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Chapter 2

I awoke as the sun curled it's fingers over the emerald green tree tops and an the Wesley's tawny owl landed on my lap with a letter dropping out of it's beak. I uncurled myself swiftly form George and picked it up,

Breakfast is ready when you want it, Fred's coming later you MUST BE THERE,

Love Molly x

I lent over and kissed Georges head burying my nose in his soft red hair, "morning sleepy head" I muttered as he rolled over and gazed at me, I just stroked his face and kissed him. "your mum sent us a wake up call" I joked,

"Uhhh" he groaned "too early, why did she have to do that."

"Because she loves you and tough, you need to get up" I said pulling the blanket of him, "cold yet?" I then joked.

"That was not cool Ivy Fitzgerald".

"Tough luck, I'm stronger than you".

"Are you sure about that"he joked hugging me tightly as we stared at each other and kissed, we had better get back , Fred's coming over later"

"In that case we had, why didn't you just say" he teased, eager to see his twin. We quickly packed up, well I did I couldn't cope with his snail pace. I threw his broom at him "ready? "

"Definitely" he grinned, he was like an eager puppy, and he couldn't wait to see Fred

"good" I grinned back, I couldn't wait to see Ruby. We set of side by side, holding hands (I'm Gryffendor Quidditch Captain after all!). When we arrived back at The Burrow we flew straight through the back door and into the kitchen and hovered above the table, "morning all" George grinned, that smile was going to last all day.

"GET DOWN FROM THERE NOW" Molly screamed at us,

"yes mum" he was still grinning, nothing could take the wind out of his sails! As we dismounted our brooms and stashed them in the broom cupboard, sat down and tucked into one of Molly's fantastic breakfasts.

Just as we had finished putting the plates away I heard a car pull into the drive and I turned round to greet them "you hear something" George inquired, I forgot that he couldn't hear half the thing I could. "they're here" we both grinned at each other like lunatics. "Race you" I teased.

"That's so not fair" he retorted "you have an advantage"

"I'll go slowly then"

"GO" he shouted halfway out of the door attempting a head start. I ran out of the house and flung my arms around Ruby's neck, it was so good to see her.

"Ruby! I've missed you" I said, "why couldn't you have called?" I demanded.

"Supposed to be undiscovered remember." I huffed, but took her hand and led her into the warmth of the burrow.

"Lupin's been worried sick, about you and what's happened, I told him you were fine and living in a flat Alice bought but he still thought something was wrong." I told her

"I'll go visit later, if I'm still alive by then." She tried to joke, unsuccessfully.

"2-3, he has no lessons, go see him then." I informed her, he was teaching summer school up at Hogwarts After what seemed like an eon of "OMG FREDDD! " from almost everyone things calmed down and we all went and sat down to talk things through. This could get interesting. George sat down on the sofa and I sat on the floor leaning against his legs. Molly sat down on one of the other sofa's with Arthur standing behind her resting his hands on her shoulders for moral support.

"Why did you do this to us Fred?" they inquired

"It was my fault, I convinced him it would be best, well it still is best that you dont tell anyone Fred's alive." Ruby was standing up for him

"Why, why shouldn't people know." Molly snapped, cross.

"Because if a certain group of people find out we're all going to die." Ruby announced, we all fell silent. Ginny sat up suddenly, "why?" she squeaked.

"Because it is the only rule for people like us to keep our existence a secret. And I have personal experience of how that law is enforced."

"What 'personal experience'?" Arthur snapped, this wasn't going well Ruby sighed and took a deep breath, we all understood what she meant and we also knew that she didn't want to remember that incident.

George nudged me out of the way gently with his foot and went over to his dad. Ohh dear... "Dad, please don't make her go over this. We all know what happened. I'll fill you in later." Arthur nodded realising that it might be a touchy subject.

"Well what are you? You said people like us," they obviously wanted to hear it from them they didn't want to believe me they couldn't bring themselves to. "Vampires, well kinda. I was but now we're just half vampires. Yes we drink blood, no we dont use people, we drink animals. We aren't affected by sun, crosses, stakes, garlic, makes no difference. Anything else?"

Molly and Arthur just stood there, realising that I had told them the truth Ginny shifted away trying to hide her guilt

"Fred? You too?" He nodded slowly,

"There was a war and well Ruby was made to." I looked over at Arthur an d he had turned a odd colour and pointed a finger at Ruby "You. Turned. My. Son. Into. A-a-a VAMPIRE!" Ruby laughed sheepishly. "You have taken my son away from us and what are you, just his girlfriend. Who are you to take away my boy?" He yelled at her as she shrunk back..

My heightened hearing picked up on something Fred said "You and I both know she is more than a girlfriend to me. Or she will be in the very near future." I stared at him, he'd forgotten about me, so he grinned sheepishly at me just before Ruby abruptly stood up, very cross "I can see when I'm not welcome, I'll be going now" and picked up little Nellie and stormed out and jumped in the car and drove off leaving Fred looking around the room worried. He then walked out and George and I followed him into the kitchen.

"What shall I tell them" he whispered,

"the truth" George and I both informed him,

"be honest" I added giving him a quick hug before dragging him back in before he changed his mind. We re-entered with everyone looking at us, George resumed his position as did I before Fred started. "Ruby had no choice, she was trained and forced to do what she did, she was a young vampire who was easily impressionable. They used this to their advantage. It was this or the Volturi would have killed me. " he hung his head. I stood up. "it's true" now the attention was on me I motioned for Fred to get out whilst they didn't notice, he could do it fast enough. "they were going to come for him and that would have been a far worse out come than having your son around in one for or another" I informed them before it was my turn the run from the room, crying all eyes burning into my back watching me leave with such an unusual swiftness for someone they though was human until yesterday. Today had been too much. I went out, through the meadow to the orchard and climbed a tree to the twin's old tree house which was full of all their old battered joke books and endless collections of magazines and comic books. I dropped down into one of the bean bags whilst George clambered up, with much dificulty (there wasn't a ladder and I just jumped) joined me and just let me cry for the first time in a long while, I had been balling my feeling up for too long, I let him hold me and wipe away my tears until I was too tired to cry anymore and he rocked me to sleep for the rest of the afternoon and into the night .