Charlie did a double take as he watched the brunette walk by. If he wasn't happily married he would have stopped her with a "Have I seen you around here before?" and a laugh. There was just something about her. He shook his head and finished paying for the books his wife had sent him to get and went along his way. He was almost to the restaurant where they were meeting for lunch when he thought he heard someone yelling his name down the street.

"Charlie Weasley?!"

That was definitely his name. He stopped and turned to see the brunette from the bookshop running across the street towards him. She grabbed him around the waist in a giant hug, before backing away and smiling up at him.

He stood there shocked until he felt a hand take his large one. He looked down and smiled at his wife who was looking at the woman in front of him.

"You are Charlie Weasley, aren't you? If not I am so sorry! I really didn't mean to attack a stranger in the middle of the street!"

"Katie?"

"Bingo, Charlie."

His eyes lit up as he grabbed the witch in front of him into a hug. "I can't believe it's you! What are you doing here in Romania? Last I heard you were in the states with your brother."

Katie laughed as Charlie sat her back down onto her feet. "I haven't been in the states for 6 years. Didn't Ginny or George tell you?"

"You've seen Ginny and George? I had no idea you still kept in contact with any of us."

She smiled sadly, "Of course, I have Charlie. I loved all of you. You were the one who got to busy with his dragons to return my letters."

A hand on Charlie's arm startled him, "Love, I'm so sorry." He said looking down at his wife. "Katie, this is my wife Hermione, Mya this is Katie."

"It's nice to meet you, Hermione; I've heard wonderful things about you. I went to Hogwarts with Bill and Charlie."

Hermione smiled, "Would you like to join us for lunch?"

"I'd hate to intrude on your day out."

"Nonsense, Katie, we'd love it if you would join us."

Charlie grinned as he followed Hermione and Katie into the restaurant. When she had left them ten years ago he had thought she would be back within a few weeks. Those weeks had turned to months, then those months into years. Ten years. It had been ten years since he found his older brother broken and alone crying at his son's grave. He should hate her. He should want to walk past her and pretend she didn't exist but he couldn't. She had been hurting too. She had lost her child. He shook his head free from the depressing memories as his wife sought out his eyes with her own and smiled at him. This was Katie, his one time best friend, and he was glad she was back in his life.

They sat there nursing their coffees after they had eaten. Charlie hadn't spoken much during dinner. His Mya and Katie had monopolized the conversation for the entire meal. They were both workaholics not because they had nothing else to do but because they both loved their jobs. Hermione's laughter pulled Charlie back into the conversation. "He didn't?"

Katie was laughing so hard she could answer.

"Charlie, how could you do that? That's awful."

"What?"

"I was just telling Hermione here about the time you turned Ron into a canary."

"That was an accident!"

The two women laughed at him as he huffed and got up to pay the check. "It was nice to meet you, Katie. I'm glad we ran in to you today."

"So am I Hermione. It was nice to see one, well I guess two Weasley's, before I jump into the whole crowd of them next weekend."

"Next weekend?"

"Yeah, Ginny's guilting me into being in her wedding party. I'm meeting her in London to meet the rest of the bridal party and to go shopping for dresses."

"Thank heavens." Hermione laughed at the expression on Katie's face. "I love Ginny, but the other girls coming dress shopping drive me insane."

Hermione rounded on Charlie as soon as they entered their house. "All right Charlie Weasley, who was that? And I want details, she is much more than someone you and Bill went to Hogwarts with."

Charlie sighed as he motioned for her to sit on the couch. "Wait here." He returned to the room a few minutes later holding an envelope, dumping the contents out onto the coffee table. Hermione reached forward and grabbed the photos that had fallen out. Charlie knew exactly which ones she was looking at by the reactions running across her face. The first one had been of the Gryffindor Quidditch team his fifth year. He, Bill, and Katie were playfully pushing and shoving each other to be seen waving up out of the picture. The next was from his sixth year, the Halloween Ball. Katie and Bill were dancing in the hallway, one of the enchanted cameras had followed them unnoticed when they escaped from the hallway. The two were barely swaying back and forth, Katie leaned her ahead against his chest as Bill buried his face in the top of her head.

"They look so in love." She said, looking up at Charlie. He couldn't speak, he hadn't looked at these pictures in years and they were bringing up memories he thought he had forgotten about. He gestured for her to continue looking through the pictures, as he leaned forward and gathered a few letters from the table.

The next picture was obviously taken in the backyard at the Burrow. This picture was older than the first two she had seen, Bill and Katie were sitting in the porch swing, a very small Ginny Weasley curled up in Bill's lap, sound asleep. "When was this one taken?"

Charlie reached over and took the picture from her. "I'm surprised you haven't seen this one before, Ginny has a copy of it. She must have been seven, it was the first time Katie came over to spend part of the summer with us." Hermione smiled as she looked at the seven year old version of her sleeping best friend. She looked so small and innocent.

"Why do you keep these pictures stowed away in an envelope?" She asked as she picked up one of the three of them.

Charlie plucked the pictures from her hand and flipped through them until he found the one that would answer all of her questions. He heard Hermione gasp but he was too locked away in his own mind to react to her. He didn't need the pictures to remember his time at Hogwarts and the years after, especially this memory.

Bill was pacing back and forth through the hallway. He had been kicked from the room ten minutes ago but could still hear her screaming through the walls. "Charlie, it's too soon. This shouldn't be happening yet. What if something goes wrong? Charlie what if something happens to her? What if something happens to either one of them? I can't handle that Charlie. Where is her family? They should have been here by now."

Charlie was just as worried as his brother, even if his casual demeanor didn't portray it. He had been called out of his Potions classroom by the head of his class and she had sent him straight to St. Mungo's. "Bill calm down, everything is going to be okay. You'll see. As soon as they've examined her they'll let you back in."

"How do you know that?"

Charlie rolled his eyes at his brother. "Because that's what they said when they told you to wait out here with me."

Ten hours later, a haggard looking Bill stumbled out in to the hallway. Charlie ran over to him. "She's okay, but he's so small." He paused, a giant smile taking up his face. "Charlie, she wants to see you, wants to introduce you to your godson."

Charlie didn't realize he was crying until he felt her small hands wiping the tears from his face. "Love, what happened?"

"When he was three months old he caught a virus, it was a variant of Dragon Pox's, it's always a dangerous disease in small children and since he was premature he was even more susceptible and he just couldn't fight it off. After he died Katie and Bill were devastated, she called off the wedding and then a few days later she left. Today was the first time I've seen her since then."

"What about Bill?"

"He hasn't seen or talked about her since that day."

"Until next week."

"Excuse me?"

"She's going back to England next week. She's in Ginny's wedding."