Fool Me Once (Book One) - Fred Weasley

The Box

I opened the box and was met with two letters, the babies sonogram pictures, two cassette tapes and a cassette player.

When I looked at the letter I realised that one was addressed to 'My Princess' and the other was addressed to 'My Mini Muffins' Both in Freds hand writing.

I decided to open the letter addressed to me first.

Hi Princess,

It's me Freddie. But I guess you already know that. Your reading a letter from a box that I gave you.

Anyway, the purpose of this is simple. I'm scared now that something might happen to me and I  might not survive it. So I'm writing this for you and I even included a cassette player and tape of me singing the song I wrote for you last valentine's.

I hope you like it. I know it isn't much but at least you will have something. I remembered the last time that I was in Mungos' and you said you wished that you had one of those muggle cassette tapes of my voice because you missed it.

I hope this makes up for it my princess. And I know that this letter is probably scaring you. But I can't imagine what would happen to you if something were to happen to me. What would happen to you if I died?

I just. I want to make sure that you are okay. I'm not sure what I can do to assure that. But I know you would want a piece of me to hold onto. But I mean we have the twins and half of them would be me already.

But really this letter is just so you can have something to read from me.

Anyway. The letter is basically to say, that I love you. It's the song on the cassette tape that's important to you baby.

It's your song remember. The one I wrote just for you, just about you, because I love you, and only you.

You are my love, my life, my soulmate Aaliyah Bella Weasley and I hope that I am yours.

All of my love. In this life, the one before and the next,

I love you forever and always my princess.

Frederick Gideon Weasley

I put the letter down after I read it and let a few more silent tears fall down my face.

He's scared. I thought to myself. He's just as scared as I am that some thing will happen to him. Some thing that can't be undone. Some thing that can't be erased or taken back.

I decided to listen to the cassette tape with my name on it first. So I picked it out of the box as well as the cassette player and put the tape into the player.

When the guitar started and Freddie started to sing. I started to weep silently. I couldn't believe that he had done this. He has been that worried about how I would cope that he made a recording of him singing so that I could always have his voice.

After listening to the song three times I turned the cassette player off and looked down at the next letter. I was debating whether or not to open it, but my nosiness for what Fred wrote to our unborn babies got the better of me.

Carefully I opened the seal on the second letter.

Hello Mini Muffins