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Thanks to people who reviewed. The plan was to not write any more of this for a while because I've been busy with my other stories but I've got a block on one of them and three chapters left on another so I though I should write this. And of course I've got some wonderful reviewers who don't get mad at me for taking forever to update.
NOTE ON THIS CHAPTER: While Molly Weasley told Fred who George was she didn't tell him what happened. As far as he knows George is still alive somewhere, he just doesn't know where.
ANOTHER NOTE ON THIS CHAPTER: I can see this turning very like Charlie's BOS (one of my other fics) because I couldn't resist adding another side to this story. This style might continue or it might not depending on feedback.
Chapter Five: Realisation.
Dearest friend.
You were my brother, weren't you? My twin even. Don't worry, mum told me about you. She said that I had a twin brother and that you were called George, but she wouldn't tell me what happened to you. I'm going to send this with our owl Pigwidgion and see if he can make it reach you but I'm not going to tell Ron. Pigwidgion is Ron and Ginny's owl, but I don't think they would be happy if they knew I was trying to write to you. They wouldn't even tell me what happened to you. I assume you moved away, Mum says that you and dad were very close so maybe that's why you went. You left some time around the great black so that must have been the problem. Everyone hated the great black, so you probably didn't want to stay around after it, and I know dad died during it so that's probably even more the reason you left. I don't get why you didn't get in contact with us though? Why didn't you at least stay in touch with Mum? She's one of the nicest people in the world; I couldn't stand if I wasn't talking to her. She says we were always so the same but I don't think we could have been really, mostly because of how I could never go away from my family. You really must have been strange.
Everyone here is really mad at me for making mum tell me about you and then making her cry. My brother Bill won't talk to me and neither will Charlie, but I don't care. They're just sad because they were never close to you but I'm sad because you aren't still close to us. I hate you for going away even though I know it's not really the way things should be. I don't really believe that you were my brother even though mum will be mad at me for saying this. Even though we look very alike that's not what makes two people twins? How could you possibly be my twin if you hate me now?
I will go now, because it is well past the time I go to bed,
Yours, your brother (?), Fred Weasley.
GEORGE'S POV
Dearest, Dearest Fred,
Oh my brother, oh my darling. How could you write such things? And how could you not remember? We were together for so long my Fred, but now that I've gone you remember nothing of me. I don't understand you now Fred; we promised each other that whatever happened we would not be forgotten me but I can tell by the way you act that you have forgotten me. Go to dad Fred, go and talk to him like you've always seen Ron and Ginny do. You'll find me then too my brother, in the grave beside his, look at the engraving and you'll understand.
I don't understand you anymore Fred, not at all. You treat the time we were together as one as if it was bad, I see you blanking it from your memories like it's something you wish had never happened. Please Fred, just think though. For many people the time you call the 'great black' was the only time there was, and I was one of those people. The time when he-who-must-not-be-named was in power was the only time many people knew, and included in those were Ron's daughters and your own nieces. Ron doesn't know the truth about what happened to Payne and Kyra but in a way I feel it's safest. Maybe in a few years their foster parents will feel it's right for them to come home to him but for now it's best they don't know the truth about their lives. It would cause too much pain for them. Payne is eleven now and nearing her time to go to Hogwarts and I think Ron is aware of this while he also knows that Kyra is ten and will be starting the year after. His wife has been dead for nine years and I can tell he still loves her with all his heart. I think the time for the truth to be revealed is finally near, that the girls will come home after Payne's birthday.
It feels strange for me, because although you are the one who is living a life with our family I am the one who really seems to understand what's happening there. I spend all my life watching you Fred, because there is nothing I would rather do and I love you sill. You promised in your early letters that you would be there for me forever and always love me but it feels now that it didn't take long for you to forget everything we shared.
I am going to watch my nieces in their Muggle home now my brother. Pray that by the time I return you will have remembered me better for who I am than some photo. You're living my dream, please remember that. Your loving brother forever and longer (though forever is a very long time), George.