A Match Made In Heaven?
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Chapter 4: A Horrifying Occurrence
"Come on Hermione, time to wake up. We need to go talk to Mum." Fred said as he kneeled down beside the bed and gently shook her awake. Hermione started to stir and rolled on her side facing Fred, she smiled as she slowly blinked her eyes open. "Good morning sleeping beauty." Fred said in a joking manner. "What time is it Fred?" Hermione asked as she slowly sat up on the bed yawning softly. "It's a little after 3pm." Fred said as slowly stood up and walked towards the door. "Come on we need to go talk to Mum before Ron and Ginny get back." Fred said as he watched her climb off the bed and walk towards the door. Fred smiled as he took hold of her hand. "I just don't know why Ginny would go through my stuff for Ron. If he wanted to know something he could have just asked me. I have nothing to hide." Hermione said as they walked down the stairs towards the kitchen. "Hey Mum we need to talk to you about something." Fred said as he walked with Hermione into the kitchen. "Of course, dearie, what is it?" Mrs. Weasley asked as she set her knife down and turned to look at the two of them. "While we were moving my stuff, I noticed that my black leather bond journal that I usually kept in my desk drawer was missing, I think Ginny took it, and gave it to Ron, that journal has all my personal thoughts and memories of me and family in it. That journal is all I have left of my parents and I would like it back." Hermione said as she started crying again causing Fred to immediately pull her close to him in a hug. "Of course, I will look for it, and if I don't find it I will speak to them about. Ron and Ginny should be back soon, then I will talk to them about going through your stuff as well as taking property that isn't theirs." Mrs. Weasley said as she walked over to Hermione and pulled her out of Fred's grasp to hug her. "Thank you Molly." Hermione said sniffling as she wiped at the tears that were forming in her eyes. "Your welcome dear, now why don't you two go do something out in the backyard, that way ya'll aren't around when I talk to Ron and Ginny, because they should be back any minute now." Mrs. Weasley said as she released Hermione back to Fred's side. They nodded and walked outside side into the backyard. "What should we do now?" Hermione asked as they walked side by side through the backyard watching the gnomes wrestle with each other, laughing every now and then as one gnome would be flung across the backyard into a tree.
"So I it take your feeling better now, Mione?" Fred asked as he wrapped his arm around her pulling her close to him as they walked. Hermione smiled and looked up at him. "I feel a lot better now." Hermione said as she wrapped her arm around his waist as they walked through the backyard. Fred smiled mischievously as he unwrapped his arm from around her. "Hermione, I'll give you a 5 second head start." Fred said as he looked at her, Hermione looked back at him then straight ahead and took off in a full out sprint, causing Fred to laugh and chase after her. Hermione smiled as she ran through the backyard with Fred chasing after Hermione was running she tripped over something and went flying into the trunk of a tree, causing Fred to run to her. "Are you okay Hermione?" Fred asked as he kneeled down beside her to check on her. "My back hurts but that's to be expected after hitting a tree. But what did I trip over?" Hermione asked as she looked at him with a curious expression on her face. "I have no clue what you tripped over, I didn't pay attention to that, because checking on you was my number one concern." Fred said as he stood up pulling her up with him. "Let's go see what you tripped over." Fred said as he wrapped an arm around her waist and walked over to where she tripped. As they walked closer to the obstacle that Hermione tripped over, they noticed that it was curved and sticking out of the ground. Upon moving closer Hermione let out a blood curdling scream when they noticed it was a hand sticking up from the ground. Upon hearing the scream Molly Weasley ran out of the house to the backyard where she saw Hermione and Fred with panicked expressions on their faces. "Why did you scream dearie? And why do the both of you look so panicked?" Mrs. Weasley asked as she walked towards them. Upon hearing Mrs. Weasley's questions they turned to look at her then back to the ground pointing at the hand that was sticking up from it. Upon seeing the hand Molly let out a scream and immediately ushered Fred, and Hermione back towards the house. "Fred once ya'll are inside the house I want you to floo your father and get him to come home straight away and tell him to contact Kingsley, and the Aurors saying that it's important that they come with him." Mrs. Weasley said as she looked at the hand. Fred nodded and took hold of Hermione's hand pulling her behind him as he ran towards the house. Once inside the house Fred ran through the kitchen to the living room stopping only when he was in front of the fireplace, Fred grabbed a handful of Floo powder from the jar which sat on the mantle and threw it into the fireplace and stuck his head in. "ARTHUR WEASLEY'S OFFICE, MINISTRY OF MAGIC!" Fred yelled into the fire. Fred watched as rooms blurred past him until it stopped in the office that belonged to his father. "Dad?" Fred asked as he turned his head and looked around the office for his father. "What is it Fred?" Mr. Weasley asked as he walked over to the fireplace and knelt down infront of it. "Mum wants you to come home quickly and to bring Kingsley, and the Aurors, it's an emergency." Fred said as he looked at his father. "I'll be home immediately, let me just get the others." Mr. Weasley said as he frantically stood up and ran out of the office to find Kingsley, and the Aurors. Fred pulled his head out of the fireplace and he went to stand up he noticed Hermione in the corner of the room shaking. "Hermione, everything will be okay." Fred said as he walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her bring her in for a hug. After a little while Fred looked down at her. "Hermione we should probably go upstairs now, Dad and the others should be here soon." Fred said as he let her go and took hold of her hand. Hermione nodded and they walked upstairs to the room he shares with George. Upon entering the room Hermione noticed something moving in the corner of the room. Upon seeing movement Hermione pulled out her wand and pointed it at the corner of the room whispering "Immobulus" causing the movement to stop. Hermione moved cautiously towards the corner of the room and saw that it was a bunch of imps, upon seeing the imps, Hermione quickly backed away and took hold of Fred's hand dragging him out of the room making sure to shut the door behind them. "Why did you just pull me out of my own room?" Fred asked as he looked down at Hermione. "Well if you want to be in there when the imps in there unfreeze then be my guest, other wise I would recommend staying out of that room and going to tell your Mum and Dad that there are a bunch of imps in your room, and we have absolutely no clue how they got there." Hermione said as she looked up at him. Fred nodded and they ran down the stairs just in time to see Mr. Weasley step out of the fireplace followed by Kingsley Shacklebolt, and a bunch of Aurors. "Hey Dad, Hermione found a bunch of imps in my room, and we have no clue how they got there. Hermione froze them, but they most likely have unfrozen by now." Fred said causing his Dad to stop in his tracks.
"What do you mean there are imps in your room?" Mr. Weasley asked as he looked at Fred and Hermione. "When we walked into the room I saw movement out of the corner of my eye so I casted Immobulus and went to see what it was, that's when I saw that it was a bunch of imps, so I dragged Fred out of the room with me and shut the door so that when they unfroze they couldn't go anywhere else. We just don't know how they got there." Hermione said as she looked at Mr. Weasley hoping that he would believe her. "Okay, we will deal with the imps after we deal with the emergency. Now where is your mother?" Mr. Weasley asked as he turned to look at Fred. "She's in the backyard, just fair warning it's kind of a big shock to the system when you see it." Fred said as he watched his father and everyone else go to the backyard. "I guess we should follow them considering we found the hand." Hermione said as she looked up at him. Fred nodded and walked through the kitchen to the backyard with Hermione following close behind. Once outside Fred, and Hermione watched Mr. Weasley console Mrs. Weasley as the Aurors started excavating the ground surrounding the hand to see if there was a body connected to it.
As Fred, and Hermione neared closer to the group they glanced down into the hole that the Aurors were making and saw several bodies lying in the hole. "OH MY GOD, I THINK I'M GOING TO BE SICK." Hermione said as she turned to face the opposite direction. Upon seeing Hermione's reaction Fred immediately walked in front of her and tried his best to console her. "Who do you think they are?" Hermione asked as she wiped the tears from her eyes. "I'm not sure who they are Hermione, I don't even know how long they've been there." Fred said as he held her close. "Fred, Hermione, can you come here?" Mr. Weasley asked as he saw them. Fred nodded and walked with Hermione over to where his parents stood. "How exactly did you find the hand?" One of the Aurors asked as they came to stand in front of them. "We were running and I tripped over it, and went flying into that tree over there." Hermione said as she pointed to the tree that had to of been about 3-4 feet away. The Auror nodded and wrote everything that Hermione said down. "Do either of you recognize any of the bodies?" The Auror asked as he looked Hermione, and Fred. "No I don't know who they are." Hermione said as she felt a hand on her shoulder, she turned to see Mrs. Weasley looking at her with a concerned expression. "I have never seen them before." Fred said while looking at the Auror, who nodded and wrote everything down. "Don't worry we'll get to the bottom of this, but before we leave. Hermione you said something about imps being put into Fred's room?" Kingsley asked as he looked at Hermione."Yes sir, we had just walked into the room when I noticed something moving from the corner of my eye, so I casted Immobulus and went to see what it was that had been moving, and I saw a bunch of imps." Hermione said as she looked at Kingsley. "Arthur, Molly Would you mind if we went upstairs to take a look around? to see who could have put the imps in the twins room, and while we're at it we'll get rid of the imps too." Kingsley asked to which Molly and Arthur nodded. "I'll also all a few more Aurors to come and take care of this." Kingsley said as he and the Aurors walked back towards the house. "Hermione dear, are you okay?" Mrs. Weasley asked as she wrapped an arm around Hermione. "I'll be fine Molly." Hermione said as she looked at her. Mrs. Weasley nodded. "How about we all head inside and wait to see if Kingsley and the Aurors find something." Mrs. Weasley says as she starts to head towards the house. Upon seeing Mrs. Weasley walking towards the house everyone follows her. "Do you think they will find anything?" Hermione asked as she walked beside Fred towards the house. "I hope so, because I would rather not wake up to find anything dangerous in my room." Fred said as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder while they walked.
Once inside they went into the living room and went to sit on the couch. While sitting on the couch they could hear every step that Kingsley and the Aurors made on the floor above them. After what seemed to be hours Kingsley and the Aurors came down stairs. Kingsley carrying a piece of parchment and the Aurors carrying a cage of imps. "I take it you found something Kingsley?" Mr. Weasley asked as he and Mrs. Weasley walked into the livingroom. "Yes, we did. We found a note laying on one of the twins dressers. After reading the note I have decided that as of right now, I am assigning several Aurors to protect ya'll plus we're going to put up some wards around the Burrow." Kingsley said as he walked towards the middle of the room. "I'll check back in with ya'll tomorrow." Kingsley said as he and the Aurors apparated. "So what do we do now?" Fred asked as he looked at his parents with a worried expression. "Right now we wait for the others to arrive home and tell them whats going on." Mr. Weasley said as he went to sit in his recliner. "Dad, what exactly do you think is going on?" Fred asked as he watched his father. "Right now I think a whole lot of mayhem is about to be unleashed." Mr. Weasley said as leaned the recliner back and stared up at the ceiling. "First Zonko's get blown up, now we're finding bodies in our backyard. I feel like something really bad is about to happen soon, and that when it does, we shouldn't be here." Fred said as he looked around the room. Hermione looked at him and nodded. "I agree, I'm not to sure we would be safe staying here, considering everything that is going on." Hermione said as she stood up and walked to the kitchen to join Mrs. Weasley. "Dad maybe it's time we start looking for somewhere to go just in case something happens, we have a safe house." Fred said as he looked at his dad. "Fred, we have Shell Cottage, we've used it as a safe house before, and we can use it as a safe house again." Mr. Weasley said as he sat up to look at his son. "Dad, Shell Cottage isn't big enough for all of us, plus since we used Shell Cottage in the war, most likely that's going to be the next place they go to if we're not here." Fred said as he stood up and walked over to his dad. "I'll discuss it with your mother, before we make any decisions." Mr. Weasley said as he watched his son walk to the kitchen. "Hey Mum, is there anything you would like some help with?" Fred asked as he walked into the kitchen. "If you wouldn't mind could you set the table?" Mrs. Weasley asked as she moved around the kitchen working on dinner. "Sure thing Mum." Fred said as he went to pick up the plates and silverware, as he carried them to the table he noticed an odd shaped beetle moving on one of the cabinet shelves. Fred set the plates and silverware on the table and started setting everything on the place mats. "That's strange I've never seen a beetle like that before, it's probably nothing." Fred thought to himself as he finished setting the table. "Hey Mum, Wheres Hermione?" Fred asked as he turned to look at his mother. "I think she said something about going out into the backyard. I tried telling her not to go outside." Mrs. Weasley said as she turned to look at him. Fred nodded and quickly ran out into the backyard after Hermione. Once outside Fred noticed Hermione sitting under of the numerous trees that was situated in the backyard. "Hermione, come on it's not safe to be out here." Fred said as he walked over to her. Hermione looked up at him with tears running down her face. "Hermione whats wrong?" Fred asked as he knelt down in front of her. "I had decided to just step outside for some air, when I found a note hanging on the back door addressed to me. It said, the bodies we found today, we're just for practice, and that I was next." Hermione said as she handed him the note. "Come on let's get you inside, then we can tell Mum, and Dad, and figure out what to do." Fred said as he put one arm under her knees and the other around her torso, and slowly stood up. As he walked back to the house he felt very protective of Hermione, like he would do anything to protect her.
AN: Well here's chapter four, I hope ya'll like it. Bold means thoughts. Please Read & Review, I would like to get ya'lls opinion on the story. So my classes have started back up, it's getting a little harder to post as often, but I promise to post as often as I can. Don't forget to Read & Review and tell me what you think. Mischief Managed