I think this is a very good chapter :) It tells a George story, why he was scared and worried to like Dey too fast.

Hope you like it :)

Chapter 13

The next morning, Harry woke up and got dressed. He waited for Dey to wake up, but she didn't move. When he went around to wake her, he saw her with eyes half open and a tired look on her face. He slowly sat beside her in the silence.

"Did you sleep?"

"…A bit."

"…What happened, Dey?"

"…Can you just leave me alone for a moment? I need to think some stuff."

"Are you sure?"

She didn't answer with words, she just nodded. After a few seconds, he let out a sigh before getting up and walking to the common room. He met with Ron and Hermione to go down to breakfast. Just when they were about to enter the great hall, Harry saw Fred and George about to enter too.

"George!", Harry couldn't help himself, he called with anger as he walked faster to him

Fred and George stopped and turned to where the call came from and the trio got to them. Hermione and Ron looked at each other, wondering what had happened that made Harry act like that.

"What did you do to Dey?", he asked with dagger eyes

"Don't talk to me like that now, Potter", George answered not too jolly

"I'll talk to you how I want to, Weasley! What did you say to her?"

"It's none of your bloody business!"

"If it's about Dey, it sounds like it is", Ron said walking closer and pulling Harry a bit

"Stay out of this, Ron"

"When you're yelling at Harry I'm in it"

"George, c'mon", Fred said, trying to pull George away from Harry

"You're not going anywhere until you give a reasonable explanation why you made her cry!"

"…She was crying?"

"Yeah, you insensitive bloody pathetic little git!", by now, students were slowing down and staring, the news about them fighting in the common room had spread fast so the audience was waiting for a second round

"We can fix that by ourselves! You don't have to be between it!"

"You know the reason why I'm between it!"

"So you do it because you have to?"

"No, because I want to! She's my friend too!"

"Where were you the other night then?", George asked, talking about the Hogsmeade problem

"What did you do to her it's a better question?"

"None of your bloody business, like I said!"

"Then you better go up there and talk to her before she tells me what happened! Because if she tells me something worse than what I'm imagining, I'm telling you I won't think of you as a friend!"

"And I'm scared of you because what? You defeated the powerful dark lord?"

"George!", Fred called, but he didn't listen

"You should!"

"I'm asking you to back out now, nicely before I lose it!", George said, giving a step closer to Harry

"Oh, this is nicely? I'd like to see what mad is!"

"Would you two stop it?", said Hermione

"Stay out of this", Harry said, kindly, to her

"If she can butt out, why can't you?"

"Because she doesn't have anything in this! You on the other hand do! And Dey is my friend!"

"I tried to fix things, but she wouldn't listen!"

"What did you expect? She came destroyed to the common room! But you better go up there now and fix this before it's too late!"

"It already is, she told me to stay away from her! That you two were fine with out me! Guess I know who her favorite is!"

Before Harry answered an explosion blew up between them, making them step back and the students scream and gasp. A hole had been made on the rock solid floor when Harry and George looked at it. Then they turned to the stairs where everyone was looking to see Dey with wand raise and her stare that was pierced on George. Student by student started to look at the entrance of the great hall to see McGonagall standing there and it looked like she had seen everything.

"Weasley, Potter and O'Dugan, to Dumbledore's office, now.", she said with no expression

McGonagall stayed looking, waiting for them to leave, Dey gave one last glare to George before turning around and walking. Harry followed quickly after, but George hesitated with Fred, Hermione and Ron's stares on him.

"What do you know?", Ron asked Fred after they left, pointing an accusative finger to him

"Sorry, it's mostly between George and Deyanira"

It was all he answered before he left to the great hall. McGonagall stood beside Dumbledore, who was sitting on his desk. Deyanira, Harry and George stood in front of him.

"This is about the third time I heard about a problem involving you three or one of you.", Dumbledore said, calm, "neither have acted like this before…Harry, I always thought you and Mr. Weasley were good friends"

"With all do respect, sir, looks like you thought wrong.", Harry said, George just rolled his eyes

"Now…what is this all about?"

Harry looked at Dey who looked at him too. George looked at Dey over Harry and she looked at him for a couple of seconds before looking back at Dumbledore.

"He's the one with a problem, not us.", she said, talking about George

"Potter was the one that started to yell at me"

"I had my reasons"

"And what would that be?", Dumbledore asked, but no one answered, "very well…I will spare the points knowing a lot have been taken from Gryffindor because of you, but…you three will spend the rest of the day in here, until you three make peace…as far as I know, Mr. Weasley knows about our situation…am I right?"

"Yes, sir"

"Well…it'd really mean a lot if you three would make peace because Mr. Potter could use a hand with Deyanira, Mr. Weasley"

Dumbledore stared at George, asking him to please do so he could help them both. George nodded agreeing, not just for Dumbledore, but for Dey too. He wanted to fix things between them, more after Harry told him how hurt she was.

"Very well, if you excuse me", Dumbledore started as he got up, "I have some business to attend too so I'll see you in a few hours...", he walked away from his desk, "hope it's minutes"

He looked at the trio before he left with McGonagall. Dey was the first one to walk up to the telescope Dumbledore had and sat on that metal second floor like he had around it. George had been staring at her all the way and when she sat she stayed looking at him for seconds, felt like minutes, maybe hours before one of them spoke.

"I have nothing to say to you", she said from up

"Can one of you tell me what the bloody hell happened?", Harry said looking at both

"This is none of your business for the bloody third time!"

"Don't yell at him and he can know! He has done more than you!"

"So I guess, just like the kiss, those times I saved you from that prefect didn't happen!", George pointed out and Dey stayed in silence for a bit before she spoke again

"He kissed me, just to add me to his record of girls he has kissed!"

"What?", Harry said, turning to George, mad

"Yeah, thanks for ruining my first kiss too!"

"Are you mad?", Harry snapped to George

"Why does it bother to you so much?", George asked Dey, "is not like we're something or you had feelings for me!"

"Why the bloody hell do you think I told Michael no for a second date?"

George opened his lips to speak, by impulse, but he didn't say anything. Harry just looked at him as he shook his head before going up and sitting next to Dey.

"Well, that was progress", Harry said, sarcastic

Dey looked at him and he put on a nervous grin, slowly she started to laugh a bit. George looked away with a grin, trying to hold it. The clock kept ticking and no one spoke again, the tension was felt and Dey was hurting inside every second that passed and George didn't say anything to answer her words, in which she told him her feelings, indirectly. During lunch and dinner, McGonagall brought them food and asked if they had settle things, but she took their silence as a no. Around midnight Dumbledore returned and decided to just send them to bed, but if they didn't fix this before lunch the next day, they would do it again. After they each went to bed, George kept struggling to sleep. After an hour and a half he was knocking on Harry's door who opened it after a few seconds.

"Is um…Dey here?"

"Ah, no…she went down about half an hour ago."

"Oh, good…may I go and talk to her, alone?"

"You may"

With a short nod, George kept going down the spiral stairs until he stepped on the common room. He saw her laying on the couch, lighting up by the flames of the fire. He slowly got closer and saw her eyes fell on him. He just put a half smile and a little wave before she looked at the fire again. He walked to her and stood in front of her as she looked at him from down, his legs started to shake by her stare.

"Can I join you?", he asked in a soothing tone

She just nodded, but before she sat up to make room, he grabbed her shoulders and lifted her up. While he held her with a hand on her back, he sat down and placed her head gently on his lap. She stayed staring at the fire, realizing she just let him.

"…I'm sorry", he said after a minute of silence, "I shouldn't have said what I said..."

"Lately you've said so many things you shouldn't."

"And I apologies for every one…but…not the kiss. It wasn't a mistake or anything bad…it wasn't to add you to my record…to be honest I haven't kissed many…less someone as special as you", she didn't answer, she felt her cheeks blushing

"Why did you do it?"

"…I wanted to."

"…just wanted?"

"Yeah…maybe because…I like you…I really, really like you, Dey"

She stayed in silence again, but after a bit she sat up and looked at him.

"I just…then you said that bloody git had asked you out again, I thought you said yes…I saw you so happy on your first date…and I just can't let my feelings out that easily…"

"Well…why?"

He looked at her eyes directly; she was really interested in why he was scared; she knew he was afraid of something.

"…the summer before this one…I met this girl, muggle…her name was Luce and um…I ended up liking her too fast. On my sixth year I missed her like crazy…I did wrote to her, I just told her I was staying with my aunt…we became friends, easy, like you and I did", the whole story Dey was paying full attention to him, "but…this last summer…I told her I really liked her at the beginning…then half way trough I found out she had a boyfriend from about 2 years…she was just playing with me. The whole nice friend thing was an act…"

"I'm so sorry…but in a way it's better you found out, because she didn't deserve you if she was such a tramp.", she looked angry outside, but she felt furious on the inside

"I know…but…when we met…I started to like you…even faster than when I started to like Luce", he told her that with honesty, making her eyes open wide in surprise, "I was afraid to admit it…and it's rare that I'm scared of something like this, my friends even noticed I wasn't acting like myself."

"With me you seemed ok, then again, we don't know each for so much"

"No, no, with you…I felt normal again, even if I had that thought in my mind… 'don't fall for her'"

They stayed looking each other in silence. George slowly smiled, feeling the tension leaving and a much better environment.

"You know…you can't compare me to her", she said

"I know…I was just afraid…you can't ask me not to anyways"

"Why?"

"Well…it's not like we're something", Dey let out a chuckle as she shook her head, "or you have the same feelings for me"

"Why the bloody hell do you think I told Michael no for a second date?", she repeated her self and he slowly smiled, remembering when she first said it in Dumbledore's office

"What would you do if we…were together? Like think we're together right now, what would you be doing?"

"Well…", she said before getting closer to him, "I would just stay like this", she wrapped her arms around his and got even closer, "and just, I don't know, stay like this…"

In the minute of silence, he felt his heart beating calmly along with hers. He turned her head to her and she looked up to him. Still that stare made him shake.

"I like that"

She gave him a bigger smile before he kissed her forehead.

"I just…I don't know if I'm completely ready to have something…", that made her look up at him, "I just know…you may hurt me…you have guys behind you"

"But that doesn't mean I'm behind them…I'm only going to be behind one and that is the one that I'm with"

She gave him another sincere look, making him smile.

"But if you need it…take your time…"

"Thank you"

She got closer again and he rested his head on hers to enjoy the silence and warmth from the fire.

Sorry if the argument between George and Harry lasted too long for that part. I just imagine 2 of my fa characters going like that it's just... ;)