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chapter five

𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐎 & 𝐉𝐔𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐓
Act II, Scene V

❝ My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite. ❞

─── William Shakespeare

I knew that by travelling two hours into the past, I could either get it all or lose everything I had. But maybe that wasn't true. Perhaps if I did die, I would be with Fred again, wherever he was now. Or where he was in two hours, as he was still here at this time.

I ran as fast as I could in the direction of the West Wing, casting spells and shielding myself from them on the way. My heart was beating faster than it probably ever had and I wondered how come it didn't bounce out of my chest. Meanwhile, my feet moved hurriedly over the ground under them and ten minutes after I had set off, I arrived at the West Wing.

I quickly scanned the area for two redheads. I could have cried out of relief when I saw Fred duelling against a Death Eater. Immediately, I ran towards him and joined in the fight. We worked as a perfect team, shooting spells at our opponent simultaneously and warning each other when we had to duck or shield ourselves. Together, we managed to defeat the Death Eater without struggling.

"Juliet! What are you doing here? I thought you were in the Great Hall", Fred asked me.

"I lied. I am pregnant", I confessed, "I wanted to take part in the battle. I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have lied to you." Tears pricked my eyes because I was the reason he would die soon if I didn't get him to safety.

"What? You are pregnant?", he repeated, obviously not sure if he should believe me, when I had lied about this very fact before.

"Can we go somewhere quiet, where we don't have to fear being attacked every second?", I said.

"There's a secret room near here", Fred suggested and led me into a side corridor and then stopped in front of a wall. There, he murmured a spell that caused a small entrance to appear in the wall. We stepped through it and the hole closed again. 

"You have a lot to explain. Why did you lie to me? Why would you risk our child to take part in a huge battle?" he demanded.

"I wanted to help defeat Voldemort, to fight along my people. But I was so scared that you would go without me, and I would be at home, not knowing if I would ever see you again", I started sobbing at the thought that either way, I would have never seen him again.

"I would have stayed at home with you if you really wanted it", Fred tried to calm me down, "If I hadn't let you go and you hadn't wanted me to go, then I would have had to respect that."

"But... I let you go, I let us both go and then you died." Tears ran down my face like a waterfall and I felt like I was drowning in them.

"Juliet, I'm here, in front of you, I'm alive", he assured me.

"Only because we're in the past. In the future, I'm waiting for you to come to the Great Hall, scared that you wouldn't because you're late. And then George and someone else carry you in, lifeless...", I trail off at the end of the sentence.

"Juliet, how do you know that will happen?"

"Because my grandmother gave me a time turner and I used it to travel back in time and save you before you die in an explosion."

"You saved me?", Fred asked, and I could see tears in his eyes too.

"Of course I did, I love you, just like Juliet loved Romeo. Only our story won't end the same as theirs did. Because I refuse to take my own life because you're gone. No matter what, I will always save you." We then stepped towards each other and kissed, both crying but happy. I felt the shattered pieces of my heart slowly putting themselves together again. And then I realised something. Something bad.