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It was Saturday meaning the ministry was closed so she did something she never would have done before. She apparated to his house. He told her where he lived, and she hoped she had gotten the address right and usually if you thought it you got there. The house was nice and quaint. A store cottage style home it had beautiful flowers growing in the yard. She walked up the drive and had to just stop and look at the rose bushes that could rival even her mothers.

"I thought I was hallucinating." Liam said coming down the drive and wrapping her in a hug. " And to what do I owe the pleasure of this unexpected visit?"

She wrapped her arms around his waist. " I wanted to see you."

" Good enough reason for me. But this makes us real friends. Not just work friends who talk about life, but real friends who have seen each others homes and who eat with each others families and who hug in driveways. Are you sure you're doing alright? You don't seem okay."

She smiled up at him and hugged him tighter. "I'll be fine. Sorry to intrude upon your Saturday."

He let her go and took her hand. "You are never an intrusion, but a welcome addition. Are you alright with hanging around here? Do you want to go do something?"

She looked around and her curiousity was soaring. This was where he grew up of course she wanted to see it. " We can stay here if you'd like"

"I would love to. Come on let's go meet my parents and then I'll show you around. You picked a great day to come. It's family dinner night and since you're here you have to stay."

She looked at him worried. " Liam I am under dressed!"

He laughed at her. " No, you're not. Trust me. I'll even wear this." he said running a hand to show his white three quarter length cotton shirt and jeans and black sneakers.

She didn't feel so bad about her champagne colored sleeveless shirt with her cream cardigan, champagne flats, and skinny jeans. She was thankfully wearing long strands of pearls and a few other long necklaces. She looked down at her ring and straightened her hair.

"Are you ready? I promise you look fine. My mother will judge you regardless of how nice you look." he said kissing her cheek and she was a bit speechless. He laughed and winked.

"Lighten up you came here remember?"

She shook her head. " I did, but I forgot you had a mother. And that I didn't bring a hostess gift and that I came uninvited. I should go."

He sighed and picked her up and threw her over his shoulder.

She laughed and hit his back. He opened his front door and they walked into a yellow sitting room. The furniture was very nice, but sturdy. It looked comfortable from this angle but she couldn't really tell.

He walked through a dining room with a big table and into a kitchen. " Mum this is Seralynn Narcissa Bellatrix Malfoy she's my friend and she owes me a dinner so she's coming tonight. But we're going to spend the day here." he said pointing to the upside down girl over his shoulder. He turned around . "Wave hi to my mother Sera."

She waved a little embarrassed by it all and put off her used her full name. " Nice to meet you Mrs. Weasley, you have a very lovely home."

She said sounding more nasally than not due to the blood rushing to her head.

"Son, she's going to swoon with all that blood going to her head. It's not nice to man handle your guest."

"Oh right." he said setting her down and steadying her.

She straightened out her hair and clothes and laughed and held out her hand. The woman was tall, with red and white hair, she was older than her own mother she could tell, and her hands were a bit more worn, but she looked lovely in her yellow fabric capri pants and sandals and her light blue top and she wore some sort of yellow sweater over it. She wore an apron and her hair was in a bun. She looked like a typical mum. " I have heard so much about you." she said a little intimidated, but she was kind and she could see where he got his eyes from.

"And we you, Ms. Sera. Its nice to finally meet you. Welcome to our home."

"Thank you." she said and was glad to feel Liam's arm on her back.

" Where's dad?" he said rubbing her middle back gently.

"He's at your grandfather's helping him with some muggle contraption he got. Of course, Ember is with him. She is going to be tickled when she sees your here, Sera. You've made a friend in that one."

Sera was so happy to hear that. She loved talking to Ember and made sure to stay extra long when she went to Gringotts now.

" I like her a lot." she said shyly.

Three little girls who were actually not so little compared to Sera ran down the stairs, but she could tell they were younger. All three had different variations of red hair and all three look related. She recognized one of them though from the same papers her face graced. Lily Potter was standing in the middle. Not as tall her hair more red than the smallest ones, but not as red as the tallest one. And she had the most stunning emerald eyes. Like piercing emerald eyes. She smiled at them and Lily smiled brightly. " Sera Malfoy, right? I am Lily Potter. It's nice to finally meet you."

They had something in common and that bonded them instantly. They were old social page companions. " Yes, and the same to you Lily and you're even prettier in person."

"I can the same thing to you." she said and the shortest girl stepped up and just hugged Sera she was Sera's height and weight and her hair was a light strawberry almost blonde color and she had amber eyes that were almost a chocolate brown. Freckles sprinkled her face and she just looked adorable. Her hair was braided down her back and she rail thin barely a teenager and barely showing signs of womanhood this had to be Erin Joy the youngest.

"It's so nice to meet you. Charles has told us so much about you. I am Erin." she said pulling away. " Please tell me you're staying all day."

She looked at Liam and he nodded. " She sure is."

the little girl smiled excitedly. " oh goody!"

the tallest now stepped up her hair as dark as her brothers and her eyes just as dark. She was amazingly beautiful and she didn't look a thing like her mother. No, she looked like someone else Sera had seen in the papers. She looked more related to Lily than she did her own sisters and it hit her. Eilley looked like her Aunt Ginny, but with her mother's height though she would still be considered short by most people. She was tall in comparison at least to Sera.

" I am Eilley it's such a pleasure to meet you." she said kindly. Sera felt a kindred spirit there. A quiet force for good. She was shy and Sera understood that the most.

" I have heard so much about you all it's a pleasure to meet you as well."

"Mam we came down to see if we could go ride the thestrals?"

"Yes, but be careful"

"They can see them?"

Liam nodded. " Yes they've seen tons of animals die. It counts."

Sera thought it sad, but cool that they got to see every kind of magical creature because their mother took care of them.

" Mam I am going to show her around."

" Of course." she said and got back to whatever she was doing in the kitchen.

Liam showed her around the house first their family room was more informal and less kept. Their den had a library and it was more well kept it displayed the family pictures through the ages. Even of relatives gone. " Your sister Erin looks like your grandmother, Hope."

"She does." he agreed. " Eilley looks like the Weasley family."

" So do you." she said rubbing his arm absently.

They had a piano also in the den and it was old and antiquey.

Then there was the outside, the gardens, the animals, the rolling hills of English country.

" My family is making me go to the channel for a week." she said " by Tinworth."

"Is that so?" he said curiously. " Well I'll bet it will be fun. Some sun and water and shopping."

She snorted. " More like a way to make me do what he thinks is best."

"Your dad?"

"Scorpius. He doesn't approve of our friendship."

"It's new yet. They'll get used to it. See we have spent time together almost every day. Talking, owling,eating which you don't do enough of, and all of that. We have gotten to know each other over these past four weeks. Our families haven't gotten to see it yet because right now this is still ours. This isn't the worlds yet. Give it some time and they will get used to it. They may never approve, love, but they'll get used to it."

She was saddened at the thought that this might be a battle bigger than they understood even if it went no further. Which she sincerely hoped it did. She couldn't lie and say she wasn't attracted to him. His goals to be Minister one day, his ambition to change the world, and his drive to do ti on his own. No connections necessary he would do it. She liked his personality, he was funny, and charming and wildly handsome, but he was kind and gentle and he understood her. She felt like if she said it no matter how strange he would understand it the most. And he was good at nurturing. Having three sisters he got women.

"You're right. Are we willing to overcome that? Is it too soon to tell?"

"No, it's not too soon to tell that I am willing to fight for you no matter the obstacle. I've seen a small glimpse of who you are and that's amazing enough to have me hooked."

She smiled. " Me too."

"Good then we're on the same page then. I've been waiting till we became real friends to have this conversation."

"We are." she said laughing. " The office would have totally killed the moment."

"I agree. Not much ambience." he stated emphatically

"Ambience is vitally important to outcome."she couldn't help but smile

"Oh yes. Absolutely. The most important, actually." he said matter of factly

"I would wager it's a ten."

"A twenty." with as much drama as he could muster

She laughed and they talked for hours.

Charlie stood the window looking out at the two on the grass on the hillside.

They were laughing and joking around. She was making leaves and grass levitate and circle around and he tickled her and it all fell on top of them. They were closer than he and Verina had ever been as far as actually enjoying each other. They were genuine friends, they laughed, they joked, they talked about life, and what they believed but you could see it. The new love. The way they touched other, but not really. The way they watched each other without familiarity and yet they knew all there was to know about each other on topical even deeper matters, perhaps. It was young love at it's finest. They were going slow and Charlie appreciated that. They had been "interested" or involved a month before they spent time together outside of a work environment. As a father he couldn't find fault in their actions. As a man he hated what his son was doing. Falling in love with his once love's daughter.

They made their way back into the house and Ember squealed and hugged Sera tightly.
Sera hugged her back and they giggled together. " I am so glad to see you here." Ember said brightly. " He has kept you from us for far too long."

"I blame him." Sera said towards Liam. They laughed and as if she could feel his eyes on her she looked over and straight at Charlie.

She looked confused for a moment. " I am sorry." she said and shook her head. " You just look like someone I used to know." He hadn't seen her since she was a month old, but now she was her mother made over with Malfoy hair. And then she smiled and she had a Malfoy that too. She extended her hand to him and shook his hand. She was everything like her mother too he noted the rest of the night. Her mannerisms, the way she ate, the way she behaved. He thought back to a scene long ago where a sixteen year old Verina sat at the same table. It pained him that image, but somehow destiny would have its way.

Sera could could have sworn she knew this man. But she shook it off. The girls all came into the living area and asked if she would like to see their rooms. She did and was swept away for girl talk and knitting patterns and she and Ember liked the same kinds of clothes. Sera sat her legs crisscross on a canopy bed,charming paper birds with her wand in hand, and chatted with them until Liam came to get here.

"Can I have her back now?" he said faking pain " I can't bear it."

They giggled and she walked to him and waved her goodbye. He lead her down the stairs and into the den where he prepared her for dinner, and he was right about it all.

Dinner was everything opposite of anything Sera experienced. She walked into the tipsy house and was greeted by shocked glances from her mother's generation and warm smiles from the people her age and the adults came around too after that initial shock. She could hear the whispers, but held tight to Liam. She was surprised this house could fit 30 plus people in it, but was glad it did. She got to meet everyone at once and they were all so nice. He strayed for a moment to talk to his younger cousins and the older men introduced themselves. She got to meet the famous Harry Potter and Liam's grandfather. They were a loving family.

"That's Verina Obolensky's daughter." Ginny said to her mother at the sink before the girl was ever formally introduce. " I'd know those eyes anywhere she's the spitting image of her, and I cannot believe what I am seeing right now."

Her mother looked at her concern in her eyes. " She's beautiful no doubt about it. And she looks just as sweet as can be; and know this history has an odd way of repeating itself when fate wills something to happen and it doesn't the first time. "

"Or when we don't teach our children about fraternizing with Malfoy's."

"She's incredibly sweet." Enya said walking over. "Charlie's scared to death that history will repeat itself and Liam will get hurt. He'll find someone as amazing as me if it does."

Ginny laughed. " Right and we can only hope for that. Her mother was one of the kindest people I had ever met don't get me wrong I hold no ill wills towards anyone but maybe her grandfather and her father if nostalgia gets the best of me, but they're a different breed. Their entire way of life is different and doesn't welcome outsiders. I am sure she is hiding all of this from daddy and will only retreat when he finds out and explodes." old hatred radiated from her.

"It can welcome outsiders." Hermione chimed in. " Or what did her mother fight for in the first place? Helping to kill her own father for what? She believed in our cause as much as we did and fought just as hard as we did all those years ago, and I believe she loved Draco more than anything. I really do. If she didn't I believe it would have worked out differently. She loved Charlie. I mean had Lev not died she would have married him. But life happened and it will happen again, but maybe life happening this time means we have a Malfoy in the family. Maybe that's the twist or the irony of it all. It would serve us all right. A true test of tolerance and acceptance and change."

"Maybe." Molly said " Is she much like her mother?"

Enya shrugged. " I don't know really. I didn't know her. That's for you to observe I suppose. Want to know my gut feeling?"

"hmmm?" Ginny said looking at the small blond who was shaking hands with her husband and brothers.

"She's not going anywhere." Enya said.

Molly smiled. " Good. Let's make her feel welcome then." wiping her hands on her apron the elderly lady approached Sera with a warm tight hug and an accompanying. "My look how beautiful as beautiful as her mother and as thin too. We will have to fix that. Come tuck in, Liam introduce her to her cousin Teddy."

Sera felt welcomed and got over the initial awkwardness of it rather quickly.

She spoke french with his Aunt Fleur, talked politics, school, and quidditch. And she even got to meet her cousin three times removed, Teddy Lupin. In fact she was distantly related to Molly and Arthur Weasley on both sides of their family tree. She was used to that dynamic especially among purebloods. Which Liam was, but not every Weasley was anymore. It didn't matter to her. She wasn't either. Her grandfather was a half blood and her great grandmother was a gypsy but those were secrets kept hidden like most dirty secrets were.

They gathered around the table and ate. She felt odd. No one was really " well mannered" they laughed, they ate, they passed food around. Everything was delicious.

She loved it. She felt at home, oddly enough. And it wasn't that hard for her to adapt. She ate in small bites and didn't talk with her mouth full or rest her elbows on the table, but she didn't feel out of place.

Dinner was over and everyone scattered to play games and the like. Sera had to get going so she and Liam were saying their goodbyes. His Uncle Bill walked up to them and smiled.

"Liam the minister is going to Egypt for a vacation are you joining him?"

Liam laughed at such a notion. " No, I am staying right here."

" James seem to think and Louis heartily agrees- that you three could use a week on the channel. Should your Aunt and I count you in for tomorrow till next Saturday?"

"Yes, you can." he said looking at Louis and James who were behind his uncle with thumbs up.

Ron and Harry laughed. " way to look out for your cousin, son." Harry said laughing. " They're really horrible."

"My son wasn't involved." Ron said shrugging. " Just yours."

"He's your god son, nephew, and so very much like you though."

"You're right Im a good man. Way to go James."

"It's my house." Louis chimed in. " Sera would you happen to know the Tinworth area well?"

Sera blushed and shrank a little bit. " Yes, I know it well."

"Say isn't that your families cottage on the west side of the island?" James said " Louis grew up just a mile away your property borders his."

Sera looked at Liam and smirked. " Well you will enjoy yourself then this week."

"I am so sure I will."

Sera poked him in the abdomen.

He pulled an innocent face and winked at his aunt. " See you tomorrow, but for now I need to get this little lady home."

They walked to the edge of the property line and Sera hugged him tightly. " A week on the coast?"

He rubbed his nose with hers. " We won't spend every day together just 7 of them and we'll be secretive. No one has to know. It'll be a chance to spend time together away from the office."

She laughed. " You're sneaky."

He pulled her to him. "Indeed I am."

And with a pop they were at the end of her drive. It wasn't so bad when they did it that way.

She didn't feel nearly as sick.

He leaned down and kissed her cheek. " Goodnight, my princess."

She walked into the gate and waved. " Goodnight."

She walked into her house and felt like she was floating.

"You look happy. You made it just in time for dessert. Your grandparents are excited to see you." her Uncle Blaise said returning back to the dining room.

She smiled and went to her room to get dressed. She did so quickly and sat down.

She thought to her lovely day and couldn't help but feel wonderful. He was hers. And he was her secret to keep. Something new for her. Something exciting.

No one had to know yet how it may turn out. Not even her.