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Fred Weasley (battleforged) wrote in flippedrpg,
@ 2012-08-26 19:23:00

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ch: can: fred weasley, ch: swap: fred weasley, p: ari, p: christie

Who: Fred Weasley^colour and Freddy Weasley^swap
When: This Evening
Where: The Kitchens
What: History repeats itself, a pyrotechnic extravaganza
Rating: In progress, probably pg-13

Fred was maybe a bit ambitious saying three minutes. He knew Hogwarts like the back of his hand, but it was still a decent sized castle. He had grabbed his bag and started from Gryffindor tower down to the kitchens by Hufflepuff. A passage behind a portrait here, a bit of a ride down a bannister there, and he made decent time, still minutes, maybe not the sort that could be counted on one hand.

But he had made it there first. Who knew where his twin of a different sort was. Unless she was one of the elves. Fred had hardly been there thirty seconds when the kitchen inhabitants were thrusting cakes into his arms. Fred hadn't thought of it until now, but he kind of missed these days.

It distracted him from his purpose, until he glanced over his shoulder to laugh with George that he remembered this wasn't Hogwarts, things were different, and he was different. The truth of the matter was, Fred only returned to Hogwarts once more in his life, and then he didn't leave with cakes. He didn't leave at all.

Same with the girl version of him. All the cakes in the world, whether from elves or from mum didn't make that remotely alright. But since George had left, Fred was doing his best to forget that. Only he couldn't with another him here. He looked back at the wall, shrugging his satchel onto a counter and taking a bite of one of the cakes to prepare himself for a confession that wouldn't be very fun.

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twinpowers
2012-08-27 01:17 am UTC (link)

As one with a flair for the over-dramatic, Freddy couldn't be entirely certain of anything in this place she had found herself. Maybe the time of warfare had left her hyper-vigilant (yeah, Moody, she listened), or maybe it was the way seemingly everyone stopped talking to her when she asked questions pertaining to the future that made the pit of her stomach sink slightly. Mixed with the fact that Georgina wasn't here to balance her out, and really keep her sane, Freddy was uncertain about meeting her boy self, though she was certain of his awesomeness.

Leaving her dorm up high in Gryffindor tower, Freddy made her way to the kitchens, taking her time to examine the differences between the castle she knew back home and the one she currently inhabited. Whatever these scientists had done, it was quality work, she thought grudgingly. Details were important, after all. Unable to resist sliding down the banisters, Freddy followed her instincts, making good time to the kitchens. Tickling the pear, she reached climbed into the broad room, quickly scoping out the other person in the room.

"Hey, good-lookin," she greeted, taking a cake from the counter, and biting into it without preamble. "What's up?"

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battleforged
2012-08-27 02:11 am UTC (link)

For ages now, he'd stopped keeping track because it seemed an eternity, Fred had just been wishing George back. For a moment, it seemed that another him might be kind of the same. He was a lot like George, kind of. Most people saw it more than he and George ever had, but maybe girl him being a girl would be sort of the same kind of difference.

Maybe it was a desperate hope.

In a way it was refreshing to not have to explain why he wasn't dead. When she came in, Fred let go of the cake, waving with his empty hand and swallowing.

"Well lookat that." They were similar, not identical, but he could see how she was him if he were a girl rather than just a taller Ginny like he had imagined all his siblings from the swap world. "It's like having a twin, eh?"

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twinpowers
2012-08-27 02:17 am UTC (link)

She cracked a smile, despite the still-nervous feeling in her stomach. It was kind of amazing to witness, someone so similar to her, yet so different. Freddy supposed that this was what fraternal twins felt like. Squinting her eyes as she appraised her not-quite identical duplicate, she nodded, satisfied. "Thank Merlina you're fit. I think I'd have to blind everyone in your world if you looked like [Percy] at all."

Assuming that his world truly was identical to hers, she knew he'd get it. God knows she was still pissed off at her.

She hopped up on the counter, one of her and Georgie's favorite places to sit and scheme during their years at the school, and looked over at him. "How long have you been here? Well, not here," she gestured to the kitchens, "but here, experiments and mad scientists, here."

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battleforged
2012-08-27 02:45 am UTC (link)

Fred grinned broadly and easily, not something he had done recently. "Think I'd've done it already if I did." It was a decent segue into the future, Percy, in a way that was still sort of strange. "You know, some of them from the future say he gets his head out of his arse pretty soon and comes back around. That'll be the day." In a way it was almost comforting to have another world where Percy was a prat, like he wasn't mad to still be arsed at him. Or that he wasn't alone in being hurt. "Anyway, I'd rather look like George, yeah, with an extra ear."

Fred leaned backwards, resting his head against a counter and glanced at her. She was obviously female, but if he ignored that, it almost was like him and George back in school. "But I've been here uh..." Ages. He tried to calculate it quickly enough in his head. "Probably four-five months? Some others have been here longer"

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twinpowers
2012-08-27 03:24 am UTC (link)

"Yeah?" Freddy asked with a bark of a laugh. "That seems entirely far-fetched if you ask me." As was expected, she felt a bit better already, though who knew of it would last. It was comforting to know that she wasn't truly alone in this place, though it seemed to house much of her family. The most important person to her would always be her twin, and Fred was as good as in the current situation. "The prat puts herself before everyone else. I don't think shit like that changes."

Her eyebrows shot to her hairline, the shock evident on her face. "Months?", she asked incredulously. "But we have lives back home! I mean the shop!" That damn shop was her and Georgie's baby. "Fuck."

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battleforged
2012-08-27 04:43 am UTC (link)

"I thought so too, but I guess she put herself before the Minister for once and got her head on straight." Fred was quiet for a moment, dwelling on just another thing he'd not see. He pushed himself up onto the counter as well.

No one ever took it easily that they were here for an indeterminate amount of time, maybe forever. Freddy might when the he dropped the bomb he was sitting on. That was going to be one of his least favorite sorts of explosion.

"Yeah, but I don't think we're missing back home. I mean, Charlie's here from 1996 and he's still around back home. And when George was here, he was from 2002. I think he'd have noticed if I disappeared on our 20th birthday." George had certainly noticed Fred was missing, but just a little later than April 1st.

"Still. It's pretty fucked."

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twinpowers
2012-08-27 04:59 am UTC (link)

"I'd like to see that day," Freddy said solemnly. For all the anger she housed for that particular sister, [Percy] was still family. "I hate how it affected Daddy." She sat in silence for a moment. It was ready to feel that she was with get twin again; in a weird way she was, after all, and breaking the distance between them, she scooted closer.

"We were about to go home. Mum and Dad let them host it at the Burrow." She wondered vaguely if Georgie would turn up again. It seemed that this version of herself missed his own greatly. "I Ferrell like half of me its gone, you know? And its only been a day."

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battleforged
2012-08-27 06:03 am UTC (link)

"You will." Fred kind of wished he could to. "I mean, you know, the you that's back home. I keep hoping the prat'll show his face here, but I guess that'd require the Minister wanting something from us or Harry more likely, Hannah that is."

Fred let his hand fall to the side and rest on top of hers, "I was at Wheezes. George and I were finishing inventory before meeting up with Lee for some drinks and then, you know, Potterwatch." It was an easy gesture and a comforting one though for whom was to be determined.

"He's been gone about six weeks from here. I guess. It doesn't get any easier, yeah. I mean, It's like, you never have to live without them, and then suddenly, they're gone, or it's strange. And I don't know, I keep hoping he'll come back, but I guess the scientists can't tell Fred from George anymore than Mum can, yeah?"

"George'll come" Though he wasn't entirely certain he believed it. "And yours too. And then we'll show everyone what two sets of Weasley twins can do," Fred shrugged it off, it was his natures to cheer others up, albeit, sometimes in a roundabout way.

"Firewhiskey alright?"

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twinpowers
2012-08-27 06:21 am UTC (link)

"Hannah has a lot on her plate. For her own sake, I'll hope against it." Freddy sighed, clasping her hand around his. It felt so familiar, but his hand was much larger than Georgina's and she highly doubted he and his brother held hands. Even so, she was reluctant to let go. She felt more stabilized, focused.

"They'll never us coming," she said conspiratorially. "It almost seems unfair." The roundabout method of cheering her up was working, and only could get better with alcohol.

Nodding, she said, "Hit me."

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battleforged
2012-08-27 07:33 am UTC (link)

"She pulls it through though. Wouldn't be the end of a school year if Potter didn't swoop in and save the day, right? You'd think Lockhart was right all those years ago.

"Don't feel that sorry for them though." Fred reached into his back pocket, pulling out his wand and gesturing wordlessly at his bag for the bottle he had brought. It was strong stuff, but that was about what they needed. He didn't take his hand from hers, instead dropping it down in front of an elf. He held up two fingers to indicate how many glasses he wanted. "After all, they brought us here."

Fred and George didn't often hold hands at home, not for years, though a comfortable merging of personal space or casual touch had never been unusual, even comforting. But they had here, each afraid that to look away would be to lose whatever it was they had here granting them second chances. Fred had looked away, and he had lost George. He didn't want to lose the closest thing he had to a twin.

"They say we win the War you know. And soon." Fred started, finally moving his hand to reach out and take the glasses from the eager elf. He handed one to her. As much as Hermione balked at House Elves, they really did love their jobs. "Early May. It all seems a little unreal."

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twinpowers
2012-08-27 05:02 pm UTC (link)

"Damn hero complex," Freddy laughed. As patiently as she could she watched Fred while he got their drinks ready.

Her hand felt cold as his left hers, though her heart began to feel a little less empty. Maybe being here wouldn't be so horrible. In a weird way, she still had her twin, it was just...herself. This wasn't what she imagined duplicates to be like, but hey. This was the situation she was in, and she wasn't going to push him away.

Taking the glass, Freddy chewed her lip for a moment before nodding. "Well, thank Merlina. I'm kind of sick announcing deaths on Potterwatch." It was probably the most depressing part of working on the program. It made a difference, sure, but it also hurt. "Where'd it go down?"

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