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Outside

Arriving at Charlie's cottage, Ron and Pansy weren't surprised to find the house dark. They had told him that they probably wouldn't arrive until Sunday long after the verdict came. However, now they were a full five days early but instead of going to track down Charlie, Ron took a seat on the porch and pulled Pansy into his lap Neither one said a word as they sat curled up in comfortable silence.

The sun was going down when Charlie finally appeared saying, "I thought you two weren't coming until Sunday."

"Change of plans," Ron Replied simply as he helped Pansy off his lap.

"Obviously," came Charlie's sarcastic remark.

"Is it a problem?" Pansy asked timidly, taking Ron's hand.

Charlie's face filled with regret as he quickly covered by saying, "No not a problem at all. Just surprised that's all."

"it was a spur of the moment thing," Ron explained as Charlie hugged them both. "We told everyone about our plans and they tried to talk us out of it."

"Did you really expect anything less?"

"No," Pansy admitted. "It just wouldn't been nice if they would have just listened for a moment."

"I can't imagine what they would've done if they knew about..." Ron added but trailed off when he realized what he was about to let slip. Quickly, he tried to cover his almost slip-up with, "We just couldn't take anymore of their well-meaning intentions so it just seemed logical to head on here."

Unfortunately for Ron, Charlie noticed the slip. Opening the front door for them, he asked, "So knew about what? Is everything okay?"

Ron looked at Pansy guiltily but she just smiled and said first to Ron, "It's okay," before turning to Charlie and asking, "How do you feel about being an Uncle Charlie?"

"But I already knew about Fleur," Charlie responded. "Bill couldn't shut up about it..." his voice trailing off when he saw Pansy smirk and Ron struggling to hold in a laugh. "Wait a minute. But I thought...What about...And you haven't told Mum! She is going to come here and tan all of our hides for keeping this from her. Thanks a lot you two!"