Episkey (Fred Weasley Story)

Betrayal

      The next morning I woke up and dressed for work as fast as I could. I was holding up the anger inside of me for the whole night I couldn't take it anymore. I quickly pecked Fred's lips while he was still asleep and apparated in front one of the teleports for the Ministry of Magic.
    When I got there I received lots of surprised looks, but I ignored them and walked straight inside William's office.
"Paige?!" He jumped from his seat and fixed his tie quickly.
"You knew all along, didn't you!?" I let my anger out and shouted at his face. At this point I didn't think of him as my boss, but as a friend, as someone who I loved once in my life.
"Paige, please let's not talk about it in here..." He was keeping his voice low, as if we were hiding.
"No! We will talk now!" I walked closer to him and pushed his chest with my hands, but then the dizzy feeling of apparating got me, and the next moment we were at some garden, far away from the Ministry, far away from the wizard world.
"Paige, please listen to me." This time his voice was high, but I wasn't going to let him give me his excuses.
"No! You listen!" I pushed him a bit in the chest and he sat on the bench behind him, looking at me with shocked eyes. "Do you have any idea how betrayed I feel right now?" My voice started to tremble and tears began to form in my eyes. They were begging him to say something, to do something... anything that will fix it all. He opened and closed his mouth several times, hesitating to answer.
"Won't you say anything?" My question was ringing with disappointment and his eyes were pinned to the ground in shame. "Won't you?" I bit my lower lip in order to stop it from trembling.
"Where were you on July 30th ?" His question came out in a dark tone which made my breath stop.
"Home." I lied and the look he gave me was telling me that he knew.
"No, you were not..." He got up from his sitting position and walked to me, causing me to take few steps back. "I won't hurt you, Paige." His gentle voice made me trust him and I stopped.
"You... Your people... You killed Mad-Eye!" Anger raged in my voice once again realizing what he just said. "How could you?!" Tears started streaming down my cheeks he tried to reach them with his hand, but I slapped it aside. "Don't touch me!"
"Paige, I didn't have choice!" He shouted out, trying to defend himself.
"You did!"
"No I didn't, because then you would be dead!" He grabbed my shoulders and shook me while shouting these words in my face.
"What do you mean?" This time I asked calmly in shock. I guess everyone would ask in such tone if they told you, you would be dead.
"I made a deal... with him." I knew very well of who he was speaking of.
"What deal?" My question came out sharply, not having the nerve to wait.
"If I join his side, you will stay unharmed." I blinked few times in disbelieve. I thought he didn't remember anything.
"W-Why?" His hands slowly loosed up their grip and he let me go.
"Because every time I see you there's something that makes me have deep feelings for you... as if there was something I cherished so much and for some reason I lost it... and I don't know why." My eyes were wide open from shock, because I couldn't believe that you actually can't erase someone's feeling, only his memories.
"If you did cherish me, you wouldn't risk the lives of the people I cherish..." I couldn't tell him the truth, so I had to be cold.
"I am sorry..." His hands formed into fists and he looked at me with his cold eyes. "I have to fire you." My lips parted and I stared at him in shock.
"Why?" My question came out as a whisper, weak as the sparrow flying against the cold blizzard.
"I no longer require your assistance." I felt how my whole face heated up and the tears started to stream down again. The reason was obvious... I am not pure-blood and now the Ministry will try to remove every mudblood wizard who gets in their way... meaning people like me will be chased away.
Seeing that I was speechless he turned his back around and began to walk away.
"You want to know why you feel that way?!" I didn't care anymore... I wouldn't see him anyways, so I could tell him the truth and not torture him anymore with his blindness.
My question seemed to make him stop and he turned around with slightly opened mouth.
"It's because we were lovers!" I felt how my nails were grinding to my palms, my whole body was shaking with the truth. "But your mother didn't like be because I am a Mudblood and she erased your memories of me... you wanted to know, now you have the truth..."
His hands clenched into fists, but remained quiet, he gave me one last look and disappeared in the distance.
   My hands quickly covered my mouth after realizing what I just did and what might follow after this. Then I realized that I got fired and I was again without a job and my life returned to its starting point with which I was struggling for months. I sat down on the bench and tried to calm down... How could I tell Fred... or my parents? The fear of disappointment hit me and I felt like I failed everyone that I cared about... but mostly my own self.