School started to become routine by the time they went into Hogsmeade for their first weekend in the middle of October. Mira and Ginny were walking together to meet up with Donovan and Fred. It was already snowing and icy and Ginny was really popping out by now. She usually spent weekends in Hogsmeade with Donovan, but she decided to come this morning instead since she'd have people to walk with and Donovan had to work late last night. The two were giggly and talking about this and that. They bypassed the stores and headed down a side street to Ginny's house. She let them in and they found Donovan and the Weasley twins both there. "George! I didn't know you were coming! Aren't you supposed to be running the shop?" Ginny asked hugging him tightly.
He grinned, "Verity is holding down the fort, besides I have to be here when my own twin is getting married!"
"Married?" Ginny looked between Fred and Mira. "What are you talking about?"
"We figured that we shouldn't wait…don't know what's going to happen, but we're keeping it secret for now…just you and Donovan there." Mira told her smiling. She hadn't told Regulus because she knew he would forbid it. So he was back at the castle and not freezing his paws off out here.
"I can't believe it!" Ginny said. "Mom's going to kill you, you know." She told Fred.
"By then she'll have a daughter in law to fuss over." Fred waved it off.
They all went down to the small office that the town's Ministry of Magic representative worked out of. He seemed to be expecting them. "This is the young lady then, Mr. Weasley?" The man asked.
"Yes, this is my Mira."
"Mira, what is your last name?"
"I don't have one, sir." She told him. "I just know my name is Mira."
"Let me check then, I can see who your parents are…" He took her hand and tapped his wand on it. "Dorcas Lyancomp Meadows and…oh my," he gaped in surprise.
"What? Who's my father?" She asked unable to help herself. "It's Black, isn't it? I knew it!"
"Yes, it is…"
"I knew it! Sirius Black is my father!"
"No, my dear, you are in fact wrong about that."
"What? But then how could…" she paused and gasped.
"You are the daughter of Regulus Black. So," he continued ignoring her stunned state. "Birthday, October 4, 1979, 17 years old, yes, everything is in order then. Fred Weasley, take her hand in yours." They clasped hands and the man had his wand out. "Now, remember, a marriage among us is unbreakable…we do not enter into this lightly. Are you both prepared for this?"
"Yes," Fred said nodding.
Mira nodded swallowing. She was sure about Fred, even if she wasn't sure about anything else.
"Then repeat after me," he placed the tip of his wand on their linked hands. "Do you, Fred Weasley, take this woman as your wife, your partner in all things, to protect her and care for all of her needs, until beyond the veil?"
"I will." Fred said. A flame licked out of his wand winding around their hands.
"Do you, Mira Black, take this man as your husband, your partner in all things, to stay by and care for all his needs, until beyond the veil?"
"I will." She said. A second tongue of flame leaped around binding itself around their hands.
"You are husband and wife, then." He said, "And so recorded by our laws."
The flames seemed to disappear within their skin and they were able to let go only when they were gone. Fred fished out a ring from his pocket and put it on her hand and took out another one that he gave her to put onto his. She smiled at him and he leaned in gently kissing her.