George had been awake for about half an hour. Rose was lying with her back facing him and her hands on his arms that he had wrapped tightly around her. He knew she was still half asleep and he tried to keep his breathing soft, not to wake her up too soon. He had buried his nose in her hair, just loving her smell in his nostrils.
"Morning," she said sleepily as she pulled him closer to her.
"Good morning, my beautiful bride." George kissed her neck just below her earlobe.
"Hmm," she hummed and smiled. "Can't it be yesterday so Dru and Fred can get married again?"
George frowned. "Don't you want to get married to me?"
"Of course I do," she smiled and turned around in his arms to face him. "I can't wait until I get married to you, but if today had been yesterday, then at least I still had a day to look forward to today."
George laughed. "And they call me cheesy?" He gently pushed her on her back and started kissing her neck.
"Call me mistress Cheese from now on." she nodded.
"No, Mrs Cheese." George chuckled and slipped his hand under her nightgown to caress her inner thigh.
She giggled as she kissed him. "Mr. and Mrs. Cheese, I like it."
"Hmmm." George kissed her deeply. "I love you, Mrs Cheese." he let his hand gently rub her heat through her panties.
"Oh..." She gasped. "Good morning," she then chuckled.
"You like waking up like this?" He asked as he used his other hand to push her nightgown further up.
Rose grinned and (with help from the element of surprise) rolled the both of them over so that she was sitting on top of him, smiling down victoriously.
"Rosie?" George was a bit surprised by her, she was never this forward.
She moved her face closer to his and softly kissed his lips. "What would you like me to do, George Weasley?" she whispered in his ear.
"Rose, don't tease me." George warned huskily. "I mean, you know what I want."
She softly kissed along the vein in his neck, down to his collarbone and across his chest, taking her time. "Oh I know..." she said softly as she looked up to him with a big smile on her face.
"Rose, are you trying to kill me?" George groaned with his eyes closed.
"On our wedding day?" she shook her head. "Nah." She did feel empowered some how, but she felt like doing this, for him. She pulled his underwear off of him (which was the best thing ever, with him not living at his parents' house or at Hogwarts, he liked to sleep in next to nothing) and ran her finger up his leg as she moved back up again. His cock was proudly presenting itself to her (she still thought it looked hideous, but for something that had given her so much pleasure lately, she could look past all that).
"Rose." George moaned. She was teasing him by letting her finger tips slip up and down his shaft. "You're killing me here." he smiled.
She took him into her hand and started to move her hand up and down, occasionally giving it a firm, but gently tug which made him respond to her so beautifully. Seeing how George responded to her touch was a huge turn on for her, she found out. She slipped her free hand inside her own underwear and started to touch herself. The look on George's face was priceless.
"Who are you and what have you done with my Rosie?"
"You like this?" she smiled at him. "Me touching you? And touching myself?"
"Yeah...this is...so...hot." He groaned.
"I agree," she said huskily, as she kept her eyes trained on him and worked the both of them. She was soaking wet, and his cock had started to leak too. "What do you want?" she asked him. "Want to be inside of me?"
George smiled, "No, finish me off and then I've got a surprise for you."
Rose let her thumb rub the head of his cock, and liked the response she was getting, she could see he was fighting himself to allow her do what she wanted. She moaned as she rubbed her clit from time to time. "You're so hot, George," she sighed happily as it didn't take long for him to come all over her hand, his body shuddering as he did.
"You're amazing, Rosie." George said as he caught his breath. He sat up and kissed her. "Are you ready for your surprise?" He said as he gently removed her hand out of her panties and pushed her on her back.
She was slightly frustrated with him for getting her hand out of her underwear. She had been pretty close to finishing herself off too and now he was going to do what? "George..." she sighed as she felt how he was removing her wet panties from her. "I was having fun."
He grinned and kissed her. "I'm going to have fun with you." He started kissing her neck, down to her collarbone, her breast and then her stomach. He could tell she getting a bit impatient. "hmmm," he chuckled as he kissed her belly button. "Want me to kiss somewhere else?" he asked huskily.
"George," she moaned. She could understand why he wanted to have his way with her, because she had teased him and taken her time with him too, but a part of her already felt ready to explode.
"Well?" he chuckled.
Rose sighed happily and narrowed her eyes on him. "What did you have in mind?" she managed to say.
"Kissing your lips, just not the ones you're used to." He grinned.
"I love new experiences," she said after she took a deep breath and smiled at him. Dru had told her about this, she couldn't wait to find out what it felt like.
George started kissing her knee and worked his way up very slowly, one leg at the time. He loved teasing Rose, he loved the way she was making little noises and was squirming and giggling because she was ticklish. When he finally got to her vagina, he gently kissed her clit before giving it a bit sucking. It made Rose arch her back into him and moan. He chuckled and gave her clit a few licks and a bit of sucking as he caressed her entrance with his finger. He stopped for a second and looked at her with a devilish smile. "What do you want me to do, Rosie?" he grinned. "Stop or go on?"
"I might not have a husband to marry if you stop!" It took her a while to answer him, because she was blissfully floating in this euphoric feeling and she didn't want it to stop.
"Tell me what you want then?" George chuckled after giving her clit another lick, he loved the idea of having her beg for him.
"I want you, inside of me, please George."
"What like this?" He gently pushed his finger inside of her and moved it around, while he kissed her stomach. Oh he knew what she meant, but he was enjoying himself too much by watching her squirm. There was nothing more that he wanted right now than to thrust inside of her and reach a climax again, but it was her turn now and he believed in sharing things equally.
Rose growled for an answer. It was a shame that he was anticipating her wanting to flip the both of them over (not that it would be easy anyway, George wasn't in a position to shove him onto his back without inflicting some pain) otherwise she would have and she would have plunged herself right onto his cock.
George put a second finger inside of her and kissed his way back up her body, until he reached that spot underneath her earlobe, that drove her wild. He was founding it harder to keep himself under control. "How do you want me?" he asked huskily, giving her the control back.
She smiled at him with a wolfish grin. "On your back," she answered as she slowly got up and kissed him tenderly.
George kissed her back, before moving and lying on his back. He was loving this new side of Rose. "Would you like to fly my broomstick?" he grinned at her.
She was sat on her knees next to him and looked at him. "Did you just..." she laughed. "Seriously?"
George groaned as he started to caress her breasts. "Come on, Rosie, no more teasing." he begged.
She laughed and shook her head as she started to position herself so that she could lower herself down onto his cock. "I know you like to watch, but if this is uncomfortable for either of us, we won't try this again."
He didn't say anything as he put one hand on her hip and the other one on his cock to help her a little. She looked magnificent as she lowered herself on to him, the loud moan that escaped her lips as he accidentally hit a soft spot inside of her body was nearly enough to send him over the edge again. "Beautiful..." he muttered appreciatively.
Once George was snugly inside of her, she lowered her gaze upon him and slowly started to move. She actually liked this new vantage point, watching George watching her was hot.
George tightened his grip on her hips. The way her body moved as she was riding him, the way her breasts bounced as she was picking up the pace, was driving him mad with desire. Not to even mention those sparkling green eyes that looked straight into his. It was just too much for him to handle. "Oh Rose." He cried out.
She came hard when George climaxed and the feeling of both their bodies moving somewhat involuntarily was great. Once they were done, she felt simply too lazy to get off of him and carefully laid down on top of him. "Wow..." she tried to steady her breathing.
"Yeah..." George was at a lose of words as he gently caressed Rose's back.
Dru had been up for more then a hour. She had let Fred sleep and had waited for the florist to bring around Rose's bridal bouquet and some roses. She was making breakfast in bed for George and Rose and had torn off the flower peddles of two of the roses to put on the tray.
She was still walking around in one of Fred's shirts and one put on a pair of very short shorts to make her decent enough to open the door. She was also making some pancakes for Fred, it might not be Sunday, but she knew he loved her pancakes. And she wanted to something nice for their first morning as husband and wife.
She wasn't quite sure on how to take the breakfast up to Rose and George, she didn't want to disturb their morning. She decided to wait for Fred to get up, maybe he had an idea.
"Morning," George greeted Dru as he walked into the kitchen in his pyjama's.
"Morning, I thought you would stay in bed this morning, with your bride to be." Dru held up the tray of breakfast. "I made you breakfast in bed."
"Aw, how sweet of you!" he smiled. "Yeah, we were up early this morning, she's currently having a nice soak in the bath."
"Well, you could have breakfast in bed, after she gets out of the tub." Dru suggested, while she tried to shove a box under the kitchen table with her foot, hoping that George wouldn't see it.
After years of secrets, and conspiracies, he recognized the look on Dru's face. George could take a hint and nodded as he took the tray. "Thank you for breakfast, I'll get out of your hair."
'Thank you. I wanna make breakfast for your brother. If he ever gets up, that is." Dru smiled and gave George a kiss on his cheek. "Besides, you two should make the most of this morning. You'll never have another morning like this." She started to set up the kitchen table for one, for Fred to have breakfast, she had already eaten.
George took the tray back up to his room and knocked on Fred's room on the way over their. "Oi!, wake up. Your wife is making your favourite breakfast."
"Hmm, nectar of the gods? Or..." Fred looked at the look on Dru's face, as he came downstairs. "Pancakes!"
"Just for you." Dru smiled as she put the pancakes on his plate. She turned off the stove and sat down on the chair next to Fred's breakfast. Cooking for just one took a lot less time, so now she could actually sit next to him during breakfast.
"Have you had breakfast yet?" He smiled at her and softly kissed her.
"Yeah, I've been up for over a hour now." She got the box out from under the table. "I'm going to put these in the workroom downstairs in a bit, I don't want Rose and George find them."
"What is it?"
"The rose petals and the candles for tonight." She smiled.
"Oh, right!" he chuckled and took a bite out of his pancake. "Yep, these taste even more wonderful now than they did last Sunday."
"Really, because these are from last Sunday? Dru asked surprise.
Fred stopped chewing and looked surprised at her. "Really? But it's Thursday now."
"What? We're married now, you're not getting fresh pancakes everyday." Dru shrugged as she got herself a glass of orange juice. "Want more milk?"
Fred pouted. "I just wanted to say that these taste better now because my wife made them... but if you made the batter on Sunday... it's not really true, is it?"
Dru looked at him laughing. "Do you honestly think I use old batter? I never do!"
"You minx," he chuckled and shook his head. "You hang around with the wrong crowd, you're getting too sneaky."
Dru gave Fred a kiss before she sat down again. "I do love that pouty face of yours. Now finish your breakfast before the pancakes get cold."
"What, are you in a hurry?" he smiled at her and continued to eat his pancake.
"No." Dru smiled and ran her fingers through his hair. "I like watching my husband eat my pancakes."
All of a sudden the bell from the shop's front door sounded and he looked at Dru. "Are you expecting someone?" He asked worried.
"No, there's a sign on the door saying we're closed today." Dru got up, took her wand and went down the stairs to the shop door. Her heart skipped a few beats when she saw the familiar silhouettes of Lupin and Tonks. Fred! Hide the evidence! she called out to him, which was followed by a lot of noise coming from upstairs. Dru smiled widely and opened the door. "Now this is a lovely surprise!"
Tonks chuckled as she saw her cousin in a pair of shorts and a large shirt. "Ah, you four taking a well deserved break from running a successful shop?" she smiled as she hugged Dru.
"We wanted to take a family day." Dru said as she hugged Tonks back. She suddenly had a smile on her face. "How are you feeling, Dora?"
"Fine, thanks." she smiled. "Family days are good, Remus and I just wanted to make sure that you were safe."
"Yes." Lupin smiled at his wife as he hugged Dru. "So...can we come in or do we have to stay on the doorstep?"
"Well, I'm not sure everybody is decent upstairs. Hold on." Dru walked to the bottom of the stairs. "Honey, Tonks and Lupin are here. Is everybody decent, can they come upstairs?" She looked at Tonks and Lupin and gave an apologetic smile. "The boys like to sleep naked and I don't think you want to see that." Well, that wasn't that far from the truth.
"It's too early!" Rose's voice sounded convincingly sleepy.
"Come on, Rose. I've seen you in your pyjama's before, remember?" Lupin called out.
"Ugh, don't remind me." she groaned. "Yeah, the boys are in their jammies too, it's safe."
Dru pointed to the stairs for Tonks and Lupin to go up, while she locked the door again behind her.
"So, did you lose your pyjama's?" Lupin asked as Dru walked upstairs.
"No, I just put on pants, because the doorbell rang." Dru replied and walked into the kitchen. "Want some tea?"
"Tea would be nice," Tonks replied.
"Hi!" Rose smiled and walked towards Lupin to hug him.
"Well at least somebody can afford pyjamas in this house," he chuckled as he looked at Fred, George and Rose.
"We were just about to get ourselves going and get dressed." George replied. "So what brings you here?"
"So...why is the shop closed today?" Lupin asked with Dru in the kitchen.
"George and I have to meet some suppliers and Rose and Dru are going to visit Neville."
"How nice." Tonks smiled. Busted she though to herself.
"Thought you were coming with us to Neville? Our family day remember, visiting friends." Dru asked Fred as she walked in with a tray with tea mugs.
"Sorry, Honey, we got the meeting today. We'll come next time." Fred gave Dru a kiss on her cheek.
Tonks looked disappointed at Lupin, she thought she had them there for a while.
Nice safe Rose thought.
Nah, they don't suspect a thing, else they would have gotten mad already"
"Look, not to be rude, but what brings you here?" George asked again.
"I'm just worried about your safety, are your spells up to date?" Lupin asked worried.
"Yes, like we told you the night before yesterday, when you were here for the girls birthday party, all our spells are up to date." Fred said a bit annoyed. He and George could take care of themselves and their (soon to be) wives.
"Are you really alright, Dora?" Dru asked.
"Yes Dru, Remus and I are fine and I'm truly sorry about asking about your defenses, it's just that we worry, that's all."
"It's fine." George shrugged. "Fred and I just don't like it when people think we can not take care of our wi...girls."
Suddenly Dru smiled and looked at Rose. Rose, look into the future, I think Dora is pregnant, like a week or maybe two
Rose looked at Dru for a moment and then focused on Tonks and Dru's suspicions. Don't tell them though. she giggled as she took a sip of her tea.
"Oh we don't think you can't take care of them, but when you mentioned that sometimes non-important spells can be forgotten..."
"Let's just say that Remus hasn't been able to sleep very well," Dora sighed. "Must be the wolf in him or something."
"Really, not just the idea of his goddaughter having sex?" Fred asked, which immediately got rewarded with a slap on his stomach by Dru.
"I'm still in one piece," Rose nodded as she saw the look on Lupin's face. "See? Not falling apart, no stitches or residual glue."
"Except for a few scratches and bite marks here and there." Fred said, after stepping outside Dru's reach.
George chuckled when he saw Rose's face.
Rose growled and threw a pillow at Fred, before smacking George's arm.
"Fred, honestly." Dru shot him a look. "Look, we really don't wanna be rude, but we have to make a move on, or we'll be late. Maybe you could come to dinner on Sunday and them you can check the spells for yourself." Dru smiled at Lupin.
"Oh don't be ridiculous," Rose said and shook her head. "The spells are fine, we're fine... how are we honestly going to learn from possible mistakes if we get checked up upon every other day? Even Mrs. Weasley isn't that bad."
"What if we won't check the spells, can we then stay for dinner?" Lupin asked his goddaugther. "Please?"
I seriously don't get what it is with all these visits from him lately, Rose thought to Dru. Yes or No?
I already sort of invited him, so no would be rude
"Fine," she sighed and finished her tea.
"Come on, Georgie, we need to get dressed if we want to be in time for the suppliers." Fred pulled his brother up from the chair and smiled at the two parents in-law. "Busy, sorry."
"I think they want us to leave, sweetheart." Tonks said to her husband.
Lupin smiled at his wife. "I think so too, but that's okay, we have to do that other thing now."
"Quite right, and get heavy objects out of the way."
"Oh yes, don't want any injuries."
Rose smiled and hugged Lupin. "You're always welcome, but today is just a very busy day. Dru can't wait to go and visit Neville."
Dru nodded and gave Tonks another hug. "Take care of yourself."
Tonks took Lupin's hand.
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Dru looked at Rose and took her hand. "Now that's out of the way, let's get you in your dress."
"I thought we were busted," Rose said, letting out a breath she didn't know she was holding.
"Nah, relax! Nobody would suspect you and George to elope. Me and Fred yeah, but you two, no."
"I'm actually thinking that George and I shouldn't... you know. Elope." she sighed. "He sneaked off last night, to the Burrows to go and hug his mum."
Dru bit her lip. She didn't know what to do. "Fred, honey, could you come down to the office please?" she called out, before apparating herself into the boys office.
"What's going on?" Fred asked worried.
"Rose's getting second thoughts about eloping." Dru started to pace. "She thinks George isn't too keen on the idea."
"She might have a point though," Fred said with a nod. "I was actually surprised when he told me he would do it."
"Fred, if she walks away now, she'll break his heart." Dru said surprised at what Fred just said.
"I don't think she'll walk. She's clearly in love with him and she wants to make him happy, I think she'll talk reason into him or something."
"God, this is a mess." Dru sighed and sank to the floor. "George really really wants to marry her! Today!"
Rose wandered into George's bedroom and looked at him with a smile. He was already half dressed up, looking very dapper.
"Fred, can you help me with the cuff links?" He was standing with his back to the door.
"Nope," Rose shook her head and then smiled, appreciating the view. "He and Dru have an emergency talk in the office."
George turned around. "Fighting on their first day being married? pfff!" He then saw that Rose was still in her pyjama's. "Rose?" he asked worried.
She smiled at him as she walked towards him, and softly kissed him as she put her arms around his neck. "Tell me the truth, Georgie, would you like to have your parents present today?"
George shook his head. "Just you, Fred and Dru. That's all I need." He closed his eyes. This was exactly what he had been afraid of, she wasn't going to go through with marrying him. "But you don't want to come, do you?" he said with a broken voice.
"I do," she smiled and softly kissed his lips.
"Well, actually right now I think you don't."
"You know I do. I just have a feeling that you won't really enjoy today without at least your mum present." She softly caressed his hair. "I know you snuck off in the middle of the night last night."
"So, Fred did that too. I wanted to give my mum a hug. Since when is that illegal?" He was getting at bit angry as he felt rejected. He pried himself out of Rose's arms of him and walked to the window. "If you don't want to marry me, I rather you just tell me."
"It's not, I just thought it was very sweet," she said softly and sat down on his bed. "I know that we've talked about this, countless of times in the past few months, but I can't help but feeling that there will come a day where you'll regret it that your mum wasn't present, I mean, you still have parents who can come and see you get married, I know how close you all are."
George took a deep sigh and rubbed his eyes, trying not to show Rose, he had started to cry. "Fine, then we'll call off the wedding." He took his waist coat and put it on and took his jacket. "Fred can help you call the registry, but If you don't mind I don't want to stay here for this." he walked out of their bedroom downstairs to Fred.
"Fred?" he called, with tears in his voice.
"George!" Rose ran after him. "You didn't listen!"
George ignored her and went down to the office where Fred and Dru were sitting on the desk. They had heard him call, but they didn't want to respond, hoping that this wasn't happening. "Fred, I need you to contact the ministry and cancel the appointment."
"No." Fred said and shook his head.
"George, just talk to her." Dru said. "She loves you."
George shook his head, he knew Rose was almost behind him, but he didn't want to talk to her. "She just called off the wedding."
"I doubt it, George." Fred ran his hand through his hair. "Just talk to her."
"I didn't call it off, I just said that we're doing this the wrong way." Rose was now too in tears.
"I can't deal with this." George said
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Dru walked to Rose and put her arms around Rose. "Don't worry, he just needs to blow off steam. I'm sure he'll be back." Dru looked at Fred. What now?
"I didn't call it off, Dru, I didn't!" Rose sobbed into Dru's shoulder. "I was merely asking him if he'd be happier if his mum would be there too, because I know he loves her and..."
"I know." Dru pulled Rose closer in her arms.
"He hates me now, see? I always manage to ruin things."
"Rose." Fred put his hand on her cheek. "You and Dru get ready, put on your dress, do your hair and everything else you girls do. I'll get my family to the registry in time. I know my brother he'll be there." he wiped away her tears. "Do you trust me?"
"He doesn't want me anymore, Fred," she spoke softly. "I shouldn't have suggested it in the first place, I've lost him now."
"Of course not. He wants you so much, he's scared you don't want him. He just thinks you have cold feet that's all."
"But I don't! I just thought that he would be happier with more family..."
"Fred, what If we get her to your mum's? We can get her ready there and I don't know...get a registry official there maybe." Dru looked at her husband, she didn't know what to do, but she knew he needed her to help him find his brother. "Maybe Ginny can help her get ready? And then I can go to the ministry or something?"
"Think you're able to explain the reasoning why they wanted to elope in the first place but that Rose thought that George would be even happier with the family present and that they're very sorry for being sneaky and that they shouldn't be angry?"
"Yeah, that'll be a lot easier than when one day we tell them we went through with it."
"Fair enough," he gave a small nod before kissing Rose on top of her head. "Don't worry, Rosie, I'll talk some sense into him."
"Can you bring her stuff to the burrows first? I'll take her. It's the blue box on my bed and the stuff from my dressing table." Dru smiled. She was not facing his family alone with this.
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Dru and Rose were standing now in the kitchen of the Burrow. It was empty but for Ginny and Ron, who was looking with huge eyes at Dru.
"What?" Dru said still trying to comfort a sobbing Rose.
"Couldn't you have gotten dressed first?" Ron remarked. "I'm trying to have my breakfast."
Dru looked down, she had forgotten she was still only wearing Fred's shirt and shorts. She didn't even have any shoes on. "Right...hm... where's your mum?...wait, you haven't seen George, have you?"
"No, Why?" Ginny asked as she now was caressing Rose's back. "What's wrong, Rose?"
"George hates me!" Rose put her arms around Ginny and continued to sob. "All I wanted was to be nice for him and..."
"Ron, where's is your mum?" Dru asked again. "Oh never mind." she walked to the stairs. "Mrs Weasley!" she called out through the house. She then looked around and sighed, of course Fred wasn't coming before knowing Dru had enough time to tell his mum, he was terrified to tell his mother her son had tried to elope.
"Good morning dea-" Mrs. Weasley entered the kitchen with an armful of vegetables from the garden. "What's wrong?"
"George and Rose had a huge misunderstanding and now George is gone." Dru said as she walked over to Mrs Weasley, and took some of the vegetables out of her arms to put them on the kitchen counter.
Mrs. Weasley frowned. "George usually doesn't run away from a disagreement, and why aren't you dressed?"
"I forgot to get dressed...hm...the thing is. George got really upset, when Rose tried to tell him something, which he took completely the wrong way, and I do mean completely, and now he's gone. Rose is sobbing and Fred bringing her clothes here, and hopefully mine too and them we're going to go find him and bring him back before it's to late and the day is ruined." Dru had picked up a few thing like really fast talking from the years she spent with Hermione. "But I need you and Ginny and Fleur to get Rose ready for when we bring George back here."
Mrs. Weasley frowned. "Ready for what?"
Dru took a very deep breath. "Their wedding."
"I'm sorry dear, I thought I heard you say 'their wedding'."
"You did. They were going to elope, but then Rose realised that George wants his family to be there too and when she tried to tell him, to invite you all too, even if it was last minute, he took it the wrong way and now he thinks she tried to call it off." Dru took a deep breath and braced herself for a verbal beating, bu to her surprise it wasn't coming.
Mrs. Weasley pulled Rose into her arms and bear hugged her. "Oh my sweet Rose, thank you so much for realising that eloping isn't the answer," she said as she caressed the girl's back. "Right, well, it's certainly very last minute, but I'm sure that with our combined efforts, the garden will be pretty enough for you to get married in with George."
"He's not coming back," Rose sobbed.
"Fred should be bringing her dress any second now." Dru said as she looked outside to see if maybe he was hiding outside. "Where the hell are you?" she muttered.
Ginny and Ron were just gaping at Rose, and looked at their mother too, she was very forgiving, but the mention of 'eloping' should have set her off like a wildfire.
"Do you ever come during the day or are you always gonna come at night?" Bill asked Dru with a smile. "Forgot your clothes?" He and Fleur sat down at the table.
"Fleur, I need your help?" Dru kneeled down next to Fleur. Is Dru was going to trust anyone to make Rose look pretty, it would be Fleur.
"What's wrong with Rose?" Fleur asked.
"George is gone and I need to help Fred find him, maybe Bill can help me too. But I need you to make Rose as beautiful as you can. She and George are getting married today."
"What?" Bill, Fleur and the just arrived Hermione chorused.
Dru took a deep breath. "She and George wanted to elope, but Rose wanted the family there, George misunderstood, now he thinks she wants to call it off and he took off instead. Does everybody get it?" Dru was getting very frustrated. "Please help Fleur?"
"Well, first we need to find her something to wear, she can't get married in her pyjama's."
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"Is it safe?" Fred asked with his hands full of clothes and boxes and whatnot. "Did mum keep the both of you alive?"
"You stupid git, when I'm done with you..." Dru spat at him and hit his arm.
"What? I brought you your stuff."
Dru made a gesture to strangle him before pulling her dress and shoes out of his arms. "Two minutes and I'm ready." She quickly ran upstairs to Ginny's bedroom.
"Hi mum," Fred smiled widely and kissed his mother on the cheek, before looking at Ginny, who was still holding a sobbing Rose. "Blimey Rose, close those floodgates, not all is lost."
"FRED!" Dru yelled from upstairs couldn't he be a little more sensitive?
"Fred, do you have any idea where he might have gone to." Bill asked. "Maybe we should get dad to help too? And Lupin and Tonks?"
"Nah, I think I know where he is," Fred sighed and shook his head. "It'll be hard to convince him that for once, he wasn't listening. It was very sweet of Rose to think of him."
"I'm ready." Dru came downstairs, making Hermione and Ginny looked at her with big eyes. how could Dru possibly get dressed and look like she walked of a magazine cover, in only three minutes? "Bill, could you maybe get the registrar and ask him to come and perform the ceremony here?"
"Yeah, no problem."
"Ready?" Dru stood next to Fred and took his hand.
"Yeah, let's go George hunting," Fred nodded.
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"Alright," Mrs. Weasley spoke up. "Let's clear the garden a little, put down some chairs and..."
"Don't worry, Mrs. Weasley, Ron and I will take care of that," Hermione said with a nod.
"I'll get Lupin, Tonks and the others to help out too." Bill said. "See you later." He gave Fleur a kiss
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Rose watched as everyone was getting busy and she had calmed down somewhat, she was nursing a cup of tea and after telling them to simply not to bother with doing what they did, they assured her that everything was going to be alright. She was surprised by how Mrs. Weasley wasn't angry with her, even though Rose could hear her mutter a few times that she could have used a few more weeks to make it a perfect wedding.
One part of her said that she had done the right thing. Even though George had said that it was fine with just Fred and Dru present, she knew that he wouldn't be completely happy without his family present. His entire family. She knew that he was going to regret it later, and unlike her, he did have a big family who loved him very much.
Another part of her told her that she was just plain stupid. That George would never return now and that she should have kept her mouth shut. But she didn't want him to be unhappy. And George was unhappy now. She didn't really care about herself at this point. She felt terrible, but she had somehow made George unhappy.
She winced when Ginny smacked her on the head. "I don't need to be a mind reader to see that you're talking yourself into a big muddy hole you can't get out of, stop thinking. Drink your tea."
Rose watched as Ginny walked off again and stared into her cup of tea. If George wasn't going to come back or if he'd make the demand of Rose being gone before he'd come back, she'd go. She had really messed things up this time.
Fleur gently pat Rose on her arm. "One of my cousin's groom walked away the morning of their wedding and he came back. I'm sure George will too." She smiled at Rose. "Why don't we get you ready for when he gets here?"
"He won't, Fleur..."
"Well in that case... there will be a party now and you have to look pretty for that. Come on. We can use Mrs. Weasley's bedroom." she took out her wand "Wingardium Leviosa." Fleur directed the box with Rose's wedding dress and the rest of her things into the bedroom. "Do I need to use a spell on you too or are you coming on your own?"
Rose slowly followed Fleur up the stairs. Each step felt heavy to her feet. "Maybe I should just go home and see if he comes home."
"You are home, his home, home. He'll find you here."
Fred took a glass of water from the tab and gave it to Dru first. They had just come back to the burrows after looking for two hours. They checked every where they could possible look. "I don't know anymore, Dru. I don't know where else he could be."
Dru rubbed Fred's back and handed him the half empty glass. "We'll go look again, maybe we've missed him."
"Dru!" Tonks' voice sounded.
"Oh bugger." Dru muttered.
"I knew you were hiding something this morning."
"Don't start now." Dru said annoyed. "We need to find George." She was still rubbing Fred's back, she had never seen him so sad before, he was really worried about George.
"Alright, when I need to find people, I usually try to find them in places where nobody would bother to look, the least likely places." Tonks said as she leaned against the table, eating an apple. "What about those ex-girlfriends of his?"
"He wouldn't run off to another girl!" Fred said angrily.
"We've already tried those and Lee and even Harry's." Dru said.
"Oh, don't let Remus know you've been to Harry's, Harry is a bit off limits these days to keep him safe," Tonks winced.
'We didn't let him see us, we just checked around the neighbourhood and I peeked inside Harry's head to see if I saw George there." Dru sighed and ran her hand through her hair. "I don't know anymore."
"Alright, least likely ally? Someone you can trust but isn't really around?" Tonks offered.
"Oh, he wouldn't!" Fred groaned and smacked himself in the head. "Of course!"
"What?" Dru asked.
"Come on." Fred took Dru's hand.
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"Fred, Where are we? This street seems familiar to me."
"Just think for a second," Fred said as he walked through the street. "Who, besides me and George, have been a constant factor in your and Rose's life?"
Dru looked Fred. "No." she said surprised.
"As Tonks said, the least likely place." Fred shrugged. "He'd be the perfect place to go and hide at."
"Well, they did support each other when Rose and I were lost with our minds." Dru said, she had to run a bit to keep up with Fred. "It's that house." She pointed to a house.
"Hey you two," Neville greeted them and got up from his spot in the garden. "I was wondering when you'd show up."
"He's here then?" Dru asked relieved.
"Yeah, he's locked himself into my bedroom." Neville sighed.
"Did he talk to you?"
"Something with Rose and some mumbling and a lot of tears, I swear, he makes us blokes look bad."
"Let's go and talk to him." Dru said to Fred.
Neville walked them to his bedroom. He knew Dru knew where it was, he knew Fred knew that Dru knew where it was, but it was the polite thing to do. he knock on his own bedroom door. "George you have visitors."
"Go away!"
"Sorry mate, you're out of luck." Fred's voice sounded. "Can I come in?"
"No."
'Fine, have it your way. alohamora " Dru said and the door unlocked itself.
"Go away," George said again. "I don't want to talk about it."
"George, Rose is really upset." Dru walked into the bedroom, where George was lying on Neville's bed.
"I don't care. She called it off."
"You're wrong," Fred said, walking into the bedroom and sat down on the bed next to his brother. "It's the complete opposite."
"It isn't, she made up this lame excuse to get out from under it. I don't understand, if she wanted to wait all she had to do is say so."
"What's going on?" Neville asked Dru.
"George thinks Rose called off the wedding."
"Wedding?" Neville asked confused. "This so-." he shut up when he saw Fred glare at him. "That's brilliant!" he quickly said.
"Yeah but Georgie, you didn't listen to her. I understand that you were worried that she'd get cold feet, but what she asked you, is actually very sweet of her." Fred said.
"Really? How would you feel If Dru had gotten cold feet and called it off?"
"George, she didn't call it off, she wants a big wedding." Dru said frustrated. "She didn't want to elope anymore, like Me and Fred. She wants a wedding with your family there."
George blinked at her. "Really?"
"She knows how much you love the rest of us, Georgie," Fred said with a nod. "She knew that you wouldn't be completely happy on your wedding day without at least mum or mum and dad with you."
George put his hand in front of his eyes. "What did I do?" he muttered.
"Being a idiot." Neville deadpanned.
"You freaked out mate," Fred said and shook his head. "She's worried sick that you're not coming back or that you don't want her anymore now."
George sat up. "Well, maybe if I go back now, we can still make it to the ministry in time."
Dru smiled at Fred. "George, you're family is organising your wedding at the Burrows as we speak."
"What?" Neville was shocked and a little hurt. He always figured he'd be at Rose's wedding. "They're getting married today?"
"If she still wants me." George dropped to the bed again.
"Of course she still wants you. That girl loves you more than she loved anyone in her life." Neville said.
"It's no use. I've messed up. I can't undo this."
"Look, if there's one thing Rose has always thought me, that's there's always hope and you can't just give up. Go to your house and marry her." Neville said and pulled George off his bed. "Take him with you, as soon as they see each other, everything will be fine." He said to Fred, before sitting down on his bed, looking sad and hurt.
Dru looked at Fred, she knew Neville was a good friend to her and Rose and that neither Rose or George would mind having Neville attend their wedding, they'd probably like it, but Fred was the one that didn't like having him around.
"Come along, Neville," Fred said as he hoisted the boy to his feet. "George, go to the Burrows."
Dru smiled at Fred, walked to Neville's closet and found him a shirt and jacket to wear. "Let's go and get these two married."
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"GEORGE!" Mrs Weasley hugged her son. "I knew you'd come back." She then let go and hit him over the head three times. "How dare you try and elope? Hoe could you to that to you own mother. Don't you care how that makes me feel?"
Dru took a step back and stood very close to Fred. "We're in so much trouble."she whispered to him.
"Yep," Fred sighed.
"I do, mum, I honestly do, but... with Bill and Fleur getting married... and the war that's going on..."
"Well, thank heavens you didn't go through with it. It would break my heart if one of my children would run off and got married without me there." She hugged George again, before looking at Fred and Dru. "Don't you get any idea's in your head about eloping." she said sternly.
Fred and Dru both shook their heads. "We won't." they chorused.
Mrs Weasley then looked at Neville. "Neville? what are you doing here, dear?"
"We invited him to George and Rose's wedding, mum." Fred answered with a big smile.
"Oh well, that's good, nice to see you again."
"I'm going to apologize to Rose," George said as he filled two cups with tea. "I need to talk to her."
"Good luck, Fleur's not allowing anyone inside the bedroom."
"I'm going to try anyway." George said and walked up to his parents bedroom, "Fleur, I brought you and Rose some tea. May I come in, please." He asked, as he stood just outside of the bedroom door.
"No," Fleur said
"George?" Had he really come back? Or was that Fred trying to humor Rose by pretending he was George?
"I'm sorry, Rose."
"Fleur, let him in? Please?"
"No, we open the door a little, but he is not coming in."
Rose looked at Fleur, who looked rather superior to her and sighed. She put her chair against the wall next to the door and put her head against the wall. "Is that really you, George? I thought..."
"I'm so sorry, Rose. I freaked out."
"I would never call it off... I love you! I just thought you'd be happier with everyone around..."
Fleur sighed deeply and looked for tissues. Rose was going to cry and her make up would start running.
"I love you too, Rose. I do, I really do."
"So, we're still going to get married then?" she asked with a smile.
"If you'd still have me?" George asked insecure.
"Yes, you idiot," she chuckled. "I wouldn't want anyone else!"
"What about Neville? You wanted to marry him last year, remember?" he chuckled.
"Neville is going to kill me for getting married without him here." Rose chuckled.
"No he won't."
"Yes, he will."
"No, because he's downstairs."
"George! That's great!" she laughed. "He's not going to kill us, is he?"
"Well, not us too." George said. "I better go see if everything is ready. I'll see you at the altar?"
"I'm not going anywhere," Rose smiled.
'What? You're not coming down?" George smiled.
"Oh yes, Fleur will make sure of that!"
"I love you Rose."
"I love you too, George," she sighed happily.
George walked downstairs, where Fred and Dru were whispering to each other in a corner of the room. "What are you two discussing?" he asked as he walked up to them.
"hm...nothing." Dru blushed.
"Uh huh." He poured himself a cup of tea and sat down. "Thanks, you three," he said, looking at Dru, Fred and Neville.
"You really think we're going to let you two ruin your own wedding day?" Dru smiled as she and Fred joined George and Neville again at the kitchen table.
"God, we're both idiots, aren't we?" George chuckled. "Me for not listening, she for not speaking up sooner."
"And yet, you two are adorable," Bill said as he joined them.
"I just can believe you two were going to elope." Neville sat as he took a sip of the tea he had gotten from Fred.
"Eloping in our family, George you should know better than that." Ron said as he joined his brothers.
Dru stood up from the table and nodded to Neville to come and join her in the garden. The Weasley siblings needed a moment for themselves.
"I still can't believe you're getting married." Ginny said as she took Dru's seat.
"What, that Bill's getting married? Why else are we all here?" Charlie said as he suddenly walked int to kitchen, a few day to earlier.
"Charlie!" Ginny squealed and in an instant she was hanging on to him. "I've missed you!"
"You're getting way to big for that." Charlie laughed as he hugged his sister. "By the way, who was that very hot looking girl in the black flower dress. I liked to have another look at that. She's very fit." Charlie said as he peaked out the kitchen door into the garden.
"She's mine, mate," Fred laughed.
"How did you get a girl like that? Was it very bad?"
"Was what very bad?" Fred asked.
"Her head injury, you oaf. No woman in her right mind would choose you." Charlie laughed and pat his brother on the back.
"Oh gee, thanks," Fred rolled his eyes at his brother.
"So, how serious are you two? I mean you invite her to a wedding and she comes and stays two weeks early? By the way are we having a test drive or something?" Charlie asked as he hugged his four brothers.
"Dru actually lives with Fred," Ginny nodded. "With George and Rose."
"What? Not you too!" Charlie looked at George in shock.
"Charlie, you wanna know what's even worse? He..."Bill pointed at George "is even getting married before you and me."
"No way."
"Yeah, she's putting on her wedding dress, right now." George grinned at Fred, but Fred was looking a bit off, they were talking about getting married and suddenly Fred realised none of them, apart from George, knew he was already married.
"I can't believe I come back home and not one but two of my brothers are getting married." Charlie laughed. "Well, that means me next, or you, Fred."
"Well, he is engaged already." Ron said.
"Wait, George is getting married and you're engaged? Why does nobody write me these things?" Charlie said as he hit the twin on their heads both at the same time.
"Ouch." George said. "Watch it, I need to look good today, or Rose is going to kick your butt."
"I wrestle dragons for a living, George, I can handle a girl."
This made Fred, Ginny and Ron snicker. "You haven't met Rose yet," Ron said. "She's a feisty one she is."
"And what's with that ring, Fred?" Charlie asked, pouring himself a cup of tea and finally sitting down.
George looked at Fred, neither of them had realised that Fred and Dru left the apartment in such a hurry, that they were both wearing their wedding rings.
"What ring?" Bill asked and looked at Fred's hand and laughed. "Wait, are you wearing an engagement ring? Like a girl does?" This made Ron, Ginny and Charlie all laugh.
"Yes," Fred nodded and shook his head laughing. "Dru and I got married yesterday," he said only half joking.
"You're joking, aren't you?" Bill said laughing. "You wouldn't be so stupid to elope."
"Oh, wouldn't you like to know?" He grinned and took a sip of his tea.
Bill looked at Charlie, would their brother really elope?
Ginny looked at Ron. "Fred?" Ron asked.
"Wouldn't you like to know, Ron?" Fred laughed.
"She just turned 17 two days ago. You didn't really marry her, did you?" Ron asked.
Fred shrugged for an answer. He liked to keep them guessing, it almost felt like old times again, when he and George had cooked up some elaborate plan and done things they probably shouldn't have.
"Let me see the ring." Charlie said
"Nope," Fred said, stuffing his hand in his pocket.
"George?" Ginny said.
"Oi, don't look at me, I'm getting married today."
Dru and Neville walked back into the kitchen and Dru suddenly felt everybody staring at her. "What?'
"Oh, nothing, honey," Fred said as he pulled Dru on to his lap. "I'm wearing a ring and I told them we got married yesterday."
"Did you now?" Dru smiled. "Well, if you say so."
"Have you met my brother Charlie?" He said, pointing at his brother. "He plays with dragons for a living."
"I know, it's a good thing we're not married yet, now I can still trade you in." Dru smiled and gave Fred a kiss on his lips. "I have to go, I'm going to check on Rose, with Neville."
"Fleur's not allowing boys to enter the room," Bill warned her.
"Neville's fine, he's a brides maid. I've got his dress upstairs for him." Dru said as she grinned at Neville as she walked by him to the stairs.
"You are so dead." Neville said to Dru.
George nearly spat out his tea as he looked at the two leaving again. "Yep, Neville would knock them all dead in a dress."
"Can't wait to see his hairy legs." Fred roared.
There was knock on the door."Rose, your two bridesmaids are here, can we come in?" Dru asked.
"Yes!" Rose giggled as she nearly jumped up and down. Fleur was okay company, but still hard to get used to. She couldn't wait to see Dru and Ginny.
Dru opened the door and walked in with Neville, before closing the door behind her again.
"Neville!" Rose hugged him tightly. "That's a surprise!"
Neville's jaw dropped to the floor,when he saw Rose. He had seen her in that dress before, but she was a child then, now she was a woman getting married.
"No boys!" Fleur shrieked.
"Oh relax, Fleur. Neville's one of the girls," Rose grinned. "Go downstairs and have something to eat."
Dru nodded to Fleur. "You have another brother in law to meet downstairs."
"Percy?" Rose and Fleur chorused.
"Charlie." Dru smiled.
"Oh, I can't wait to meet him!" Fleur smiled widely and disappeared.
"Wow, Rose, you look amazing."
"Thanks, Neville," she blushed. "Dru fixed the dress for me."
"You look perfect, Rose." Dru smiled.
"I am glad I get to see you get married." Neville smiled. "I would have hated it if I couldn't have been here on your wedding day."
Dru looked at Neville. she never realized that she was going to tell him too. "Neville, please don't get mad."
"Why would I get mad?"
"Fred wasn't joking when he said that we had gotten married yesterday."
"Are you completely bonkers?" Neville said in surprise. "Have you lost your mind? Or received too many knocks around on the head maybe?"
"No, I love him and we want to spend the rest of lives together." Dru said defensive. "You knew we were engaged."
"Yes, but honestly, married? You're 17!"
"Oh come off your high horse, Neville," Rose said, before sitting down on the bed. "Love is love, love is beautiful."
"Can't you try and be happy for me once." Dru said.
"I am happy for you, Dru. I am. It's just... a shock, really."
Dru stared at the floor. "You're first to know, besides Rose and George."
"Right," he nodded. "Well I appreciate that, thank you."
"I better go downstairs, You need to get ready, I'll see you in a bit, Rose. You look amazing." Dru said, gave Rose a kiss on her cheek and hurried downstairs, The Weasley siblings were still sitting there talking to each other. Dru sat down on Fred's lap and buried her face in his neck.
"So, Dru, honestly, tell me the truth, how bad were you injured for becoming Fred's girlfriend?" Charlie snickered.
Dru lifted up her head and glanced at Charlie. "Your brother is the best thing that ever happened to me. He is most sweetest, honest and caring man I've ever met." she said, she wasn't pleased with Charlie right now.
"Dru, he was just kidding?" Ron said.
Dru gave Ron an angry look, before burying her head in Fred's neck again.
"Oh," Ron said as he saw the look on Neville's face. "That explains a lot, doesn't it?"
"Oi, you lot, shut up," George said and poured his fifth cup of tea. "There will be no more fighting today, got it?"
"I'm sorry, George." Dru said and without removing her head from Fred's neck she looked around with her hand until she found George's shoulder and pat on it. "Sorry, Charlie."
"Sorry George," Neville said softly as he sat down at the end of the table. He then saw Lupin walk up the stairs and was confused for a moment, but then remembered that he was Rose's godfather.
"That's our cue, let's get to the garden." Bill said.