AU: Okey, I had a vision and needed to write it down! It revolves around Susan Bones and Charlie Weasley. Okay, hear me out here! I know that there is several other pairings for these two but think! Susan loses his entire family in the war, and Charlie hurts so much after the loss of Fred. And I just got this image in my head of them living in a tiny cottage in Romania, and one day they just decides to get married and arrange an (sort of) impromptu wedding. And everyone is so broken, but jet so in love and gosh how can they not. It will be a quite short story! Just four or maybe five chapters.
Prologue
The fist time she saw him Susan was five years old. She sat on the floor in her aunts office at the ministry painting when Arthur Weasley decided to pay a visit. Along side him came his twelve year old son, Charlie. He asked him what she painted while the adults talk and when Arthur left she gave Charlie her painting of a green dragon.
The second time Susan saw him she was fourteen, Charlie was twenty-one and visiting Hogwarts to take care of the dragons hidden in the forbidden forest. They didn't really talk until the night of the Yule Ball when Zachariah Smith broke her heart. Charlie found her crying in the courtyard, he told her that she shouldn't care and gave her a folded pice of paper before he left. It was a drawing of a green dragon.
The third time she saw Charlie was after the final battle, she had just turned eighteen and her heart wasn't just broken. It was crushed. But that wasn't only her heart that was crushed, so was Charlie's. Susan saw Charlie sitting by the lake and couldn't help walk over and sit down beside him. They sat in complete silence for a while before Charlie offered Susan the bottle of cherry wine he had stolen from McGonagall's office. She took a sip before handing it back, and with it a painting of a green dragon.
In one way that could have been the end of it. They might have laughed for the first time since the battle that day by the lake, but they had simply exchanged a few polite phrases. The last of these phrases had been Charlie telling Susan to visit him in Romania "if you ever have to get away from everything". The thing was that Susan had to get away from everything already the following week. A rainy Tuesday in July Susan showed up at Charlie's doorstep with her auburn hair plastered to her tempels and forehead. She wore a completely drenched jeans jacket and clasped a bottle of cherry wine.
"As it turns out, I did need to get away from everything." Susan said looking down, suddenly afraid of what he would say. But Charlie just laughed and ushered her in to his small apartment. The first few days was rather odd. He insisted that he sleep on the couch even though Susan protested and at night, after Charlie got home from work, they sat on the kitchen floor and eat raspberry sobert since it was the only thing Charlie had in his refrigerator (he rented an apartment in a muggle village). Two days later Susan got a part time job in a record shop in the muggle village and Charlie surprised her with congratulatory chocolate cauldrons.
A month later, in August, Susan woke with her head in the crook of Charlie's neck. They had fallen asleep in his bed while she read Flowers for Algernon and he studied the dragons of the northern hemisphere, after this the relationship shifted. At first Charlie where afraid he had crossed a line and tried to close himself of. But when he came home from work Susan stood beaming in the kitchen sowing of the full refrigerator it was settled. She wasn't going anywhere, so Charlie kissed her. After that Charlie didn't sleep on the couch anymore.
August was the first happy month since the battle. Charlie started utilize his gift for cooking, which he without a doubt had inherited from Molly, by making elaborate breakfasts since he left for work before Susan. She hated mornings and needed some motivation to get up. Susan would in turn cook dinner since she got home before Charlie, but her cooking wasn't quite as advanced. They also visited the tiny gallery in the village, where Susan overly exited pointed out different paintings and Charlie beamed at her when she wasn't looking. When Bill came over for a surprise visit and Susan opened the door it was without a doubt a surprise. Charlie came home an hour later and found Susan and Bill sitting in the kitchen eating pancakes and talking excitedly. He felt warm and safe and when Bill asked if it was serious Charlie cut Susan of blurting out:
"Yeah, she saved me."
And Susan just sat there for a moment, her mouth full of pancake and her hair tangled, before she jumped up and threw her arms around Charlie's neck. When he left that day Bill couldn't stop smiling, and when he got home to the Shell Cottage he told Fleur that he wasn't all that worried about his little brother any more.
Only the day before had September commenced, and it would be a new start in many ways.