You know what we didn't plan for? Sneaking Uncle Fred onto the train with us.

You know what else we didn't plan for? Every other Weasley at this school finding out as fast as they did.

"What the FUCK!?" Lily shouts after Theo asks her for the invisibility cloak that James gave her last year.

"So can we have the cloak or not?" I say intervening in their conversation.

Lily grumbles something about the audacity as she pulls the cloak out from her bag, "Here. But I have questions that demand answers."

"Obviously. Sit with us on the train, we'll explain everything." I say, passing the cloak to Ophelia so she can go back into the broom cupboard that we were storing Uncle Fred in.

Uncle Charlie walks over to us, dragging his trunk behind him. Ophelia and a poorly hidden Uncle Fred walk out of the broom cupboard and come over to us at the same time.

"Have you lot seen Freddie anywhere? I normally wish him a Happy Christmas before I catch the train." Uncle Charlie says.

Theo, Annie, Ophelia, and I share a look. One that says, 'do we tell him? What will happen if we do tell him?'

"Happy Christmas to you too Charles. You think Mum'll like my Christmas present?" Uncle Fred says from under the cloak.

Uncle Charlie looks around the air for a floating Uncle Fred, "Did you hear that too?" He asks.

Lily is staring at the empty space beside Ophelia with wide eyes.

"Mate seriously, do you think she'll like my present?" Uncle Fred pulls the cloak off him for a second.

Uncle Charlie looks at him, standing there all alive and covered in flesh and nearly faints. Like to the point where Lily and I had to grab onto him so he wouldn't hit the floor.

Uncle Fred laughs wildly and pulls the cloak over him again.

"What... what the – he – Fred is – is – what – is that – George?" Uncle Charlie's brain is short-circuiting. Annie takes a bottle of water out of her backpack and hands it to Uncle Charlie. He takes it and drinks nearly the whole thing and gives it back to her, "I'm gonna need something a lot stronger than water to understand what the fuck I just looked at."

"Oh come on bruv, it hasn't been that long since you saw me has it?" Uncle Fred says before laughing again.

Lily and I catch Uncle Charlie before he passes out again.

"This is the most fun I've had in years." Uncle Fred says from under the cloak.

We manage to get Uncle Charlie stable on his own two feet and the group of us walk out of the castle and to the self-pulling carriages.

"Woah holy shit." Uncle Fred says.

Uncle Charlie laughs hysterically, "This is a dream. I'm dreaming! That's the only logical explanation for all this!"

Ignoring Uncle Charlie, Uncle Fred says, "Thestrals look fucking cool."

We manage to load our bumbling group of idiots onto the nearest carriage. Hugo, Lucy, and the rest of our family run over to us to make the same carriage as us.

Hugo sits down on Uncle Fred's lap by accident and Uncle Fred laughs, "Not how I wanted my first physical encounter with my nephew to go."

Hugo screams and nearly falls off the carriage entirely.

"What – I – what?" Hugo says looking at the not-so-empty space that Uncle Fred is sitting in.

"Welcome to the club kiddo." Uncle Charlie says, "I'm so fucking confused I feel peaceful. Has that ever happened to you all?"

We all shake our heads no.

"Great! Bloody fantastic."

"Don't let McGonagall hear you talk to students in that tone Charlie boy. You'll lose your job." Uncle Fred says from under his cloak.

Uncle Charlie just stares straight ahead, "My brother is back from the dead. Cause that happens now apparently."

When we get to the train we make sure that we can all fit into one booth so we, okay mostly Ophelia, can fill everyone in.

As soon as the train starts pulling out of the station Uncle Fred pulls the cloak off his head, "Phew, thought we'd never make it. It's stuffy in there. And after years of not being able to breathe, I did not like that one bit." Uncle Fred looks at Uncle Charlie, "Miss me?"

"Seriously what the hell is going on?" Lily says to us, "Like that's just Uncle George with both ears."

"Uhm, no. No, no, no, no. Once again, no. It's Fred and George. Not George and someone who looks like George. I'm the oldest. This was my face first." Uncle Fred says, "A whole generation of Weasleys that think that George is the original. I can't believe it."

Ophelia spends the better part of the nine-hour trip back from Hogwarts explaining herself and how she managed to bring Uncle Fred back. By the end of it Uncle Charlie is actually smiling and laughing, the initial shock of seeing his once dead now alive again little brother has worn off.

"So how are we going to do this? Like we all get off the train and then Uncle Fred just walks off and pretends like nothing the matter?" Ophelia asks.

"Oh, Godric. I totally forgot." I say loudly, "I told Theseus that he can spend Christmas holiday with us."

"Now why would you go and do that? We sort of have a family thing going on." Annie says nodding her head to Uncle Fred who hasn't stopped smiling like an idiot and touching random things.

"I didn't know Leah was gonna play God! I have to go find him." I say getting up from my seat.

"Gonna go chase a boy instead of hang out with your born again uncle? I'm bloody fucking Jesus and you're gonna go see a boy?" Uncle Fred says. When he sees my face he laughs, "I'm kidding, I have the rest of your life to hang out with you and you're one of the ones that made that possible. Go snog your boy."

"This isn't still egg boy, is it? Because I thought we've established that egg boy was not the right one for you." Uncle Charlie says.

"Who's egg boy?" Uncle Fred says.

Theo laughs, "Nah, this one is 'I've been in a solid relationship for a long time now and all of a sudden Cassiopeia Weasley wants me in her bed' boy."

"That's a long name." Uncle Fred says nodding, "You sure that a boy in a relationship is better than this Egg boy?"

"The Egg boy that tried to assault Cassie? Yeah, this one's better cause he's the one that broke Egg boys nose." Ophelia says.

I glare at her but don't say anything.

"Wow, you miss a lot when you're dead." Uncle Fred says.

"He – Egg boy did what?" Uncle Charlie says getting defensive.

I roll my eyes, "It's fine happened a long time ago. We're gonna be at Kings Cross in like five minutes. You lot figure out how to tell everyone we played God last night. I have to go find Theseus, who is not Egg boy so we can figure out... stuff. Okay?"

"Has she always been so much like Violet? Or did I just miss a whole bunch?" Uncle Fred whispers to Hugo.

I roll my eyes and step over Laurie who is curled up like a cat on the ground and squeeze out of the overcrowded booth.

"Theseus." I whisper, "Where would he be?"

Given I really haven't got a clue where he sits on the train or anything I start walking down each train car glancing in the windows of compartments trying to find him.

I manage to find him in the second last car. Georgette and Cheryl are looking at something on Georgette's muggle... er uhm, phone and Theseus looks nervous as all sin. I do my best not to look weird waiting outside his compartment. Theseus notices me pretty quickly and excuses himself from Georgette even though she's not paying any attention.

"Hi," Theseus breathes. He tilts his head towards the end of the train car and he starts to walk away. I follow close behind him. Once we are far enough away from the compartment that Georgette is in he turns around and looks at me, "You look exhausted."

"Yeah well, raising the dead does that to a person."

"What?"

"What?"

"You said raising the dead..."

"Yeah. Do you know my dead uncle that used to float around school?"

"Yeah?"

"He's no longer dead and is actually sitting in a compartment down that way," I gesture to the way that I just came from.

Theseus looks to where I was pointing then looks back at me, an impressed look on his face, "If it's too much for me to come with your family for Christmas..."

I touch his arm for a second then quickly pull my hand away. Theseus looks at where I just touched him, like he's longing for my hand to be there again, "It's not too much. You need to come home with us Theseus."

"It sounds like quite a bit." He says.

I shake my head no, "It's fine really. I'll just introduce you to my parents before they see my undead uncle..." I laugh and Theseus smiles, "I'm so sorry that this is the chaos that you're being thrown into."

"Don't apologize Cassiopeia." Theseus goes to touch my face but decides against it halfway through. The train lurches forward and I stumble into his chest. He steadies me and smiles, "Georgette is going to want a kiss goodbye, then I can meet you with your family."

I nod, Theseus doesn't take his hands off of me at first but when he realizes that we have to go get our things his face flushes and he gets a little awkward.

"See you on the platform," I say before turning around and racing back to my compartment.

Uncle Charlie and Uncle Fred are hugging onto each other while everyone gets their things from the racks.

"So I'll get off first. Tell Mum and Dad about Theseus." I say to Ophelia.

She nods, "Right, good plan. Then I'll get off with everyone else and sort of tell Mum, Dad, and the rest of them to take a few deep breaths and then..."

"... our undead uncle comes home and we wait for Dad to have a heart attack." I finish her sentence, "You still have the stone just in case he dies?"

Ophelia taps the front pocket of her trousers, "Figured it would be safer with us than it was at Hogwarts."

"Yeah..." I take my trunk from Hugo who has gotten it down from the rack for me, "Okay. Just a normal every day coming home from Hogwarts trip." I say trying to convince both myself and Ophelia.

"Get a move on then." Ophelia nudges me forward.

I walk down the corridor of the train and step out onto the platform. Mum, Dad, Uncle Ron, Aunt Hermione, Uncle Harry, Aunt Ginny, Uncle Percy, Aunt Audrey, Uncle Walter, Uncle Lee, and Auntie Em are all standing there smiling.

"Hi Mum, Dad." I say giving each of them a hug, "I sort of invited someone to stay the holidays with us."

Mum smiles, "Alright, yeah."

Just as she says that Theseus walks down the platform towards us. Dad looks where I'm looking then looks back at me, "Isn't this the one I caught you in Ronnie's office with?" Dad says as Theseus comes up beside me.

I nod, "Mum, Dad, this is Theseus a..." I hesitate for a second and I know that Mum and Dad instantly get the idea that we are dating or something. But the truth is, we've never called each other friends or anything. It's always been two people who don't hate each other.

"I'm Violet," Mum says sticking her hand out for Theseus to shake, "And this is my husband, George."

Dad shakes Theseus's hand as well, "We'll talk when we get home, just the four of us. Nothing serious, just so that we get the... what's the word darling?" Dad looks at Mum.

"The tea? Is that what this is?" Mum says. My cousins start coming out of the train, greeting their parents.

"Yes, the tea. We'll get the tea when it's just us." Dad smiles at Theseus, "You're in for a bumpy ride kid."

I can feel my cheeks heat up as Dad and Theseus awkwardly interact with each other.

Mum pulls me in for another hug, "He's that someone isn't he?" I nod into her chest and she smiles, "He's a lot cuter than the other one I'll give you that."

"Godric Mum."

Theo, Annie, and Ophelia all step off the train with Uncle Charlie. Mum and Dad give the three of them their usual hugs and I've missed you's. Theseus is standing right up beside me, his arm brushing against mine every so often.

"So I have an early Christmas present for you all." Ophelia says loud enough for all of my Aunts and Uncles to hear, "And I couldn't figure out how to wrap it? So I'm just going to give it to you now."

"Ouh presents." Uncle Ron says, "Why can't you come home with presents eh Hugo?"

Hugo remains dead silent.

Ophelia looks back at the train nervously. "Okay." She says loudly.

Everyone looks to the train eagerly for what their present is going to be. I start pulling at the tips of my fingers, terrified for what's about to happen.

Uncle Fred steps onto the platform and everyone goes silent. Then Auntie Em bursts into tears, Uncle Walter and Uncle Lee pull Auntie Em in for a hug, Aunt Ginny screams something that I didn't understand. Uncle Ron grabs onto Uncle Percy who looks like he's about to cry.

"Fuck sakes. You've all gotten so old." Uncle Fred says.

Mum has got silent tears pouring down her face, her hands cupped over her mouth. Dad doesn't say anything for a very long time.

"Come on G, don't recognize your own twin?" Uncle Fred says, trying his hardest to get a reaction from Dad.

"You..." Dad looks around at all of us, "What kind of sick joke..." He stumbles backwards and Mum and Uncle Walter lunge towards him to make sure he doesn't fall totally over. "You... no. No! nonononononononononononnonoonnonono. You're dead! You're – no. no!"

Uncle Fred steps towards Dad, "I was dead yeah, thanks for reminding me. It's a bit of a touchy subject you know."

Dad stares at Uncle Fred with wide eyes, the rest of my aunts and uncles are losing their minds just as much as Uncle Charlie was when he first saw Uncle Fred but I don't think that Uncle Fred cares all too much about them right now.

"Georgie seriously. Cut the crap and give me a blasted hug." Uncle Fred says.

Dad nearly faints again and Mum and Uncle Walter have to steady him.

"You're not real," Dad whispers. Uncle Fred steps closer to him, like he's trying not to scare off a frightened deer, "You're dead. You – I saw your dead body. I planned your funeral... I – I saw your ghost."

"Touch my hand you fucking moron." Uncle Fred says holding out his hand to Dad.

Theseus leans over and whispers in my ear, "They sound like you and Ophelia."

I hit his stomach playfully, "Shut up, would you? I'm trying to see my father get reunited with his brother." I whisper back. I look up at Theseus and meet his eyes. He's got a bit of a sparkle there that wasn't there before. I can't really put my finger on it but it makes me really happy to see.

"I'm not going to touch your hand," Dad says.

"Touching my fucking hand."

"No!"

"Fucking do it George! What's the worst that could happen eh?"

"That you leave me again!" Dad shouts.

Uncle Fred takes the three steps to get to Dad and throws his arms around Dad in a hug. Instantly Dad loses his mind. He cries loud and ugly, clutching onto Uncle Fred like his life depends on it.

It's obvious that everyone has questions, that everyone wants to hug Uncle Fred and cry the way that Dad is crying but no one dares move. No one even breathes in their direction.

The entire platform empties, the train pulls back out of the station.

But Dad and Uncle Fred don't let go of each other. They've stopped crying so there's that but they're still holding onto each other for dear life.

"Okay..." Uncle Fred says loud enough for everyone to hear, "Okay Georgie, let me say hello to everyone else."

Dad lets go of Uncle Fred and he goes over to each and every person in the group and hugs them for just as long as he hugged Dad. Tears, screaming, shouting, laughter, every emotion that has ever been felt by anyone ever is being felt right now.

When Uncle Fred hugs Mum it's a lot of laughs and tears. Then Uncle Fred hugs Uncle Lee, Uncle Walter. And finally, he looks at Auntie Em.

Darcy looks confused out of his damn mind as Auntie Em is a mess of sobs and words that don't make any sense.

"Emma darling," Uncle Fred says softly.

He walks over to her and goes to give her a hug but Auntie Em reaches up and hits Uncle Fred across the face with her open hand.

"They look like two people that don't hate each other," Theseus whispers to me.

"Seriously! Shush!" I say with a smile.

Uncle Fred is holding his face where Auntie Em hit him. "Well fuck Emmie tell me how you really feel."

"You died on me."

"Yeah."

"You died before I could tell you that I love you."

"Love eh?"

Auntie Em winds up for another slap but Uncle Fred catches her hand, "I love you more than the healthy amount Emma Fay. Always and forever." Uncle Fred says.

Darcy looks like he fully might vomit but Auntie Em throws herself into Uncle Fred and they start snogging each other like there isn't anyone around.

Theseus nudges me with his elbow, "This is what you wanted me to be quiet for? So you can see your undead uncle snog his crush?"

"Are you telling me that if you had the chance you wouldn't snog the love of your life?" I whisper back to him.

Theseus looks at me in a way that sends shivers down my spine and through my whole body. All I want to do is grab Theseus and snog him in a way that will have his head spinning for hours afterwards. But my entire family is here. My Mum and Dad are standing two feet away crying cause my Uncle has come back home.

This is going to be an interesting holiday.