Delivering Bad News.

Hermione and Fred have been married for 7 years now. They found their feelings for each other a little after the war. Fred was having trouble in everyday life after being hit by the wall. He struggled. He had his good days and his bad days but he always had Hermione or George around to help him.

They were married 4 years when Hermione told Fred that she was pregnant with his child. Little Juniper or Junie was born with ginger hair and brown eyes. She had freckles that covered her nose and cheeks and her father wrapped around her pinky.

Hermione was an Unspeakable. Fred had no idea what she did but all he knew was that the job was different and stressful everyday. Today was an awkward and maddening day at WWW. Fred and George were just served with a summons. It seemed like a ministry worker had gone to the Department of Magical Creatures and Department of Magical Businesses and turned them in for not registering the Pygmy Puffs as magical creatures and for not putting proper warnings on "Dangerous and Harmful" inventions.

The Weasley Twins were advised that starting at the end of Saturday's business day they were to remain closed until everything was settled and all proper forms and regulations were cleared. They were fuming. Fred thought of one person. The person who made Harry turn in his broom 3rd year, the person who defended all magical creatures and the person that would always give himself and George a rough time since Hogwarts about their inventions. The only person that could have turned them in. His wife: Hermione Granger Weasley.

"I will talk to her." Said Fred placing the stack of papers on the work bench in the back room.

"Okay. I swear to Merlin Fred I love Hermione like a sister but if she is the one who turned us into the Ministry and causes us to lose our business I will never forgive her." George said gritting his teeth.

"I said I would talk to her!" Fred exclaimed. "She wouldn't do that us, she would not do that to me."

At 7pm the Weasley twins told Verity to take a week paid vacation. They told her that she deserved it, honestly they didn't want her to worry with the legal issues so they just thought it would be better to keep it quiet. They closed up shop and both apparated to their respective homes.

Fred apparated directly into his living room. He smelled the dinner Hermione was cooking. He heard her say hi to him but he just ran up the stairs to change and calm his nerves. He changed into pajama pants and strode back down the stairs trying not to get angry until he heard her side of the story. He saw her putting the fish and chips on the table. She was bare foot in jeans and a baggy shirt but she was still beautiful.

Junie he saw was asleep on the couch, he walked over to her pushed her long curly hair out of the 3 year old face and kissed her forehead. He proceeded to walk to the kitchen.

Hermione cocked her head to the right. "You Okay?" she questioned. "You seem a little pissed."

"Tell me. Did you turn WWW into the Ministry?" Fred glared. So much for not losing his temper.

"Excuse me?" Hermione stopped and looked at Fred.

"Your job. It's to look at everything in the magical world. You can't tell me what you do but mysteriously George and I have to close our doors because a Ministry worker filed a complaint to against us." Fred said.

Hermione looked at the packet Fred set on the table and reviewed it. The paperwork definitely came from her department.

"Fred I…." she stammered.

"Tell me the truth now Hermione!" Fred exclaimed.

"Fred you know I can't tell you what happens in my department. I didn't file the complaint though you have to believe that." Hermione said.

"Everything points to you!" Fred yelled. He slammed his hand on the table. "You need to tell me everything right now!"

"I wish I could but I can't Fred!" Hermione was beginning to get angry herself. She has worked as an Unspeakable for 7 years and she has never been able say anything. She moved through the ranks very fast and she oversaw most of all Unspeakable duties.

"I am not daft! I know this came from your branch of the Ministry! Why?! This is our life. This business has been apart of my life for a decade and you just want to come in and shut it down?!" Fred was screaming. "Bloody hell Hermione you are my wife! You had to see this coming! You couldn't stop it or warn me?!"

"Fred you know I don't have a choice." She said quietly.

"Oh you do. You choose the Ministry over your own husband. You choose your job over your family." Fred let that sink in. His wife of 7 years knew what was happening to him and didn't utter a word. It broke his heart.

"You need to leave my house right now." Fred said sadly.

"What?" Hermione was crying.

"You heard me. I bought this house with money I earned from that same business you are trying to ruin." Fred didn't want to look at her. He knew she was crying and he didn't want to give in to her. This was his baby she was trying to destroy.

"Fred please don't do this." That statement came out behind many tears.

"Out. I will help you pack a trunk, right now I don't even want to talk to you. Junie will stay here with me tonight. We can talk about this further tomorrow at the Burrow during lunch." Fred said walking down the hallway to the closet and grabbing a trunk.

Hermione stood in their dining room watching him go up the stairs to their bedroom. She followed him up there and watched as he emptied dresser drawers into the trunk. He walked into the master bathroom and threw her toiletries in the trunk followed by the book Hogwarts: A history. He closed the trunk walked past her down the stairs and near the fireplace.

Hermione was sobbing she walked down the stairs to Fred and went to grab his arm. He yanked it back.

"You're all packed. I am going to clean up the food and I would like you out of this house before I am done with it." Fred sighed trying to keep his own tears in. "Do not try and contact me. I will see you at the Burrow tomorrow."

Fred looked at her and she was sobbing sitting next to Junie on the couch rubbing her back. He started crying turned around and walked into his kitchen. After about 5 minutes he heard her say "The Potters House" and the Floo go off and he dropped to his floor and sobbed.

About 10 minutes later he picked himself up and walked into the living room, he picked Junie up off the couch and began to carry her upstairs.

"Hi daddy." Junie said tiredly in his arms.

"Hi baby girl. I'm going to tuck you in I will see you in the morning." Fred said as he laid her in her new big girl bed and tucking her in.

"Where's mummy?" rubbing her eyes and yawning.

"She's with Aunt Ginny and Uncle Harry tonight. We will see her at grandmums tomorrow. Now sleep baby girl, I love you." Juniper was already asleep as Fred said this and kissing her head.

Fred walked out of her room and into his room. He flung himself on his bed knowing that he was not going to be getting a wink of sleep tonight.