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Chapter Three; Way to go, your Holeyness
"Hey Alicia." Fred said a little overjoyed and walked over to Alicia and sat down.
Alicia still had her eyes locked to Georges who still watched her. But George was the first one to look away. Alicia heard that all the talking in the room had stopped; she could feel the tension rise. It felt like everybody was watching them and waited for one of them to say anything.
"Time to go." Hagrid came into the kitchen, but when he came in he added. "Did I interrupt something?"
"No." Mrs. Weasley said, standing up from where she sat. "You are right, it's time to go." And with that, everybody left the kitchen, except herself, Ginny and Alicia. Alicia could swear that she felt Georges hand touch her back lightly.
She looked at his back as he left the room, and suddenly it hit her, this could be the last time she ever saw him, he could die tonight. She felt an urge to run after him, kiss him, tell him that she cared for him and missed him, wished that she could make up for the time they should have been together. But she didn't, more likely she couldn't, she was too afraid of rejection.
"Do you want some tea, Alicia?" Mrs. Weasley asked her when they had left the grounds of the Burrow.
"No thanks." Alicia answered. "I think I'm gonna start with my studies instead." She reached for her back and took out her "Magical and un-magical medicine" book.
"Un-Magical? Do they force you to study Muggle medicine?" Ginny asked.
"Yes, but I wouldn't use the phrase 'force' it's actually interesting. But in the chapter we are working on now, they are going through the Herbology stuff we went through in fifth year, so I have to take out my old notes." Alicia answered, she had actually borrowed Percy's notes, her own was taken by Fred and George, on the very last day of fifth year they had taken their own, Lee's, Angelina's and Alicia's notes for the whole year and burned it, happy to get writ of that stuff.
"Wow." Ginny said and picked up the parchment and looked closer at it. "Your handwriting is just like Percy's."
"It is?" Alicia lied and took the parchment from Ginny. "Maybe it is, I actually got them from Oliver, maybe he stole them from Percy, cause they were in the same year after all."
"Is the Auror training hard?"
"Not completely for me really, I have some experience from when my dad was helping Tonks and Casey get through teir training. So I have it easier than the other four." She answered and sighed.
"You're only five?" Ginny asked chocked.
"Yes, but I'm the only one in my age. Three of them are one year older and the fifth are two years older."
"How many hour of lessons do you have a week?"
"Well, we have three days in the week we have to be at the ministry for lessons. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, On Monday's and Tuesday's we have five hours and on Thursday's, like today, we have only a three hour."
"That's a lot of free time."
"Yes, it may sound like that, but I have my job and homework to fill my time. I work on everyday but Wednesday, which I spent at the public library in London."
"Where do you work?" But this question didn't come from Ginny it had come from Mrs. Weasley, who had listened from the kitchen counter.
Alicia blushed when she thought of were she worked. Mica had laughed when she had heard that. "A Muggle Diner, not so far away from were I live. It's the only work with flexible hours that I could find; besides I have learned that Muggle's aren't as stupid as we think."
"I think that it sounds lovely." Ginny said and excused herself before walking away to her room.
When an hour had passes since they had left, Alicia couldn't help but from time to time look up at the old clock they had, her eyes was only caring about one of the pointers, George's, it still was pointing toward mortal danger, but at least it wasn't pointing toward dead.
Half an hour later, she started to get nervous. Mrs. Weasley was standing in the door opening looking out onto the yard; it was only one or two minutes left until Ron and Tonks was supposed to be back. Ginny had come out of her room, she didn't say anything but she was practically shaking, she looked so scared.
Alicia couldn't blame her; over half of her family was out there. Alicia was scared too, that somebody of them died. she cared for the whole bunch of them, she almost wished that she was out there instead of sitting here, in that case she didn't have to worry so much, she didn't have to sit here and wait. That is one of the things she got from her father.
Mrs. Weasley turned around. "It came back without them." She said, looking like she was about to burst into tears any second
"It doesn't mean that they are dead, they may just have missed it by a second." Ginny said comforting to her mum and walked out to get the portkey. But Mrs. Weasley started to cry when the second portkey came back without Fred and Mr. Weasley.
Alicia took one of the crutches and also walked over to the door opening. The next one who was supposed to come back was Hagrid and the real Harry. And it only took a minute from the time Alicia came to the door that Harry and Hagrid appeared on the yard of the Burrow.
"Harry? You are the real Harry? What happened? Where are the others?" Mrs. Weasley cried as she and Ginny ran out toward them and Alicia slowly came out to them.
"What do you mean? Isn't anyone else back?" Harry said, panting heavily. Then he looked around and saw Alicia that finally managed to get over to them. "What are you doing here?" he asked her, she had to take a moment or two to remember that he didn't know that was an official member of the Order.
"Questions later." She said, taking Harry by the shoulder so that he looked at her. "What happened, were you followed?"
"The Death Eaters were waiting for us" Harry said to her. "We were surrounded the moment we took off—they knew it was tonight—I don't know what happened to anyone else, four of them chased us, it was all we could do to get away, and then Voldemort caught up with us…"
"Oh shit, don't tell me that we got ranted out." Alicia cursed, hoped that nobody was injured seriously or anything.
"Thank goodness that you are alright." Mrs. Weasley said and pulled Harry into a tight hug that Alicia could see on Harry's face that he didn't think that he deserved.
"Haven't go' any brandy, have yeh, Molly?" Hagrid asked a little shaky. "Fer medical purposes?"
Without any indications weather she had it or not she ran into the house, she mostly walked away because she didn't want anyone to see how upset she was. Alicia also faced away from the other, hoping that George and Lupin got to their portkey in time.
"Ron and Tonks should have been back first, but they missed their Portkey, it came back without them." she said, pointing at a rusty oil can lying by the back door. "And that one," she pointed at an ancient sneaker next to it, "should have been Dad and Fred's; they were supposed to be second. You and Hagrid were third and…" She checked her watch, "if they made it, George and Lupin ought to be back in about a minute."
"I Hope that they make it." Alicia whispered as Mrs. Weasley reappeared with a bottle of brandy, which she gave to Hagrid that uncorked it and drank it down all at once.
"Mum!!" Ginny shouted as she pointed toward a spot several feet away.
A blue light appeared in the darkness; it grew larger and brighter and then Lupin and George appeared; spinning and then falling. You could see immediately that something was wrong with George since Lupin was supporting him. When Alicia got a better look she saw that George was unconscious and his face all covered in blood.
Harry ran forward to them and grabbed George's legs as they carried him inside, the got through the kitchen and over to the sitting room where they put him down on the couch and when his head came into the light from the lamp, they all could se that he missed on of his ears.
"Oh shit." Alicia said and felt like she couldn't breath, but one other good thing that she had gotten from her father was that she instantly became clear headed and started to think.
"Mrs. Weasley, can you get the blue bag in the kitchen that Kingsley brought with him?" She told Mrs. Weasley who ran out into the kitchen to get it. "George can you hear me?" she said at him when she had knelt down next to the sofa. When he didn't respond she started to shake him. "George?!" she shouted. She remembered that she had read that it was easier for the person that had lost mounds of blood to die if he was unconscious.
This time he just let out a moan of pain, but he didn't wake up. "George?!" Alicia shouted again and this time she shook him hard and then slapped him hard on the cheek and to her relief he woke up, moaning; "Are you crazy? That hurts." In a pleading voice that was so full of pain, and looked painfully on Alicia who avoided his eyes.
When Mrs. Weasley returned with the bag and a wet cloth, which she pressed against his bleeding none-ear, Alicia took the bag from her and told her to only make sure that he was awake and press the cloth against the bleeding area. Alicia quickly opened the bag and poured out all the things inside it onto the floor. It contained a lot of both magical and none-magical medicine supplies. She took the small plastic bag that contained some sort of green-yellow cream, read the label. Then she reached over for the injection syringe and took it.
"Ginny, do you have intimacy issues?" Alicia turned around toward the young fifteen year old that appeared to have been to afraid and chocked to do anything.
"I-I-I don't think so." She stuttered.
"I want you to get on top of George and hold both his arms and head down." Alicia said. "He's going to scream."
"O-okay." She said nervous and did as Alicia had told her to. She climbed on top of her brother; she straddled him, holding his arms down with her legs and placing both her hands on his head holding it down.
Mrs. Weasley moved away from George's ear, but still holding the cloth pressed against the wound. "What does the cream do?" she asked.
"It stops the bleeding and prevents internal bleeding and possible infections." Alicia answered quickly. She put the injection Syringe between her teeth and took over the cloth from Mrs. Weasley that mover both her hands to hold Georges. Alicia took away the cloth from his ear and made a little hole in the plastic bag and squished out some of the cream onto his wound. When the cream touched his wound he let out a small scream.
Both Mrs. Weasley and Ginny gasped, but none of them said anything. George started to twitch underneath Ginny, but she used all of her strength to keep him still. "I know it hurts, but this will make you better." Mrs. Weasley said to him, even though she knew that he wouldn't hear her, as Alicia squished out the rest of the cream onto his wound.
At the alerted sound of Georges scream the newly arrived Kingsley and Hermione came into the room, closely followed by Harry and Lupin.
"Is he going to be okay?" Kingsley asked.
"He's going to be fine." Alicia said when she took away the injection syringe from her mouth. "I just need all of you out of the room." She looked at them who backed out of the sitting room.
Alicia took the injection syringe and took away the other casing of the syringe and cleaned his neck from his blood. "Be still George." She said to him demanding as she injected the fluid into him and after a second of two he stopped twitching underneath Ginny and got a relaxed expression on his face.
"What did you do?" Ginny asked chocked and let go of her grip on George.
"Morphine." Alicia answered shortly. "It's actually a Muggle thing. It seduces him and he stops feeling the pain. It's a drug, but it works better than any magical pain killer I've read about. You can get of him now."
"Right." Ginny muttered and got of him.
"Thank you Alicia." Mrs. Weasley muttered.
Alicia didn't respond she just moved away from George and over to the contents of the blue bag and started to put it back into the bag. "I just hope that he's the only injured."
"How is he?" A voice that belonged to Harry Potter came from the door opening.
"He's alive." Mrs. Weasley answered and stood up from where she had knelt. "Hermione and Kingsley came back safely?" she asked him.
"Yes." Harry said and didn't take away his eyes from George. "Thank God that he will be okay."
"It's just terrible that it can't grow back, not when it has been removed by dark magic. But it could have been so much worse." Mrs. Weasley continued.
"Thank goodness." Ginny said.
"Don't go." George said to Alicia and grabbed her hand when she tried to stand up.
"Don't worry, I'll be back." Alicia answered and walked a few feet away from him away from him.
"You didn't come back the last time." He said back to her.
"I promise that I'll be back…" She said assuring to him. "You holeyness." She added with a smirk.
George actually started to laugh when she said that. "Well, it looks like Fred and I did a very good job with you."
"You mean when you guys were terrorizing me and Angelina with your stupid jokes?" Alicia answered with a smile and took her crutch and jumped her way over to the kitchen. Where she sat down on a chair, but in the same moment she did that both Mr. Weasley and Fred came in through the back door with a great crash.
"I'll prove who I am Kingsley after I have seen my son, now back off if you know what's good for you." Mr. Weasley shouted angry and made his way over to the sitting room where he knelt down next to his son, grabbed his hand and held it tightly.
"Arthur." Mrs. Weasley sobbed when she saw her husband. "Thank goodness that you are alright."
"How is…" Fred started but seemed lost for words.
"Thanks to Alicia he'll be alright." Mrs. Weasley answered.
But Fred didn't seem to hear her; he walked around the couch and sat down on the end of it. Not taking his eyes of his twin brother.
"How are you feeling Georgie?" Mrs. Weasley asked George that had closed his eyes.
"Saint like." He murmured and pointed with a finger on his free hand toward his non-existing ear, which was still covered in the green-yellow Cream.
"What's wrong with him? Is his mind affected?" Fred asked terrified.
"Saint like." George repeated, opening his eyes to look at his brother. "You see… I'm holy. Holey, Fred; geddit?"
Alicia smiled from were she now stood in the room watching and saw that all the color in Fred's face slowly came back.
"Pathetic." He said to George. "Pathetic." He repeated, and Alicia thought that Fred was going to get mad at George for joking about something serious. "Of all the ear-related humor in the whole wide world before you, you go with Holey?"
"Don't yell at me, it was originally Alicia's idea." George said trying to look all innocent. "And if I have a brain damage you can also blame it on her. The way she shook me before she had Ginny jumping on me."
"What is he talking about?" Fred asked and looked over at Alicia.
"Don't ask me, he's the one that's high on Morphine at the moment." She answered back.
"Ah, well Mum." George said and looked up at his tear-soaked mother, grinning. "Now you'll be able to tell us apart at least." He looked around at the people in the room.
"Hi Harry." He said smiling to Harry. "You're Harry right?"
"Yeah I am." Harry said and moved closer to the sofa.
"Well, at least we got you back okey. Why aren't Ron and Bill huddled round my sickbed?" He asked.
"They are not back yet." Mrs. Weasley answered and George's grin faded.
When nobody said anything else Harry and Ginny walked out of the sitting room, Mrs. Weasley walked back into the kitchen and the rest of the others walked outside to wait for the others, except Fred, Mr. Weasley, who still knelt beside the sofa holding George's hand and Alicia, who sat down on an empty chair.
"Morphine, Alicia?" Fred asked and looked toward her. "You gave him morphine? I told you to talk to him, not give him Morphine."
"Why not, at least he's not twitching with pain." She answered. "Or feeling depressed."
"And what about Ginny jumping at him? And you shaking him?" Fred continued to ask Alicia but she just ignored him and walked over to the window were she could see the others.
"Are you feeling okay George?" Mr. Weasley asked his son with such empathy in his voice.
"I'm feeling great. Morphine… bloody brilliant." George said with a smile.
"You know how I feel about you using that kind of language." Mr. Weasley said in the same tone as before.
"Sorry dad."
"Ron and Tonks are back." Alicia informed them, as she saw Ron and Tonks being taken care of by the others.
Mr. Weasley instantly rose to his feet and walked out into the kitchen to inform his wife of the arrival of their youngest son. Alicia didn't move from where she stood by the window.
"Are they hurt?" Fred asked Alicia.
"No they are fine. They are all fine." She said in a sad tone. She should feel happy but she just couldn't, she kept thinking about how close George was to dying, what if he had died? She closed her eyes, preventing herself from crying, when she opened her eyes again she looked over at all those people, suddenly she felt so alone. Unloved, with her father being missed and Alicia and her sister never really had a good relationship, she was alone. Maybe that's why she got so great along with Percy, both of them being alone, family less.
"Are you okay?" Fred had come up to her and asked.
"I'm fine. I'll be alright." Alicia said and looked at Fred. "I should get home." She jumped away from her place by the window and over to the kitchen. "I'll be back in an hour, so tell me what happened to the rest of them to me then okay?"
"Okay." Fred responded and offered her help to her, who gladly took it.
"Mum, dad, everybody." Fred said when they came outside. "Alicia is leaving now, but she'll be back in an hour."
"Just to check in on everybody." Alicia said to them and then she and Fred walked out of the ground of the Burrow so that she could Apparate away from that place.
"Be safe Alicia." Fred said to her and gave her the bag. "And thank you for talking to him."
She just gave him a smile and then apparated away to outside her own apartment.
She unlocked the door to her flat and when she had closed the door she fell onto her knees on the floor, ignoring her acing ankle and started to cry. She cried out all those tears that she had locked inside herself ever since Lupin came back with George.
