Hours later Alex awoke in a place she had never seen before, after a few minutes of getting her eyes to adjust to the new found light she realised that she was in fact in a hospital. She glanced across and noticed Jessica in the bed opposite her; she was still badly cut on the arm because of the dragon. Harry was not in sight so Alex believed that perhaps he was not as badly injured as she and Jessica was.
She turned her head on her pillow to look at the form lying in the bed next to her, he lay with his hand on his stomach, his ginger hair was slightly messier than it should be and there was the smallest trace of sweat on his forehead. There was a harsh cut on the side of his cheek and a small amount of ash on his arm, which quite clearly was because of the dragon.
She tried to sit up in an attempt to ask her friend if he was alright, however, when she attempted to hoist herself into a seating position a sharp piercing pain ran down her spine and she groaned in pain. A pair of soft delicate hands pushed her back slowly and carefully, she lied back down and took a strained breath as she looked up to see whos hands had set her back down.
George stood above her, a rare expression of fear and worry blasted on his face as sympathetic eyes held hers for a brief moment.
"George?" She said in surprise. She winced at the sound of her own voice as she had heard nothing but silence for so long. The smaller of the twins nodded and sat on the end of her bed looking at Fred. "How is he?" George did not need to ask who she meant. He sighed,
"He's fine... Madam Pomfrey said that he just needs him to wake up and then take some medicine and he'd be ok" Alex nodded as best she could, George turned back to her. "You were hit worse" He told her gently. Alex knew that she had been hit really badly anyway.
On her cheek there was a large cut which had been stitched up as best as it could be. The front of her battle uniform had been cut by the dragons' sharp claws. Her hair was all over the place and the back of her suite was swarmed with ash from the dragons' fiery breath.
"But madam Pomfrey, she er cured most of the damages but she said you'd need more rest when you get back to the common room." George's tone was soft and fragile as though he would break down at any point, that he would lose control and break down crying, but that wasn't George Weasley. A Weasley boy would never cry... Would they?
"What about Jessica?"
"She said that Jess would need to stay here over night, she took quite a nasty shock and fall" Alex nodded. For a moment all was silent when.
A soft groan grabbed their attention and Fred stirred and opened his eyes, he blinked in hopes to adjust his eyes to the new light. George was by his side instantly; he knelt by his brother and kept nudging him lightly. Fred looked at George then Alex a smile creased his lips as he saw them both, he was relieved that Alex was unharmed and that his brother was beside him.
"Ah, Mr. Weasley marvellous to see you awake and you too of cause Miss. Russo. Now then you must both take your medicine then you may return to your common room" Said Madam Pomfrey from the door. She approached them and held out a bottle in the shape of a skull, she poured the green sticky substance onto a small wooden spoon and put it to Freds' lips. After tasting the foul liquid he spat it out, narrowly missing his brother by inches.
"Well what did you expect Pumpkin juice?" Snapped Madam Pomfrey. She rolled her eyes and gave the same substance to Alex, who surprisingly did not spit the substance out, but instead held her tongue and swallowed.
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Hours later at 8:30pm Fred and Alex left for the Gryffindor common room (George had left about an hour ago). All the prefects were told that they would be going back to their common room so no prefects stopped them in the halls about being out past curfew.
"Password?" Asked the portrait of the fat lady.
"Fortuna Major" Replied Fred. With a smile and delicate wave of her hand the portrait flew open and they both stepped through, still holding onto the golden eggs. (Which they still had not yet opened).
"SURPRISE!" Screamed all the Gryffindor's at once. Fred and Alex smiled and walked further into the room, the eggs were pulled from their hands and they were both hoisted up onto the shoulders of their friends. Katie and Angelina lifted Alex, and Lee and George lifted Fred. They (George, Lee, Katie and Angelina) marched to the centre of the common room and allowed their house to surround them. Applause and cheering was easily heard, as it was loud enough to wake the Slytherins down in the dungeons.
The eggs were passed through the crowd when Seamus grabbed the egg he shouted.
"QUIET!" He kissed the egg and chucked it into Fred's hands he caught it while Alicia through the other egg at Alex. "C'mon guys what's the clue?" Alex and Fred placed their hands on the opening at the top of the golden eggs then a wicked smile passed both of their lips. They thought they'd be a pair of teasers and so they shouted.
"Who wants us to open them?" Asked Fred. There was a cheer from the crowd and then Alex said.
"Do you want us to open them?" Another cheer, this time louder and more enthusiastic. After a countdown they both twisted the opening on the top of the eggs and all the sides flew open to reveal a loud, piercing, spine tingling screech that attacked their ears instantly. George and Lee dropped Fred and Katie and Angelina dropped Alex they all did this to shield their ears, but they tried in vain as the piercing sound still seeped through their hands and slammed into their eardrums with extreme force.
The eggs rolled out of their grasp and now they were trying desperately to reach the eggs before they ALL became death. Suddenly Hermione came into their sight, she wand held tightly in her hands as she pointed at the eggs and even though it was heard by no one she said.
"Reducto!" With that the eggs blasted towards Alex and Fred, they grabbed them and quickly pushed up the sides and the golden lock on the top ceiled. Everyone went silent and looked at Hermione,
"Thanks" Said Alex. Hermione nodded and went back to reading. "Wait! Where's Harry" She said noticing he wasn't around. Hermione stood up and answered the question.
"Harry has lost his egg and he went to bed" She said sternly.
"How did he lose the egg?" Asked Fred. Hermione thought then said.
"One of the Slytherins stole it and now it's gone missing" She responded, and went back to reading.
George followed Fred and Alex as they went to the steps, they stopped and frowned.
"All that for nothing!" Huffed Fred disappointedly.
"Well I'm tired so I'm going to bed, see ya guys!" She waved them off as she walked to the girls dorm. The boys waved back then went to their dorm.
"Now what're we going to do?"
A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update! Anyway the next lot of chapters will be longer and will be updated more regularly. Please Review for another chapter!
