original my beloved evelyn ~ fred weasley

.45 - the order of the phoenix

J U L Y   1 9 9 5

In the following days, Evelyn was soon left alone at the Burrow. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley had left with all of their children and refused to give an explanation to Evelyn. Mrs. Weasley told Evelyn she'd sort everything out and would return every afternoon to drop off food but that was it. Evelyn felt rather betrayed at first but soon found the situation to be fun as she explored the Burrow and played with the twin's prank items.

One day, Evelyn found herself lounging on the couch and stared out the window at the pretty sunset. She hated reading no matter how hard she forced herself to enjoy it and settled for staring outside in silence. She jumped up in surprise as someone barged into the home but saw it only to be Arthur Weasley.

"Well? Wanna see where we've been for the past week?"

The two immediately left and Arthur insisted she had to be blindfolded. As she was blinded, Mr. Weasley led her along and Evelyn did trip multiple times as he would forget she was with him and let go of her hand, leaving her wandering blinded. They stopped in the middle of what Evelyn thought to be a road as she could hear cars passing ever so often. Soon she heard an awful noise of what sounded like two slabs of concrete being grinded together. Something like nails on a chalkboard but distant. 

Evelyn stumbled inside a building with Arthur's help and grew stiff and tense as she felt she was about to be hit from behind. Once the blindfold was removed she fluttered her eyes as they adjusted to the light. Mr. Weasley nodded forward, suggesting she go down the dim hallway. Evelyn hesitantly walked down the hallway. She wore black army boots with black pants, a white lined bodysuit, and a black blazer was around her shoulders.

In front of her was a dark door which there was faint chatter behind. Evelyn took in a shaky breath and stalked forward. She brought out a pale hand and pushed the door open with a creak. As soon as she did so a wand shoved her head forward making Evelyn gasp. In a swift movement she kicked the persons hip harshly making them stumble back in surprise, allowing Evelyn to grab the wand from their hands and then she shoved it to the man's throat. She recognized the man to be Sirius Black. 

"Oh my- Evelyn?" Evelyn turned her vision behind Sirius and saw a purple haired woman who looked extremely like her childhood friend, Tonks.

"Tonks?" Evelyn questioned, an eyebrow twitching up. After a moment realization hit in and she threw Sirius Black's wand aside and her tone grew more happy and exited. "Tonks!"

The two girls squealed like young school girls and Evelyn ran toward Tonks. They embraced one another happily and tightly. Evelyn felt her cheeks were going to burst as she smiled so brightly. Tonks pulled away and held Evelyn's face and Evelyn held Tonks wrists as she grinned.

"You look so mature!" Tonks gasped and Evelyn giggled childishly. "I do love your hair. And that badass outfit."

"Oh of course." Evelyn connected their hands and they backed apart to look one another up and down. "I missed your awful purple hair. You used to shed like a dog."

Someone cleared their throat and the girls turned to see the whole dining room staring at them. This included Evelyn's old professor Remus Lupin, Mad-Eye Moody, the majority of the Weasley family, and other people Evelyn didn't recognize. Sirius had cleared his throat, still holding his hip where Evelyn kicked him.

"What is this?" Evelyn questioned, turning back to Tonks in confusion.

"Can we trust her?" Remus interrupted quickly before Tonks could respond. Tonks glared at the man, shutting him down. A silent 'shut the fuck up'.

Tonks led Evelyn to an empty seat between herself and Fred Weasley himself who was sat beside George as well. Evelyn smiled at Fred sweetly but wanted to know desperately what was going on as it looked like a cult.

"Explain to me what this is." Evelyn begged as she clutched Tonks hands.

"The Order of the Phoenix." Tonks told her in an exited whisper. Evelyn looked confused so she explained more. "Dumbledore set up a group back at the first war to fight against Voldemort. This is it now I suppose. Not much to explain honestly."

"Oh. That makes more sense than a cult." Evelyn shivered at a breeze before jumping into conversation with Tonks. "Did I tell you that I almost became a Death Eater? And I'm engaged to a guy!"

"Ooo really?" Tonks shrugged her shoulders flirtishly, assuming this was a consensual arrangement. She was seemingly not surprised on the Death Eater situation as it made sense for her as she was already expecting it.

"It's not like that. It's a pureblood marriage." Evelyn reminded Tonks who frowned. The dining room was broken out in chatter as everyone spoke about dinner plans and other things of a sort. 

"See the red haired boy beside you." Tonks nodded behind her and Evelyn nodded without looking as she knew it was Fred. "Fred I believe. I think he likes you. He's been staring at you like the whole time and only looked away to talk to his brother or something. Plus he's been looking bored until you arrived. Pink cheeks and all."

"Really?" Evelyn's cheeks reddened as she never thought Fred would actually like her. Tonks had always been a romantic and predicted multiple relationships from books and occasionally real life as well. "Enough about me. What about you? What's your love life like?"

"Well," Tonks hummed and giggled. "You know Remus?" Evelyn's face soured which made Tonks smile.

"He's so old! The age gap is uncomfortable." Evelyn faked a disgusted shiver.

"Well yeah but I think he's rather handsome. Very sweet too." Tonks said. "The age gap is big but no guys my age are interested in me and I honestly just want to be married with a baby by now."

"You'd have an adorable child." Evelyn sighed. "I'd be the godmother of course."

"Oh yes. Of course." Tonks agreed and glanced up. She seemed to dislike what she saw making Evelyn look up and she saw Severus Snape. "I never understood why they let Snape into the Order." Evelyn's eyes widened in surprise and her jaw was wide open.