Carrying Hearts
Summary: Molly watches Fred, George, and Angelina grow up
Molly Weasley knew since the twins were twelve that it would be Angelina Johnson to break her sons’ hearts. From the moment they came home after their first year at Hogwarts raving about the first year girl on the Quidditch team, she knew that Angelina was special in their eyes.
And in second year, when the boys befriended her, and the thirteen year old girl, who still towered over them came over one day in the summer. The three of them take off in the backyard, kicking gnomes, stomping in mud. Angelina and her extra three inches, lifts herself up onto the big oak tree and pulls George and Fred up with her. Molly watched as that little girl managed to keep up with her wildest children, she knew that that little girl had her twins.
And so she watched as Fred and George and Lee and Angelina grew up together. And she watched as the rough tomboy blossomed into a beautiful young lady, and she wondered what would happen once the boys saw her as a woman instead of their Ange.
It begins during after their fourth year, the summer Angelina doesn’t come over for a week at the Burrow. But she stops by for the day, and she spends her time laughing with the twins, but Molly notices there’s a grace about her actions now. She’s no longer running around the backyard skidding her knees. She’s started to fill out, and she starts to smile and shake her head at the boys’ antics, and she chats with Ginny this time. But she’s still there, and Molly watches the way the twins smile down on her, and she wonders if Angelina will only break one of their hearts or both.
George puts on a brave face, and Molly’s not surprised. George has always been the one more aware about people’s emotions. Fred claims that it’s no big deal, as George and Charlie make kissy faces at him over dinner. “It’s just a stupid dance.” He refutes. But Molly, finds the hidden picture of Fred and Angelina at the Yule Ball, and knows that Angelina has at least one of her boys’ heart.
Molly mostly sees Angelina when she drops by the store. Molly’s not even sure Fred recognizes all the small touches he gives Angelina throughout the date. A hug here, and arm slug around the shoulders, the slight brushing of hands. Molly observes as Angelina blushes, and coughs, and nudges him back. But Molly mostly watches as her sweet George grins through it all.
And the unimaginable happens.
They wait 3 months to have the burial. It’s the only reason Molly has the strength to leave her room. She misses her son, and she worries about her families, she prays everyday for George. He disappears after the service. She looks throughout the house, but George isn’t sitting with the guests in den, or eating food in the kitchen, but then she spots him.
In the backyard with Angelina. Molly watches as Angelina chases George around in the pouring rain, and she can hear his laughter from inside the house. It’s like their summer after second year, except her Fred, her sweet Fred is watching from above. She can’t stop her smile when they both come back dripping wet, covered in mud, and but she couldn’t careless about the carpet they’ve tracked mud on. For the first time in months Molly sees her boy smile.
Of course, she thinks. It would be Angelina to return her George to her. Molly knew since they were younger that Angelina had his heart.
