AUTHOR'S NOTE: To answer Sorcha's question: This is the last chapter that takes place within the "Attracted to a Weasley" timeline. The next chapter takes place months into the future :)


One Pissed Off Veela.

In which Hermione lets her jealousy get the best of her.

Diagon Alley was busy as usual. Parents dragged their children from store to store picking up last minute school items needed for Hogwarts, and older children caught up with their long lost missed friends that they hadn't seen since last term.

Hermione had just finished her shift at Flourish and Blott's and decided she'd pick up some early dinner for Fred and herself. As she passed by busy shoppers, she made a quick stop at the magical community's newest food place, The Wandless Wizard, and picked up their food. The Wandless Wizard was a new food joint that made muggle food without the use of magic. Of course they sold food that every Witch and Wizard grew up eating but they had also found out that muggle food was just as delicious.

George was the first to find out about the food place and introduced the wonderful taste of pizza to Fred who quickly fell in love with the cheesy food item. After picking up two small cheesy pizzas for Fred and George, herself a burger and fries, she shrunk everything and placed it in a bag, setting out for Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.

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Walking into Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, the joke shop was full with back-to-school students who were looking for the best pranks they could purchase. Since the owners of the shop were the greatest pranksters Hogwarts had ever seen, after the Marauders of course, Fred and George were handing out tips on how to sneak their pranks into school to those who asked.

Hermione brushed passed the crowds and was overwhelmed with the eagerness and excitement that hit her in waves. Every single person, except for one, was in a different stage of excitement as they browsed the shelves. Being that she was too focused on getting all the food into the back room, Hermione didn't have a chance to seek out the one person who seemed to be slowly getting agitated.

As Hermione safely made it to the back room where the boys always ate their lunch, she found George taking a break on the sofa that they kept back there for naps whenever they had time to get away.

Upon seeing the bags that Hermione was carrying, George's tired face broke out into a smile. "Food! You brought food!" He jumped up from his seated position and wrapped Hermione in a hug. "If you weren't a kick-ass Veela and my brother's love, I'd snog you right now."

"And if you weren't my love's twin brother, I'd knock you upside your head." Hermione joked as she playfully pushed him away. "Busy day?"

"Of course." George took the bags out of Hermione's grasp and laid them on the table that stood up against the side wall. He rummaged through the bags until he found a shrunken pizza box and took it out, taking a seat on a stool. "Thanks for the food."

"Not a problem." Hermione smiled. "Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go check on Fred out there."

"Mhm." George nodded and waved Hermione away.

Hermione made it back out to the center of the store and scanned the crowd for Fred. She couldn't exactly follow his scent being that there were numerous different smells already occupying the store so she settled for looking around for him.

She had finally caught sight of him near the front entrance surrounded by a group of laughing kids as he showed them what the Chipmunk Delight did. Being that the place was so crowded, she used her ultra sensitive hearing to hear his chipmunk laugh from where he stood. Since he seemed to be busy, she figured she'd set a heating charm on their food and help out around the shop.

She made a quick trip to the back room where George was all ready more than half way done with his pizza and placed a heating charm on the remaining food. "I'm gonna wait for Fred so we can eat together." She explained. "I'll just help out in the front while the crowds start to die down." She picked up a clipboard from the side table and made her exit.

Hermione stood near the front cash register where Lee was ringing up their customers and waited for some people to leave. Fred was out on the floor helping kids pick out the best pranks and Verity was walking around and pointing people to where they needed to go.

Time slowly passed and the customers, slowly but surely, left the store. Hermione had started her rounds of checking the product count of each item and writing down what needed to be stocked again.

She was about to make her way to the opposite side of the store when the sight of Fred caught her attention. No kids were grouped around him like earlier but Verity had all her attention focused on him. Anyone could plainly see that Fred was taking inventory, just like Hermione herself, but Verity kept blocking his path whenever he tried to walk around her.

Narrowing her eyes in annoyance, she focused all her attention on Fred and Verity and zeroed in on their conversation. She knew it was wrong to eavesdrop but her Veela was just itching to come out.

"I don't know how you do it, Fred." Hermione heard Verity sigh. "All those kids practically attack you and you walk away without a single scratch."

"What can I say," Fred muttered. He gave up trying to find a way out and just decided to take inventory and what was closest to him. "I grew up in a big family. It just comes natural, I guess."

Verity giggled and and flipped her hair over her shoulder, her back facing Hermione so she couldn't see the death glare that was currently being directed at her. Having gave up on taking inventory, Hermione made her way to the counter where George had taken over register duty for Lee. It was taking all her concentration and energy to not walk across the shop and give Verity a piece of her mind.

"Stupid bint." Hermione mumbled as she gently slammed the clipboard on the counter top.

Her tiny outburst caught the attention of George and when he couldn't get Hermione's attention, he followed her gaze to his twin brother and Verity, the magical community's biggest flirt. He let his gaze travel back to Hermione and he almost laughed out loud at the killer expression she wore.

"What is she thinking?" Hermione ground out. "She's been working here long enough to know that Fred and I are an item. Is she really that daft to be flirting with him while I'm in the same vicinity?"

Seeing that Hermione knew he was looking at her, George grinned. "Is my favorite little Veela feeling the urge to play?" He leaned his elbows on the counter and scooted up to Hermione. "I thought you had it under control?"

"I thought I did too!" She groaned. Hermione closed her eyes and tried to push down her feelings but Verity's laughter rang out in the shop and her eyes snapped back open. She caught sight of Verity placing her hand and Fred's shoulder and Fred grimaced a little. He knew what she was doing but since she was a great floor seller for their products, he didn't have it in him to harshly push her away. "That's it!" Hermione pushed away from the counter and started to make her way to Fred and Verity.

"Hey, George?" Lee had decided at the moment to appear from the back room. "Do you think Hermione would be mad if I ate some of her fries?"

"Not now!" George hurriedly sshh'd his friend. "Fred's Veela is about to go on a rampage!" He pulled Lee into his side and they watched the scene together.

Luckily for Verity, Fred had caught sight of Hermione making her way towards them and his eyes instantly went wide. "Sorry, Verity. Got to go!" He pushed passed his worker and caught Hermione by the shoulders, spinning her around and pushing her back the way she came from.

Her eyes were pitch black and her hands formed fists that hung down by her hips. Fred had a goofy grin adorning his lips and he chuckled as he passed Lee and George on his way into the back room. "I'll never get tired of those instincts."

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The weekend had passed and Verity was slightly put off that she couldn't land a date for the weekend. She had tried her hardest with Fred since he was the only male who never paid her any attention but he had quickly left when he saw Hermione, and Verity couldn't imagine why.

A knock at her front door had her abandoning her lunch in the kitchen as she made her way to see who her unexpected guest was. When she opened the door, she was confused to see that no-one was standing there but a Weasley's Wizard Wheezes gift box was left on the ground in front of her.

Looking around to make sure no-one was going to jump out and scare her, she picked up the box and took it inside with her. She set it on the coffee table and took a seat on the sofa, slowly opening the box since it came from the joke shop.

On top of the tissue paper was a note folded in half that was addressed to her in feminine handwriting. Opening it up, she started to read.

Verity,

It has come to my knowledge that two days ago, you were flirting with Fred Weasley while working at WWW. Now, I'm not sure if you live under a rock but Fred is all ready spoken for. It is in your best interest to only speak with him about business and business only from now on.

His girlfriend, from what I hear, is very territorial and did not like the fact that you were flirting with him so openly. Especially in his place of business.

If you look beneath the tissue paper, you will find a couple of Patented Daydream Charms. I suggest this be the only way you get out all that flirtatiousness you have going for Fred while you can.

Sincerely,

One pissed off Veela.


Looks like the Veela came out after all, haha. I had fun writing this one :) I hope you all enjoyed it as well.