"I'm sorry, but we're closing up' George walked round from the counter, towards her. From what Kelly could see, he was exhausted. Like he hadn't slept in years, her blue eyes showed concern wanting to help her friend.

"George!" Kelly crossed her arms, her voice returning to normal.

"Look! I'm not going to do a story, who do you think I am!" Any minute now, it looked like her would shove her out of the shop. George looked exhausted, like he had been working the shop for days. Now he looked angry. She stared at him, Kelly had never seen him like this.

"Don't you know me? I can't have changed that much" Kelly whispered, wanting to go over and hug him, truthfully Kelly just wanted to go home with everything back to normal. She was so vulnerable now, in the future, not knowing anything and she had lost her best friend.

George stood there, looking at her as if she were mad. He studied her face, staring into her eyes, standing only about a foot away from her. "Kelly?" George asked her, a smile emerged on his face, as Kelly gave a small smile in return. Taking a step forward, he hugged her. It did feel rather strange, this couldn't be the George she knew, this one had lost nearly all sense of the word prank as far as she knew. This man was not the George she once knew at all.

They stood there, just hugging each other. They had never been as close to each other like Kelly was to Fred, or George was to his own twin, no one could ever be, but they were friends, ever since Hogwarts. George mumbled something in her hair. She stepped away from him, "What?"

"I said, you look young, I mean really young, why the change?" Indicating to her hair.

Kelly cringed; black was definitely not her colour. She missed the blonde already.

"My secret!" Kelly looked down at the floor, not wanting to face him; she didn't want to lie to her best friend. Her only best friend.

"You know?" He tilted his head towards a picture at the back of the shop. It was a brown frame, holding a picture of the two Weasleys' opening the shop.

Kelly walked over to it, smiling at it. Seeing them grinning goofily at the camera and Fred pointing to the sign and Kelly could just see the joy in their eyes at their achievement, Kelly nodded, a lone tear falling from her eyes.

"You did it!" Kelly was so proud of them, they must of passed potions at least to get this far.

"You helped" George walked over to her, admiring the photo, a look of reminiscing covering his face, as he remembered his twin.

"Did I?" Kelly whirled around to face him. "How?"

"We always asked you for help, I can't believe Snape actually passed us in the end. We did brilliantly of course, no one else could've done better actually" The old George grin, appeared on his face.

Kelly shook her head, "I'm sure" She swallowed. Kelly had so many questions for him, what if he couldn't answer them? "Do I ever come see you?"

He nodded, "Sometimes, but you're busy, away a lot of the time. After what happened you just disappeared really"

Kelly frowned, what could she be doing that was so important, that she couldn't visit her best friend?

"Doing what?" George sighed, motioning to the door that said 'Employees only'. He opened the door and sat down on one of the chairs.

Kelly entered a large room, almost every surface covered with some type of experiment, every other surface lay bits of paper, filled with methods or designs. It definitely looked like the Twins owned it, with the mess, which things could be easily found in. It was, like the shop brightly coloured, one wall a darker colour than the rest.

George sat down on a stool, next to a work surface. Designs for 'Vomiting vitamins' lay beside him.

"I can't really say, you never really mention it. I think you work for the ministry, but whatever it is, it's really undercover. Your parents don't even really know" George answered. "I think at the moment, you're off you're rocker, or whatever it is you call it. You came into the shop yesterday. Bought some extendable ears, stopped for a bit of a chat, then remembered something and rushed out muttering to yourself. Looked a bit weird if you ask me"

Kelly wondered what it was that her future self really did. Why was it so top-secret, why didn't she ever tell Fred or George?

"It's strange seeing you...like this" Kelly pointed to him, meaning how he looked so different.

"You look different too!" He grinned, flicking her hair.

"Hmm...I might change it back, black is so depressing and…black" They laughed. "Could you? I don't know the spell"

George had a cheeky look on his face. "Well, I do remember turning Ron's hair pink once..." A faraway look on his face.

"I'll turn your hair pink, if you do that to me!" Kelly rolled her eyes, looking at a long black lock resting on her shoulder.

"Blonde? You sure? Not pink, magenta, cherry, a lovely crimson maybe?" Kelly glared at him, he laughed at her.

"Geoorrrge!" She whined, wanting to see her blonde hair again.

"Yeah, yeah I'll try" George took his wand from his robe pocket. A worn 10" maple, with one unicorn hair, pointed at her head.

"Get it right! I don't want any other colour!" George muttered the spell, a bright light shooting at her head. From her roots, it erupted into red, falling down, replacing the dull black.

Kelly panicked, not able to say a thing, looking at the red hair in front of her.

"Don't you dare!" George bit his lip, not trusting himself to not laugh. Kelly spotted a small pocket mirror on the side. Picking it up, she looked into it. Her hair looked like Ginny's!

"I look like your sister!" Kelly scowled at him.

"I think...it looks good!" Not able to let out a small laugh. At least she wasn't too angry.

"I look like your sister!" Kelly gritted her teeth, turning to face him.

"Kelly you look fine, just leave it for now, yeah?" Although the amusement stayed on his face, clearly George wanted to talk about something else.

"How's the shop been?" Kelly asked, fiddling with the ends of her hair.

George, let out a silent sigh of relief, "Business is great! I keep thinking of new products, and well it's er...been good" Unfortunately, talking about the shop had inadvertedly landed him into thinking about his dearly departed twin.

Kelly understood, and walked over to the wall, "Ginny and Harry together?"

George grinned "Where have you been all these years?!" He gave a half-hearted laugh, Kelly joined in.

You have no idea

"Anyone else I should know about?" Kelly grinned.

George began to think about some of the others, "Ronniekins and Hermione"

"Of course" Rolling her eyes, remembering the couple.

"They were so awkward around each other!" George lit up as he remembered what they were like.

"Hermione was so nervous!" Kelly gave another laugh remembering the nervous bushy haired girl that she had spoken to a few weeks ago.

"It feels like I haven't spoken to you in ages, I've missed this!" Kelly gave a contented sigh, as she sat down on a stool, opposite a recipe for something she didn't want to know about.

"Yeah, I've been caught up with this for so long, it seems I haven't had the time to talk to anyone" George sat across the other side of the room, in a somewhat dusty area. Kelly could only assume was his counterparts.

Kelly's eyes scanned the area, taking in all of the plans, she memorised the picture. Taking a step towards George, she had to decide whether or not to tell him the truth.

"What about you? Alicia?" Kelly wondered if he did have anyone else, for someone to have such a large family, and to be so alone, was definitely something she did not wish on anyone.

He was one of her best friends, she had to tell him. "George?" Certain innocence came into her voice, it almost sounded like she would burst into tears.

"What is it?" A wave of concern hitting him, full force.

"I'm not supposed to be here.." She looked down at the floor, Kelly was so confused, finding out that one of her closest friends was dead, not to mention being in the future.

"What do you mean?"

"I'm from the past" Kelly blurted out, immediately looking up to see his reactions. A current of emotions flitted across his face, he stood up. "George?" Her voice, was a small whisper, mixed in with the deafening silence that corrupted the room.

George stepped away from her, "You..." He shook his head "He's still alive then?"

Kelly didn't need to ask who 'He' was, she nodded. "V-Voldemort too then?" Giving another small nod. He scowled and made some sort of noise in disgust.

"I'll...um just go then" Kelly took a step towards the door, facing away from George. She waited a few seconds, wondering if he would change his mind, if he would say she wouldn't need to go back to Hogwarts without her friends.

Suddenly he lit up, "You're from the past! You're from the past!" He ran up to her, hugging her.

"Whog, goo youu men?" Kelly mumbled, being suffocated by his jumper.

George let go, "You're from the past" Kelly must have made a look, meaning she didn't have a clue what he was on about. As he rolled his eyes "You can change things!"

Time seemed to have frozen, seconds felt like minutes. As her mind processed what George had just said. Happiness spread through her, as Kelly could picture, Fred being here after Voldemort had died running the shop as best as she could picture it.

I have to change this, I need to change this

George was beaming at her as he released her from his suffocating hug. Kelly jumped up and down "I'm from the past, I'm from the past!!" She screamed. Her long red hair flicking and hitting him George in the eye, as she jumped.

"Ow! You're blinding me! Stop jumping!" He laughed, George was so happy right now, nothing could bring it down.

"Sorry!" Kelly stopped, her red hair, once again laying on her shoulders. "Can you change it back now?" She asked, wondering if she would ever see her original hair colour again.

"Sure" With a flick of his wand, Kelly had blonde hair again. Kelly grinned and gave him a hug as she smiled at her hair, happily.

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"Kelly?" Kelly was stirring her tea, upstairs with George in the kitchen when she heard her name. Snapping out of her reverie she looked up.

"Have you seen the others?" George asked, quizzically.

Kelly shook her head, a strange silence hanging over her head. All of the pressure of saving Fred seemed to be on her shoulders, Kelly hoped she could save him, even if it meant…

"Maybe we should go to The Burrow?" George stood up from his stool, putting his coffee on the side, empty. Kelly could never understand why the Twins drank coffee, vile stuff in her opinion. Although it was known to help you get through a night of cramming for tomorrow's exam.

"Now?" Kelly wondered out loud.

"Well I don't mean tomorrow. Come on!"

"Wearing this?!"

"It's fine, really!" George rolled his eyes, thinking about how strange girls were about clothes. It was just a pair of robes, no big deal.

He grabbed Kelly's head, as George apparated. Feeling like she was about to explode, as it felt like she was being squeezed through a tube, Kelly was instantly standing in a house.

She stepped away from George, no one else was in the room. Kelly remembered what the 'old burrow' had looked like, this had definitely changed. It was definitely older, more battered. Kelly could still tell, it held the memories of the Weasleys all those years ago, she remembered being in the Twins room, 'upstairs along the corridor, straight ahead' Mrs Weasley had said to her when she first arrived.

Kelly laughed, when she remembered Mrs Weasley saying "Now there's a girl to keep you two in line, we are going to be good friends Kelly!".