We hugged for a long time. I couldnt let him go. I never wanted to be away from him again. Why did i stay away for so long? Why have i totured myself and him like this? When i finally let go we stepped back and stared into each other's eyes. George said, "ill leave you two to talk." And stepped down the stairs. "Hi", i finally said breathlessly. "Hello," fred smiled. His face had aged very much from the carefree boy i knew in school. This war was taking a toll on everyone. Plus his own brother had been wounded in the fighting. But now, he seemed relieved, like something had been worrying him for quite some time.
"I didnt know what happened to you." He said, his voice wasnt angry, it was calm. "I listened every time i could to the list of the dead hoping and praying never to hear your name. Why did you leave me alone like this?" his brown eyes were full of tears. he ran his hand along my cheek.
"I never left you, you left me". My eyes started to swell. I hated crying in front of him, it was embrassing. I pulled away from him, turning to wipe my eye.
"I know, im sorry." He grabbed my hand. "That was one of the worse day of my life. Why did you come here? After so long?"
"i heard you, on potterwatch" i laughed, i didnt know why it was funny but it was the first time i had laughed for a long time. "i had to come see you. I had to make sure you were ok" i looked up at him and smiled. I had missed his eyes, his voice, his smell.
"im so glad you did" he pulled me into another hug and held me tightly to his body. "I miss you" I clutched the back of his shirt and laid my head on his chest. we stood there until footsteps came up the stairs. "well, I'm glad to see you two haven't thrown anything at each other" George joked as he made it to the top. Fred let go of me and blushed. I just smiles and look around at all of the shop. "so how are things going here?" I asked. "well a lot of people aren't too fond of coming to diagon ally these days, but we've been doing fine. we live right at the top" he pointed up the other set of stairs. "where have you've been living?" George asked. "well, I didn't with my parents for a bit but then..." my voice trailed off. "what? what happened?" Fred rushed back to my side. "oh, well they were killed, by deatheaters." "oh my izzie; I'm sorry" George and Fred both hugged me tight. "it's been a while so I'm ok, I've been working with the order; well I was until it stopped. so I've been moving around a lot. haven't had much of a home for a while" I said. "live here! with us!" Fred slapped his hand on the railing. "yeah we have an extra room" George smiled as Fred's smiled lowered a little. "oh yeah of course, the guest room is always open" he grabbed my bag and started to walk up the stairs. we got to the top, he pointed to the right, "this is George's room, and that's mine" he pointed to the room down the hall and to the left. we walked down past his room, where he pointed out the bathroom and finally we made it to the guest room. it was a small room with a bed, desk and chair. it wasn't much but it was nice.
within a week we had moved all of my things from the flat to their home above the shop. fred and I had gone to the roof and sat looking at the stars. As we talked about the two years that had separated us but the passion between us was the same as it was before. i fell right back in love with him as I was before. I had no reservations; I was completely comfortable with him. we didn't talk of the final days of our sixth year. I knew Fred felt terrible and Fred knew that I didn't want him too.
I didnt know what was going to happen, but i wasnt worrying about that. We were together and nothing could pull us apart.
I spent most of my time down in the shop with the twins. But i wasnt allowed to go out much anymore. There were frequent raids from the ministry looking for mudbloods and harry potter but i was hidden in the attic for those. The raids worried fred very much, his whole life could be ruined in one fatal swoop of the ministry if they were to find me.
Fred, George and I spent evenings together, having dinner, listening to potterwatch and talking. Their mother was begging for them to come back home. George had decided to go home for the day to visit and calm her down. Fred and I stayed at the shop.
we closed up for the night and headed upstairs. we had dinner together, sitting across from each other I stared at him as he laughed and made jokes. I just sat and smiled. I could just picture us, just like this, at a home of our own. the outside world meant nothing. we would just be us and in our world we would perfectly happy and content. we moved to the living room to listen to potterwatch. I sat on the couch where Fred sat next to me. he stretched his arms back and on to the back of the couch. "smooth" I whispered as his hand rested down on my shoulder. "I know, there's no need to remind me" fred's smiled glistened in the dim light. I turned and looked at him. "aren't you suppose to kiss me now?" "yeah I guess that's what most people would do in this situation." he said as he leaned in right as his lips were just touching mine he began to tickle me. I kicked and screamed as i fall to the floor. I had pulled Fred down with me. we laid side by side catching our breathe. "not funny" I said short of breathe. "I would beg to differ" he smiled pushing himself up on to this elbow. he leaned in and finally his lips connected with mine and we kissed. he pulled his face back. "you are so beautiful" he said, as he played with my long brown hair. "nothing compared to you" I said running my fingers along his cheek. he picked me up and carried me into his room where we continued to make out. soon we just laid together talking about nothing and everything. what we wanted to do with the rest of our lives, what we were to do when the war was over, and where we wanted to be. i curled into his chest as we talked. fred wrapped his arms around me. i ran my fingers over his muscles as i listened to fred's stories.
we soon heard George coming back up the stairs. he opened the door to the room surprised to see me in there with Fred. "oh hello" he blushed "you two were busy while I was gone" Fred threw a pillow at him "what did you want?" he yelled laughing. "oh well mum says hello and that you should come say hello soon." "you couldn't tell me this in the morning?" fred asked. "nope" George smiled and closed the door. "sorry about him" Fred rubbed the back of his head. "it's ok, I should be going to sleep anyways" I yawned and got up. "see you later" I said as I left the room.