Hermione couldn't help but feel depressed the entire week she didn't go to the woods to see Fred. Her parents had turned physically abusive towards her last summer and she had only ever told Fred. He was the one she would go to after a particularly bad beating, all she had to do was send her owl who lives just inside the woods so that her parents don't notice. The owl is the centre of her attention right now. She knows she has at least one broken bone in her body but she can't pinpoint where due to the vast amounts of pain radiating through her body. She also knows that she has to get help as she isn't able to heal herself while in this amount of pain.
Fred couldn't help but feel depressed the entire week he didn't go to the woods to see Hermione. He'd been struggling to keep up his act around his family, he hadn't let his walls down throughout the week. She was the only one he could tell his pains to - how he feels like hurting everyone around him and making them pay for making him put up walls. He knows he needs to talk about it to her or he'll go insane. Or worse he'll carry out one of his darkest fantasies and get given the Dementor's Kiss. He also knows that his family is starting to notice his cracks that he has tried to hide and they'll start questioning him soon.
Hermione writes a quick scribbled note of two words - Tree, quickly. Once the owl has set off through the woods - never going above the tree line to avoid detection - she to starts the painful journey to their tree. All she wishes for right now is that Fred comes and she makes it to the tree before she collapses.
The sun had set an hour ago yet an owl has just arrived at Fred's window. Fred leaves it alone, hoping it will go away but the tapping just gets louder. Eventually George gets up to shoo the owl away but as he moves towards the window he asks Fred a question that causes him to stiffen.
"So what's up with you? You've been acting horrid all week."
As George finally opens the window the owl sweeps in before he can stop it. He sighs and turns to Fred to demand the answer to his question, hoping he'll tell him like he did before he changed. But to Georges surprise Fred is putting down a piece of paper and grabbing his boots. George knows he won't get an answer from him now, Fred's always disappearing for extended amounts of time after their mum put them to bed. Yet this time George follows him, hoping to get to the bottom of at least one mystery. Why Fred changed or where he disappears to.
Fred can't answer George, if he does he'll just ask more questions. So he tries to think of how to distract him when Hermione's owl slams to a stop on top of his bed. He notices the note immediately and grabs it up. Grabbing his boots, he rushes out of the house as silently as he can. He knows Hermione is in trouble to have contacted him so early after a fight, he just wishes that she made it to the tree and he can help her when he gets there.
Neither Fred nor Hermione expected what was to happen that night and George could only wish he had been more careful.
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