Ok, as it seems to upset many readers, let's just say that George and Fred had their b-day party in summer because they wanted to celebrate with family and not just their friends at school – would that be ok?

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After brief explanation from the headmistress of the orphanage who told her that social services had to take her here because there were some issues with Mr. and Mrs. Weasley paperwork, she was rushed to the empty dining hall and one of the caretakers brought her plate of food. Jade didn't eat dinner they gave her, and after saying Thank you, very politely but firmly to the lady who was waiting for her, they didn't insist.

There was something powerful in the way she said it, and left no place for discussions.

They took her upstairs to the bedroom on the first floor. It was rather late and most of the kids were already in bed and those who weren't, quickly sprinted across the room and jumped under the covers when Jade and the caretaker came in.

It was warm and humid and there was no wind coming from open window, or silent voices from twins' room upstairs. No one got up to bring Ginny a glass of water, and most importantly Jade wasn't home.

She hugged the blanket close to her, turned around and buried her face in the pillow.

She missed them, and it was a strange feeling which she've never felt before.

This night there were no nightmares, because there was no sleep for her.

She cried and cried, silent sobs muffled by the pillowcase drenched with her tears.

It was scary, because for the first time in her short life she really cared about what was going to happen next.

And if some miracle happens and she would see the Weasleys again, she would beg them to take her back, Jade no longer cared about herself, she didn't need to keep her dignity now, because she was just a little scared girl ready to beg and cry for her family to take her back.

She still wasn't sure what happened, what was so horrible that they decided she had to go away.

Jade remembered the days after the first nightmare, when Molly looked tired and worried all the time, when she came to Jade's room every night to wake her up from the nightmare and then stayed with her until she fell back asleep. But after some time, Jade hopped back to her old routine and slept only every second night which seemed to keep the bad dreams away.

Then there was the day Bill came home…

…

It was sunny morning as most days this summer, with bright sunshine and fresh baked bread.

It would have been another lazy day, if Bill wasn't supposed to come today.

"Mom relax. He won't care if every single tile on the kitchen floor is polished and I'm pretty sure there's no need to wash the front steps, we don't use them anyway." Charlie grabbed Ron's shirt-collar and pulled him back from where his mother sent him to wash the stone-steps.

"I know, I know. But it wouldn't kill you if you helped a little with the cleaning would it now?" answered Molly and pushed Ron with bucket of soapy water and brush in the direction of their front door.

"Girls! Ginny! Jade! Come here I need you to fold and sort the laundry and then could you take it to everyone's bedroom upstairs?" Called Molly and started to polish the plates.

Jade and Ginny took two huge laundry baskets full of clean clothes and set them on the floor outside. They sat on the porch swing, each on one side and started to fold fresh clean sheets, forming neat little piles in the middle of the bench.

Fred and George were de-gnoming garden. It seemed to be bigger problem lately, when the colony of garden gnomes spread to the further corners of Molly's vegetable garden.

Everyone was busy when suddenly green flames flashed inside the fireplace and dusty and a little rumpled looking boy stepped outside, bringing generous portion of ashes with him, which later settled on the living-room carpet.

"Bill! Oh Bill's here!" they heard Molly calling from the inside.

"Bill's home!" exclaimed Ginny and dropped the shirt she was folding back on the pile.

Jade jumped up and followed her inside, but she got almost run over by Fred and George who pushed her in through the door.

There he was, the last Weasley Jade had to meet.

He was tall with piercing blue eyes and signature red hair. Ginny as already sitting on his shoulders while Ron tried to pull her down and take the VIP place.

Charlie was hugging his brother and very sentimental looking Molly was standing by the sofa, clutching wet tea towel to her heart.

"Bill! Bill!" came two identical exclamations and Jade was run over, this time literally, by two eager twins who joined the group hug.

Normally Jade would stand by the wall and wait for someone to call her but she has changed.

She has changed a lot and she was feeling much more secure and confident here that's why she did the unthinkable and Jumped on Bill's side, pushing between Fred and Charlie hugging her newest brother. She felt his hand on her shoulder as he hugged her closer and heard as Ginny squealed when Charlie pulled her down from Bill's shoulders.

It went smoothly as if they knew each other forever – same as with all her brothers, so it wasn't really surprising.

They talked, listened to Bill's stories, answered his questions and enjoyed Molly's apple pie. Lazy morning with light lunch later, and then they were all send to the garden to pick up few stalls of rhubarb which was ripe now, for Molly's famous rhubarb-beer jam. She made it last year, when Arthur brought home a crate of dark Muggle beer, and as excited as he was about that muggle drink and the beautiful (according to his words) brown bottles with all the funny labels, he couldn't make himself drink more than one glass.

It was nothing like the butter-beer he loved. It was bitter and it gave his tongue tingles.

He finished the first glass just for the love of muggle things, but he couldn't force himself and drink the rest.

That's when Molly stepped in and pulled out the muggle cook-book Arthur once gave her.

And there it was, a recipe for rhubarb-beer jam, which became family's favourite.

They pulled apart the stalls of rhubarb in warm summer sun, watching rows of garden gnomes walk back to their burrows.

Then Arthur came home and Bill came inside to talk to him, and the rest of the kids just stayed outside in the garden, snacking on the last strawberries they found, or the first blackberries which were still sour and hard but blue enough to be claimed as ripe and picked by impatient kids.

…

there was nothing wrong with that day…thought Jade, going over every detail of the day in her head, lying on the bed in the orphanage, alone, all the other girls were outside, enjoying warm day and cold drinks which caretakers prepared.

Nothing wrong with that day, but…I didn't study. I was supposed to study in the morning and I didn't. I played with Ginny outside until Molly called us in and gave us the laundry to fold.

Cold sweat run down Jade's back.

But it wasn't bad enough to be send away was it? And then it hit her. It wasn't one big thing, just addition of small mistakes she made. And that gave Jade another chill, before she fell down to her pillow again and cried as if there was no tomorrow.

…

Meanwhile in Burrow.

Molly was sitting behind kitchen table, stacks of papers, parchments and forms all around her.

It was Saturday so Arthur was home, but instead of playing with his kids he was sitting by his wife, with glasses on his nose, carefully filling out yet another formulary.

It was only yesterday when he came home from work and found a social worker – a very unfriendly looking muggle lady, sitting in his living-room, waiting for him to come home. Jade was sitting in his chair and Molly was kneeling in front of her, holding Jade's little hands in her big motherly ones. Talking silently, although, Arthur was sure about that, Jade couldn't hear her.

The social worker explained something to him but he didn't understand half of it, so she just told them Matilda Jones will be in touch with them as if was her case. Then she stood up and extended her hand towards Jade.

His little Jade who was sitting there looking over Molly's shoulder straight into his eyes. She looked like little baby, looking for someone to do something, anything.

And he could always find solution, he was always there to save the day, but not this time.

And the look of absolute terror mixed with disappointment on Jade's face when he told her she'll have to go for now, but they'll come and get her as soon as possible, broke Arthur's heart.

Jade didn't wait after that. If he told her there's nothing to be done, then there was absolutely no hope and so she went. Picked up her backpack and brown paper bag with sandwiched Molly packed for the journey. She didn't take the lady's hand, but walked in front of her with her trembling chin held high.

There was Charlie and Bill outside holding confused looking Ron and crying Ginny on their arms. Even Percy looked sad and Fred and George tried to hex the social worker but Arthur managed to snatch their wands in time, so they just hugged their mom from each side and looked as the taxi drove away their sister.

That was the worst day of Arthur's life, so now he was here working as hard as he could, filling all the forms, studying all the rules and laws about adoption muggle and magical, trying to find a way to bring Jade back home before the adoption would be complete.

And when Matilda came in, with a handful of heavy books and notepads, Weasleys had a neat looking Dossier ready to be approved by her department in Ministry.

"Molly, I'm so sorry, I didn't know the muggles were still on this case and there are more issues which we didn't know about, the parents of Jade had a will and it concerns Jade, but it was in one old folder and they didn't dig it up until now, when the public relations with muggle side of the ministry got involved …" started Matilda but Molly stopped her with big bear hug and got up to make her some iced tea.

"Thank you Molly. So there's that will, and the thing is…." Started Matilda before pausing and looking up on Arthur and Molly who were staring at her expectedly.

"The thing is, Jade inherited some money from both sides of her family, it's not much, just enough to put her through Hogwarts and a couple of years after, but they think… considering your…ahm… financial status… that you might want to get custody of her to get a say in what the money's spent on. I know it's…" but the rest of the sentence was lost in Arthur's angry cry.

"You've got to be kidding me!" he yelled at Matilda. "Tell them to keep the money, Jade can have them when she's of age. Tell them I don't care about stupid galleons, just give us Jade back!" Arthur sat back down on his chair and covered his face with his hands.

"Matilda, honey, there has to be something we could do, to get her back before the court, it's going to kill her being away from home and not knowing what's going on. They won't even let me write her a letter." Cried Molly but Matilda shook her head.

"I'm sorry, there's nothing to do, we'll just have to wait for the court in two weeks, when they'll decide about the adoption. Then you'll be her legal guardians and no one would be able to take her away." Said the young woman looking sadly at her friend.

"That is, if they decide to allow the adoption." She added silently and got up, taking all the paperwork she needed to approve in her office. And with a sad smile and a little wave she left.