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“Hi, is this carriage taken?” A voice asked from the door of her carriage.
“No, you’re fine. Come in and have a seat,” Molly said.
“I’m Evan by the way. Evan Rosier,” Evan said, offering his hand for Molly to shake.
“Nice to meet you Evan, Molly Prewett at your service,” Molly introduced herself.
Evan smiled and sat across from Molly, “First year?”
“Yes, you?” Molly asked.
“Yeah, I’ve been so excited to come since I got my letter,” Evan said.
“Me too, it felt like it would never get here,” Molly replied, “My brothers have been at Hogwarts for two years and all of their stories had me wanting to get here quicker.”
“Brothers, plural?” Evan asked.
“Yeah, they are identical twins. Quite the mischief makers,” Molly said laughing.
“Tell me more,” Evan said.
Time seemed to go so slow for the rest of the train ride, they got ready into their robes ten minutes before arriving at Hogwarts.
They felt like they had been friends for years by the time they got onto the boats and traveled across the lake together.
The whole time they stood side by side eagerly waiting to be sorted.
Molly was first and went to Gryffindor and then her heart sank when Evan got sorted into Slytherin, she knew what would happen next.
Arthur Weasley bounded over to her and introduced himself as he thumped into the chair next to her. His mother had told him to befriend her as soon as he could.
Their mothers were in the Pureblood Witches Brigade together.
Molly tried to get Evan’s attention but he ignored her in favour of Lucius Malfoy.
She had lost her only friend she had ever had that didn’t just want to be her friend because their mother told them to.
xXx
Evan snuck around to the back of the library and waited for Molly to arrive. They had been at Hogwarts for five years now.
He knew his parents and her parents would never approve of their friendship and his friends hated her.
Molly had turned into a gorgeous girl over the years and he had a big crush on her but he would never admit it to anyone.
“Evan? Is that you?” Molly asked as he came around the corner.
“Yes, Mols. It’s me,” Evan responded, stepping out of the shadows.
“You know how you said you were nervous to have your first kiss?” Molly asked in greeting.
“Yeah?” He hesitated before answering.
“I have a solution, we get it over with together. Then we can stop with the nerves,” Molly said.
“You’re sure?” Evan asked.
“Yeah, I’ve thought about it and this is the only solution I can think of,” Molly said.
“Okay, when?” He asked.
“Now is as good as any other time,” Molly responded.
Evan nervously moistened his lips before leaning forward and kissing her.
As soon as their lips touched, something came over Molly and she pulled him closer, she couldn’t help it.
Pulling back after a few minutes— Evan smiled, “That was amazing.”
“Do you think it was enough though?” Molly asked.
“What do you mean?”
“Well when we kiss someone else we will want to be perfect won’t we?” Molly asked.
“Well I guess so?” Evan said, nervously.
“Then we should practice,” Molly suggested.
It didn’t take long for Evan to agree with the idea and they sat in their corner of the library practicing for another hour.
xXx
“I think I need more practice,” Evan said.
“Well we can’t do it in the library, Arthur said he knew where I sat. I can’t risk being caught,” Molly said.
“Well I can’t sneak into your Dormitory, you’ll have to come to the Dungeons,” Evan said.
“The Dungeons?” Molly repeated.
“Slytherin Common Room, they will all be out on the pitch. They won’t know you’re there,” Evan said.
Molly agreed and followed him in the shadows through the castle and down to the Slytherin Common Room.
When he said the password and dragged her in, she took a moment to look around. It wasn’t the Gryffindor Tower, but it was still cozy.
Lots of leather couches to relax in.
Evan dragged her to his room and over to his bed and drew the curtains around them. Pulling Molly into his lap, he brought their lips together.
But it felt different this time, something was more intimate about having Molly in his bedroom in his Common Room.
It wasn’t long before things changed completely and Molly began to strip his shirt off.
“Are you sure?” Evan asked.
“Yes, I want my first time to be with you,” Molly said.
“Me too,” Evan agreed.
After that he didn’t talk to her, they just came together and let themselves have one moment before reality set back in.
When they finished, Evan held Molly close to him and closed his eyes. Just for a minute, then he would help her sneak back out.
“Evan,” Molly whispered.
“Wha?” He mumbled.
“Someone’s coming!” Molly exclaimed.
“Shit,” he said, “Okay I’m going to change some features so they don’t know it’s you.”
Evan changed more than a few features on Mollys face and snuck her out.
This was getting dangerous.
Molly didn’t say a thing about the Dark Mark she had seen on his arm. She would rather be ignorant of what her best friend had become.
xXx
Evan finally admitted to Molly that this wasn’t just practicing for him anymore. He loved her.
“You’re an idiot, I love you too. I have for years,” Molly said in response to his confession.
They had been sneaking into the Slytherin Common Room for two years now, it was the only way to really guarantee that Arthur Weasley couldn’t find them.
He loved Molly as well, and she had to admit she had feelings for him as well. But not as strong as she felt for Evan.
They had just made love and Molly left him before anyone came back and discovered them. They had had too many close calls over the years.
Molly rushed into her Dormitory and lay down on her bed. As she lay there she thought of only one thing.
Her period. It was late.
Two months late to be exact.
Molly pulled her wand from her robes and pulled the curtains around her before casting the spell. What was she going to do?
She couldn’t be with Evan, he was a Death Eater and she had been recruited to join the Order of the Phoenix when she finished school in a month.
But she also wouldn’t even consider aborting the baby. This was their child.
Her best friend Pandora came into the Dormitory and pulled back her curtains, “You’re pregnant?”
“How do you always know?” Molly asked.
“I have my ways,” Pandora replied, “Now, listen, you go back to Evan and break up with him and then never speak to him again. I know it will be hard but it’s the only way this will work. Once you do that, you go to Arthur and tell him Evan had joined the other side and you could no longer be friends with him, with me?”
Molly nodded. She knew this was the only way.
“Then you get Arthur to ask you out and convince him you’re just as infatuated with him as he is you, I know you love him so it won’t be hard to convince him seeing as you’ve been flirting with him recently,” Pandora told her.
“Was I that obvious?” Molly asked.
“Yes, yes you were, now you have to either convince Arthur to sleep with you now or get married real quick,” Pandora said.
“He will know when I have a baby in seven months!” Molly exclaimed.
“You just say he was early, my father will give you a later due date if needed,” Pandora shrugged.
“You sure this will work?” Molly asked.
“I’ve seen it. It works,” Pandora said.
“Fine. I’ll start the plan after dinner tonight,” Molly said.
“I’ll be just around the corner for you,” Pandora said.
The girls lay there on Molly's bed for a few more hours and then walk down to dinner together.
Molly signalled Evan and they left the Great Hall and found a small alcove.
“I can’t be with you anymore, Evan,” Molly said bluntly.
“Why?” Evan said suspiciously.
“You know why,” Molly said looking down at the arm with the Dark Mark.
“But you’ve not said anything before now?” Evan said, confused.
“I’ve joined the Order,” Molly said, shrugging her shoulders. Acting as if this wasn’t breaking her heart.
“Oh,” Evan said.
Molly leant up and kissed him on the cheek before disappearing around the corner where Pandora was waiting for her.
The next day she would go to Arthur.
xXx
Molly couldn’t believe how easy it had been to slot into married life with Arthur. She did love him. But sometimes she missed Evan.
All she had to do on the hard days was to hold Bill and remember his father through his eyes.
She had convinced Arthur that he was premature when he was born earlier than her due date and it had all gone to plan.
Pandora came around and supported Molly on the bad days and reminded her why she had to do what she had to do.
Molly felt her and Arthur’s baby kick and felt sadness come over her for a minute before Arthur came and pulled her into an embrace and then she remembered the love she also felt for him and felt better.
It was all in aid to protect her and Bill.
No one could ever know.
xXx
Evan had been fighting against the Order for hours now and was absolutely exhausted but he knew if he stopped to rest for even a second he would be dead.
Coming around the corner he came face to face with one of Molly's children and hesitated for a second, he realised his mistake when a curse from someone else barely missed him.
Bringing his wand up in preparation for a duel he realised the boy had tried to cast a spell against him but his wand had pulled away and shot the curse to the side. There was only one reason Evan could think of for this happening and tested the theory for trying to cast his own curse against the boy.
When he felt a tug from his wand, he knew. This boy wasn’t just Molly’s child. This was his.
It was a spell his great grandfather had cast on the family that meant that no spell meaning harm against another member of the family would never touch the intended target if.
Evan was shocked that Molly had never told him that they had had a son but he understood why. She was in the Order and he was a Death Eater. Opposite sides of the war. Even back then.
He quickly ducked another curse from the witch by his son's face and turned direction to find Molly.
He had to tell her he knew.
When he found her down near the Slytherin Common Room defending the students hiding within— Evan stopped and looked at his only love.
He had never moved on from her and now he knew why.
“Evan?” She asked.
“It’s me Molly,” Evan responded, “Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Tell you what?” Molly asked.
“About our son?” Evan growled.
“It was for his protection, if anyone knew about our relationship they would think me a traitor,” Molly said, “I had to protect him.”
Evan understood that but still stared at her.
“How did you know anyway? No one else has noticed he looks different than Arthur,” Molly said.
“I just tried to cast a curse on him and it bounced off him. It’s a family spell,” Evan said.
Molly was about to respond when Evan was stunned from behind and ropes bound him.
Arthur stood behind him.
“Arthur!” Molly exclaimed. Nervous that he had heard more than she wanted him to.
“Are you okay?” He asked, “He was going to hurt you,”
Phew, Molly thought. He hadn’t heard their conversation.
“I was holding my own,” She lied and followed Arthur as he levitated Evan up to the holding room where he would wait to be transferred to Azkaban and hoped that they would go easy on him. She still loved him even if she could never admit that she loved him.
xXx
Molly sat shocked at the dining room table, on the paper in black and white showed Evan’s photo from when he was taken to Azkaban a few months ago.
‘Death Eater dead in cell’ Evan had been found dead.
Molly felt the tears well up in her eyes, she couldn’t believe that he was gone.
It was always a possibility that he would find out about Bill but now he had known for months and hadn’t said a thing. Now she could let her heart grieve him before forgetting their past together.
As she was crying for the man she loved and what his death meant that they were finally safe from discovery, Bill entered the dining room and pulled her into his arms offering comfort.
How did he know she needed him? Molly thought.
“I know you know?” Bill said to his mother.
“What do you mean that you know?” Molly questioned him.
“That he was my father,” he said gesturing with his chin the picture of Evan he showed her what he meant.
“How?”
“During the Battle of Hogwarts— there was a moment where our wands would not allow us to curse each other,” Bill said, “So I did research on this and there was a passage telling me about a family only spell. This meant he was my family.”
“Are you going to say anything?” Molly asked.
“No, even though he is dead and the war is over if anyone found out they would judge us.” Bill said, “I won’t be responsible for putting you in danger.”
“It was an accident, you know? But I knew I had to hide his involvement the first moment I knew I was pregnant with you,” Molly said explaining.
“How could you be with him?” He asked curiously.
“He wasn’t always like that, he was quite charming when he was younger,” Molly said.
“Can you tell me about him?” Bill asked.
“Of course,” Molly agreed.
They sat for an hour discussing Evan and what he was like with Molly.
Bill was exhausted by the end of it. But he was glad he had gotten to know what his father was like.
He was glad he still had Arthur to guide him though.