Sorry this update took so long and is so short! I've been rather busy over the holidays and then there was all of the back to school stuff to do... But this is the next chapter and that's all that matters!
Hope I still have some readers left after the AGE it has taken me to write this - and I hope that you will review for me at the end, it really makes my day you know!
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Izzy xxx

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Later Hermione was lying on the bed in Ginny's room at the Burrow, thinking just one thought over and over again, What had she done to deserve this?

Ginny was, at that same moment, downstairs being interrogated by the rest of her family, excluding Fred of course. They wanted more detail than the bland explanation their extended family had received after Fred had left. Ginny, however, was giving away nothing, mostly because she didn't know much more than she had said to all of the guests at the wedding! She knew that Hermione would tell all when she was ready, and Fred would probably tell George his version of events, in time, but, until then, she was just as much in the dark as everyone else.

Hermione knew that Ginny was trying to fend off her family's questions downstairs. She was lucky to have such a good friend in the red haired girl. Speaking of good friends, where were Harry and Ron? Why had they not come to see if she was alright yet? Hermione sighed, she wouldn't be surprised if Ginny was also heading off any Weasley's who tried to come up to see her, but she could really do with talking to Harry and Ron right now. They had been at Fred's bachelor party last night, maybe he had said something there that had to do with why he had left. Hermione set out of Ginny's room with a determined stride, to find her two best male friends, only to walk straight into them as soon as she walked out of the door! Harry managed to grab her just before she fell to the floor, she smiled slightly, good old Harry was always there when she needed him. She looked up at her two friends and started to say something, but she found Harry's hand over her mouth before she could make a sound.

"Shhh! We only just managed to sneak past Ginny to see you, if she finds us up here she'll skin us alive!"

Hermione nodded to show that she understood and then motioned towards the room she had just left. Harry and Ron nodded and let her lead them into the small bedroom.

"Mione. What happened?" Harry asked as soon as the door was closed, "Ginny's not telling us anything and no one can find Fred anywhere!"

"He's missing?" She asked sounding worried

"Yeah. Seems like after he left he just dropped off the face of the earth!" Ron interjected

"So… He's just… gone?" She asked, her voice wavering only slightly, she looked down at the floor then up into Harry's eyes, he was startled to see that hers were filled with tears. Ron also noticed this, but said nothing. Hermione thought that this was rather odd, he had always been so overprotective of her. If someone had hurt her, particularly his brother, he would be out there kicking their ass within seconds! Harry also looked a little perplexed at Ron's lack of action, but simply shot him a strange look and then turned to Hermione,

"Mione, Ginny'll soon notice that we're not downstairs with everyone else so we will be back to talk to you more about this later, just remember as much as you don't want to share what happened you are going to have to accept that if he hurt you in any way, me and Ron are going to find him and kick his ass. You're our best friend and no one, NO ONE, will get away with making you cry. Okay?"

Hermione just had time to nod mutely before Ginny burst into the room.

"What are you guys doing in here? I told you no one was allowed up, Hermione needs her space right now!"

"We were just leaving!" squeaked Ron, before scurrying past Ginny and out of the room

"We wanted to see if Hermione was OK for ourselves, that's all." Harry said smiling slightly at Ginny, but when he got no response but that of Ginny's hand reaching towards her wand, he quickly followed Ron's example and scarpered.

"Sorry Hermione, I tried to stop anyone coming up here to bother you, I don't know HOW those two crept past! Well… it may have been when I was comforting Mum, when she was crying after her dreams of finally marrying off one of the twins crumbled before her eyes… But I didn't think I was there for that long…"

Hermione gave a watery smile, of course Mrs Weasley would be heartbroken that the twin who had finally grown up and found someone to love had called off the wedding at the last moment. That gave Hermione a thought, maybe Fred hadn't left her because some higher cosmic force wanted to make her miserable, maybe he had just freaked out before the wedding, maybe he just wasn't mature enough to commit to someone for the rest of his life. But he had said something as he left. Something about her using him as part of some plot, to get back together with Ron no less! And the way he looked at her. There was pure hatred in his eyes. This all just led her back to wondering what it was she had done to make him so mad, and what she could do to fix it.

Ginny could see the cogs turning in her friend's head and decided to leave her to it. She would give Hermione a little more time for grief before she pushed her for information on what had happened, she had a feeling that Hermione was still trying to work it out for herself.

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