Disclaimer: Surprising though this may be, I don't own anything to do with Harry Potter

A/N: He he he, let's all stay calm and not kill the author, 5 months without updating, ok maybe 6, it isn't really that long, is it? Well things get better with age like wine and cheese, although I had some cheese that got old and it just got mouldy. Oh yeah, talk about the story, well this is the chapter where they all go visit France to watch Harry and Oliver play Quidditch for England, or at lest that was the plan

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Early the next morning Fred and George were in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry waiting to give a talk on their business as part of Hogwarts new careers week designed to show the students all the opportunities for success that could be found in the wizarding world since the demise of the Dark Lord. Eventually Professor McGonagall, now the head teacher called them onto the stage amid loud cheers from the students

'Hello everybody I'm Fred Weasley and this is my brother George' Fred introduced himself and motioned to George who grinned round the Great Hall

'Hello Fred and George' the students all replied in unison

'Wow a chorus' George said looking very impressed and rather taken aback

'So we're here today to tell you all about future careers in the wizarding world' Fred said trying to sound grown up and professional

'Fred and I had always wanted to open a joke shop, so when we left Hogwarts we did' George said, it hadn't really been that simple but that was the basic idea. The twins were now stood in silence glancing at each other and then back to the hall filled with students

'Erm we really should have planned this' Fred thought aloud looking very bashful

'Look there's a question, thank the lord' George spotted a solitary hand in the crowd and could have leapt for joy

'Speak good saviour and ask us your question' Fred was clearly just as thankful as George that some student had been kind enough to rescue them from the embarrassment of standing on the stage in silence for the next ten minutes

'Do you have any plans to expand into Diagon Alley or any other wizarding areas other than Hogsmede?' the boy who was a fourth year Hufflepuff asked and a lot of other students immediately looked very interested and eagerly awaited the answer

'We didn't, how would we staff another shop?' George replied

'We could always hire extra workers' Fred suggested in a sudden flash of inspiration

'I suppose, but do you think people would shop at both shops?' George pondered seriously, wondering whether expanding would mean they lost customer or gained them

'BOYS' McGonagall called from off stage where she was stood with her hands on her hips clearly not as enthralled by Fred and George's impromptu business meeting as the rest of the school who were hanging onto their every word

'Oh sorry professor, any more questions?' George grinned again, the old Weasley charm firmly back in business. And almost every student had a question; McGonagall had trouble getting Fred and George to leave because they were so keen to meet all their favourite young fans who contributed a lot to the shops profits

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'So I guess you and George are dating again' Angelina said looking up as Alicia came into the kitchen of the flat they shared

'What gave you that idea?' Alicia asked, the picture of complete ignorance

'You and George naked together in his bed' Angelina suggested with a wry smile

'Ah, I didn't think anyone saw us' Alicia said rubbing her neck rather sheepishly

'Then maybe you should wake up earlier. Are you going to tell him how you really feel this time' Angelina demanded, she had decided that somebody needed to sort Alicia and George out and it might as well be her

'I have no idea what you're talking about. But while we're on the subject, do you plan to tell Fred how you really feel' Alicia hit back

'We weren't on that subject' Angelina protested, she couldn't believe that just because she'd dated Fred in the seventh year everybody still thought they'd get back together

'Well we are now' Alicia grinned with a shrug

'Fred knows how I really feel, we're just friends'

'Give it up Angelina, you're not fooling anybody' Alicia rolled her eyes at her best friend

'Really? I was fooling myself' Angelina muttered half to herself and half to annoy Alicia as she left the room to go to work.

Alicia raised an eyebrow to herself as she made herself some dinner and wondered just how long it would take Fred and Angelina to realise that their feelings hadn't changed at all since the seventh year no matter how much they might wish they had

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The next evening Fred, George, Ron, Angelina, Alicia, Ginny, Seamus and Charlie (who had taken the place of Lee and the others who hadn't been able to get time off work at such short notice) were grouped around Hermione outside of the grand Quidditch stadium of France where England were preparing to play

'So is everyone ready to go in?' Hermione asked

'For the last time yes' Ron said looking very exasperated at his best friend

'I'm just making sure' Hermione snapped looking quite angry

'No the fourth time you asked you were just making sure, the twentieth time you ask you're just begging to find out whether the Seine is a good place to dump a body' Fred threatened

'Well if you get lost all I can say is that I hope you have a nice life as a French peasant thinking if only I'd listened to Hermione I could be at home right now' Hermione said very self-righteously

'If I got lost, I'd just apparate somewhere else until I found home' Fred replied with a don't-care shrug

'That's really illegal, you can't just apparate wherever you want, what if you ended up on top of the Eiffel Tower' Hermione looked absolutely outraged and Angelina felt sure she was really itching to take points off Fred

'I'd say oh look at the nice view and get my camera out' Fred smiled apparently not scared of the fact that Hermione was glaring daggers at him

'Fred lives under the deluded impression that laws don't apply to him' George interrupted before Hermione could actually strangle his twin

'Because they don't, laws are for lower mortals' Fred puffed his chest out pompously, a la Percy

'Oh god, he's in one of those moods again, bagsy I don't sit next to him' Ginny said looking worried and before Angelina knew what was happening everyone else had refused to sit near Fred

'Angelina you can' Alicia said

'Excellent come on Angelina, let's go get our seats early and throw sweets at everyone else' Fred seemed delighted and grabbed Angelina's arm to pull her off

'Fred' Hermione shouted after him

'What now?' Fred asked turning back in annoyance

'The stadium's that way' Hermione pointed in the opposite direction not bothering to hide her amusement that Fred had taken only five seconds after her talk to get lost. Fred looked around for a few moments looking deep in thought

'I knew that, I just wanted to show Angelina the lovely view of the area' he said scornfully rolling his eyes that Hermione's assumption he was lost

'You mean the piece of concrete that we apparate onto' Angelina asked smirking at Fred, another long pause as Fred cursed the God's of direction before muttering

'Yes'

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'I can't believe you I only just sat down and now I have to stand up again' Ron complained looking furious that he was back standing in the same spot he had been half an hour previously, only now Harry was with them having caught the snitch in near record time

'You should be glad that Harry won' Charlie pointed out

'People paid good money to come and watch Harry take off, catch the snitch and land without anything else happening' Ron explained his grievances

'But not you' Fred reminded his younger brother

'True' Ron said starting to see the better side

'Tell you what why don't we go visit Fleur she lives near here' Harry suggested, and was relieved that Ron suddenly brightened up no end

'Ahem' Hermione said looking more than slightly annoyed and Harry looked like he was wondering why exactly he had two best friends who were so hard to please

'And then we can go see all those great museums' Harry said with a smile to his girlfriend

'Let's go' the new plan had worked wonders as both Hermione and Ron were dragging Harry away, Ron so he could see Fleur again and Hermione so they could get the visit to Fleur over with and get down to the more serious matter of museum visiting

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'I want to go visit the Eiffel tower' Alicia said decisively a few moments later after carefully studying her guidebook of the area

'Yeah so do I' Ginny said enthusiastically reading over Alicia's shoulder

'I'd be delighted to take you' Seamus appeared at Ginny's side grinning and earning a kiss from a delighted Ginny

'George?' Alicia snapped turning to her boyfriend

'What?' George asked innocently, Alicia continued to glare at him and grumbling he complained 'Awwww do I have to?' Then suddenly sensing that his girlfriend was about to become very angry with him he suddenly changed tone 'I mean Alicia I'd be honoured to take you to the Eiffel Tower'

'I'll go with you guys, just don't show me up' Charlie said with a small shrug as he tagged on the back of the second group to depart leaving just Fred and Angelina behind

'So do you want to go visit a pile of scrap metal?' Fred enquired as he turned to Angelina with a smile

'Nope' she shook her head

'Look at some decayed antiques?' Fred suggested with the corners of his mouth tugging up in a small smirk

'Nope' she rejected this idea too

'Do what we normally do abroad?' Fred asked flashing the full-on Weasley Wipe-out Whiter than White grin

'I thought you'd never ask' Angelina sighed with relief, her own grin rivalling Fred's as she took his arm happily and the two went off in search of that most sacred of foreign delicacies, lots and lots of booze.

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'Fred?' Angelina asked turning to the fuzzy image sat next to her

'Yes' the fuzzy image that was Fred replied

'Just checking it was really you' Angelina explained, she had possibly had slightly more than it was advisable to drink over the last six hours and as a result she was ever so slightly disorientated

'I think I am' Fred said pinching his arm to check he was really there and not dead, only the pinch hurt him so to numb the pain he drank some more of his seventh pint of Guinness, which he had by now confirmed tasted exactly the same as the English Guinness and so did French Vodka, lager and most other alcoholic beverages that had been on the bar's drinks list

'You look rather like a peanut' Angelina observed as she scrunched up her eyes and thoughtfully drank the drink in front of her, which was in fact Fred's but he hadn't noticed

'Yes I do don't I' Fred agreed laughing and pulling what he thought were wonderful peanut impression faces

'Yes' Angelina said nodding, Fred reached out for another drink only to find his glass had gone, he slid off his chair and checked under the table and in Angelina'a bag and the fruit machine but to no avail.

'Have you seen my drink?' Fred finally looked up and asked Angelina

'Yes it just ran over there' Angelina pointed off towards the door

'Oh okay then' Fred nodded satisfied as he slid back onto his chair

'What's the time?' Angelina asked

'Erm 7' Fred said holding his watch right up to his eye and still not been able to make out the numbers on it

'No silly that's a 2' Angelina said grabbing Fred's arm and reading the watch upside down

'Oh yes so it is. My god it's school soon' Fred jumped up in alarm and looked around his surroundings as though wondering when his dormitory had been transformed into a French bar

'It is? Oh yeah you're right' Angelina stood up as well

'We can't be late again' Fred said frantically trying to smother his hair down and actually managing to make it more stuck up than before

'Hang on didn't we leave school?' Angelina suddenly stopped and frowned trying to remember exactly who she was and where she was and more importantly, whether Fred had always had such a cute butt

'I don't think so, but maybe we did, I'm not sure' Fred paused as well, scratching his head extremely confused

'But we should go home now' Angelina said

'Absolutely' Fred agreed, and swung his arm very protectively over Angelina's shoulder as they headed for the door. Only as soon as they were in the street, Angelina turned left, while Fred turned right and both staggered happily on their own chosen path. Luckily the path ran round in a block so both were able to make it back to the right hotel corridor, although Angelina had had to be guided there by another hotel guest after they had found her knocking on the door of the broom closet telling Alicia to let her in

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'Angelina what a surprise to see you here' Fred said as he turned and found Angelina next to him

'Hello Mr Fred, you look rather green' Angelina said rather surprised that Fred wasn't his normal colour

'No I'm over here' Fred said spinning Angelina round from where she had been talking to a large houseplant

'Oh yeah so you are, you're much better looking than that other Fred' Angelina said in a terribly slurred compliment, but Fred puffed his chest out proudly at receiving it

'Thank you, you're much better looking than that scary woman there' he said loudly, causing the middle aged man he was referring to, who also unfortunately understood English to seriously consider going down there to whack him on, but instead deciding that he'd go to bed and call the police about young English hooligans tomorrow

'Cheers, I'm going to bed now' Angelina said smiling at Fred

'Me too, isn't that a coincidence' Fred exclaimed happily

'Yeah, I just need to put the key in the lock' Angelina said fumbling with the key and discovering to her dismay that it just wouldn't budge no matter what she tried, quite probably because her key was in fact a pencil

'The door's not open' Fred pointed out helpfully as Angelina now tried to yank her 'key' back out, but pulled so hard that she flew backwards into Fred's arms and the pencil snapped

'Oh dear, I'm trapped out' Angelina said dolefully turning her big sad eyes to Fred whose arms were now wrapped tightly around her waist, not that she was complaining, she thought maybe there was some reason that this was a bad thing but then again she also thought that Fred was a plant, so judgement wasn't really a strong point that night

'Tell you what you can sleep on my shoulder' Fred said as Angelina stroked his hair with one of her hands

'Excellent' Angelina said giggling softly, thinking how Fred had very soft hair and tilted her head to look at Fred and wasn't surprised to see his face only inches away from hers. Fred leant his head down preparing to kiss her and Angelina whose vision was now blurring in and out rapidly waited for him

But the moment Fred's lips touched Angelina's for the slightest second was the moment that the alcohol finally caught up with Angelina and caused her to pass out in Fred's arms

Later in the morning Charlie found them both asleep, slumped against the wall with Angelina still in Fred's arms. As he got George to drag Fred back to his room and prepared to carry Angelina to hers he noticed a snapped pencil on the floor and briefly wondered exactly what his younger brother and Angelina had been doing, but then decided he'd rather not know.

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A/N: Okie-dokie there it was, another chapter. Erm, I hope you like it and please do review

In the future we will have a Quidditch match between Fred and Angelina and lots more fun relationship problems and maybe at some point I'll give Fred and Angelina a whack round the head and they'll realise that they're meant to get together