Just a laugh (Fredxoc)

Dead Old men

**chapter 3**
A Repetitive tapping woke Fred, squinting his eyes and forcing them open with a haze of confusion in the bright white room full of beds,the hospital wing? Fred looked up at where the repetitive sound was coming from at the foot of his bed. A ball of frizzy curls was sitting in a chair tapping her foot in a pattern" Tilly?" Her head shot up at his voice,she had dark lines that glistened in the light "are you ok,what's going on? "Fred asked with concern, it was obvious Tilly had been crying her cheeks and nose were tinted pink " shhh ,George is still asleep.you shouldn't be asking me that, you're the one that's in the bed." She sniffed pointing at his brother in the bed across from him.

He didn't like seeing her like this, It didn't feel right. She's always calm and collected making everyone around her feel safe " but you were crying." It wasn't a question it was a statement.It was shocking how hard Tilly was to read but yet still tell you something with her eyes " well I don't really know exactly what happened I was walking back to my dorm but I heard an explosion in the great hall and saw promfry wheel two old men out cold on gurneys," her hand covered her mouth Her hand started to shake as tears started to bloom,this kick started Fred pushing all of his energy into getting himself against the headboard "hey,no,come on." He held his arms out to her, " what are you doing?" She sniffed looking at him like a puppy " do you want a hug?" Fred asked with a smile at her.

The silence in the room was loud as her brown eyes stared into him " you don't need to if you don't-" a puff of vanilla and wood wafted around Fred as she wrapped her arms Around him, her head resting against his chest.Instinctively he wrapped his one arm around her soft waist ,his other on top of her head and started making little circles on top of her head "hey ,hey everything's fine! Look he's snoring,We're fine," he whispered, feeling her tears wet his shirt."y-you were so s-still Fred-d , I thought I k-killed you." She hiccuped holding on tightly to his shirt.They were stuck together for however long Fred didn't care, Tilly was in his arms though he wished for a better reason but she was there.

"Am I interrupting something?" Ask George looking between them with a knowing look " George you're alive !" Tilly jumped off of Freds bed and side hugged George who accepted it with a laugh,funny enough Fred felt a bit of jealous.Tillys eye shot open letting George go "oh sorry George I should have asked you!" George laughed even more

" I thought someone was up starting a ruckus in my wing! " Madam primary exclaimed walking out of her office,Tilly left Georges side and opted for sitting on the floor looking a bit scared " after you boys went old and gray you beated the living daylights out of each other, nasty blackeye there." She handed George a cold pack " I had to knock you boys out but I gave the spell a bit too much juice. You've been out almost all day. It's already past lunch and dinner ." Proumfy added with a nod.

Almost all day more like almost all night! Fred looked at Tilly on the floor, her mascara running on her face, her uniform was wrinkled, and the darkness under her eyes made him wonder" Tilly, when did you get here, dear?" Her eyes expanded looking up at him " oh she was here the whole time saying some nonsense that she killed you with old age."  Madam promfry replied writing something on her board walking away ,Fred watched Tillys Olive face turn red quickly looking at her hands.

George looked up at him giving him a thumbs up making wild faces mouthing "this is your chance!" Quickly going back to his original position smiling at Tilly " so uh , anything else happened-d, when we were gone-e? " Fred's voice cracked of course it cracked now! Tilly sat in between her legs wiping her running mascara "Lee Jordan came running in here yelling that the champions had been chosen and its just shocking." Rolling her eyes at the shocking,it peaked both their interests to "go on what happened." George asked Tilly started throwing her hair into a messy bun. "Well there's kumb from dumstrand,flur from Beauxbatons,and Cedric Digory from yours truly's house." Fred looked at Tilly who looked the least bit excited by the news "that's great Hufflepuff hardly ever does anything extraordinary,no offense." Fred was honestly surprised he expected his house or Slitheren "but of course that wasn't a big enough surprise ," Tilly was annoyedly pulling at one of the lose curls framing her face "Harry Potter had to somehow be evolved in the main school gossip,he's the fourth champion." That made Fred sit up straight and look over at George. It did for him as well "what!?" They asked "yeah apparently after the original three were chosen the goblet started spurting flames and Harry's name was on a paper that shot out!" Tilly slumped against Freds bed "Wicked!"