Announcements and Assaults
After that, they all whole-heartedly thanked Mr. Dankworth, who whole-heartedly ignored it without a second thought, the quartet all apparated to Arthur's flat for a night of celebration. Afterwards, Charlotte and Lionel, who swore he wouldn't say a word, headed home.
"Can you believe it Arthur? We're actually married!" Molly squealed, as they relaxed in bed that night.
"I know; what do you say, tomorrow, we go make the big announcement to the family?" Arthur said, spooning his new wife.
"Alright …" Molly said, giving an awkward pause.
"Mollywobbles, what is it?" Arthur asked, turning his wife around to look at him.
Molly laughed, "It's just, I told you I left a note right? Are you sure you want to sign your death warrant that early, love?"
Arthur's eyes widened in realization of what she had just said; he shut his eyes tight as he plopped himself on to his pillow. 'Oh, Merlin, I completely forgot; Fabian and Gideon!' He thought, kicking himself.
The next day, they went through with the announcing their engagement to their families. Arthur's family took it extremely well, his parents, Septimus and Cedrella, were in shock at first, but understood their reasoning and whole-heartedly welcomed Molly into the family with their blessing. Lionel kept his promise, and as such, Arthur's other-older-brother Bilius, was ecstatic at the news, and proceeded to break out his supply of firewhisky.
Arthur and Molly took only one drink, Arthur saying, "I'd stay for more Bilius, but I 'ought to be as sober as I can when I tell her brothers," They all laughed, Arthur rather nervously, and apparated away, leaving Bilius still drinking.
They apparated in front of the Prewett home around 3:00. Molly could sense Arthur apprehension at facing her family; she squeezed his hand and gave him a peck on the cheek. His ears went scarlet.
"It'll be all right, love; I'll be there. Remember, Gryffindor courage," Molly reassured him.
They then proceeded to head to the door of the two-story cottage, and Arthur couldn't help but play a funeral march in his head. They reached the door, and after sharing a nervous expression, decided it was best for her to knock. They both heard the click that signaled the door was unlocked. The door solemnly swung opened; and they both slowly entered the dark entryway, their wands at the ready.
But, it was too late, before they had the chance to even utter the word 'lumos', they both heard two voices call from behind them, "Petrificus Totalus!" and instantly, they fell to the floor, petrified.
One figure lit the candles in the entryway as the other figure rolled them over on their backs to face them.
"Well, well, well, look who's come for dinner. The new Mr. and Mrs. Weasley," Gideon sneered as Fabian came into the hall.
"Yes, seems so. Arthur, you must be something, we come home and all we find is a note saying Molly's run off with you!" Fabian yelled, a death glare in his eyes that could rival that of Bellatrix Lestrange.
Gideon happened to share his brother's death glare, but it shone in his eyes with even fierier hatred. Then, both the brothers let off a string of alternating rants, reinforcing Arthur's belief that by coming here, he was coming to his funeral.
"Now," Fabian sighed, after a particularly awful rant about how he didn't care if he went to Azkaban for killing Arthur. "Reneverate," he said waving his wand, but making sure it was only for Molly.
Molly got up, seized her wand from the floor, took a step back, and starting yelling at her elder brothers. It was the worse Molly-rant Arthur Weasley had heard in all the eight years he had known the woman. It was all about their nerve, how Molly and Arthur loved each other, they had to do this for their safety, and so on and so forth. With each point, Fabian and Gideon shrunk smaller and smaller, realizing what they had done. Gideon then proceeded to revive Arthur, and the twins apologized to them both. They both accepted, knowing why they had done it. They both gave the happy couple their blessing, and then allowed Norman and Helena to come downstairs, the twins had been forcing them to stay upstairs until the assault was over. After the general 'welcome-home-prodigal-daughter' bit about Molly, they were all quite happy about her marriage. They all gave them their blessing; and the men gave Arthur the 'if-you-do-anything-to-Molly-we'll-kill-you' speech. At around 7:00, Molly and Arthur decided they really should go home. They all said their goodbyes and apparated to their flat.
"See, after the whole assault was over, it wasn't that bad," Molly said that night on the couch, as Arthur inhaled the scent of her long ginger hair.
"Yeah, I guess so; I love you, Mrs. Weasley," Arthur replied.
Molly smiled, "I love you too, Mr. Weasley," with that, they shared another long, passionate kiss that told each other, yes, they really were married, and yes, they really did love each other.
