Tell Me (A Weasley Twins Story)

Returning From The Shadows

Yay weekend! :) btw this is me as Grace Guiney XD
-Grace

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It had been a week since Ellie had arrived. She and George had grown close, and Arietta hoped that George would move on to Ellie, and let Arietta and Fred be a couple.

"Hey, Ari!" Fred hissed at her, taking hold of her arm.

"What Freddie?" She sighed jokingly.

"Y'know Grace in Harry's year? Grace Guiney?"

"Uh huh." Of course she knew Grace. She was one of those girls that made people laugh without even trying. Apparently she was 'pretty' but Arietta thought she was just average.

"Well, she's dating DRACO MALFOY!" Arietta nearly spat out her orange juice.

"But... but I thought she was a Gryffindor!" She spluttered,

"Oh, she is. But it's weird... Draco's really... sweet around her..."

He chuckled too.

"Hey! Grace is really nice..." Ellie giggled, eyeing up the small, dark-blonde girl sitting near Hermione.

Ellie felt so close to George... she knew how she felt about him, but she was convinced he didn't feel the same way about her.

It was later on that day, Fred and Ari were together laughing in an armchair by the fire. Ellie sighed, they were so perfect for each other, if they would only realise that they both liked each other! Merlin!

"They're cute together, aren't they?" George whispered in her ear. "And I know another couple that could be cute together too."

She turned her face to him, and without warning he brought his hand up to her face, and leaned in.

Her heart stopped as her lips touched his, and they moved simultaneously for a second, before pulling away.

"Wow..." She stammered, a small breaking out on her face.

"Uh... Ellie? W-will you be my girlfriend?" George stuttered.

"Of course I will!" Ellie beamed even more as George took her hand and pulled her up.

"Well, I better be getting to bed. Come on Freddie. Night, Ari, Night Ellie." George leaned closer to Ellie's ear, and whispered; "We'll tell them tommorow." He squeezed her hand for one last time before going up to bed with Fred.

"El, I... I need to go see Dumbledore." Arietta stuttered. She had received an owl earlier that day, which, of course, wasn't from Dumbledore.

To Arietta Scrimgeour,
Fourth Bed,
5th Year Dormitory,
Gryffindor Tower,
Hogwarts.

Arietta,

I know who tried to kill you. Meet me outside the Charms classroom at eleven. Make sure you don't get caught out of bed.

From,

ZS

'ZS?' She thought to herself as she creeped towards the classroom, looking behind her every now and then. She reached the classroom just as she heard a clock downstairs strike eleven.

A figure emerged from the shadows by the door, their face hidden by darkness.

"Hello?" She whispered to the figure, uncertainty clear in her voice.

As the boy stepped out of the shadows, Arietta suppressed a gasp of shock.

"You were foolish to come here alone. You stupid Blood Traitor. You thought you could trust someone, after what I did to you?" A wicked laugh ripped through his speech.

"You refused me, Arietta. Nobody, nobody, does that and lives."

She turned away, trying to run, but he stepped forward and took hold of her by the collar.

"Crucio." His silky voice spoke the curse, and the pain ripped through her body.

"Imperius." She felt her limbs go limp, pain throbbing through them. She felt herself being thrown against the stone wall, repeatedly. She heard a sickening crack as she felt her skull split, and another as she felt her spine snap before she blacked out.

Ellie woke up, and looked across at the bed beside her, but jumped up when she saw it was empty and not slept in. Arietta didn't come back last night...

She ran out of her dorm, still in her nightie, and into the boys dorm. Ellie ran to Fred and George's beds, and shook them awake.

"FRED! GEORGE! ARI DIDN'T COME BACK LAST NIGHT! I... I THINK..." Her voice cracked.

"It's ok, Ellie, it's ok, we'll find her." George soothed her, jumping out of bed along with his twin, and they ran into the corridor.

They saw McGonagoll and Flitwick rushing past, their shocked whispers rushed.

"Found her outside my classroom... dead... unconscious, maybe... attack."

The three followed the professors to the Charms room. Where they saw... Arietta... looking dead... dead on the floor.

"Oh my Merlin." Arietta rushed to her side, closely followed by the twins, pushing past the professors.

She looked close to death. But she looked all five of them dead in the eye; Ellie, McGonagoll, Fred, George and Flitwick, and whispered the name, the name of her attacker before passing into a coma.

"Zachariah Smith."