A/N: To clarify, they've been together since the beginning of that 7th year, and it's about three years after the Battle of Hogwarts. (This is also my first fic about this ship, and I certainly like it more now that I've gotten to writing them.

This was written for the Pride Month Event at Hogwarts (Lesbian).

Ship: Lavender/Parvati

In one large, deep, breath, she pushed her legs forward just the tiniest bit more. They were almost done with this session - surely that meant she could go just a little further. The Healer was watching carefully, as if spells could not have simply solved all of the problems she was having. Even if she knew that was literally impossible - no healing for significantly damaged nerves and lungs had been figured out yet - there was always a hope.

"I'm done," she stumbled into the chair with more than a few curses echoing around her skull. There had to be a better way to do this. "I'm done."

"Good job, you kept up for longer than last time! Evidently, you are increasing in strength of the heart and lungs, Ms. Brown." Healer Cathy smiled, opening the door. "I'll be going to fix up some of your records and I'll be right back."

Leaning her head into her hands, she moaned slightly. If she had known that getting her chest basically torn apart and destroyed was going to have such backlashes, maybe she would have hesitated in trying to ever fight in that battle. The whiteness of the room was also starting to irritate her, the clean state of the exercise equipment was a little annoying: it practically sparkled. How much time did they spend on cleaning spells a week in here?
A soft presence by her head caused her to lift it a little. "Lav, honey?"

"Hey." She couldn't help the smile that crossed her lips as she let her hand slip into Parvati's much warmer, smoother fingers. "I'll be ready to move in a moment or two."

"I understand if you want to stay around here for a little longer…just to collect yourself."

She only nodded in a soft response, not sure how much more overstimulation she could take. Overstimulation in the form of being forced to work out, of course. The same questions repeated in her head as she thought about how she had never predicted the force it would take to run again. Damn it all if this meant she would never run normally again. Damn it all.

Cathy returned with the usual amounts of paperwork, waiting patiently for them to sign the two places on the thirty sheets of paper before nodding swiftly and leaving the room, off to do something else with some other patient no doubt. It was all becoming a routine of the mind, really.

"I'm...let's get going." She brushed a piece of hair out of her face and stood up with determination. Parvati was smiling at her in that cute way she did every time she felt flustered by actions Lavender made. Lavender loved those smiles.

"Alright, Lav. I was thinking we could go out to eat for dinner tonight, so I booked a reservation at The Moon Cafe," hand in hand, they exited the small room and nodded to those they passed on the way out as Parvati spoke, "So I hope you're okay with that."

She could not help the smile that crossed her face as she nodded ecstatically. No matter how tired she might've been from the work today, she was always ready to go out to eat.

"That would be great." Parvati squeezed her hand gently before they were forced to part by the sign out sheet being handed to them.

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The diner seats were soft, the tables cool to the touch, the silverware warmed from being freshly washed. Waiters and waitresses moved around the room with care. Lavender could never get tired of the way the whole place worked smoothly. It was probably her favorite wizard restaurant in the entirety of London.

They were sitting at a table that was certainly too large for the both of them to be the only ones having dinner, but she didn't comment. She didn't comment because Parvati was watching her with careful interest and intensity, a look that had been there throughout their entire relationship. A look that she still saw and it still made her satisfied.

"I hope your work went well today." The look disappeared while Parvati stated her thoughts.

"Yes, it was normal I guess. Nothing exciting happened at all. No brilliant prophecies were told today, my dear." Lavender sighed into the glass of water in front of her. "People simply expect me to have all of the answers these days."

"Well, for someone who was told she had the gift of Seer right after she survived the Battle of Hogwarts, you've been doing really well with the pressure. I'm not sure what they honestly expect from you these days. It's like everyone's watching and waiting for you to simply bust out into a prophecy, but is anything ever going to happen again after that …all of that mess? I doubt it."

"You're right." She looked around, but there were still no waiters or waitresses coming in their direction. Why were they waiting so long? Who were they waiting for?

Parvati reached across the table to take her hand, "Can I come sit down next to you?"

"Why? Parvati, hon, why are we sitting down at this really big table? Is something going on?" She let her girlfriend sit down next to her. She didn't want to sound worried, but she couldn't help nerves from entering her voice.

"I decided we'd have a night out with some other people for once. I understand we don't get out much...so I invited a few people out here tonight. They should be here soon. It was a random outing, really." Parvati made a direct glance at the clock that Lavender did not miss.

They sat in silence for a few minutes, mostly because Lavender was processing exactly what she had just heard. Parvati had gone out of her way to invite friends to see Lavender who she hadn't seen any of them in a really long time.

"Hello, hope we aren't too late?" Hannah Abbott of all people sat down, coming into view as if she had Apparated right to the spot. (Lavender wouldn't have been surprised if this was indeed the case.)

"Would be a shame if that were true," Padma too suddenly seemed to appear as if from nowhere, "I wanted to be on time for this."

"For...what?" Lavender looked at them, not able to help the smile that crossed her lips as they sat down. "Oh, I've missed you guys!"

"I've missed you too!" They each said, taking turns to shake hands and smile.

Once they were all settled down and comfortable, Lavender fluffed her hair and crossed her hands on the table.

"So, how's everything going with you two? Hannah first," she added hastily to make sure they didn't try to all talk at once.

"It's been fine. The job's not doing too badly. I've gotten promoted to assistant manager." Hannah said, in reference to her job at the Leaky Cauldron.

"That's great! And the love life, of course?" Parvati eagerly asked.

She softened her smile, "Great. It's nice. He's so different when it comes to romance; much less awkward. I mean, he's less awkward now that he's got that job, and he's doing well when it comes to understanding emotions."

"And Padma?"

"Well, I've been up and down, here and there. Everything's going normal, I guess, is really what I should say." The other gave a nod. "Still hanging around bars and clubs to find a man, but they'll all come soon. How about you two?"

Parvati took hold of the explanation of everything they had been doing, from their meager jobs to the work Lavender had been doing to get back in shape. Lavender couldn't break her eyes from her girlfriend as they sat there, watching the emotions pass over her face was adorable. Sometimes it was nice to sit in silence as the one you loved most spoke about everything she was passionate about. Sometimes passion was the best to listen to; it's pure quality was nothing alike any of the four of them seated at that table.

At some point Parvati was speaking about her: grabbing her hand, watching her, smiling at her. But Lavender couldn't have really been drawn in any further by the beautiful woman beside her. There was no breaking the zoned-out way she nodded and chuckled and giggled.

"...which is why I thought, yeah, this is a good idea." Parvati was suddenly moving, why was she moving? Lavender broke out of her trance.

"What are you doing? Par?"

"She has no clue what is going on, does she?" Padma laughed, and all Lavender could do was smile at her weakly before looking back at Parvati, who was standing now.

"Lav…" Parvati was getting more crouched, "I know this might seem a little instant. It's a little fast. I mean, not that fast, we've been together for 4 years. So… I thought, maybe we should...take another step. I mean, why wouldn't we? You know where your heart lies as much as I do."

She let out a little squeal of surprise and excitement as Parvati knelt down fully, still gripping her hand.

"So...Lavender Lorie Brown, will you marry me?" Parvati was smiling that beautiful smile -

"Yes!" She might've said it a little louder than intended, but that didn't matter.

The ring - oh, she hadn't seen it before because she'd been looking at that face - was beautiful. Golden, with a sapphire stone set in. There was a new glimmer to the deep brown eyes of her lover, and she couldn't help but be completely silent as the ring was set onto her fingers, and as Parvati rose to kiss her gently.

It wasn't until she was called back into the world by the sounds of clapping from the two others at the table, and some people from other neighboring tables, that Lavender found she could breath again.

"I don't - Parvati, I don't have a ring to match, what do I do?" She giggled, still holding the other girl in her arms.

"You can get one later." Parvati whispered into her ear as they stood there for a little longer, neither wanting to let the other go.

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"How does it feel to be sleeping next to your fiance?" Parvati whispered over her shoulder as they lay in bed that very same night. Lavender was still slightly shocked, still trying to wipe tears out of her eyes occasionally.

Overall, she was shocked. This was the greatest thing to have happened to her in a long, long time, maybe even only beating the day she'd started dating Parvati.

"Amazing. I love you…" she turned around in bed to face Parvati, smiling and wrapping her arms around the other's body.

"Love you too...can we spend the day like this tomorrow?"

"What, in bed? Yeah, sure, love. We don't need to do anything. It's Saturday, after all...will we be announcing this to anyone else?"

"Sure...love...we can do that sometime." Parvati smiled.

Lavender snuggled further into the other's arms, and settled in for the evening.