Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all the characters belong to Rowling.

Information: just a weird idea that I could not get rid of

Warning: character's death

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THE DECISION OF THE OLDER BROTHER

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"My house or your house, Fred?"

"Your house this time, my brother dearest."

"You sure about that?"

"Of course I am, Forge."

"So you do not mind dying this time, Gred?"

"You know as well as I that neither of us can live while the other is still alive, my brother George."

"So your want to sacrifice yourself again?"

"As I did before and will do in the future, my brother dearest. We cannot live together forever, but we also do not want to live apart. If it kills me this time, I do not mind it at all as I've had you in my life as long as the curse would let it be."

"And your life will end when we do not keep apart!"

"So you want me to leave you, George?"

"Never!"

"So let me die this time so that I might have some time with you."

"But…"

"Swear it to me: Let us live our life to the fullest. Let us be pranksters, let us be brothers. I want to feel alive before the shadows from behind the veil will claim me again, my brother dearest."

"But why you again?! You have fallen behind the veil just some years ago, Fabian!"

"And you followed me that time even after I begged you to stay, Gideon."

"As I would do again, my dear twin Gred."

"You would?! Even if I begged you today to not cause more grief to our sister dearest? She has lost us once, do you really want her to loose us again, Forge?"

"I do not."

"So stay this time, stay and grow up and marry. I will wait for you behind the veil, as I have waited for you once upon a time, my brother Gideon."

"I know you will, Fabian."

"Then live, my brother God. Do not let the curse stop you from trying to live your life to the fullest as I do not let it stop me from doing the same, my brother dearest."

"As you have once, when it all began, some thousand years ago, my brother Sal?"

"Yes, as I have once long ago. I will not leave again to live."

"So you prefer dying…?"

"…To living without you? Yes, without a second thought, my dear Godric."

"And you still left me that time, Salazar."

"I did. You would have been the one to die. I could not lose you. I am not strong enough to do so, Forge."

"And I am not strong enough to do the same. I beg you, Sal. Let us be your house. It is your time to live longer than me."

"Slytherin has fallen. It will not guard me as Gryffindor is guarding you. I will die early, if we were in Slytherin or Gryffindor. But you have still a chance. The protections of Gryffindor are as strong as ever, my brother George."

Then there was silence between the two ten year old boys. One was hesitating with tears in his eyes, the other one looking at him pleasingly.

"So may it be Gryffindor again, my brother Fred" the crying one finally said. "But the next time it will be Slytherin for us. Even if we both die in first year – I will not go to Gryffindor just to see you die again."

"And maybe you have not to. There still is the chance that we will solve the curse this life."

"Or we will solve it next."

And so it came that ten years later a sole twin was sitting in front of the corps of his brother crying. And when the rest of the family let him have some time alone to say goodbye, George bowed down to his dead brother and whispered in Fred's unhearing ear: "I will see you in next life, Salazar Slytherin. I will see you in next life, my brother who is dearest to me in the world."

As he had done once, when they still were brothers in all but blood.

As he had done twice when they were their own dead twin uncles.

As he had done now and many uncounted times between.

Because they were cursed to be unable to live together forever…

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So, what do you think?

I could not get rid of the idea, so I thought that I should write it down.

If you need the pairings (I hope not, as I hope I made it clear enough):

Salazar Slytherin and Godric Gryffindor: Salazar left to stop the curse

Fabian and Gideon Prewett, Molly Weasley's dead twin brothers

Fred and George Weasley