Hermione walked through the streets with her head down. Trying to appear invisible. Anyone who saw her could tell she was stressed about something but luckily no-one approached her and Hermione snuck along the streets alone. It was a strange occurrence to see the head girl in such a flutter, she was very difficult to fluster. Hermione's eyes caught sight of her target and she slunk into the shop inconspicuously shifting behind a shelf the minute she entered. Her eyes darted round looking for what she needed, the thing that had the power to ruin her life. Finding the right eisle she hurried quickly hands clutching the box in her hand as she passed it to the cashier.

Her face was red with shame as the cashier handed her the box back and she hurried away from the pharmacy quickly. The box stowed in her bag felt like it weighed a ton and Hermione found it hard to remain composed. Her fingers fumbled with the keys to her apartment as she got home. She quickly locked the door before heading straight to the bathroom. She pulled the test out of the box and her heart sank as she began the process.

It felt like years until the test finally beeped announcing the decision. Hermione found it hard to look at the test but forced herself to. Hermione felt the tears slip down her cheeks before her body went numb. A small pink line decorated the screen and Hermione sunk to the floor. Ginny found her there about half an hour later. She's known something was going on with Hermione especially after the amount of time her and Fred had spent together. Ginny hadn't seen Hermione in the Burrow for a while and was worried that maybe Fred had ended things and it hadn't gone very well. What Ginny hadn't expected was to find a devastated Hermione crying on her bathroom floor clutching a pregnancy test. Ginny moved towards the girl and Hermione flinched as a hand touched her. Turning she saw Ginny and began to cry again.

Ginny held the girl for hours before Hermione finally seemed to come to terms with it. She left Hermione to clean herself up and went to the kitchen preparing a quick sandwich and a hot cup of tea for the girl. After all she would need a lot of tea in the months to come. Ginny brought it out of the kitchen to find Hermione cuddled up on the sofa. She placed the food in front of the girl and began to talk quietly to the girl frightened of making her cry again.

'Is it Fred's ?'

Hermione looked up at Ginny and nodded slowly as tears welled in her eyes. Ginny moved forward arms encircling the poor girl as a couple of tears slipped over.

'I don...don't know ho..how I'm goi...going to tell him Gin'

Ginny stoked the girl's back as the tears and words fell.

'Look I'll come with you okay ?'

Ginny eventually left Hermione with a promise to come with her tomorrow to tell Fred.

The girls moved quickly towards the back of the joke shop. Ginny smiled as they passed George who was busy serving customers. Ginny dragged Hermione up the stairs and using her spare key opened the door of the twin's apartment. Fred didn't appear to be in the main part of the apartment so they headed towards the other half. As they made their way through someone began to stir and suddenly Hermione was watching Fred kiss another girl, they were both naked and Fred had the girl up against a wall. Ginny let out a small scream as she saw what was happening and Hermione quickly apparated out of the room back to the safety of her home.

It had taken Fred half an hour to get rid of the slut and it took a further five minutes for him to regret everything he had done to Hermione. And then Ginny had dropped the bomb. She hadn't planned to but she had been so angry. The look on Fred's face would have been comical if it hadn't been such a serious situation.

'Gin, would you get George for me ?'

Ginny left Fred alone knowing that George was who he needed right now. George would help him figure out what to do and hopefully that would be to speak to Hermione.

Ginny had managed to get Hermione to come back to the Burrow. It had been two days since she'd walked in on her baby daddy making out with some other girl. Ginny had promised her that Fred wouldn't be here and had picked her up from the ultrasound. Hermione knew that everyone would know by now that she was with child and it was terrifying. However, Mrs Weasley was wonderful and so helpful. She'd handed Hermione a bunch of baby tips and told her some things she wouldn't be able to eat.

Hermione knew that Ginny had spilled the beans to Fred but it appeared that no-one else knew about it. Ginny also knew that Hermione had blocked Fred from entering her home and that's why she had lied to Hermione today. She understood why Hermione had done it but they needed to talk.

Hermione's heart sank as she saw Fred stalk in and she stood up ready to apparate out when Fred spelled her wand across the room.

'Hermione I know your angry but that is my child too.'

Hermione felt the air go still as everyone in the room stared between the two of them. Tears welled in Hermione's eyes and she looked down unable to hold Fred's gaze. She slowly turned and began the walk up to Fred's room. Everyone may know Fred was the father but this was not something she wanted to talk about in front of everyone. Fred followed the pregnant woman up to his room shutting the door behind him. He cast some soundproofing spells and turned to sit next to the fragile girl. It wasn't the first time Hermione had been on his bed and he couldn't help but compare the sexual creature to the broken woman he saw now.

He hadn't wanted to break up with Hermione but she'd made him feel things. Things he didn't want to feel. Things he was scared to feel. Now here she was back in his life and he knew that those feelings for her had never faded. But they had a bigger problem to deal with now. He wanted to keep the child he knew that but he didn't want to force Hermione into a life she didn't want.

'I'm not giving up my child.'

Her words were strong even though her voice was not and Fred felt relief flood through him. He hoped that soon he would be able to convince her to give him another go.

'Good. Hermione I think you should move in with me.'

Fred's idea had been an impulse but it made sense. He wanted the woman he loved and their child near him. Fred wanted to be able to keep an eye on her plus the closer she was to him the bigger chance he had of winning her heart. He saw her start to reject the idea and quickly spoke over her.

'Hermione please I want to be able to take care of you and our child. I know you won't believe me when I say this but I do have feelings for you. Feelings that I don't understand but they are there. Please don't reject me. I know I have made mistakes but our child deserves to have two parents.'

Hermione listened to Fred's speech and it did make sense. She didn't want to take away her child's chance to have two parents. Hermione knew even as she said yes that her child wasn't the only reason she wanted this. She was still in love with Fred Weasley and maybe just maybe this second chance would be her happy ending.