Disclaimer: AHHHHHHHHHHH…..I don't own them okay…stop rubbing my nose in it.

(A/N: Hell, I know that he does seem a bit crazy but believe it or not, I will not alter his character to suit your mood. That's just me. Yes. I know that Hermione does seem a lot calmer and less active about what he has done to her. I think that she's just shocked and slowly taking it in. The point is why should she tire herself out fighting with him when in the end it's just a lot of slammed doors and regretted words? I mean I would have freaked out too if someone bit me and drank my blood…but this is a muggle world after all nothing exciting as the wizarding world.)

Chapter Twenty

More information then I care to know…

She had grown lovelier than the last time I had seen her, that day in the hospital after the dark lord had been defeated. Even though she had been at the burrow a couple of times during the summers and holidays, I hardly seen her. I had been too occupied with studying and spending time with Harry, Ron and Ginny that it didn't even leave room for much else. Her long black hair was tied up in a high pony tail and she had on a beautiful grey dressed that matched her creamy chocolate skin. Her radiant glow was just as natural to her as her deep beauty. It was impossible for any man not to fall in love with this girl. That man had to be Oliver. If I remember him correctly he would marry the game quidditch if he could.

"ANGIE." Katie was out of her seat and walking to embrace her friend. Ginny smiled and waved. I sat there and stared. I could hear the people in the living room going wild. Those idiots, they'll kill themselves with all this stupidness.I thought.

"What did you mean by the first time you and Fred came together?" Then there was a pause as Ginny registered her question and thena disgusted looked came across her face. "I can't picture someone like you being seduced by that idiot."

"Hey…" I interrupted hitting her playfully on the arm.

"It's okay Hermione you and him are going to be married but Angelina chose him by choice." Ginny laughed. "Were you under a spell when that happened?" She took a seat right in front of me shaking her head as she laughed.

"No. Fred is as you can see very charming and very hard to resist." Angelina answered her.

"That's hard to believe." Ginny disagreed.

"Where's Oliver?" Katie burst out.

"He's with the males talking about quidditch and drinking. Oh and Ginny they're planning to play some truth or dare game soon, so I figured you want to know." Katie and Ginny shot up.

"They're drunk out of their minds, this could be dangerous." Katie said walking out of the kitchen with Ginny at her heels. I watched her for a bit and then our eyes met.

"Hello Hermione." She smiled greeting me.

"Hey, Angelina." My voice was a bit shaky. This was after all the woman Fred claimed he loved and they were dating; don't forget that they would have been married. I reminded myself.

"I'm not mad about the marriage law, in fact it was a bit of a relieve knowing that there was no pressure about marrying the right person for you when the ministry already picked them, saving you the trouble of doing it yourself." She started and hearing her joke I laughed.

"It was unexpected." I said pushing some of my hair back from my face.

"For me too, but me and Oliver collide very violently together, that he felt the need to brand me." She had been what? Branded as well? "Look at this." With that said she lifted the base of her shirt where a marking stood around the navel of her stomach. The Latin words Electus Unus circled her bellybutton.

"Do you know what it means?" I asked a bit curious now.

"I think he said the chosen one, which is very weird." She laughed. I nodded.

"Angelina…I …" I tried.

"Don't you dare Hermione. It's not your fault and you shouldn't have to feel bad. What's done is done." She was as I remembered, very lovely.

"It not right you loved him first before the marriage law took affect…" Her brown eyes soften a bit more.

"There is nothing you can do Hermione, you can not make everything right, this is how it should be." She was unbelievable understanding.

"Why don't you hate me?" I blurted out. It startled her at first but then she smiled.

"I can not hate you for something that was beyond your control, and before you start thinking that if things were different I'd still be with him. You're wrong." What was she saying? "You know all about the basic instinct thing, well that would have explained why he always mentioned you while we were dating in the beginning. You were turning seventeen at that time and your full on attraction to Fred would have been off. But at nineteen for him, it was like crazy and intense but you know Fred he hides everything very well."

"Where are you going with this?" I interrupted.

"I just want to say that it wasn't destine for me and him is all. You had nothing to do with us not being together. In the beginning I really believed that we were in love but believing that we were, isn't the same thing as being. And we found out this summer just a month ago when you were at the burrow." I continued nodding trying to process all this information.

"Go on." I encouraged.

"It was weird because our aura together was very conflicting and we should have known but we were convinced that we belonged together…I know this is disturbing to hear about Hermione, because he's marrying you after all, but I'm telling you this so that you don't doubt that he's in love with you." What was she going on about? He wasn't in love with me.

"Hermione listen." She called back my attention after seeing my reaction to her words. "It's always been you, even before the marriage law was passed. He might have fooled himself at first but it caught up with him, the first time me and him made love, he growled out your name. The thing is he didn't even realize that he done it. His subconscious mind must have alerted his body as he thought of you."

"Angelina that must have been horrible, your first time and he calls out someone else's name. I would have been furious." I told her.

"I was at first but he wasn't looking at me that night, he was seeing you. And then when he fell asleep he called out your name again. When he woke he was very confused so we argued over it and then he's been bloody moody after that. Then the marriage law happened and it started making sense about him being so drawn to you, beside Professor Lupin's right, there's a reason Professor Dumbledore wanted you two together."

She let out a breath. Fred was in love with me? He and Angelina had been going out for about a year. Of course my attraction to him did come later after I turned eighteen, where he had already been aware of his body's desire, I was just coming into my own.

"Did you know that he was going to ask you to marry him?" I asked changing the subject without a thought.

"Yes, George told me but you see the thing with me and Oliver is that he's strange, and I mean very strange. It was a day before the marriage law was passed he was standing at my door in the pouring rain telling me that he should be at quidditch practice but he needed to see me. Mind you, we haven't seen each other since leaving Hogwarts or during the war but there he was soaking through his knickers and staring at me.There was a sudden pull and here we are now." She laughed at that memory.

"What did Fred say after he found out about you two?" I questioned.

"He was bitter about it totally convinced that we were meant to be together… I think he was just fighting off the feelings he had for you." Then she placed one of her hands on mine. "Come to our wedding this Friday."

"I don't know I already have so much going on and I don't know if Fred will want to…" I started.

"Hermione please, I would really like you there." I gave in nodding.

"I guess you and him are still friends huh?" I asked.

"Yes. He's more calm about everything now" She smiled. That was understatement. "Have you two done it yet?" That question made my cheeks burned. It was out of nowhere.

"Angelina…"

"You haven't, why not? You know that he can't hold himself back longer than he has to. What are you waiting for?" I was appalled by her sudden outburst.

"I'm not ready for that, I shouldn't have to justified myself to you." I shot back at her.

"I just can not believe that he hasn't tried to touch you yet. Hermione I don't think any man in his right man would be able to control himself being near you." She seemed surprised. "You're so gorgeous." My felt my face burn more warmly.

"He can't control himself, but it's either I pull back or we get interrupted, so his feelings always cools off." I answered looking at the counter now. She was so upfront about everything. "You'll come to our wedding this Sunday as well then?" I looked up to see her smiling and nodding.

"We're okay then?" She asked now.

"We've always been okay." I laughed. "I didn't want you thinking that I was the other woman is all."

"I thought that you would think that about me as well." She was laughing too. "Let's see what your Latin word says." I paused and stared at her for a bit and then pulled his shirt down to reveal my mark.

"How did you know?" I asked her as she read the words.

"That shirt is kind of transparent so I can see the dark tone of your skin color that doesn't match the smoother one." She replied. "Aeternus eternus." She seemed lost in thought.

"I don't know what it means, just that professor Lupin told him to use it." I told her.

"I guess we'll have to ask him then. That does look painful, if it's any consolation Hermione. Mine hurt like hell too and I couldn't believe that he bit me." She moved her hair revealing her neck to show me the marks where the new skin was covering.

"ANGELINA, ANGELINA WHERE ARE YOU?" We heard someone call her. Wood came stumbling into the kitchen looking like he had too much to drink. He was a bit taller than her with his dark brown hair and puffy green eyes looking amused.

"Oliver." She sighed standing up to help him. He swung an arm over her shoulder, putting all his weight on her small frame. "We better head home he's got practice tomorrow anyways and I just can't wait to see his face waking up to the pounding headaches." She winked at me as she dragged him out the door while he stared at her in awe and I thought I hear him say "You're the best Angelina…that girl in the kitchen she looks like Hermione".

"I'll see you at the wedding." Angelina called back as she disappeared from my view. I sat in the kitchen for a while looking around then I spotted the box George had been carrying earlier. Hoping maybe there was something else to drink then firewhiskey and so many others. There was some butterbeer at the bottom and I smiled taking out the mug. I walked into the living room to see that the party had died down and there was Ron in a corner making out with Lavender.

Ginny was sitting on the coffee table across from Harry who sat in the armchair watching her intensely as she told him a story, I could tell by her hand gestures. His hands resting on her lap as she spoke with so much passionate. I smiled at them and slammed into someone as I continued forward. It was George and Katie dancing in the middle of nowhere. Katie was beaming at him like he was the greatest person in the world and he was staring back knowing that she was his whole world.

"Hey guys." I said as I kept moving further towards my destination. They were oblivious to my presences. I saw Verity with her fiancé; it was Seamus Finnigan from Hogwarts. It was definitely a small world. They were sitting on the couch just staring at each other. Odd for someone who claims to hate her. I turned to see Charlie and Alicia by the fire place watching the fire dance, with their hands connected. Bill and Fleur were absence which meant they must have left already.

There was Lee Jordan with his fiancée Parvati Patil. Now that was another couple I didn't expect either. They were dancing as well but not anywhere near George and Katie. I couldn't see the other redhead anywhere until I reached the armchair in the other corner. He looked like he was sleeping. I walked over towards him, kneeling down to watch his sleeping form. It was so sweet. I stood up to go back into the kitchen when his arms snaked out and pulled me onto his lap, spilling some of the butterbeer.

"Fred, honestly." I snarled. He buried his nose in the crook of my neck.

"Hmmm…honey, milk and butterbeer." He muttered. He took the cup from me taking a sip. I was just about to give him a piece of my mind when a popping noise came out of nowhere. I guess George was more easy going about anyone just popping into visit. We looked up to see Bill's distraught face as he marched towards us. I never thought he was capable of making one that didn't match his handsome face.

"You two gather everyone one and meet me back at the burrow and hurry." His voice was a little shaky.

"What's going on Bill?" Fred asked as we slowly rose to our feet.

"Just get everyone to the burrow, we'll explain there." But Fred grabbed his arm just as he was about to apparate.

"What's gotten Bill Weasley so displaced?" Fred asked.

"Fred…" I said grabbing his other arm.

"Tonks was attacked and we need to find professor Lupin." Bill finally said.

"WHAT?" The whole room was now drawn to the conversation.

"Are you telling us that Professor Lupin attacked Tonks and is missing?" I asked still holding on to Fred's arm.

"Yes."

(A/N: Either I gave you too much inform or not enough, because I know for a fact that you might be able to take in what I threw at you or you won't. I know there's hardly any Fred and Hermione interaction but she did discover the truth: He called out her name when he's making love with someone else. Heehee. Or was I suppose to say something about him loving her…? Hmmm…)