Percy/Katie - 1
Percy examined the girl sleeping next to him. She looked completely at ease, curled up with the pillow and close to his side.
If someone would have told him in his Hogwarts years he was to be spending the rest of his life with loud, sarcastic, and energetic Katie Bell, he would have told them (very firmly, of course) to find a mental institution in which they could recieve the help they so obviously needed.
She was nothing like him, really. He liked the Ministry and order and rules, and she liked Quidditch (he suppressed a shudder – that was simply nonsensical danger) and the twins' shop, and she especially liked rule-breaking.
But if you thought about it a little bit more, you could see the small similarities the two had. She was light enough to sweep him off his feet – and he was simply heavy enough to hold her to the ground. Even the little things, things that really didn't matter – stuff like how they both liked English Breakfast, and loathed Orange Pekoe.
Katie shifted in his hold and pressed her head to his chest, still breathing evenly. Her hair was as big as she was, mussed and fanned out on the pillow.
Percy could hardly fathom it – this, and how much he'd grown to love this.
They met one night in Diagon Alley, after Katie had an argument with her mother and Percy was leaving after a stressful and rather long day of work at the Ministry. She ran into him, but fairly enough, they both weren't looking where they were going.
She had introduced herself, smiling brightly and brushing off her robes, before asking him to send her regards to George, who happened to be a school friend.
It was funny, that after four years of attending school together – in the same house, even – that the first words ever spoken to each other were those of apologies and of his brother.
He hadn't seen her for six months after that, when she Flooed the Ministry to inform her brother that his wife had gone into labour.
It was another six months – almost a year to the date that they ran into each other in the Alley – that he asked her out on a date. She stood there the whole time, while he stumbled over his words (he never really had much experience in this department, did he?) with a corner of her mouth quirking up, like she knew exactly what he was going to say.
The first date turned into two, three, four, until his family found out and while his elder brothers congradulated him on "little Perce finally finding a bird," George and Ron took the mickey out of him (you'd think being married to Angelina and Hermione would restrain them a little, but it seemed as though that was not the case).
They seemed like an unlikely pair – George started a bet on how long they would last, the longest bet being Charlie with a year.
When the day after their first anniversary hit, Percy sat stiffly in the chair to his desk and smirked slightly – it felt odd on his face, and Katie said it just didn't suit him, but he was proud. So very proud.
What was that Muggle thing his father was always talking about – elkeltricity, it was? Like charges repel. Opposite charges attract.
It couldn't have been more true.
a/n - Hogwarts Winter Olympics - Biathlon, sprint, Write All the Ships (Percy/Katie), One Million Words Competition, and Represent that Character. Word count: 570. A study break drabble for a pairing I was wanting to try. Thoughts?