I am not J.K. Rowling or in anyway affiliated with Warner Brothers. I don't own Harry Potter. Shocker, right?
It was the night of Christmas Eve, and Molly was giggly. She hated to admit it. In a house with two older, rough and tumble brothers, a girl rarely dared to be giggly. But she couldn't help it. She could feel Gideon's eyes on her and knew that as soon as Fabian entered the room both of them would be staring with slight glares. They knew something was going on, but they couldn't possibly know what. She felt daring, something she only chance to feel every once in a while. And, of course, it didn't help that Arthur had put his hand innocently enough around the back of the couch behind her and was using the opportunity to run his finger up the top part of her back where he knew she was ticklish. No, that didn't help at all. Gideon glared on as their younger brother, Benjamin entered the room, his eyes buried in a book. A tick of time went by before he looked around. "Is something going on?" he asked.
"I'll say there is," came a laughing voice as a girl of thirteen came in behind him, her feet dancing gracefully against the ground.
"Caitlin Prewett," her mother scolded, walking into the room.
"But it's obvious," Molly's little sister protested. "Molly and Arthur have done something they weren't supposed to. If they hadn't, they wouldn't look so guilty."
"I didn't do anything to feel guilty about!" Molly argued back as she stood to her feet. Caitlin began to giggle, Molly's mother sighed, Benjamin looked as confused as ever, and Gideon stared right past Molly and glared at Arthur who had just gotten to his feet. She glanced back at him and noticed that his ears were bright red, a dead giveaway. Molly flinched as she heard the door open. Fabian's loud voice boomed through the house in the middle of a Christmas carol. "Anna?" her father called out from behind his son.
"In here!" Molly's mother called back, her scrutinizing Molly from head to foot.
"-season to be jolly! Fa la la la la, la la, la- Hey, Gideon, why aren't you joining in?" Fabian asked, coming into the room followed by Molly's father. Her father gently kissed her mother on the cheek and then looked around.
"Arthur, always nice to see you," he said, his eyes falling on the man of eighteen.
"Actually, not so nice at all," Gideon growled.
"What's he done?" Fabian asked sharply. Caitlin giggled and sat down on the floor as if waiting for a show. Still bewildered, Benjamin sat down next to her, folding the corner of the page in his book so he could remove his thumb from his place. Apparently he had decided this conversation was going to take too long for him to simply pick up and keep walking.
"I don't know yet, but something," Gideon replied as his twin slid to his side. "Something that involved our little sister and I don't like it."
"No, no I'm not sure I like this either," Fabian agreed, his eyes narrowing as Arthur's ears turned redder. His blush was beginning to spread to his neck.
"Boys, you don't know that anything has happened," Molly's father scolded, looking at the twins. Then he looked over at Arthur and shook his head. "It had better not of."
"Oh something has," Caitlin giggled.
"Shush," Benjamin told her, kicking her knee. She glared over at him and stuck her tongue out. He gave her a smug look back.
"Caitlin, do be quiet and Benjamin, don't kick your sister," Molly's mother told them, barely glancing over. Her eyes for the most part stayed focused on Molly and Arthur.
"Molly, what's happened?" her father asked her, his voice neither harsh nor happy. He was looking for an answer and refraining judgment until then. She opened her mouth to speak, not entirely sure how to say what she wanted. The words were buzzing in her head but she wasn't quite sure how to get them out into the open. Finally she settled on the right words but she never got the chance to say them.
"You'd better not be pregnant!" Fabian yelped, his eyes narrowed. Molly could see that now Arthur's blush had definitely spread to his neck.
"I am not!" Molly yelled at him, glaring back at her older brother. "I'm not! I've never- well I guess never- I can't- I'm not pregnant!"
"You've not never!" Fabian hollered back, his feet clunking against the ground as he headed towards Arthur. Caitlin was giggling, Benjamin was looking away and possibly trying not to laugh, Molly's mother had sighed again, her father's eyes were wide, Gideon was reaching for his wand, and Arthur's entire face completely matched his hair. "I can't believe you! She may have acted like a flirt but-"
"Hey!" Molly yelled, reaching for her own wand as Gideon began walking toward Arthur as well.
"Well you do!" Fabian retorted.
"I do not!"
"Around him you do!"
"Because he's my- we're- we-"
"We eloped," Arthur said, his voice a little higher than normal but calm for the most part.
"When?" Molly's father asked.
"Yesterday, around two in the afternoon."
"And you're telling us now?"
"Yes, sir."
"You love her?" Arthur nodded a smile on his face as he looked at Molly. She glanced away from her death glare at her older brother and felt almost giggly again, her stomach going nuts with butterflies.
"Very much," Arthur added. Gideon moved forward suddenly, pointing his wand at Arthur's neck.
"You hurt her, you're as good as dead, got that?" he asked sharply.
"Gideon stop-"
"Got it," Arthur replied, his blush fading away, his eyes returning Gideon's glare with a challenging stare. Gideon dropped his wand from Arthur's throat and managed to grin, clapping Arthur on the back.
"Then I suppose we ought to be thanking you."
"Yes, you've finally gotten miss Molly the Terror off our backs."
"Fabian!" Molly yelped
"Have fun with her."
"Gideon!" Arthur was grinned and Fabian moved in and slapped his head.
"Whatever you're thinking, stop right now! Gideon didn't mean it like that. Wife or not, you are not allowed to think of our sister in any vaguely… impolite means in our presence, got it?" Arthur didn't answer. "Got it?" he insisted.
"I heard you," he answered. Caitlin was now completely racked with giggles, unable to stop. Molly heard her mother sigh and went over toward Molly.
"Come on, dear. I'd say we're due for a mother daughter talk."
"But-"
"And Arthur and us can have a good have a good 'brotherly' talk about the proper manner to treat a lady," Fabian told her.
"And you," Gideon added.
"Mum," Molly protested.
"I'll moderate," her father added. Her older brother's looked disappointed. Benjamin was apparently quite satisfied that the action was over with and had returned to his book. Caitlin was back to skipping around the room as Molly's mother drug Molly out of the room, Caitlin following behind.
"Go upstairs," her mother directed the younger girl.
"I won't say anything!" Caitlin argued.
"Upstairs."
"I just want to listen."
"Caitlin…" Molly's mother's voice drifted away as she chased her youngest child up the stairs. Arthur slipped into the room and grinned at Molly.
"See now, was that so bad?" he teased, stepping close to her. She smiled as she put her arms around him and looked up to meet his eyes.
"And that's only one family down. We still have to tell yours."
"That won't be so bad. Mum will be thrilled. She'll only have Billius left to worry about." Molly smiled before Arthur leaned down and kissed her.
"Happy Christmas, Mrs. Weasley." She giggled and met his eyes again, pretty blue eyes that they were.
"Happy Christmas." He leaned down again and she stood on her tiptoes, meeting his kiss halfway. She felt his arms sliding down from her shoulders as she stretched higher to reach him better. His hands fell to her waist and she felt herself lifted slightly off the ground. And then suddenly, she crashed down again, two angry boys dragging Arthur away.
"You thought you could give us the slip?" Fabian asked.
"You really are stupid. You do know we're both Aurors right? And rule one is that you can't just go snogging our sister whenever you please!" Gideon added.
"Actually, I believe by marrying her, he's established that he rightfully can," Benjamin said as he entered the room. "Molly, do you know if there's any leftovers from dinner?" Fabian and Gideon shook their heads at Ben. Arthur managed to slip away.
"Treacherous," Fabian declared looking over at Benjamin.
"Traitor," Gideon agreed.
"We're going to have to teach him before Caitlin gets old enough to like boys."
"Unless she is old enough to like boys already."
"Nonsense. How old was Molly when she started liking boys?"
"I don't remember. I think we were too into liking girls," Gideon pointed out. Molly sighed and slid closer to Arthur, beginning to lean against his side.
"Oh no!" Gideon yelped. "Benjamin can wait." Gideon grabbed one of Arthur's arms and Fabian grabbed the other.
"Time for that nice brotherly chat," Fabian added, pulling Arthur from the room.
"You hurt him, you're as good as dead, got it?" Molly yelled at her brothers.
"Got it!" they chorused in returns.
"No permanent damage will be done Mols!" Fabian added.
"Yeah, that we can promise. I think," Gideon put in. Molly winced and turned back to Benjamin. The fifteen-year-old shook his head.
"I think you were smart to elope," he told her. "Imagine how much worse they would have been if you had tried to plan a wedding."
"My sediments exactly," Molly sighed. "Let's go see what's left of dinner. I haven't had a chance to eat all day."
Yes this is a two-shot. No the next part doesn't really have anything to do with Molly and Arthur (it's Ted/Andromeda). But they are both Christmassy so I decided to put them together. I might take them down after the holidays, might not.
Hope you liked this and hope you review. I should be posting the Ted/Andromeda part before Christmas.
