For Other People

George and Angelina didn't bond over the loss of Fred. They bonded over the loss of their best friends. Because two rows over from where the Weasleys wept in the Great Hall on May 2nd, laid Alicia Spinnet.

Angelina and Fred have never really dated, they had gone out a couple of times, mostly because they knew it would never mean anything. Fred had merely wanted to have fun, and Angelina was in love with someone else. But she was 17, and there was a war brewing, there wasn't time to be in love.

George had been shocked when Angelina walked into his stale flat above Weasley Wizard's Wheezes. It smelled like booze and vomit and was covered in a layer of dust and feathers from the pillows he had destroyed the night before, but she didn't care. She sat down on the couch next to him, looked him dead in the eye and said, 'This sucks.'

George couldn't agree more.

So, they sat there in silence for hours, and then Angelina said that he was now Alicia. That he was going to be her person, and she was going to be his, and they would do this for each other. they would be best friends. They would tell each other the things that they normally saved for Fred and Alicia and they would let each other know when that thing was coming, and George and Angelina could not talk about it as themselves. These were conversations for their lost other halves.

George tells Fred about how angry he is for dying in Percy's arms instead of his. They if he had to go, George should have been there with him. and Angelina told Alicia how guilty she felt, that she had lost both parents and her sister to this war, but Alicia was the loss that hurt the most.

They kept going back and forth until they felt like it was enough for the night, and then they sat in silence again. But this time, it wasn't the tense silence of the past few weeks, that lingered like a shadow, but a comfortable one, that felt like although they would never be whole again, at least they were starting to no longer be broken.

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