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This is part of the Disillusionment universe. This is set about 2 years post Deathly Hallows. To really understand what's going on in this fic you will need to have read the rest of the Disillusionment verse. As it deals with the origin of the matching tattoos mentioned in Weasley Family Vacation and Repercussions.

Forever:

Part One of Three

Percy appeared a short walk from his brother's new home. He wondered how his brother was finding married life. With the unsurprising exception of himself and Charlie all of his siblings had managed to get married. Ron's wedding to Hermione had been an impressive affair, his mother perhaps over compensating for her disappointment in Ginny eloping with Harry rather than go through the spectacle of a public wedding for the savior of the wizarding world. The fact the family had to sit through two wedding ceremonies had made it even more interesting. A wizard wedding for the Weasley side and a normal muggle ceremony for the extended Granger family. He approached the small house that his brother and his new wife had moved into just after getting back form their honeymoon a few days ago.

As he approached the door, he noticed through the window several boxes were visible. It was apparent that Ron and Hermione had not finished unpacking all their things yet. He glanced around his parents home was several miles to the east. Hermione had chosen an out of the way location so she could be open about her magic use. He knew she'd considered settling in Hogsmeade, but Ron had wanted to be nearer to their parents. He calmly knocked and waited for someone to answer the door.

When his younger brother opened the door and frowned he tried not to take it personally. "Percy, what are you doing here?" His brother asked trying to cover his earlier look of disappointment with forced cheerfulness. Percy loved Ron and knew Ron cared about him in return but the two had never been that close to each other.

"I have something for Hermione." He said smoothly. "It's a very late wedding gift." He added to explain his presence. He waited and his brother stepped aside allowing him into the currently cramped living room.

"We're still unpacking." Ron said unnecessarily. "You already gave us a wedding present remember the Chuddley Cannon tickets." He was looking at his brother strangely. "I mean the game isn't even until next month."

"That was your wedding gift." Percy said with a small smile. "We didn't give Hermione hers before the wedding because we felt she might be distracted on your honeymoon and we didn't want to do that to you little Brother." Percy normally refrained from teasing anyone let alone his younger brother but he was still a bit annoyed about the reception he'd received.

His brother turning red led the way out of the room. "Hermione is in the room she's claimed for her library." Percy followed him into a small spare room where Hermione was sorting through a large pile of books. "Hey Hermione Percy is here with a wedding present he forgot to give you."

Hermione looked up from the pile. "Oh Percy good to see you." She said cheerfully. "I'd have come down to see who was at the door but I'm really busy trying to get this all organized properly." Ron glanced over at Percy and rolled his eyes.

"I think you will need to find a place for these." He said pausing to take out a small box and cancelling the shrinking spell on it restoring it to its normal size. "Sorry I couldn't give you this before the wedding but I didn't want anyone from the ministry to see it." He saw both his brother and Hermione look at him with an odd look. "It's not technically against the rules but I don't know how the ministry would feel that I copied books on loan from a couple of private museums just to give my new sister-in-law her own copies."

Ron was staring at Percy in shock but Hermione had leapt up and headed over taking the box and opening it. She stared at the plain books and opened one. Ron had a questioning look but Percy was just waiting. Hermione suddenly yelped and grabbed Percy hugging him. "These are really copies of Adeodatus' Magical Compendium?"

Percy nodded and deciding to have pity on his brother as Hermione was too busy skimming the Latin pages translating to herself. "Adeodatus was a roman wizard who was believed to live around 575 BC and produced a seven-volume work on magic that was the most complete work of its day." Percy said. "There aren't many complete copies of it still in existence when our department borrowed the complete works from several museums I had to copy them." Percy felt slightly guilty about it.

"Exactly how many books have you copied?" Ron asked apparently catching some trace of that guilt. Hermione stopped pouring over the book with a curious look in his direction. Percy frowned, Ron was paying him back for the earlier teasing.

"Every book that isn't widely available that's come through the department." He finally admitted. "It's not that hard a simple content duplication spell into a blank journal." He looked away. "Most of the ancient volumes lack the copy protection spells of modern spell books." He frowned thinking out loud. "Those can be hard to get around."

Percy looked up to see a scandalized Hermione and a grinning Ron. "Copying spell books without buying them Percy, what would mom say?" Percy shot a glare at Ron. "I mean really Percy, I never would have pegged you for stealing spells without paying for them."

"I don't do it any more except on out of print books." Percy said beginning to feel the need to justify himself to his brother. "But when we were growing up empty journals were cheaper than buying the book and once I found out how to copy books in the Hogwarts library it was quicker to copy the whole book than just copy the interesting portions." He saw Ron look away they had went dangerously close to a rather unpleasant subject how poor their family had been growing up.

Hermione was scowling then she looked up expectantly. "Since these copies already exist." Her tone gave the impression that she was trying to convince herself of something. "And there's no need to report it now that you've long sense left school." She then said quickly. "Can I look at the copies and maybe get a couple of copies of some of them?"

Percy noticed his brother seemed to be resisting laughing. "I suppose but I'll have to show you them at my house; I'd rather not travel with two many copies of books." He hadn't expected his decision to give Hermione a copy of the magical compendium would result in him having to show his entire library to her.

Hermione brightened and then suddenly said. "Let's go right now; I can finish unpacking later." At this point Ron gave up pretending and just started laughing as Percy stared at him and Hermione scowled. "It's not funny Ron there were some truly fascinating books at Hogwarts that I haven't been able to find anywhere." Which only caused Ron to laugh even louder.

"Hermione, it'll have to be another time I'm afraid." Percy said interrupting her. "You'll need a blank journal to copy the contents into and it's not a good idea for you to go buy several dozen at once." He saw Hermione nod reluctantly. "Why don't you come over next weekend?" He smiled at her. "You can make a list of the ones you want and I'll know what to give you for your next few birthdays and Christmas gifts."

Hermione reluctantly nodded and after thanking him again set down to read the first volume again. Ron escorted Percy to the door. "You've got to excuse Hermione." Ron said still chuckling. "She can't pass up the chance to read a book even if it's an illegal copy."

"I have noticed that." Percy said tiredly. "I'll see the two of you next Saturday then." When Ron nodded, he walked out the door and after traveling a short distance apparated back toward home. Once he made it into his and Oliver's flat he set on the couch and sighed to himself. 'I never should have admitted that.' He thought bitterly. However, the last year or so he'd found it difficult to keep secrets from his family. He'd hidden his relationship with Oliver from them and it had taken a toll not being able to be honest. Now he was finding it too easy to be honest with them. He knew he needed to find a happy medium between the two because there were some things he just didn't want his family to know.

He wished Oliver would get back soon but whenever he went to eat with his parents it always ran late. He also knew Oliver would inevitably be in a bad mood when he got back as most of the family meals he went to inevitably turned to the subject of him ruining his life. Percy frowned as he thought how lucky his brothers and sister had it they could get married and once the ceremony was over folks no longer publically doubted their commitment to each other.

To be continued...