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HpDork FreakaZiod – I'm not really making Jade a psychic, a "dream" here and there doesn't really make you a psychic, it can happen to anyone right? I just wrote from my own experience and we'll see where it goes for Jade.
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Cookie05 – yup, Jade saw the future – once in her life and now she thinks she saw the future again, that's why it scares her so much.
"Please don't tell Molly" Jade whispered looking up at Arthur with wide eyes. She could only imagine Molly's reaction. Even if they didn't seem to believe her, hearing that someone saw your son die and that one of their dreams actually came true before is never nice.
"Alright, alright, you need to calm down." Arthur smoothed Jade's bangs out of her eyes.
"Everything alright Arthur?" called Molly, walking to them.
"She's fine, but I think we had enough excitement for today. How about we head back home?" he suggested, gently squeezing Jade's shoulder as he pushed her in the direction of the rest of the group.
Luna was sad to see them go, but it was getting late anyway.
"See you soon Ginny!" she yelled, her long blond hair flying around her head like a halo.
The two girls grew really close in the last year when Ginny was left home with only Ron to play with.
Next couple of days went fine. They were filled with the usual summer mischief, leaving Molly with ton of cleaning and laundry every day. Strawberries were growing fast and she had to chase kids out of the garden all the time, if they wanted to have any strawberry jam this year.
"Did you at least start your homework?" Molly asked after lunch as she watched twins and Jade clean the dishes (they still had extra chores for the Easter accident), while she was sipping some coffee in a rare moment of silence in the house.
"Well, we started to think about it…" chuckled Fred.
"…and that's more than we usually do the first week home, mom." Finished George, winking at Jade who looked guilty. She forgot about those two essays she was supposed to turn in at the beginning of next school year.
"Why don't you start this afternoon? At least write down main points for the works you need to write and you can finish it over the weekend." Suggested Molly, getting up and walking to the sink. She kissed Jade's head and set her coffee mug down .
"Off you go now. If you do your homework now, you'll have all summer free. I bet Percy is already done."
"Percy doesn't have life!" exclaimed twins at the same time, looking angry as someone questioned their activities which kept them busy over the last week.
Jade sat down on the chair, pulling a scrap of old parchment from the drawer, to scribble down the main points of her essays.
One of them was supposed to be for transfiguration – What are the main rules of transfiguration and why is it necessary to follow them – discuss.
Professor McGonagall told them it's not necessary to base their homework strictly on facts. She wanted the students to think about the subject and voice their own ideas and opinions, which was nice change after year of reciting definitions and copying notes from books, but Jade had no idea what to write.
The second homework was from Herbology and they should choose their favorite plant and describe the effects and uses. Again, Jade didn't know where to start. Did she have a favorite plan? Absolutely not. She was sure that writing about strawberries or rhubarb wouldn't do – and those were the only plants she ever gave any thought.
When it was time for dinner, Jade had pretty much put down all the thoughts for the transfiguration homework but had nothing for Herbology and was nowhere close to starting.
Over the next two days she finished the essay for McGonagall and was pretty proud of herself, but second roll of parchment, with carefully written yet unfinished title Different effects and uses of …. Was still empty. Jade spent two hours sitting at her desk and staring at the blank paper, adding ornaments to the letters before she gave up and run downstairs to see what was Molly making for dinner.
Ron and Ginny were outside with Arthur, spending last few hours of Sunday together before week started and their dad had to spend most of the time at work.
Jade looked at them wondering if she should just let the homework be and join them but Molly was pretty serious about them finishing it as soon as possible, so Jade turned around walking to the kitchen instead. The windows were open and all counters polished and floor cleaned.
Twins were locked in their room again, and loud noises of explosions could be heard from behind the closed door.
Molly had large cutting board set on the table with various vegetables ready for the chicken salad she was preparing with left-over chicken from lunch.
"Hi honey, finished with your essays finally?" asked Molly smiling as she washed the rucola leaves over the sink.
"Well, one of them. I'm kind of stuck with the Herbology one." Said Jade sneaking a piece of chicken from the table.
"Do you need any help?" offered Molly, taking a handful of cherry tomatoes from the fridge.
"I just need to find some interesting plant to write about, it will be pretty easy once I choose one, but I want to write about something that's really interesting, not just choose something randomly from the atlas." Explained Jade.
"Well, why don't you just let it be for now? Maybe you'll find something interesting over the summer and if not, you'll choose some plant from the book, I'm sure there's plenty of interesting ones there." Smiled Molly, tossing all the ingredients in large salad bowl.
"Mom! Can we sleep outside? Dad says the hay pile is dry already and it's warm enough." Ron run into the kitchen after Molly called them for the dinner.
"Well… alright, maybe some day this week…" she started but Ron interrupted her.
"What about tonight? Please mom!" and Ginny joined in "Yeah, it will be awesome, we'll take all the blankets and…"
"Not tonight dears. Now hurry up and wash your hands before we eat." Molly rushed them out of the kitchen but the pleading continued once they all sat down at the dinner table.
"We'll wear warm clothes mom!"
"And we'll clean everything in the morning, you don't have to do anything."
"We could…" shouted Ron and Ginny over each other.
"Not tonight, alright? We'll talk about it in the morning and find some better day."
"But mom…" started Ron one more time and Arthur cut him off.
"It's full moon today guys, not the best night for sleep-over out of the house."
There was a brief moment of silence, which was interrupted by Fred.
"can you pass me the salt?" he asked and George agreed loudly, just to interrupt the awkward moment.
"But we have charms set around the house…" started Ron, but Molly's strict look made him stop.
"We could sleep outside tomorrow?" suggested Fred.
"You have an appointment in St. Mungo's Freddie, just a check up for that bite on Tuesday, it's early in the morning, but maybe the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, if it's warm enough." Said Molly, getting up from the table to bring dishes to the sink.
Jade was sitting up in her bed, looking out of the window. Moon hanging high on the perfectly clear sky was illuminating her bedroom with bright light. She left the window open as nights were getting really warm, but the air was completely still.
The usual sounds coming from the forest and fields surrounding the Burrow were echoing in the silence. A year ago, the quiet darkness of rural nights would drive Jade crazy, she was used to much louder city streets and traffic zooming under her window. Now she listened to the stillness of the night in peace. There were no howls, nor close, neither in the distance. She wasn't sure if it was thanks to the protective charms around the house or if there was simply no werewolf in the area.
Jade remembered Mr. Lupin, family friend who visited last summer. She didn't hear anything about him for a while, yet she felt like he was her friend and she desperately wanted to help him somehow.
Would it be too weird to send him a letter or maybe a postcard to cheer him up after full moon? Well it was too late now, but maybe next months…
And with thoughts troubled by lonely misunderstood werewolves Jade fell asleep.
On Monday they've spent all day just lounging outside in the shade, sipping dandelion lemonade and snacking on vanilla muffins with raisins which Molly pulled out of the freezer and defrosted them with a simple charm.
She always had a pack or two of baked goodies stored in the freezer for days like this, when there was just too much laundry or cleaning to do and she needed kids out of her way.
At lunch time, everyone sat down around the kitchen table, open windows around the room provided gentle cool draft, compared to the unmoving air outside. Molly put down the last plate of lentil veggie burger with generous helping of baked potatoes in front of Percy when Luna's dad knocked on the bottom half of the kitchen door (the top half was open).
"Oh, Xeno, welcome! Come in, come in!" Molly rushed to open the door completely.
"Would you like to have some lunch with us? Something to drink?" suggested Molly, already busying herself with a cup of fresh lemonade.
"Oh, no, thank you so much but I don't have a lot of time. You see, I left my girls at home packing. There's been a last minute opportunity to travel. I'll be writing an article about magical fauna and flora of Song district in Thailand, I'm taking my Luna with me." Said Luna's dad quickly, smiling dreamily, just like Luna did when she was telling them about one of her adventures.
"How exciting!" beamed Molly.
"Yes, indeed…but I came to apologize, we're leaving tonight and we can't keep an eye on your boys and girls tomorrow. Terribly sorry, Luna was really excited to have all her friends over for the day but you see, the article…"
"Don't worry about it." Molly shook her head. I'll figure something out. Now, did you lot have time for lunch with all the last minute packing?" asked Molly, but she didn't wait for Luna's dad to answer, and continued "of course not, you have enough worries with the travel. Packing for the whole family, and for such an exotic place, really,…oh my…" mumbled Molly.
She turned to Xenophilius handing him a Tupperware box with three large lentil burgers and baked potatoes.
"Here you go, for the journey, I'm sure little Luna will need a snack on the way, trust me, I know how it is to travel with kids." Smiled Molly, shaking her head when Xeno started to thank her.
"No problem at all. You enjoy your trip." Molly waved after him as he walked across the garden, heading back home to check if all necessities were packed in the travel trunk.
"I'm perfectly fine, I don't need to have a check up." Argued Fred and George nodded, pulling up the hem of Fred's tee to show their mom the healed scar, as they were standing in the door of the master's bedroom, Monday night.
"It's already healed." Said George, poking Fred's side, his finger leaving red imprint on Fred's scarred hip. Fred flinched slightly but grinned cheekily at their mom.
"No discussions, we already have an appointment." Said Molly strictly looking at her boys. "Did you shower? Toenails all clean?" she inquired but was interrupted by Percy who came downstairs from his room.
"Mom, I really need to study, there's this extra curricular work I need to finish for professor Flitwick and …"
"Percy, I told you, dad needs to go to work and Lovegoods are traveling, I'm not leaving you alone." Said Molly folding the quilt from the bed.
"Fred, did you clean your ears? I don't want any embarrassments at the hospital. You go clean them again."
"But mom! I'm fifteen! I should be able to stay at home for a few hours without you keeping an eye on me!" argued Percy, stomping his bare foot at the floor.
"Very mature of you Perce." Muttered Fred and George chuckled.
"Well, I suppose that's true,…" started Molly "we'll only be gone for a few hours after all."
"Then I want to stay home too!" exclaimed Ginny who came to find out what was going on.
"And me too, I don't want to wake up early and spend all morning at the hospital wing!" yelled Ron over the noise.
Jade just climbed the stairs from the kitchen where she was returning a mug.
She saw George whispering something to Fred who nodded briefly and wide grin spread on his face.
They both winked at Jade when they caught her watching.
"Mom, I think I'll stay home too. I can help Percy watch the small kids." Announced George loudly and silence fell over the Burrow. Never in thirteen years, did Fred and George willingly left each other's side.
"What's this commotion about?" roared Arthur, coming out of the bathroom, drying his hair with yellow towel. "Oh, family meeting?" he laughed and started to fold his robes which were carelessly thrown on the floor.
"Really mom, nobody fancies waking up that early, I'm sure we'll still be asleep when you get home." Added George when no one else spoke.
"Sure, I wish I could sleep in tomorrow, no need for everyone to suffer with me." Said Fred solemnly pretending to wipe his eyes.
"That's unheard of, George… you all should be ashamed, your brother's going to hospital…" started Molly.
"…for unnecessary check up.." interrupted George.
"…and you won't go and support him just because you want to sleep in?!" Molly continued.
"No, really mom, I don't mind." Said Fred after exchanging desperate looks with George.
Jade knew they had some plan, she didn't know what, but she wanted to help, being part of their pranks was fun after all, and they never led to anything terribly awful, well except for that spider accident but…
"I don't mind waking up, I'll go with Fred and you, and everyone else can sleep in." said Jade, and another silence followed. It was pretty unusual for Jade to speak so loudly and being heard over everyone.
"Well…" Molly was slightly shocked, not knowing what to say."
"When do we leave?" asked Jade as if nothing happened.
"half past eight." Said Molly.
"Alright, then it's settled, you lot can sleep in, no mischief tomorrow, until mom, Jade and Fred come back." Concluded Arthur, and after an angry glance from Molly he added "no mischief all day."
"…until I come home." He winked at his kids and earned a soft, rather loving punch in the arm from Molly.
After wishing each other sweet dreams Weasley kids left their parents' bedroom and climbed up the stairs to their respective rooms.
"hey, Fred, George? A word?" whispered Jade as they stopped in front of her bedroom.
Twins looked at her, already knowing what she was going to ask.
"Not here." Fred shook his head and George gestures for Jade to follow them upstairs, because Jade's bedroom was way too close to mom and dad's .