an: sorry it took so long...I'm working on the other chapters. Hope you like this one. Please review!!
And one more thing to reyla: I never said that I despised Malfoy/Weasley relationships. In my profile it said that I don't like Ginny/Draco. From where I left it in Paris the Malfoys and Weasleys were on decent terms. And this is a whole new generation...
So on with the story!
Ryen Michael Weasley:
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. –David McCullough
Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. –Ferris Bueller
If you're gonna marry someone you might as well marry your best friend. –Sara, Rumor Has It
Ryen Michael Weasley:
-When he was one, he had two older siblings that he looked up to. He had a big brother, Nolan, and a big sister, Willa to follow around and learn from.
Nolan was funny. He made Ryen laugh all the time. They would play in the backyard and Nolan would jump out to surprise him and make a funny face. Ryen laughed so hard that he ended up, rolling on the ground laughing so hard. When Ryen laughed that hard, Nolan would start to laugh…and then they couldn't stop.
Willa had adventures. She would plan out adventures for the three wizard explorers and they were always fun. There were dragons and flying on Hippogriffs. Sometimes there were even bank heists, trying to steal back the valuable items that were originally stolen from Hogwarts. They had so much fun that they stayed outside even past the time it got dark. Ryen was upset when they had to come in…he was having too much fun.
Ryen wanted to be funny just like Nolan and he wanted to be adventurous just like Willa.
-At the age of two, Ryen had an extensive vocabulary. He learned from what was spoken to him.
Mummy read to him before he could talk, and as he got older he picked up on those words. Willa told him her stories from her imagination and used as many words as she knew. Nolan told him jokes and made up strange words.
His favorite thing to do was read the Gazette. Every night when Daddy would take out his evening issue, Ryen would sit on his lap and Daddy would read him articles from the paper. The editorials were the best because Daddy would sometimes laugh and use funny voices so then Ryen would laugh too.
Ryen had no idea what "decoy" or "illegal" meant but it didn't stop him from attempting to use them.
-In his third year, the whole Weasley/Potter/Lupin/Longbottom/Parker family came to California for their usual long weekend summer vacation. Ryen was split into the three-year-old group with Ben, Grier, and Felicity. Mummy took them to the beach to play for the day.
Fee wanted to build a sandcastle but Ryen wanted to go in the ocean. Ben and Grier stayed out of the fight as Fee and Ryen yelled at each other until they were red in the face and Hermione had to separate them so they wouldn't kill each other.
A half-hour later they got over their argument and all four of them played together at the playground but it wasn't too long before both of their stubborn personalities kicked in again.
It amazed everyone how they could be friends in one moment and then fight the next but then again…it sounded a little familiar.
-When he was four, he wanted to learn how to read so that he didn't have to be read to. Hermione sat with him every afternoon when she got home from work and taught him the words.
Eventually he memorized Sammy and the Lost Wand and he was able to start reading new books that had similar words in it.
By the time he was four and a half, he was able to read any of the children's books that were on his bookshelf. He gathered almost all the books in the house and would sit for hours, studying the pages of books.
His next accomplishment was trying to read the Gazette to Ron.
-A month after he turned five, a new baby joined the family. Her name was Brenna and she was very little. She cried and slept a lot.
Nolan said that they had to be protective of their little sister so they had to watch her and make sure she was safe because she was so little.
Ryen thought that it was more important to teach her things so that she would be able to read to herself.
Whenever Nolan wasn't around, Ryen made sure he told Bren everything he knew and everything he just learned.
-When he was six, he got up every morning and hurried downstairs to the kitchen table where Ron and Hermione sat. Hermione put a cup of hot chocolate in front of him and a bagel while Ron passed over the Gazette.
He sat at the table for a half hour, reading the Gazette just like Ron was and eating the same breakfast as Ron. Ryen wanted to be just like Ron.
Sometimes he would even go to the Gazette office and work with him.
All of the Southern California Gazette employees decided that Ryen would be the next Gazette Editor.
-He got his first job when he turned seven. It wasn't really official because he got paid through allowance but he had a title and a desk…that was all that mattered.
Ryen Michael Weasley, Assistant to the Assistant of the Editor-in-Chief. His desk was right next to Kenny's (the assistant to the editor-in-chief) desk and he always had assignments to do. Sometimes he got to help the page editor and double-check all the articles and then other times he was the fact-checker.
His second favorite part of the job (because his first favorite was working with Ron and having fun while he worked) was that everyone treated him like an equal. No one really cared that he was only seven years old. They still joked with him and gave him assignments like they did with every other Gazette staff members.
He knew that this was what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. From the age of seven on, he got up every morning put on a shirt and tie, grabbed his briefcase and followed Ron to work.
-When Ryen was eight, three months before he turned nine, Nolan left for Hogwarts. Ryen was left to be the oldest sibling and take care of Bren. The house felt emptier without Willa and now it felt deserted since Nolan was gone. He didn't have to be afraid of being pranked every time he turned a corner, or worry about the other messy half of his room…
…but then again the house was too quiet when Nolan wasn't laughing through the halls and Ryen missed having someone closer to his age to play with. Bren only wanted to play in the garden and find the animals that lived in there…Ryen hated dirt.
He wrote to Nolan and Willa, begging them to come home and let Mum home school them. He preferred to be the middle child with two older siblings than just him and Bren.
-Right before his ninth birthday, Willa and Nolan made it back from Hogwarts in time to celebrate. Willa had gifts from Hogsmede and stories that didn't seem too believable while Nolan came back with more pranks and Snape jokes.
It was the best birthday party ever with everyone back together. The only thing that ruined it was at the Burrow when he and Fee got into an argument about who had a more important job with helping at their respective Gazettes.
"Pictures are waaay more important! A picture is worth a thousand words!" Fee argued.
"Well you need my thousand words of my article to explain your pictures!" Ryen argued back.
It made him angrier when everyone kept saying "it's like Ron and Hermione all over again." It made him furious when Willa tried to explain why they called them that. No one understood that he and Fee just didn't get along…even though they were good friends.
-In September of his tenth year, he realized that he would be leaving for Hogwarts in one year. As much as he wanted to see Nolan and Willa, he didn't want to leave Bren or his job at the Gazette. He liked his life as it was.
The only thing he was missing was magic. Hermione could teach him that and then he wouldn't need to go to Hogwarts…he already had a job and that was the point right?
"Who's going to shape up the Herald if you aren't there?" Ron asked. "We need to get more Weasleys on the Herald."
"You're going." Hermione said simply.
"I can't go to Hogwarts without you!" Ben exclaimed.
"You're going to Hogwarts Ryen Michael Weasley." Fee said. "Even if I have to drag you there."
In the end he knew that it was impractical for a ten year old to get a job and not go to school. But he was glad that he had a job when it was over.
-When he was eleven, he was too nervous to talk as he waited on platform 9 ¾. Ben was already on the train with Max and Nolan had disappeared somewhere with Gabriel no doubt to prank someone. Willa was talking to a boy and Hermione was holding onto his hand a little too tightly.
"You'll be ok." Hermione said, seeming to assure herself more than him. "I can't believe you're going already. You are already too grown up for your age. Promise me that you and Fee won't fight too much. One day, you'll regret all those stories that people will be telling about your rows from your Hogwarts days." She smiled when Ron laughed from behind her. Ryen was calmed enough by her words to roll his eyes at his mother…until he was brought back to the present where he was leaving his family.
"They'll be fine." Ron assured her. "They've known each other their whole lives so I'll bet that by fourth year they'll confess their feelings."
"I don't know." Hermione said with a smile on her face. "These two are slightly more stubborn." Ryen rolled his eyes again.
"Mum, Dad," he sighed. "Fee and I aren't like that. We fight too much and she thinks she's smarter than me…even though she isn't!"
"Of course Ry," Hermione said. She smiled again and then pulled him close for a tight hug. He hugged Ron next and moved on to Bren.
"Take care of Zeus," she said tearfully, passing him his pet toad.
"Take care of yourself." Ryen said. "Make sure you try and read one book a week…and an educational one not one about animals." Bren smiled.
"Animals are educational!" she protested. He laughed and hugged her.
Finally, he turned around to face his fears. He searched for Willa and Nolan. He was afraid that they would leave him on his own. Luckily, Fee hurried to him and threw her arms around him. She was just as scared as he was. He put his arms around her and awkwardly patted her back.
"Ready?" he asked. She nodded and gripped his hand tightly as Nolan ran up behind them.
"Come on lovebirds, let's move it along! I'll show you where the Weasley compartments are!" Nolan exclaimed.
"Careful, you almost dropped Zeus." Willa appeared on his other side and pointed to his toad, slipping out of his hand.
Ryen smiled, feeling slightly more relaxed. His big sister and big brother were there, he was protecting Fee, and Ben was waiting on the train. He didn't feel so scared anymore.
-When he was twelve he decided it was unfair that he couldn't be on the Herald staff just because he was only a first year. His father had created the paper for goodness sake, it was only right that his son should work on the paper. It wasn't like he was asking for the editor position but he did want to do something for the paper.
He felt a little bit better when Fee started arguing that she should be on the paper too. She spent the last few years working with her father at the England Gazette and she was really interested in photography. He argued back just because he felt he had to but in the end he gave in…he was afraid of going to see McGonagall on his own.
The next day, Ryen was the newest writer on the Herald. He got his own desk and computer, it was exciting. The desk next to his belonged to one of his best friends. Fee was the newest photographer on the Herald.
He was relieved that she was there with him…the Herald office it was the only place where they never fought.
-He was thirteen when he got his first–and last–detention. He promised himself that he would never listen to Nolan ever again and he would only have one detention on his record.
It was a stupid thing, really. Nolan said that he heard talk of a secret meeting at midnight for students who were going to let a troll in and Ryen hurried away to get his reporters notebook. He hadn't realized that Nolan was joking.
Hermione was in shock. She came to the school the next day and made Madam Pomfrey check twice to make sure that Ryen was feeling ok.
Fee yelled at Ryen for listening to something so ridiculous….Ryen thought she was just mad because he hadn't invited her along to take pictures.
-When he was fourteen, he stood in the Gryffindor Common room yelling at Fee while she yelled back. No one could understand them as they argued over Ryen being "an insensitive jerk!" and Fee being "way too worked up just because I said you looked tired!"
Everyone stared at them while they argued until finally Fee told him to go to hell and then ran to her dormitory. He couldn't understand why one little comment set her off but he didn't care. He was too mad about the whole situation to apologize.
It went on for almost a month. Fee wasn't in the common room as much. She was either in her dormitory or with Grier who was a Hufflepuff. In that time Ryen realized how much he missed her. She had always been there and he hadn't pictured it otherwise. She was always there to fight with or work out homework problems with. He missed it when she would get so mad that her words would start to blend together and he couldn't understand her. He would start to snigger and she would get angrier…it didn't take long for him to laugh so hard that he was choking and she was laughing. He missed it.
They were a team…she would take the pictures and he would write the story. Now he had to work with other photographers. They would both have to motivate Ben and Grier to get their work done because if they didn't, Ben and Grier would put off their work until the last minute. Now he halfheartedly tried to get Ben to do work but there was something strict and motherly in Fee's voice that would make them listen.
Finally, Ben and Grier plotted to get them in the same place at the same time…alone. Putting the fight aside, they were both forced to search for Zeus who had gone missing…strangely ending up on Ben's bed.
Just like that they were four again rather than two and two.
-On his fifteenth birthday, Sara McGhee walked by their booth at the Three Broomsticks and wished Ryen a happy birthday while she batted her eyelashes, smiled more than normal, and giggled when he responded. She skipped away, promising to see him later, and he turned back to the table with red cheeks.
Fee was glaring at him but would not explain her reasoning behind her suddenly sullen mood.
A month later Ryen, Fee, Ben, and Grier sat in the library where they were working on an essay. Stephan Meyer walked by and Grier elbowed Fee. They both looked up and giggled. Stephan looked over and smiled. They giggled even louder. Ryen turned around and saw Stephan. He looked back and forth between the girls and the Head Boy and then frowned, hating Stephan Meyer for some reason that he couldn't pinpoint.
-His sixteenth year was very important. Every single day, he and Fee gathered all their books and made Ben and Grier study for the O.W.L.s with them. Ben and Grier, would eventually slip away but Ryen and Fee would quiz each other until late into the night.
The O.W.L.s and the Herald were the only things they focused on that year. They didn't have time for dating like Ben and Grier made time for with their respective significant others. They were working so often that they stopped fighting with each other as much.
Bren claimed that Ryen and Fee worked like adults and they needed to enjoy their childhood before it was all over but Ryen just slung his book bag over his shoulder and shot another question at Fee.
Ryen and Fee weren't going to take advice from an eleven-year-old. They continued to study and work until they both achieved O's on all of their O.W.L.s. Glad that their hard work paid off, they planned summer internships at the Gazettes. The only disappointment was that they wouldn't be a team anymore. Fee would be working in England while Ryen would be working in California.
He was glad that she had long since decided that when she graduated she would be moving to California so they could work together.
-When he was seventeen, he was in his sixth year at Hogwarts. It was almost time to graduate and move on to bigger and better things at the Southern California Gazette. He was still studying hard but since O.W.L.s were over, it was a lot more relaxing and he finally understood the purpose of just sitting on the grass and staring up at the clouds in the sky, with his three best friends next to him.
He and Fee weren't fighting as much as they had in previous years but once in a while the stupid arguments would pop up but these didn't take long to get over. Ryen found that he loved joking with Fee more than fighting with her. When they got along they were great together and now that they weren't completely focused on exams, he was able to see that. He was also able to notice that when she got excited, her eyes changed from ocean blue to magenta and when she was upset, they turned gray. She preferred to keep her hair in a solid brown color, held in a ponytail but sometimes she let it down and she looked more relaxed. He also couldn't help but notice that she wasn't eleven anymore she was…er…more developed since then.
It wasn't as if he hadn't noticed these things before but then he was too busy fighting with her or studying with her to realize what it meant…
A month into their new school year, he sat at his desk in the Herald office and let his mind wander for a minute while Fee rambled on. He smiled as he watched her talk in all seriousness about their page in the paper. Her eyes were a fierce green so he knew she was serious. He couldn't help but feel warm inside, like he always did when he wasn't fighting with her.
"Are you listening?" she snapped. Ryen nodded but the warm feeling didn't leave him. She continued on and he was finally able to admit to himself after at least six years: he was in love with his best friend.
He knew she didn't feel the same way though so instead of acting on his feelings his cheeks turned pink, he ran a hand through his chestnut colored hair, and focused on the Herald: something that could keep him occupied and away from wrong thoughts about his best friend.
-Three months before he turned eighteen, he, Fee, Ben, and Grier arrived at Hogwarts for their last year at Hogwarts. He was Head Boy and Fee was Head Girl. They were only nine months away from freedom and their future at the Southern California Gazette. Ryen was warned that he needed to take it easy this year and relax a little bit. It was his last year before working and he figured he might enjoy it a bit.
The night after they showed the first years where to go, he and Fee sat in the Common Room discussing futures.
"Well you just wait until my photography wins an award. A picture is worth a thousand words." Fee said matter-of-factly.
"Yeah, but no one knows that the picture means without my story to explain it." Ryen said. It was a silly little argument that they've had for years but there was something playful in their tone.
"Are you saying that my pictures aren't important?" Fee rose to her feet and stared at Ryen. Her hair was loose and falling in her face. He rose to his feet too but instead of wanting to yell back, he wanted to kiss her. His cheeks flushed and he turned away, hurrying for the dormitory.
"Ryen? I was only joking." Fee called to him. He stopped in his tracks. There was something in her voice that was pleading for him to stay. He wondered if maybe it was possible that she was feeling what he was feeling.
Without thinking about anything, he turned and hurried back to her. He caught her in his arms and met his mouth with hers. His hands shook as he pulled away from her and waited for her reaction.
She looked surprised. Her fingers lightly touched her lips and she stared at the floor. He waited. It was silent for thirty seconds. Everyone in the common room was watching. It seemed like they had been waiting for this day as well. Finally Fee moved. She turned around and sprinted for her dorm room. He felt crushed. Bren appeared at his side, sympathetically patting his arm. He shook away from her and turned for his own dormitory, unsure of whether or not he would ever come back down again.
He ruined a friendship and any chance that he ever had of being with Fee.
-The morning after the worst moment in his life occurred, he was awoken by a text message from an unknown number at two in the morning.
Meet me in the common room.
As curious as he was, Ryen had seem too many horror movies that began like that. With his wand extended, he cautiously trailed down the stairs wondering who could possibly want to meet him in the common room. Perhaps someone wanted to tease him about being turned down by Fee, or maybe it was someone playing a trick, or it could just be someone who would take him out and end his misery.
In the common room, he found a familiar face with brown hair framing her face and serious green eyes watching him descend the stairs. He put his wand away and cautiously stood at the bottom of the steps.
"Look, I'm sorry. Can we just for-"
"Ryen shut up," Fee demanded. She began pacing back and forth. "I have to say something and I need you to listen." She took a deep breath and continued, avoiding looking at him.
"We've known each other our whole lives and our personalities are similar so we fight because we both want to be smarter or braver or more stubborn. But then we got into that huge fight over nothing and we didn't talk for a month. I hated to admit it, and only Grier knew…I missed you and it was weird because I just couldn't picture not ever speaking to you again but I couldn't give up my pride and be the first one to say something. I was relieved when we just started talking again. My feelings got out of control from there because I loved just sitting there and working on the Herald and our homework together. Ry, you're the only one who I can sit in silence with and it wouldn't be awkward. So I guess after that I realized how much I cared about you…in less of a friendly way…and more of I-want-to-hold-your-hand-and-walk-to-class-and-stay-up-late-doing-our-homework-and-sharing-secret-looks way." She risked a glance at him. He was sitting on the bottom step, taking this all in. After all, he had only realized his feelings less than a year ago.
"Anyways," she continued on, "after that we were worrying about O.W.L.s and we barely got the chance to do anything but study so I never really tried to find out if you were feeling what I was feeling…but I still loved that I was spending time with you. It really hurt, though when I heard you keep telling Willa and Nolan that you didn't feel the same way I felt when they teased you. So I stopped myself from being hurt and I focused on my work. And now you randomly kiss me in front of everyone…I didn't know how to react. I-I- Ryen, I think I love you…and not in the brother/sister way that I've been trying to convince myself it was." She stopped and took a breath, staring at him with scared eyes. The green in her eyes paled a little bit.
"Wow…" Ryen said. He kept staring at her although she wouldn't look at him. His mind was formulating a response…he was the guy with all the words but somehow he couldn't find a response. Instead he stood up, pulled her into his arms and kissed her with the same passion that she made her speech in.
This time she kissed him back.
-A week later there was a row in the common room that involved a deadline for the Herald, it took an hour to get over but the making up part was slightly different now that they were together.
Ryen felt it in his gut that this was meant to be. The reason he had never been with anyone else…the reason that he never pictured his life without her…the reason he enjoyed arguing with her…it was something that, although he didn't know it from the beginning like everyone else, it was destined to happen.
He realized that his relationship with Fee didn't mirror his parents' relationship like everyone thought. In a way the arguing could be mistaken for the Ron and Hermione love story continued in the next generation, but Ryen and Fee were two different people, they had their own love story.
-Nine months after he and Fee got together, they were graduating from Hogwarts with Ben and Grier. All planned out, the group of four was transferring to a Southern California location for work. Ryen and Fee had their jobs at the SC Gazette, Ben was going to commute (Apparate) to Northern California where he would work with dragons, and Grier was going to go to school to be a Healer.
They were all ready for the real world with apartments in San Diego and lives ahead of them to lead. Ryen and Fee had been working diligently and hard for this, ever since they were old enough to go to work with their fathers, and Ben and Grier got there at their own pace.
On thing was for sure: the four children who came to Hogwarts were now adults.
-When he was nineteen and twenty, he worked hard at his job to work up to a high position. He wanted to prove all of the other interns who thought that he would only go places in the company because his father owned and created the company wrong. He wrote amazing articles that went with Fee's pictures and it wasn't long before the office named them the Gazette Couple.
It was speculated that they might end up getting married right at the Gazette office…the exact place where they sometimes argued over articles. The other staff members kept popcorn in the kitchen and broke it out when an argument arose. It was not only interesting to watch them fight, sometimes they watched to try and figure out how the Gazette Couple worked. They fought so often but yet they were still together and loved each other.
Whenever Ben or Grier stopped by the office, everyone started exchanging stories about Ryen and Fee.
"Oh give it a rest." Ryen said as he gathered his things to go to dinner with Ben and Grier. They were sharing a story with the last coworker left in the office. "Just because you guys don't fight doesn't mean everyone doesn't expect you two to get together one of these days." He hadn't meant to say it but he was annoyed. Just the other day Ryen had pointed out to Ben that he noticed how Ben and Grier had that comfort around each other that was different than what Ryen and Grier had as friends. That was when Ben unintentionally gave his feelings away. Now Ryen had ruined it.
Ben avoided Grier's eyes and glared at Ryen as he walked out of the Gazette office. Grier looked confused and turned to Ryen.
"What was that about?" Grier asked. Fee walked into the room at that moment. She had her jacket and briefcase in her hands and looked confused.
"I…" Ryen shook his head and looked after Ben. He had definitely ruined everything. A surprised realization came over Grier and she stood frozen for a moment. After that moment she took off, calling Ben's name.
When Ryen got back to his apartment that night, Ben's door was closed so Ryen assumed the worst and went to his own room, thinking of how to make it up to Ben tomorrow.
The next morning he woke up and went to the kitchen where he expected to see Ben, sullenly eating cereal. Instead he found Ben…and Grier in pajamas, eating cereal and talking in a flirtatious way.
Neither of them will admit it, but Ryen gave himself the credit for getting them together.
-On his twenty-first birthday he stood in front of a mirror and rehearsed the lines he wrote, over and over again.
"Fee, we've known each other our whole lives…" He paused and stared at himself again. His chestnut brown hair was neatly gelled up into his usual spiky style and his face was tanned from hours in the California sun. His eyebrows met in a frown while his chocolate brown eyes questioned himself on whether or not he was doing the right thing at the right time. He stood tall and puffed out his chest, wishing that he worked out a little more.
"Ryen, come on, we're going to be late for dinner!" Felicity called from the other side of the door. Ryen nodded to himself in the mirror and shoved the ring in his pocket. He loved her and hoped it wasn't too soon for her. He left the bathroom with every intention of asking her the most important question that a guy could ever ask and he hoped that she would say "yes".
That night he procrastinated through dinner until dessert came and it was a now or never moment. He got down on one knee in front of her and asked her to be with him for the rest of their lives. She said, "yes!" and after they spent the night celebrating, they made plans for a long engagement.
The next day, she started moving her stuff into his apartment.
-When he was twenty-two, he got a call that Gemma had gone into labor and his godson was about to be born. He was about to be a godfather and he couldn't wait. He practically dragged Fee to London where they waited impatiently in the waiting room.
Finally Nolan walked out of the room with Topher Ronald Weasley in his arms. Ryen held Finley in his arms as they took a good look at the little addition to their family. Ryen felt more tears coming on. Fee squeezed his hand while he explained to Topher that he already had a reputation at Hogwarts because of his father.
"It's ok though," Ryen said, smiling at the little baby. "He was a pretty smart kid so I know you will be too."
He had a niece and now a nephew. He enjoyed being Uncle Ryen and perhaps he and Fee would one day have kids too. But for now, spoiling them and giving them back after spending time with them was all he could handle.
-When he was twenty-three, he was very consumed with planning his wedding. He was to be married to the love of his life, in six months…and according to Fee, six months wasn't very long to get everything perfect. Nolan saw the stress planning the perfect wedding had put on Ryen, so he kidnapped him…well not technically. Nolan told Fee that he and Bren were going to come by and "kidnap" Ryen from his bed before he woke up.
It turned out to be a trip to Disney Land…just like old times. It was Ryen, Bren, Nolan, and Willa together. It had been a while since the four of them had spent time altogether. Willa and Nolan lived in England with their families, and he and Bren lived in California when Bren wasn't in school. It was hard to find time to spend with each other when they all had very busy lives that they led.
It had been fun for Ryen to forget about the wedding for a day and just spend time with his brother and sisters. They laughed about things that happened growing up, things that happened at Hogwarts, and they teased Ryen shamelessly for the way he was helping Fee plan the wedding.
At the end of the day, they drove back to Ryen's apartment with bags of stuff from Disney. Most were for Finley and Topher but they couldn't help themselves. They all had t-shirts and stuffed animals from their trip to Disney….and they brought stuff for Ron and Hermione.
It had been nice for Ryen to just take the day…put the Gazette and the wedding aside to relax and spend time with his family. Even if it meant going back to work the next day and more wedding stuff to deal with the next night.
-When he was twenty-four, he finally said "I do" to marrying the woman he loved.
Hermione was in tears as she watched her son marry the woman that she knew was his soul mate. She had known it from the beginning, but even so it was still a happy moment for tears.
Ron smiled as he watched his son standing with the woman he loved. He was brought back to the day thirty years ago when he married the woman he loved. Ryen was different though. His relationship with Felicity was different. Ron was proud of his son for everything that Ryen had accomplished in his life.
Ryen was ecstatic as he stood in front of Fee and proclaimed his love. He had wanted this since the realization of his feelings so long ago. Now he had it. He was married to Fee and forever they would be together.
Ben and Grier were Best Man and Matron of Honor…on an impulse they had married six months ago…in Vegas to avoid what Ryen and Fee were going through.
As the four of them sat at a table, toasting to their futures, Ryen knew the four of them were meant to be. They grew up together…he knew how lucky he was to have a wife like Fee and best friends who were in love like Ben and Grier. Most people only hoped to have friends that stayed friends for their entire lives.
That night Fee shifted in his arms and he smiled. He worked his ass off for his entire life. From a young age he worked because it was something he enjoyed doing it, and then it became a passion and he worked hard in Hogwarts to achieve what he wanted. So hard that he almost missed this…but now he was here…
….and he knew that he would never let it go.
-When he was twenty-five he reached the success in his career that he had been striving for. He became the Copy Editor after years of hard work. It wasn't because his father owned the place, it was because he put years and years of hard work into this job. It was his passion and he had finally achieved success.
It was even greater that two months later when Fee was promoted to Photography Editor. Although they were no longer the team they were back then, they were both doing well in their careers. They were both so busy that they rarely ran into each other during the day.
But it just made coming home to one another much more enjoyable.
-When he was twenty-six he became a father. Months before, he went to his own father for advice. Ryen was confused and a little scared. It helped him to know that Ron felt the same way before Willa, before Nolan, before Ryen, and even before Bren.
"It never stops." Ron said. "But then your child comes and everything changes. It's amazing Ry, and I'm sure you can handle it but I'm here when you need me."
The moment the Healer handed Holden Nikolas Weasley to him, things were different. And it was just the beginning.
The only time he let go of his son that night was to let Fee hold him. As soon as she fell asleep, Holden Nikolas was back in his arms and he sat on the end of her bed with one hand holding hers and the other around his son.
She stirred awake and smiled at him. "How is he?" she asked.
"Sleeping." Ryen answered. He smiled at Fee. "They wanted me to put him in the nursery but I thought he should spend the night with us."
"He should," she said. She sat up and stared at her son with Ryen. He was bald for now, but no doubt hair would soon grow in, and change color with every mood. If he were awake, bright blue eyes would be looking back at them.
"I love you." Ryen said. He kissed her forehead.
"I love you too." Fee said. She rested her head against his shoulder and they both watched Holden Nikolas sleep.
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