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Chapter Two; Meeting Again

"It's about George." Fred said, opening the bag with chocolate biscuits and took one, but just when he was about to put it into his mouth Alicia snatched it from him.

"What do you mean, it's about George. What happened to him?" Alicia said and put back the biscuit. Fred looked at her, detecting a little bit of worry in her voice.

"It's nothing big." He responded. "It's just that for once in my life I can't get to him, I just know that there is something wrong, but I just can't tell what."

"What does that got to do with me?" She asked. "I haven't spoken to him in years."

"I think that it have something to do with you." He looked away from her face and walked over to the table and sat down on the chair.

"How can it have something to do with me?" She asked, suspecting that he missed her just as much as she missed him. "Besides, I busy nowadays. I have two years left at the training, and they don't have summer breaks." She continued trying to change the subject, hoping that something would happen so that she didn't have to continue this conversation with Fred.

"I know that you are busy, but… I need your help. He has been getting even more depressed since he heard that you also were in the extraction group." He sighed; he wouldn't have gone all the way to Alicia if he didn't have any other choice. "Could you just talk to him, say anything… Anything to make him feel better." Fred looked up at her with a look of sadness. "You know, if he's sad, I'm sad. I don't want to be sad; it makes me feel like shit."

"I'll talk to him when I get the chance." She sighed, thinking about the task that stood in fore her in one days' time. "And by getting the chance I mean when we meet at the home tomorrow." The home meant the Burrow, the current Headquarters, but that didn't mean that they had all their meetings there, actually, they hadn't had a meeting there except for just a few times. They kept changing the location because it would be suspicious if too many people hanged around there. But the Burrow was still a place where any member of the Order could come to if they needed help or anything.

"Thank you Alicia. Thank you so very much." Fred said happy, smiling big and before he knew it he had gotten up from the chair and hugged her. "Thank you, I mean it."

"I can't promise anything." Alicia took up on of the biscuits from the bag and gave it to Fred.

"Once again, thank you." He said and put the biscuit into his mouth and left.

Alicia stood in her small kitchen for a long time after Fred had left and just looked at the door. She became very sad of the memory of what she and George had. She missed him very much, but her dad was right, what if she would have accidentally gotten pregnant? She had had a very big problem with times when her friends had put her up with other men. She just missed that red hair, the look in his eyes when he was up to no good, his smile, his dumb way to express himself sometimes, when he looked her in the eyes, whispered sweet things into her ear.

It seemed like it had passed a lifetime since Fred had left, and she was still staring at the door. Suddenly somebody knocked at it and it opened, she thought at first that it was Fred coming back, but she still drew her wand, she had made and habit of always drawing her wand when she get insecure. But it wasn't Fred; it was another red haired Weasley… Percy.

When he saw that she had her wand drawn he put his hands up in the air. "69.98." he said smiling and she could put down her wand. The thing with the number was that Alicia had made and intelligence test a couple weeks ago, you needed to have 70 sharp to get the tag, which confirmed that you were an intelligent person. Percy was the only one that knew that she just had gotten 69.98 on the scores. To everybody else she didn't care about the results and it was only a stupid test.

"Hi Perce." She said calmly and resumed unpacking the groceries.

"Hey Leesh." Percy closed the door and walked into the kitchen, and just like Fred had, he reached for the bag with biscuits and took one without asking. "Was that Fred?" He asked with his mouth full.

"Yes." Alicia answered.

"What did he want?" he continued out of curiosity when he had swallowed.

"Nothing important really." She answered and put away the empty grocery bag and took up the one filled with books and put it up on the table.

"That's good." Percy nodded.

"What do you want?" she asked him, he usually didn't just drop by for the latest gossip. "Except for eating up all of my biscuits." She added and snatched the bag from him when he reached to take another one.

"Oh, I just wanted to tell you that Oliver is coming home tonight and he want to know if you in for going out." Percy informed her.

Oliver was the one that had helped her get this flat; they had met about six months ago in the elevator at the ministry. He was on his way to the Quidditch department for some sort of meeting. They had chatted a little and when she sadly told him that she still was living home because she couldn't get a hold of a flat, he had mentioned that there was one available in his building. The most people that lived in the building were Wizards and Witches that just moved away from home.

Percy also lived in the building; he and Oliver had become better friends since they left school. But Oliver was only home for a time to time, since he was a lot of the time out with his team (Puddlemere United, were he was now the first keeper, which was something he kept reminding them of) either training or doing something else she couldn't care less to find out. But the most of the times when Oliver was coming home for the weekend he wanted them to go out to the small Wizarding pub down on the corner.

"I don't know…" Alicia said concerned pulling out her books from her bag. "I got loads to do."

"I'll help you." Percy offered. "Just don't leave me alone with Oliver and them" Percy said with a slight horror in his voice. By them he meant some of the other girls that lived here in the building. "You are the only sane person."

"Alright, I could use some fun." Alicia gave up; she thought of Fred's visit earlier as she took one of the biscuits herself and didn't notice that Percy did the exact same thing. Alicia knew that Percy missed his family even though that he didn't say anything, he actually seemed a little lost these days because of that, that's the main reason that he always liked to follow them to the pub, one time had he actually mentioned that he wanted to go back to his family, but he felt like he had messed things up to much to go back. He had changed so much since his days at Hogwarts; he had loosened up a little, letting himself enjoy that wonderful thing called life.

Alicia hadn't told any of the members in the Weasley family that she was at occasions drinking with him; she just didn't know how they would react.


"I'm sorry." Oliver Wood said for the hundred time. "I'm so sorry."

Alicia was sitting and looking very angry at a bed in St. Mungos. Oliver had accidentally done something so that Alicia had fallen and broke her ankle. She didn't remember so much of the accident since she had been drinking a little too much, and it happened to fast; all she knew was that Oliver was behind the accident.

"We are supposed to have a practical lesson tomorrow." Alicia said. "How the hell am I going to attend to it?" She glared up at him angry.

"I'm sorry." Oliver said once again.

"The healer says that it's going to take a week for the ankle to heal." Percy said as he entered the room.

"Lovely." Alicia replied sarcastically.

"Well, she also says that you need lots of sleep, so Oliver and I need to go." He continued.

"What about all my stuff?" she asked. "My books that I need for tomorrow and… no!" she suddenly realized that with her broken ankle she couldn't be apart of the Harry Potter extraction group.

"Don't worry; I'll get your books. Just write up which you need and I'll bring them for you." Percy said.

"Shit." Alicia cursed to herself not hearing Percy, she had to tell somebody in the Order that she had broken her ankle. But who? And where was she going to get a hold of an owl? Especially at this time, one o'clock in the morning. "Do I really have to stay here?" She looked up at Percy.

"She said that you didn't have to, but it was for your own best if you did." Percy responded. "I think." He then added.

"Can you go and ask her if I can go?" She said. "I really can't stay here now."

"Sure." Percy said and walked out of the room.

"Oliver, can you get me my crutches." Alicia pointed toward the two crutches that the healer had put on the other empty bed in the room. Oliver rose from where he sat and gave them to her and helped her to stand up.

"Ms. Spinnet, it's actually for your own best that you stay here for the night." The female healer said in a stern voice. "You are able to leave tomorrow."

"I need to go." Alicia said and took her stuff. "Me breaking ankle is no good, I have to tell them about it." She really needed to go and tell somebody in the Order that she couldn't be apart of the mission, and she also knew that they needed time to find a replacement.

She started to think about who she should tell, she didn't know any members who lived here in London, there probably was a few that lived here, but she didn't knew where. First she came to think of that she should get to the Burrow, but she didn't know how. She didn't dare to apparate when she had been drinking. They had come to St. Mungos by car. Car! She thought and got an idea.

"Percy, do you mind driving me to a friend of mine?" She asked Percy to drive since he was the only one that was sober enough to drive, and knew how to drive.

"Sure, where are you going?"

"Ms. Spinnet…" the healer said, but Alicia interrupted her.

"No, I'm not staying for the night." Alicia started to get angry, she would explain to her if it was possible. "End of discussion." She started to jump her way out of the room. She had entered the hallway and walked a few steps down it when she felt Oliver come up to her from behind.

"Let me help you." He said and put an arm around her waist so that she could support herself on him. He took one the crutches from her and gave it to Percy, and the three of them walked out from St. Mungos.


"There is the building." She told Percy and pointed toward an apartment building. They had left St. Mungos half an hour ago, first had they been and dropped of Oliver, then they just had to find their way to the flat in question.

"Whose apartment is it?" Percy asked as she made her way out of the car.

"If I told you, I had to kill you." She simply answered. "Just wait here for me; I'll be back in Five." She closed the car door.

"Do you realize that it is 01:30 in the morning?" Percy shouted after her.

"I know, don't worry, she won't mind." Alicia wasn't even sure if she was at home, she had just gotten married a week ago. Maybe she and her husband already was the Burrow. But Alicia didn't know any other member that wouldn't mind her dropping in the middle of the night.

She made her way up to the third floor and looked at the door which had the sign that said; "TONKS" and then a little smiley face. The first time that Alicia was there with her father loads of years ago, she had asked why it only said her last name. She simply answered that her crazy mother had given her a ridiculous first name. Alicia knocked on the door, and just hoped that there would be somebody at home.

"Who is it?" suddenly Tonks's voice came from inside the apartment.

"It's me, Alicia Jennifer Spinnet, Daughter of John Spinnet. The same John Spinnet that pulled a lot of strings so that you would get your Auror license after that disaster you made at Stealth and Tracking. Where you accidentally caused the death of the doll you were supposed to save. And last time I saw you was five weeks ago." Alicia said through the door.

"What are you doing here at this time at night?" Tonks opened the door and looked tiredly at her.

"I broke my ankle."

"How did you break your Uncle?" Tonks continued, hearing Alicia wrong.

"Not my Uncle, I don't have an Uncle, my ankle." Alicia corrected her.

"Oh, shit." Tonks cursed. "Come in, I'll make you some tea."

"Skip the tea; I have to go home later." Alicia made her way over to the small kitchen. "Gosh, Tonks you're a worse slob than your dad." She said and looked at the messy apartment.

"I have been keeping busy; just remember that two are living here now." She said and pulled out a chair for Alicia to sit on. "Have you been drinking?"

"No." Alicia answered too fast. "Okay, maybe I have, but it's really none of your business."

"You're not able to go tomorrow if your ankle is broken." Tonks stated.

"I know that's why I'm here. The plan for tomorrow is that I go to the Burrow with Kingsley just before we need go, that's why he's visiting our class tomorrow." Alicia said. "When are you going there?"

"Around noon, so I'll tell them that you are not able to come with us."

"How are you going to do? Take me away or replace me?"

"I don't know. We'll just have to talk about it when we get to the Burrow." Tonks replied. "How are you going to get home, not apparate right, you know that it's dangerous when you have been drinking?"

"I have a friend driving me." Alicia said and stood up. "I'll see you tomorrow."

"See ya'"


The next day went pretty slowly, Alicia managed to get to the ministry and up to the floor she needed. Kingsley seemed very disappointed when he saw her coming on her crutches, but he got over that quickly as Mr. Aldine (Their teacher) announced that it looked like they were going to have a three hour theory lesson instead of a practical one.

When the day was over and early evening arrived, both Kingsley and Alicia apparated to the Burrow. He had asked her didn't prefer to stay at home with her broken ankle, but she just answered that she'd promised to go, silently thinking of what she had promised Fred.

The both of them entered the kitchen, almost the whole Weasley family plus company was sitting by the table talking and waiting.

"Hey everybody." Alicia said and sat down next to Tonks.

"Are you okay?" Tonks asked. Alicia just nodded and surveyed the people sitting by the table. It was everybody that was a part of the Harry Potter rescuing group, except for Fred, George, Ron and Hagrid. At the table was also Ginny and Mrs. Weasley sitting.

"What have you decided to do about me?" Alicia asked out.

"Well…" Mr. Weasley started. "We have decided to replace you."

"With who?"

"Me." Hermione said, she and Ron had just entered the kitchen.

"Okay." Alicia said not being sure if Hermione would have been such a good choice, sure she was smart but... Alicia still felt a little doubt.

"How did you break your ankle?" Ginny asked Alicia after a moment.

"Oliver Wood accidentally pulled the rug under my feet." She answered. "He did his magic wrong when he was trying to impress Mica."

"Who's Mica?" Somebody asked Alicia, Alicia looked up at the person who had asked her that and found herself staring into the eyes of no one other that George Weasley.