Blue Belle {Fred Weasley}

Chapter 40

Belle found herself in the kitchen that evening sipping hot chocolate as sleep neglected her. To top it off, some other girls thought it would be hilarious to steal and hide some of her and Luna's belongings leaving her with no shoes or socks, nor any jumpers. The girl was freezing her bum of with only the hot chocolate for warmth at that moment. She was so engrossed in watching her spoon swim around in her cup to notice Feed sit beside her at the table. "What are you doing up, Bella?" He asked poking her cheek to grab her attention. He was pyjama clad with a sweater over the top, with some worn out trainers on his feet, his hair slightly messy with a few pieces standing up but he was more worried about Belle.

"Couldn't sleep." She replied yawning, and rubbing her eyes, as her toes wiggled to try and get warm. "What about you?" Belle added as she brought her mug to her lips.

"I was thirsty-where are your shoes? It's freezing!" He gushed as he noticed her bare feet. Fred raised an eyebrow at her and noticed that she was only wearing a thin top and trousers. "Belle, you have goose bumps. Why haven't you at least thrown on socks and a jumper?"

The girl didn't answer instead she kept drinking her warm drink and refusing to make eye contact with Fred. Fred shook his head he took the mug from her hands and placed it down on the table and grasped her hands so she couldn't reach for the hot chocolate. "Fred, I'm not cold. I'm fine."  She lied and tried to get the mug but Fred held onto her hands tighter.

"Belle, if you weren't cold, you hands would be warm and not like icicles."

"Fred-"

"No Belle," he interrupted, "is there a reason you are not covered I warm items? Wait, have people stole some of your clothes?"

Belle nodded. "It's fine though, my uniform is still there."

"What about your shoes? Socks? Huh?" Fred quizzed, "you can't walk around school bare footed!"

Belle shook her head and walked away from Fred, leaving her drink to go cold and exiting the kitchen. Fred sipped on her got chocolate to refresh his pallet before chasing after the girl. He stopped her and pulled her into a hug. "Are you warmer?"

"Yeah." She replied wrapping her arms around him. "But you can't hug me for forever. You'll have to let go at some point."

"And that point won't be right now."

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Belle entered the Great Hall the next morning in her uniform with no socks or shoes. People stared at her feet in confusion but she chose not to take notice of them. Heading towards her house table she was stopped by a hand reaching out and pulling her to the Gryffindor one instead. Fred dug into his pocket as she sat down beside him and pulled out a pair of socks. "My feet are too big for you to borrow some shoes but, you can borrow these." He said puzzling his friends and siblings as she gratefully placed the socks on her feet.

"Thank you." She smiled hugging him.

"It's alright, Bella. Hide these when you take them off though so that nobody nicks 'em." Fred replied as usual, flinging his arms around her shoulders. "Do you have any idea who has taken everything?"

Belle shook her head, "Sadly not, all I can guess us that they're hidden around the school because Luna found a pair of her shoes on the way to breakfast this morning."

"They've targeted Luna as well?" George queried showing that Fred has told them about the situation. Belle nodded. "It's stupid, I know it's a prank and that's what we're best at but it's a crap one! They could've thought of something better at least."

"It doesn't matter whether it's a good prank or not, nobody should steal people's possessions and hide them. It's awful! Who do they think they are?" Hermione exclaimed, alerting the attention of Lupin who was walking past in his way to the teachers table with Madison by his side.

"Who has stolen what?" He asked the young girl.

Belle silently pleaded the girl not to say anything but she didn't get the memo. "People have stolen clothing off of Belle."

Remus' eyes flared and he turned to his daughter, "Such as what items?"

She looked down and fiddle with her fingers so Fred answered for her, "socks and shoes, along with jumpers."

Remus nodded, "I will see to it." He patted Belle's shoulder and headed towards the table at the front of the room, annoyance in his step, Madison following after her. "That's bloody ridiculous." He muttered.

"I know! Clothing that she needs at this time of year especially, she's having to borrow socks off of other people!" Madison replied.

"How do you know?" Madison pointed at her legs showing Fred's long socks with 'FW' sewn into the side of them, as they reached her shin. "Oh." His faced tended and his jaw tightened.

"Moony, he's lent her a pair of his socks, in their year I had issues meaning I stayed in bed with all of my friends alternating each night. Just leave them be. Look how happy she is around the twins and Lee. Look how at home she looks with them. Then think about how she looks when she sits at her own house table. There's a lot of difference even with the other school here."

"I guess so."

"No, you know so. Now eat your breakfast and we'll go find those thieves." Madison chuckled holding her fingers up in a gun shape. "Agent Moony and Agent Leo, reporting for business."

"Bloody hell... "