Everyone worriedly looked around for Estella, while the ladies stayed in the room with Tonks and Teddy, Amelia still holding her godson lovingly but also worried.

   James was the first one to come inside and telling they didnt find Estella. Amelia let out an exasperated breath before handing Teddy back to Andromeda leaving the room.

    Amelia went out searching in the whole building, asking different  people about her but describing her appearance but everyone said no. Amelia groaned going to the reception and asking about Estella.

   "Yes a girl like that, just went out" The receptionist said with a small smile, Amelia thanked her running out quickly. Stepping out of the hospital she yelled for her cousin gaining several wierd looks.

    "Estella!" She called again looking around a bit. Going in the backside of the place she heard slight sniffing and she instantly knew it was her. She saw a figure sat in the corner of the dim place. She rushed towards her.

    "You twat!– what are you doing out here crying!?" Amelia exclaimed to her cousin hitting her a bit too harshly. Estella stood up meeting her eyes and quickly engulfing her in a tight hug. Amelia's face crooked in a sad look.

    "What happened Este?– why are you so sad lately?– are you missing Lyra?– Do you want to go to her?" Amelia asked rubbing her back while letting the older girl sob on her shoulder.

    "I-I dont know– I miss mum, but thats not it, I-I recently got to know my father is alive– and now I want my family– all of them– but it feels wrong– as if I have destroyed everything by coming here" Estella sobbed, Amelia felt really bad for the girl, she had been in a quite similar situation earlier too.

    "If you ask me Este– nothing wrong had happened– you know why I lief about Lyra being dead?– because I saw Tonks at that moment and all I could see was sorrow on her face, I felt like she would not take it nicely, also she was pregnent– But you know today, she herself asked about you, calling you to meet your younger brother, if you think she will hate you or something– I assure you she doesnt and never will, she loves Remus and everything Remus loves, and you are also one of them" Amelia finished with a soft smile, Estella was quite just small sniffing sounds coming from her.

     "Now come you will meet your baby brother, I already met him, and I am the godmother!– Can you believe it!– but unfortunately I have to share my godparent's title with Harry Potter" Amelia said making a pout in grimace making Estella let out a teary chuckle.

    "Why do you hate that kid so much?" Estella asked while Amelia wiped her damp cheeks.
   
    "Why would anyone love him– he is all danger and madness and stupidity" Amelia said grimly. Estella rolled her eyes.

    "That youngest ginger in the house loves him tho" Estella pointed out.

    "I feel bad for her, trust me"

    "Gosh– forget it— Do you think I should meet him?" Estella asked hesitantly and Amelia gave her the look.

    "Tonks herself asked to bring me? And meet her son?" Estella rechecked.

    "He is not inly Tonks' son, but also your brother, half, but doesnt matter, and you know what he is a metamorphagus, he opened his eyes and changed his appearance just as me!" Amelia exclaimed gushing.

   "Okay then, I will meet my brother" Estella said confidently smiling as if taken a very big decision. Amelia rolled her eyes smiling and lunged an arm on her shoulder leading her in.

    Little did both the girls knew, that someone from their family hidden in shadows heard them all, everything they said.

***

    "You can hold him Estella" Tonks said with a small smile, Estella was unsure but complied after Amelia urged her continuously. She slowly picked up the little bundle from Tonks' arms smiling doen at her newly born baby brother.

    "So now as everything is fine, you all can go, Tonks will be discharged tomorrow, Andromeda and I are going to stay with her and Teddy" Remus said smiling at everyone.

    Everyone started leaving, although Amelia did not want to keave her godson at all, but she was pulled away by the marauders, she saw Estella halt a bit and slowly moved forward to hug her father saying something to him pulling away Remus smiled at her and said something to which Estella nodded tearfully smiling.

    As all of them reached the Grimmauld place, they were bombarded with questions by none other than Molly weasley, who rightfully demanded to know everything about the baby and Tonks' health, Amelia took up the job of describing how her godson was.

    Amelia, Molly, Estella and Lily kept chatting about it, until they were joined by the twins. They both returned from their shop really late tonight. Upon asking the reason they told they were busy with the order stuff a bit. Molly told them happily that Tonks has given birth to a healthy metamorphagus baby boy.

    "Really!?– How he is like?" George asked sitting beside Estella excitedly. While a timid and awkward Fred after lot of debating in his mind sat beside Amelia, not meeting her eyes much.

    "And Amelia is the godmother!" Lily finished repeating the same topic for the third time.  Fred turned to Amelia with an incredalous look while she smirked triumphantly as both remembered they have not been in talking terms since she last left for Ivormorny two years ago.

    "Okay go to sleep now kids.. its really late, also Tonks is returning tomorrow" Molly said shooing everyone off, Lily and her were the furst ones to leave. 

   George and Estella left talking to each other about The Weasley Wizard Wheezes. Amelia too started leaving but she was stopped by the other twin.

    "Amelia can we talk?" She turned to him folding her arms, while he stared at her slightly nervous.

   "I dont know, maybe not, because I cant remember it ever happened in these two years" Amelia said bitterly. Fred gulped a guilty look striking his face.

    "Amelia I am sorry–"

    "You should be"

    "Will you please listen to me–"

    "I wish I could but I dont want to"

    "Amelia I just want to talk please–"

    "But I dont want to Fred–"

    She was cut by Fred stepping forward swiftly and pushing her to lay on the couch and himself hovering on the top of her, holding her hands above her head.

    "Listen to me" He growled lowly staring in her grey eyes causing her to stare at him wide eyed, slowly his eyes to soften as he added "Please.."

    His face was just an inch or two away from hers, and practically he was all over her, his breath fanning on her face, his eyes which were boring into hers intensely once slowly flickered doen to her mouth but found their way back to her eyes.
  
    Amelia gulped ignoring the hammer in her chest and gave a stiff nod. She never imagined Fred so bold and dominant– shut up Amelia!

   Fred slwoly got up from her letting her sit straight on the couch awkwardly looking down not seeing how red the ginger wizard had become beside her. "S-Sorry for that"

    She hummed being speechless, and waited for him to begin what he wanted to talk about. Fred slwoly began in a small voice "I am sorry for not writing to you these two years"

    She hummed again but bitterly, from the corner of her eyes she saw Fred stuff his hands in his pocket taking out his wallet and pulling a parchment out of it and looked up at her with a small sad smile.

   She frowned slightly as something clicked in her mind, that parchment seemed familiar— oh that was the letter she sent to him after reaching Ivormorny to which she didnt get a reply to! She glared uo at him.

    "Why have you kept it still with you?" She asked glaring at him, he handed her the paper back gently placing it on her palm.

    "You are probably mad at me because I didnt reply to it" He said softly gaining a nod. "But I read it daily thinking to myself that I talked to you while you were not here"

    She looked up at him with a disbelieving look, she shook her head as he held his soft sad smile and herself opened her letter starting to read it but she was interrupted by Fred.

"Dear Fred, its been a week and none of you jerks has written to me, I get it you all dont miss me, so dont expect that I will miss you, I hate you all.
But if you are curious let me tell you I have found myself a redhead friend too, Lory, and she is just the perfect mixture of you and George.
Anyways, so how is going on there, after all of you have gotten rid of me, must be pleasant right? For your kind information I am also good here. Despite all madness I cannot contain myself from telling you this– muggle people here are called 'No-Majs'– I like the name. Fred I miss you, actually I miss all of them, but I am writing to you because I only feel fine when I talk to my best friend. I'd like it if you reply once. Amelia. "

    Amelia stared in disbelief as Fred, who had completely memorized her letter from two years finished reciting it. "Are you..– OMG, why would you memorize it?"

    "I just did" He said simply shrugging pulling the letter from her hands keeping it back in his wallet, while Amelia stared at him.

   "You scare me Fredrick Weasley" Amelia saud jokingly hitting him on the shoulder, while he grinned.

   "But why didnt you reply then if you so hopelessly in love with me?" Amelia asked in a teasing tone, which caused Fred to stare at her for a brief second before he shook his head and  replied.

    "Dumbledore forbid us. He obliged us to not contact you at all if we want to keep you safe there" Fred said, while Amelia cursed under her breath.

    "But I am glad you are back" Fred added with a soft smile. She grinned back and started telling him everything about America, he listened to her the whole time not wanting anything else, just her sitting beside him and talking anything.

    "So how many boyfriends you had in these two years?" He asked playfully narrowing his eyes. She didnt say but made a zero with her forefinger and thumb. He claimed it was not possible.

    "I am not lying, I had no boyfriends– there was just one boy who desperately pinned after me– M–" She was cut by her own yawn, while Fred who was eager to know the name sat there dissatisfied.

    "How about we talk tomorrow, I really wanna take a nap" Amelia said yawning more, her eyes feeling heavy.
   
    Fred nodded standing up holding a hand out for her to take which she took, he began speaking "Goodnight Amy–"

    He was caught off-guard by her stepping forward and wrapping her arms around his neck bringing him in an embrace, while he slowly wrapped his arms around her waist.

    "I really missed you all this time Fred, I missed my bestfriend" She whispered smiling up at him pulling away, he forced a smile back before she went to her room.
  
    He was left there standing only one word playing in his mind. Bestfriend. Thats all him and her ever will be a couple of bestfriends.

   ***

    Next day Tonks arrived with her baby, and everyone was esctatic, the golden trio and Ginny Weasley were busy attending the school and choas over there, while everyone in Grimmauld Place welcomed Teddy.

    Estella was slowly staring to get warmer to Tonks and already loving her baby brother. Amelia was the one who never left her godson the whole time, and dismissively forbid James and Sirius to hold him eithout anyone's presence. Both the man took him for fun to show different things so that he could change himself to look like them.

    Days passed on slowly, everyone in the house again got back to their works resulting to the order. Tonks too joined after a couple of weeks as the war was st large and the aurors were needed at all costs. In many meetings this time Amelia and Estella too were involved, even though they were not of hogwarts but they had to participate in the approaching war.

    The rest time of Amelia passed euth her godson, Fred too spent time with het both talking literally everything about America, but he never got to know about the boy who Amelia was talking about that night.

    Today, Teddy exactly turned twenty five days, and May was going to start, Estella was sitting in the living room discussing something with her father and Sirius. While Amelia was telling James how awful his son is at doing literally anything.

    Suddenly there was a knock on the door and Kreacher went forward to open it, the next moment the person who stepped in gave an immediate shock to Amelia and Estella.

     "MIKE!" Estella exclaimed loudly running toward her boyfriend in full speed crashing her lips on his, while he spinned her around, Amelia grinned happily seeing the two love birds, but two men in the room looked sick, specifically Remus and George.

    "I missed you" Mike whispered setting her down softly kissing her on forehead.

    "Dont worry I did too" Estella said letting out a teary chuckle. "But how come you are here!?"

    "Er– Amelia wrote to me saying you've been moping around the whole time, so I had to come afterall" Mike said still holding her, his gaze turned to Amelia as he added "And if Amelia had been a little sad lately too, I have something for her as well"

   Amelia frowned confused but soon was startled by a large party bomb bursting leading Lory in. Amelia clamped her hands on mouth in surprise and running straight to bring her in s hug.

    "Lory!– I missed you idiot!" Amelia exclaimed clutching to her while she let out a laugh.

   "I know dude, I am amazing" Lory winked. Amelia turned to the whole house who were eagerly waiting for introductions.

    "Everyone this is Lory, my bestfriend from Ivormorny" Amelia introduced gesturing to the girl beside her, no one noticed that Sirius and Fred sighed in relief in corner.

    "And this is my boyfriend Mike" Estella introduced and George stared at her like she killed a puppy.

    Everyone gave their introductions eventually Mike and Lory being trusted friends of Amelia and Estella were added in the order meetings too. The day went on, and in the evening Amelia found herself in her room rocking Teddy to put him to sleep because Tonks was busy with the auror meeting.

    There was a knock on Amelia's door which gained her attention and she saw Fred standing there. She gestured him to come in without making a noise. Fred came in passing her sheepish smile.

    "You'd make a great mother!"

    "Get lost"

    "Ever wonder if I'd make a good father?"

    "You'd make a horrible father– you dont even know how to hold babies"

    "Atleast one of us is good" He winked flirtatiously while she shook her head setting the little baby in her arms on bed.

    "Sit with me?" He offered sitting supported by a wall beside the bed, she shrugged sitting beside him. Both sat in the comfortably silence enjoying the light cute snoring sounds Teddy was making.

    "What will happen now Fred?" Amelia asked quitely staring ahead of her.
   
    "Maybe he will wake up in an hour, then you'll babysit him again" Fred said in a duh tone. She lightly smacked him on head.

     "I am not talking about Teddy, I am talking about the war"

    "Oh"

    "What will happen if any one of us all didnt make it through the war?" She asked slightly tensed.

    "Why would you think that?– just think Harry will kill No-Nose-Voldy and we'll all live happily ever after"

    "I wish it was that simple" She sighed.

    "Hey Amy listen, we will all be safe, dont worry, okay?"

    "What if I die–" She was cut by Fred placing a finger on her lips sushing her.

     "There's nothing like that going to happen– We'll all survive" He said firmly. Amelia pursed her lips looking away, she was still unconvinced.

    "A war isnt something in which all bad people are killed and all good ones are saved, both sides suffer Fred, and there is no surety who among us wont make it through" Amelia said a bit desperately but sighed scrunching her eyes shut.

    "If thats what you are scared about so I have one thing to tell you" Fred whispered softly making her look at him. His stared at her face for who knows how long, his soft gaze observing all her features, a slight tinge of ache in heart arising.

     "I love you" He whispered with a smile, frown making its way on her face, but he still held his smile and before she could speak anything he interrupted her.

    "And thats my problem, you dont have to worry about it. I just wanted you to know, i wont mind if you forget it later on, I just told my feelings and I am happy" He said softly his hand reaching to hold hers gently. She didnt know what to say or do.

    "I missed you more than you can imagine, I dont know when all this happened, but as long as I can remember, I never thought of anyone else the way I thought of you" He whispered interwining their fingers, while Amelia felt a heavy feeling invade her.

    "Fred.." She let out a pained sugh staring in his eyes, his gentle smile never fading off.

    "Its alright Amy, I am sorry If I ruined our friendship but I am not sorry for what I feel, I love you, and maybe in any other world if possible I'll have you" He continued and she didnt even realise he was inching closer, she shuddered coming out of her trance when she felt his hot breath on her face.

     She saw his gaze flickering from her eyes to her mouth, she felt guilty, not knowing why but she felt so. She felt wrong. His other hand slowly rising up cupping her cheek softly, while she stared in his eyes. She felt herself being drawn towards him, as if an invisible force was pulling her to him, she shuddered slightly as their noses brushed.
 
    She wanted to say something but words wont come out, her voice was stuck in the back of her throat. Just one slight movement and their lips would brush, a loud thumping withing her was telling her to move forward but she tried her best to resist it. Their breaths were syncing and she felt him pull her slightly closer as she slowly shut her eyes.

     The loud thumping within her awaited the moment when she would feel him but before it could happen they were interrupted.

     "AMELIA! FRED!– IT IS HAPPENING! WE HAVE TO GO HOGWARTS NOW!"
  

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