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Chapter 11

Reunited and Torn Apart

Fred woke up the next day feeling sick, it took him a moment to remember why, but then he remembered Jade and he knew why he was feeling so terrible. The sun hadn't risen yet, but he decided to see if Madam Pomfrey would let him in to see Jade. The trip to the Hospital Wing seemed to take longer than usual, but was made difficult because he had to dodge Peeves halfway up the stairs.

The doors to the Hospital Wing were closed, but Fred knocked on them lightly. Moments later Madam Pomfrey opened the doors, she was already dressed, but she looked slightly tired, "Yes?" she asked in an irritable voice.

"I'm sorry to bother you so early in the morning, but I was wondering if I could see Jade, er, Miss Williams." The irritable look that was on Madam Pomfrey's face suddenly disappeared and she allowed him to come in.

"Miss Williams is still asleep, so please don't wake her." She pointed out Jade's bed then went into her office. The sun was beginning to rise, the dawn light filled the Hospital Wing with a pinkish, orange glow. Fred walked slowly over to the bed that Jade occupied, she lay on her back, and her hair was down and flared out over the white pillow. A streak of sun fell on her face from the window, she seemed to almost glow with the help of the sunlight.

Jade's right hand was on top of the covers and slightly open, Fred took the seat on the right side of the bed and sat there in silence just watching her as she slept. Looking down he saw Jade's hand, reaching over he took her right hand in his right hand and held it. 'Her hands are soft.' Fred thought to himself as he began to nod off, he put his other arm up onto Jade's bed and rested his head on it, before long he was asleep.

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Fred? Fred? Wake up Fred. Someone was calling him and gently shaking him, he stirred slowly and opened his eyes. Jade was sitting up in the bed and smiling at him, "Good morning." She said in a sweet voice.

Fred sat up and smiled, he suddenly realized that he was still holding Jade's hand, but Jade didn't seem to care. "How long have you been here?" she asked. Looking up Fred saw that the sun was already high in the sky.

"I'd estimate a few hours." He said stifling a yawn and smiling at her, she returned the smile and flushed slightly,

"Well, I'm glad you came, it's nice to see a friendly face." She lifted her head and looked at the ceiling then said, "Madam Pomfrey told me that she is going to release me this afternoon, with a clean bill of health, not counting the curse of course."

Fred felt a pang of guilt, he wanted to tell Jade what was going to happen so badly, but he didn't want her to overreact and he didn't want to get in trouble. He thought for a moment then agreed silently with Professor Dumbledore, it was best if she didn't know. "Well, glad to hear it, we will be up to our old tricks by dinner time." He added with an evil grin.

"Where's George?" Jade asked looking around for Fred's identical twin brother.

"He wasn't awake when I left, so I just let him sleep." Fred felt another pang of guilt as he lied to Jade again, he had left because he knew his brother was still asleep, he had wanted to see her alone.

"It must be near noon now, I wonder when Madam Pomfrey will let me go." As if on cue Madam Pomfrey appeared at Jade's side. She closed the plastic curtains and pushed Fred out so that she could make one last examination. A few minutes later Jade reappeared, but this time she was wearing a black sweater, a pair of jeans and her now famous green converse.

They left together heading towards the Great Hall for some lunch, upon entering several people looked up and smiled, most were Gryffindors, but a few Hufflepuff's and Ravenclaw students smiled as well. At first Fred was worried that these people might have been smiling sympathetically for Jade, but upon closer inspection he noticed that they were just friends of Jade's saying it was great to see her out of the Hospital Wing so soon.

Fred and Jade took some seats opposite of George who now had the list for the Skiving Snackboxes was checking to see if everything was in order. He looked up at them gave them a smile, and said,

"Hey Fred we just need to test the Fainting Fancies one last time, and then we have finished everything for the Skiving Snackboxes."

"That's fantastic!" Jade said ladling herself some beef stew, Fred and George both looked at her with evil grins and she quickly added, "NO! I am not going to be the one to test it, for the final time!"

"Well it was worth a try." Said Fred also ladling himself some stew.

After the three of them finished their lunch the went out to the ground and decided to walk along the edge of the lake and talking about how they were going to finish the batch of fireworks that they had started on. It wasn't long before night had fallen and the three of them were forced to go back to the castle for dinner or get in trouble.

The next day, Jade looked at her schedule to see what classes she had for that day and she groaned, "Aw man, Double Potions this afternoon."

Fred and George did a double take and looked at her,

"You got into Snape's N.E.W.T. Potions class?" They sounded astonished, but she merely gave them one of her evil grins.

"I had to, unlike you two I plan on becoming an Auror when I get out of school." They still looked at her with rather hurt looks on their faces, she shook her head, "Don't worry, I intend on working with you guys on the joke shop, while I am in school. Plus I have to go to a special school to learn how to be an Auror, so I can still probably work with you then too." She pulled out her long wand and tapped her book removing an ink stain from the front of it.

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Being kicked off of the Gryffindor Team seemed to be a really good thing at the moment since Angelina was asking for a full day's training session on their Hogsmeade day off.

"Its Valentine's Day, what is Angelina thinking? Holding a full day's training, well as long as the team doesn't mind missing their Hogsmeade visit I suppose it's alright." Said George as they made their way past the Quidditch Pitch on their way down to Hogsmeade.

"Lets not forget that now, you brother and sister are out there training right now, so why don't we hop by Honeydukes and grab them a chocolate bar or something." Jade suggested as they now approached the Hogwarts gate.

"I guess we could do that, it's only fair, after all it is kind of our fault that Ginny had to join the team." Said Fred looking over at George.

"Hey, it would have been your fault too if Jade hadn't held you back." George retorted looking at his twin.

"If you ask me Draco had it coming. Now lets DROP IT!" Jade said swiftly ending the argument.

They were now walking down the street passing a few small shops, soon they were right outside of Honeydukes.

"You two know your siblings best so you go ahead and go inside. Get them something they would like." Jade said turning to go somewhere else.

"Hold on. You're not coming with us?" George suddenly said turning to look at her.

"Nah. I feel like going off and getting a coffee or something hot to drink." Jade replied giving them a reassuring smile.

"Mind if I come with?" Fred asked.

"No. You can come if you wish." She looked at George who smiled and said, "You two go ahead, I'll meet you at the Three Broomsticks in an hour."

Fred stopped for a moment to set the timer on his watch, "It will go off in fifty minutes, that way we have ten minutes to get back."

"That sounds good to me. Come on I know a quaint little tea shop. It might have a few people but they serve the best cappuccino around." Jade said leading Fred to the tea shop.

In less than five minutes they were standing in front of a small shop called Madam Puddifoot's. Jade opened the door and instantly they both froze.

"Apparently she decorated it for Valentine's Day." Jade said with a nervous chuckle as she made her way through to an empty table, as she went through the small tea shop she and Fred didn't even see Cho and Harry sitting at a table nearby.

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"Harry look." Cho whispered pointed to her left. Harry turned his head and his eyes opened wide, sitting on the other side of the shop at a small table for two was Fred and Jade. "What do you think they are doing here?" Cho asked looking as surprised as Harry was.

"I don't know but this could end up being pretty interesting." Harry continued to watch Fred and Jade. For now it looked like they were just talking over the table to one another. Minutes ticked by, and as they did Jade and Fred moved closer to one another, it looked like they were conversing in whispers to one another.

Fred put his hand down on the table and Harry saw it gently land on top of Jade's, but neither one of them pulled away in surprise or embarrassment. Jade looked up and her eyes had caught Fred's slowly they began to get closer, and closer over the table. Harry held his breath, it looked like Fred and Jade were about to kiss, they were now mere inches apart and the golden cherubs that was hovering over their table threw pink confetti over them. Both Fred and Jade had shut their eyes and their lips were less than two inches apart, a sudden beeping sound made them open their eyes and pull apart. They both looked away from each other looking rather embarrassed. They paid for their coffee and then rushed out still looking rather flushed.

Harry grinned and turned to Cho who had also been watching what was going on, "Well that was definitely very interesting." Harry said still surprised by what had almost happened between Fred and Jade.

"They must like each other and not realize it, but when they caught each other's eyes they forgot for a moment who each other was." Cho said in a dreamy voice.

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Jade wandered the corridors looking for the twins who had disappeared again. "Oh, where are they?" she asked herself exasperatedly.

A loud crash made her jump, Jade turned around wand at the ready, then she dived out of the way as a pair of Cleansweeps, one trailing a heavy chain and iron peg pelted past her. Jade instantly recognized the brooms, she jumped to her feet and ran as fast as she could after them.

Upon entering the entrance hall, she saw Fred and George hovering on their brooms and announcing the location of their new joke shop to the crown. Sensing that the twins were about to take off Jade ran forward yelling.

Fred turned his head just as Jade came forward and tried to grab the chain swinging off of his broom. Fred pulled his broom higher so that the chain was out of reach and he yelled at Jade,

"NO! You stay here. Unlike us you have a much better chance of becoming an Auror. We are not going to let you throw your life away following us. We're sorry." Fred turned to Peeves and then yelled, "Give her hell from us, Peeves."

Right before her eyes the twins took off through the entrance hall doors and into the sunset. Jade knew that the twins were right, and that she would see them again soon but she couldn't help but feel sad that they had left.

"YOU!" Jade turned to see Umbridge pointing one of her fat fingers at her and yelling. "I know that you are in league with those two. This is probably half your fault. FLICH GET HER!"

Filch gave a start and then with a malicious grin started towards Jade. Jade quickly reached into her pocket and she pulled out a small black ball, she threw it onto the ground and the hall filled with a thick black fog. The fog didn't last for more than thirty seconds, but once it cleared Jade was nowhere to be found.