes Ma'am!" Both the twins said as they spit. They to laughed at themselves talking in stereo.
They finally made it to the Order, and it seemed everyone was happy to see Niki and Shony back. It seemed, other then Fred and George, Harry was the happiest. Ron, Hermione, and Ginny didn't know, but Niki guessed they would find out and she and Shony would be receiving owls from the three.
AN: That's all for this chapter! Hope it was happier then the last one! LOL!
