Harry Potter One Shots

Long Game (Fred Weasley)

A/N: You and Fred have dating since forever (like 3-4th year) and you're both 24. You've expected Fred to ask you to marry him, but he hasn't popped the question.

Y/n POV:
I felt jealous at the couple in front of me. Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley, newly engaged. I was happy for Ginny that she found someone, but Fred and I had been dating since we 13, we're now 24.

Fred always made it clear he wanted to marry me while we were still at Hogwarts, knowing him I thought he we would do the day we left Hogwarts for the joke shop. We did everything together, always there. When Ginny was the one going into the Chamber of Secrets, I comforted him. In 5th, when my grandmother passed away, Fred went with me to her funeral. I made the potion he and George used to get into the Goblet of Fire. When we were 21, at the Battle of Hogwarts, he had barely survived. I vividly remembering the wall that was about to fall on top of him, and I was able to push him out of the way in time.

"Everything alright, love?" Fred whispered into my ear.

"Good." I put on a fake smile.

For the rest of the night, I watch Ginny parade around the Burrow showing everyone her ring, I couldn't even be in the same room as her. I wasn't mad at her, I was just confused with Fred, how he always proclaimed we would be together forever.

As the weeks went on, I helped Ginny with her wedding decorations. When she asked me to be her bridesmaid, I almost declined. But I knew I shouldn't take my anger of Fred and put it onto Ginny. It was her special day.

"Is everything alright?" Hermione asked me. She came over to the cottage Fred and I owned, he was at work with George while I stayed at home. Even though she was 2 years younger, she had became one of my closet friends. She had gotten married 9 months ago to Ron.

"No." I answered truthfully. "It's just you know Fred and I have been together for more than 10 years now, and he always said during Hogwarts he would marry me and we would spend the rest of our lives together. And now here we are, 24 and everyone is married. Even Charlie, the one we joked about not getting married, married Krum's sister like the minute they left Hogwarts."

"I know I just laid that thick on you." I laughed.

"Maybe he's waiting for the perfect moment." Hermione replied.

"I don't know if there will ever be a perfect moment with us. I'm not saying our relationship is bad, it's just I never liked 'perfect', I like fun, adventures, chaos, that's why Fred and I were so perfect for each other. But I don't want to have this reckless relationship for the rest of our lives. I want to get married, get settled down, have kids."

"You want kids, you never spoke of that." Hermione raised an eyebrow.

"It started after we left Hogwarts, seeing mothers with their babies in Diagon Alley or all the little children in the shop, I want a little Y/n or little Fred running around. But Fred always had a playful aura, what if he doesn't want kids or a family." I said.

"Don't think like that." She scowled. "Fred loves you dearly and would run off the ends of the earth if you asked. I think he just still wants to live out his young adult life before things start to become more serious. I know you too will get married."

"You're the best 'Mione." I hugged her.

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It had been 2 months since Ginny's wedding and the whole family was having an annual family Sunday dinner. For the past few weeks, Fred had been more secretive, leaving early in the morning and not returning until late at night.

"Has Fred been acting strange to you?" I asked George while we were setting the table.

"What!" He said way too quickly. "No, course not."

"Okay." I said narrowing my eyes at him not truly believing him.

As dinner went on, Fred was extra nervous than usual. As I went to place my hand on his thigh, he flinched slightly. Once we all finished dinner, I went back into the house with Hermione and Ginny, but as I got ready to return home, I couldn't find Fred.

"Where have you been?" Once I saw him walk back into the house.

"Fancy a walk." He smiled offering his hand. I reluctantly took his hand we started to walk into the field. We continued to walk for about 10 minutes more minutes. In the distance I saw a bunch of small white fairy lights dangling from the branch off the tree we carved our names into when we were 15.

"Fred what are we doing here?" I asked him. He grabbed my other hand, standing in front of me.

"You know much I love you right?" He said.

"Yes." I answered still confused about the situation.

In that moment, Fred released my hand and got down on one knee, and dung into his pocket to reveal a black velvet ring box.

"Oh my god!" I said through my hand as it covered my mouth.

"I know it took a while to ask you, but everyone time I look at you I see get nervous like how I was in 2nd year. Y/n you are the light of my life, the person who was always been there for me. Everyone time I look into your eyes, I can't help but fall in love all again. I was never the best with words around you, I wrote this in 7th year, trying to find the perfect words. But I always knew how much you hated the word perfect, and we are far from it. We're perfectly imperfect. I want to spend the rest of my life with you, I want us to have kids, have a family. So will you Y/n M/n L/n marry me."

"YES!" I wrapped my arms around his neck. He stood up and spinning me around. I heard a flash and turned around to see the rest of the Weasleys cheering.

"I believe this is yours." He opened the box to reveal the most beautiful ring I had ever soon.

"Oh Fred, this is beautiful." I gushed. He delicately took the ring out of the box and slid it onto my finger, it truly was beautiful.

"Fred, you put the ring on the middle finger, not the ring finger." I laughed once I saw the placement, on my middle finger.

"Oops, sorry. Like I said nervous." He laughed sliding it off and placing it on the correct finger.

"I love you Fred Weasley." I wrapped my arms around his neck.

"And I love you Y/n Weasley." He placed his arms around my waist and leaned down to kiss me. I could swore I heard fireworks burst into the air at that moment.

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