When The Black Bird Flies (Sophie/George/open)

[Lisette Magdalena Weasley]

Molly Weasley had wandered into Lisette's shop the other day. It had been a little awkward to meet her grandmother when she didn't realize that she was her grandmother, but she'd been invited to the Burrow for a Christmas party, anyway.

Liz decided to not tell her that she already worked with the Order, or at least the Eastern Coalition.

She didn't really know any Order members, and much of the Coalition hadn't shown up, so Liz found herself milling around in the kitchen. Molly appeared to chat with her for a few moments before disappearing back into the party. Liz stood awkwardly off to the side and sipped her egg nog and nodded when she was noticed by others. Tonks was friendly as ever, and getting sort of round. Liz hoped that she didn't hurt herself.

Hearing her name called, Liz looked up with a little smile perched on her face as the person approached her.

((Liz's dress
Her jacket
Her shoes
Her hair and makeup))

[Sophie Marietta Lupin]

Sophie spotted Lisette. She'd called her name and was weaving her way toward her the girl. How could so many people be in one area? It confused her. Anyway, she got to Lisette and gave her a hug.

"Hey! Long time no see! How've you been?" she smiled. Her scars, sadly, seemed more prominent that night. She figured it was because of her dress, but she wasn't going to try to cover them up. She considered herself a tiger who'd earned her stripes.

[Lisette Magdalena Weasley]

Lisette grinned widely and hugged Sophie back. The two had struck up a quick friendship after their initial meeting. Funny that it took traveling twenty years back in time for Lisette and Sophie to meet.

Currently, Sophie was bugging Lisette about getting a boyfriend. She didn't have the heart to tell Sophie that she had no intention of becoming romantically involved with anyone.

"Busy! Always busy!" she laughed.

She glanced around to look out for anyone, failing to notice George and Molly as they shrunk back behind a corner.

"I saw Grandma Molly earlier," she admitted. "It's crazy, to think of the family that I never got to know."

[Sophie Marietta Lupin]

Sophie was laughing so hard, it took her awhile to recompose herself. She hated her laugh, it sounded more like a high pitched bark than anything else. She took a deep breath trying to calm her breathing. She chuckled again and grabbed her side. Oh the pain of laughing, it hurt too good, it always did.

"Yeah, I know what you mean.." she looked at the ground. She could have thought back to when she was still little and had been beaten for smiling and laughing. She always felt out of place there, then she made friends, learned that smiling was a good thing. The only thing that really hurt was being told to go to counseling. She couldn't tell people about her brusies, her scars, the mental shock. No, she had refused to let any of that come back to her. Not at Christmas.

[Lisette Magdalena Weasley]

Lisette glanced into the living room, unaware of the other two Wealseys now listening intently around the corner.

"Dad just proposed to Mom," she noted distractedly. "God, she was pretty, wasn't she...?"

She sighed and ran a hand through her hair; she had her father's, but she'd already known that. The Weasley hair was a bit of a pain in the neck, really; it was hard to lie to her own relatives. The first time she'd met Molly, the Weasley matriarch had noted with surprise how much Lisette looked like Fred (though prettier, she'd been reassured, "much more feminine, dear.").

[Sophie Marietta Lupin]

George was sure he'd heard the red say something about a dad proposing to a mum. Wait red hair, very pretty, could that be Fred and Lisa's daughter? No couldn't be, that girl had to be atleast twenty years older than Fred's baby. He was thinking inethically.

"Did he!? Oh marvelous! How much to we want to place on her and Tonks giving birth to you and Ted on the same time this time? Hmm? I was kind of hoping because then I'd have a reason to call you my sister." Sophie chuckled. She made sure to whisper but it still carried quite well.

[Lisette Magdalena Weasley]

Lisette laughed and shook her head at Sophie's suggestion. She'd learned the circumstances around her being born from Jak shortly before being dragged back in time. Had she been paying attention, she probably wouldn't have been able to miss Molly glancing back and forth between her and Fred with her eyes narrowed. She wasn't expecting it, though, so she wasn't paying attention.

"I was born in March, Soph," she reminded her friend. "I'm a little bit older than Ted, though I think Mum had me prematurely."

Molly gasped inaudibly and tugged at George's sleeve.

"George! George!" she hissed. "Do you think...?"

[Fred Fabian Weasley]

Fred was nearly prancing around the whole party spouting his happiness of his engagement. He spotted his mum and George nearby and skipped over to them, ready to shout from behind them, but heard what they were talking about, and hearing the last part of what Sophie and Lisette said. Fred joined from behind them, hoping not to scare George or his mum, curious as to what was happening.

"Did she say what I thought she said?" Fred asked very quietly and urgently, having heard Sophie mention Tonks, "What's going on Mum?" There was something really weird going on and he felt that he was missing something here. Maybe he came over here too late. But he was still giddy with engagement fever. So nothing like this would ruin his happiness, even if it was something going really wrong, or weirdly.

[Sophie Marietta Lupin]

George tried to hush his mother up. He was trying to listen, then Fred walked up, "Well, I'm starting to think that's your girl Freddie. Looks like you too. But wait, what's going on with Sophie? When she said someone having Ted, do you think she meant Teddy and her haven't been born yet? THis is so confusing..."

Sophie waved an airy hand, "Oh well, whatever, I think she won't this time because we're here and we can help of course!" She grinned widely, "I think Teddy would be glad to have someone so close to the family born on his birthday."

[Lisette Magdalena Weasley]

Liz leveled Sophie with a serious, deadpan sort of look, eyes narrowed and lips drawn into a thin line. The resemblance to a much younger Molly Weasley was remarkable, but Lisette was Molly's granddaughter, after all, and she was most definitely Weasley-ish.

"Soph, leave Lisa and Tonks be. You might cause Ted and I to not be born," Liz cautioned her. "Tampering with the past is dangerous."

Molly's eyes went huge, and she looked at Fred and then back to Liz one more time in surprise. There was most certainly a strong resemblance between the two, but his daughter...? It couldn't....how?

[Fred Fabian Weasley]

Fred was semi-lost, but that could have just been the confusion. What was going on? Dear Lord, could they really be...? No, he was smarter than that. Lisette couldn't be his daughter from the future. She wasn't spunky enough, right? But that look... he had seen that look too many times to not recognize the face of his mum at times. And they were going to call their child Lisette, though if Fred knew that the red-head's name was Lisette, he'd believe it, probably...

"Do you think that they could be from the future?" Fred whispered feeling absurd after saying it. He didn't know what to think any more. People couldn't travel back that far, only a few hours, unless some sort of super time turner was invented, but then were all the transfers super time travelers from the future?

((I was thinking I could probably bring Teddy in if you all would like it, but you know him... he would be quiet though.))

[Lisette Magdalena Weasley]

Lisette looked around self-conciously, eyes flicking over the Weasleys without seeing them. It was a habit that she had picked up working for her aunt, and, according to Jak, the only non-Weasley-ish thing about Lisette. What "non-Weasley-ish" meant, Lisette did not know. She suspected that she never would.

She shook off the somber mood that she'd accidentally created with a laugh and a dismissive wave of the hand.

"Anyway, we're at a party! We should be having fun!"

[Sophie Marietta Lupin]

Sophie cowered when Lisa told her off, "Please don't hit me! I wasn't gonna do any thin'!" She looked around glazing over the Weasley's. Why was she thinking about being hit anyway? It was Christmas! She should have been thinking about helping everyone and being everyone's favorite pup for the season.
"Do you think that when we go ahead twenty years, everyone here will remember us?" She asked.

George wasn't sure what to think, "you guys heard them say ahead twenty years right? I'm not hearing things am I?" He was still trying to work things out.

((Yeah bring Teddy in!))

[Fred Fabian Weasley]

Teddy came strolling in happily, right into the middle of their conversation. He walked up, and shook his head at Sophie and was ever so slightly worried that she still retained the scars from her past. He really wanted to squish all of that out and have her not be scared about people hitting her. "If anyone hits you, I'll kill them. So, don't worry about that," Teddy remarked, before smiling at Lisette, happy that his favorite chocolate seller had joined the party. Maybe she could get to know her parents better here.

"If they don't, then it won't matter as long as we remember all that happened here with our parents and friends we make," Teddy answered, actually a lot quieter than he normally talked, even if it traveled just as much as the two girls' voices did. He actually was quiet, and it was such a weird occurrence, but no one could hear such a conversation or they would find out about their origins. "Just think of this time as a learning experience to help out with reconstruction when we go back."

Fred was confused, but smiled all the same. This had just been an elaborate prank these three were pulling, right? "If I hadn't heard it myself, I wouldn't believe your hearing," Fred remarked quietly listening intently to the conversation, wanting to know more, "It's just a prank, they know we're here, right?" He wanted to know if they believed what they were hearing as well.

[Lisette Magdalena Weasley]

"I...I have a plan," she admitted, glancing around self-conciously. "Have you ever wondered what it would be like if they hadn't died? I do. Every day, and seeing Lisa and Fred...I mean Mom and Dad alive...it's weird. I have to do something."

She'd begun formulating a plan already, but she was hesitant to tell them, especially Teddy. He was a good friend, and she knew that he would be upset with her if she told him that she intended to die in the place of her dad. She was sure that the life that current-time Lisette would live would be much better for having Fred and Lisa alive to raise her, so she didn't feel so bad about dying. Just scared...overwhelmingly scared.