For The Love of Pranks! I Love You!

The Price of Magic

The look of shock on my fathers' faces was enough to tell me we should be extremely worried, and I suddenly feel sick to my stomach, my blood chilling. Fred wraps me in a comforting embrace, that would usually calm my worst nerves, but now, it hardly touches what I'm feeling. This can potentially put myself and those I love in danger, because it seems Bellatrix will do anything she can to get her hands on the Black family magic, and that could mean harm to my loved ones...

"What are we going to do? Bellatrix knew, that means so do the Death Eaters." I pull my free hand roughly through my hair, trying to not rip it out at my roots, and I hear the others gather around us and only then do I notice they were able to put the flames out and save some of the Burrow.

"We'll get in contact with Dumbledore. Until then... you'll have to lay low, no more going to visit Harry, where it can put the both of you in danger, no more letters-at least not with Fillory, and I would even suggest staying out of Diagon Alley and other public places."

"But the shop's in Diagon Alley, and that's where I live. I'm not going to---"

"You're going to have to Evelyn." My father uses my full name, and it causes me to fully recognize the full danger I could be in. "There can't be any chance of any of their spies recognizing you and knowing where to find you."

"But---" Words fail as I look at Fred, I can't just leave him at the flat and not help out at the shop, it just...things have just gotten to be normal after everything and they just expect me to just up and leave my husband in danger as well?

"I can't leave you. Not after everything just happened, and what's to say that Bellatrix won't try to come after you to get to me. I--I couldn't live with myself if something ever happened to you."

"It'll be alright Love, I'll have George with me if anything were to happen. It'll be miserable, but I'd much rather have you safe, and if that isn't with me...well, we will get through it." I shake my head in disagreement, not liking this at all, and I feel as though I have no other choice than to agree with my father until Molly speaks up.

"There's another safe house." For the first time tonight my heart felt hope, and it didn't seem all doom and gloom. "But not here." She looks at us, and we realize we must apparate to Grimmalde Place, since that's the only safe house we have until the Burrow can be repaired.

Fred squeezes my hand before I feel the sudden tugging behind my navel, and the whirlwind around me matches that inside my head, and as quick as it's started it's gone and I'm staring at the familiar block of our family home. Fred gently leads me inside, and my ears are met with the low murmurs of our families.

"We had some time and put up wards and spells around Shell Cottage. Dumbledore believed it to be a valuable safe house if we ever needed one." We walk in the living room during Arthur's explanation, and the tiny flutter of hope flickers in my chest.

"And I believe Evelyn to be correct." Tonks adds with a solid look at me. "Those closest to her, are in danger as well, but we can't have all of you suddenly disappear off the face of the Earth, the Death Eaters would notice if they were watching."

"Are you suggesting they take a small holiday—"

"If, the Order can prove that they are being watched. Yes."

She explains to me, I still believe it to be too risky, but she makes a good point. They all can't suddenly disappear. If they're watching, they'll expect Fred to follow me, and this makes me worry more for him.

"If they've been watching since the Department of Mysteries, then they already know where to find me, and they know Fred is the biggest target..." I utter in despair, not liking this at all. Hating to be in hiding, hating that I'm the reason the majority of my family will be hunted, and hating feeling completely helpless.