School term this year started August 1st and it was the 2nd week of September and Hogwarts with Professor Umbridge was a living hell.
"Merlin's Beard Fred! What happened?" Hermione asked as Fred Weasley walked into the Gryffindor Common Room with his left hand gushing out blood. It was 3 hours past midnight and Hermione was just finishing reading a book for upcoming potions assignment. And it was also 5th year for Hermione, where that toad messes up Hogwarts.
"Nothing," he tried to walk upstairs to the boy's dormitories, but he felt a soft, warm hand on his long elbow. She sat him down on the chair across from where she was seated.
"Stay here." She left going upstairs and Fred stayed put.
"I'm doing as she is saying, or who knows what will happened to me. Maybe she will hex me to death if I move."
After three minutes, Hermione came back with a small flask with a potion inside. In the other hand, she had a small bowl that was empty. She removed her books from the table and sat across from Fred putting the bowl in front of him.
"Okay Fred, once I put in this potion into the bowl, I want you to put you left hand into the bowl."
Hermione poured the potion and waited for it to change color. At first it was a bright pink and after a couple of minutes, it turned into a sky blue when it was in the bowl.
"What is this? And why does it change that pacific color? Aren't those you favorite colors?" Fred had to ask these questions as he put his hand into the potion and his hand felt warm and wobbly.
"A healing potion, it will heal you cuts or bruises. These are my favorite colors, but I choose these because I could remember which color is which for the skin to touch."
"I still don't get it."
"It's pink when it is in the bottle and it can be touched by skin, otherwise the cut or bruise will be poisoned. When it turns blue, that means it is ready to be used for healing. Once it is done healing it will sting you and once you remove your hand, it will go back to pink and go back inside the bottle and clean it and be prepared for the next person's cuts or bruises."
Fred sat watching her with fascination and had another question in his mind. "So it's becomes independent and does whatever it wants in the bottle?"
"In some way, yeah."
It became very silent and Hermione began continuing reading the last few pages of her favorite book- Hogwarts: A History. She finished twenty minutes later and began starring off at the ceiling and Fred was starring at the potion and his hand.
"What happened, why did you get detention?" She starred at him with curiosity and Fred looked at her and sighed, ready to tell his story.
"Umbridge began talking about my family calling every family member something rude. I became really upset when she said something about my parents. I yelled at her and said I had one week of detention but I wasn't done, George tried to hold me back but a got out of his grip. She still kept talking about us, so I ran up to her and yelled in her face, she planned on giving me a month's detention."
"What happened then?"
"She took me to McGonagall after classes and McGonagall stood up for me saying I didn't hit her and it wasn't worth a month's detention. She said she will take 15 points and made Umbridge give me 2 weeks detention and today was my last day."
"Why didn't you say anything to me? I could have healed you hand earlier. Does anyone else know?"
"Only George and the other people who were in the class know."
"I am terribly sorry; Harry feels the same way as well. It's not fair, she's hasn't given a single Slytherin a punishment yet."
"Yeah I know."
Hermione walked to Fred's seat and Fred moved over to give her enough room, she looked at his face and saw pain and she felt terribly sorry for him. He looked at her and Hermione turned her head, facing his hand. The cut was gone and Fred's and moved his hand quickly as a reflex. Hermione examed his hand and put his hand in hers. There was a trace of electricity coming through their hands. His hands were large, rough, but yet warm and Hermione looked up at him and he smiled. She turned his hand again looking for anymore cuts, once she was done looking, she still didn't let go of his hand.
"Are you done yet?"
"Yeah." Hermione let go of his hand softly and blushed furiously. She kept her face down waiting for her face to cool. She turned her head around and saw that she wasn't the only one blushing. Fred's cheeks blushed furiously and the tip of his ears turned the same color. This was the Weasley trait she was very familiar with, but she had never seen Fred do it before. She yawned and her eyes dropped very fast.
"Tired?" Fred asked. Hermione nodded her head, Fred stood up taking Hermione's hands into his and pulled her up. Fred gave her a hug and Hermione responded. "Thank you, 'Mione. I owe you." He waved at her and walked up the steps to the boy's dormitories and left her. Little did she know, He blushed again with this tip of his ears becoming warm, she did the same going to bed and fell asleep quickly.
The following morning Fred, George, and Lee walked to the Great Hall talking their hearts out. Fred looked for Hermione, but didn't see her, he waited then sat down between and across Angelina, Katie, Harry, Ron, and Neville.
"What happened to your hand, I thought it had that line on it." George asked, poking Fred's hand with his fingertips.
He starred and looked up at George and asked him to repeat the question, then remembered, giving him the answer, "Hermione healed it, and now I owe her."
"Oh, well, how about you give her something she really wants." Lee offered.
Fred thought about it and nodded his head of approval. "Hermione's birthday is in 5 days and I'm going to buy her something she will never forget.
The next few minutes, everyone talked together about quidditch. Fred turned around seeing a mane of bushy, brown hair and starred at her and kept starring, not leaving his eyes from her.
"Fred…Fred? Are you even listening?" George put his hands in front of his eyes then Fred finally turned his head to him.
"What where you starring at?" George tried to follow is eyes where Fred was starring at. "Hermione?" Fred looked at him, "No. Um, I j-just saw s-s-something weird come through the door."
Ginny sat beside Hermione, while Hermione sat beside Fred, she said hi but Fred was having trouble saying hi back. "Let me see your hand Fred." Fred did as she said an put his palm on top of hers. She looked at it and saw no more pain, she looked in his eyes and saw no more pain, but saw something in his eyes she couldn't explain. Fred starred at her and then at his hand the scar was completely gone.
"Thank you so much Hermione."
"Anything for a friend."
Hermione talked more than she usually did then walked into potions early, sitting and waiting for everyone else to walk in. "What was the emotion in Fred's eyes? I really want to know."
A couple of day later and Hermione's birthday was tomorrow she was still curious about Fred, but she ignored it. She ran into Fred and Fred began asking her questions, "What is your favorite book? What kind of smells do you like? What other thinks do you like?"
"My favorite book is Hogwarts: A History, my favorite smell is spearmint toothpaste and….."She didn't want to continue because she would make a fool of herself. He disapperated and said goodbye to her leaving her in the Common Room alone.
It was Thursday morning and Hermione woke up and saw pink and blue balloons sitting beside her bed set with her names on it, her name disappeared and another massage appeared and it said "Happy Birthday 'Mione," the 'Mione part must have been Fred and Ginny's idea because no one else ever called her that. She gotten scared by the sound of a plate or two crashing, she had gotten out of bed and saw that every girl in her dorm was gone, she raised her wand defensively and opened the door, she walked down the stairs quietly with her hand still raised and saw everyone in the Common Room with a pink or blue balloon.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY HERMIONE!"
She lowered her wand and smiled. She walked down and everyone began giving her a hug. The last people to give her hugs were her best friends and her crush Ronald Weasley. He gave her a peck on the cheek and said happy birthday to her. Fred gave her a hug, once again, his ears turned red and pulled away.
They were interrupted by Lavender, Seamus, the Patil twins, and Neville, "Presents."
Hermione walked over to the large table and saw many presents wrapped up in red and gold and only a few of them were pink and blue. She realized those presents belonged to Fred, Ginny, George, Ron, Harry, and her other close friends. She looked at Ron, who winked at her and smiled and she began to blush, but not as bad as when she was around Fred for some reason.