Yay... a George/Alicia story! This is basically Alicia and her job after Hogwarts, and she hasn't seen her friends since then.

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"Leesh!"

A head with brown hair in a messy bun popped up from its resting spot on a large desk, eyes struggling to stay open.

"I'm not asleep!"

The blonde in the doorway shook her head. "This issue is going out in less than ten hours! Are you almost ready to make copies?"

Alicia pushed back her disheveled hair and rubbed her forehead. "What time is it?"

"Almost midnight!" The woman rolled her eyes. "Need more coffee?"

Alicia nodded gratefully. "Thanks, Jen," she said as Jen handed her a steaming mug.

Alicia took a large gulp and downed half the cup.

The past few weeks, the office had been living off of coffee. They had it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and usually a few times in between.

Alicia sighed and set the mug down. Time to get back to work. Even though she loved her job, being the editor of Magic magazine was at least a million times harder than it looked.

It was their 50th edition, and they had to make it better than ever, special this time. Weeks had been spent planning the theme, the extras, and a way to make it perfect.

She sifted through the papers Jennifer had set on her desk and began reading them over, making sure Jen hadn't made any grammatical or spelling errors.

Satisfied, she set the papers down and reached for her in-progress copy of the magazine.

"Wand, wand, wand," Alicia muttered, feeling around on her desk. When her hand closed on the nine inch long rosewood rod, she said a few spells and flicked the wand. The words on the paper flew off and into a blank white page of the magazine, rearranging themselves to fit the page. She flipped through a file cabinet and selected a purple folder.

Alicia pulled out the ten pictures in the folders and transferred those onto the page as well and watched as they fit themselves around the words.

The face of Cormack McLaggen stared up at her, grinning seductively and flexing. She rolled her eyes. She hated to admit it, but the annoying schoolboy had gotten quite attractive in the past years. And now he was number seven on the "Top Ten Hottest Wizards" chart Jen had written.

Jen really did have a great article. If Alicia had been reading this at 13, she'd have loved the magazine, this article in particular.

Harry Potter had been on the list, as well. Since he'd defeated the Dark Lord, he's been real eye candy lately. Nobody believed that Alicia had been on his Quidditch team until she'd dragged in her Hogwarts yearbook and shown them the picture.

Almost done, and Alicia flipped through the pages, making sure she had everyone's articles. She added finishing touches, making each page sparkle even more than it did. But one page was missing, and after glancing at her checklist of turned in articles, she knew who to yell at.

She pulled out a piece of paper and wrote down a few choice words. She tapped it with her wand, growled a spell, and motioned for her owl, Lemon.

"Take this to Destiny. FAST." she said, and the light brown owl took off down the hall, twittering madly.

A few minutes later, she smirked as she heard her voice, projected loudly throughout the building.

"DESTINY RIVERS! WHERE THE HELL IS YOUR ARTICLE? IF IT'S NOT HERE IN 30 SECONDS FLAT, IT'S CUT FROM THE ISSUE, ALONG WITH ANYTHING ELSE YOU MIGHT EVER HAVE TO PUT IN! AKA, YOU'RE FIRED!"

Alicia heard a shriek, a crumpling of papers, and the pounding of footsteps along the hallway.

Destiny rushed in, looking perfectly put together with only a strand of shining blonde hair out of place, her magenta robes billowing. She wrinkled her nose at Alicia, who had rolled out of bed that morning, almost fourteen hours ago, and pulled an old robe on over her pajama pants and t-shirt.

"Here, Ms. Spinnet!" she said quickly, flashing a nervous smile. Destiny had learned that when she was in trouble, she should be as nice as possible to Alicia. That included calling her "Ms. Spinnet."

Alicia would have fired Destiny months ago, but her writing was amazing.

"I'm so sorry it's late! See, I was trying so hard to make it perfect..." Alicia tuned out as Destiny babbled on. She had different excuses every week, and none of them made much sense.

Anyway, Alicia already knew that Desinty had been on the phone half the day with her boyfriend. All Alicia heard about was "George-this, or George-that."

She cut Destiny off. "Destiny, I mean it this time. I will cut you from the paper next time your article is late. You are a fabulous writer, but we can get on without you."

Destiny nodded. "I'll try super hard next time, Alicia! Thank you so much for another chance." She smiled one more time.

Alicia nodded, and Destiny left.

Jen poked her head in. "Heard your howler. Bloody hilarious."

Alicia giggled. "Was it?"

"Destiny needs to learn that she is not the editor and cannot take as long as she wants."

"I wish I could fire her," Alicia growled. "She's just so amazing. Look at this!" She waved Destiny's "Do you two have 'Magic?'" quiz in Jen's face.

Jen sighed as she read it. "How can she be so good when she's so annoying?"

Alicia sighed. "I'm just going to have to deal with it."

"Changing the subject," Jen nodded. "Are you almost ready to make copies?"

Alicia nodded. "Just a sec."

She selected a pale purple sparkling background to match purple, the issue's main color and copied it to the magazine. She then put Destiny's quiz on the page as well, and smiled. She was finally done. The two smiling teenage witches on the front were sitting on the floor of a purple room, one girl's wand pointing at the other's hair. Her hair braided and unbraided itself, while they giggled and chucked bertie bots at each other.

She pointed her wand at her voice. "Sonorous," she said. "Would all employees come to the copy room?" she said, her voice magically loud. She brought her voice volume back down to normal again.

Alicia took her magazine and pointed her wand at it. "Effingo!" she said, and a copy of the magazine appeared next to the original. She flicked the wand over and over, and soon had a large stack of the magazines.

She then hurried towards the copy room and sat down in the front. People had started to file in, and sit down in the rows of comfortable chairs.

"Everyone here?" she said after awhile.

"Destiny's not!" called a voice.

"DESTINY!" Alicia screamed.

"Hmm?" Destiny asked, peering in. She smiled innocently and sauntered towards a chair.

Alicia rolled her eyes, but continued. "WE'RE DONE!" she yelled, and held up a finished magazine.

Cheers erupted throughout the room. People stood up, clapping and grinning.

Once they quieted down, Alicia smiled again. "Now we have to make copies!"

Everyone groaned.

"But we can have a party!"

Cheers again.

Alicia flicked her wand, summoned the party supplies and watched as trays and trays of food zoomed in and set themselves down on tables that appeared out of nowhere.

"So grab a plate of food, and grab a magazine! I want at least one fifty copies out of each of you!" She smiled and sent the stack of magazines over to the table.

People stood up and began piling brownies, chips, and snacks onto plates, and soon the sound of chewing, magazines dropping onto piles, and the sound of Ordella Goreg's voice on the radio were all that was heard in the room.

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Alicia sighed wearily, but grinned.

They were done, finally. Seven a.m. and everyone was gone except her and Jen, who were feeding the last of the owls who were off to deliver the magazines to hordes of teenage girls.

"All I want to do is sleep when I get home," Alicia moaned as an owl flapped its wings and sailed out the window, flinging brown feathers in her face.

Jen nodded. "Me too."

They watched as the last few owls disappeared into the early morning night, then said their good-byes and disapparated home.

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