Remember Me [ Fred Weasley ]

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞 / 𝑪𝒐𝒃𝒘𝒆𝒃𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔

{ Song: The Devil Within by Digital Daggers }

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The days that are following the argument with Harry are not as carefree and calm as the rest of the summer has been.

Fred's anxious mood is lingering over the whole house with good reason as the moment that Violet will get here creeps closer and there seems to be nothing that can be done to prevent it.

Every time I have suggested that he should tell Molly about everything, he has made the point that she might take it the same way as Ginny and Hermione. He seems to think that such an outcome would be worse than suffering through Violet's presence.

Then there is the other thing that can't be said out loud and that neither of us really want to talk about. Cassius hadn't been working alone and all the clues added up to the conclusion that she had been the accomplice, meaning that there is a very real risk that she is planning on not only ruining my life but ending it all together.

It's another thing that neither of us can do anything about it, and I try to convince myself that making a move at the burrow with everyone else around would be too stupid to fit in with the way she has been playing this as a long game.

When there finally comes a night when the weather suits the mood that is weighing both me and Fred down, we lay in each other's arms on his bed in silence as the rain smatters against the window to our bedroom.

Fred keeps nagging anxiously on his lower lip as if he is trying to figure out a way to solve the things that have no solution. I push myself up on my elbows and admire his face without saying anything at first. He seems to become more beautiful every day, even when everything else becomes more horrible.

"Tell me what's on your mind" I whisper and carefully run my fingers through his hair.

"I didn't do it" he says slowly, "I know that I didn't, it's just... With them believing her, that she keeps lying–"

"It makes you think you did it" I mumble and continue to gently play with one of the strands that have fallen down over his forehead, "I know what that's like"

He looks up at me with his mouth half open as he doesn't seem to come up with something good to say, then looks away again and lets out a heavy sigh.

"I'm sorry that I didn't believe you at first, about Malfoy" he whispers, "Even if that was the other way around, I should have known that it wasn't like you"

"Don't think about that, okay?" I say firmly and turn his head to make him meet my eyes, "We're past that, we both made mistakes but we're okay now"

His eyes go back to looking into mine before he pulls my face closer to his until our lips are pressed together, getting even more tangled up in each other's arms and holding on in a silent way of saying that it will always be this way. We have made it out on the other side of nearly unimaginable chaos, and now it doesn't matter what else is coming our way in the future.

"Is there anything I can do to make this easier?" I ask quietly once I pull away from the kiss, "We still have some time before she gets here, we can just try to make the most of it until then"

He drifts into his own thoughts for a moment as if he is trying to convince himself that I'm right. Eventually, the sparkle of excitement that I haven't seen in days shines in his eyes and when he looks up at me, it seems like he has forgotten about all the things that weighed him down.

"Yeah, you're right" he says quickly and almost shoots up on the bed as if he just had the brightest idea of his life, "Come on, we're going outside"