Young At Heart
Chapter 1-"'Moine"
The summer heat at number 12 Grumald place was hardly tolerable, luckily if you were in the house it was not quite as bad. The four teens of the house normally spent their days lounging around in the drawing room or swimming in the small pond out back. It was one of these times with which the story opens. Hermoine and Ron were lying on the bank of the pond, watching Ginny and Harry race across the pond.
"Come on Ginny!" Hermoine squealed delightfully, squeezing Ron's hand and leaning in to kiss him on the cheek. He smiled and turned to his girlfriend, "What do you say we get out of here?" He asked, raising his eyebrows suggestively. Hermoine rolled her eyes, as she always does when Ron is being a randy prick, and brushed it off trying not to let it bother her.
Ron on the other hand was serious, and rather put off that Hermoine had not yet "given into his charm" so to speak. He lay back down on the warm sand and stared up at the clouds, reassuring himself that she'd be his eventually.
Hermoine stood up and slipped off her jean shorts, reveling a cute pink and white retro swimming bottom. She waded into the pool, complaining about how cold it was, before forgetting how much she cared and just diving in.
As she surfaced in the middle of the pond she saw Remus walking toward them, she ducked under, and swam back toward shore with the other two teens.
All four kids sat on the bank while Remus shared his good news, "Hey guys, I just thought you all should be the first to know, Doumbledore asked me to come back to work. He wants more people from the Order to protect the school, after the recent sighting of Voldimort." Everyone but Harry flinched at the name, Remus smiled, "Everyone except Hermoine will have me I think. Guess you Lucked out 'Moine." He laughed as he used her childish nickname that Harry had gotten socked earlier that day for using, but she blushed when Remus used it.
"Nah, I'm kinda sad I won't have you fabulous teaching skills at my disposal." She responded, by now Ron Harry and Ginny had waded back into the water and started a game of splash, which was a little too childish for Hermoine.
"Well you can always stop by my Office… Just to chat." Remus said, winking ever so slightly, then he turned abruptly and walked back to the house ready to share his news with the rest of the house.
Hermoine was slightly thrown off her hinges by his wink, which she wasn't even sure if he meant it for her or not. She tried to shrug it off, and swam over to the small island in the middle of the pond where her friends were.
They all laid on the sand and talked, "I'm so glad Remus is coming back, it'll be weird to call him Professor though." Ginny laughed, turning to face Harry, who had spoken. "I'm sure he won't mind when it's just us." She responded, trying not to notice how her brother was touching Hermoine.
And failing miserably, "Ron will you get your grimy hands off my friend, I don't want to watch you groping her right in front of me!"
Hermoine was secretly glad Ginny had stopped Ron before he'd gone farther, she was so sick of him always trying to get in her pants, but she thought that if she said no he'd be upset…
"Oh Bugger off Ginny!" Ron yelled back, but Hermoine had dived into the water before he could get to her again. He frowned and watched as she got out on the other bank, "I'm gonna go dry off!" she called back, grabbing her shorts and hurrying off towards the house.
She walked into the kitchen, which was overly cold. "Someone's cooling charm is a little off…" She said, shivering. Molly Weasley turned to her, a frying pan in her hand, and smiled. Seated at the table were Bill and Sirius, apparently in a deep conversation about goblins. Remus sat to the side, hardly interested, and he looked tired. As Hermoine walked in however his head perked up and he smiled at her, laughing at her joke.
Hermoine pulled on her shorts over her wet swimsuit bottom and sat down next to him, Molly turned to her. "So tell me again why you won't be in Remus' class this year?" She said halfway joking. Hermoine took an apple from the pile in the middle of the table and said, "I have too many classes as it is, and they won't give me a time turner this year. I'm sorry Remus, I really wish I could. Maybe you could give me lessons after class." She winked at him, as he had her. Causing him to take notice where the others didn't. She stood quickly and hurried out the swinging door towards her room to take a warm shower and change for dinner.
Remus got up and walked to the drawing room across the hallway, thinking lightly about Hermoine, and wondering what her wink had meant. He shook his head and sunk into a large chair, staring at the charred and empty fireplace.
That night all ten people crowded around the magically enlarged table for dinner, Harry, Ron, Ginny, Hermoine, Molly, Author, Bill, Remus, Moody and Sirius. Before them was a large display of many different foods, meats, jellies and delights.
"To what do we owe this feast Molly?" Sirius asked laughing at the huge mountain of food. Molly smiled and said, "To Remus' reinstatement as Defense against the dark arts Teacher at Hogwarts this year. I thought it was worth celebrating." She laughed, passing the potatoes around and beginning the feast.
The conversation was light and merry, keeping everyone in good spirits. Ron kept Hermoine preoccupied so she hardly had time to glance at Remus, who kept staring at her. His mind was still wondering about her suggestive wink.
Slowly the meal dwindled and people began to retire to their rooms, stuffed and slightly tipsy from the mead. Soon all that was left was Harry, Ron, Hermoine, Remus and Sirius. The two elders were only slightly buzzed and Harry was finding it very amusing to bother with them. Ron was still absorbing Hermoine's attention, much to her dismay.
"… Hermoine are you listening to me?" Ron called, he had been going off about the quidditch world cup in Romania this year and Hermoine had been staring at Remus, wondering how he got his hair so perfectly mussed yet hot.
Hermoine turned back to Ron and nodded, pretending to follow his conversation. "Hermoine if your not going to even listen to me then I'll just go to bed." He said, standing up, waiting for her to stop him. Which she didn't. He looked upset and stormed off upstairs, muttering about girlfriends and their problems.
Hermoine sighed and laid her head down on the table, drawing the attention of the other three males sitting near her.
"You should be nicer to him." Harry said, defending his best mate. Hermoine sat up and glared at Harry. "I'll be nicer to him when he stops trying to feel me up under the table during dinner!" she screamed, standing up and running out of the room. Remus could clearly see her eyes welling up with tears.
He turned to Harry and said, "Well that was nice of you." Before getting up and leaving himself. Sirius looked from Harry to the door and said, "What's wrong with all of them?" In a confused tone. Harry shook his head and grabbed exploding snap from the drawer, offering a game to Sirius.
Welcome to the Young At Heart story, i've written this out to be a long story, with a twist or two. If you like Remus/Hermy ships then you'll be good to go :P
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