This was written for the Next-Gen Drabble Tag! Ellie (robb-starks) gave me this pairing, so she's the real inventor of this pairing, but I wrote the first story for them.

James & Daphne. Hot stuff.


hello, good morning

"Hey, hot stuff, get me another drink," someone yelled at James. It was a woman's voice, and he could hear of its thickness that she was either wearing a smug look or had just popped a mouthful of liquor.

Ah, but being at a wedding, it could be either. So he turned around to find out, making sure his eyebrows were suggestively raised.

"Why should I—," he began but he hesitated when he saw who had said it. "Mrs. Greengrass?"

"I'm not married, stupid," she said, and she pulled out a chair next to her. "Sit."

"What, why?" James asked, but he sat nevertheless. He had never before spoken to Daphne Greengrass, the…sister to his brother's spouse's mother. Phew, it was exhausting just thinking of how they were related.

"Why not?" she retorted. "I want to talk to someone, and you're handsome."

James felt himself blushing. "I—," he spluttered.

But the older woman interrupted him by suddenly looking up from her plate and shoving a spoonful of cake into his mouth. "Here, it's delicious."

James nearly choked. "What are you doing?" he asked when he had swallowed all of it (and thanked Merlin for not spitting it out on her).

She smiled and rose. "Sweetie, you never brought me that drink. I'll take a rain check for it. Tonight, you and me, it's a date."

And as she walked away, James cheeks burned. But he couldn't take his eyes off her swaying hips. Maybe he would actually go to that date.