After I had been sedated I would continuously wake up briefly and catch glimpses of the world around me, immediately falling back into the world of sleep where I could still pretend that everything was ok, and that my sister and I weren't actually alone in the world.
I caught glimpses of people standing over my bed, quidditch players being escorted to beds, friends standing over me, others with gifts, and never Fred.
But eventually I awoke, and stayed that way. I didn't see the black spots, or feel he warm dizzying feeling that warned me of my time awake being over. I just lied there, and stared up at the ceiling, when a sweet smell filled my nostrils. I turned my head and saw bouquets of flowers, and chocolates, and a teddy bear. I promptly picked up the fluff filled toy and hugged it to my chest. Reading the card I saw that it was from Clarisse, the only person who knew of my long term love affair with stuffed animals.
Then my head began to feel sore and I groaned, lifting a cold hand to my forehead and felt a pressure on my leg. I looked down and saw a familiar mess of ginger hair spilling over my calf and I smiled to myself, comforted by the thought of Fred being with me even as I slept.
The head mumbled to itself and slowly rose, and sleepily gazed at my smiling face, which slowly turned to a pensive stare. It looked like Fred, but it was off. The eyes were smaller, it had more freckles, and the hair was shorter.
"George? What are you doing here?" I asked quizzically, my voice raspy from the dryness and swallowed the water beside my bed.
"Don't worry, its not what it looks like, Fred was by your side the last two days and I made him go and get breakfast. I was just staying in his place so that you wouldn't finally wake up and find yourself alone. Just being a good person here, a tired, hungry, gorgeous good person."
I found myself smiling again and gestured for him to give me a hug. He followed through and when he leaned down to hug me, my nose was filled with the scent of chocolate and, something else I couldn't identify.
"So how has my sister been?" I inquired curiously, hoping that I hadn't let her down with my selfish need to keep my sanity, and my own perfect world from collapsing.
"She's holding up pretty well, she cried for awhile, but after that she visited you and she's been meeting with professor Dumbledore to arrange living arrangements for you guys. I didn't know you guys had no family besides your family."
"Yeah, we were a small little clan." I remembered fondly.
"I see, well you guys are always welcome to stay with us." He said smiling somberly.
I smiled back and felt myself begin to tear up slightly, I sniffed and brought the tears back in, I had already done my crying, I needed to stay strong.
"Melissa? Your really awake?" said a voice from the entry way.
"Fred?"
"Oh Merlin Melissa, don't you ever scare me like that again!" he said rushing to my side and squeezing me tight, as though I would slip away from him at any second, and never see him again.
"I'll try not to scare you again like that, baby."
He pulled back from the tight embrace and looked me over worriedly, inspecting me to make sure I was still in one piece.
"Fred, I was sedated, not injured, I'm fine, just a small headache."
"Ill get madame Pomfrey, she can fix that."
"Fred no, don't bother her right now, its fine, only a teeny tiny head ach, I'm sure ill live."
"You better not be lying." He grumbled, eyeing me closely.
I rolled my eyes and nodded, humored by his anxiousness.
"Well, how about we take your mind off of all of this, and discuss our plan?" he said, trying to end the silence that had came over all of us, including George who I had briefly forgotten.
"Our plan?" I questioned, a little confused due his being so vague.
"You know. The plan." he said winking, and I was immediately caught up, and a smiled slightly, taking my mind off of the situation for awhile would probably help me.
We sat there and came up with a date, but also hit a fork in the road.
"There is no possible way that you guys can stay here after you pull that prank, no way at all." I stated, trying to work out a solution.
"True, we would be in so much shit." George said, hunching over and rubbing his temples.
"Wait, didn't you two find a flat in Diagon alley?" I asked.
"Yeah, but we haven't bought it. We don't have the money."
"What about the money Harry gave you guys?"
"Oh yeah, forgot that." Fred said sheepishly.
"Well, use that to buy the building, and after we pull this off you'll ride off to Diagon alley."
"And leave you?" the two said, astonished and horrified.
"Yes, she wont suspect me of having aided you guys." I said confidently.
"Yeah she will, I heard her talking about how she suspected you had been helping us since the beginning with our pranks." George said, angrily.
"I see, well I will think of something. I can't leave my sister here all alone."
"True, but there is also another small glitch in the plan." George stated, Fred nodding along with him.
"And what would that be?" I asked annoyed.
"At the last quidditch game our brooms were confiscated since I may have gotten into a fight with Draco." Fred said.
"Fred! Why would you do that?" I cried out.
"It's nothing, but still, no brooms."
"Well, you could just break into wherever she is keeping them. It would add to the brilliance of our plan."
"Darling, you have once again reminded me how much I love your crafty, devious hidden personality." Fred replied, wrapping his arm around me and ruffling my hair.
"Do you honestly plan on breaking into her office?" Another unknown voice said, definitely one of an adult.
"Oh shit." I mumbled to myself as we all saw who the voice was.
Cliffy! Sorry it took so long, our power was out for mad long, then I was grounded, and then I kinda sorta had writers block. But its all good now!