NOTE: OKAY, SO MARRIAGE LAW FICS ARE A THING I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO ATTEMPT. EARLIER, I WATCHED FRED WEASLEY TRIBUTE VIDEOS AND I GOT SALTY ALL OVER AGAIN THAT HE GOT KILLED. THIS IS AN AU, IT TAKES PLACE 4 YEARS AFTER THE FINAL BATTLE.. IT'S FRED X OC, FRED HAS CHILDREN WITH THE OC TOO. THE MARRIAGE DECREE HAD BEEN PASSED ALREADY, BUT WHEN FRED WAS FOUND TO BE ALIVE, HE HAD TO BE MATCHED... ROMANCE AND HILARITY MIGHT ENSUE... ANYWAY, NOBODY KILL ME, I TRIED? ENJOY IT FOR WHAT IT IS. I MIGHT KEEP THIS UP, I MIGHT NOT..

The second Wizarding War came and went and left it's scars and impact behind as it went again. Families were torn apart, friends were pitted against one another and lots of people lost family, friends and in Aubrey's case, lovers. Losing Fred was something she hadn't been able to just bounce back from.

She'd left Wizarding England for Muggle America not too long after. And she'd sworn to herself she'd never return, not for all the gold down in Gringotts.. But every time you say you'll never do something, that winds up being the very thing you have to do.. And now, here she sat, in the airport, waiting on an international flight, a ginger haired 3 year old set of girl twins flanking her on either side, asking a million impatient questions a second.

The Marriage Decree was tucked into her carry on bag and she still wondered what the hell possessed someone to decree that she marry a very deceased Fred Weasley no later than October 30th. ' Not that he'd want anything to do with any of us if he were alive, all those things he shouted at you the night you two broke up… He wouldn't magically change his mind about it..'

She figured that she might as well go back and appeal to the Ministry, let Molly and Arthur see their grandchildren for a few days since they hardly got to visit unless it was a holiday…

"Mommy, she pinched me." - Angel

" You did it first!" - Amie

"Girls, behave or neither of you are getting candy before we board." Aubrey told her daughters gently, looking from one to the other, leaning in to straighten Angel's crooked braid. When she finished fixing the braid, she fixed Amie's hair all over again too. The girls climbed up into her lap and Angel asked quietly, "Are they gonna be happy to see us, mommy?"

"They usually are, sweetheart."

"Do ya think that Grandma knitted us more sweaters? I want another."

"I'm sure she will if you ask sweetly." Aubrey put her arms around the girls and hugged them against her as she waited impatiently on the flight they had to get on to be ready for boarding..

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"What do you mean I have daughters.." Fred had been found alive, locked up in some asylum under the name John Doe for the past few years. Thankfully, they hadn't been keeping him lucid.. They'd only been treating and trying to cure his memory loss.. And just this past Thursday afternoon, everything came back to Fred, right in the middle of a checkers game in the commons room.

He'd been home for 2 days now. His owl for the Marriage Decree came shortly after the news reached the Ministry that he was indeed alive and well, naturally.. And Fred hadn't been happy about it until he'd opened it and seen Aubrey's name listed as his potential bride.. And today, after his latest doctors appointment in the Muggle hospital he'd been patient John Doe in for nearly 5 years now, the doctor pulled Molly and Arthur to the side and informed them that given the situation, they could carefully break the news to Fred…

Fred sat on the sofa in his mum's living room, jaw dropped as Molly placed a scrap book full to bursting into his lap. He opened the book and the first picture inside was of him and Aubrey at the Yule Ball exactly one year before he left Hogwarts.. The next few pictures were pictures that only Aubrey had copies of, apparently, from the short time she'd lived above the joke shop with Fred, before the war reached a feverish intensity and she'd had to go on the run thanks to her parents putting her name onto the Death Eaters hit lists.

The pictures on the seventh page though… Aubrey was smiling softly, holding two baby girls in her arms, soft red tufts of hair on the girls heads. He gasped and blinked, did a double take.. He'd missed the first 4 years of his daughters lives.

"Where are they?"

"On their way here.. They'll arrive by plane at 8 am tomorrow.. Aubrey's bringing the girls over and then going to the Ministry about the owl… There wasn't any time to tell her you weren't dead, Fred… So she doesn't know.." Molly answered quietly as Fred burst into laughter and then said with a smirk, "Well she'll be bloody surprised when she sees me alive and kicking, yeah?"

"Fred.. Don't you remember?"

"What?"

"You two had broken up before the battle.. Because she tried to tell you she was pregnant and you broke up with her… So she'd leave and go into hiding, so she and the girls wouldn't be hurt or killed?" Ron explained, George nodding as he said, "She thought you didn't want children, Fred.. Things got pretty bad that night.. Things were said.."

Fred remembered it as soon as it was mentioned and he groaned inwardly.. "So basically, she's going to be upset at the sight of me."

"We might be able to fix this, brother.."

"I doubt it.. I just remembered everything I stupidly said and let her believe before she finally left, Forge."