𝙿𝚞𝚖𝚙𝚔𝚒𝚗 𝙿𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜 - 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑦 | ✔︎

Chapter 48

St Mungo's was a quaint little hospital, with old volunteer witches tending to plants and patients' needs and healers running around doing their jobs. After Voldemort had been sighted by Cornelius Fudge at the Ministry, he had accepted Dumbledore's private request to pardon Sirius, as Peter Pettigrew had been sighted the same night.

The pardon was published in the Daily Prophet immediately the next day, and Sirius took his first step outside as a free man, heading to St Mungo's with Natasha to had been given a day to spend with her father, and her mother who was recovering at St Mungo's.

Aurelia had suffered from magic trauma as Dumbledore had predicted, her body exhausted from what seemed to be the Imperio curse. There were scars on her body, and she had been asleep the whole day, but Natasha and Sirius didn't care, because all that mattered was that she was back.

Sirius had held her hand the whole time he was at the hospital, ignoring the looks he received from the healers who were still weary of him. Of course, some were absolutely terrified, but after cracking one joke he had all of the healers of St Mungo's in stitches.

Natasha on the other hand was only in the hospital in the morning, leaving her father to reconnect with her mother to make a pitstop with Lee at Fred and George's new shop. She noticed Diagon Alley was quiet, as most people were either working or at Hogwarts.

"Is that my absolutely gorgeous girlfriend and other best friend I see?" came the voice of Fred, and Natasha ran into his arms, jumping up. Fred swung her around, kissing her repeatedly, just as George stepped out.

"Lee, oh I've missed you. It's been hell with Freddie, moping about how much he missed Natasha," George sighed, pulling Lee into a hug. Lee laughed and hugged George back, before pulling Fred into a hug as soon as he let Natasha down.

"I don't know whether to congratulate Mad-Eye and Kingsley or you on the return of your mother, but I can't wait to see her again," George said, pulling Natasha into a hug. She smiled and kissed his cheek, before lacing her fingers with Fred's.

"Honestly, I'm still processing it, and dad is finally a free man so life's kind of become hectic in a matter of 12 hours," Natasha admitted, as Fred and George led her and Lee into the store.

Instantly, a waft of gunpowder hit her nose, and she grinned at Fred. "Amortentia in a joke shop?" she questioned, and Fred nodded, pulling her over to the love potion stand.

"It wasn't planned, but after creating these beauties, they gave off the scent anyways, so we doubled it thanks to Penny's master potioning." Natasha giggled and plucked a bottle of the love potions from the stand, taking a deep inhale of it.

"Well, that's definitely Amortentia, but lucky me doesn't need it because I've got all I need right here," she said, looping her arms around Fred's neck. He kissed her gently before pulling away quickly.

"I almost forgot, I wanted to ask you something, but well I kind of forgot to. Do you, um, well do you want to move in with me once school is finished?" he asked, looking at his girlfriend with hopeful eyes.

Natasha took no hesitation in squealing and kissing Fred, running upstairs to the flat the twins shared. George and Lee looked up where she had run curiously as Fred beamed, lying down on the floor.

That was all the answer he needed.

~.~

Natasha walked hand in hand with Fred as they made a beeline for St Mungo's. The flat above Fred and George's shop was more than perfect, housing two bedrooms, one spare room, two bathrooms, a lounge and a kitchen.

Fred's room was rather large thanks to an extension charm but was currently bare as he wanted to paint the room and buy furniture with Natasha. George's room on the other hand was completely furnished, and the other rooms in the flat already had furniture.