{Narrator POV}
Delania watched her fiancé as he carefully packed his stuff into unsteady wooden boxes that would probably have broken if she hadn't told him to use another one as well. They were over at the Burrow trying desperately to find little things Fred had only thought about now before moving into their new house.
Fred hadn't had to pay that much for the house anyway, it'd been his Aunt's before she decided to move to Canada and had not asked for a lot when he said he was interested. All he and George had done was redecorate it when they'd 'left' school.
"To make things worse, I don't even know where he's taking me." Delania told Nathan as Fred packed up the last box. Nathan laughed. "I'm being serious, Diggory."
"Yeah, well my dad has been kind enough to let me and Rosie stay at the house until we find a house."
Delania smiled. With mini Digs. She thought as Nathan smiled down at Rosie. It was strange how they'd only just come out of school and they were starting families, moving into houses. Nathan had only just turned nineteen, he didn't have a job yet but was qualifying to be an Auror. Delania herself had opted down the Healers route.
"Right, darling." Fred walked over to Delania and wrapped his arm round her waist. "Ready?"
Delania narrowed her eyebrows. "Fred Weasley, no matter how many times you ask me if I'm ready, I never am with you. But answer this for me please." She begged. "Where is it?"
"Borders of Scotland." He said, and then by taking her hand, they apparated into the countryside. Delania could see trees and hills and fields, it was amazing.
Fred was already walking up the hill and so she ran to catch up with him. "Lots of space to practice quidditch when we have kids, eh?" He remarked, reaching the top.
His fiancé scoffed. "You're planning that far ahead?- Wow, Fred..."
The house was perfect. It really was. Fred had told her previously that Molly had helped place an invisibility charm widely round it and Delania could see why. The house was sweet but not too small and surrounded by a few trees and flowers. The backyard was open and Delania could see an outhouse with a few benches and a pond. Fred had pushed the mark, big time.
"The furniture's already inside, we just have to unpack these three boxes." Fred said, ahead of her again and beginning his stroll down the hill.
It was bright inside the house. Fred had been decorating with George, Lee, Nathan and Monty and so for a week Delania had been dreading the outcome but the boys had really pulled through. The kitchen was spaced out and the windows at the back gave just the most brilliant view of the garden, up the stairs there were four bedrooms and two bathrooms as well as a study and a spare room which Fred had secretly planned out for Delania.
"Come here." He beckoned her over from their bedroom. "Don't scream." He said with his hand upon the door knob. "This is your room, my love."
Fred opened the door to unveil a tiny library consisting of two chairs, a small coffee table and no walls seeing as the book shelves covered them completely.
"Fred..."
"I know what you're going to say, either it's too big or wow." He smiled and shoved his hands into the pockets of his waistcoat. "But I thought, well me and mum thought, you needed space and time."
Delania knew he was referring to her dad, and as she looked around the room, her room, she caught sight of a black and white picture of her mum and dad. They were posed outside the church in Godric's Hollow on the day of their wedding, her mum clutched onto her bouquet of white and red roses as her dad watched her with a glint in his eye. Roxanne had decorated the interior of the house, but still hadn't done two bedrooms as they weren't yet needed...
"I love it." Delania turned and looked at Fred. "Freddie, it's perfect."
He smiled at her before she ran up to him and smashed his lips against hers, she was small, yes, but Fred's hands slipped round her waist and for the first time since last September, she felt home. But she didn't just feel like she was any home, she felt she was home with Fred. And wherever he went with her would be home.
"I love you, so much." He told her.
"I love you more."
the house:
the downstairs hallway:
the downstairs toilet:
the kitchen:
the lounge:
the dining room:
the upstairs hallway:
the spare room:
the upstairs bathroom:
the study:
the master bedroom:
and Delania's room:
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Delania always took apparation to St Mungos. She as currently a junior Healer and observed several doctors in several different wards. When she was younger, she'd never wanted to go into a hospital in fear of dying there, well now she knew too well that the people in St Mungos were the kindest people she'd ever met.
She wasn't alone in her journey to become a Healer, Monty was also training and many senior Healers said they made a good pair and worked well together. They would commute together and leave together, very often stopping for a coffee with either Rosie or Ella.
Today was different.
"What do you think?" Monty asked Delania. "I mean he seems nice but he's all for Fudge and I can't stand that man."
"Just try, you never know until you sit down for a meal with someone." Delania told her companion. It was mid November and truth be told, she was freezing.
"You're right."
But just because it was freezing doesn't mean she hadn't stopped noticing, noticing the strange, familiar looking men and women that stood waiting outside St Mungos every day when she left. It made her feel so uncomfortable, like they were watching her. Like they were snatchers.
"Hey, love you. See you tomorrow." Monty pecked her cheek and whisked himself away.
And she felt vulnerable. For the people who stood outside the hospital today had looked very much like a wanted sign Delania had seen whilst passing by the Ministry, and he was following her. She took a sharp left down one of the alleyways she knew was a shortcut to Fred's shop and started to move quicker, and quicker. But so did he and soon her breathing got faster. Delania took one last look behind her to make sure he was gone, and so instead she ran. For he was still there, and ran straight after her.
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