sapphire || fred weasley

sixty-eight

Triggering content, viewer discretion advised.

March, 2004

Fred regretted ever saying yes to Charlie the moment he opened his eyes to see a sleeping Juliet cuddled with her hyena plush on his chest.

And he hated himself  for deciding not to pull back from the mission and deal with the consequences later.

He kissed Juliet's forehead and ran a hand through her hair in an attempt to gently wake her up, which like every morning, it didn't.

"Petal, it's time to wake up now," he hummed softly and gently shook Juliet's body.

"No," Juliet grunted in her sleep. "Too early."

"Come one darling," Fred chuckled. "It's already nine, we slept in and it's time to wake up."

"Don't want to," she grumbled. "Go away."

"I can't go away because you're sleeping on top of me," Fred laughed. "Come one poppet, I'll make you chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast if you get up now."

"With a smiley face?" Juliet opened one of her eyes as a mischievous smile formed on her face.

"With a smiley face," Fred chortled and tickled her sides, making loud giggles erupt from Juliet's lips.

The two of them made and had breakfast together on the dinner table, before Fred got the two of them ready for the day, already noticing that he was late for the meeting that had started some ten minutes ago.

"I have a meeting to go to love, why don't you go and stay with your aunty Amelia while I'm done?" Fred suggested to Juliet as he carried he towards Amelia's shared bedroom with Harry.

"Okay daddy," Juliet beamed and knocked on the door, a disheveled Amy opening it and standing behind it.

"Hey," Amy rubbed her eyes and let out a yawn. "Sorry, I had a shift early in the morning-"

"Can I stay with you aunty Ames?" Juliet smiled. "Daddy has to work."

"Sure, but I'm going back to bed," Amelia winked at Juliet and picked her up in her arms. "You're getting so big Julie."

"Can I take a nap with aunty Amy daddy?" Juliet asked Fred with sparkling eyes.

"Alright," Fred chuckled and ruffled her hair. "Thank you Ames."

"Anytime," Amelia yawned again and closed the door, letting Fred make his way to the debriefing room.

Fred opened the door, greeting everyone before taking a seat next to Ron and conjuring himself a glass of water. Curious eyes of his friends and siblings were peering up at him, since he rarely attended meetings to go over the details before a crew headed out for a mission.

Fred always structured the strategies first, explained it to whoever was in charge of said mission and left to spend his day with Juliet.

"So are we gonna address the elephant in the room?" Alicia cut off the silence as she stared intently at Fred, the latter who was avoiding Katie's gaze.

"Good to have you back mate," Cedric patted Fred's back as he made his way over to his seat.

"Right, thanks," Fred mumbled and played with the rings dangling from the chain around his neck.