A/N Yes, Fred would be fun. Fun…But annoying.
~Hermione Pov~
Time had flown by and I had a boyfriend, and it was great. I was dating someone Draco suggested. I was hesitant but Harry assured me his boyfriend wouldn't be mean, and, he wasn't. Although his mate Lance Erikson was a Slytherin, and a seventh year he was an incredible guy. We started dating a few days after I admitted to Ginny I fancied Fred. She was absolutely livid with me, oops. After a while she came around to the idea and started warming up to him and our relationship, I think she was even thrilled to have another couple to go out and have a double date with.
It was almost time for us to go on a break for winter which means it was almost time for a wedding. I smiled slightly; we had our last day to make sure everything fit and the wedding rehearsal when we get there. Their wedding would be the twenty sixth, which means the day after Christmas we would be as busy as bees. I was a bridesmaid for Angelina, as was Ginny and Luna. Her cousin was her Maid of Honor.
I was going to ask Lance if he wanted to go with me, if he would be my date. Fred would be devastated, actually, not really. He and Ilene looked as if they were going good, but he still insisted I was his date, it was peculiar really. I would ask him, eventually, we didn't leave for another two days and I would probably wait until last minute because I was scared he was going to say no. This was silly though because he was my boyfriend after all.
I bit my lip as I stared off absentmindedly, pushing my food back and forth on my plate. I felt a pair of hands slide over my eyes and I jerked slightly, getting a rush of fear run through me until I realized it had to be someone I knew. I felt myself start to relax and lean into the touch, a small smile on my face. "Who's there?" I asked softly, trying to remove the hands from my eyes.
"Your wonderful boyfriend, why, were you expecting someone else to come save you from your terribly boring lunch?" The voice rumbled as he removed his hands, sitting down next to me with a smirk. "No, not really and I wasn't having a boring lunch, I was enjoying myself quite a bit." I laughed and he pouted. "Does that mean you wouldn't like my company?" He asked with a pout on his face. "No, no, that is not what I am saying at all! Of course I'd love for you to join me." I rushed out as he held a grape out for me. I took it from him and went to eat it before taking it back. I pouted at him and then looked away. "I really want that grape." I said as I looked back at him, batting my eyelashes at him. "You have to let me feed it to you then." He said with a grin. I thought about it and nodded my head. "Alright, I suppose I can agree to those terms." I said, sticking my tongue out at him.
~Fred Pov~
"Draco what the hell is your problem?" I yelled at him, almost strangling the pale prat. "What do you mean?" He asked in confusion as he stopped outside the Great Hall. "You heard me! Why are you trying to ruin my plans?" I asked in a bit of a whiny tone, crossing my arms as Harry joined us. "What's going on?" He asked in confusion. "Well Fred said I ruined his plans but… I don't know what he's talking about." Draco said to his boyfriend.
"You should have known I'm trying to get with Hermione! I've been planning, or I was until you set her up with that jerk!" I yelled at him, pinching the bridge of my nose. "Oh honey…I thought I told you, I thought we went over this…" Harry trailed off as Draco looked at him, shaking his head. "You didn't tell me anything about that. I wouldn't have set her up if I knew that, or, maybe I would. Weasley seems a bit mad." He said under his breath. "Well at least I'm not a whiny daddy's boy!" I snapped before stalking off.
Later that night I was packing to get ready to go home, at least that idiot Hermione called her boyfriend wouldn't be there. I sighed and heard what's his name talking with one of his other dumb friends. I frowned and pressed myself closely against the corridor wall, I couldn't be seen. I couldn't be caught or I couldn't eavesdrop. I mean, not eavesdrop, just being a part of the conversation without them knowing about it.
"I'm totally going to shag her before we go on break that means in the next two days I am going to be with the brightest witch of our age, the first person to ever do that. I will be well known and then once I'm famous with her help of course, I will dump her. She's nice and all, I guess a little pretty too but…She isn't my type, I mean if we're being honest she is kind of a bore, no, she is completely a bore." What's his face said in a decisive tone.
I gritted my teeth together, how could that little rat say such a thing? I knew, I just knew, a Slytherin who was friends with Draco Malfoy would be up to something. I can't believe he would use my…My good friend Mione like that. There was no way in hell I was going to let him do that to her. I pushed myself off of the wall and then stalked over to them. "Get the hell out of here before I punch you in the face." I warned in a lethal tone to his friend. Luckily I was taller and much more muscular than he was so he let out a squeak and hurried off as quickly as possible. "Now what were you saying to him?" I asked in an eerily calm tone as I grabbed him by the front of his robes.
"I don't think I have to answer you, you are not the boss of me." He said with a grin. Merlin what was his name, Logan, Larry? "I think you do, I will hex you into oblivion or take care of you without magic. I don't have to be in this school; I can leave and go back to running my successful shop. I'm not scared beating a punk like you up. Now tell me, what the hell you were saying to him." I growled, glaring down at the little ferret.
"I was saying how I was going to break up with Hermione." He mumbled, I could hear the fear in his voice no matter how much he denied it. "Yeah and when exactly are you planning on doing that?" I asked, looking down at him, seeing him flinch a bit. "After I shagged her, that's when." He answered and I slapped him in the face hard. I thought about punching him but that would leave a big mark. "Now what were you saying?" I asked narrowing my eyes.
"You aren't even related to her, you're barely friends… Why the hell do you even care? If you were in my shoes you would do the same thing!" He said, changing the subject. "I would never do that to her if I was in your shoes. She is one of my greatest and dearest friends and I wouldn't mess that up like you are going to." I said in a low tone. "So when are you going to break up with her?" I asked in a demanding tone. "T-Tomorrow morning, I'm going to break it off in the morning." He squeaked out. "Good, good. That means we have come to an understanding. You are free to go and if I ever hear you say something like that about her or anyone else I care about I will beat the crap out of you. Okay?" I asked as I pushed him away, crossing my arms. "Okay, yeah, I won't do it again, don't worry. I don't want anything to do with her especially with her psychopathic friends around all the time."
We heard footsteps and I jumped away, putting a smile on my face. "Okay so see you around buddy!" I said cheerily, figuring it was a teacher. I was wrong, very wrong. "You don't have to wait until tomorrow." The voice said shakily behind us. I recognized that voice, it was Hermione. She must have heard everything we said, every single detail that would be ferociously hard to hear from her stance. "I think we should end things tonight. I am on Head Girl duty; you need to go to McGonagall's office because you're up past curfew." She whispered to her now ex-boyfriend. He just stood there for a minute, looking at her in awestruck like he couldn't believe that had just happened. "I said go, or I will walk you there myself. If you don't go, I will make sure you get double the amount of detention you would have if you went tonight." She said, managing to talk to him in a stern tone. We watched him walk away until I turned to her with a frown on my face.
"I'm so, so, sorry Mione. I didn't mean for you to hear that, I meant for it to scare him. He uh, was saying nasty things as you probably put together and I couldn't let him do that, not to you." I mumbled awkwardly before she hugged me tightly, her starting to cry loudly as she rested her head on my chest. I swallowed and held her tightly, trying to calm her down as much as I could, even though it wasn't working. "He wasn't worth it, he never will be." I whispered as she nodded her head weakly, probably not able to find her voice. I led her upstairs to the Gryffindor common room that was deserted at that time of night. Neville could handle the patrolling for the rest of the night; he was a very strong person.
"I-I can't believe he did that. I was going to ask him to be m-my date to that st-stupid wedding. I don't know why I'm such a failure at relationships. We have been together for a couple of months. I-I thought he would have been so much better, so good for me. Why do I suck at relationships? I can never pick the right guys. Maybe I should just give up on relationships." She sniffled as she wiped her eyes with her sleeves, her mascara running a bit. Even with her looking like that she still looked beautiful, except for the fact that she looked terribly sad.
"I don't think you should give up quite yet." I told her gently and she shook her head, letting out a somewhat bitter laugh. "How do you do it Fred? You've never been in a relationship that long. How is Ilene different? How do I know when I have found someone like that?" She asked and I stayed silent. I had to be quick on my feet. I shouldn't feel happy that she was heartbroken, but I was. My plan was back on. Right now I shouldn't focus on that, I needed to focus on what really mattered, cheering the girl beside me up.
"I don't know how we did it, I really don't." I answered with a shrug. "We just… Click, some people just do that and we were lucky enough to do that. But she can't come to the wedding and you can and you will be my date and you will have the most wonderful time, not even remember Lance anymore, or if you do it's how less awesome he is than me." I said, making her laugh a little bit. "You're a good friend Fred; you're always there to cheer me up." She said with a heartbroken smile. I nodded my head and pulled her to me, resting my chin on top of her head.
"You'll always be there for me right? Whenever a guy is fooling me you will know when that is and protect me right? I don't want any more plots, or plans, or pranks. I don't want anyone to hurt me this way again because I am pretty sure I am close to crumbling and having a nervous breakdown." She whispered. "The reason you're feeling like that isn't because of the fact he hurt you, it's because you feel like you have so much stress. Soon you will realize he had nothing to do with the way you're feeling, it was all the stress and how you feel so hopeless. It isn't because of him; you don't need to be thinking about him, you need to be going up to bed." I said as she let out a small yawn. Her eyes were puffy and red, her makeup smeared. Her nose was worse than my hair; the color was as bright as my hair. Her face looked pale and she looked as if she was sick.
"Maybe you're right… Tonight was a rough night. I am just so glad you were there for me and we're about to go on break and…We are going to be a great team, you as my protector from all the horrible things guys will do to trick me." She rambled off and I smiled and nodded my head. I would protect her from all the tricks the other guys were going to try to use on her; luckily I was a different case. "Come on now, off to bed with you." I said standing up and pulling her up beside me, giving her a bear hug.
"Goodnight Fred." She said as she headed up the stairs. I leaned against the bottom of the steps, crossing my arms as I watched her. "If you were only single…" She whispered, trailing off. I don't think she knew I could hear her. I grinned to myself as she turned and gave me a wave. I waved back and made sure she got into her room safely, not that anything could have happened in those two minutes she was out of my sight. I sighed and hopped down on the couch, sprawling out, needing some time to myself.
About an hour later Neville and Ginny came in. I raised my eyebrow and looked at them curiously. "What are you guys doing out so late?" I asked suspiciously, my big brother mode starting to activate. "I was out patrolling and Ginny came with me. Goodnight you two." Neville answered as he kissed the top of Gin's head before turning to go to his room.
"Bye!" We yelled after him as Ginny moved my feet so she could sit down next to me. "What are you still doing up?" She asked and I shrugged my shoulders. "Hermione and Lance broke up, he was playing her it turns out and she broke up with him. I was sticking up for her and he was basically, trashing her and she heard every excruciating detail of our conversation." I explained awkwardly. She stayed silent before looking up to the girl's dormitories. "Is she up asleep now? I would love to just go up and give her a hug."
"Yeah Gin, she's asleep by now. After she calmed down I sent her up to bed. You should have seen her, she needed some sleep. She still looked pretty but her face looked so tragic, she looked so upset. I didn't mention that to her though. I think that would have been worse if I did, and I wouldn't have gotten her to get to sleep so easily." I said as I ran my fingers through my hair.
"Did anything else terrible happen that I somehow missed while I was out with Neville?" She asked me. She looked upset because she missed the chance to help out with her best friend. She probably felt replaced by me because the last two times she was crying, I was the one to help cheer her up. "Well, she had me promise her to stop guys from pulling these tricks on her. I will basically be her bodyguard to make sure guys have no tricks up their sleeves." I answered casually with a shrug. She stared at me for a few minutes, waiting to see if I made another move. "What?" I asked her in confusion.
"Does that include you?" She asked in a tone that sounded somewhat like our mum, how scary that was. "I don't like to think it does. I'm not doing this to make her upset or to get her to shag me or whatever. I am not doing this to hurt her in anyway. I am doing this to help her, to help both of us. She will be so ecstatic once we get together. Plus, it won't be years before she learns the truth about how I finally got to her, how I had so much help. Remember once I tell her she will know all of you were in on it." I reminded her. She stayed silent, considering what I had just said.
"I suppose you have a point, you aren't trying to hurt her in the slightest." She said, nodding her head. "Wait, did you say years? You're planning on being with Hermione for longer than a few months?" She asked skeptically. I sighed and considered it. Was Hermione going to be one of my long term girlfriends? Was she going to be the first long term girlfriend I ever had? I smiled slightly and nodded my head as I looked down at my baby sister. "Yeah, I am planning on that. I'm planning on being with her for quite a long time Gin."
