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Hermione woke up in confusion needing the bathroom. She was entangled in something and couldn't get out. She was beginning to panic as she wasn't fully even awake yet. It was much too early to be awake right now but she was only awake as she only needed the loo. It was three am. Turning around she saw Fred with his arms wrapped around her. She attempted to disentangle herself shocked when he pulled her closer mumbling mine in his sleep. She really didn't like feeling so trapped all of a sudden. Wrenching herself free she went to the toilet whereupon she splashed water on her face to calm herself down. Her breathing was erratic and she needed to calm down. She'd been so used to sleeping on her own all these years that sleeping with someone was an adjustment she'd need to get used to.
She didn't know Fred would be so possessive in his sleep. She hoped he wasn't this possessive when he was awake too. She used the loo, washed her hands and returned to bed whereupon she found him panicking in his sleep. He was writhing and moaning as though he was very uncomfortable. She was afraid for him. She didn't know how to handle nightmares having rarely had them before herself. She climbed in beside him and pulled him closer hoping to calm him down somewhat. She ran her hand repeatedly over his head sighing in relief as his breathing evened out. He eventually calmed down and she nodded off to sleep herself shortly afterwards. He awoke with a start a short while later. He'd bene having a bad dream when he felt Hermione running her hands through his hair gently to remind him it was only a dream. It was like an out of body experience which terrified him more than the nightmare had. It was like he was having the nightmare but he was looking down on himself having it. He could see Hermione running her hands through his hair and pulling him closer. It warmed his heart greatly.
In the morning they both woke up and he turned to Hermione seriously. "Hermione thank you for last night. I had what I can only call an out of body experience and saw you helping me. In fact I'm rather freaked out by it. I've never had that before in my life. Have you?" he asked as she looked seriously at him.
"No I've not. I don't like saying this but we need to tell Trelawney about this. She might be ridiculous and I may never have the talent for divination, not that I want it but she can help us I'm sure" she said as they dressed for classes.
He watched as she sat at the vanity brushing her now manageable hair with her vintage hairbrush her mother had gotten her before. It was large and golden with an ivory handle on it. It looked very ornate. For once in her life Hermione had choices as to what she did with her hair. She decided to braid two parts at the side of her head and pin them up in the back. This way her hair was still down but off her face at the front which she loved. She took out a wrapped package to his surprise and opened it. It had said happy birthday on it and he knew Ron's writing anywhere. It was very curvy. She took out the perfume bottle with a smile and opened it to smell it immediately grimacing. It smelled awful. Ron tried his best, Merlin love him but he just didn't understand what women wanted. No one wanted perfume that smelled this exceptionally floral and sweet.
"Fred please don't tell Ron I said this but he sucks at choosing perfume. As far as he is to know I love his perfume. I'll not be wearing it because it smells awful but he doesn't need to know that. I'll appreciate you not telling him!" she said with a knowing look as he sighed deeply. It so wasn't fair. He had opportunity to mock the hell out of Ron and he wasn't even able to use it. They finished getting ready and she used her own perfume from the muggle world. They headed not in the direction of the great hall but in the direction of the divination room. They climbed up the ladder and through the trap door knocking on the door of the classroom which opened as Trelawney called them in.
"Come in dears. I apologise for my harshness before Miss Granger but you truly do not have the inner eye to take this class. I really wish you did because you'd be great at it but unfortunately for me not everyone is born like that!" she said rather sadly as Hermione scowled deeply.
"Yes well we're not here for that reason. Fred here had an out of body experience last night and we want you to tell us what it all means please!" she said seriously as Trelawney got a curious expression on her face.
"Tell me my dear what was he doing when he had this experience?" she asked a glint in her eye.
"He was in the throes of a nightmare. I rubbed my hand across his hair and pulled him close to calm him down as I didn't know what to do in that situation. He says he saw me do it as though he was above his own sleeping body" she said as Sybil whipped out a device running it all over a freaked out Fred who was shocked as the device beeped loudly.
"Ok dear close your eyes. Something is under the surface and needs out. Ok what I want you to do is count backwards from ten. See yourself entering a house in front of the beach. It has a white picket fence all around the outside. See yourself climbing down a stairs into the basement of the house as you count down from ten. When you're in the basement you will see a huge clear bubble which has tinges of blue and black on it. When you get closer to this bubble you will see that it is sucking things into it from around itself. As you get closer and closer you will feel a sucking motion as all of this blue and black stuff is siphoned from your body!" she guided as Fred did as he was asked to do.
Fred closed his eyes and saw the house. It looked beautiful and very small. He entered the front door and was in a small kitchen with a stairs leading upwards and another stairs which lead downwards. He walked forward descending the stairs counting backwards from ten. As he climbed down deeper it was as though he got way deeper in his mind. Each step closer to the basement took him deeper and deeper inside his mind. As he reached the basement he could see the bubble she'd described in one corner. In the middle of the room was a large silver tree of life with teal leaves and golden apples and pears on it. He walked around the tree to the huge bubble noticing it sucking blue and black things into it from all around. As it turned fully blue and black it would release upwards and the blue and black colours would be freed as a jet into the atmosphere of the earth itself. Higher and higher the blue and black things would go. Out of the country. Out of the world and finally out of the galaxy whereupon it would be released. These were traps upon us and bad feelings which stopped us from living freely.
As he got closer to the bubble he felt all these feelings being sucked from him and it was as though there was burst and he was finally fully free. He noticed a golden thread connecting him to the tree where another identical golden thread was connecting to it from a place he couldn't see. It was as though George was here with him or something. Downstairs in the great hall people gasped as George suddenly clutched at his head and screamed.
"Mr Weasley what is the matter?" Snape snapped from behind him where he'd just entered the hall.
"It's Fred. He's doing something to himself but it's impacting me as well and I'm not sure he even knows it. He probably doesn't. My god this hurts!" he shouted as Madam Pomfrey descended and took him still screaming in pain to the hospital wing. In the house Fred suddenly realised George was not ok. He reached out and touched the golden thread he assumed was Georges and George suddenly lit up shocking Madam Pomfrey. All this blue and black light was siphoned from George into Fred who acted as a conduit for it. He released it all as George who had stopped screaming long ago fainted.
"Let go my dear. Free yourself. Free your brother too my dear. Frederick Gideon Weasley you are free to go on now. Come back to us. Count backwards from ten and climb the stairs to the kitchen and exit the beach house. As you climb higher and higher feel yourself coming back to us slowly but surely. You were gifted a gift which not many people have. George Fabian Weasley has his own gift!" she coaxed as he climbed the stairs and eventually exited the house. He opened his eyes blearily blinking and glancing around quickly.
"Professor that was amazing. I know my gift and you are right that it's rare!" he said touching Hermione's hand and gasping loudly. He had just seen a tiny snippet of the future from touching her hand. In this vision he could also see some of what she wanted for the future and smiled. What a gift he had been given. It was wonderful. In the hospital wing George realised he'd been given his own gift and was stunned by it. All the negative emotions built up over years of suppression had blocked their telepathic channels which give out gifts to those select few destined for them. He was now telekinetic something he found stunning. He was revived and Poppy gasped as he held his hand out a pepper up potion sailing towards him which he thanked her deeply for as he drunk it down feeling better and less disorientated at once.
Upstairs Hermione asked to do the same thing as Fred had done and Sybil guided her through the same process. Hermione was stunned however as there was a solid iron door preventing her from even entering her own basement. It was completely true. Everything she'd ever been told had been true. She just wasn't cut out for this kind of thing. When she told Sybil the professor gasped really loudly.
"My dear this is not normal at all. No one should have this in their mindscape. Everyone's mind scape base is the same hence the beach house with the basement but they all put their own unique spin on it. Not everyone knows this however. It's just the way things are. Use whatever power you have inside you to break the door down anyway you feel would work!" she guided as Hermione who wasn't used to obstacles was furious on the inside.
It would be just like her magic to block her like this. It just wasn't on. It was like it wanted her to fail or something but she wouldn't do it. She wouldn't fail. She tried burning down the door, stunning it, cutting it and any number of things but nothing was working. Finally losing her cool completely she screamed in rage stunning Fred who was looking at her in awe. Her forehead glowed blue as she threw as much ice as she could at the door which creaked and creaked until it exploded outwards shattering totally. It had been one hell of a journey. She'd screamed herself raw by the end of it and had an aching throat. When she finally opened her eyes she looked mad as hell. Fred gulped as he saw her furious facial expression. It was the first time her magic had ever failed her and she felt furiously betrayed by it. She too had a new gift the power of freezing things not that she'd be using it all that often but it would be useful against a death eater if one ever attacked which was good. She went to the infirmary for a throat soothing potion having eventually calmed down. What an insightful morning for them!