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Chapter Thirteen; Keep On Going
Hanging upside down and think is hard, even harder than people may think, but hanging upside down, doing advanced technology, on time... is impossible.
"It's not impossible." Tonks said and sighed from where she sat at the comfortable sofa.
"Well, why don't you try?" Alicia snapped at her and spun around so that she could lower herself to her feet.
"I'm both pregnant and dead clumsy, how do you think I'll manage to break into the ministry and sneak past the heavy security that it takes to get to the MMP?" Tonks asked.
Alicia sighed and hocked herself away from the ropes that were jammed on from the ceiling. During that last week had they been able to figure out how and where they kept the MMP hidden within the ministry, and how to get to it. But how they had been able to do that, Alicia was over amazed.
Since the order had decided that Alicia would be the most qualified to sneak into the ministry, past the heavy security and then steal the control crystal (The whole MMP was built upon the crystal magic) without using any magic at all (They had a magic detecting system around it) was Alicia, she had been training to do the whole thing while hanging upside down in the air.
Kingsley had told her that there was an alarm laser field (That's how he put it) surrounding the MMP like a cubicle, and the only side it didn't cover was the top, so she had to use some kind of muggle grapping-hook to hook a rope onto the ceiling and then lower herself over the MMP, which had the same wide rage as a quaffle and the same height as two. He had put in Quidditch talk since it would only be more complicated if he said it differently.
Alicia left the rope she had used as training and sat down next to Tonks on the sofa. "I'll never be able to learn how to do this on just a week." She sighed sadly.
"Look on the bright side, you possible can't get into more trouble than you already are in." Tonks said happily, she had lately been so happy. She and Remus had worked it out, they have had a long talk and figured things out.
He had also informed them that He had talked to Harry, Ron and Hermione, and that they were alright, but he didn't tell them where he had met them, in case that somebody was listening in on the conversation.
"You know." Tonks said after minute a silence. "I wonder what it was that Harry said to Remus that made him come back." He had told Tonks that Harry was the one that made him see sense, made him realize what was of most importance.
"I don't know... Maybe we can ask Harry when he comes back." Alicia muttered and laid down in the sofa in a sitting position.
"If he comes back." Tonks interjected.
"If he comes back." Alicia repeated. "Are you hungry?" She said out of the blue.
"I'm always hungry." Tonks responded with a chuckle.
"Great." Alicia said and left for the kitchen.
September second was the date that they had put up for this operation, two days over a week from now, nine days. To Alicia it almost seemed impossible to be able to get into the ministry and then do all of this, but the most impossible of it all was to be able to steal the main control crystal from the MMP, because if she did it wrong... she could activate it.
"Why do I have to do it?" Alicia looked around at the other order members with shock.
"Because you are the main person of this story." Fred said with a smirk. "Don't you...
Kingsley gave Fred a look which silenced him.
"You are the most qualified for this." Kingsley explained. "To do this it takes skill and natural talent, you have both of that. And I heard that you are pretty good with defending yourself without magic."
"I just... It could be really dangerous."
"Do you think I really fancy sending you into a death trap?" Kingsley asked her. "You are young and talented, you'll do fine."
"Do you think that we'll ever grow apart?" Fred asked his twin brother as they stood and waited for Kennedy in Muggle London.
George looked up at Fred. "What do you mean?"
"I mean... we can't really split everything in two anymore, can we?" Fred continued.
"Sure, but... we'll still have the shop together won't we?" George hadn't really thought that this might be a possibility, that they won't be Fred and George anymore.
"When all this is over maybe you and Alicia want to get married and start to think about getting a family and all that and then..." Fred sighed.
"I'm surprised that your brain hasn't melted by all that thinking." George joked and looked at his brother with amaze, and he also said it because he didn't want to talk about that subject.
"Oh." Fred said laughing taking the shot. "Well, at least I'm not the one who has a girlfriend who's wanted for murder."
Two days after the two Death Eaters had last tried to kill Alicia the Daily Prophet had tried to claim that He (Thomas Miller) was an innocent man and that she was a dangerous psychopath that would kill anyone in her way. Put a price on her head, she was almost just as wanted as Harry Potter, which was why she had to stay inside as much as possible.
The thing was also that they didn't mention anything about Rabastan Lestrange, Mr. Weasley had reckoned that if they did, nobody would believe anything they said about Alicia, because the almost every grown up knew that anyone named Lestrange was dedicated Death Eaters whom escaped from Azkaban.
"You know that she's innocent." George muttered.
"Not exactly, she actually did kill the guy." Fred said as a back argument.
"You know what I mean." George snapped.
"Sorry, didn't know that it was so sensitive to you." Fred apologized.
"Didn't mean to snap, it's just crazy that this is happening to her, she barely can't go out into the real world, have to sit inside all the time." George said. "And she complains a lot, constantly." He shook his head.
"Have you noticed that mum is about to cry every time somebody mentions it?"
"Yeah, she starts to cry that it's unfair that they do this to her." George said.
"You should be happy that mum likes Alicia." Fred chuckled, remembering how their mum was around Fleur. "I don't think that I would like to marry somebody that mum likes."
"Fred, you want to know a difference between you and me?" George smiled.
"What?" Fred could only imagine what George had in mind.
"I'm sane, you aren't." George laughed.
"You want to know another difference?"
"Huh."
"I can talk about sex in public, you can't."
"I got a girlfriend, you don't."
"I am your girlfriend's punching bag, you're not."
"I have sex with my girlfriend, you don't." George said just to show that he also could say sex in public.
"Frankly, I don't want to." Fred said offended. "I don't have a birthmark, you do."
"I have seen my girlfriend's tattoo, you haven't."
"I have seen it." Fred snapped. "Get a brain; yours must have melted ages ago."
George smiled. "Not the new one, the one at the left side of her butt."
"She got one there too?" Fred didn't know that. "When did she get that one?"
"She got it after her and me... Got caught, she did it as some sort of rebellion toward her dad."
"Wow, she had to be real mad at her dad. What is it off?"
"The most girly thing you can imagine."
"A heart?" Fred suggested in a mocking tone, but George shook his head.
"An angel?" "A pixie?" Fred continued.
"A pixie!" George looked at his brother. "Merlin you are stupid. I said girly."
"What's more girly than a Pixie?" Fred said oblivious. But with a glare from George he continued to guess. "A rose...? Just tell me!"
"It's a heart." George answered looking down in the ground, feeling Fred's angry stare.
"I hate you." Fred said, trying to sound angry.
George looked up at his brother with a smile and punched him on the arm playfully. "Me to Fred."
"Do you reckon that this was what Katie and Angelina was talking about one that time after Quidditch practise?" Fred asked. "It involved Alicia."
"Maybe, but..." George started when Kennedy came out of the building.
"Hey boys." She said to them.
"You know Kennedy." Fred said and walked up next to her and George on the other side, it was the typical Fred and George attack, they stood up at each side of the person and made them feel pressed by their length and the way they swopped talker. Your head went back and forth like a ping-pong boll.
"I don't get how you can be working so closely with Lee and he never made a move on you." George continued as they walked down the street.
"You are a very pretty girl." Fred said.
"Well, to difference from the two of you..." She said, starting to feel pressed between the two tall boys. "He actually respects the female sex."
"That's right." George answered agreeing.
"We don't respect the female sex at all." Fred said.
"Except Mum..."
"And Ginny..."
"And Alicia..."
"My god Fred." George said and rolled his eyes. "How can you respect Alicia?"
"I don't know, you are the one that have sex with her." Fred said and rolled his back at George.
"I said I have sex with my girlfriend, who mentioned anything about Alicia?" George joked.
Alicia stood in the kitchen, leaning onto the kitchen table-island and read the manual for the food package for the third time. Puzzled by how hard it was to understand she drew her hand through her now short hair. After that she had been put in the Daily prophet she had gone over to a muggle saloon and made a total make over.
Cutting and colouring her hair, it was now straight and just above her shoulders with a colour the hair fixer called reddish-violet (Tonks inspirited). Getting a second tattoo around her right upper arm, two black lines fallowing a circling pattern, and to add to it all... she had pierced her eyebrow. Tattoos and piercings was something that only muggles did and that made the first impression of seeing her to make the mistake that she was a muggle.
Alicia took out the food package out of the box and put it on a plate, and then she lifted her wand and pointed at it. "Heat." She said improvising.
Nothing happened.
"Heat up." "Warm." "Get ready." Nothing happened all three times she tried.
Cursing to herself she threw the package into the trash. She had honestly never used one of this pre-made food boxes, and she honestly could say that she never would do it again.
Alicia was a girl (Young woman) that preferred to cook herself, but not that she could cook. When she grew up they have had a house elf. Miniature was her name, she got that from being smaller than a usual house elf, but she had moved to the house where Cathy and her husband lived, since her dad thought that Miniature would be of more use there.
"I'm not that hungry." Tonks had left the study and joined Alicia in the kitchen. "I don't think that any of us will be able to eat this much food."
Alicia raised her eye brows. "This ain't food, its vegetables."
Tonks muttered something incoherent.
"What?" Alicia asked and put down the knife.
"I said that you are starting to sound like mum." Tonks repeated.
"Then that's a good thing." Alicia said and took one of the cucumber sticks she had made and put them into her mouth.
Tonks, who is the clumsiest person Alicia ever met, accidentally knocked over the knife when she leaned forward to also take a cucumber stick. The knife fell into the floor, right where Alicia had her feet, her face hardened and Tonks put her hand over her mouth.
"I'm sorry, did it hit you?" She asked shocked.
Alicia's face didn't change. Tonks hurried around the corner and looked down on the floor where Alicia had her feet; the knife was having its point down in the ground, just a millimetre from where Alicia's foot were.
"I'm sorry." Tonks said.
Alicia's face still didn't change. She leaned down and removed her foot, but not the knife. "If you weren't pregnant, I would hit you." She said with gritted teeth.
"Well, at least one good thing has come out of my pregnancy." Tonks said happily, but still felt a little scared because she knew how hard Alicia could hit.
"I feel so bored sitting here, doing nothing." Alicia exclaimed, just to break the silence.
"Well, now you know how Sirius felt like, but instead of being here he was shut inside the house he hated." Tonks said.
"But haven't you realized that hate this house." Alicia said in a fake shock.
Tonks smiled. "How can you hate this house?"
Next chapter... Cathy!! I can promise that it'll be interesting to meet her.
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