It was times like these that Fred remembered why he was so distant with his family. He had only been here for 45 minutes and the fighting had already begun. James and Teddy were having a screaming match in the corner while it seemed like Dominique and Victoire were trying to out scream them. Rose was in between those two failing to create peace, while Scorpius failed to get Teddy and Vic's children to stop crying. Roxy's husband was holding her back from attacking Molly's husband, who was cowering behind Molly like the sad sack he was.

Personally, Fred had no ongoing issues with the family and it had always been that way. His only true dramas lie between the outsiders, more specifically Scorpius Malfoy. But none of that mattered, he really only came back to see his grandmother and had no interest whatsoever in his psychotic family members or their generally poor taste in significant others. So he just sat in his seat watching the drama unfold. Surely they would have to stop at some point, right?

The idiots were so dissolved in their bickering that they didn't even notice the new additions to the party. Fred had always secretly been jealous of the relationship Lucy, Louis, Lily, and Hugo had. They never fought or stabbed each other in the back, dated exes or spoke badly of one another. They cared for and stood behind each other no matter what; that's how it should have been for all of them.

"Hugo!" Fred called out, "Nice to see you mate!"

"You too! What's the problem here?"

"It'd be easier to just tell you what wasn't wrong. Oh my Merlin is that Lily and Lucy? You two look so…old." he joked.

"What? I can't hear you!" Lily screamed.

"I said you two look old!"

"What!" This was insane. He couldn't even have a decent conversation amongst these wild animals. He weaved his way through the jumble of red hair and stood on top of the table while placing his wand to his throat.

"QUIET!" Fred took a good look at his beautiful family. Half of them were holding others back, while the other half were breathing heavily with faces redder than most of their hair; all looking up at him wondering what could be so important that he'd interrupt their brawling. "I should have known you maniacs would respond to shouting. Firstly, hello; it's nice to see you all again. Some more than others, however under the circumstances, I'm willing to bite the bullet and I'm suggesting the rest of you do the same. Understood?"

He watched as each of his cousins nodded grudgingly and took a small moment to praise himself for exerting himself so successfully. In a group with as many big mouths and strong heads as this one, it was hard to get a hold on things. He had never been one of the leaders of the group, mostly because he didn't want to, but here they all were listening to him. That was great; because what he had to say, he wanted them all to hear loud and clear.

"Listen up people; we're all here for one reason and one reason only; because Grandmother wanted us to be. Now have any of you so much as peeked into her room to see if she's ok?" he asked. Of course, everyone's faces turned to shame, something he hadn't seen from the lot lately. "Brilliant. You guys are truly amazing. Rose, would you mind going up?"

"Not at all; be right back. You coming Scor?"

"I'm sure he can manage being away from you for 2 minutes." Hugo responded with a sly smile. Rose rolled her eyes and ignored him as she hopped up the various flights of stairs. Fred looked at Hugo with a look he was hoping came off as stern. "Sorry."

"Ok. I think this would be a great time to talk out whatever issues we have with each other. I know I'm crazy to ask, but why you guys were fighting earlier?" As expected, the entire group began speaking all at once. "Ah ah ah, one at a time. James, go first."

"Well, I don't know what went down before Dom and I got here, but Vic took our arrival as a signal to attack Dominique. I simply tried to dilute the situation, but Teddy here decided to jump down my throat. Dominique tried to stick up for me, causing Ted to go after her instead of me…because you know; he's not good at committing to one thing at a time."

"Says the guy shacking with a different witch every night. You'd think after your…mistake, you'd be more careful with that kind of stuff." Teddy shot back. Ok, this was not working. Luckily Rose walked back down carrying a note before Fred had to step in.

"Gran isn't here. She left a note saying she was going with Aunt Ginny to make plans for the funeral. She'll be back soon."

"Great; thanks Ro. So group, I'm trying to avoid unnecessary conflict; we might as well discuss our living arrangements while everyone's being civil."

"Ok Freddy this has been really cute but obviously I should get the biggest room-"

"Molly, shut up and listen to someone else for once." Lucy cut in, before her sister could finish her statement.

"Seriously guys, Fred? You want me to listen to Fred? Who died and put him charge?" she said before covering her mouth quickly. "I didn't mean that."

That was it. There was no way they would ever get along and Fred was done trying to restore any kind of order to the dysfunctional lot. "Teddy and Vic, you guys take the attic and the bathroom up there; Molly, Frances, you guys and Pru can take the cottage out back. Roxy, Roxy's husband, take Charlie's old room; Hugo and crew can take Ron's, Rose and Dom take Aunt Ginny's, Scorpius, you'll stay with me and James in my dad's old room. Everyone good with that? If not, what do I care."

As hard as Fred slammed the door, the whole house should have fallen to the ground. He had promised himself that if he came back he wouldn't let those idiots get to him and now he was storming out of the house like an emotional teenager. Maybe they weren't meant to be some close knit family that checked up on each other and got excited when they didn't see each other for long periods of time. It was a miracle that they had all even showed up here, but they had all come and that had to mean something, right? Maybe he wasn't the only one that had some lingering desire to be a real family. It's possible that they all deep, deep…deep down were hoping to salvage whatever was left of their relationship. Otherwise they wouldn't be sitting in that room, tempers flared and claws ready. They'd fought before and it wasn't past any of them to leave if they didn't really want to be there.

Maybe he could fix it; fix them.