Fred fell asleep a little past three in the morning, but I could not sleep for the life of my that snow filled night. All though out my head were thought lingering from the times gone by with Draco, how much he used to kiss me and make me smile. All of the things that he used to do were easily compared to Fred, I know that it's a rule, that you should never compare boyfriends, but it was on my brain now. Fred was obviously better for long in the short and long run of things, but for some odd reason, I knew that I would always have a small spot in my heart dedicated to the blond man with the purest blood. He was locked in there and I did not have the right key to get him out, I never would have that key either, it was a useless thing to try to even do.
Every little detail of his face, from the smallest pores to the longest eye lashes made me smile at this moment. Then I would look over at my red-headed Fred, sleeping in a hard chair, all because he did not want to leave me alone in Christmas. He never had to be here, to sit here through agonizing hours and try to keep my happy, he did because he cared for me in an odd way. He made me laugh right before I thought I would cry, he has always been there to do that though, he is creative and his family all cares as well. I knew deep inside that it would have never worked with Draco, that something would have tore is apart from his icy family to it being someone else to tear him from me. With Fred I cannot see any of that though, he is true and would never do something to hurt me, I knew this. The school would be shocked to hear that I made a jump from a Slytherin boy to a Gryffindor boy, even more then that I made the jump from Malfoy to Weasly. But I did not care about what the student would think, hell I really did not care was Draco thought, I was just happy that someone cares for me as much as I care for them.
By the time that the first beams of light started to shine through the curtains of my window, Fred started to stir away, but not quite waking. I have drifted from being half awake to sleeping through out most of the night, thinking and wondering, letting my thoughts drift into dangerous territories. I slowly tried to un-knot the back of my hair and then notices how it was matted with small flecks of blood and there was a rather large bump on the back of my head. I wondered what had happened that night after Fred and I went our own ways, but knew that I would most likely never really remember. Soon the doctors would be releasing me and I would go to my house, get some of my clothing, some for James and we would be going to Sirius' house so that The Order could have a meeting and so that I- along with Harry and James- could see Sirius. I was thrilled to know that James had someone like Sirius to have watching over him. By about seven in the morning, Fred finally rose from his long slumber.
" Good morning Beautiful." I could feel myself blushing. " How are we feeling this wonderful day?" He said and slowly moved to the window and opened the curtain and allowed what little sunlight there was to come washing through.
" I am wonderful today, and how about yourself Sleeping Beauty?" I smiled as I sat up in my bed.
" Tired, a little sore, but good now that I have seen you." He smiled, slowly coming over to my by and laying a slow kiss on my lips.
" Well it's good to see that you are awake, half way through the night your snores went away and I thought that you had died." I laughed, so did he softly.
" Remind me that I have something to tell you later tonight, when we are alone at my house." He smiled ad he brushed out his hair with his hands, like I wish I could do.
By nine they allowed me to leave the hospital, after I took a shower and got all of the little blood flecks out of my hair which, as it collected at the bottom of the shower, was a lot. They said that they gave me some type of potion to heal up the wound and that I should be fine. I was thrilled to hear this news and my parents drove me and Fred back to my house, where the Weasly's, along with Harry, were all waiting to bring us to our destination. They really seemed to be getting along with my parents and Ron was showing Harry all of the pictures that he was shocked at the firs time that he came over here. Harry was not as funny to watch seeing all of the pictures, but still was funny to watch him look at the picture, then at me, then back at the picture.
Before I could go anywhere I went into my room and got my trunk for school, a baby bag to throw some of James' stuff into and then I found the little box that I had gotten for Fred. It was more like a gift box full of stuff that I knew I should never give him. Things like little potions to give to one of his professors to make them sick for a month, stink bombs from the gag store down the street- a Muggle thing that I knew he would love-, a joy buzzer, some Axe body spray from the drug store because I loved that smell, a CD mix of a bunch of Muggle artist that I thought that he would like to listen to, a few gag spells that I knew that him and George could have a field day with and some other small things that I hoped he would like. I got some things from James' room for the adventure like a blanket and clothes and his new best friend- the stuffed dog that Sirius had given him and I was ready to go.
We took a Muggle car to the house, which was one of the scariest things that I think I have ever lives through. I knew that magical people really did not need cars and never really took any lessons on how to drive, but I really thought we were all going to die. Fred and George made fun of all of the faces that I made, making me look like an owl with giant eyes, saying that I nearly broke Fred's hand from fright. But we made it there is one piece, beside Fred who really thought that I had broke his hand, and made it into the house without causing any sort of a scene. But it was rather funny to see so many people getting out of a station wagon, thank god for magic or we would have needed a mini-van. Also for the fact that we were in a very magical populated place helped out as well, there were no Muggles to see for the longest mile.
" Welcome, come on in everyone!" Lupin said at the front door as we all slowly filed into the house. Sirius would never be allow to open the door for reasons that were very well known.
" It is good to see you Remus!" Mrs. Weasly said as she entered the house and all of the Weasly children followed, then myself and James, then in the back was Harry, who was rather happy to be here finally.
" Ah, Hermione, it is good to see that you are alive and well. I heard that there was a harsh battle and that you must have caused good damage to your attacker. But that is all rumor I am guessing." He smiled and the looked down at the car seat that I was holding. " Oh well hello there James, it is also good to see you as well. I see that you like at least one of the gifts that you have received. He will be thrilled to see this. Come in, come in! It is cold out!" He said and we all slowly entered the house.
All of the order went into one of the larger rooms in the house and started to talk things over, most of the others went into different rooms, listening to music or talking with one another. Fred, James and I, went into the living room area and relaxed into each others embrace for a little. I found that Fred held my tightly, like he never wanted to let go because he was afraid that he may lose me if he did. He kissed me with more passion, like if he didn't I would walk away from him and never come back. If only he knew that all of this were lies, that he had nothing to worry about because I was never going to walk away. Although I wore Draco's bracelet around my wrist because of the beauty, it meant nothing more then that to me. There was a moment where I was holding James, Fred's arms were wrapped around my shoulder and around the bottom arm that was holding James. Our noises were touching, we were smiling and looking into one another's eyes and there was a flash of light- Ginny had taken a picture of all of us in the embrace. She smiled as the picture came out of the camera and started to appear.
" I am sorry to ruin the moment like that, but I had to get a picture." She said as if it was taking the picture or death. " The two of you just looked so happy and well- I thought that in the future the two of you would want this." She said and placed it on the table in front of us and walked out of the room, smiling the whole way.
" Well that was a moment killer." Fred smiled a little as he moved in closer to my face.
" Only if you think that it was." I smiled and placed my lips softly onto his as he placed one of his hands on my face and keeping the whole other arm still around James.
Some people say that they ave a moment that they would re-live for the rest of time, others say that if there is a heaven that you re-live your one great moment over again for the rest of time. This would be the one moment that I would have for life. This one kiss and this moment, I felt so loved in his embrace that I had nothing to hide and no one would mind a thing I said. I know that Fred would never harm me, never harm a hair on James' head and would protect the both of us for the rest of time it he could. It just felt so right to be sitting here, letting hims arms be wrapped around me and allowing him to kiss me in this way. It felt like this was the true place that I should be. I know that in the past I thought I knew where my true place was, but this was different, this was feeling like there was a soft warmness in my heart and it felt so soothing and calm. As he pulled away I smiled and moved back a little, feeling all of the heat coming back to my face, all of the blood rushing to my cheeks.
" I love it when you blush, you look so cute." He smiled lightly and looked down at his shoes.
" Thanks." I whispered as I looked at James. We both knew what the other was thinking it was the same. To put it in simple words it was just wow.
" Ah there you both are!" Someone said as came into the room, it was Sirius. I stood up and went to hug him tightly, trying not to disturb James, who was sucking on the gray wolfs ear.
" I am so happy to see you Sirius!" I smiled as we parted from our hug.
" It it very nice to see you as well Hermione." He smiled. " Fred, I hope that you are taken care of this girl. She deserves the very best as you know."
" Yes, I truly do know that." He smiled, he was starting to blush this time, it looked so cute that I smiled wider.
" Besides, if you break her heart, you know that she will place a terrible curse that will last for at least a month." He smiled. " She is the brightest witch of her age. And if she does not hurt you. I will." He smiled wider.
" Trust me, if I do break her heart, which I promise that I will never do. I will be running for China or some place very far away. I will make sure that I put some distance between us." He laughed.
" It is also very good to see you as well my good friend." Sirius smiled down at James. " May I hold him?" He asked and I gave my son over to him.
" He really is liking the wolf that you gave him. I think that he has some teeth growing in and that seems to be the only thing that will keep him quite today." I smiled
" Well I am very happy to hear that." He said, looking back at where the rest of The Oder was.
" Take him in there, I doubt that he will tell any of the information to any Death Eater in the near future." I smiled and Sirius walked away, my son in his arms.
I found my way back to Fred's arms, this time moving much closer to him and wrapping my arms around his torso and making sure that I had a tight grip on him. I just wanted to stare into his eyes for hours because of how beautiful they were. But I was more attracted to his lips, which were calling for me in an odd way, I kept sneaking little kisses in every few moments and would go back to the embrace without a word spoken. It was like we did not need words really, we had one another and we knew what the other person was thinking, we just somehow knew. I loved this feeling and then remembered that I had to give Fred my gifts before anyone tried to sneak in or anything like that. It was not the best time, but it was the only time that I knew we would have. I slowly moved out of the embrace, at first causing Fred to worry he had done something and pulled out the box from out of James' bag of things.
" Merry late Christmas Fred." I smiled and handed him the un-wrapped box. He smiled and opened it to see all of the little gifts he had in store.
" Oh. My. God." He smiled as he started to look at all of the things and the smile that light up his face was priceless, he was like a kid that had just gotten a life time supply of candy!
He started to play with each and every little thing that was in the box, wanting to know what this thing did and what that thing did. He learned very quickly and had plenty of idea's to play little pranks all around the school for fun. He knew that George would be jealous about the gifts that he had gotten and how much he would plan with his bother on who to gag and many other things. He looked so happy that I did not want to disturb him from his moment and just smiled and watched as he looked at every little thing and laughed. He loved the idea that I was giving him things that I liked to smell, it made him know what to smell like and what not to smell like. I did not know why but I just liked watching him be so damn happy, it made me really happy as well.
" Thank you so much Hun!" He smiled and wrapped his arms tightly around my neck and pulled me into a tight hug.
" You are so welcome!" I smiled and hugged him back, loving each and every embrace.
Slowly though he placed his hand on my chest and carefully pushed me down onto the couch so that my back was laying flat on it. I could hear my heart pounding into my chest like a drum and I tried to contain my face from looking off. He moved his body and lowered himself as well, kissing my lips and first and started to move his way down to my neck, which sent a sharp chill though my body and then moved back up to my lips again. I did not have the words to say, the way that I felt, the simple things that he was doing, all of it felt like heaven to me. I gripped onto his hair and he moved from my neck to my ear and lightly bit down into it, even his deep breathing into it made me quiver a little. My eyes felt like they were glued shut and my hand that was on his back could not so from gripping tightly into it. One of his hands moved up my leg and just went from my leg, to my hip, to the side of my torso, to my neck and it stayed there for only a moment and then started to move all the way back down again, making me let out a light moan.
" Hermione there is something that I have been meaning to tell you for awhile now." He whispered into my ear, his eyes locked onto mine.
" Yes, what is it?" I asked, clueless.
" Hermione, I love you." He whispered, that is when my world completely stopped moving.