Chapter Forty:

In the other room, the twin Weasley brothers open the wax seal on the folded sheets of paper. One is in dire need of the other's support and he knows it.

Dear George (and Fred because I know you are either there or somehow share his thoughts),

I first want to thank you for what you did for me all those years in school. If I had known one iota of it, I would have given you the chance back then and who knows what would have happened. I know that you probably think that I can't stand the sight or thought of you, but you are wrong. We have been friends far too long for me to let this bump ruin it. I don't know if you have heard from Ginny or Percy, knowing them they've kept their mouths shut and those of Ade and Audrey, though lets face facts, how Percy is able to I have no idea. I am now married and I am sure they are telling the rest of the family about my pregnancy. I will get back to that in a moment.

You know that I didn't want to come between your brothers and you. If there is one thing that we should have all learned from the war, it's how important family is. Yours learned that first hand when we thought Freddy was going to not make it after that wall came down. Don't hold their stupidity against them. Charlie and Bill still deserve your respect, if not just because they are your older brothers and have cool life risking jobs, then for the fact that they put up with your crazy butts for all those years. Bill has spent so many years with the older brother mantle on his shoulders; always being the good example, good grades, Head Boy, curse breaker, always a kind word; he is liable to crack under that much pressure. Smart as he is, he is entitled to some dumb moments. Lord knows I've had them. Believing Viktor for so long ranks up there with silencing Doloholv in the Department of Mysteries at the end of Fifth and dating Ron, Eww.

Now back to my marriage and impending motherhood. I married Marcus Flint. As with Adrian and even Draco, he has changed for the better. I am very happy and no he doesn't walk all over me. Like I would stand for that. We've been married for some time now. The party that Perce, Audrey, Ade and Gin attended was thrown by my parents and his father. It was basically a reception of sorts. We married over a month ago, which was a month after finding out that we were expecting. Before you ask, we were engaged before then.

This is where my writing to you comes in. Because of a quirk in my father's family, I am not only with child, but pregnant with triplets. My dad was a twin, but Uncle James died over seas while they were in the military. Dad can tell me some stuff, but I can only think of one pair that I want influencing my children, especially if it means a chance at having a shot of overcoming their father's inherent Slytherin genes. We need more Marauders and I know of only you, Sirius and Remus that can help me with that. Harry too, but he has so much of Lily in him that he is stunted.

So please say that you will take pity on your poor overworked sister and help instill the Marauder way of life into her children?

No matter what George, I have loved you and will always love you, but can only do so as this. Please accept it because I miss my family and two of my best friends.

Hermione.

George is in tears, but happily. She still wants to be around him and was never angry with him. He collapses into Fred's arms and sobs. Fred knowing that his brother is finally healing holds him through the passing storm. "Georgie, there is another letter. Let's read it." He whispers and the twins settle back in.

Weasleys,

I am writing to you to back up what Hermione has written. She was admittedly upset with you at first and was about to chuck the whole family aside from Percy, your parents and of course Ginny. I was the one, on our first date, that convinced her to give you a second shot. It didn't seem fair to me that you were so eager to go on the date with her and yet didn't get a chance to explain yourself. Ginny explained what happened the second time around. I am sorry man. I tried for you.

Having said that and admitting that I really only met her once in the years that we all spent in school together, I have to say that I fell hard when she came to work at the Ministry. I saw her the first day and had been trying to work on how to ask her out when the law was passed.

I cannot promise to be worthy of her, because I know I can never be such, but I can promise to never hurt her. I love her and our children. I still have a problem with your older brothers and whatever Ron is to you folks now, but as for you two, Ginny , Percy, Audrey and your parents, you are part of our family.

So as I know my lovely wife agrees, and by the way, I mentally think of her as Helen, given all of this, I would like to formally ask you and Fred to be our children's uncles and mentors. As Hermione says, we need more Marauders, though I have no idea who could measure up.

If you agree please press each of your wands to the spots below.

Your now brother in law.

Marc

George and Fred press their wands to the spots and Hermione's falcon Hugo flies in with tee shirts for them.

Unka Gred

Official Flint Mentor

and

Unka Forge

Official Flint Mentor

On the back of theirs was Team Babysitter.

The boys smirk and nod and don the shirts. George is still drying his eyes when they sit back down. Molly seeing the shirts smiles at the Flint couple's loving hearts. She and Arthur beam at the twins.

The older boys are sullen. Charlie is happy for Hermione and George, but it still stings that he was so close and threw it all away. Those triplets in her womb could have been his.

Bill is thinking the same thing. That could have been him. He could have been married and an expecting father by now if he had been less of an arse to Hermione.

A/N: We have reached the end of another story. I am sorry for the slow pace in posting. I hope that 2018 will allow me to post at a faster rate. I will still attempt to re-post All You Need is Family. I am in the process of finishing up typing and editing a few stories. One is a throwback to Jane Austen times with HHr. Another is a combo of HP and Grimm, which has been my newest obsession seeing as I do not have anything but antenna service and DVD Netflix. My wonderful husband was a peach and bought me the complete series on DVD for Christmas. So that is up and coming. I have a Beetlejuice story ready to post and a Viktor Krum/Hermione Granger story with a chapter or two to go. My George W./Hermione story is pretty close also. Thank you for hanging in there with me and my shoddy posting history. I appreciate all your loyalty and reviews. Thank you for your patronage.

Love ya,

Krys