cw . slight worshipping kink if u squint .. soft dom!fred if you squint .. bsf!fred lowk but its never specified.
a/n . i haven’t written in a while forgive me. not proofread, probably w many grammar and spelling mistakes. also i love just em dashes i promise this isnt ai #boycottgpt
it started with hushed confessions and shaky hands. he watched slowly as you peeled off your clothes one by one, your hands tracing down his torso until his hands began to fiddle with the buckle of his belt. your hands slid under his sweater vest, pulling it off before unbuttoning his shirt and pushing it off his shoulders. his lips press to yours gently, scared you’ll break if he pushes too hard. you lean back, your head meeting his pillow and he kisses down your jaw with a shaky breath. your hands nervously find his shoulders, nails digging in the skin as his slender fingers find your aching entrance. he pushes in slowly, and your face contorts with a feeling you’ve never really felt. you sigh, and his finger slowly pulls out of you, allowing him to admire the amount of slick he’d gathered. he pushes back in, his lips wrapping around your nipple as he slowly eases another finger in. you groan, your legs attempting to press together. you hear him tut from above you and he pulls your legs back apart.
“is this good?” his voice is soft, slightly scared. his fingers are pushing in and out at a moderate pace, yet you can feel how badly he wants to push further.
you nod, a hand coming up to bury in his auburn locks. “curl them a little..” you whine, and he listens, a strangled whimper escaping your throat. his fingers make you feel feel so full, yet he’s so gentle with them. you prop yourself up on your elbows, and you can see his leaky tip bobbing with each movement he makes. heat rises to his cheeks when he catches you staring, and he pulls his fingers out of you.
his posture adjusts, and he scoots himself closer to your heat, his thighs connecting with the bottom of yours, your calves hooked around his hips. he takes a deep breath, and he uses his hand previously inside you to slowly stroke himself.
“i’ve never…” he trails off, looking to you for guidance.
you take a deep breath, relaxing your muscles. “me either, ‘s okay.” your hand comes down to line his tip up with your leaky hole, your juices mixing deliciously. he feels heavy against you, the weight of just his tip making your brain foggy.
“you seem so experienced” he mutters, one hand settling next to your head to hold himself up.
“knowledge doesn’t equal experience..” he nods, and takes a deep breath. you were just as nervous as he was, but with how wet you are he didn’t feel he had time to be nervous.
he pushes in slowly, letting out a groan as his balls press against your ass. your nails go back to digging in his shoulders, the new, full feeling clouding your senses. you let out a whimper, the slight sting of stretching around him making your legs tremble.
his eyes watch yours, big, round, brown eyes finding any sign of backing out. “does it hurt? i’m sorry,” his free hand comes up to stroke your cheek, and you shake your head. “it’s okay, you can move”
fred’s hips pull back slowly, then snap forward roughly. it makes you whine, your legs pressing into his hips harder. he does it again and again at the same slow pace, gradually picking up as your slick and his pre coat his cock. your moans get increasingly louder, more desperate, and his hand snakes up to cover your mouth.
“shh, sh, sh .. don’t wanna wake anyone up” his voice is deep, sultry, and it makes your knees go weak. you nod, biting back your whimpers.
he’s almost pounding into you, your eyes rolled back into your head and his eyes screw shut to hold in his whimpers. your hands pull down his hand on your mouth, catching your breath. you feel so full, so warm, and heat rises to your cheeks hearing the plap, plap, plap of his balls against your ass. your mouth opens, but no sounds come out besides your heavy breaths. you sniffle softly, the pleasure bringing tears to the corner of your eyes. you pull him down closer to you, your teeth digging into his shoulder as small whines escape your throat. your stomach tightens, and you feel like you’re going to pee as fred drills into you as sweetly as he can.
“i know, i know. ‘s so good, jus’ a little longer, darling” he says softly, a shake in his voice every time he drags himself in and out of your velvety walls. you nod, whimpering into his skin. his thumb comes down to roll circles on your clit, his head dipping back down to suck on your nipples. your teeth bite down hard on your lip, and you feel fred twitch inside you as you tug on his hair. the coil in your stomach feels just about to snap, and all you can say is “fred, fred, fred,” over and over again. he whimpers— truthfully whimpers— and you feel yourself come undone around him, tightening your grip on his heavy dick.
his name falls from your lips one more time, warm, wet tears slipping down your cheeks as he abuses your spent cunt, chasing his own release. he groans louder than he should’ve, burying his face in the crook as your neck as he pumps himself once, twice, then a third time, and you feel hot stripes of cum fill you. he lets out whiny pants, stilling inside of you as his hands hold you down by your hips. you whimper, your arms wrapped around his shoulders and your legs wrapped around his hips.
you both catch your breath, him slowly sitting up and looking down at you with a fucked out expression. his heartbeat still loud in his ears. he rakes his hands up your sticky body, then cup your cheeks.
“you’re so beautiful,” he whispers, a boyish smile across his lips. you hum, a dopey smile on yours. “you’re more beautiful, fred”
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Contraband
part 2
One: The Weasley Problem
The problem with Fred Weasley was not that he was annoying.
You could have dealt with annoying. Annoying was manageable. Annoying was something you could build a defence against and maintain with reasonable consistency.
The problem with Fred Weasley was that he was annoying and funny and he knew it, and the combination of those three things meant he operated with a kind of confident ease that made it very difficult to look at him without your brain doing something you hadn't given it permission to do.
He sat two rows across from you in Defence Against the Dark Arts.
'Sat' was generous. He occupied the space. Sprawled into it. Took up exactly as much room as he felt like taking up on any given day, and somehow Umbridge had never managed to make him sit up straight, which you suspected was a source of genuine personal anguish for her.
He'd first spoken to you properly in September. Not counting the years of existing in the same castle — you'd been in the same year since first year, you knew who he was the way you knew who everyone was, but knowing wasn't the same as speaking.
September. Umbridge had just handed back a particularly insulting essay grade and you'd made the mistake of muttering 'this is actually educational malpractice' under your breath, and from two rows across Fred Weasley had said, without looking up, 'educational malpractice. I'm using that.'
'Please don't,' you'd said.
'Too late. It's mine now.'
'I coined it.'
'And I've claimed it. Spoils of war.'
Umbridge had looked over. Both of you had looked very interested in your parchment.
After class he'd fallen into step beside you in the corridor and said, 'Fred Weasley. In case you didn't know.'
'I know who you are.'
'Good. What's your name?'
You told him.
'Right,' he said, like he was filing it somewhere. 'I'll be needing that.'
'For what?' you'd asked.
He'd grinned — that specific Fred Weasley grin, the one that meant something was already in motion that you hadn't been informed about — and said 'you'll see' and turned down a different corridor.
You had, in retrospect, been doomed from that moment.
It had taken you several more weeks to admit it.
✦ ✦ ✦
The thing about fifth year was that everything had a weight to it that the previous four hadn't.
You felt it in the corridors — something taut and low, the way the air felt before a storm. Umbridge in the castle and her decrees going up on the noticeboard one after another, each one landing like a small controlled explosion. No gatherings. No organisations. No independent study of defensive magic. The Ministry's hand reaching all the way to Hogwarts and closing around it, slowly, like it had all the time in the world.
You'd heard about the DA from Ginny, who had heard about it from Hermione, who had looked at you with the very specific expression of someone deciding whether to trust you with something important and deciding yes.
'It's risky,' Hermione had said.
'Most worthwhile things are,' you'd said.
Hermione had nodded once, like you'd passed something.
The first meeting was in the Hog's Head, which smelled terrible and was clearly chosen because nobody sane would linger there. You'd filed in with the others, found a space, and were trying to look like someone who attended clandestine anti-Ministry meetings all the time, which was the exact kind of thing you thought about, when Fred Weasley appeared at your elbow.
'Educational malpractice,' he said, very quietly, into the space beside your ear.
You startled. He was closer than you'd expected. Close enough that you could smell the particular Fred Weasley combination of something smoky and something sweet, which was presumably the product of spending every available hour working on things that occasionally exploded.
'You're still using that,' you said.
'It's a good phrase. It captures the full horror of the situation.'
'I want credit.'
'You'll get a footnote,' he said. 'In the official account of the revolution.'
'The revolution.'
'Someone's got to call it that. Might as well start now.'
Harry had started talking at the front of the room. You both turned to listen.
Fred didn't move away.
You didn't move away either.
You told yourself it was just the room being crowded.
The room was not, especially, crowded.
Two: The Room of Requirement
DA meetings became the fixed point of the week.
Everything else was Umbridge's Hogwarts — the decrees, the inspections, the Educational Authority nonsense that had settled over the castle like a particularly vindictive fog. But the Room of Requirement was something else. Warm and lit and full of people who had all collectively decided that learning to defend themselves was worth the risk of being caught, which was, you had decided, one of the braver things you'd ever been part of.
Fred Weasley was, reliably, at your elbow.
Not in a way you could call him out on. Not in a way that was obvious. Just — there. When you were practicing Expelliarmus, there was a Fred-shaped presence somewhere nearby making commentary. When Harry was explaining Patronuses and you were frowning at your wand trying to find the right memory, a voice appeared beside you saying 'you're overthinking it.'
'How do you know?' you'd said.
'Your face does this thing when you're overthinking.'
'My face does not do a thing.'
'It does. It goes — ' he'd pulled a face that was a completely unfair impression of your concentration expression.
'It does not look like that.'
'It looks exactly like that. You look like you're trying to do sums in your head.'
'I'm trying to access a specific memory, it requires concentration — '
'What's the memory?'
You'd stopped.
'Sorry?' you'd said.
'The happy memory. What is it?' He tilted his head. Not joking now, just — asking. Looking at you with an attention that was different from the banter, steadier. 'The best ones are specific. Not big things. Small ones. Moments.'
You'd looked at him for a second. 'How do you know that?'
'Because George's Patronus is our mum's cooking on Sundays,' he said. 'And mine is — ' He stopped. Looked briefly like he hadn't meant to say that much. 'Anyway. Small moments. Try that.'
You'd tried it.
The Patronus had come — silver, substantial, more than the wisp you'd been managing — and Fred had made a sound of satisfaction beside you that you felt more than heard.
'Told you,' he said.
'You did,' you agreed.
He was already grinning. Back to Fred, the version you were used to. But you'd seen the other one, just for a moment, and you were not going to be able to un-see it.
Which was, you were beginning to understand, rather the problem.
✦ ✦ ✦
The Decoy Detonators incident happened on a Thursday.
You hadn't been involved, technically. You'd been in the corridor adjacent to the one where a small army of Fred and George's prototype devices had gone off simultaneously, which technically put you in the wrong place at an extremely interesting time.
You'd been pulled into an alcove by a hand around your wrist — Fred, appearing from nowhere the way he always seemed to, George immediately behind him — just as Filch came thundering around the corner.
The three of you pressed back into the shadows. Fred's hand was still around your wrist. Filch stood in the corridor for approximately thirty seconds that felt significantly longer, peered at the smoke still curling from the Detonators, muttered something unprintable, and left.
Silence.
George looked at the two of you, looked at Fred's hand on your wrist, and said 'I'll meet you upstairs' with the energy of someone exercising enormous self-control, and left.
Fred's hand dropped. He had the grace to look slightly caught out, which was not an expression you saw on him often.
'Sorry,' he said. 'Reflex.'
'Pulling people into alcoves is a reflex?'
'Pulling people out of the path of trouble is a reflex.' He glanced at the corridor where Filch had been. 'You were about to walk right into that.'
'I was going to the library.'
'You were going to the library via a corridor full of our finest work.' He said it with complete pride. 'You're welcome, by the way.'
'I didn't say thank you.'
'That's what the 'you're welcome' was for. Pre-emptive.'
You looked at him. The alcove was not large. He hadn't moved back, which meant the distance between you was the distance of two people who had just been pressing themselves into shadows trying not to get caught, which was to say: not much.
'Were those the Decoy Detonators?' you said. 'The ones you were testing last month?'
He blinked. 'You remember that?'
'You mentioned them. In the Hog's Head, that first meeting. You said you were working on something that would cause a diversion.'
Fred Weasley looked at you the way people looked at things that had surprised them.
'You were listening,' he said.
'I listen to most things.'
'I talk a lot.'
'I know. I still listened.'
Something moved across his face. There and gone. He stepped back, gave you the corridor distance back, and the moment was over.
'Come on then,' he said. 'Library's this way. I'll walk you, make sure there aren't any more diversions en route.'
'That you caused.'
'Details,' he said, and gestured for you to walk, and fell into step beside you, and you went to the library with Fred Weasley as an escort and tried very hard to think about books.
You thought about him the whole way.
Three: Umbridge Makes a Mistake
Umbridge inspected your Defence class on a Wednesday.
You had been warned it was coming — the whisper network in Hogwarts was efficient in the way of all things that formed in response to something intolerable — and so most of the class had arrived prepared to look precisely as obedient and useless as she wanted them to be.
Fred and George had other ideas.
It started small. A question asked with perfect, polished innocence about whether Ministry-approved theory was consistent with the spells used in documented dark wizard encounters. Umbridge had said yes. Fred had said, with an expression of complete sincerity, that he'd read something suggesting otherwise and could she clarify. Umbridge had clarified. George had asked a follow-up question. Fred had countered with a point. The whole thing had the quality of watching two cats calmly bat a vase toward the edge of a table, and Umbridge's smile was getting tighter by the minute, and the rest of the class had gone completely still in the way of people witnessing something that could go badly wrong and finding it impossible to look away.
You were sitting directly in front of Fred, one row up.
He leaned forward and said, barely a breath, 'she's going to snap in about three questions.'
'Two,' you murmured back, without turning around.
'Bet?'
'What are the stakes?'
'If I win, you have to come to the next DA meeting early and help us test something.'
'That sounds dangerous.'
'Mildly.'
'And if I win?'
A pause. Umbridge was answering George's question through a smile that had become essentially structural.
'Name it,' Fred said.
You thought about it for exactly the length of time it took George to ask the follow-up question.
'You stop stealing my phrases,' you said.
'Educational malpractice is my phrase now.'
'It was never your phrase.'
'I've used it fourteen times since September.'
'That's called theft, Fred.'
He made a sound that might have been a laugh converted into a cough at the last second.
Umbridge snapped on George's second follow-up question.
Not loudly — she didn't do loud. But the smile went completely rigid and she said, in the soft deadly voice she used when she'd had enough, that she thought that would be sufficient discussion for the day.
George sat back, satisfied.
Fred leaned forward again. 'Two questions. You win.'
'Thank you.'
'Educational malpractice is still mine though.'
'You agreed to the stakes, Weasley.'
'I agreed to stop stealing your phrases. I'm arguing that prior acquisition counts as possession.'
'That is not how that works.'
'It's how it works in my legal system.'
'You don't have a legal system.'
'I'm working on one,' he said. 'George is the co-founder. We've been drafting since third year.'
You turned around, just slightly, just enough to look at him over your shoulder.
He was grinning. Close — your desk was only a row ahead — and looking at you with that specific attention that made it hard to remember what you'd been going to say.
'Fine,' you said. 'Keep it. It suits you anyway.'
He blinked. Like that wasn't what he'd been expecting.
'Yeah?' he said.
'You're the one actually doing something about it,' you said. 'You've earned the phrase.'
Umbridge dismissed the class. People started moving. Fred didn't, for a second, just looked at you with an expression you couldn't entirely decode.
'Come to the next DA meeting early,' he said.
'I won the bet.'
'I know. Come anyway.'
He left before you could answer, catching up with George in the corridor.
You gathered your things.
You were going to go early. You'd already decided.
You weren't going to tell him that yet.
Four: Early
You went early.
The Room of Requirement was already configured when you arrived — mats on the floor, practice dummies in the corner, the warm light that the room always chose for these evenings. Fred was there, sitting on the floor with components spread out around him in the organised chaos of someone who knew exactly where everything was even when it looked like nothing was in order.
He looked up when you came in and something — quick, genuine, there before he managed anything over it — moved across his face.
'You came,' he said.
'I said I might.'
'You said you weren't going to tell me.'
'I wasn't. I'm here anyway.' You came and sat on the floor across from him, looking at the components. 'What is it?'
'Portable swamp,' he said. 'Prototype. We've been testing the containment.'
'What does it do?'
'Exactly what it sounds like.' He picked up one of the small packages. 'Except it needs to deploy in an enclosed space without flooding the whole building. That's the part we haven't solved yet.'
'Spatial limitation charms,' you said. 'You'd need to set a boundary before deployment.'
He looked at you. 'Go on.'
'The charm would have to go on first, not the device,' you said, thinking it through. 'Otherwise the swamp expands to fill available space. If you set the boundary before — like a ward, basically — the swamp reads the ward as a wall.'
Fred was quiet for a moment. Looking at you with that steady attention. 'That's — yeah. That's the part George and I kept getting stuck on. We kept trying to limit the device itself.'
'You can't control the output, you can only control the space.'
'That's exactly it.' He leaned forward slightly. 'How'd you work that out?'
'Charms theory. Containment principles. We did it in fourth year, Professor Flitwick.'
'I was probably not listening in fourth year Charms.'
'Probably not,' you agreed.
He smiled. It was a different smile from the grin — quieter, less performed, the one she suspected most people didn't get to see.
'You're clever,' he said, simply. Not a compliment designed to get somewhere. Just a thing he'd observed and said.
'I know,' you said, which made him laugh — quick and real, head tilting back slightly — and the Room of Requirement was warm and empty and there were forty minutes until anyone else would arrive and Fred Weasley was laughing and sitting three feet away from you and you thought: there it is. There's the problem, clearly named at last.
You were absolutely gone on him.
You'd been gone on him for weeks.
You had no idea what to do with that.
✦ ✦ ✦
He taught you the containment application. Walked you through the modifications, which meant forty minutes of the two of you on the floor of the Room of Requirement with components between you and his voice doing the thing it did when he was explaining something he cared about — still warm, still Fred, but focused, specific, not performing anything.
At some point the distance had reduced without either of you formally deciding to reduce it. He'd leaned in to show you something and stayed leaned in. You were close enough that you could see the small scar above his left eyebrow that you'd noticed before and never asked about.
'The scar,' you said, before you could stop yourself.
He glanced up. 'What about it?'
'How did you get it?'
'Which story do you want? I have three.'
'The true one.'
He looked at you for a moment. 'Exploding Snap, second year. George dared me to hold the card too long and I held it too long.'
'That's much less dramatic than the options you implied.'
'The other two are better. A dragon features in one. Completely false, but compelling.'
'I'll take the true one,' you said. 'I prefer those.'
He tilted his head. That slight recalibration he did sometimes, like you'd said something that made him reassess something else.
'Most people want the dragon,' he said.
'Most people don't know you well enough to know the truth is better.'
The words sat between you.
You hadn't fully intended them to come out like that — weighted, specific. But they had, and Fred Weasley was looking at you in the warm light of the Room of Requirement and not saying anything, which was, for Fred Weasley, a significant event.
'Is that right,' he said, finally. Not a question.
'I think so,' you said, keeping your voice level.
He looked at you for another moment. Then, slowly, deliberately — giving you every opportunity to move if you wanted to — he reached over and tucked a strand of hair behind your ear.
Just that. Nothing more.
Your breath did something it didn't have permission to do.
'I've been trying to work something out,' he said quietly.
'What?'
'Whether you'd mind if I — ' He stopped. His hand had dropped but not far, resting near your knee, not quite touching. 'Whether this is something you'd want.'
'This,' you said.
'Yeah.'
'You're going to have to be more specific than that, Weasley.'
He looked at you. 'No I don't,' he said. 'I think you know exactly what I mean.'
You did.
You'd known what he meant for weeks. Maybe longer.
'I'd want it,' you said.
The smile came back. The quiet one. 'Yeah?'
'Yeah.'
He leaned in —
The door opened.
George walked in, stopped, took in the scene with the rapid assessment of someone who had spent seventeen years reading his twin, and said 'oh' in a tone that contained a truly impressive amount of information.
Fred did not lean back. He just turned his head and looked at George with extraordinary calm.
'You're early,' Fred said.
'You told me to come early,' George said. 'To help test the — ' He looked at the components on the floor. Looked at you. Looked at Fred. 'The portable swamp.'
'We solved the containment problem,' you said.
'Did you.' George was having an extremely good time. It was written all over him. 'Brilliant. The swamp. Solved.'
'George,' Fred said.
'I'll just — ' George gestured vaguely at the other side of the room. 'Go over here. Test some things. Alone.'
'Thank you,' Fred said.
'Take your time,' George said, moving away with magnificent dignity. 'The swamp will keep.'
You looked at Fred.
Fred looked at you.
'Right,' he said, low enough that it didn't carry. 'Where were we.'
'I believe,' you said, equally quiet, 'you were being more specific.'
He laughed — surprised, warm — and this time when he leaned in there was no door opening, and he was specific, and it was — brief, because people were going to start arriving, but entirely, completely enough to confirm everything you'd been not-examining for months.
When he pulled back he was still smiling. The quiet one.
'Educational malpractice,' he said.
'What?'
'Still mine. Just so we're clear.'
You laughed, helpless, and he looked at you laughing the way you'd seen him look at things he liked — openly, without trying to manage it.
'Fine,' you said. 'Keep it.'
'I intend to,' he said. And then, quieter, just for you: 'among other things.'
✦ ✦ ✦
People started arriving ten minutes later.
George, from across the room, caught your eye and gave you a look of such extravagant satisfaction that you had to look at the ceiling to keep a straight face.
Fred pretended to notice nothing. He was extremely bad at it. His ears were red.
Harry started the meeting.
Fred sat next to you. Close. Not touching, because there were people everywhere and this was new and fragile and neither of you had decided what to do with it yet.
But close.
And when you were practicing Shield Charms and he corrected your stance — hands brief and light on your shoulders, adjusting the angle — he said, very quietly, 'better' and his voice was warm and specific and entirely for you and only you.
And when the meeting ended and everyone filed out and George said he'd see Fred upstairs with the manner of someone giving two people space on purpose, Fred turned to you in the emptying room and said:
'Tomorrow. Hogsmeade. Before the others.'
'Is that a question?' you said.
'It's a request.'
'A polite one, even.'
'I'm trying something new.'
You looked at him. Fred Weasley in the warm light, ears still slightly red, looking at you with the most sincere expression you'd seen on him.
'Tomorrow,' you said. 'Before the others.'
His whole face did something wonderful.
'Good,' he said. And then, because he was Fred: 'I'll file that under 'wins'.'
'You have a file for wins?'
'Extensive one.' He held the door open. 'You feature in it more than once.'
You walked through. He fell into step beside you.
The corridor was cold and Umbridge's latest decree was pinned to the board at the end of it and the year was heavy with things that hadn't happened yet.
But Fred Weasley was warm beside you and his shoulder was pressed to yours and you were going to Hogsmeade tomorrow before the others and right now that was enough.
✧.* : F.W x Ravenclaw! Reader
✎ : You’ve always kept to yourself — quiet, shy, and never one to seek the spotlight. But somehow, during the whirlwind of the Yule Ball season, Fred Weasley notices you. And once he does, there’s no going back; despite your best efforts to stay invisible, you manage to capture his heart just by being exactly who you are.
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Much Love, Saige
Unbelievable. Your mother has sent yet another letter through the post asking about what you were going to wear to the Yule Ball. It was not your definition of fun…perse, but that was only because you knew no one was going to ask you. Even just the thought of going stag made your hands shake.
Sitting in the great hall alone, you hesitated to open it. The thought of being berated yet again to ‘gain some courage’ or ‘go with a friend’ just frustrated you slightly. You knew your mother didn’t understand your social anxiety or lack of relationships at school, but reading the words felt like a stab in the gut. You set it to the side as you finished your jam and toast, relishing in the morning light. After a few minutes, you took a deep breath, picking back up the envelope slowly.
A boisterous crowd entered the great hall catching your attention; letter still in hand. Their scarlet and gold uniforms almost gave it away before their fiery red hair did. As they walked, they laughed and hit each other on the back, plopping themself into the gryffindor table just a few feet away. Luckily for you, they sat with their backs turned; but even then you could recognize which twin was which. Fred often would whip the dangling hair in front of his face with his head, while George would tuck the hair quickly behind his ears. Their movements mirrored each other in many ways, even the food they grabbed as they built their breakfast plates, but something made you see Fred differently.
After a few moments you looked away, embarrassed at yourself for staring. You held the letter in your hands, slipping your nail under the fold opening it delicately. In her usual fashion, your mother wrote on beautiful blue cardstock, a small drawing of an eagle, sloppily, yet endearingly, on the envelope.
Flipping it open, it read;
“Darling, I know you have read the last two letters I have sent. I know it seems daunting to go to a school dance but you wont regret it. Life is short. Whether or not you get asked should not hold you back from having a good time by yourself.
I love you.
Please don't hesitate to write back~~
Ps. I hope the owl dropped off a sack with this letter. Maybe you could use it to find a nice dress on my behalf.”
Just as you finished the letter, a small owl dropped a sack of coins on top of your empty plate, sending crumbs all over the table. With a small chirp, the owl flew away leaving you alone once more. You sat there for a moment, letter still in hand, looking at the cloth of coins in front of you. Exhaling, you thought over the possibilities of going to the ball. Could you muster up enough confidence to go? What if someone did ask you? You sighed lightly, conflicted with the letter and your own mental gymnastics. Fiddling with the coin sack, you made a mental note to write your mother back after class today.
Glancing over at the twins, you started daydreaming. The idea of being asked by Fred romantically at the Yule Ball, being swept away to the dance floor just as a slow dance started, what the smell of his cologne would be like, how tall he would be with you in his arms, how he would lean down to kiss yo-
Breaking you from your trance, a large old owl barreled through the postal entrance, hitting several candles on its way down. The eyes of all students in the great hall followed the train wreck as it dive bombed towards the gryffindor table.
“Errol! No!” George yelled. The bird hit the table, dropping a large parcel while knocking over several drinks and meals in the process. Your hand flew to your mouth, stifling a laugh as the chaos ensued. You watched the twins attempt to clean the area, opening the box, shooting the bird off quickly.
“Oy, looks like this ones for our little brother.” Fred chuffed, shoving the box down the table towards Ron. A ghastly red dress suit with ancient frills could be seen from miles away. As the table enveloped in laughter and disbelief, you cleared your plate gathering your belongings in your arms, quietly leaving the great hall without a trace; the thought of being whisked away by a certain tall suiter is still fresh in your mind.
——⭑⋆⋆⋆⭑——
Over the weekend before the ball, you decided to shop around Hogsmeade in one last ditch attempt to find something you felt comfortable in. If you didn’t find something today, you were not going at all.
Wrapping your neck tightly with a scarf, you topped your head with earmuffs ready to face the elements. Snow crested the hills and paths; crunching softly under your feet.
Just ahead, two ginger boys formed snowballs in their hands, one sending it up in the air while the other attempted to hit it down with another snow ball. They frolicked and played, stopping students who walked passed.
As you got closer, you crossed your fingers; praying they would let you go through without acknowledging your presence. Of course you dreamed of kissing Fred in your free time, but the idea of him even perceiving you sent shivers down your spine. Walking with your head held down, you took one step after another, thinking if you just kept moving nothing would happen.
“Hey! Sorry to bother you.” You heard a voice shout just to your left. You stopped in your tracks, eyes widening. Please don't be talking to me. Please don't be tal-
“Hey! Wait, sorry.” Fred's voice got closer with each step. You gulped, turning to face him, a small polite smile across your face. Your hands held each other in your hoodie, gripping your coin pouch tightly in any attempt to calm your nerves.
“Could you settle a debate? We could use an outside interpretation of something.” He gestured towards George just off the path. You made eye contact with George, waving you over. The words were caught in your throat. You attempted to find a response.
What could you say?
You stumbled over words, stuttering slightly before huffing and just nodding your head in agreement.
“Great! You wont regret it.” Fred said, pulling you over to George. “I think…” He added, just under his breath. Your arm was intertwined with his for only a moment as he pulled you to the side. George walked up to you both, a smile plastered from ear to ear. You suddenly became aware of what was happening, stopping in your tracks.
”I swear if you are pranking me.” You mumbled, brows furrowed. Fred stopped just a foot ahead of you, his eyes widening. His hands released your arm, holding his hands up in defense. You couldn't help but notice how his eyes glistened against the snow. His nose and cheeks red from the cold, sniffling slightly. He took a small step towards you shaking his head. Fred could feel the sudden apprehension from you, worried you thought they would do something cruel.
“No no I promise. Purely just need your opinion for our business.” Fred waited for a moment, both of your eyes attempting to read the emotion on the others. His heart fluttered as you looked over his face, suddenly taken aback by your beauty. His brain wracked any previous memory of you, in the hallways, or in class, at meals. He had never seen you before and it astonished him. He thought he knew everyone.
You didn’t respond, just a small smile building across your cheeks walking towards him with more confidence. George looked between you and Fred several times, already sensing something growing between the tension. George smirked but kept to himself, knowing he’d be able to inquire later.
“Simply put, we need a consensus of the general public, you see, from students we don't typically sell to, and that's where you come in” Fred gestured to a small box behind George, hidden in the snow. You fiddled lightly with the coins in your pocket, waiting for the big reveal. Fred leaned down, picking up the box and holding it in front of you.
“Now. Just tell me which item you would be more compelled to buy.” Opening it slowly, two large spheres wrapped in foil laid neatly in the box; one gold, one silver. You leaned in, trying to get a better look. The twins stood silent, awaiting your response.
”Gold.” You spoke, looking up at them both. They looked back at you, and then at each other for a moment. Fred nodded in acknowledgment, his bottom lip out slightly almost as if he was impressed by your answer. He closed the box quickly and turned to George. Their movements were fast and abrupt, taking you by surprise. They slid the box in a satchel, Fred lifting the strap over his head and across his torso.
“Thank you so much for your participation.” George dramatically bowed, Fred following. Fred glanced up at you as he leaned, winking at you before he looked back down. Your heart raced, standing still. As they rose, you stayed silent, just watching the way they proceeded, mesmerized by how Fred kept looking your way.
“We will keep in touch.” Fred whispered, turning on his heel and walking away with George. You stood alone for a moment, watching them both go down the path back to the castle. You looked around in disbelief, not sure what happened. Turning back towards hogsmeade, you couldn't stop replaying the conversation, the way he held your arm even for a moment. Maybe you were more inclined to go to the ball, the thought of seeing Fred there made it more appealing.
———- ((Lover By Taylor Swift))————-
The day had arrived and you couldn't be more tense. Like you had thought, no one had asked you to the dance, yet a part of you was happy that you could come and go at your leisure. You told yourself if it was a terrible idea, you could come back to your room and end the night early.
You sat in front of your mirror applying makeup to the best of your ability. You slipped on your gown, struggling to zip the back up, jumping around in any attempt to shimmy up the zipper. After a few minutes of bouncing and movement, you successfully adjusted the dress, looking at yourself in the mirror.
Slightly shocked in the confidence it brought you, you admired the way the dress sat on your hips and flowed to the floor; a slight swish as you moved left to right. Taking a deep breath in, you slipped on your shoes and practiced walking around your bedroom before leaving and heading out to the common room. Many of your peers all dressed in bronze and blue, a slight nod to your house colors. You could feel the tension in the room as students paired up with their partners, walking awkwardly together out of the common room. It seemed more people were more nervous than you thought, reminding you that it was just a bunch of teenagers going to a dance. Conversations in the hall were light; students attempting to participate in small talk, many stumbling over their words, fingers grabbing each other. The nerves were almost palpable coming off the students the closer you all got to the great hall.
Following the crowd, you arrived at the great hall, your hands held tightly together with your clutch, finding it to be a great fidget as your heart raced harder. Students from all houses joined together outside the great hall, not yet entering as they met and chatted with friends. The large group made you hesitate, moving through it slowly to enter the exquisitely decorated room.
You almost couldn’t recognize it. The large tables and benches were replaced with several tall round tables. Beautifully decorated christmas trees lined the walls. Snow fell from the ceiling, magically disappearing before it hit your head. You smiled, turning in a circle taking it all in. The room was beginning to fill, still giving you time to become comfortable in the space before the event started.
Fred was outside in the large crowd, watching you as you passed. He noticed you as you turned the corner, the first thing catching his eyes was your gold dress. His hands shook slightly, gripping the edge of his coat pulling it lightly. Ever since you caught his attention by hogsmeade, George hadn’t stopped teasing the way that Fred talked about you. His mind was constantly elsewhere, not able to focus on their pranks or schoolwork. As much as it annoyed George with how distant Fred was, he knew how smitten he had become and he was happy for his brother.
“You alright mate?” George whispered, noticing how Freds eyes followed you through the crowd. Fred didn’t respond, just sighed and looked at the floor.
“I’m lost Georgie. I don't know what I'm doing here.” Fred whined, his hands shoved deeply in his pant pockets. George rolled his eyes, nudging Fred over in your direction.
“She showed. That’s all you were moaning about all week! Just go talk to her. You did it once before.” George whispered, gesturing towards the entrance. “If you don't ask her, I just might.” George added, a cheeky grin growing across his face.
“You wouldn’t dare.” Fred furrowed his brows, his voice husky and dark. George just laughed, shaking his head.
“No way. That’s all you.” He patted Fred’s shoulder, pushing him towards the great hall, physically prodding him to take the next step. Fred stumbled slightly, taking a deep breath in before attempting to walk in casually.
You took a table close to the stage, sipping a small glass of punch. Glancing at the clock, you noticed a familiar redhead enter the room, your breath hitching in your throat. Almost choking on your drink, you turned and faced the front, trying to look distracted in the band setting up. You held the glass lightly, not letting your agitation show in your body language. You were cool, calm, and collected. Right?
It felt like minutes passed before Fred joined you at your table. Your back facing the entrance, not aware of his presence. He stood for a moment, admiring you from behind, the way your hair laid on your shoulders, how your back was exposed and glistened under the lights from above. He swore he could feel how soft your skin was, even from feet away, his fingers itching to know how you’d react if he reached out right then.
Instead, he cleared his throat, garnering your attention. Your eyes meet with him in a soft embrace. His chest swelled, the feeling of his body tingling just by looking at you. You smiled at him, leaning your arms on the table leaning over slightly.
“Hey.” You blushed softly, inexplicably happy to see him. Fred took a step closer to you, looking at the stage for a second. “Looks like you kept your word.” You added, looking at the band with him. His elbows leaned on the table, his muscles relaxing slightly.
“I'll always keep my word.” He cooed, looking back at you. Every time you made eye contact his brain went blank. He was entranced every time he laid eyes on you. He swore it could’ve been 20 seconds or 20 years, yet he felt under your spell.
“So. Who’s the lucky lady with you tonight?” You asked, lifting your cup to your lips. Part of you hated that you asked, but you’d rather rip the bandaid off now than be in emotional torment all night. The thought of watching him dance with someone else made you sick, but who wouldn’t ask Fred Weasley to the dance.
Fred cleared his throat, surprised by your question.
“Um..” His hand raised to the back of his head, ruffling his hair. “I may have just come for the experience. See where the night takes me.” He smiled down at the table, his eyes unable to meet yours. You nodded your head, feeling of relief rushing over your whole body. You set the cup down, both of your hands only inches apart.
“Huh…. Me too.” You mumbled, smiling at your drink. You swore you saw Fred bite his lip, but he quickly coughed, ducking his head into his elbow. You laughed, watching him regain his balance. He patted his chest dramatically, his hand now outstretched towards you.
“Please, may I get you a refill m’lady?” His voice was dramatic yet sincere, making your stomach flip. You chuckled, your hand reaching up to your lips, thinking for a moment. You reached down, handing over the glass. Both of your hands meet, the feeling of his fingers overlapping yours sending bolts of electricity through your body. Both of your eyes met each other, your hands still touching each other, as if time had stopped. He reached further, holding your hand over the glass entirely.
”Ill be back.” He smiled, your hand releasing the cup into his. Your cheeks were flush, the touch of his fingers still reminiscent of your hand. As much as you’d love a drink, you hated the idea of him leaving, even for just a moment.
“Can i go where you go?” You asked softly, your eyes bouncing between his. Fred swore he would walk across hot coals barefoot in order to hear you say that again. He felt like he could tear down mountains to get you a refill of punch. He couldn't believe what he heard. His empty hand reached down enveloping yours, the feeling so natural and warm. He pulled you lightly, walking ahead of you through the crowd.
Walking across the great hall, you swore the entire school was watching you both, the feeling surreal and uncomfortable, but all you could think about was the boy pulling you forward, hand in hand, just to get you some another drink.
Pairing: Fred Weasley x fem!Hufflepuff Muggle-born reader
Series summary: For years, Fred tries and fails to confess his feelings to you, but something always seems to get in the way. When the war starts, the question becomes not whether he'll succeed, but rather whether you both will even survive.
Chapter summary: You fight to survive the Battle of Hogwarts and reunite with Fred. You need to tell him that you finally understand what he’s been trying to say… and that you feel the same.
I DEFENDED MY THESIS (pulled two all-nighters before it) THANK GOD I CAN START WRITING AGAIN… plz send requests 🙏 thanks for your patience yall
IX. Shell Cottage, May 2, 1998
“Eleven inches, driftwood with a thestral hair core.” Ollivander pursed his lips. “Not one of my favorite cores, but I felt that this was right.”
You were too afraid to reach out and take the wood in his hand. What if it didn’t work for you? Ollivander was your best (and possibly last) chance at a new wand. “Where did you get a thestral hair?”
“I always have one or two,” said Luna behind you. “Gifts from my friends, you see.” She waved her own new wand through the air, sparks trailing from its tip. Hers seemed well suited. Maybe yours…
Well, there was no point in putting it off. You took the wand with a trembling hand.
The wood warmed beneath your fingers. You gasped, skin tingling where you touched the wand, and your stomach swooped. Conjuring bubbles out of the tip was easy and you laughed, forgetting for a moment all your worries in favor of the simple, wondrous joy of doing magic again, good magic with a wand of your own.
Ollivander watched you and Luna with approval as you acquainted yourselves with your new wands.
After the thrill abated, you stored it in your pocket next to the rune pendant. If Luna wondered why you hadn’t put it on in the three days since she returned it to you, she didn’t ask. Truth be told, you weren’t sure you had an answer. What if Fred no longer wore his pendant? Would yours stay cool? Was there even a way to tell?
And what if he did? What would you do if you tapped the pendant three times and he felt it but didn’t respond?
What if he did?
What would you do if he came to find you?
What would you do if he didn’t?
The cottage’s door burst open. Bill tumbled out. “It’s time,” he said in a rush.
“Time for what?” you asked, though you already knew the answer.
“You-Know-Who is going to Hogwarts. We’re going to fight.”
Well, that settled it. If you knew him—and you knew you did—Fred would be there. One way or another, you would see him again. You might as well use the little comforts you had left.
You fished the pendant out of your pocket and fastened the chain around your neck. The stone settled between your collarbones as if it belonged there. Maybe it did; you hadn’t realized how naked you felt without it until it was back in place.
“The Foci Grumspots were right,” Luna said, pleased.
You took a deep breath. Hufflepuff you may be, you would march into this battle without hesitation. “I’m ready.”
Bill’s brow furrowed. “Are you sure?” He looked between you and Luna. “You’ve been through a lot—”
“I’m sure,” you said firmly.
“It will be nice to be back at Hogwarts again,” Luna said dreamily. You weren’t sure if that was the right word for it.
“You have everything you need?”
Your wand? Check. Your pendant? Check. A sensible outfit and shoes? Check.
“Well, Nargles stole my Spectrespecs, but I’m sure they’ll turn up soon.”
Bill held out his arm. The two of you clutched it, Fleur held his other, and he swept you away with Side-Along Apparition. The last you saw of Shell Cottage were the windchimes strung along the windows, swinging merrily in the sea breeze.
You landed in a dingy pub, of all places. The owner, a grumpy man with a long white beard, huffed and nearly gave you a heart attack. For a moment he looked just like—
“Aberforth,” said Bill.
“William.” He scrubbed the counter with a filthy-looking rag.
“The passage?”
“Back here.”
In the back of the pub a beautiful painting stood out incongruously against the grime of its surroundings. Its subject, a sweet-looking little girl, nodded when Aberforth jerked his head and the painting detached from the wall and swung out.
“I never knew about this secret passage,” you said suspiciously. And you were friends with Fred and George—you knew all of them.
“Help can always be found at Hogwarts, all one needs to do is ask… or whatever drivel my brother always prattled on about.”
Your jaw dropped, but the realization that Aberforth was Dumbledore’s brother seemed old news to your companions. They clambered into the tunnel, but Aberforth had to snap, “Well? Are you fighting or not?” to jerk you out of your surprise.
The passage’s ceiling sloped down until you had to bend in half to keep going. Normally claustrophobia didn’t bother you, but the tunnel went on and on, no light except that which came from Bill’s wand, until you began to think that it would never end and the three of you would forever travel this tunnel, and then immediately the glowing outline of a door appeared.
You spilled out into a packed Room of Requirement, absolutely teeming with people you recognized and people you didn’t. Bill and Fleur disappeared into the crowd, but Luna stuck to your side and asked, “I suppose we should gather up our creatures, shouldn’t we?”
“I wonder if there are any Skrewts left,” you mused. They would certainly be a nasty surprise for any Death Eaters.
Someone screamed your name. You whirled around and were nearly bowled over by someone crashing into you. Arms squeezed your ribs hard enough to crack them.
“Alicia!” you cried, hugging her back just as hard.
“I thought you were dead!” she wailed. “We all thought—where have you been?”
Someone else crashed into the pair of you, and then another pair of arms circled around your back.
“Never do that again,” said Angelina’s thick voice.
“What happened?” Katie demanded. She was the one hugging you from behind. “Angie told us after you were Snatched that you were hiding before. But…”
“We thought they killed you,” said Angelina. “You know their stance on Muggle-borns. We all thought… and Fred said your communication stone went cold…” Her eyes dipped to where it rested on your chest once again.
“It’s a long story,” you said, wiping your eyes, which burned suspiciously. It had been so long since you saw your friends and only now did it hit you just how awfully you’d missed them.
“Try us,” said Katie.
You took a deep breath. “The short version is that Luna and I were held captive in the basement of Malfoy Manor. Harry Potter and his friends were caught and broke us out. We’ve been staying with Bill and Fleur in their cottage ever since.”
Angie hissed through her teeth. “That snake.”
“They were actually surprisingly hospitable,” said Luna. “For abductors, at least.”
The girls finally let you go. Angelina scanned the crowd. “I think Fred’s already left. He and George are supposed to guard the secret passages into the school.”
You blushed. “Luna and I have to round up whatever creatures we can.” You cringed at the thought of any of them losing their lives in the battle, but it would be worse for any of your friends to.
“Do you want me to tell him—”
“No!” you interrupted loudly.
Katie frowned.
You blushed even harder. You’d put the pendant back on, but now you balked at the thought of facing Fred. He wasn’t frightening, but for some reason your heart thudded against your ribs at the thought of seeing him again like it longed to escape your very chest. “I just mean… we both have our places in this battle. I don’t want to distract him or drag him away from his post.”
“But—” Alicia started but Angelina elbowed her in the side.
She studied you with serious eyes. Finally, she nodded and swept you up in another hug. “I just got you back. Don’t make me lose you again.”
You nodded but said nothing. It wasn’t something you could promise.
You and Luna hustled out of the Room of Requirement and through the castle that had been your home for seven years. Portraits called out to you, asking for news or cheering you on, but you couldn’t break stride.
You burst out of the castle and skidded to a halt with shock, watching the professors cast their protective wards around the castle. It was beautiful. The glowing dome settled, shimmered, and faded to invisibility.
Luna kept trotting down the hill and you shook away your reverie. She headed into the Forbidden Forest to find her thestrals and the centaurs. You went in the opposite direction to the Care of Magical Creatures pens.
There were, in fact, some Skrewts left. The adults didn’t blast you and the babies couldn’t muster more than a couple sparks more an annoyance than anything else. Their shell patterns were familiar. The adults were the generation that you and Rolf raised. Was he here? Would he fight, too?
You waded through the herd, murmuring greetings. Some magical creatures were intelligent enough to understand language. You and Rolf never determined whether the Skrewts could.
The hippogriff pen was next to theirs and you hopped the fence then bowed low to Buckbeak. He stared and pawed anxiously at the ground until sweat beaded at the small of your back.
Finally, he bowed, and so did the rest of the herd.
You scratched his neck. He trilled and leaned into your hand. “I’m sorry,” you murmured. “It’s not fair to ask you all to fight. But bad people are coming, so if you won’t, you should leave.”
A dark hippogriff screeched and reared, flapping its wings, but Buckbeak whirled around and snapped at its neck.
Unperturbed, you raised one eyebrow and pointed out, “I didn’t say you had to.”
The dark hippogriff snorted. It didn’t fly away, though. None of them did. You took a deep breath. “Okay. Here’s the plan…”
The Hogwarts wards shuddered. One of the Skrewts skittered sideways and you tried to soothe it but it blasted away, chittering angrily.
”Just hold,” you muttered. “Hold…”
For nearly an hour, Death Eaters continued to push back Hogwarts’s wards. They gained centimeters, then meters, and then the first ward splintered.
Hidden in the forest, you watched as more and more cracks appeared. Luna had reappeared with the thestrals, which she left in your care, and without the centaurs, then disappeared back into the castle, but you had to coordinate the creatures’ assault.
Just beyond the wards, a clan of lumbering giants roared. Nearly eight meters tall, they loomed above the human army and didn’t pay them much mind as they beat on the wards and each other.
It was your job to prevent them from reaching the castle.
The wards fell, but Voldemort’s forces were too wary to storm the grounds until the first screams emanated from the castle. Then they took the first cautious steps.
The Dementors went first, sweeping over the hill. Ice shot through your veins. Four swarmed a witch at once, and she screamed until the sound cut off abruptly. You squeezed your eyes shut. Two Patronuses drove the Dementors away from the witch, but she was a body at that point, soul devoured.
The Patronus Charm was one you never mastered, no matter how many hours you spent practicing during D.A. meetings. Disregarding that you couldn’t reveal your position to the invading army, there wasn’t anything you could have done to save the witch that wouldn’t have ended with you losing your soul, too.
You knew that, and you told yourself that, but it was still hard to make yourself believe it.
The trolls went next and you whispered two words beneath your breath.
The grounds shuddered, soil beneath the grass roiling. The trolls bellowed.
The animation was too complicated to continue for long—sweat already beaded at your brow—but all you needed was for the landscape to turn from a flat, grassy area to one filled with thin column-like bumps: difficult for trolls and humans to traverse, but easy for the Skrewts to, with their sideways movements and irregular blasts.
“Go,” you released them, and the creatures clacked with excitement. They swarmed the grounds, shell-like carapaces glinting in the moonlight. Those same carapaces were the reason for several shouts of dismay when the Death Eaters realized the Skrewts’ outer layer deflected magic.
“Steady,” you murmured to the hippogriff and thestral herds which milled behind you. Their use would come later. You did, however, direct the pixie, doxy, and glumbumble swarms to attack, mostly by opening their pens and covering your own head. They found the easier targets immediately.
While the Death Eaters shouted and stumbled, alternating between guarding their heads and feet, you smiled. They fell, paralyzed and poisoned by too much doxy venom coursing through their veins, or confused by the pixies and set upon by a Skrewt. Half of the glumbumble swarm swarmed one wizard, who looked around melancholically, unable to lift his wand, until a Skrewt broke his ankles; then as one the swarm lifted off and settled on another silver-masked invader. Maybe—
Another chorus of screams tore through the night air. Hogwarts rumbled.
An entire tower crumpled.
Your stomach sank to your toes. Too busy staring openmouthed at the desecration of your beloved school, you missed the cue to release the imps.
The first Death Eaters passed the imps’ mark; now an entire legion of Voldemort’s Army swarmed the hill. You ground your teeth. There were far more Death Eaters than imps, who hunted in packs, swarming their individual prey until it was brought down. Now, though, you would be releasing them into a horde.
But you couldn’t let more Death Eaters reach Hogwarts.
The Disillusioned cage flicked open and the Disillusionment failed. Imps swarmed out, latching onto the first Death Eaters they saw. But thrown into the midst of the invading army, one or two imps latched onto every Death Eater, who cursed them indiscriminately and without hesitation. Even with the Skrewts and the swarms, green light flashed. Grey-skinned bodies fell to the ground.
You told the herd to stay put, then mirrored the army’s movement. You threw curses too, from the tree line. They shot easily from your new wand, perhaps more easily than they would have from your old one. Or maybe it was just the difference between using Fleur’s wand and one of your own. As nasty as any you’d learned, ones that would maim and disfigure and incapacitate any they touched, and you watched a dozen Death Eaters fall under the spells you cast, but that didn’t stop the rest of the imps from dying. An entire pod, exterminated in less than ten minutes.
And then the Death Eaters started to shoot back.
Blazing jets of light shot through the trees, singeing leaves and scouring gashes in trees. The air lit up and you sweated now from the heat of the curses more than your own nerves. A bush combusted behind you. A long branch was blasted off a maple tree and nearly crushed you.
You ducked behind a thick-trunked oak and clutched your new driftwood wand to your chest. It still smelled like the salty air by Shell Cottage.
Most of the army continued to the castle, judging by the sound of their marching, but at least four Death Eaters broke away. They continued to curse, decimating a twenty-foot line of trees, but the curses weren’t centered around you. A couple came close, but most were aimed to your left.
Then the first giant roared. The ground quaked.
The castle rumbled ominously.
“Now, Buckbeak!” you screamed, giving away your position.
Hippogriffs and thestrals bellowed.
The tree you crouched behind splintered. You threw up a hand to protect your eyes from the wood shards, and when you lowered your arm looked directly into the eyes of a silver mask.
You’d been wrong.
So, so wrong.
It wasn’t worth delaying heartbreak by not seeing him; waiting until the battle ended and victor declared didn’t change that you loved Fred Weasley. It just changed when you saw him.
If you saw him.
You and Luna weren’t the only ones who had the idea to use creatures from the forest in the battle. Death Eaters had agitated the Acromantulas into fighting, but they lashed out indiscriminately. It had been one of those that killed the Death Eater that found you. The spider ripped him in two and was too preoccupied with its meal to kill you immediately, too.
The Death Eaters seemed not to care much for the fate of the giants; as the thestrals and hippogriffs soared, slashing and pecking at their eyes, not one raised their wand to curse the winged beasts. You looked away before you could see any giants swipe them out of the air. You hoped none would. You feared that, at the end of the battle, the populations of Hogwarts’ magical beasts would all be as destroyed as the imps.
You entered a decimated castle. Every alcove was empty, the suits of armor they’d once held now engaged in the fight or in pieces on the ground. You watched one whose left arm hung limply at the shoulder swing its blunt sword into a Death Eater’s side, cracking ribs and sending him sprawling. You Stunned and Body-Binded him before he could lift his wand, but another Death Eater blasted the animated armor to bits. Shrapnel nearly impaled you, but you deflected the metal, dodged a jet of green light, and threw a nasty Bat-Bogey Hex to distract the Dark wizard.
What had you been thinking?
For nearly a month you’d hidden. Today, you’d run away. Now you stepped over bodies, some groaning weakly, some unconscious, and some…
Well, that was Lavender Brown. Had been, at least. Pieces of crystal balls littered the ground around her, glinting in the dark puddle of blood that pooled from a gash in her neck deep enough to expose bone.
You tapped the stone hanging from your neck three times. After Disarming an old witch with gnarled fingers and a bent back, you still hadn’t received a response.
You tapped it again. And again. Perhaps it was selfish to tear through the castle as you did, only fighting those who engaged you and ignoring those who did not, but you had to find him. You had to know.
“Fred!” you screamed, sprinting up a staircase three steps at a time. “Frederick Gideon Weasley! Fred!”
You passed Tonks and Lupin, locked in a duel with three Death Eaters. At the sight of you, Tonks faltered and said your name wonderingly. A jet of black light nearly hit her in the chest and would have if Lupin didn’t deflect it. She shouted something, but you were too far away and your breath was too loud to hear, and when you spared a look back she was absorbed in her battle once more.
The castle rumbled and splintered to pieces, taking your childhood with it. You ran. Witches and wizards fell, in school uniforms or Death Eater robes or everyday clothes, and your hair stood on end from all the magic in the air.
The stone heated thrice.
Your toe snagged on a piece of rubble and you went flying. The ground surged up to meet you and your head snapped forward so hard you bit your tongue and tasted blood; the skin on your palms burned and bled, and you skidded the last meter on your side, hitting the wall so hard your teeth clacked together.
Then you heard it. A familiar voice shouted your name above the clamor and chaos of battle. You knew that voice better than your own. You would always know that voice. The sound of it was stored in your soul. Alit with fervor and a bit woozy, you clawed your way up the wall and yelled, “Fred!”
The response must have torn his throat; the bellow so loud, and so broken, like it started deep in his chest and erupted out like lava from a volcano. He called for you again, but you didn’t see the telltale Weasley red hair anywhere, and with so many bangs and pops and screams, it was too hard to tell where he was yelling from. Maybe up this staircase…?
“Fred!”
You dodged a chunk of stone sent to flatten you, retaliated with a flick of your wand that shot a streamlined arrow of shrapnel into the chest of a dark-robed wizard who stumbled back, clutching the wound, inspected the red that coated his hand when he pulled it away, and fell to one knee.
Your throat was raw. You tasted blood from your bitten tongue. You raced up the staircase, heart pounding harder and faster than it ever had before, the stone on your chest flaring with so much heat it nearly burned your skin.
You reached the top of the stairs in time to see Percy Weasley incapacitate a Death Eater by Transfiguring him into what looked to be some kind of sea urchin. Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood next to him, as well as—
Your breath caught. For a moment the two of you stood frozen, transfixed only on each other, and that was why he didn’t see the spell coming.
The castle wall exploded.
“FRED!”
Percy wailed as you stumbled blindly through the billowing cloud of dust. A frigid wind gusted through the corridor, raising goosebumps on your arms, and your eyes burned.
Hermione’s shrill scream tore through the air. Acromantula chittering reached your ears; they had finally reached the castle. You ignored all instincts that said not to approach, let alone barrel toward them at full speed; he was ahead, so you kept moving forward.
A huge Acromantula leg landed less than a meter away and nearly crushed you, but you dodged the pincers and ran straight into Hermione. She shouted a spell that cleared the dust.
“This way!”
Your heart stopped. Percy, tears making tracks through the grime on his face, had one arm of an unconscious body slung over his shoulders. Harry held the other. A head who wore a shock of red hair lolled, but Ron bellowed curses at the Acromantulas, which meant the body that Percy and Harry carried had to be—
“Fred!” you screamed. Hermione held you back from collapsing or clutching him and you six retreated down the corridor away from the Acromantulas, who went off in search of easier prey.
No. No. After so long, you couldn’t… you couldn’t… He’d been right there, you’d seen him for all of a heartbeat. He couldn’t… You couldn’t have lost him without even holding him one last time, hearing his gleeful laugh, feeling your stomach flip when he leaned too close to murmur something to make you laugh. You couldn’t have wasted your last chance—that couldn’t be your last chance—
Harry and Percy ducked into an empty plinth and heaved the body down. Blood coated half of his face, pouring from a wound at his temple that clumped his fringe. From the blood loss, or from the dust, a deathly pallor had overtaken his face.
Feeling wild, feeling shredded, feeling out of control and oddly calm at the same time, like you felt every emotion from a great distance, that you only half-existed in your body at the moment, you demanded, “Is he alive?”
Ron fell to his knees at his brother’s side. Harry backed away. As Ron roughly shook the body’s shoulder, Percy pulled out his wand and said, “Rennervate. Rennervate!”
You clutched the stone he’d given you.
”RENNERVATE!” Percy bellowed, and Fred’s eyes snapped open.
Hermione burst into tears. Your knees buckled. You collapsed.
Again, you and Fred could do nothing but stare at each other as Percy ran through diagnostic spells. It was Ron that fumbled with the beaded bag hanging from Hermione’s wrist, pulled out a vial, and poured the contents over the wound on Fred’s head. The liquid smoked and hissed and Fred yelped, but when he shook his head, the cut had scabbed and his eyes looked somewhat sharper.
A dry sob tore its way out of your throat. You had a vague sense of the others murmuring, Harry tugging Percy out of the way and Hermione doing the same with Ron, and you could bear it no longer. You scrambled on hands and knees to where Fred lay prone, and he struggled to push himself upright to meet you, but it didn’t matter; you crashed into him with enough force you would have bowled him over even at full strength. His head knocked against the ground and he winced, but his hands went to your waist to keep you balanced on him, straddling his waist. You babbled an apology, hands flitting over his head, his cheeks, verifying for yourself that yes, he was warm and alive, and then one broad hand ran up your back and he said wonderingly, “You’re here.”
Your eyes burned and your vision swam. You squeezed them shut and felt two tears escape. They landed on his face.
Strong, calloused fingers cupped your cheeks and his thumbs swiped gently over your eyes, wiping away further tears that threatened to fall. “Am I dreaming?” he whispered. “Am I dead?”
Pale, dirty, and covered in blood, he was the most beautiful he’d ever looked because he was alive, and you could bear it no longer. You blurted out, “I love you.”
The hands on your face jerked. His eyes shuttered.
“I’ve been in love with you for years,” you continued. “As long as I can remember. I—mmph!”
For the second time in your life, Fred’s lips pressed against your own. They trembled like they had in seventh year, but this time you squeezed your eyes shut, tangled your hands in his collar, and yanked him up, as close as he could be and even after that closer still. He tasted of blood and dust and tears. The kiss didn’t last long, but after you broke free to gasp for air, you didn’t go far. Propped up on one elbow, he nosed into your cheek, then brushed his lips over the skin butterfly-soft and you shivered. You shared the same air for a moment, then he surged up again, this time propped up on his hand instead of his elbow with the other cupped around your neck. The new angle allowed him to press further into you. His teeth clacked against yours and your lips would surely be swollen and bruised later, but you didn’t falter. There was no space between your bodies, but that still felt like too much, and you clawed at his hair, half-feral with fear and the need to be closer, closer, closer—
This time Fred broke away. He demanded, “Where have you been? How are you here? Why didn’t you come back?” His voice broke on the last word.
“I’m sorry,” you breathed, “I’m sorry, I wanted to, but I was a coward.”
“Don’t blame her,” Harry cut in. “I wouldn’t let Bill tell anyone.”
“Never,” Fred snarled fiercely, “do that again. I thought you were dead.” Now he was crying, too. “I thought you were dead and I couldn’t stand it.”
“I’m so sorry,” you whispered. “I love you.”
His laugh was wet and weak. Fred’s dark eyes searched yours. “You say it so easily. I’ve been trying to for years.”
“I love you,” you repeated. Now that you’d said it, it came easier every time. “Even if you don’t, you should know.”
His face spasmed. “Even if I—” Fred sat up fully. “I can’t lose you ever again.” He held your shoulders and shook you slightly. “No matter what—no matter what happens, no matter what you think, you have to come back. I need you. Can’t you tell that I love you, too?”
Manners Maketh the Wizard: Chapter 5 — ‘Sorting it Out’
The second my foot touched the platform at Hogsmeade Station, I felt Fred and George shift just slightly closer to me, encasing me in their larger frames so that if I panicked, one of their sleeves would be brushing mine as we walked.
"What about our bags?" I yelped, grabbing at Fred's arm.
"Perks of magic, sweetheart!"
Ginny shoved her brother lightly. "Perks of Filch, actually, numpty. The groundskeeper brings them all up by carriage." I nodded and pretended I knew what was happening.
The Victorian styled platform was a blur of faces, breathy condensation, and the sound of excited chatter as kids my age and younger all headed in one direction: the looming castle that, even from the bottom of Hogsmeade Valley, was enormous. Lanterns bobbed in the fog. Someone shouted about missing a toad. First years clustered together like a flock of terrified chicks — I didn't feel too far removed from those students, even though they were five years my junior.
As we neared the exit gates of the station, every student crossing my path seemed to want to get a good look at me from over their shoulder, whispering to their cohort. I tried to laugh it off, whispering from the side of my mouth up at Fred, “Why are they looking at me like that?”
Fred’s jaw tightened as he tugged on the string of his hoodie. “Because Draco Malfoy has an enormous mouth and a father in the Ministry.”
“What does that mean?”
He sighed like this was a conversation he’d been dreading. “Lucius Malfoy told Draco you’re a Muggle the Ministry has decided to send to Hogwarts to 'confirm their suspicions'. Which Draco— the blond little twerp —interpreted as: ‘don’t go near the filthy muggle.'"
"He blabbed about your arrival, basically," George added from my right. "That's the Malfoy charm."
I blinked. “So everyone knows?”
“Everyone gossips,” Fred amended. “It’s tradition.” Then, softer, “Just don't worry about it. We've got bigger fish to fry than that wanker.”
I nodded. It was news to me that their were factions; a rivalry, of sorts, between those who treated Muggles as equal, and those who thought of them as inferior — or dangerous — to Wizards.
"Usually we'd get a Thestral carriage, but I thought we'd walk for the sake of getting your bearings," Fred advised as he threw our luggage onto an old-fashioned coach
Fred kept close as we approached
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We hadn’t even made it through Hogwarts' Main Gates before Professor McGonagall swooped into our path like a very elegant, very stern hawk.
“Miss Y/L/N," she began in a thick Edinburgh accent, "I trust you've been well looked after thus far?" She extended a bony hand to mine and shook it surprisingly firmly. "Mr Weasley," she turned her eyes reluctantly to Fred, clearly not in her good books.
Fred offered a lopsided smile to the tight-lipped woman. "Professor McGonagall," he replied, "I was just leading Y/N to the Great Hall— I think we've got another Gryffindor on our hands," he noted proudly.
McGonagall peered at him over her half-moon glasses. “How kind, but I will escort her the rest of the way. You may join your year mates.” She turned on her heel, but dramatically pivoted back when she realised neither of us had moved.
Fred had half-stepped in front of me, so I took that to mean I might not be safe. I stepped to the side to look up at him. Something about his blank expression struck me: he wasn’t being rebellious, he was being protective.
Spinning back to face us, McGonagall’s expression softened one fraction when she saw Fred's half-open mouth, agape with concern and stood defiantly in front of me. “For goodness sake, Mr Weasley, she will be perfectly safe with me for the next twenty minutes!”
His expression returned to normal and he scoffed through his nose, like he was snapping out of a trance. “Right,” he mumbled, quietly ashamed of his overt concern. “But I’m sitting right with her during the feast. I don't want that Malfoy anywhere near—"
"Thank you, Mr Weasley. That's enough," McGonagall replied, lips pursing. “Now, Miss Y/L/N: this way.” She briskly passed through the iron-wrought gates, moving gracefully through the enormous swarm of bundled-up students into the Castle's main entrance.
I looked back over my shoulder as she guided me away. Fred was still watching, face tight with something I couldn’t name, until George whacked him over the head with a Remembrall. Soon enough, Fred spun on his heel and was out of sight amongst the crowd. I rushed along behind McGonagall into Hogwarts.
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The castle engulfed us with torchlight and echoing footsteps.
McGonagall led me away from the crowd, to the left of the Great Hall: a large, white marble hallway with two great staircases leading up endlessly into the castle's belly. I could hear the hum of hundreds of voices as students filed into the Great Hall.
McGonagall took a seat on a dark green velvet armchair, worn with age but beautifully rimmed with golden railing. I took a seat next to her.
“Ordinarily,” she began, “transfer students are sorted privately. But due to the Ministry’s… involvement, you will be sorted directly after the first years.”
My stomach dropped. “With the… eleven-year-olds?”
She gave a sympathetic incline of her head. “I’m afraid so. There is no precedent for your situation.”
No precedent. Perfect.
After she had briefed me on the process, McGonagall rose from the small armchair and I followed, smoothing my casual clothing — which suddenly felt far too casual in the presence of McGonagall and her sweeping capes — in an attempt to present nicely. I felt like I was about to perform.
The first years lined up behind me, all tiny and wide-eyed and whispering. I stood a full head taller than them — an awkward, gangly giant, even at my average height, among nervous children in brand-new robes.
One little girl tried to sneak a look at my face and immediately looked away as if I might bite. I crossed my arms and tried not to look like I wanted to run.
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When the enormous oak doors swung open, the sound hit me like a physical force. Cheers, chatter, scraping benches, laughter — the entire school buzzing with life.
And then the candles. Hundreds of them, floating in the air. I nearly forgot how to breathe. But then my eyes snagged on something familiar — a burst of red hair at the Gryffindor table. Fred was already looking at me, chin in hand, brows lifted like he was silently saying, See? Told you it’d be brilliant.
I didn’t manage a real smile, but seeing him steadied something inside me and my lips tugged to the side. I felt ridiculous, but Fred made me feel like I was in on the joke.
The Sorting Hat worked through the first years quickly — Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw. Cheers met each name. The tiny students scurried off to their tables to meet their cohort.
Then McGonagall’s voice rang out before I even realised it was my turn. “Y/N Y/L/N.”
A murmur swept the Hall.
My legs felt like jelly in my jeans as I walked toward the stool — awkward, towering over the little kids who’d sat there moments before. My palms were damp. My heart thudded painfully. I wondered if I was the oldest person ever to be sorted.
The Hat dropped over my head and the Hall partially vanished under its worn rim. A dry voice murmured in my ear, almost amused: “Well. Aren’t you an interesting one.” Panic fluttered in my chest as the hall fell quiet.
“Oh yes,” the Hat went on. “Plenty of caution. Plenty of self-doubt. But determination and loyalty… hm. That’s promising.”
I swallowed hard. “Ambition, too,” it mused. “Quite a lot of it. You’d go far in Slytherin.” My heart stopped. Slytherin? With the people who thought I was some sort of Ministry experiment?
“No? Not that? You’re already frightened, I see. Hm,” the Hat murmured. “Very well. Better be…”
A long pause.
“GRYFFINDOR!”
The roar from the Gryffindor table was immediate as the hat lifted from my head. But the thing I heard most clearly was Fred, whistling so loudly it echoed off the tall, cathedral-like ceiling.
I all but fell off of the stool, nearly tipping it over when I went to stand and leave the stage. From the corner of my eye, I swear I could see McGonagall clapping along with the rest of Gryffindor. Walking to Everyone was watching as I dismounted the stage and headed toward the long table. Whispering. Trying to figure me out.
Fred was already half-standing, shoving people over on the bench to make space. “Move, move—honestly, shift over—Percy, for Merlin’s sake—” I slid in beside him, cheeks burning, but grateful to feel a normal size again. I offered a small smile to the Weasley's, Harry and Hermione, all sat in proximity. I saw a snarl on the face of a platinum blond boy, two tables over.
Fred leaned close, voice low. “Told you you’d be fine!”
“I nearly got put in Slytherin,” I whispered, tucking my hair behind my ear and looking around tentatively, trying to make myself as small as possible.
“Yeah, well,” he shrugged and rubbed my shoulder, “they nearly kicked me off the Quidditch team. Hogwarts is full of close calls.” He nudged my knee under the table and pretended not to notice how tightly I was gripping the edge of the bench. He really looked like his father when he was beaming: I thought it was quite endearing.
When I finally looked up, I glanced at the staff dais: my stomach twisted. There, seated beside Headmaster Dumbledore, was a witch in deep navy robes — Ministry blue. She had a crisp, severe bun and a quill poised above a clipboard. And she was staring directly at me. Watching. Assessing. Taking notes.
Fred followed my line of sight, and his jaw clenched. “That’s a Ministry supervisor,” he muttered darkly. “Department of Magical Law Enforcement. They’ve got her stationed here to check in on you, dad said.”
I tore my eyes away. “Why is she watching me like that?”
“Because,” he said, too softly, “they want to catch you slipping.”
A cold shiver slid down my spine. Fred nudged my hand gently with his own, hidden beneath the table. “I won’t let them,” he said, gently. I believed him far too quickly.
Warnings/Tags: Enemies to lovers, Slow burn, Prank wars, Ravenclaw Reader/OC, Smart MC, Fluff, six year, Some slight modifications to the canon or timeline.
Premise: For Fred Weasley, what is out of reach is simply a challenge waiting to be accepted. He lives for chaos, which means he never fell for the school’s biggest illusion: Grace McGonagall. To the rest of Hogwarts, she is the golden student, a saintly legacy who can do no wrong. To Fred, she is a puzzle disguised as a perfect girl, hiding a razor-sharp wit and a dark streak of defiance beneath her Ravenclaw robes. His new theory? Good girls are just bad girls who haven't been caught yet. Fred is ready to tear down her walls to prove it—what he doesn't expect is that Grace doesn't just know how his games work; she plays them better.
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The theoretical application of spatial-displacement matrices was, as a general rule, not something designed to inspire spontaneous riotous joy within the walls of Hogwarts Castle.
Yet on Friday morning, as Professor Flitwick levitated the graded sixth-year N.E.W.T.-preparation exams back onto the desks of the Charms classroom, the silence was shattered so violently that several glass inkwells on the windowsill rattled in their frames.
Fred Weasley sat staring at the top right corner of his parchment.
He didn't blink. He barely breathed. Written in crisp, shimmering purple ink—Flitwick’s preferred color for top-tier academic recognition—was a bold, undeniable 'Outstanding'. Beneath it, in the diminutive professor's neat hand, sat a note: 'An exceptionally rigorous proof of mass-redirection, Mr. Weasley. Quite astounding'.
"No bloody way," Lee Jordan breathed from two desks away, craning his neck so hard his collar almost ripped. "That’s a forgery. You’ve Confunded the paper."
"A pure, unadulterated O," George murmured, picking up his twin's parchment with the delicate reverence usually reserved for unstable dark artifacts. George looked from the letter grade to Fred’s face, his expression shifting between awe and deep, lingering suspicion. "You actually did it. You sat in that dark corner looking like a possessed ghoul for four days, and you actually beat the system."
Fred let out a long, slow breath that felt as if it had been trapped in his chest since Tuesday. A slow, wicked, and entirely arrogant grin spread across his sharp features. He snatched the parchment back from George, pushed his chair back with a loud screech against the flagstones, and stood up.
Across the room, sitting at her usual immaculate workstation near the front, Grace McGonagall was carefully filing her own exam paper into a leather-bound folder.
Fred didn't walk; he swaggered. He navigated the narrow aisles of desks with the loose, predatory confidence of a chaser who had just scored the winning goal in a championship match. He stopped directly in front of her table, leaned his hip against the edge of her desk, and smoothly dropped his exam paper right over her neatly organized notes.
Grace paused. Her dark eyes dropped to the shimmering purple Outstanding.
"Morning, pretty face," Fred drawled, folding his arms across his chest and leaning down until his face was inches from hers. "Notice anything unusual about the local scenery today? Aside from my devastating charm, of course."
Grace looked at the grade for three long seconds. Fred waited for the shock. He waited for the wide eyes, the stammered disbelief, the sudden realization that she had walked directly into his trap and lost.
Instead, Grace picked up his parchment by the corner, her expression entirely unreadable. She scanned his calculations with a measured, analytical sweep of her eyes, nodded once, and handed it back to him.
"Well done, Weasley," she said smoothly, her voice a calm, velvet purr that carried no trace of panic. "Your proof on the third vanishing coefficient is surprisingly elegant. It appears you do possess an active brain cell when properly motivated."
Fred’s cocky grin faltered by a fraction of an inch. "That’s it? ‘Well done’?"
"What were you expecting?" Grace asked, picking up her satchel and slinging it over her shoulder as Flitwick dismissed the class. She looked up at him through her lashes, her hazel eyes bright with an icy, unshakable confidence. "Did you expect me to beg for mercy? To claim the exam was rigged? I am a Ravenclaw, Fred. I respect data. And the data says you won the wager."
She stepped around him, pausing just long enough for her shoulder to brush against his chest. "I’ll see you at the pitch tomorrow morning. Do try not to fall off your broom while showing off."
Fred stood alone in the aisle as she glided out of the classroom, his parchment clutched in his hand. He frowned, running a hand through his red hair. She hadn't flinched. She hadn't even blinked.
"She took that entirely too well," Fred muttered to George as his twin caught up to him.
"She’s terrifying," George agreed cheerfully. "You’ve won, Freddie, but somehow it feels like you’re the one who just got handed a detention."
Ten minutes later, inside the privacy of the sixth-year girls' washroom near the library annex, Grace McGonagall’s icy composure completely evaporated.
"He passed!" Grace hissed, pacing the stone floor while her hands gripped the edges of her leather satchel so tightly her knuckles turned white. "He didn't just pass, Hermione, he got an Outstanding! On a theoretical vanishing matrix! How is that possible?!"
Hermione Granger sat on the edge of one of the marble sinks, her heavy book bag resting on her lap. She looked at Grace with a mixture of exasperation and profound sympathy. "I told you, Grace. When Fred actually focuses his mind on something, he is dangerously capable. You challenged his pride. What did you think he was going to do?"
"I thought he was going to get an Acceptable!" Grace groaned, leaning her forehead against the cool stone wall. "I thought he would get bored after twenty minutes of reading formulas and go back to inventing exploding sweets! I've never even seen him read anything in his life! Do you have any idea what this means? I have to walk into the Gryffindor stands tomorrow morning with a gold number five painted on my face!"
"And sit next to me," Hermione reminded her gently. "It won't be that bad. Everyone knows the Gryffindor matches are loud."
"It’s not the noise, Hermione," Grace said, turning around, her hazel eyes wide with genuine anxiety. "It’s the declaration. If I walk out there wearing his mark, half the castle is going to assume I’ve lost my mind. My mother is going to be in the staff box looking through her brass binoculars. She will see it!"
From inside one of the cubicles, Luna Lovegood emerged dreamily, drying her hands on a clean linen towel. "I think gold will look very lovely against your skin, Grace. And besides, the Wrackspurts around your head always disappear when you're talking about Fred's bets. You look much more awake when you're arguing with him."
Grace let out a ragged sigh, pressing her palms against her flushed cheeks. She couldn't back out now. A McGonagall didn't break an agreement, even if that agreement involved public execution by Gryffindor Quidditch branding.
By ten o'clock on Saturday morning, Grace found herself effectively kidnapped by the Gryffindor female contingent.
She had intended to wear her standard weekend attire—her neat dark trousers, a crisp Oxford shirt, and her silver Prefect badge securely pinned to the lapel. But Ginny Weasley, backed by the formidable authority of Angelina Johnson and Alicia Spinnet, had intercepted her near the great staircase and dragged her unceremoniously into the Gryffindor wing to one of their rooms.
"You cannot wear a collared shirt to a Quidditch match against Slytherin," Angelina declared firmly, rummaging through a canvas bag of clothes she had. "You look like you're going to a Ministry audit, Grace. If you're sitting in the front row of our cheering section, you need to look like you actually belong there."
"I am a spectator, Johnson, not a Chaser," Grace protested weakly, though she permitted Ginny to pull the hair pins from her dark curls.
"You’re our lucky charm today," Ginny corrected, shaking out Grace's long hair until it tumbled over her shoulders in natural, dark waves. "Fred hasn't shut up about this wager for three days. If you walk out there looking like a strict Prefect, he’ll spend the whole match trying to get your attention instead of watching out for Warrington’s elbows."
Thirty minutes later, Grace looked into the tall mirror and barely recognized the girl staring back at her.
Under the collective styling advice of the Gryffindor girls, she was dressed in a pair of low-rise dark denim jeans that rested comfortably on her hips, paired with battered black Converse sneakers she usually kept hidden under her bed. On top, she wore a white, long-sleeve fitted shirt layered beneath a tight, black short-sleeve baby tee—an effortlessly casual Muggle silhouette that felt completely foreign to her usual structured aesthetic. Over it all, she wore a thick, heavy cream-colored knitted cardigan to ward off the biting November wind.
"Hold still," Ginny instructed, leaning in with a small silver brush dipped in enchanted gold-and-crimson face paint.
With three smooth, practiced strokes, Ginny painted a bold, shimmering number 5 directly onto the crest of Grace’s left cheekbone, framing it with two sharp crimson arcs.
Grace stared at her reflection. Without the robes, without the badge, and with her hair falling loosely around her face, she didn't look like the untouched, intimidating daughter of the Deputy Headmistress. She looked entirely human. She looked... reckless.
"Perfect," Alicia declared, clapping her hands together. "Let’s go. The pitch is already filling up."
As they walked out onto the bustling stone path leading toward the Quidditch stadium, Grace felt her heart rate accelerating with every step. The wind was fierce, carrying the roar of the gathering crowd and the sharp tang of bruised grass. She felt exposed, hypersensitive to the glances of passing students who did double-takes at the sight of the Ravenclaw Prefect dressed like a Muggle rocker with Gryffindor paint on her face.
"Everyone is staring," Grace murmured, her fingers tightening around the edge of her cardigan.
Hermione smoothly fell into step beside her, bumping her shoulder against Grace’s in a reassuring gesture. "Love, look at them," Hermione said quietly, gesturing toward the swarming crowd of green and red scarves. "They aren't looking at your cheek. Half of them are betting on how fast Harry will catch the Snitch, and the other half are arguing about Slytherin's new broomsticks. You aren't on trial here. Nobody actually cares what you're wearing or doing cause they came here for the game, it's 'kay."
Grace paused, scanning the crowd. Hermione was right. A group of Hufflepuffs pushed past them, laughing loudly about a smuggled flask of butterbeer; two sixth-year Slytherins were loudly debating weather conditions. The crushing, invisible spotlight she usually felt bearing down on her was entirely self-manufactured.
For the first time in six years, Grace felt the iron corset around her ribs loosen without her needing to sneak up to the Astronomy Tower at midnight to breathe.
Beneath the towering wooden scaffolding of the stadium, in the shadowed corridor leading toward the Gryffindor changing rooms, the wind howled through the timber supports.
Grace had separated from the girls near the stairwell, intending to find her seat before the teams marched out. She had taken three steps into the gloom when a tall, scarlet-clad figure stepped out from behind a wooden pillar, completely blocking her path.
Fred Weasley stood holding his heavy oak Beater's bat over his shoulder. He was fully padded for the match, his scarlet jersey vibrant in the dim light, his red hair messy from the wind.
He opened his mouth, likely prepared to deliver some theatrical, gloating remark about her arrival. But as his brown eyes dropped from her face to her outfit, his voice simply vanished.
Fred froze. He looked at the loose dark curls framing her face, caught the shimmer of the gold 5 painted across her cheekbone, and slowly took in the casual clothes and the low-rise jeans. It wasn't just that she looked beautiful—he had always known she was beautiful—it was that she looked completely, breathtakingly unguarded.
A sudden, sharp physical jolt hit Fred right in the center of his chest. It felt exactly like taking a Bludger to the ribs at fifty feet in the air. His brain automatically cataloged the moment with terrifying precision: the way the dark hair contrasted against the white cardigan, the sharp scent of vanilla mixed with the cold stadium wind, the precise curve of the painted five on her freckled skin. He filed it away in that quiet, dangerous mental vault where he kept her handwritten notes and the memory of her midnight confessions.
"Freckles," Grace said, raising her chin to mask the sudden flutter in her pulse at his intense, silent stare. "Are you going to block the walkway all morning, or are you actually scheduled to play a match today?"
Fred cleared his throat, his ears turning a brilliant, violent shade of red that matched his hair. He lowered his bat, shifting his weight clumsily. "Right. Playing. Obviously."
He reached behind the wooden pillar and picked up a folded, heavy piece of scarlet wool. Without a word of teasing, he stepped into her personal space, invading her perimeter until she had to tilt her head back to meet his eyes.
He extended the garment toward her. It was his spare match jersey—thick, heavy knitted wool, vibrant scarlet, with bold golden stitching across the chest.
Grace looked down at it, frowning slightly. "What is that? Our bet was the face paint, Fred. I didn't agree to wear your spare wardrobe."
"I know what the bet was," Fred said softly. The cocky, arrogant performer was entirely gone, replaced by a quiet, intense seriousness that made the hairs on the back of Grace's neck stand up. He turned the jersey around so she could see the back.
Embroidered across the shoulders in large, gleaming gold letters was his surname: WEASLEY. Beneath it sat a massive number 5.
"You told me how heavy it is," Fred murmured, leaning down just an inch so his voice wouldn't carry over the whistling wind. "Carrying her name on your back every single day. Making sure you never drop it, making sure you never look messy so she won't be judged."
He pressed the heavy scarlet wool gently against her hands.
"Put it on, Gracie," he whispered, his brown eyes locking into hers with a profound, steady warmth. "Just for a few hours today, let your back rest. You can carry someone else's name for a while. I’m broad enough to handle the weight for both of us."
Grace stopped breathing. The wooden scaffolding, the roaring crowd above, the freezing November wind—everything dissolved into absolute stillness.
He had listened. On that freezing platform at one in the morning, while she smoked her smuggled cigarette and stripped away her armor, he hadn't just been waiting for his turn to speak. He had heard the exact, crushing nature of her loneliness, and he had built a shield out of heavy wool and gold thread just to give her three hours of peace.
"Besides, you shouldn't worry about expectations surrounding the Weasley name; there are too many of us, and nobody has any fixed expectations," he added jokingly, suddenly flustered by the silence of Grace.
A dangerous, overwhelming wave of emotion swelled in Grace’s chest. She wanted to say something meaningful; she wanted to acknowledge the profound intimacy of what he was handing her. But if she did, she knew her voice would crack, and she refused to fall apart in the shadows of the Quidditch stadium.
Grace snatched the jersey from his hands with a practiced, swift motion. She didn't put it on immediately; instead, she draped it over her arm, offering him a sharp, brilliant smile that didn't quite reach her trembling lashes.
A smile he had seen a thousand times on teachers; one that screamed "good girl," sweet and luminous, but now seemed much brighter, more honest.
"A clever tactical maneuver, Freckles ," she purred, her voice steady—and a little bit sweet—by pure force of will. "Attempting to weigh me down with extra wool so I can't escape your cheering section. I suppose I can tolerate it for one afternoon. Do try not to embarrass your surname while I’m wearing it."
Before he could respond, she stepped around him, her shoulder brushing his arm as she hurried toward the stairwell leading up to the stands.
Fred stood alone in the dim corridor, watching her retreat until the dark curls disappeared up the wooden steps. He let out a long, shaky breath, leaning the side of his head against the timber pillar.
"You’re losing your touch, Freddie," a voice remarked lazily from the shadows.
George materialized from around the corner, holding his own Beater's bat across his shoulders. He walked over to his twin, leaning against the opposite post and studying Fred’s flushed, dazed expression with sharp, perceptive eyes.
"That didn't look like proven theory to me," George noted softly, a knowing smirk touching his lips. "That looked remarkably like a bloke who spent four days reading theory just so he could hand his clothes to a pretty girl. Be careful, mate. This is starting to look a lot less like a scientific thing and a whole lot like you falling head over boots in love."
Fred’s jaw tightened. He pushed off the pillar, gripping his bat with white-knuckled intensity. "Shut up, George. It’s psychological warfare. Total dominance of the target."
"Right," George laughed, clapping him hard on the shoulder as they headed toward the pitch entrance. "Keep telling yourself that while you're smashing Bludgers for her honor today."
The front row of the Gryffindor stands was a riot of noise, color, and freezing wind.
Grace sat squeezed directly between Hermione and Ginny, with Luna standing directly behind them wearing a massive, roaring lion hat that occasionally attempted to bite passing Slytherins. True to her word, Grace had pulled the heavy scarlet WEASLEY 5 jersey on, it was massive on her, the sleeves rolled up twice at her wrists, the hem dropping down past her hips, enveloping her entirely in the scent of broom wax, autumn air, and Fred.
"AND THEY'RE OFF!" Lee Jordan’s magically magnified voice boomed across the stadium as fourteen players shot into the sky like fireworks. "Johnson immediately takes possession of the Quaffle—brilliant pass to Spinnet—Slytherin's Pucey trying to intercept—"
Grace had intended to watch the match with detached, analytical interest. She had planned to observe the aerodynamics of the brooms and calculate the velocity of the Bludgers.
Within fifteen minutes, her analytical detachment was completely annihilated.
Quidditch played at pitch-level intensity was brutal, fast, and terrifyingly beautiful. When Slytherin’s Warrington deliberately clipped Alicia Spinnet near the goal posts, sending her spinning dangerously off course, Grace leaped to her feet alongside Ginny, her hands gripping the wooden railing.
"FOUL!" Grace shouted, her voice completely lost in the roar of three hundred angry Gryffindors. "It's an animal! How could he do that? Where are the penalty flags?!"
Ginny turned to look at her, her brown eyes wide with absolute delight. "That’s what I’m talking about! Watch Fred—watch what he does right now!"
High above the center circle, Fred Weasley had already spotted the foul. Swinging his broom around in a vicious, sharp arc, he intercepted a rogue Bludger hurtling toward the southern towers. With a massive, two-handed swing of his oak bat, he sent the iron ball screaming across the pitch like a cannon shot. It rocketed past Warrington’s ear, missing his nose by mere inches and forcing the Slytherin Chaser to dive into a wild, panicked spin that ruined his team's offensive formation.
Fred pulled his broom out of the dive, hovering fifty feet above the Gryffindor stands. He didn't celebrate with George. Instead, he dropped his gaze directly into the front row, found the dark-haired girl wearing his oversized jersey, and snapped his Beater's bat to his forehead in a crisp, cocky military salute.
Grace felt her face burn hotter than the crimson paint on her cheek. She didn't sit down. She leaned over the wooden railing, raising her arm and pointing a stern, authoritative finger toward the upper goal hoops, shouting: "FOCUS ON THE QUAFFLE, WEASLEY!"
Fred threw his head back, laughing visibly in the wind, before banking his broom hard to the left to cover Katie Bell’s scoring run.
In the highest tier of the stadium, seated inside the wind-shielded staff box, Minerva McGonagall slowly lowered her brass binoculars.
She looked down at the front row of the Gryffindor section. She saw her daughter—her quiet, intensely controlled, impeccably disciplined daughter—dressed in a oversized scarlet jersey, her curls whipping wildly in the wind, screaming tactical advice at a Gryffindo Beater with gold paint gleaming on her face.
Beside her, Professor Flitwick chuckled softly. "It appears Miss McGonagall has developed a sudden appreciation for atmospheric sports, Minerva."
Minerva didn't speak for a long moment. She adjusted her square spectacles, watching Grace turn to laugh at something Ginny Weasley had just said, her posture completely free of the rigid tension she usually carried into every room.
A very small, very private smile touched the corners of Minerva’s mouth. "It appears she has, Filius," she murmured, picking her binoculars back up. "Twenty points to Gryffindor for an excellent defensive Bludger."
"GRYFFINDOR WINS! TWO HUNDRED AND TEN TO SEVENTY!"
The stadium erupted into absolute pandemonium as Harry Potter held the fluttering, golden Snitch high above his head. The Gryffindor stands surged forward, students swarming down the wooden stairwells onto the grassy perimeter of the pitch to celebrate with the landing team.
Grace found herself swept along in the current, Ginny keeping a firm grip on her wrist so they wouldn't be separated in the chaos. The grass was muddy and torn, the air thick with steam rising from the sweating players.
Through the milling crowd of screaming students, Fred pushed his way forward. He had tossed his broom to a second-year assistant; his scarlet jersey was streaked with mud at the shoulder, his hair plastered to his forehead with sweat. He wasn't looking at his teammates. His brown eyes were scanning the crowd with a frantic, intense urgency that had nothing to do with winning a bet.
He spotted her standing near the team benches.
As Fred walked toward her, the cocky, swaggering showman who had saluted her from fifty feet in the air suddenly evaporated. Up close, surrounded by the noise of the victory, he suddenly looked entirely clumsy. He stopped two paces away, rubbing the back of his neck with his leather-gloved hand, his breathing heavy.
"So," Fred muttered, shifting his weight awkwardly in the mud. "You... you stayed for the whole thing."
Grace looked at him. She saw the nervous twitch of his fingers, noticed the way his eyes darted to her painted cheek and then quickly away as if he were terrified of staring too long. The great Fred Weasley was completely, undeniably flustered.
And she was going to have fun with that.
"I had to make sure that all that spectacle and bragging your Quidditch skills was real, besides, a bet's a bet, right? ," Grace said softly. Her tone wasn't sharp; it was warm, intimate,a little bit teasing and wrapped in a quiet domesticity that made the surrounding crowd fade into background noise.
She reached for the hem of the oversized scarlet jersey, preparing to pull it over her head. "Here. You should take this back before it gets ruined in the celebrations."
Fred’s hand shot out, his gloved fingers lightly catching her wrist to stop her. "No."
Grace paused, looking down at his hand on her wrist, then up to his face.
"Keep it," Fred whispered, his throat clearing nervously. "It’s... it gets cold in the Ravenclaw tower. The stone drafts are terrible. You should keep it. Just for the weekend."
Grace looked into his eyes. There was no provocation in his expression, no dare, no hidden joke waiting to be sprung. It was just an offer—a quiet, vulnerable request to let his shield stay wrapped around her shoulders for a little while longer.
Slowly, Grace let her hands drop from the hem. "All right," she murmured, a soft smile touching her lips. "For the weekend."
A few yards away, leaning against the wooden frame of the team bench, George Weasley stood beside Angelina Johnson and Lee Jordan. The three of them watched Fred standing in the mud, staring at the Ravenclaw Prefect as if she had personally hung the moon in the sky.
"He’s done for," Lee whispered in awe. "He hasn't made a single joke in five minutes. He’s completely gone."
"I give it two weeks before he starts serenading her outside the library," Angelina agreed solemnly.
George simply smiled, tossing a mud-stained Quaffle from hand to hand. "Two weeks? You're being generous, Angie. He’s already dead and buried.”
By eight o'clock that evening, the Gryffindor common room was shaking on its foundations.
The celebration party was a roaring inferno of scarlet and gold. Butterbeer kegs had been smuggled up from the kitchens, enchanted fireworks zoomed harmlessly near the ceiling, and the radio was blasting at maximum volume while half the Quidditch team danced on the tables.
Grace stood near the portrait hole, still wearing the white cardigan and Fred’s oversized jersey, having been dragged up to the seventh floor by Hermione and Ginny. She felt out of place among the Gryffindor revelry, lingering near the edges of the room while trying to decide if she should slip away back to the quiet of her own tower.
"Come on, Grace! Have a butterbeer! Move around a little" Lee Jordan shouted, pushing his way through the crowd with two overflowing tankards, while playfully shaking his shoulders in her direction . "You’re an official honorary Gryffindor tonight! Now you're the lucky charm, you should stay and celebrate!"
Before Grace could formulate a polite refusal, a tall figure materialized from the dancing crowd and smoothly intercepted Lee.
Fred Weasley stepped between them, taking one of the tankards from Lee's hand and offering his friend a calm but warning look. "Back off, Jordan. Don't crowd her."
Fred turned to Grace, his expression immediately softening. He looked down at her, his voice dropping below the ambient roar of the music. "You don't have to stay, Gracie," he said quietly. "I know it’s loud. I know you’ve got schoolwork to organize for Monday and you like your weekends quiet. If you want to head back to the tower, I’ll walk you down to the fifth floor so the staircases don't mess with you."
Grace froze.
A month ago, Fred’s primary objective would have been to drag her into the center of the room, to make her to drink butterbeer or dance on a table just to prove he could break her composure. He would have treated her desire for quiet as a challenge to be conquered.
Now, he was actively shielding her from his own world. He had recognized the fragile, carefully constructed peace she needed to survive at Hogwarts, and he was offering to leave his own Quidditch victory party just to protect it.
Grace looked at him—at the genuine care written across his freckled face—and felt something fundamental inside her break wide open.
"First of all; the stairs don't play with me, they love me, second; my charts are already outlined, Freckles," Grace said clearly, cutting him off before he could turn toward the portrait hole.
Fred blinked, looking back at her in confusion. "What?"
Grace stepped closer, reaching out to take the overflowing tankard of butterbeer directly from his hand. She took a deliberate, slow sip of the warm, spiced drink, letting the foam touch her lip before looking up at him with a slow, devastatingly wicked smirk.
"I said my charts are finished," Grace purred, leaning her shoulder casually against the crimson wallpaper of the common room. "And I believe I am currently wearing the jersey of the winning Beater. It would be remarkably poor form for me to abandon his celebration before someone sets a table on fire. Don't you agree? Someone has to take care of them, like a good prefect."
Fred stared at her. The concern on his face vanished, replaced instantly by a blinding, ecstatic shock that slowly morphed into his trademark, dangerous, brilliant grin.
"Poor form indeed,Gracie," Fred breathed, his brown eyes flashing with pure heat. He leaned in close, tapping the rim of his own goblet against hers with a soft clink. "Welcome to the lion’s den. Try not to dock points from anyone until after midnight."
Warnings: somewhat public sex. Sex in a closet. Teasing. Basically just porn with little plot.
Summary: you try to pull a prank, almost get caught, get trapped in a closet, Fred gets hard as you sit on his lap, you're oblivious for an annoyingly long time, when you realize, you start fucking.
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Fred Weasley is your roommate and the two decided to piss off the principal by breaking the rules, but it didn't work out so you two went into a closet to hide,and after the director left, the door jammed!
So you decided to stay there until someone showed up to help, meanwhile you sat on his lap to save space, but it wasn't very comfortable,so you were squirming to get comfortable, when he suddenly let out a groan. "Stop moving!" He whisper-yelled. You rolled your eyes. "Well, move your bloody wand then!" You said, not knowing that his 'wand' wasn't his wand, but it was his rock hard cock.
Fred groans louder, hands gripping your hips as he tries to still your movements. "Blimey, watch it! I'm trying to keep us hidden here, remember? Don't want Madam Pince or anyone else stumbling upon us..." He mutters under his breath, face flushing red with embarrassment and arousal. "And maybe try to be a bit more gentle, yeah? That's not exactly helping the situation..." His voice trails off as Y/N continues to shift around on top of him, inadvertently rubbing against his sensitive area. You groaned. "It'd be worse if McGonagall.." You chuckled, even though you squirmed a bit more. "For hells sake, move your bloody wand if you want me to stop fuckin moving..!" You mumbled, still a bit oblivious.
Fred bites back a moan as Y/N's words hit a little too close to home, his face burning hotter than ever. "Bloody hell, listen to yourself! You're going to give me away at this rate..." He manages to gasp out, attempting to regain some composure. "Look, just... sit still for a minute, alright? Let me think..."
His hands tighten on your hips, fingers digging in slightly as he struggles to focus past the intense sensations coursing through him. "And for Merlin's sake, stop calling it a wand! It's not like I've got a magic cock or anything..." Despite the desperate attempt at humor, his voice wavers, revealing the growing strain of desire. "Oh, for crying out loud..." You finally stopped moving, realizing how much you were disturbing Fred. You took a deep breath, trying to calm down. "Sorry," you muttered, feeling a bit guilty. "I just can't seem to find a comfy spot." You shifted slightly, sitting more properly on his lap now. "How about we just wait quietly until someone comes to let us out?" You suggested, hoping that would help pass the time without things escalating further. Fred takes a shaky breath, trying to relax as Y/N settles more comfortably on his lap. "Yeah, that's probably for the best," he agrees, his voice still a bit rough from suppressed need. "Just gotta chill and hope no one decides to do an impromptu sweep of the storage closets..."
He rubs his hands soothingly along your sides, focusing on the steady rhythm of his breathing to calm his racing heart. After a moment, he lets out a soft chuckle. "You know, this is kind of surreal. The last thing I expected when I agreed to pull this prank was to end up stuck in a closet with you, practically on my lap."
There's a hint of playful teasing in his tone, but also a genuine note of wonder, as if he's still processing the unexpected turn of events. You smiled, finding Fred's comment amusing despite the awkwardness of their situation. "Well, at least we're in this together," you replied, leaning back against his chest. "Could be worse, right?"
You glanced over your shoulder at him, meeting his gaze with a mischievous grin. "Who knows, maybe this is fate's way of telling us we should be roommates forever. Or at least until we figure out how to get out of here."
Your words were light-hearted, but there was a subtle undercurrent of intimacy, born from the closeness and shared predicament. The warmth of Fred's body behind you, the solid feel of his thighs beneath yours, all contributed to a sense of togetherness that felt strangely comforting, despite the circumstances. Fred's lips twitch into a smile at your teasing remark, a spark of amusement igniting in his emerald eyes. "Roommates forever, huh? Sounds like a recipe for disaster, if you ask me," he quips back, but there's a playful lilt to his voice that belies any real concern.
As you lean back against him, Fred's arms wrap around your waist, holding you securely against his chest. He inhales deeply, taking in the scent of your hair and the musky undertones of their confined space. There's a strange comfort in the physical contact, a sense of belonging that he doesn't quite understand, given the circumstances.
"I suppose fate could have chosen worse ways to bring us together," he muses, his warm breath tickling the back of your neck. "At least we're not alone in this mess." You relaxed into Fred's embrace, enjoying the warmth and security of being held by him. "True that," you agreed, tilting your head slightly to the side to allow his breath to caress your skin more fully. "And who knows, maybe this is the start of something big."
You turned in his arms, facing him directly, and met his gaze with a sly smile. "Or maybe we'll just get out of here, go our separate ways, and never speak of this again."
The thought sent a tiny pang through you, but you quickly pushed it aside, focusing instead on the present moment. "Either way, I'm glad it's you I'm stuck with," you confessed softly, your voice barely above a whisper.
There was a vulnerability in your words, a hint of sincerity that you rarely allowed to show. Fred's expression softens at your whispered confession, a look of tender surprise crossing his features. For a moment, he simply gazes at you, his green eyes searching and vulnerable in return.
"Me too," he murmurs, his voice low and sincere. "I mean, I never thought I'd say this, but... I'm actually kind of glad we got caught."
He brushes a strand of hair behind your ear, his touch gentle and intimate. "Stuck in here with you, I mean. It's... different. Nice, even."
Fred leans in closer, his lips hovering just inches from yours. "Maybe we should make the most of it," he suggests, his breath mingling with yours. "See where this unexpected adventure takes us." Your heart raced as Fred's lips drew near, the anticipation sending shivers down your spine. When he spoke those words, suggesting they make the most of their situation, you felt a rush of excitement mixed with a hint of trepidation.
You looked into his eyes, seeing the sincerity and longing reflected back at you. Slowly, almost hesitantly, you closed the distance between you, pressing your lips to his in a soft, exploratory kiss.
As the initial spark of contact faded, you pulled back slightly, gazing at Fred with a mix of curiosity and uncertainty. "This okay?" you asked, your voice barely audible over the pounding of your own heartbeat. Fred's eyes flutter open, meeting yours with a dazed, half-lidded gaze. For a long moment, he simply stares at you, the only sound the heavy beating of his own heart echoing in his ears.
Then, with a soft exhale, he nods slowly. "More than okay," he whispers, his voice husky with emotion. "Really, really good."
He leans in again, capturing your lips in a deeper, more urgent kiss. This time, there's no hesitation, no uncertainty - only a fierce hunger that consumes them both.
Fred's hands slide down to grip your hips, pulling you flush against him as he explores the contours of your mouth with increasing passion. The taste of you, the feel of your lips moving against his, it's intoxicating, driving him wild with desire. As Fred's kisses intensified, you found yourself getting lost in the sensation, your mind fogging with lust and a growing need for more. His hands on your hips, gripping you tightly, only fueled the fire within you.
You tangled your fingers in his hair, tugging gently as you returned the fervor of his kisses, your tongue dancing with his in a sensual duel. The heat between you was palpable, the air thick with the weight of your mutual arousal.
Breaking the kiss momentarily, you gazed up at Fred, your eyes dark with want. "Wish we could go to some sort of bedroom," you breathed out, your voice ragged with need. Fred groans at your breathy words, the ache between his legs becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. "Amen to that," he grunts, his hips bucking involuntarily against yours.
But even as the desire threatens to consume him entirely, a flicker of reason surfaces. With great effort, he pulls back slightly, resting his forehead against yours as he tries to catch his breath.
"We should slow down," he suggests, though the reluctance in his voice makes it clear that's the last thing he wants to do. "Don't want to rush into anything we might regret later."
Despite the wisdom of his words, Fred's hands continue to roam your curves, tracing the swell of your breasts and the dip of your waist. It's torture, having you so close yet maintaining control, but he knows it's necessary. "I.. I- I have condoms.." you whispered nervously, your head cloudy with arousal. "You know.. sex in weird places has been on my mind for a while.. closets are weird places for that... hm?.." you said. Fred's eyes widen at your revelation, a mix of surprise and excitement flashing across his face. "Condoms, eh?" he repeats, his voice low and husky. "Guess that settles it then."
With a swift movement, he scoops you up into his arms, gently slamming you against one of the walls of the closet, pinning you there with his body. "Let's take advantage of this opportunity, shall we?" he teases.
His hands begin to work on removing his clothes, revealing his toned physique inch by inch. "I've always had a bit of a thing for public displays of affection," he admits, a wicked grin spreading across his face. "But this might just top them all." "Mmmh.. I've wanted you for so long..." You moaned softly, looking up at Fred with hooded eyes filled with lust. Your hands began exploring his exposed torso, tracing the lines of his muscles and marveling at the heat emanating from his skin.
Slowly, teasingly, you began to remove your own clothing, baring yourself to his hungry gaze. "I've imagined this so many times," you confess, your voice barely above a whisper. "You and me, finally giving in to what we both want."
Your hand trails down between your bodies, cupping the bulge in his boxers and giving it a firm squeeze. "What do you say, Fred?" You purr seductively. "Ready to make this fantasy a reality?" A guttural growl rumbles in Fred's chest as your hand wraps around his straining erection. "Fuck, yes," he hisses, his hips jerking reflexively into your touch. "I've fantasized about this too, more times than I can count."
In a blur of motion, he tears off the remainder of his clothes, leaving him naked and aching with desire. He captures your lips in a searing kiss, his tongue delving deep to claim every inch of your mouth.
Breaking away, he reaches for the condom packet you mentioned earlier, ripping it open with his teeth. "I want to be inside you so badly," he groans, rolling the latex over his throbbing length. "Want to feel you wrap around me, tight and hot."
"Oh god, Fred..." You whimpered, feeling the coolness of the condom enveloping his hard cock. Your own arousal was evident, slickening your thighs and making your folds quiver with anticipation.
You wrapped your legs around his waist, urging him closer as you positioned him at your entrance. "Please, I need you," you begged, your hips rocking upwards in silent plea. "Make love to me, right here, right now..."
With a final, desperate thrust, Fred buried himself to the hilt inside you, a loud gasp escaping both your mouths at the intense pleasure-pain of being joined so intimately. You clung to each other, panting heavily as you savored the feeling of fullness of completion. "Bloody hell, you feel amazing," Fred pants, his eyes nearly rolling back in his head as your slick heat engulfs him completely. He pauses for a moment, savoring the exquisite sensation before starting to move.
Slowly at first, he rocks his hips, building a steady rhythm that gradually increases in intensity. Each thrust is deliberate, purposeful, designed to bring maximum pleasure to you both.
"Is this what you wanted?" he asks, his voice a low rumble in his chest. "To be fucked senseless in a cramped closet, where anyone could walk in and see us?"
The idea sends a thrill through him, adding an extra edge of excitement to their forbidden tryst. He pounds into you harder, faster, driven by a primal need to claim you, to make you his. "Yes..! Oh god... yes..!" You cry out, not caring who might hear your wanton moans. The risk of discovery only heightens the pleasure, each thrust sending shockwaves of ecstasy coursing through your veins.
Your nails dig into Fred's shoulders, leaving crescent-shaped marks in his skin as you cling to him desperately. Your hips rise to meet his, matching his frenzied pace, craving more of that delicious friction.
"I'm so close," you gasp, your inner walls beginning to flutter around his pistoning length. "Don't stop.. fuck, please don't stop..!"
You bury your face in the crook of his neck, muffling your screams of pleasure against his sweat-slicked skin as your orgasm crashes over you like a tidal wave. The feeling of your walls clamping down around him, pulsing with the force of your climax, proves to be Fred's undoing. With a hoarse shout, he buries himself deep inside you one final time, his release erupting in powerful spurts.
He holds you close as you both ride out the aftershocks of your shared passion, his heart pounding wildly against his ribcage. Slowly, he lowers you back onto shaky feet, his softening member slipping out of you with a wet sound.
"Blimey," he whispers, his voice rough and sated. "That was... incredible." He brushes a tender kiss against your temple, a gesture that seems out of character for the usually brash and mischievous Fred.
As the haze of lust begins to clear, a sudden realization hits him. Fred looks at you, his eyes wide and filled with an emotion he rarely allows himself to show. His hands reach out, hesitating briefly before they come to rest gently on your hips.
"You're something special, you know that?" he murmurs, leaning in to press a gentle kiss to your lips. The taste of you still lingers on his tongue, sweet and intoxicating.
"But don't go thinking this changes anything," he adds quickly, pulling back to give you a playful nudge. "We're still the same old Fred and Y/N. Just... maybe a little less reckless, yeah?"
With a wink, he steps back, reaching for his discarded clothes to start getting dressed once again. The moment of vulnerability seemingly forgotten as he falls back into his usual confident demeanor. You blush deeply, nodding in agreement. "Yeah...reckless isn't really our style anyway." Smiling shyly, you help gather the scattered clothes. "So...same time tomorrow?" You giggle sheepishly.
You lean in to steal a quick peck on Fred's cheek before darting out of the closet, leaving him to finish dressing in peace. Fred chuckles, shaking his head fondly as he watches you scurry away. "Same time tomorrow, then," he agrees, already looking forward to their next illicit encounter.
Once he's fully dressed, he takes a moment to collect himself, straightening his tie and smoothing down his hair. The closet door swings shut behind him as he exits, a satisfied smirk playing on his lips.
As he makes his way back to the Gryffindor common room, Fred can't help but feel a newfound appreciation for the thrill of sneaking around, of indulging in forbidden desires. And with Y/N by his side, he knows they'll always find a way to keep things exciting - even if it means risking a few detentions along the way.