A George Weasely Romance

Chapter 3

Turns out, all good things must come to an end, and Katara hated it. Why did she have to go?

Things were so great here.

“Katara I’m sorry, but we can come visit the Weasleys during summer.” Arashi tried to cheer her up. Katara was currently lying in bed with his arms around her as she cried feebly. “God I haven’t seen you cry since, well, when we lost mum and dad. Your acting like you’ll never see them again”

“But I want to go to Hogwarts. I want to stay and be with Fred and George!” Katara cried so hard that night, and Arashi felt helpless. She was eleven and puberty had hit early and hard, causing hell in her mind. He honestly didn’t know what to do, as far as he could remember she had never been like this. She was always so understanding, and went along with everything he said. She must really want to stay.

“I know you love it here, but we need to get your training finished. People all over the world will be hunting you down. You’re special, and you need to learn how to survive, to use the power you have to help those who need you and stop those who want to abuse you. I know it’s hard always having to have this on your shoulders. I would change it if I could, but I can’t. Please understand. I love it here to, but I also have some things I still need to learn.” He held Katara close until she cried herself to sleep. He felt awful.

Man, I suck! He thought.

They said their solemn goodbyes to the Weasleys a week later. They were on their way to Japan to train. Katara still wasn’t happy, but she had no choice. Fred and George were quite upset; they had been looking forward to spending time with her at Hogwarts.

“You better write to us like at least once a week” George said

“Yeah. And you better come back at summer and Christmas!” Fred added enthusiastically.

Katara smiled and hugged them both. A lone tear was making its way down her face when they parted. George put his hand to her face and wiped it away, blushing all the while at the contact.

“Look things will be fine. You’ll go to Japan and train hard, and you’ll get to where you have to be. Then you can come back! We’ll stay in contact I promise.”

“Yeah, and then we can get back to plans!” Fred added excitedly, referring to their plans of becoming greatest pranksters in history. This made her laugh a little and sniffed.

“I don’t want to go though. I’ll miss you!” George looked at her and hugged her again.

And that was how the dream life had ended.


Katara wrote to the twins as much as she could, and the twins replied in turn. At first the letters were short, but soon they were practically writing essays.

Her brother had spoken to Dumbledore (who had been a friend of the family for a while) before they left, asking for permission to teach Katara magic. He agreed, and offered to send over books and exam requirements, and set up dates for her to sit her O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s. So Arashi taught her all the magic he knew. He had bought her a wand for her 12th birthday. Katara picked magic up quickly and was soon doing complicated spells that Arashi didn’t even know.

Training went on as planned and Katara reached the Rank of S-Class Jounin quicker than expected. Great things were expected of her, and she proved herself time and time again.

She even managed to get a boyfriend. George wasn’t too happy about this, but congratulated her anyway, despite what emotions had welled up inside him. Things seemed to be settling down nicely.

-Back to Fred and George-

Fred looked over at George who was still looking at the letter. By the depressed look on his face, he concluded he had read it.

“So, she’s got a boyfriend.” George didn’t look up from the letter. “You gutted?” he asked trying to break the silence. He still didn’t look up, still keeping his eyes fixed on the page continually re-reading it to see if he had missed anything.

“It was bound to happen. I mean, she’s on the other side of the world, practically. I just...” George folded the letter back up.

“Hoped it wouldn’t have happened?” Fred aided and George nodded. “Relax man. Everyone gets boyfriends and girlfriends. And most of them don’t work out. Just you wait. You’ll get her eventually. I mean, how could she resist the ‘George Weasley’ charm!” George smiled.

“Thanks…”



Dear Katara

It’s been a while since we have heard from you. Are things going ok? I really hope they are. How’s Arashi doing as well, and did he ever get that girl?

Things are going ok here. Sirius Black has been suspected of being in the school and things have been kinda crazy, but otherwise me and Fred have been dutifully creating havoc as always.

We almost got Snape’s hair to turn pink, but he was too quick for us. We’ll need to work on some kind of invisibility potion. Do you think it already exists? Me and Fred have been looking in potion books for ages, but we can’t find one. You wouldn’t happen to know of any ideas that might work? You are always good at this kind of stuff.

Oh yeah and how’s things with your guy? Hope he’s treating you right, wouldn’t want to have to beat anyone up now would we!

Well I really hope to hear from you soon. Like real soon!

George

P.S. do you know if you will be coming up this summer like you had planned? Mum was real exited when we told her.

George looked at his letter with a worried expression. It really had been a while since he had heard from her, almost a month. She used to write (on average) every two weeks even when she got real busy. Her owl was super fit! The school owls tended to fly away to escape when the Weasley twins went to send a letter, they all knew the torture that would come from receiving one of the twin’s letters..

George laughed thinking of it, but then looked solemn again as he continued to worry about Katara’s well being. He looked over at Fred who had just finished his own letter.

“Think she’ll write back this time?” Fred inquired. George shrugged

“Ocht, who knows. Maybe she’s just really busy…” he trailed off desperately trying to believe his own words.

“Yeah that’s it. Surely Arashi would have told us if something had happened…” the twins both looked at the table in silence, both knowing that each other were thinking of the worst case scenarios.

They headed up to the owlery and they were welcomed by the screeching of many owls and feathers being blown everywhere by the tornado of desperately trying to escape owls, but they caught themselves an owl that was just too slow. They sent off their letters and headed down to the Great Hall for breakfast.

-Over in Japan a week later-

Katara lay on the cold floor trying to stay as still as possible. Every fibre in her body was screaming in pain. There was a fluttering sound as something came in through the bars of her cell window. The owl landed with a quiet hoot and dropped two letters in front of her face.

They must be annoyed I haven’t written in a while.

Slowly, she moved her hand to the letters, screwing her face up as fresh pain wracked through her arm.

Damn it!

She picked it up one of them and opened it clumsily, leaving bloody fingerprints where ever she touched. It was from George. She stared at his hand writing, admiring the curves and enjoying the friendly, warm feeling she got just knowing it was from him. Her brain couldn’t concentrate on the words, but she was happy just to look. She heard faint footsteps coming from the hallway, panic caused her heart to beat so hard she thought it might break out her chest. She quickly grabbed Fred’s letter and put it together with George’s in a secret place she had made. The door swung open as she turned to lie on her back.

“Right you. Time to go.” A tall man stood in the doorway. He then walked over to Katara, picked her up, and threw her over his shoulder. “You don’t want to keep him waiting now would you” Katara whimpered as she was taken from her cell.