Nolita Fairytale (Harry and Fred)

[Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette]

Lisa had decided that she was going to drag Fred out into London proper to look at baby things with her that day, one of the odd days that they had off together. She wasn't looking at clothes yet seriously because they really weren't sure what the baby's gender was (though they both thought it would be a girl), but other things still needed to be looked at.

Well...that was most of the reason she'd brought him with.

Honestly, Lisa was starting to feel more and more uncomfortable when she went out alone. She was a foreigner and a muggle-born, so she always felt uneasy in Diagon Alley. She was sure that she'd have to run soon; she just wasn't sure when. She hoped that it was a while off, or that she was wrong. She just got the feeling that she wasn't.

She decided to brush this all off for the day and make the most of what time she had before she had to go into hiding. Which is why she and Fred were currently on the way to look at a crib that a friend of hers in London was giving away. Lisa's friend had a baby a few years before, and now that baby had outgrown its crib. The friend, Amélie, had dropped by the day before to offer the crib to Lisa and Fred.

"She said she lives this way," Lisa commented, humming softly as they turned down a street.

[Fred Fabian Weasley]

Fred was so excited today, he was nearly skipping down Diagon Alley he was so excited. Lisa's friend offered a crib to them, and getting a crib really made this father thing seem so much more real than before. Fred was the guy who was so excited for a baby, but unprepared for all the work the baby would be, but he was happy about it anyways. He didn't even care how much work their Lisette, or Elvendork would be. Wait, didn't Lisa deny Elvendork? Darn. Oh well, he could joke around with it in his head anyways.

Elvendork(since she was inside of Lisa), Lisa and he were walking down the street, even though as previously stated Fred was nearly bouncing down the street, Harry Potter came slowly walkind down the street, disguised and under a cloak, just in case someone saw him, as these were dangerous times.

"Fred?" Harry couldn't help but ask, not knowing who the girl next to him said, "What are you doing here?" He couldn't help but think the woman might have taken Fred captive and was forcing him to go with her somewhere. Harry was quite the pessimist, always expecting the worst. Then again, Fred couldn't tell who he was, so why would he answer?

"Is that you, Harry?" Fred asked curiously stopping in his tracks looking at the hooded person, "I think the better question is why you are here."

"It's a secret," Harry hastily replied, before looking at Lisa with a smile, revealing his face a bit, though not taking off the hood, "I suppose this is a friend? Er... I'm Harry."


((My muse is being rude to me just about now, Tristan, Fred, and Harry's muses seem to be dying...))

[Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette]

Lisa couldn't help but laugh a little at Fred's excited bouncing. He could be kind of hyper sometimes, but she thought that it was kind of cute. Amélie thought that it was weird, but Amélie herself was weird, so how could she judge anyone else's weirdness?

She froze and turned hesitantly to look at the cloaked person that had addressed Fred. She always got nervous when she saw someone in a cloak, for very obvious reasons. Fred seemed to know him, though, so she relaxed.

When the boy introduced himself, Lisa smiled. Fred had mentioned his brother being friends with Harry Potter, and it would make sense for Harry to travel in a cloak. Times were very dangerous, after all.

"It's nice to meet you! I'm Lisa," she explained.

She met Fred's eyes with a little smile.

"Oui...I'm a friend of Fred's of a sort," she agreed.

[Fred Fabian Weasley]

Fred wanted to just shout out to Harry about how he was going to be a father and how he was so excited for it. However, he held in his excitement, at least for now.

"Hey, hey!" Fred whispered in excitement, "Guess who's going to be a father?" Oh Harry would be so excited for him! He was just oozing with excitement. Wait, wasn't he supposed to ask a question only Harry could answer? He always forgot about that. Better late then never! "Oh, and what are the magic words George and I taught you in your third year?"

Harry didn't understand Fred's excitement. What was up with him? Asking him about who would be a father? Fred surely wasn't... or was he? That would be fantastic! And dangerous in the current conditions, but fantastic! "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," Harry replied to Fred's question, "Are you going to be a father?"

"YES!" Fred nearly shouted before calming down a bit from his outburst of happiness at becoming a father, "And here is little Elvendork's mother!" He present Anelisa who had introduced herself a second ago.

"That's great!" Harry replied in a hushed voice, "So, I guess you two aren't just friends?" He shot Anelisa a smile, "How did he convince you to name the child Elvendork?"

[Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette]

"'E didn't!" she protested softly, French accent becoming more pronouced like it did whenever she tried to whisper. "I will not, under any circumstances, name mon bébé Elvendork! Ze name zat we actually decided on is Lisette."

She returned Harry's smile wryly. He seemed like a nice enough boy; Fred and George had been speaking about him in letters for years. Thankfully, he seemed to have a sense of humor. Lisa's usual shyness would have kicked in otherwise, and she would have taken shelter behind Fred.

"Oui, we're a little more zan friends," she confirmed with a soft laugh.

[Fred Fabian Weasley]

"It's just a matter of time until I convince her otherwise!" Fred whispered to Harry with a wide grin across his face. He was of course just joking about it. Only Andromeda would think of naming her child Elvendork, or something like that. Fred wasn't going to make their child suffer by having the name Elvendork, even if it was unisex so it would work for a girl or a boy.

"I guess Fred takes after Bill," Harry noted quietly hearing her French accent that reminded him of Fleur, "Sorry," he realized how insensitive that could sound, "I was just noting how both Fred and Bill had French girls as their girlfriend or wife. Just you wait until Charlie comes home with another French girl." It was so odd how all the elder Weasley boys, excluding the prat Percy, had foreign girlfriends, or in Bill's case, wife. Bill had Fleur, Fred had Anelisa, and George had the Italian beauty Angelina. Now all that was needed was Charlie, Percy, Ron, and Ginny to marry a non-English person (which would be sad if Ginny did, as he loved her dearly), and then all the Weasley kids would take after each other.

"If you don't mind, I can walk with you two where ever you are going," Harry commented feeling weird just standing there.

[Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette]

"It will never 'appen," she inserted.

He was just joking, thank God. Amelie had thought that he was being serious the first time that he mentioned Elvendork as a possible name. Lisa had been worried that her friend would slap Fred.

"Oh, oui? Zat's right; Bill married Fleur," she recalled. "And George is dating Pyre."

She would always call Angelina della'Rosa Pyre; it was the name that the little Italian had been called when Lisa met her. Everyone in England seemed to call Pyre Angelina, though. Lisa supposed that they probably liked the name better; she could understand why.

"Amelie shouldn't mind," she spoke up.

[Fred Fabian Weasley]

"She's just in denial," Fred commented quietly to Harry with a snicker.

Harry could tell that Fred was joking, and it was fairly funny at the same time. "But the name Elvendork would be a fine addition to your family. Fred, Lisa, and their little son or daughter Elvendork!" Harry insisted, actually going along with the joke. It wasn't very often that in these times one like Harry could actually joke around and have fun.

"Pyre? You mean Angelina?" Harry asked, either that or George was a cheater, and George wasn't like that.

"That's good... I don't think it's safe just standing here," Harry noted.

[Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette]

"Ha! Fine addition! Name your eldest child Elvendork, zen, 'Arry Potter," she scoffed, sticking her tongue out at the teenager with a laugh.

She realized that Harry didn't realize that Pyre's birth name wasn't Angelina and couldn't help but laugh. She'd thought that the girl would've told someone that she considered a friend, but Pyre could be occasionally scatter-brained; she'd probably forgotten.

"Angelina is 'er baptized name," she explained. "Pyre is ze name she went by before being batpized."

She waved Harry on his way with a smile.

"Zen let's go," she suggested. "Amelie is very impatient."

[Fred Fabian Weasley]

"No, no, no, that's for you two to use. I wouldn't want to steal such a fantastic name," Harry joked holding up his hands like he was surrendering. It was all a joke, but it was still quite funny. Of course he wouldn't name his child Elvendork... if he lived to be a father, that is. How did such negativity slip in so fast in such a fun moment? Such a pessimist.

"I thought Georgie told you..." Fred thought aloud though still smiling. Harry better not have thought George was cheating on Angelina. Those two loved each other very much, just like him and Lisa did.

"No, he didn't. I didn't know that... But I suppose it was because I was busy with other things," Harry replied feeling a bit left out of the loop. But why should he know everything? He was very busy as it was, and knowing something so unimportant didn't matter.

Harry nodded and began walking. At least he could relax a bit... if Death Eater didn't rain in on their parade.

[Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette]

"You're only saying that because you don't like the name either," she accused, speaking in a more normal tone and therefore with a lighter accent than she usually did.

She shrugged it off when Harry told them that he hadn't been told that she went by Pyre. It really wasn't that important; Pyre would answer to either of her names. She probably liked being called Angelina better, anyway; she'd always complained that Pyre was a creepy name. When it was taken into consideration that the girl's name translated to Pyre of the Rose, it made a lot of sense.

"Amelie is going to give us her crib," she explained conversationally as they walked. "I'm sure that she'll be happy to meet you."

[Fred Fabian Weasley]

"Liar!" Harry replied, "It is a lovely name!"

"Thank you!" Fred laughed, "See he loves it!" Harry really hoped that Fred realized he was joking. Otherwise there would be a lot of explaining to do. Perhaps when they had the child, he could tease later about the name Elvendork and tell the boy or girl how her father was so bent on calling him/her Elvendork. It would make a funny conversation at least. If he survived that long. He really needed to stop doing that.

"That's very nice of her," Harry noted with a smile, "Er, well if she doesn't mind me being on the run and all." He was still suspicious of those around them, but there were not very many, so it didn't bother him so much.

[Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette]

"The English are tasteless," she retorted. "Everyone outside of the British Isles knows that."

She leveled Harry with one of the deadpan "I-know-what-you're-thinking-now-knock-it-off" looks that she'd perfected on Fred and George. After a moment, she smiled a little and returned her eyes to staring ahead of herself.

"I'm sure that she won't mind," she responded evenly. "She doesn't mind being seen with me, and I'm a muggle-born."

[Fred Fabian Weasley]

"You're so mean to me!" Fred said jokingly with a sniff as if it hurt his feelings. Harry sighed before smiling at Lisa. He saw Lisa's look and nodded ever so slightly knowing what she meant. "Aren't you even going to say something to defend me Harry?" Fred looked at Harry with puppy dog eyes causing Harry to laugh slightly.

"She's right," Harry replied, "We are tasteless in a lot of things. Though, in woman, we do pick fairly well." Fred chose a good girl. Harry knew his girl was desirable from the boyfriends she had before him. And George picked a fairly good girl, who was quite a fun person to be around. Though Harry could tell there was something else behind her cheery attitude.

"You are?" Harry asked, "And you're not on the run yet? At least she doesn't seem to support You-Know-Who." Either that or she's milking information from Lisa about others, but Harry doubted that.

[Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette]

"Oh, je taime," she sighed jokingly, smiling a little at Fred and giving him a quick one-armed hug. "Even if you are tasteless."

She laughed at Harry's remark about the British having good taste in women. Certainly, the Weasleys and Harry seemed to . She got the distinct feeling that Harry realized that Pyre was not the happy person that she pretended to be, though, at least not entirely.

"Hell yes, they have good taste in women!" she agreed with a laugh. "This is obvious, non?"

She again shrugged off his question about her blood status. It had not yet been a problem.

"I have nowhere to go," she replied calmly. "My homeland is France; my parents would not accept me were I to come home. I can only hope to duck my head and avoid notice."