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author: listeningtosilenceandmemories
pairing: seamushermione
prompt: tingle
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Not many people go back to Hogwarts to finish their seventh year, but she does- not that that's a surprise- and so does he- and she really didn't expect him to, but Seamus has always been full of surprises.
She's a little irritated when she gets paired with him for her charms assignment, because isn't he the one who's always blowing stuff up? But after a while of working him she gets to know him and she's not so irritated anymore, because, all pyromaniac tendencies aside, he really is a hard worker.
And then after a while longer she realises that he's become one of her best friends and even though she's not really sure when exactly that happened, she's glad, because Harry and Ron hadn't come back with her and she'd been a little bit lacking in the friend department.
And one day, after several meetings in the library to make this charms assignment as good as possible, their hands meet and she feels a sort of tingle, almost as if she has feelings for him- which is ridiculous because she's withRon,even if she hasn't had a chance to see him for over a month (the hogsmead visits always seem to land just when one or both of them are too busy).
And she can deny that tingling feeling that she had felt but she can't exactly deny just how bright red she went when he smiled his impish, adorable half-smile at her.
And so she goes on pretending that she doesn't have any feelings for him, because, after all, she's with Ron and she loves Ron and that's all there is to it.
But the thing is, Ron's getting a little boring, a little predictable and she thinks that maybe she knows him a little too well because there's no surprises, and she's always loved surprises. Besides, it's hard to maintain a relationship with someone who hardly ever even owls you. But Seamus, Seamus is interesting and exotic and sweet and ohso funny and full of surprises, and she knows she shouldn't be thinking like that but she does anyway.
She goes to the Burrow for Christmas break and she sees Ron and it's ohso wonderful and the sparks fly and she's still in love with him- or, at least, she thinks she is- but she can't help but think of Seamus, and the ridiculously long (and funny and sweet) owls that he send her every other day really aren't helping with that, especially when she compares them to the not-even-once-a-week letters she got from Ron.
When she goes back to school she's met with the realisation that they only have two weeks left to finish their charm project and so they work harder than ever, even though it's already practically perfect, and she almost doesn't want it to come to an end because oh, how she'll miss their regular evening meetings in the library.
Much too quickly it comes to their last meeting together and when it's over, she can't help but be a little sad, because though she knows that they'll get an 'O' at the very least, she's scared that he won't want to talk to her again after this.
She's startled when he grabs her shoulder, and then he spins her around to face him and then he's kissing her and her lips are tingling and it feels good and even though it's wrong, so, so wrong (she's with Ron, she loves Ron,right?) she doesn't pull away because, well, he's Seamus and he's always been full of surprises.
