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Friday 12th of June 1998

It was Friday again, the week had passed rapidly. Hermione was with Ginny and Luna. They were in Ginny's room. They were getting ready to go out with their boyfriens and friends.

It was the first time that they were going out, all together, and the first time that Hermione and Fred were going out as an official couple for everybody, his mother and Angelina Johnson included.

Yes, Molly and Fred had a long talk on Wednesday. He had told her that Hermione was the girl with whom he had been in love since he was seventeen. Molly had said that she was happy even though she was still processing the news. Indeed, she was still not sure that the two lovers were made for each other.

Her husband had told her that it was only because she had pictured, for too many years, Hermione with their youngest son. He was convinced that she just needed time to accept the new couple. Soon, she would start to, mentally, prepare another wedding, he was a 100% sure about it.

Molly was praying for her husband to be right but still there was something wrong with this relationship, something that she had not been able to figure out yet. She could not see them growing old together and it was bothering her.

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Hermione and Fred had been so busy during the week that Hermione had not even realized yet that Friday was already there. She could not believe it, only one more week at the burrow.

She was chatting actively with Ginny and Luna. Or better said, she was answering their questions and the two young girls had a lot...

Ginny, who was a lot more experienced than her friends, made Hermione blushed several times.

Hermione did not want to give them too many details but at the same time she believed that the two girls could give her some tips to feel more comfortable about the idea of being intimate with Fred. Unfortunately, they did not help Hermione, quite the contrary actually. Both said that their first time had been quite awful. Ginny regretted to have done it with Dean while Luna regretted to do not have waited a bit more before to give her V card to Neville.

Just like Fred had predicted, Luna was starting to get tired of Neville. She needed adventures, not going for a walk... She had met Newt Scamander's grandson few days ago and she admitted, blushing, that she was looking forward to see him again and why not hang out with him. He had seen nargles so obvisouly Luna could not wait to spend time with him...

This comment made Hermione and Ginny laugh even if both were already sad for Neville who would certainly end up with a broken heart before the end of the summer.

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Hermione hated the fact that Fred had been right. He was a prankster but he was also such a very good observer. It was so disconcerting, just like the fact that he seemed to have a lies' radar. always activated.

Fred had explained her that those qualities were required to become a good prankster but lately Fred was using them beyond the pranks' area too often.

Hermione was not a liar, neither did she have any reason to lie to her boyfriend but she was feeling so vulnerable when he was around. She knew that he was a not a legiliment, he just knew her very well. She wished that she could tell the same. Indeed, sometimes it was hard for her to anticipate Fred's reactions.

Very few persons had the power to really hurt her, Fred was definitely one of them. He could break her heart and even if Hermione knew that he would not, a part of her still had fears and those fears were probably the reason why she had not had sex with Fred yet.

Andromeda had told her several times that being in love meant taking risk and exposing your heart. This was exactly what she had been doing for the last five weeks but sometimes it was still hard to unbuild the walls that she had been building for years.

The transition from Hogwarts' bookworm to Fred's girlfriend was not easy...

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Hermione was looking at herself in the mirror. She sighed and looked harder as if her reflection could help her to totally trust herself. Indeed, Fred was not the problem, she and her self esteem were. She shook her head and focused on her hair and make up.

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She was almost done with her hair. It was too long but Fred had told her that he liked it when it was long besides it was less bushy when it was longer so Hermione had decided to let it grow until the end of the summer.

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She was now thinking about everything that had happened during the week. The week had been productive. Hermione was extremely happy, she had been happy since Fred had awoken but her happiness had clearly reached another level. So many good things had happened in just few days.

She bit her lips, the roller coaster of her emotions was really indescribable. How could she feel happy and nervous at the same time, she had no clue...

She could remember the day that she had told Ron that he had the emotional range of a teaspoon while they were talking about Cho. If she could expose her feelings too Ron, she was wondering with what she would compare him this time, nothing better than a teaspoon that was for sure.

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She was putting lipstick on, a red one, as she was mentally enumerating all the positive and less positive things that had happened since their trip to her house.

Fred had signed her V card. The trials had started and so many Death Eaters had already been sent to Azkaban. She had gone shopping with Andromeda, Harry and Fred to choose the furnitures for their bedrooms at Grimmauld place. She could not wait to move in even though she was a bit sad to leave the burrow. Andromeda had told them that they could move in the following week and Hermione had decided to wait until the end of the following week to leave the same day than Fred.

Fred was ready to move back to Diagon Alley, he was as excited as Hermione was, perhaps even more. And obviously saying that George was thrilled to have his twin back was an overstatement.

As for Diagon Alley, it was slowly getting back to the wonderful magical street that it used to be before the second war. The twins' shop was always crowded. Fred was working few hours there each morning, while Hermione was working at the Ministry, before to head back to the burrow for lunch with Hermione and spend his afternoons with her at the farm working on new products and looking for informations about time turners.

Also they had finally completed their research during the week. However, their quest was not totally done yet.

They had found a couple of useful books at the black market on Tuesday and they had gotten the confirmation that Fred was alive because of the spell that Hermione had used.

In one of the new books that they had found at the black market, different spells and even potions were listed to find out if a person saved during a trip to the past was supposed to be saved or not. Unfortunately, they had not need to use any of those as it was specified, at the bottom of the same page, that if the person had died and had been taken from Death's arms then it was obligatory an unwritten action. No one could resuscitate the Dead. They should have guessed, Dumbledore had told them countless times...

Hermione had been bothered by the fact that Dumbledore had encouraged her to go ahead. The twins had not been troubled. Dumbledore was an odd man after all and trying to understand his moves was a waste of time, even more now that he was just a soul into a painting.

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In the same book, a list of spells, that were effective to save and protect a life for an unwritten action, was listed and the spell that Hermione had used was on top on the list. It was the most efficient spell. They had read the few lines that were written about it and had understood that as long as Hermione would love Fred, he could not die.

The book did not say much more about the spell but Hermione knew that Fred was the love of her life so she had told him that he had nothing to worry about.

Of course, they should look for concrete informations about the spell that Hermione had used and why it had become an illegal spell. To get them, they had no choice but to speak with Percy, they had agreed on that.

At the Ministry, Percy had access to many documents and if someone could easily find informations about that spell that was him. Besides, he was the only one, with George and Andromeda, who knew the all story.

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Hermione was done with her make up. Actually, she was just wearing red lipstick. Her mother had always told her to choose between lips or eyes. Hermione prefered lipsticks over mascaras, so it was never hard to choose. When she was wearing lipstick, she was feeling like a woman and not like a girl.

In the meantime, she was still trying to deal with the fact that Fred would really have died if she had not gone back on time.

Finding out that he was supposed to die had been a hard one for Fred. Even if he had expected it, it did affect him a lot. He had almost not talked for two days. Hermione and George had to cooperate to make Fred speak and laugh again. Both had been in shock too but their feeling was different. Indeed, they were just thinking about the fact that the spell had worked and not about the fact that Fred should not be alive.

It had not affected her much at first but it was now. The thought of Fred dead was so dreadful.

She shook her head and sat on her bed, she had to stop thinking about it, Fred was alive.

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Hermione was putting on her shoes, a light blue pair of sandals, that she had taken into her mother's closet when she had been at her house with Fred on Monday.

The roller coaster was still going strong. Indeed, she had completely forgotten about Ginny and Luna who were arguing over a red pair of stilettos.

She was not upset because of the conversation that they had with Percy even though her mind was stuck on what had happened the day before.

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They had spoken with Percy the day before, Thursday.

Percy had promised to help them. He had, of course, reminded Hermione that she should not have used a spell without knowing its backstory. Just like George, he would always be grateful, she had saved their beloved brother but they knew that it would have consequences sooner or later.

Percy, more than George, was worried, a lot, about the line that was explaining that Hermione's love was protecting Fred's life. He did not doubt Hermione's love for his brother, nobody could as if she did not truly love Fred, the spell would not have worked but he was convinced that the sentence had a double meaning and that they had a lot more to find out.

The sentence in the book was so vague, Percy refused to believe that Fred would die only when Hermione would stopped loving him.

Hermione had answered to that one by saying that it must refer to her death as the ultimate possibility. Percy could not agree so he had kindly reminded her that dying did not mean to stop loving someone.

Fred and George were thinking like Hermione so they had a brief argument about it. Percy had to use Lily's love to make them understand his point. It had let them speechless and concerned.

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What Percy had said about love made sense but did it mean that Fred had kind of become immortal. During their conversation, Hermione had remembered that when she had first read about the spell and discovered that it had become illegal, immortality had been the first thing that had come to her mind. It was astonishing but what if that were the truth?

Reaching immortality was not impossible in the wizarding world and a lot of wizards had, were still trying to become immortal but not Fred. He had told Hermione, during one of their talks at the hospital, that he would not want a life without the people that he loved.

Hermione had apologized for not knowing what she had done. Fred had laughed and told her that he would find a way to undo the immortality stuff and join her in the afterlife even though they had not got any confirmation of a possible immortality yet.

« But for now I think that we should just live our lives. We have been doing research for weeks. We have one more week to spend together at the burrow and I would love us to do something different. I know what you are thinking Hermione but we have got our answer and I do not wish to spend the rest of the summer or my life doing research. Besides, I've got the feeling that the more we will dig, the more we will find to make us dig deeper and this is not what I want. We are not in danger, nobody is so why don't we just enjoy life and let the war and everything that had happened behind us. » he had said gently as he did not want her to dig her heels in

Hermione had promised to stop her research as soon as Percy would have found out why the spell had become illegal. Fred had agreed with that before to kiss her tenderly.

For some reasons, Fred was tired of this endless hunt, Hermione could read it in his eyes. It would be hard for her to let that behind them but she also had to respect Fred's wishes. Besides, she had been the one who had said countless times that she wanted to enjoy life as an eighteen years old young adult, it was about time to start, was not it?

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Hermione let herself fall onto her bed, she was done with her appearance but not with her thoughts.

The thought of this kiss had awoken the butterflies in her stomach.

Perhaps, she should say yes, really yes if Fred ever mentioned eloping or getting married. They were too young, she had not changed her opinion about that but perhaps getting married would help her to do not be that worried all the time...

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Hermione glanced at the little black book that was on her bedside table. It was Fred's old diary and she could not wait to finish to read it. Fred had given to her his old diary on Tuesday. He had been writing in it since he had left Hogwarts. It was like a volume of thoughts that he had about her, them, during the last couple of years and Hermione was finding it really interesting and arousing. She would have never imagined that Fred had invented the patented daydream charm thanks to his dreams about her...

Thanks Merlin, the diary was protected by a charm so Ginny or Molly could not open it. Hermione would die of embarrassment if someone else ever read Fred's lines.

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Ginny and Luna were almost ready. Hermione checked her watch, 7:15pm, they had still had 15 minutes before to leave.

She was going to wait for them to go downstairs. She did not want to take the risk to be alone with Molly.

Even if Molly had apologized to her, Hermione could tell that her relationship with Fred was, kind of, on probation. Another thing that would end if she accepted to marry Fred, maybe she really should...

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Again sorry this chapter has not been beta-ed but I hope that you will like it