Chapter 17 - Chapter 17

George was with Fred, and they were wandering about the castle, trying to figure out what mischief they were going to cause today. But George was a little bit out of it for he was a bit worried about Lily ever since she was asleep almost that whole week before and was very anxious that she was going to do it again. Fred touched his brother's shoulder which made George snap back into reality, "So, what do you think?" Fred asked with a nasty glimmer in his eye once he was done talking about- whatever it was. "About what, Fred?" George asked with a questionable expression upon his face. "About us putting triggered smoke color bombs in Filch's office and in front of the Slytherin's common room entrance." Fred repeated, with a little bit of confusion of why his brother didn't hear his idea, and then finally asked, "You're concerned about Lily, isn't it? From what happened last week?" George could only shake his head and looked down at the floor without moving his head. "Look, she is our little sister by bond, but I don't think that she needs us to baby her, just be there, and show up when she needs us." Fred said with a half-smile, but he too was a bit worried about Lily as well during the weekend they were gone." "I suppose you're right Fred. After all, we need to show her that we trust her and that she can fight her own battles, especially if we aren't there to always protect her." George implied, but he remembered what he saw on the map of Hogwarts and saw Lily's and Guinevere's name, they stood there for a moment and then Guinevere's name moved away from Lily's and wondered what happened that day. "No, I know you George, you're not telling me something, what is it?" Fred looked at George with great suspicion, George looked in defeat, "Nothing gets by you. I saw Lily and Guinevere's name on the map the other day and moments passed before Guinevere's name moved away from Lily." Fred's mouth dropped and if it wasn't attached it would have dropped to the ground, then he shouted on the top of his lungs, "WHY THE BLOODY HELL DID YOU NOT TELL ME SOONER YOU BIG OAF?!" He said as he was running down the Grand Staircase. "THERE ISN'T A MOM-" Before he could finish that he wasn't paying attention to where he was running and tripped on his feet causing him to stumble and face plant on a wall with a LOUD 'SMACK' or 'THUD' sound followed immediately from the hit, which echoed through the halls. George safely ran down the stairs, grabbed his now unconscious twin by the hand, leading him to find Lily, unfortunately, he made his brother's body slam into a suit of armor, causing it to fall, which made them both fall and barrel roll onto the floor, and land in front of Lily's feet. "Um... Are you two alright? You two looked like you just came out of a cartoon or a straight up comedy stunt show." Both of the twins blushed out of embarrassment as they got off of the floor and the armor made loud banging noises that followed when they hit the floor and rolled off of them and they dusted themselves off. Lily giggled at the state the twins were in before continuing, "You two sure have a lot of energy this early in the morning. But I have to ask, what in the world made you two put on such an act, ruckus, and commotion, especially this early in the morning?" Fred and George looked at Lily but fell silent when they saw Professor Snape just behind Lily and now REALLY couldn't say anything to explain their actions for being so rowdy all of the sudden. There was a big awkward silence when, "Well, aren't you going to answer her?" Lily jumped a bit when Snape spoke suddenly for, she REALLY had no idea that he was standing there the entire time. Fred and George were paler than a sheet, "Very well, since you two obviously don't have an excuse, ten points will be taken from Gryffindor for each of you. However, you two would have lost points regardless if you two ACTUALLY had an excuse or not, so, it wouldn't have made a difference." He left with that and left the three of them speechless and dumbfounded of what just went down. Until Lily was the one to break the silence this time, "Well? Why did you two act in such a manner?" Fred and George looked at each other and literally pulled Lily, who yelped out of surprise, was taken to a secluded area away from any crowds and any who would eavesdrop.