The fake Galleons with the Protean Charm that Hermione had made for the Dumbledore's Army had become a secret means of communication between Fred George and the rest of the survivors. They didn't get warm very often but whenever they did, the twins on the pretext of dropping a shipment off at Zonkos would get o Hogsmead using Polyjuice Potion and get people out from Hogs Head. Shell Cottage and the Burrow had become homes for refuges and a half way home for people who were bring hunted. Once a month or once two months the coin would heat up. Very rarely would it burn consecutively. Just earlier today they had dropped in to take away an heavily injured Ravencalw, so when the coin burned against his thigh again, George looked at Fred confused.
"So soon? Do you reckon the Carrows got drunk and threw themselves a party again?" Fed said grimly
"I dunno…" George said fishing the coin out of his pocket as Fred pulled their jackets out of their bottomless trunk that they had been using to store clothes raw metals and finished products.
There was a clatter as Fred turned to see the coin on the floor and George looking shocked as if the coin had actually burned him!
"She's at Hogwarts…" was all he managed before the twins sent a patronus home and practically raced out the door running right into Ginny!
"Ow!" Ginny said rubbing her face as Grog steadied her "Gin, what are you doing here?"
"I saw the coin…I want to come with… Mum won't let me…" she said fiercely
The twins exchanged a look of understanding. "We apparate as soon as we cross the wards… " Fred said gabbing her hand
They had very few reasons to smile these days but this was definitely one of them. They were gonna see 'Mione again
The three rushed out, there was fait pop and they were gone
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Harry stepped back into the room of requirement and started down the stairs but slipped down the last few in shock. It was packed, far more crowded than when he had last been in there.
Half the order of Phoenix, the twins and other older members of Dumbledore's Army were all there! Including Oliver wood?!
"Harry, what's happening?" Lupin asked urgently, meeting him at the foot of the stairs.
"Voldemort's on his way, they're barricading the school – Snape's run for it – what are you doing here? How did you know?"
"We sent messages to the rest of Dumbledore's Army," Fred explained. "You couldn't expect everyone to miss the fun, Harry, and the DA let the Order of the Phoenix know, and it all kind of snowballed…"
"What first, Harry?" called George. 'What do you need us to do?" The twins really wanted to ask about Ron and Hermione but this was not the time or the place,
"They're evacuating the younger kids and everyone's meeting in the Great Hall to get organised," Harry said. "We're fighting."
There was a great roar and a surge towards the foot of the stairs; Harry was pressed back against the wall as they ran past him, the mingled members of the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore's Army and Harry's old Quidditch team, all with their wands drawn, heading up into the main castle.
The crowd was thinning: only a little knot of people remained below in the Room of Requirement and Harry joined them. Mrs Weasley was struggling with Ginny. Around them stood Lupin, Fred, George, Bill and Fleur. The argument was fierce as Ginny wanted to fight but Mrs. Weasly was not having it.
Fred even tried up to stand up to his little sister when his mother yelled at Ginny for the Dumbledore's Army being a teenager's gang "A teenagers' gang that's about to take him on, which no one else has dared to do!"
"She's sixteen!" shouted Mrs Weasley. "She's not old enough! What you two were thinking, bringing her with you…"
Fred and George looked slightly ashamed of themselves and after Bill said no it was time fore Ginny to go but to everyone's surprise Percy clambered out of the tunnel…
"I was a fool!" Percy roared, "I was an idiot, I was a pompous prat, I was a… a…
"Ministry-loving, family-disowning, power-hungry moron…" Fred supplied
Percy swallowed with tears in his eyes but didn't look away "Yes, I was!"
"Well, you can't say fairer than that," said Fred, holding out his hand to Percy.
Mrs Weasley burst into tears. She ran forwards, pushed Fred aside and pulled Percy into a strangling hug, while he patted her on the back, his eyes on his father. 'I'm sorry, Dad,' Percy said. Mr Weasley blinked rather rapidly, then he, too, hurried to hug his son.
"What made you see sense, Perce?" enquired George.
"It's been coming on for a while," said Percy, mopping his eyes under his glasses with a corner of his travelling cloak. "But I had to find a way out and it's not so easy at the Ministry, they're imprisoning traitors all the time. I managed to make contact with Aberforth and he tipped me off ten minutes ago that Hogwarts was going to make a fight of it, so here I am."
"Well, we do look to our prefects to take a lead at times such as these," George said imitating of Percy's most pompous manner making everyone smile a bit
"Now let's get upstairs and fight, or all the good Death Eaters'll be taken." Fred added
They were just about to leave when suddenly
"Ginny!" barked Mrs Weasley. Ginny had been attempting, under cover of the reconciliation, to sneak upstairs too. But after a quick word from Lupin it was decided that Ginny could stay inside the Room, the twins knew that was never going to work but chose to silent
They exchanged a quick look because they were dying to ask a question which Harry suddenly did.
"Where's Ron? Where's Hermione?"
"They must have gone up to the Great Hall already," Mr Weasley called over his shoulder.
"I didn't see them pass me," said Harry.
"They said something about a bathroom," said Ginny, "not long after you left."
"A bathroom?" Fred spun around and threw open to door to the bathroom in Room of Requirement but it was empty. His heart that had lit up with hope began to ache painfully again. George felt it too. They nodded at each other in understand and head out. This was not the time or place, they needed to fight first they would see her soon.
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"We've only got half an hour until midnight, so we need to act fast! A battle plan has been agreed between the teachers of Hogwarts and the Order of the Phoenix. Professors Flitwick, Sprout and McGonagall are going to take groups of fighters up to the three highest Towers – Ravenclaw, Astronomy and Gryffindor – where they'll have a good overview, excellent positions from which to work spells. Meanwhile, Remus," he indicated Lupin, "Arthur," he pointed towards Mr Weasley, sitting at the Gryffindor table, "and I will take groups into the grounds. We'll need somebody to organise defence of the entrances of the passageways into the school…"
"Sounds like a job for us," Fred called, indicating himself and George, and Kingsley nodded his approval.
"All right, leaders up here and we'll divide up the troops!"
Fred and George had split up and split the troops given to them into groups 5each for the 7 secret corridors. There was rumbling against the castle walls as several spells hit the shields but some minor ones got through blowing up the stone gargoyles creating debris and knocking out people as they did.
The teams and the twins kept to their tasks, standing at the edge of corridors listening intently. The death eaters were fighting to kill and they knew that. "Keep moving…" Fred said "and keep changing course… if you stand still you're an easy target…"
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It was chaos all round, the Death Eaters had brought giants of their own. They had managed to take down the barrier and the grounds were a proper battleground with jets of light flying in every direction. It was all out war!
People were apparating into and out of Hogsmead. Some were stunned on arrival, others managed to get away just before being hit by an unforgivable. Latin was being yelled all around and the air was thick with dust and smoke.
Fred and Percy were duelling the Death Eaters in the corridors.
"Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort.
"Did I mention I'm resigning?"
"You're joking, Perce!" shouted Fred, as the Death Eater he was battling collapsed under the weight of three separate Stunning Spells from Harry, Hermione and himself. Fred looked at Percy with glee.. "You actually are joking, Perce … I don't think I've heard you joke since you were…" his words were caught in his throat as he saw Hermione
Thicknesse had fallen to the ground with tiny spikes erupting all over him; he seemed to be turning into some form of sea urchin
Fred saw her and smiled a moment before the air exploded. The world was rent apart as bombard went off behind him. Hermione was quick to throw up a shield but it was not strong enough. The group was thrown with Fred taking the worst hit of them all.
"No! No! No!" Hermione crawled towards him as he was choking in his blood.
Somewhere across at the other side the castle George felt his heart stop for moment. He collapsed feeling pain like he'd never felt before and he had just been hit by a crucio.
Harry was stunned as Percy and Ron yelled reaching for their brother. Jets of light flew over their head as the other fighters turned to hit the giant spiders crawling in.
Hermione was the first to reach him. Ron looked at her desperately as she cared her mind blanking. "'Mione! Do something! Anything! Please! Save him! HERMIONE!"
Ron scream jolted her back into action. Fred reached a hand to touch her face just as George popped up a few feet away from them. He sot a few spells at Aragog's Kin before sliding on his knees to this twin "Fred! 'Mione…"
Hermione had been running ever spell she could think of in her mind as she tried to stem the bleeding. But as soon as George arrived a clarity hit her. One she had never seen before. "George Pick him up… and Fred, don't you dare die!"
Adrenaline rushed through George as lifted his brother off the ground and raced behind Hermione ducking and doing the on going fight an debris with Ron & Harry in tow… Percy had let his rage out on the oncoming death eaters.
She ran into an empty classroom and opened up her little beaded bag. The castle shook and dust fell from the ceiling as she summoned a knife and a book.
"Empty the space…" she said points at the platform there the tear's table typically is. She flipped through the book as the boys levitated things out of the way not bothering if they were smashed and piled up in the process.
She cut her finger and began to drawn intricate runes on the floor. "Put him in the middle…" She then reached for George "Your right hand…" She sliced his finger with the knife and red his blood to completed adding runes… Fred was fading. Harry and Ron stood beside her helpless.
Ron was seething! "I'm gonna kill them!"
"No!" Hermione said "Not now… first we will heal him, then we'll find Voldemort, then we'll kill them all…" she said with uncurl calm and clarity "Just hang on Fred one more min… just please…" Hermione said as she finished using George's hand to draw the last of the spell.
"You two out…" She said to Harry and Ron..
"But…" Ron began however Harry just nodded and dragged Ron out
"Harry don't let anyone interrupt us for the next 5 mins please!" She called
"You got it 'mione…" Harry said as he and Ron stood guard
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Fred was choking now… He called out "Mi… miiaa… gg…gero..gi…"
"Shhhh…" Hermione said raising his head "Just one more min… I promise… I can't let you go.. I won't…. George, Undress please.." She said as she began to Trea of Fred's already shredded clothes
"Di… di.. dn't think, would get to see you… le…let alone na… naked…." Fred chortled spitting some blood as the wounds on his back and stomach continued to leak…
Hermione managed a smile as she undressed. She lifted her wand and used the drops of Freds blood to make 3 concentric circles that linked all the runes she had drawn. She looked at the book one last time before stepping into the circle. She reached a hand out to George. "You feel his pain?" She asked and he nodded. "Good, that means he will feel your pleasure…"
She grabbed his shaft as George hissed with desire but he knew better than to stop or question her. Fred moaned as she stroked them both together, in a way she knew Fred enjoyed… "Now this is the right way to go…" he moaned through the pain…
George reached for her lower lips with his fingers. He ran them over her clit begging for entrance… Neither of them was in the mind-space but the boy is a treacherous thing. The boys began to get hard and she began to get wet. When he was completely hard. She lowered herself on him and asked George to enter her as well. One they were burned inside her she began to move and chant and with her chant the runes and the circles began to glow.
In amore, in libidine, in sanguine.
In vita, in morte, in nativitate.
In hac vita et altera.
vincti sumus;
Animae nostrae communicatae sunt;
Scinditur & in unum magnum immergitur;
Nunc tres nostri animam unam participant!
Vivificans inuicem;
Quisque dolor
Vivens simul moriens simul & renascentis!
(In love, in lust, in blood...
In life, in death, in birth...
In this life and the next...
We are bonded,
Our souls shared,
Split & Merged into one large whole,
The three of us now share one soul!
Giving life to each other,
Suffering each others pain,
Living together, dying together & being born again!)
She kept chanting as the castle shook, she chanted louder with each movement making her voice echo over the screams and yells outside. A glowing green thread rose from her chest, a glowing red one from Fred's and one a matching glowing red one George's. The treads began to intertwine a like a glowing braid of red and green. They grew longer and wrapped around the 3 like a snake coiling around them. Soon it connected with itself making the symbol of infinity with each loop going around Fred and George and the Center passing through Hermione. The infantry loop began to glow a golden as Fred wounds began to heal.
The cuts sealed up, the bruises vanished, Hemrione's cursed scar of mudblood also began to glow and vanish. George's hole where the ear was began to glow and his ear grew out of his head. She kept chanting and kept moving as the warmth around them began to grow. She teared up as she saw him heal. George moved with her fascinated as he watched his bother begin to heal.
Fred had closed his eyes as he felt the life leaving him. He just wanted to feel pleasure for the last time but suddenly he took a deep breath. The pain was gone, no bruises, no blood, he was glowing. He opened his eyes to see Hermione chanting as she was going too and so was George. The brother's exchanged a look and looked towards Hermione. She had tear's in her eyes but she never stopped chanting. As Fred healed completely he felt a sudden surge of lust, the kind he'd never felt before. His eyes rolled back and went completely white, as hid Hermione and Freds.
As if in a trance, Fred and George began to chant the spell as well. The thee moved with a urgent need. Fred sat up, pulling Hermione to his chest as George also stuck to her back. Their chants now harmonising, their hands roaring over aha other, they looked like one large being that was moving erratically but in a lustful dance. The infinity symbol glowed blighter and brighter, their trance becoming more wild as their movements got more rapid.
Fred was the first, he spilled in her and then pulled out so that George could spill into her womb. Their chants were being screamed now and just as they chanted for the one thousand seven hundred and twenty night time, Hermione's navel glowed brightly and she squirted on them just as George pulled out.
Their trance ended and they came back to normal, heaving their throat hoarse from screaming. She held Fred's face in her hands and teared up "I'm so sorry… I didn't know what else to do…"
Fred kissed her gently as he held her. He reached out his hadn't to George who joined them. There was large bang and the castle shook. The three of them held each other… "We'll talk about this later… let's go win the war…" George said kissing her and giving Fred a hug.
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