Twice Over
BOO! I'm back and the twins and crew are going to experience Halloween! I love Halloween because you can dress up and basically do and be whatever you want to for a couple of hours. So anyways, here's your chapter.
Yayforgredandforge- thanks so much for reviewing, and I'm glad you enjoyed Peeves song! Halloween is up now, what mischief can they get into now? And yes, Fred and George are o so hot.
ADepressedSpooty- thanks for reading and joining, I hope you're going to like this! I always thought Lee was adorable as a kid too, with his cute little dreadlocks :squeezes Lee until his eyes bulge: he's so CUTE!
Jagged Epiphany- I'm glad you enjoyed both Twice Over and The Same Eyes, your new chapter was AWESOME and I was screaming at the computer screen when they were fighting. My mom thinks I'm seriously mental. Because I so am! Post Script! OOO! Wow, I hope I never forget that! It was bothering me for so long! As for some F/A, you just wait:rubs hands together evilly:
Sunnysweetie- hehehe, pancakes make me laugh! Who am I most like? Well, I'd have to say at this point, I'm most like Alicia, but I do have characteristics of all three girls. Especially when I have my stupid moments, which makes me like Katie. Not to say Katie is stupid- she's just… well you know. You know what, Oliver does need a girlfriend. LMAO! Remind me later and I'll see when I can pop her in!
Lauren- hehehe thanks, everyone seemed to like the F/A action, and like I said in the reply to Jagged Epiphany, you just wait, you WILL see some more. Hehehe yeah, I thought up the partridge in a freaking pear tree part and I thought, wow, they tickle a pear! LOL.
Angel de la Luna- sorry about not writing back yet, I swear I'm going to soon. In fact, I'm on it after this! Anyways, how far have you gotten with the translation so far? I'm so excited! I'm glad you liked the breakfast scene with Lee; I've gotten a couple comments on it. LOL! The Peeves part is a special surprise! You'll see. :winks: Oh yeah, and thanks for the long reviews! I love them so much!
Slytherin-Ali- its true, Angelina is sporty, but not until later. The girls feed off each other, so Alicia gets a bit classier later, and Angelina tries out sports! It's all in the works. Thanks for reviewing by the way, and about your fic becoming a full one, what I think is that if people are liking it and you enjoy writing about it, then do it. You can't go wrong! It's all about how you feel about it.
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Oh yeah, and before I begin, thank you to everyone who reviewed: The Same Eyes, my fluffy Valentines Day story: CrazyTalk32, Calypso, Lauren, Jagged Epiphany, Evahyoung (never seen The Notebook lol),
And to Banana for reading all of Between Us
Disclaimer- me no own, you no sue. It gets boring doing this all the time… it really does. Just gives you more words than needed. Hmm… that's about all I have to say. I try to make it funny, but you run out of things after a while.
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Chapter 9- Orange and Lime Green Halloween
Fred wasn't the kind of person to admit that he was wrong. When he realized that Peeves was as bad as Oliver had said, he decided to leave it up to George to tell the tale if he ever had to say anything about the run-in that happened the previous night. It was Halloween day, all the students and teachers were laughing and celebrating, and Fred and George had just gotten up.
"What took you guys?" Lee asked as he watched the tousle haired twins walk sleepily down the stairs in their robes.
Angelina and Alicia looked up, rolling their eyes.
"We heard." Alicia said, standing up. "You two, managed to get yourself a detention," Alicia continued, poking her finger into George's chest, "again."
Angelina nodded. "That's what took them, Lee. They were sleeping like babies." She said with a wink.
Fred shrugged. "I don't see what the big deal is… we just got a detention last night. Its not like it's different from any other time."
George nodded. "We did run into Peeves though-…"
Alicia cut him off. "Look, you two, Filch hates you, okay?"
George laughed and waved the fact away. "Little Filchie? He hates us!" He said in mock surprise. "That's too bad, because we just LOVE him."
Alicia frowned. "Don't give me that, George." She snapped. "I hadn't got to my point yet."
"Clearly." George answered.
Angelina sighed. "Stop it you two! Continue Alicia."
"Of course, take her side." George muttered.
Alicia gave him a glare, yet continued like Angelina said. "Okay, so since we came to the conclusion that Filch hates you," she said, staring pointedly at George and crossing her arms, "then there is no reason the guy wouldn't try to get you guys a suspension from the festivities."
"What do you mean?" Fred asked.
Angelina sighed. "In other words, you two might have a detention while the feast is going on."
Lee nodded. "They're right. When Filch remembers the feast, he's going to do anything he can to stop you two from going."
"Nah, Filch wouldn't do that." Fred said.
They all stared at him, even George.
"What makes you say that?" Angelina asked.
Fred shrugged. "I was just trying to lighten up the situation."
"This is all besides the point." George said quickly. "We met Peeves last night."
"So there is a Peeves?" Asked Alicia, still in a huff about George.
"Yeah." Fred said. "It's nothing."
"Maybe not… but you guys should still watch out." George answered.
Lee nodded. "All right, so who's up for a game of exploding snap? Or a nice game of Wizards chess?"
"I'll take you on, Lee." Alicia said, sitting down across from him.
Angelina situated herself to watch and asked the twins, "you two staying?"
Fred looked to George and they both shook their heads.
"No, I think we'll take a bit of a walk," Fred began.
"Around the castle." George said.
"Okay." Angelina answered.
The twins walked out the portrait hole, and then started down the halls. They were walking happily until they heard a familiar voice.
"Oh, if it isn't tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum."
The twins turned around and frowned up at the Poltergeist.
"What do you want now?" George asked exasperated.
"Did you like my little call last night?" Peeves asked, cackling.
Fred shrugged. "It was amateur."
"Ama-…" Peeves snarled in anger as though he wasn't even able to think about the ending of the sentence.
George nodded. "Yeah. It's simple to just yell out something. I mean, not much thought put into that, is there?"
Peeves smiled wickedly. "But you both ran, didn't you? So that means your bluffing."
George sighed. "What are we SUPPOSED to do? Stand in one place like some idiot?"
Fred agreed with a nod. "Of course we're going to move."
Peeves stopped smiling and flew in circles, faster and faster, until he stopped and had a pile of water balloons. "Who's amateur now?"
"Ooo, a bunch of balloons. We are shaking in our shoes." Fred said, suppressing a laugh.
"You should be," cackled Peeves, "because you'll be mighty wet… and with Filch around, wet students get detentions!"
Fred looked to George, and both of them simply shrugged.
"You wouldn't." They said together, easily.
"Dumbledore would never allow it." George said simply.
Peeves laughed. "You want to bet?"
The twins caught the bluffing and began walking away, when-
WHACK!
SPLASH!
A water balloon hit George in the back of the head, breaking down his robes.
"Hey!" George spun around, just to be hit in the face by another one, while Fred stared, startled.
"You cant- Dumbledore wouldn't like-…" Was all Fred could stutter out, before he too was hit with a water balloon, straight in the chest.
Peeves began laughing and answered swiftly, "Dumbledore doesn't have time to go around and ask students if I made them a bit wet." He put on a mock pout and answered, "so run."
Fred spun around and began to run, and George set off after him. Peeves flew over and threw a water balloon by Georges' ankles, causing him to trip. He cackled loudly, and then, he proceeded to throw water balloons on him, soaking him from head to toe.
George put his arms up over his head and scrambled to stand up. Peeves simply grabbed a glove off of one of the many suits of armour, and George stepped on it, slipping and falling on his back, getting the wind knocked out of him.
Fred had already reached Gryffindor Common Room, and was looking around for his brother, slightly confused on where he went. He walked in and looked over at Lee, Alicia, and Angelina, who were still sitting peacefully, gathered around a chessboard.
"Why's the front of your robes all wet?" Angelina asked.
Fred shrugged the question off. "Have you seen George?"
They all shook their heads.
"No, he was with you, wasn't he?" Lee asked.
Alicia smiled. "Did you loose your own brother?"
"Not exactly loose, just misplaced." He said, smiling.
"Okay, so we don't know where he is. He'll turn up soon." Angelina said. "Just sit down." She patted the seat beside her, and Fred sat in it, looking at the game.
"Who's winning?" He asked.
"Leesh." Lee said sadly. "But only because I wasn't fully awake…"
Just then, George burst through the portrait hole. He was soaked and his face was covered in what looked like a blackberry pie. His hair was sticking all over the place, and his robes were messed up.
"What the hell happened?" Angelina asked.
George panted and was finally able to catch his breath. "Peeves."
"Yeah, he's nothing, right George?" Fred asked his brother.
George took a cloth and wiped his face clean of pie. "Nothing? The guys a bloody lunatic!"
Fred smiled sheepishly. "Well, he looked not that bad…"
George sighed and fell on the couch in front of the fire, but Angelina shoved him off.
"Hey…" George protested.
Angelina shook her head. "Don't sit on the couch when your soaking wet! Go and change." She ordered.
George headed up the stairs slowly and Fred took George's spot beside Angelina.
"Check, and mate." Alicia said, clapping her hands together. "I win Lee!"
Lee rolled his eyes. "I let you win." He said.
"Sure… if you let me win, you wouldn't have told me." Alicia said, pointing out the obvious.
Lee slunk deeper in the couch. "I suck at chess."
"My little brother likes chess." Fred said. "He could beat you, Lee."
"What, Ron?" Asked Lee.
Fred nodded, and George came down the stairs.
"Guess what?" Alicia asked George.
"What?"
"I won against Lee." She said proudly.
George smiled. "Lee also sucks at Chess."
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Filch was seething with fury as we walked from Dumbledore's office. Yet again, he was denied permission to have the twins taken away from an occasion, such as the Halloween feast tonight. Already being denied, he figured, yet again, that Dumbledore would say yes to something. With that in mind, he brought up the contract for permission to use whips and the chains in his office for punishment again, but Dumbledore had sent him out.
He called Mrs Norris to his side and frowned, stroking his unshaven chin. Scratchy as it was, the old man didn't notice because he was too deep in thought. Deep in thought on how to ruin the twins. They had already become the worst troublemakers known to the school, and it was only their first year; only their first couple months.
"They will get worse." He told Mrs Norris. "They have already gotten used to my office…"
Mrs Norris gave a hiss in acknowledgment, thinking of the twins. The hairs on the cats back rose slightly.
"We need to get them kicked out from the school. Dumbledore doesn't notice how disruptive they are…" He growled. "Those stupid twins."
"Now, now, Filch." Came a voice.
"I sure hope your not talking about us." Finished another voice.
Filch swung around and grimaced at the sight. George, although Filch couldn't tell them apart, was leaning against the wall with his arms crossed and he was giving Filch a mock grin. Fred was standing at ease along side his brother with raised eyebrows.
Filch gave a snarl and said, "Detention."
"Why?" Fred asked.
"You can't do that. We haven't technically done anything." George reasoned.
Filch, who was confused about which twin was which, stood there frowning. Mrs Norris however, could tell which twin was which because she was a cat. On knowing that George was the one leaning against the wall, she proceeded to hiss at him. George had never had good luck with Mrs Norris.
George stared at the cat and moved along the wall slightly. Ever since he had met Mrs Norris, he hadn't been very fond of cats.
"You know we're right." Fred said.
Filch didn't say anything at all to them. Instead, he told Mrs Norris to come, and they both left down the hall with hunched backs.
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The Great Hall was amazingly decorated. Very large Pumpkins were carved, and food was placed inside many of them. Bats were freely flying about the ceiling, which displayed a dark sky and the students were looking up in amazement.
"Told you." Oliver said, leaning over and whispering into Alicia and Angelina's ears. "It gets better."
Lee sat beside Fred, who was sitting on the left of Angelina. Alicia was across from Angelina and George took the seat across from Fred, beside Alicia. The group looked in awe at the sight in front of them. It was amazing; all of the decorations blown up life size, real animals flying and crawling around.
Alicia had been to an ordinary Muggle Halloween. She has a few of them when she was younger, and once, even dressed up as a witch herself. Her mother had known at the time that she was really a witch, but Alicia had no clue. She figured that was why her mother got so mad that year. But that wasn't the point. At this point, all Alicia could do was look on in awe at the sight. Muggle Halloween was full of kids dressing up as monsters and witches that they thought was all make-believe. There was a lot of candy given out, and decorations placed around neighbourhoods. But this- this was so much different. It was all real, there was no make-believe. The decorations flew and crawled, the witches were actually people practicing magic… it was a whole new experience.
"Alicia?"
Alicia looked to George. "Oh… yeah?"
George smiled. "Welcome back to reality," he chuckled, "I've been trying to get your attention for a while now. What's on your mind?"
"Muggle Halloween." Alicia answered so quickly she had no time to make up something fake.
George looked to her, puzzled. "Muggle Halloween, eh? I didn't know muggles had their own Halloween… I mean, Halloween is a celebration of the wizard and witch population and magic accomplishments throughout our ages of existence… isn't it?"
Alicia laughed. "I never knew it meant so much to wizards…" she said softly with a bit of joking in her voice. "Muggles think of it differently though. It's a Holliday to dress up and rot your teeth."
George looked shocked. "Rot your teeth? Muggles do bloody strange things for fun."
Alicia laughed. "No, stupid, it's an expression."
"Right…" George said slowly.
"Look," Alicia explained, "muggles dress up into costumes, pretending to be witches and ghouls, and all that jazz, and then… well they parade around the streets at night going door to door for candy, to put it bluntly."
George looked as though he was thinking quite hard. "Sounds stupid." He said, just as bluntly as Alicia had explained it.
"No, it was fun actually. We got into groups of friends and went around scaring and getting candy." She said smiling.
George shrugged and smiled. "Well at least they get to have fun too." He said.
Alicia thought she saw a mischievous glint in his eye, and then her mind laughed at her.
Thought? Ha! Of course you saw one! These are the twins we're talking about, her mind told her.
"So…" She began casually, "what are you going to do?"
George looked over to her. "What?"
"What are you going to do? We all know- well, at least I know, you, Fred and Lee are going to pull something." Alicia said with a smile.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." He said simply, and with that, he turned to see Dumbledore speaking in front of the crowd.
As much as Alicia hated George, and hated to admit this fact, she felt drawn to him. His personality was good, but she had no idea what she would do if she started thinking of him as a good of a friend as Lee and Fred. She had to admit, George and she had their bickering moments, which were all fun… but what would it be like if Angelina never had to turn around to tell them to get along, or to have them just sit there happily in silence together?
It was easy, however, and as they both had figured out, to have a fairly decent conversation without bickering. They had worked on it, of course, and to their friend's happiness, managed to keep it together when people were around.
Alicia turned her mind away from the complications of George Weasley, to listen to Dumbledore's speech, which wasn't really much of a speech at all, but more of a string of words mashed together.
"Firecracker, pumpkin, mash, turnip. Sounds good, and Halloween is of course a special time of year. Enough of that though, tuck in everyone!" Dumbledore stated.
No one needed to be told twice.
Tables erupted with more food than before, pies, pastries, and different assortments of food were littered among tables. Even if one was to take a nibble of everything, Alicia doubted that anyone would be able to have a bit of everything… except maybe Fred, who was comfortably making his way through half the table.
"Alicia," Angelina began, shaking her shoulder to get her attention, "did you see that Ravenclaw, Joe Hardyment?"
"Oh no, Angelina…" Alicia began in a bit of a groan. She was used to Angelina changing her crushes every month, as a girl who was just realizing that boys were more than just a source of cooties.
"No, no, its not a crush, I just wanted to say that he was eyeing you today." Angelina said, winking.
"What?" Alicia asked, feeling her face grow slightly hot. "So?" She said, almost defensively.
"Nothing… so nothing." Angelina quickly saved herself.
Alicia bit her lip and glanced over at the Ravenclaw table. "Which one's he anyways?"
Angelina smiled. "That one." She said, pointing. "With the black hair."
Situated at the Ravenclaw table was a boy with black-brown hair hitting the sides of his face neatly. Alicia had to admit, he was cute, with brown eyes and fair skin… but he looked to be a bit of a nerd too. He was so cleansed and perfect, that she would be afraid to walk by him and accidentally touch him, creating a speck of dust on his perfectly pressed blouse.
"Well?" Angelina asked with a grin. "What do you think?"
"I think he's a boy that hasn't even noticed there is a difference between females and males yet." Alicia said bluntly.
Angelina nodded and looked as though she was thinking. "One day, Alicia." She said with a sly grin. "You'll notice that there is a bit more to boys than you let on."
"Oh, I notice it, Angelina. It's just not exactly of interest to me at the moment." Alicia said with a smile.
Angelina laughed and turned to Fred who finally seemed to be talking a bit more than making food disappear.
Alicia went back to eating, but stopped abruptly when hearing a high-pitched shriek come from Angelina. She quickly looked up to ask her what it was, but there was no need. It was clearly visible on her face, coloured in bright orange, like a pumpkin.
"Oh, Angelina!" Alicia said quickly, knowing who was responsible.
Angelina nodded. "I know, your face is bright orange! It must be awful!"
Alicia let her jaw drop. "My- my face?" She asked. "But your face!"
It was all Alicia managed before she heard Angelina give a higher, shriller shriek as she pulled out a mirror and saw the horror that lay before her. Her beautiful coca coloured skin, was now bright orange.
"FRED WEASLEY!" Angelina screamed. "YOU ARE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE-…"
Alicia slowly grabbed a spoon from the table, and looked in horror at her reflection. All she could manage through her fury was a solid and hard cold glare at George. She could tell he was uneasy and unsettled by the glare in which she managed, as he squirmed in his seat slightly and gave her an innocent smile.
"George…" Alicia whispered. "I hate you."
With that, Angelina and Alicia got up from the table and both ran out of the Great Hall. Running into a bathroom that Alicia noted had a weird ghost in it, they ran up to the mirrors and screamed at the same time.
The high-pitched noise drove the ghost named Myrtle out of one of the many toilets, and she floated over to the girls. In an instant, she began laughing hysterically.
"What happened to your faces?" She said through giggles.
Both girls ignored the question and Alicia's hand shot up to the side of her face. She moved it over her skin and stared blankly into the mirror. Bright orange, like the Weasley twins hair.
She turned on the tap and ran the water, splashing it onto her face. Angelina looked over and caught onto the idea, doing the same. Alicia looked in the mirror, and her face was growing more orange by the minute.
"It's working!" Angelina said excitedly, rubbing her face with water. The orange was draining into the sink in front of her, and now, her cheeks were the only thing that were orange, and they were quickly evaporating into a dark peach against her coca skin.
Alicia tried to smile, and rubbed her face harder with a cloth, trying to scratch the colour off. She looked back into the mirror, and now her face was an extreme and vibrant orange. She looked on, horrified, as her hair began growing a lime green. Her whole head was a human replica of a pumpkin, right down to the green stem.
She looked over to see if Angelina's hair was doing the same thing, but Angelina was looking at Alicia in horror, as it only got worse. Angelina was now back to her regular self… why wasn't she?
Alicia hardly dared to ask what was happening, as Myrtle's laughs became clear to her ears. This was going to be everyone's reaction… oh those stupid boys! Why her? Why not someone else they didn't like?
Angelina suddenly looked sad and full of sympathy, and Alicia realized there were tears crawling down her cheeks. She didn't even remember them being there though, they must have snuck up on her. She felt absolutely stupid, her face a bright orange and her hair lime-green and tears streaking her skin.
Angelina brought her into a hug. "It's going to go away soon… we'll go see Madame Pomfrey… I'm sure she'll have something to give you."
Alicia sighed. "Okay." She said sadly.
"But we need to go back to the party… no one's in the Hospital Wing at the moment." Angelina said.
Alicia hung her head in defeat. "Yeah… you're right." So with that, the two girls headed back to the Great Hall and walked in.
Some students sniggered and laughed behind hands at noticing Alicia, and she just walked on by. With the last of her pride, she sat down in the spot beside George like she had been before, and kept her vision straight ahead of her.
"Alicia…" George said slowly.
She didn't answer.
"Alicia? Come on, listen to me… I'm sorry." He said sadly. "I didn't think-… hey, wait a second… why didn't yours come off? You did try to wash it off with water, right?" George asked.
Alicia couldn't ignore the last comment. "Yes, I tried to wash it off with water, you screw-up! I tried everything, and it didn't come off! Now I'm stuck like this, thanks to you! I hate you so much!" She said, staring him straight in the eyes with hatred.
George was silent for a moment, looking at her sadly. He hadn't meant for it to stay, he hadn't meant to hurt her feelings either. He remembered asking Fred if they could do it to someone else other than Alicia and Angelina, but Fred was sure the magic would impress Angelina. George hadn't thought so, and all he wanted was to make his brother happy. He just wanted a bit of fun…
"Well?" Alicia said, staring angrily at him. "What do you have to say about it? Any more bright idea's Mr. Ideology?"
"What's that mean?" George asked.
"It means you're an idiot." Alicia said bluntly.
George shrugged in acceptance. "Well… I don't really know what else you can do about it except well…" He gulped and made his voice extremely quiet as he continued, "wait till it wears off."
Alicia felt as though her hair would turn back to its regular red, auburn colour to show her anger. She wanted to strangle him. "Wait till it wears off?" She asked dangerously.
He shrugged. "That's what I assume."
Alicia laughed. "Oh good, it's probably not right then. I bet you 'assumed' that we would like this little prank of yours? But you just 'assumed' it would be hilariously funny, and Angelina and I would start laughing so hard that we wouldn't be able to catch our breath?" She asked sarcastically.
George shook his head. "Actually, no. I expected this."
Alicia stood up from the table angrily. "I didn't think you could get any stupider, but I guess anything's possible. The makers of Artificial Stupidity must be very proud of how you turned out. You're probably their best model." She said, humour reaching her tone. "I don't know about you," She said, allowing her voice to become icy and hard once again, "but I don't think it was a very smart idea."
George stood up to make her calm down, but Alicia spun around and walked swiftly out of the Great Hall, leaving him to stand with everyone in the Great Hall silent. He hadn't realized it, but they had all been listening to their argument.
Fred had a look of sympathy on his face for his brother, Lee was sitting there with a spoon full of soup slowly dripping on his lap, and Angelina was nodding in agreement for Alicia. The rest of the student population were stone still, waiting for his next move.
George looked around and then ran out of the Great Hall after her. He knew he made a mistake, he just didn't know how he was going to fix it.
"I'm so angry with you, Fred." Angelina pouted.
"Oh no…" Lee began. He hated it when Fred and Angelina argued. It went on for so long, and then they would stop abruptly and be friend again, neither of them even apologizing. They just came to a silent agreement.
"You should never have…!" "I'm so angry, I cant even…!" Angelina went through a whole mix of sentences at once, while Fred smiled and came back with things that didn't make sense and only made Angelina angrier… this was how it was with Fred and Angelina. Lee doubted it would change.
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Hey guys, I hope this chapter was okay. I'm sorry if I made the characters seem a bit mean, it's just that Alicia was really angry and embarrassed, and well, she's usually quiet, but with all of the attention, she just broke. As for Fred, George and Lee's prank… well they are pranksters, and it's here that they will realize something drastic. So anyways, keep reading, it can only get better.
-Kit
