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A second chance to get it right	By : KusanoSaku Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Hermione/Fred Views: 6059 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I don't own the Harry Potter franchise so I'm not making any money writing this. If I did, Ginny would have died instead of Fred.

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Title: A second chance to get it right
Pairings: Fremione, SeamusxGeorge, DennisxAstoria, BillxFluer, OliverxPercy, ViktorxCharlie and references to DracoxHarryxBlaise, MichaelxGinny and RonxLavender
Rating: M
Summary: Side-fic to Be Careful What You Wish For. Follows Fremione and SeamusxGeorge's second chance at love. The rebirth of WWW and their growing families.

Chapter 3

The worst part about being an Order Member and a former Auror was that you ended up being sent on capture missions for the Ministry.
Arthur slept in the Auror Department mostly because he crashed after a capture. With Fred’s death well he threw himself into work. Molly was more overbearing then usual and well he decided absence was the better part of valour.
He ran into Kingsley who asked him to hand deliver a message to Gringotts…
Kingsley ordered him to take a few days rest… he was working too hard apparently.
With the powerhouse Aurors and Hit Wizards he’d known when he was an official Auror; Frank, Alys, Sirius, James, Marlene, Amelia, Fabian, Rufus and Moody gone to the Veil and Kingsley as Minister they were short-handed. Of course Tonks was well liked by all and her absence was keenly felt.
More so since they had ‘clean house’ first…
Dawlish had always been a bad egg, what did one expect when the wizard was bonded to the likes of Alecto Carrow? He had been suspended pending investigation along with former Ministry figurehead Pius Thickness who like Yaxley had previously served as Head of Magical Law Enforcement…
His former associate from his days as Head of the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office Perkins had been drafted along with his ten subordinates from his Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects.
Unfortunately, they weren’t Auror trained and they were forced to pair with actual Aurors…
Due to his age and lumbago Perkins was threatening to retire since they were drafted with the rest of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement…
Then again in the last twenty years Perkins had always been old and threatening to retire…

Arthur sighed, entering Gringotts.
“Dad? Dad!”
Arthur blinked yawning, “Oh hi Bill.”
“Where have you been?” his eldest grumbled, “Mum’s gotten intolerable and we need to talk about my siblings. Especially, Ron and Ginny.”
“I was sent home to sleep. Kingsley told me to take a few days off.” Arthur yawned, “Can it wait?”
“No. It’s about Lunch, why don’t you come with me? Let me treat you.”
“I’m really too tired to go out. I’d probably just fall asleep on you.” Arthur shook his head.
Bill called out that he was going to lunch and dragged Arthur out. “I don’t really care what you say we’re going.”
He was pushed, pulled and forcibly led towards Fred and George’s shop.
“What? Why?”
“You’ve got to see this…I didn’t believe it at first but it’s true.”
The door opened at their approach.
“Hey Bill! Did you come for lunch again?”
“Hey Seamus, you enjoy your weekend?”
The Irish wizard smirked, “Of course. George, Draco, Blaise and Harry are in their respective labs. I thought I’d check the stock over. We want to reopen soon. With all of us working we should be open around December sometime.”
Bill gestured at the stairs, “They up there?”
“Aye.”
“Good work, I’ve got to give them my report. Fleur and Andromeda next door?”
“Aye, they’ve taken the school idea and ran with it. Nearly bought out the education of young magical children section out.” Seamus grinned. “Dennis is over there helping and studying. They’ve got Teddy and Colm too.”
“Must be nice to know he’s nearby…” Bill said as he pushed his father up the stairs.
They could smell food the moment they started up the staircase and in true Weasley fashion; Arthur’s stomach began to growl.
Bill threw open the door and called out, “Look who I found!”
A very familiar back turned around, “Dad! I heard you were out playing Auror. Congrats. Guess all that Order stuff paid off with Kingsley being Minister and all.”
“I thought George was in a lab…” Arthur stammered.
“He is. I’m Fred.”
Arthur’s response was to pull out his wand, “You’ll come with me quietly or I’ll hex you like I was Mad-Eye.”
“I’m not using a glamour and I’m not using Polyjuice.” Fred tugged on his ears; “See? I’ve got both my ears. George knows it’s me. Hermione in the office right now if you want to ask her. You’re like the only one who doesn’t know I’m alive and back. Were you trying to give the old man a heart attack Bill? Or has being the acting head of the family messed with your head? He’s done a good job, he helped knock some sense into Percy, he’s helped protect Hermione; he tracked down George to Greece and even brought Charlie home. You should be thanking him.”
“How can you be alive when we buried you?”
“I was under the buried alive curse. Pomfrey knew it was me when I brought Hermione to her. Poor Mione, she found out she was pregnant, was dumped, found Ron was Cheating, assaulted and she was the first to find me alive.” Fred shrugged, “We’re okay now, and right now we’re unofficially engaged. I’m going to blood adopt Ron’s kid and we’re turning George’s old room into a nursery. She’s making some sense out of the office and has taken over the paperwork leaving me to sell product and George to create really. Harry’s taken over our Defence line, Blaise is working on our Transfigured products, Seamus took over the fireworks and Draco is working with George on potions. Andromeda and Fleur took over the preschool project next door, I bought a defunct publishing company- not Whiz-Hard of course and we’re going to build a preschool to that Diagon Alley parents can have their kids nearby but not underfoot. Bill’s taken over our investments- someone got to take over Fortescue’s I think. Dunno who yet…”
“I…where did you get your business knowledge?” Arthur stammered.
Fred smirked, “I used your Muggle Ministry pay to buy books at the Muggle bookstore in Ottery St. Catchpole. You read the books after I did but they didn’t really interest you. I still have them…I think they are in the office and Hermione’s been reading them.”
“What about Angelina?”
“She’d married to Lee now and the baby was actually his. I couldn’t leave her while she was pregnant even if I had suspicions it wasn’t mine. That would have been cruel. I’m not like Ron…”
“He broke up with her and she’s pregnant? Why?”
“Her reminders about how important NEWTS are and her badgering about Harry I guess. Idiot, he was cheating on her and he accuses her of settling for him. Idiot. She’s much better off here where I can make sure she eats right and take care of her.”
“What about your mother?”
“She tried to take Hermione’s things hostage and force her to return to The Burrow.” Bill grumbled, “Then she had the audacity to firecall Fleur and scream at her. If Ron’s there it’s not safe for her, he gave her a concussion and made her bleed the scum. I hope they throw him out of Auror training. I wouldn’t want him on any case I can think of…”
“He actually hit her?” Arthur scowled, “Whatever possessed him to do that?”
“He said she was annoying and that he was moving in with Lavender. Death Eaters killed her father because he refused to support You-Know-Who. She’s been trying to study for her NEWTS I guess, her sister and brother I heard were at Beauxbatons.” Bill shrugged, then the former Cursebreaker slapped himself in the forehead. “I forgot! I was told to give this to you by the Goblin who took over the Prewett estate.” He fished out a thick parchment envelope sealed with the Gringotts’ seal.
Arthur nodded, “I’ll read it…”
“Are you joining us for lunch? I feed everyone…”
“Who are the names I don’t recognize?”
“Harry’s engaged to Draco Malfoy and Blaise Zabini. George is being courted by Seamus who is heir to Old O’Shanesey.”
“Harry’s engaged to blokes?”
“He told Ginny to they were over for good apparently and well, he went to Greece with Teddy, Andromeda and Draco. Blaise invited him. George stayed for a few days with Seamus, Dennis and Colm. Harry came back engaged.” Fred shrugged turning back to finish lunch.
“Oh…” Arthur said taking a seat on the couch and opened the letter.
Inside was a note.

Beloved…

Arthur couldn’t breathe…
Only one person called him that…
Gideon…
With shaking hands he opened it.
‘To my beloved Arcturus,
If you are reading this I must have really died this time. I’m sorry. I have shamed us both. Caradoc took my place at my request and Fabian let him. I seduced you not once but twice and both times I conceived. As I write this I am scheduled to be delivered. After our second son is born I am leaving the Wizarding world for good.
I plan to modify my memories and live as a Muggle. It is too dangerous for me to remain if everyone thinks I’m dead. I am Fabian’s heir still, probably because he still loved me. We are twins after all Jason is too young and he wants to play Quidditch. Your father Septimus will no doubt continue to vote as our proxy.
I will get a job and pretend to be a widower; it’s too dangerous to let a Muggle know I carried two infants to term. I hope that Voldemort is truly defeated.
If you’ve received this and I have not appeared to you then that means that I have modified my memories. It’s too late for us. I ask for one thing beloved, look after our sons for me.
I named my firstborn for you, Colin Arthur and his younger brother Dennis Caradoc. I will be raising them under the name Creevey. Caradoc died in my place and so in his honour I named our son. I used a spell to put the pregnancy in stasis while I mourned Fabian’s passing. I am now fine and healthy so I removed the spell.
I loved you, I always have and I forgive you. I hope you can too. If I were braver I would have taken Fabian’s place and taken you from Mary. Now you have seven children with her and it is too late. Were it only the one I might have but I can’t take their mother away.
I will forget you but you will always have my heart.
Gideon Lionel Prewett.’
Arthur hadn’t cried since Fred’s funeral but he did now. Gone? Recently gone? He swallowed, “That Dennis you mentioned, his name wouldn’t be Creevey would it?”
Bill frowned, “Yes? Why?”
“Where is Colin?”
“Gone.” Fred said from the stove. “Died at Hogwarts.”
“They are both gone then…I’ll have to speak to him. I don’t know what to say to him. Perhaps, I shouldn’t. It may just make things worse…”
“Colin left a little boy behind...” Bill said quietly, “A cute kid, nearly Teddy’s age.”
“A grandson? Gideon…”
“Gideon? Uncle Gideon?”
“This is from Gideon…he says they are ours. I can’t go back to The Burrow. My head’s been clear for the first time in years…I was planning to go visit my parents instead.”
“You haven’t spoken to Grandfather in years…”
“Not since Fabian and Gideon’s funerals…I should say Caradoc really seeing as how he died with Gideon’s face. Fabian was still angry and I thought Gideon wasn’t speaking to me. How can he forgive me after what I did? He’s gone and I can’t tell him I’m sorry…”
“Are you alright Dad?”
“No…and I’ll never be alright. I can’t divorce…so I’ll move out. I don’t know where I’ll stay. Once the potion was out of my system I built up an immunity. It feels like a slap in the face…children? Our children?” Arthur couldn’t take it and cast a sleeping spell on himself the letter falling to the floor…
XoooooX
Bill picked up the letter intending to set the entire missive aside for his dad only to see that it was addressed to ‘My beloved Arcturus’. He had heard that his father had been betrothed before marrying his mum. Something about his origins being unsavoury, he’d left Britain as soon as he could to get away from it. The goblins were about the only people who would hire him even if he were legitimized.
It was his marks that brought him to his grandfather’s attention.
Septimus Weasley bought him his own wand in Paris when he heard he’d been Head Boy and had twelve NEWTS. He was told if he ever needed anything to let him know…
Septimus had bribed the goblins into sending him to Egypt to be trained as a Cursebreaker…
It was something he’d never forgotten…
Charlie was purchased a wand and the Preserve was given a hefty donation…
Charlie of course was hired right away and had done brilliantly; he’d even staffed the Triwizard Tournament.
Bill knew that Percy becoming Crouch’s personal assistant was his grandfather’s doing, after all Crouch was his nephew.
He wouldn’t be surprised if Septimus helped the twins too, maybe sent them a lawyer or information on properties. He would ask to have Septimus keep Ron from succeeding in Auror training.
He read the letter and he was horrified…
He had lost a half brother without knowing him; he had a nephew, and an orphaned half brother that needed looking after.
He went from having only six living siblings to seven…
Hermione was expecting, Ginny and Fleur…
Colin who couldn’t be much different in age than Ginny was gone and left a bereaved fiancé and a son…
Merlin things were complicated…
Being the eldest hadn’t been so difficult since he had to try to keep the family together after Fred’s apparent death…
“Lunch is…” Fred said quietly, “…oh he’s asleep. Dad must be exhausted. Why don’t you cast a silencing bubble around the couch while I fetch everyone…”
“Sure thing.” Bill said taking out his wand. “You know you could just send a patronus.”
Fred laughed, “I could but after months in a coffin I can really use the exercise.”
Then he was off to tell Hermione about lunch and Bill was alone long enough to cast a privacy ward on his dad’s letter. He would let dad handle it, it wasn’t really his business but he would keep a closer eye on Dennis…
XoooooX
The family- Fred, Hermione, George, Seamus, Harry, Blaise, Draco, Andromeda, Fleur and Dennis joined Bill around the table. Andromeda had already experimented with wizardspace to help enlarge the kitchen/dining room to fit all of them.
Hermione was doing much better these days and well having a birth healer in the family was a boon.
The newlywed vibe was rather affecting since everyone but Andromeda and Dennis were in that blissful state.

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