"Freddie~ Wake up!"
'Whose voice is that? It's obviously a little girl though... ' Fred thought as he tried to wake himself up.
"Don't make me jump on you." Those words made him try to wake himself up even more, yet it didn't work.
A flurry of images passed through his mind at light speed, giving him the image of his siblings, all girls, but fixing themselves up with his old memories.
The images halted when he felt a heavy weight abruptly come crashing onto him.
His eyes shot open and he doubled in pain, pushing the person that had jumped on him off his bed.
"Finally." He looked over to the girl that had jumped on him while he slept. Her dark eyes and mess of black curls triggered a few memories. "Mum wants you downstairs for breakfast, you big lazy." She skipped away and slammed the door on her way out.
He groaned and looked around. His bedroom was dull and there were a few pictures on his nightstand.
Picking one up, it was a family picture of him and three younger girls. One was a blond and she was the smallest of the three girls. The second was a brunette, a face he remembered distinctly from seeing so often. The taller of the girls was the one that had jumped him while he slept. And he had very similar features basing off the picture.
'That... She looks like Andy... Wait... Wasn't Andy disowned by her family? She isn't old enough yet, looking at this... Who were her sisters again ' He looked closer at the blond, recognizing the steel gray eyes and the pointed look. 'No. Absolutely not. I am NOT related to Narcissa Malfoy!' As the thought ran through his mind he paled slightly at the realisation. 'That...That means I'm Bellatrix's brother too... ' He shivered violently as the images ran through his mind again.
Memories of them all playing together, some were of them eating as a family, and a few shared birthdays as well. Then he realised with whom he shared a birthday.
'NO! I DO NOT SHARE A BIRTHDAY WITH BELLATRIX! NO!' He wanted to hit his head off a desk when he realised he was the same age and shared a birthday with Bellatrix Lestrange, or rather Bellatrix Black right now. The resemblance made sense now. Why he resembled her so strongly compared to his two other sisters in the picture. 'I did not need a second twin Great. Just great.'
He shook his head and got out of bed, now a lot shorter than he used to be, he realized just how close to the ground he was. He was going to miss towering over everyone at home. Now he was the oldest child of the Black Family in this time, meaning one thing.
'Oh no... I'm the Heir aren't I...' The position always went to the eldest son in the family. And Fred's memory served him well enough to remember that Sirius and Regulus were a lot younger than their female cousins were.
Once dressed, he left his room and descended the halls. 'Grimmauld Place... I wasn't aware they had lived here too.' He remembered the ancestral house looking a lot more grim in his time.
"Frederick!" He turned to the direction of the high voice before being tackled into a hug. A head of straight, blond hair was all he saw.
"Narcissa, what's gotten into you?" He asked her.
"Oh, nothing!" She smiled before skipping down the hall towards the lower floor.
"Did it to me as well this morning." Another voice said, one he recognised. "I don't know what she's hiding." Andromeda passed him, putting her hair up into a braid over her shoulder. "Sleep well?" He nodded as they went down the stairs and entered the dining room where their mother and father were seated, reading the newspaper.
"Frederick! Andromeda! What took you both so long?" Their father, Cygnus, asked them, exasperation in his expression.
"Helped Andy with her braid." Fred said quickly as his sister nodded.
"You did a horrible job." His mother reproached him.
"Braid my hair, Freddie!" Narcissa beamed, as if she hadn't even heard her mother and father. "Pleaaaase?" She pleaded.
"Alright." Fred took a seat at the table as the House Elf, Kreacher who seemed to be in better shape, brought out their breakfast.
"Your book lists came Frederick, Bellatrix, Andromeda. We'll be going to Diagon Alley to pick up your supplies." Their mother Druella said. "The Lady Malfoy wishes to see you both off to Hogwarts. Lucius will be there as well." Bellatrix and Narcissa seemed to grin at the mention of the Malfoy Heir. "After breakfast, go and find your cloaks and we'll be off."
Everyone began eating their breakfasts and no more words were shared. Once finished, Bellatrix had pulled Fred from his seat and dragged him up the stairs, rambling about how excited she was about going to Hogwarts. He had joined on about what they d learn and things without divulging anything too strange. After all, he had remembered everything he had done and learned from his own seven years and he was going to be restarting everything.
"Are you going to meet up with Cantankerus and Antonin? They're going too! I'll go find Isabelle and Anita. No doubt they'll be in the best House with us. Slytherin only takes the best." Bellatrix went on and on about her plans as Fred just listened, searching for his cloak as he nodded and hummed to show he was still paying attention.
Once the two had their cloaks, they found Andromeda and Narcissa standing excitedly near the Floo, their parents coming into the room. "Frederick, take Narcissa with you through the Floo, I'll take Bellatrix and your father will take Andromeda by apparition. Off to the Leaky Cauldron with the two of you." Fred nodded as he extended his arm for his youngest sister and took a pinch of the Floo dust.
"The Leaky Cauldron!" They were engulfed in flames as they reappeared in one of the backrooms of the pub. They stepped out and were greeted by the barman.
Fred sighed in his mind, thanking any beings above that the pub had barely changed from how he remembered it. It was still somewhat dusty, patrons drinking and talking quietly while the one or two suspicious individuals decked out in dark cloaks drank in the corner. It had barely changed. The man at the bar took out his wand and tapped the wall, letting them through to Diagon Alley, where they easily met up with their parents and two other siblings at the entrance of Knockturn Alley.
From there, Cygnus had given Fred a small bag of coins and sent Narcissa off with him to Flourish and Blotts, telling him to make sure she wouldn't buy half the store.
Basing himself off the memories that regularly flowed into his mind, he saw that Narcissa was quite the avid reader and was more often than not in the library. He would always check the library first if someone was looking for her and it would take more than once to call her out of her little world, much like Hermione had been, back at Hogwarts.
Entering the bookstore, there were a few others around picking out books as Narcissa had quickly darted off into her favourite aisle to pick out anything new that she hadn't read. He walked around, expecting his sister to come back with a dozen books in her arms when he noticed someone he knew walk through the entrance. The long platinum hair was unmistakable.
"Ah, Heir Black. How nice to see you here." Lucius Malfoy greeted him." It has been quite some time since you've been to Diagon Alley, has it?" He raised a perfectly shaped pale eyebrow as Fred nodded politely. "You are starting at Hogwarts in September, aren't you?" His tone was missing the condescending aspect Fred had known in the future.
"I am. May I ask what year you're going into?" Fred asked. It pained him to be nice to a Malfoy, but right now, he was a Black, meaning he had to uphold a reputation and it was widely known that the Malfoys and Blacks were close.
"I will be entering my second year. My sister will be starting this September as well." Fred's thought processed when he mentioned a sister.
'I don't remember Lucius having a sister...' As if Lucius had read his mind, he waved over someone who was in the street. A girl, much shorter than both of the pureblood males, had long Malfoy blonde hair and cold blue eyes.
"Heir Black, this is my sister, Hermione Malfoy. Hermione, this is Frederick Black, heir to the House of Black. He'll be in your year at Hogwarts."
Recognition shot through both of their expressions as they smiled and nodded at each other. Who knew Lucius Malfoy would make his job of finding Hermione that much easier?
"A pleasure, Miss Malfoy."
"Likewise, Heir Black."
"You'll likely be in the same House together, so you've got a friend now." Lucius ruffled his sister s hair playfully as she turned red and tried to swat his hand away.
"Lucius, I can make my own friends." She said bashfully, trying to look away. Her pale skin was quickly turning pink as she blushed in embarrassment. Fred let out a small chuckle at the sight.
"At least we'll know each other." Fred smiled at Hermione, a knowing look shared between the two.
"Frederick!" Narcissa came into view with almost 15 books and tomes in her arms and a large grin. "Come and pay for it!" she motioned over to the bookstore keeper, who looked at the youngest Black girl as if she had grown a second head right there.
"I'm sure the young Miss Black requires some assistance with those." Lucius laughed a bit at the sight of Narcissa attempting to balance the books in her arms, the height of all the tomes almost reaching higher than her head. "Best go and help her." Lucius nodded as he motioned Hermione out of the shop with their own books in hand.
"Narcissa..." Fred paled at the books and the little pouch in his hands. 'Oh that's right! We have money now.' Fred opened the pouch and pulled out dozens of golden galleons while also keeping Narcissa from running off for more books as she pleaded him for more.
For those wondering why andromeda is going to hogwarts as well, in this story, she'll be a few months older than Fred and Bellatrix, meaning they're in the same year.