Into The Light (Golden Trio Era) {2}

First Date

Once Mikayla and Arthur appear in the twins flat, Fred beamed as he wore black suit pants and a white button up, taking in the appearance of the blonde. "Right I'll see you in the morning." George told Fred before disapparting, "see you two tomorrow." Arthur chimed before following George's lead. "I'll show you where you can leave your bag." Fred leads Mikayla down the hall to the door on the right, the room was surprisingly clean, maybe having his own room gave Fred the initiative to keep his room clean, Mikayla remembers how messy the twins room was back in the burrow. Mikayla puts her bag on the floor near Fred's wardrobe, she turns to him, "so what did you have planned for this date?" It was as if she had reminded him of something, Fred's eyes widened and ran back into the kitchen, "phew it's ok." he says loudly.

Mikayla joins Fred in the kitchen, she steps in front of him peering into the pan to see bolognese and spaghetti boiling in a saucepan next to it, "you cook?" Mikayla tried to hide her surprise, Fred chuckled at her surprise, wrapping his arms around her middle, resting his chin on top of her head, as he hugs her from behind. A smile tugs on Mikayla's lips as she melts slightly in Fred warm embrace, "no, George can, he helped me, he said all I have to do is cook the spaghetti." Mikayla nodded, she looks at the spaghetti, "I reckon it's ready." "How do you know?" Fred questions, Mikayla gets a strand of spaghetti out of the pan with a fork before throwing it at the wall, it stuck to it, "it's done," she told him, Fred gave Mikayla kiss on the shoulder as he turned off the hob. He slowly removed his body from Mikayla's, "now follow me." Fred lead Mikayla to a small four person table that has been decorated with candles and a vase of her favourite flowers, queen of the night, velvety dark maroon tulips. Mikayla smiled at the sight as Fred pull out a chair for her to sit on, she sits and he pushes her up to the table, "thank you." Mikayla smiled at Fred over her shoulder.

Fred returned with a bottle of red wine, he poured it into both of their wine glasses, disappearing again to carry out the plate whilst Mikayla watches him, unable to look away from the young red head that made her heart flutter by a mere glance. Mikayla grabs her napkin, unfolding it and placing it on her lap, as Fred slides her dinner in front of her. Mikayla looked at the food, "this looks amazing Freddie." Mikayla smiled looking at him, Fred nods towards her wine glass, Mikayla getting the hint picked it up and cheers'd Fred, taking a sip of wine before the pair dove into eating and talking. "I remember you telling me about loving these flowers." Fred rekindles memory of summer of 1994, of the pair just sitting under the oak tree talking about random stuff when the topic of flowers came up, "you told me you like what they symbolised, Perfect love and Rebirth, I thought they would make sense for this evening." Mikayla couldn't help but smile at Fred's decision, "I agree, they make perfect sense. I can't believe you remembered." Fred smile sliding his hand onto Mikayla, "anything you say is locked in my mind." Mikayla looked down at their hands, Fred rubs the back of her hand with his thumb.

After dessert, the pair make their way into the living room, taking a seat on the sofa. Mikayla turns her body towards Fred, "so that conversation about the future..." Mikayla smiled at him, holding his hands to provide him so comfort for this conversation. "Ok we'll start with our jobs, what's Weasleys Wizard Wheezes game plan?" Mikayla smiles helping Fred with starting the conversation, Fred smiles at her approach, "we're hoping it'll be a franchise. Expand, open more shops, invent more new stuff." Mikayla smiled at Fred's enthusiasm when he's talking about the shop, "if you open more shops will you want to stay here with George and both of you manage this place or will you two want to manage separate shops?" Mikayla continues the conversation about the shops future, "we haven't really talked about it yet, can I get back to you?" Mikayla chuckled lightly at Fred's response, telling him of course she can wait for an answer to that one. "Ok, so. I have an idea what I'll be doing for the next eight years career wise. Until I finish school, I'll work for you and George part-time. After school, I'll be working in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, working my way up the ladder and becoming the head of the Department. In August of 2004, I'll be offered a job to teach Charms in Hogwarts, but we'll have to talk about the more, when we get closer to it." Fred nods agreeing with Mikayla to cross the bridge once they get there, "ok next topic..." Mikayla thinks, before it falls out of her mouth, "sex." Fred nodded, "we'll wait until you're ready, and then we'll discuss bedroom rules." Mikayla agreed with Fred's plan, "Marriage, should be next, I myself really do see myself marrying you." Fred picks the next topic and let's Mikayla know his thoughts, "me too, but I'd want to keep my last name since I'm the last living Black." Fred smiles, "ok, I will change my name to Black, so we don't have to do the double-barrelled surnames when it comes to our kids. Plus there's enough Weasley men to pass down the name." Mikayla was in awe at Fred's words, she couldn't believe how easy Fred agreed with her when it came to last names.

"So kids.. how many do you want?" Fred questioned, Mikayla's cheeks burned bright red almost a little embarrassed by her number and afraid of scaring Fred away. She drew in a deep breath as Fred squeezed her hand to provide some comfort, "7 or 8." Mikayla said quickly, Fred smiled at her and she could feel herself melt, "It's just if I had as many siblings as you did growing up, maybe I wouldn't have felt as lonely. I guess I want my kids to always feel loved." Fred's smile just kept growing, "thank Merlin, you wanted the same amount as me and for basically the same reason, I want my kids to have the same childhood as I did because it was a great one." Mikayla beamed at Fred's words, she had nothing to fear, "I just hope we'll have more than one girl." Fred laughed at Mikayla's words agreeing that that many boys would drive them insane, "I honestly don't know how mum and dad did it." Mikayla smiled at Fred, "ok so, houses." Mikayla started the next topic, "I was think that we could live here together until the kids start coming." Fred suggests, Mikayla nods in agreement, "then we could move into Grimmauld Place since it's close to our jobs." Fred agreed with the blonde mentioning that the house is also big which will fit our family. "We can completely refurbish it and make it our own." Mikayla adds smiling at the idea. Fred thinks for a second, "is that everything we need to talk about for now?" Mikayla shook her head no, "long distance." The air shifted into thick tension as the pair both try to come up with ways to make long distance work. "Write to each other every couple of days.." Fred starts off with the first solution, "meet up in Hogsmeade every second weekend?" Mikayla suggest, "yeah, that works for me. We can go on little dates." Fred quickly responds and Mikayla nods her head in agreement. "I'll record a couple of songs for you and you can listen to them whenever you miss me." Mikayla suggests to Fred who smiles saying that he would love that, "I'll give you some of my clothes to wear when you miss me, that way you'll smell me." Mikayla chuckled at Fred's words knowing that he had found out the real reason girls like to steal their boyfriends hoodies. "And I'll talk to Dumbledore about me getting to watch all your games."