Ode to Perfection, George Weasley X OC

Chapter 9: The Unlucky Coin

Capella was determined to find George. If Ginny is truly gone, and in the Chamber, then the family would be taking the news as hard as Ron did. "How do I find him?" Capella thought aloud while searching the halls. Unlike George, who was also searching for Capella, she didn't have a special map telling her where everyone was. So, her search was a lot more difficult than George's.

Capella and George had been searching for half an hour. Even with his helpful map, George hasn't caught up to Capella. Every time he would pull the map out, she would be somewhere else. "Come on Malfoy. Where are you?" George grumbles.

Finally, he sees that they are both heading down the same hallway, and it has an empty classroom. 'Perfect; George thought. George walks down the hallway in determination. Positive that he is going to find where Ginny is through Capella. George quickly walks down the hall until he and Capella are right in front of the classroom. Capella is relieved to have finally found the person she has searched the whole castle for.

"George! Finally! I've searched almost everywhere for you!" Capella says when she sees him. George doesn't say anything, rather he grabs her arm and pulls her into the classroom. "George? What's going on?" Capella asks, confused. George looks at her really mad, not knowing where to start. It is silent for a second more until George bursts.

"Where is she?" George yells, really mad. "George, I don't know where she is. I just found out from Ron and Harry that she is gone" Capella says, trying to calm down the person in front of her. George sees red, in his mind she knows a Malfoy did this. "Lies! Lies! I know it was either you or that scrawny little git you have as a brother! Now where is my sister?!" George yells.

He wasn't entirely wrong. Capella knew where Ginny was, but not because she took her. Capella couldn't let George know that she couldn't let anyone know that. "George, listen to me, I don't have anything to do with Ginny going missing, neither does my git of a brother. We found out she was missing together. Why would we have anything to do with this?" Capella says.

"Because you're a Malfoy! The prodigy of Slytherins! It makes sense you're the heirs! And you've both made it abundantly clear you don't like us Weasleys! It's the Malfoy way!" George shouts. Capella knew his words were half the truth, especially for her. But it still hurt to hear someone who in the middle of the year was telling her how much she wasn't like her family, to now compare her to them.

George can see the look of hurt on Capella's face, but he doesn't care, she has his sister somewhere and he wants to know where she is. But while looking into her eyes, he sees how sincere she is. 'She didn't take Ginny' George thought. "George, listen to me please. I know us Malfoys can be jerks especially to you Weasleys. But I promise you Draco and I didn't take Ginny. Harry and Ron told me and Draco that she was missing. I sent him to the common room, and I came looking for you" Capella says. She knows that she was somewhat lying.

George's face falls, all the anger and hatred gone, only leaving the sadness and confusion behind. "Where could she be?" George cries. The once fun loving and outgoing boy was now standing in front of Capella bawling his eyes out and looking broken. Capella hesitates on what to do, having never grown up with any comforting and never comforting anyone besides Draco.

She does the only thing she can think of. She walks forward and wraps her arms around George. George relaxes in her arms and just cries. It starts getting awkward for Capella. She's never had this much contact with someone, even with Draco or Marcus. But for some reason, this, George and her, felt right for both of them. It felt as if they belonged with one another. But nonetheless, Capella stands stiffly not knowing what to do.

George let's go with a few sniffles. "You aren't one for hugs, are you?" George asks. "I wouldn't call it a Malfoy specialty" Capella answers with a small smile. George chuckles, "What else is not a Malfoy specialty?" "Being friends with Weasleys surely isn't one" Capella snickers. "We're friends?" George asks, seriously. Capella thinks for a moment, "I would like to think we are. Is that okay with you?" "Yea we are friends Miss Capella Eltanin Malfoy" George says with a smile. "Then it is official Mr. George Fabien Weasley we are friends, as long as you can deal with my rude ways" Capella laughs.

"Well, we aren't the nicest to you lot either" George says, shyly. "Well, we weren't nice first" Capella says, looking down. Its silent for another minute before George speaks. "I'm worried about Ginny," George says, sadly. "I know you are. I'm worried for you guys" Capella says, sincerely. "I better get back to Percy and Fred, they are in the common room freaking out too" George says, looking down.

"Yea you best get back. I must too, the Slytherins are probably wondering why I locked them up" Capella chuckles. George goes to walk out but he seems to have gotten an idea in his mind. "What is it George?" Capella asks, concerned. "Its only a prototype for Fred and I's little shop. But it can help me tell you when we find Ginny" George answers, pulling a galleon out of his pocket. He hands it over to Capella.

"A galleon? George, I'm a Malfoy, we are rich, you need this more than me" Capella says, handing the coin back. George laughs, "No, no, this is a special coin. See I have a matching one. I can say this spell and it will change the serial number on your coin. The numbers in a word are separated by dashes and words are separated by dots. Each number corresponds with a letter in the alphabet."

Capella looks at the coin shocked. "You made this?" Capella asks. "Yea, it's only a prototype. It keeps bugging, don't know what's wrong with it" George responds, shaking his head. "I'm sure you'll figure it out" Capella says, reassuring. "Well, I must go, I'll let you know when we find her" George says. He gives Capella a tight hug before he leaves.

Capella is shocked by the hug; George came in here yelling at her and now he was hugging her out of nowhere. Capella gets over her shock and walks out of the room. She starts her walk back to the dungeons, not sure if she should be going fast or slow. She makes up her mind and gets there as fast as she can.

She gets into the common room and her entire friend group plus Draco stand up to look at her. "Capella? What's going on? Why did you tell us to stay here?" Marcus asks, walking towards Capella. She puts her hand out as she starts to speak, "As I'm sure you heard from Draco, the Weasley girl has gone missing. I got confirmation from Professor McGonagall just now. We have been ordered to stay here until morning."

Everyone looks at Capella completely shocked. "The Weasley girl is really missing? We thought Draco was messing with us" Peregrine asks, bewildered. "Yes, she is really missing. Everyone off to bed, we are hoping she will be back by morning" Capella orders. Everyone looks at her and sadly leaves the room, except for Marcus.

He looks around before he finally looks at Capella again, "Were you really talking to Professor McGonagall, Capella?" "Of course, I was, why would I tell you otherwise?" Capella lies. Marcus looks around Capella's face and ticks his tongue, "I know you Capella Malfoy. Everyone knows where McGonagall is every night. It wouldn't take you over an hour to talk to her. Now, you don't have to tell me who you were with, but I know it wasn't McGonagall." And with that he walks away.

Capella is shocked, worried, scared. Her best friend knows something is up. And she has no way of hiding it from him if he were to find out the truth........