The Jokers Love

I am a horrible authoress leaving you guys without an update for two weeks. Forgive me please *brings out cookies and brownies*. Anyway here is the long awaited chapter five and chapter six will be updated today as well.

Hermione went back to work and saw the twins waiting for her in the back room.

“Hello, Hermione”, started Fred

“We wanted to let you know-“, said George.

“That you can leave two hours early today”, Fred finished.

Hermione stared at them in wonder. She wasn’t sure why she would need to leave two hours early. She thought about it for a second and then realized that they thought she would need those two hours to get ready to get. She chuckled a little catching their attention.

“Boys, I don’t need two hours to get ready to go clubbing. I have spells that help me do that in twenty minutes. Let’s meet at the club at eight and I’ll leave at the normal time.”

The twins looked at each other. Fred had planned on picking her up and taking her there via side-along. But apparently his dreams were going to be crushed.

“Okay, Hermione we’ll let you get back to work”, Fred said.

“Thanks boys.”

Fred and George walked back out into the main shop to start working the floors. Fred was utterly dejected now because Hermione came up with a plan that prevented him from holding her close.

George watched Fred as they walked out of the backroom. He seemed really upset about not picking her up. He knew why of course. They weren’t twins for nothing. They couldn’t feel the others emotions but it was close enough. They knew each other well enough to know when the other was feeling a certain emotion. George knew that Fred was crushing on Hermione. But it wasn’t just a crush, not really anyway. It was more of an unrequited love.

He called it an unrequited love because he wasn’t sure how Hermione felt about his twin. He felt like she returned those feelings but it could just be that she was grateful to him for giving her this job. He wanted her to like his twin the way he liked her but he wasn’t completely sure.

Hermione couldn’t believe that she said she would meet them there. That was not what she had meant to say at all. She realized that she did it because she wanted to keep her address private. No one knew exactly where she lived only that owls could find it. She knew some of her friends had placed tracking spells on owls but the words around the house destroyed them before they could pin point an exact location. Fred was the one person that had gotten really close to finding her and it was worrisome. She was really firm on making sure no one found her house.

She went over the conversation in her head and quickly debated. She came to a decision and went to find one of the twins. As it turned out she found Fred first and asked for a quick word.

“What’s up, ‘Mione?”

“I was wondering if I could get those two hours to get ready. I remembered I agreed to let Ginny get me all dolled up for tonight.”

“I will give those two hours on one condition.”

Hermione groaned inwardly. “What condition?”

“You have to let me pick you up.”

Hermione sat there and tried to figure out if keeping her promise to Ginny was worth telling Fred where she lived.

“Fine but you have to swear on your magic to not tell anyone where I live, including George.”

Fred was confused. Why is she going through that much trouble to protect her residence? She obviously had left over trauma from when she was with Ronald. Although she didn’t talk about it he knew Ron had abused her. He didn’t care that it wasn’t always physically. It had happened and that’s all that mattered to him.

“I’ll do it”, he said quickly and forcefully. “I swear on my magic that I, Fred Weasley, will not share the address of Hermione Granger’s home to anyone including my brother, George Weasley.”

Hermione was stunned yet pleased.

“Alright then Freddy, the address is 10 Florence Barkley Close. I’ll apparate you with me when I leave to get ready.”

“Thanks Hermione, this means a lot to me.”

With that final statement they walked away from each other.

10 Florence Barkley Close is a real address in England but it is not in London. It is a "muggle" area in Norfolk