𝙿𝚞𝚖𝚙𝚔𝚒𝚗 𝙿𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜 - 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑦 | ✔︎

Chapter 46

It was a quaint afternoon as Fred and George Weasley stepped out of their last class forever. The swamp had just been set up, and Umbridge's shrieks were like carols to everyone's ears.

Natasha was cuddled up to Fred's side, despite the warm air outside, and Adrian was nowhere to be seen as he had to talk with Severus about a few things. Lee and George were on either side of Fred and Natasha, and the four looped arms for the last time in the castle.

"I'll miss your smiles," Lee said pouting, and the four snickered, earning looks from the Slytherins who loathed them.

"Blood traitors!" shouted one, and Natasha flipped the girl off, laughing as she stumbled to keep up with her boys. The fifth years were all stressing over their exams, and some were already outside of the Great Hall, going over last-minute notes.

Natasha spotted Neville anxiously biting his nails, and the boys followed her eyes, smiling in pity at the boy. "Poor lad won't have any nails by the time the exams start," George commented, and the other three nodded in agreement, waving to the boy when he noticed them looking at him.

"I'll be even worse at my exams," Natasha exclaimed, and Fred kissed her head, breathing in her sweet perfume.

"Darling, you're the smartest witch in this school, if you fail, there's something wrong with the paper, not you," he said.

"And look, Pucey and I will be in all of them pretty much, so we'll eat our fingernails off together," Lee shouted. The students around them quietened, and some chuckled as they continued walking on.

"How we are friends with you sometimes Lee confuses me," Natasha said, giving him a weird look. Fred and George laughed and threw their arms around Lee and Natasha, continuing their walk to the Gryffindor tower for the last time.

~.~

"Toothbrush?"

"Check."

"Scarf?"

"Check."

"Goodbye kiss?"

Fred kissed Natasha gently, wishing to savour her lips forever. "Check."

She looped her arms around his neck and looked around the now more considerably empty dorm room, Lee's bed standing out like a sore thumb. It would just be him now, as all the other seventh year Gryffindor boys refused to be in the same room as Fred, Lee and George.

"I'll miss you so much Freddie," she whispered, not wishing to tear up. Fred cupped her cheek and pressed another sweet kiss to her lips, as salty tears started to trail down Natasha's face. She tried her hardest to not sob, but this would be the first time in a long time the two would be separated.

"Don't cry baby, it breaks my heart to see you cry," Fred said, his voice cracking with emotion. He hugged her body tightly, as he too shed a few tears. George and Lee had already left for the broom cupboard, giving Fred and Natasha some space to say goodbye.

"Promise me you'll write?" Natasha asked, and Fred nodded.

"Promise me you'll stay safe and out of harm's way?" he asked back, and Natasha nodded.

"Can I walk with you to the broom cupboard?" Natasha asked as Fred summoned his luggage. He shook his head.

"Adrian is waiting by the Great Hall, and I want you to see the final prank of the Weasley twins," Fred said gently, his smirk finally returning. Natasha wiped her own tears away hastily as she saw the time, and quickly wiped Fred's own tears away, before kissing him one last time.

"Go and make her pay love," she said darkly, before walking out of the dorm forever.

~.~

Adrian pulled Natasha close to him as the sea of students swarmed past them to see the last of the Weasley twins. Lee was handing out flyers for Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, and students grabbed them out of the air, much to the disgust of Umbridge.

Every time she got rid of one, two more would appear, making every student roar with laughter.

"School will be quiet without those two now," Natasha muttered, and Adrian nodded absentmindedly, staring off in the distance. He was completely out of it today, and Natasha immediately noticed, concern flushing her face.

"What's wrong Adrian?" she asked, and he snapped out of his trance.

"Oh, uh nothing, it's nothing Natasha," he said, trying to reassure here. She rolled her eyes and put her hands on her hips.

"Adrian Pucey I am a seer, which means I know things others don't including that little lie you just told me," she said, raising her eyebrow. He sighed and lay his head on her shoulder.

"My parents sent me a letter this morning, and it disturbed me. They said they were going to personally pick me up this year, as something 'special' is happening. They also wrote that the Dark Lord has big plans for me, and I'm terrified now," he admitted, burying his face in the red of Natasha's robes.

Natasha stroked his hair and as Lee came up to them, noticing the tension. Lee being Lee however just wrapped his arm around Natasha, so that she was snugly cocooned between him and Adrian.

"Let's go down to the kitchens and get some food, yeah?" Lee suggested, and the other two nodded.

"Let's do that," Natasha said, pulling her boys down to the kitchens to eat away their feelings.

If only life could have stopped there.

~.~

It was late, and Natasha was tossing and turning in her bed. Something felt off, almost as if fate was changing its path.

Almost as if someone's destiny was being rewritten.

She crawled out of her bed and made a beeline for her bathroom just as she retched, bending over the toilet bowl, allowing for the contents of her stomach to be brought back up again.

It was the same feeling she had had with Cedric, although it was worse this time, as if she herself was directly connected with it. She pulled herself up off of the floor, desperately needing to see Madam Pomfrey, and had just stepped out of her dorm when Hermione ran down, frantically looking for something.

Or rather, someone.

"Oh, Natasha thank Godric! We need to go; Harry had another one of those dreams and we're going to the Ministry." She waved her arms around and Natasha was immediately on high alert.

"Who did he see Hermione?" she questioned. Hermione looked up with fear in her eyes and uttered two words that shattered Natasha's soul.

"Your dad."