Chapter 3
"So we're free, but Georgie is still stuck in the classroom! Whatever shall we do?" Lucy questioned, knowing full and well the answer.
" Pranking Snape?"
" But we do that all the time! Besides, he never reacts as well as the others!"
"True, true. We could prank the slytherins?"
" We already did that today! Besides I..."
"What?"
"Nevermind there's no way you'd agree to it."
" You'll never know if you don't suggest it!"
" True. I was thinking that since we DO have a herbology test on Tuesday..."
"Yeah? What about it?"
" I'd like to study for it. I know that's pretty unusual for you, and almost against yer nature, but I think it would be a good idea! You don't have to though, I understand if it's just too contradictory and yer gonna blow up or something!" Lucy suggested this timidly, joking a little at the end to relieve any tension.
"Whose common room?" Fred asked.
" Excuse me, what?" Lucy said in a shocked voice.
"Whose common room are we studying in?"
" You're gonna study with me? You!"
"It can't kill me, can it?"
"Oh Freddie! You do care!" She cried, jumping up and hugging him around the neck in an exaggerated guesture, nearly knocking him over, her eyes turning bright blue and her hair becoming waist length and strawberry blonde.
Fred was shocked by the sudden appearance of a deliriously happy Lucy around his neck. He easily brought his arms up underneath her knees, carrying her bridal style. He looked down at the now strawberry blonde witch in his arms. She had shrunk herself down just enough so that he could hold her comfortably. Looking down at her smiling face, he had to fight down the urge to kiss her, then and there. He wasn't surprised by the urge. He'd secretly fancied the metamorphmagus since the first time he'd met her. He hadn't quite realized it until this past summer though. Before the World Cup, he and George had been invited to the US, to stay at the Waldo's huckleberry farm in Montana.
t was a nice day in June. The Weasley twins had just arrived two days before. Lucy had woken the 16 year olds up at 4:30 am, which was considered ridiculously early to anyone, but ESPECIALLY the two sleepy boys.
"Oi, Bozos! You're gonna want ta get up now!" She whispered, sounding hesitant to wake them. "Come on now!" She said, getting close to their slumbering faces. "Wakey wakey sleepin' beauty!" She said, right next to George's ear. Apparently the boys were deep sleepers. "Ugh! This is impossible!" She cried, frustrated at the two. She'd jumped up, flicked on the electric lights, and ripped the covers off of their sleeping figures. "Woah." She said. She hadn't been expecting them to sleep in their boxers... Just their boxers. " Oh hallo Luce!" Said Fred." No use in getting George up this what you see?" He asked,blissfully aware of his shirtless and pants-less state.
"Knock it off ya prat! Get yer clothes on! Yer gonna want to see this!"
A few minutes later, Fred had been dressed in a dark gray tee shirt and jeans." Come on. To the stables. Hurry!" The two rushed to the stables where Lucy had prepared both her own horse, a black Clydesdale named Batman, and two other Clydesdale type horses for the twins. Fred knew better though. Though they looked ordinary enough, the entire stable was made up of flying horses. If you looked closely at them, you could see their huge wings folded against their bodies. "We're gonna chase the sunrise!" She said, urging him onto his steed. They had spent the next half hour flying in the direction that the sun was rising over the mountains. Fred still remembered how beautiful she'd looked that day. Her hair had been flying in loose red curls behind her back that glinted like fire in the sunlight. She'd stopped and landed gracefully on the peak of the nearest mountain, urging him to come to a stop as well. "Now do you see why I brought you out here?" She asked
"Yeah... I do." Said Fred, flabbergasted at the beautiful sight before him. The sunset behind the mountains too. The sun made the already gorgeous mountains even more so. The rivers glittered like stars. They stood there, enjoying the view, and each other's company respectively. They'd talked about the joke shop, and the future, and Lucy even explained the concept of muggle super heroes. Later that day they'd pranks George, played quidditch, and had an amazing huckleberry pie made by Lucy's mum. That night had been the night that he realized it: he fancied Lucy.
" Woah there Luce! I know I'm stunningly handsome and all, but no need to throw yourself at me so literally!" Fred didn't know why he found it so easy to flirt with her. When he tried on other girls, he found it nearly impossible.
" Oh shut it you nit-wit and put me down!"
"Why do I have to?"
" Because you just accused me of flirtin' with ya! Now .DOOOOWWN! " she screamed the last bit as he unceremoniously dropped her on the floor.
" As you wish, milady!" He said jokingly. " Ow! Fred! I landed on my ankle!" She said, sounding guinuinely in pain.
"Oh Merlin! Are you alright Luce?"
"NO YOU PRAT! You dropped me!"
" Sorry! Would you like me to carry you down to your common room?"
"Yes, please!" Fred obeyed,
postioning her so that she was thrown over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes, her head facing down his back.
Running down the stairwell, pausing only at the trick-steps, the pair got down to the Hufflepuff common room without another incident.
" Hey Luce, what's the password?"
" Jigglypuff!" She answered, laughing at her position. "Now put me down!"
" Never!" He said, opening one of the solid oak wooden doors into the common room.
" God I love this common room" he said, depositing Lucy on one of the pale yellow couches and applying an ice charm to her ankle. He wasn't kidding. The walls were painted a calming pale yellow, almost beige. Despite being underground, the ceiling resembled the great hall in that it showed a clear picture of the daytime sky. He knew from experience making sure that Lucy put down her book in time for dinner that the ceiling changed depending on the time of day. There were numerous potted plants, as well as three separate fire pits with pale yellow couches settled around them. All together it had a calming affect on students, Gryffindor and Hufflepuff alike.
"Yes, it is very nice isn't it." Agreed Lucy, having buzzed up the ladder to her loft-type dormitory to retrieve her study supplies while Fred hadn't been looking.
"But we aren't here to admire the interior design, now are we?" She reminded him calmly.
" Nope! Let's get to studying!"
The class they had been dismissed from had been a double Transfiguration,which was their last class that Friday, so they still had 2 hours left before dinner and George after studying for an hour. Students had come and gone, one of them Lucy's younger sister Abigail, who was 14 and had quite the schoolgirl crush on Fred. She had blushed quite furiously when he had complimented her on her ability to carry several books at once. She had started nervously giggling and almost fell down the ladder on her way up to her dormitory.
"You shouldn't play with her emotions like that, Freddie! She's fourteen and now you've gone and made her half in love with ya as Ginny is with Potter!" Exclaimed Lucy, half-jokingly.
"I don't mean to! I just figured that a compliment from such a dashing wizard would make her day!"
"Precisely! Ya shouldn't be 'makin' her day' today an' then breakin' her heart the next when ya go back to Angelina!" All joking-ness had fled from her voice.
" Who says I'm going back to Angelina?" He asked accusingly.
"Well it wouldn't exactly be a shock if ya did now would it? I mean ever since you two were Abigail's age you've been on and off like a light switch!" She didn't realize that her voice was slowly raising with each sentence.
"I don't see why yer too chicken ta commit to a relationship! I mean really, couples like you are why I don't want sex before marriage!"
" What do you mean 'couples like us'?" He asked. Neither of them were shouting, but by their words they might as well have been.
"You know what I mean. You shag for a while, then you forget what ta do when you're not! It makes it hard ta have a conversation with someone who ya just see naked in your head ain't it?"
"But Lucy, we haven't shagged! Blimey I thought you knew!"
"Knew what? Of course ya have! Why the hell would you be havin that issue then?"
" I'm waiting for marriage, just like you. So is George.
"You... you are?"
" Yeah! I don't want to waste the one thing I know I can give until I know that the relationship is going to last. If you must know why we haven't been talking, it's because I found out that she had sex with the Ravenclaw keeper! It's kind of hard to talk to someone who does that to you!"
" Freddie, why didn't you tell me?"
"Because it's not your business! Why do you care so much about Angie and I anyway?" The subject was making both of them snappy.
"Fred! Of course it's my business! You're my best friend! If I were having boy-problems then I would tell you or George immediately! I care about this because.."
"Because what?" He asked, stepping closer and closer to her.
A/N- annnnnnd cliffie! Thank you for reviewing! If there's any delay in the next update, it's because I prefer to write several chapters at once, and I have to make sure I don't want to go back and change stuff so I delay putting chapters out as much as possible! Sorry for the inconvenience! Have you noticed I like flashbacks? A lot?
Mischief managed,
Supera99
