Title: True Love's Desire
Author: Snarky Granger
Summary: Stood up by Ron on their Anniversary for a Quidditch match, Hermione decided to take George out on a night for flirty fun of dinner and dancing. Emotions run high. Surprises await for the couple. How will the evening end for Hermione?
Author's Note: I would like to thank my alpha and beta for working with me through this whole process. I had fun writing this prompt with the multiple plot bunnies and my muse running away with it. Hope this meets the prompter's request.
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters or the music that I list throughout the fic. They belong to JKR and the musicians of the songs. Thanks. I had a blast picking the music for this chapter… you will see why as you read along… hehehehe…
Chapter 7
While Seamus was checking on George and Hermione, Dean spun tunes for his lover. He caught a sight of something abstentious and really hoped that Hermione didn't see them. What did he see?
Ron grinding on the dance floor with Cho Chang and their outfits were atrocious. He shook his head at them and decided that he better get backup in here before the other three came back down. He had to think it would be soon since they have been gone for fifteen minutes.
He pulled out a medium sized goblin made silver coin that had a black etching of a howling wolf on the one side. He had about a dozen of them made with his being the master. He asked Hermione to put the Protean Charm on them after he received them. She thought it was brilliant considering that Patronus wasn't feasible for a noisy club. He quickly sent a message, 'DD-see me at the DJ station. DT.'
As he waited for Dudley, he continued to watch the other couple. He honestly couldn't miss them in their bright orange outfits. Cho Chang wearing a classic mesh tube dress and it wouldn't surprise him if she had on a pair of G-string panties that matched. He hoped that he never found out because the dress looked like it came out of a skank shop with it being bright orange.
He groaned in distaste and disbelief when he remembered that Ron loved that color during their time together at Hogwarts. He gave Ron a quick look over and shook his head at the obscene outfit. It was obvious that Cho changed it for him to wear. Ron had on a pair of skintight orange leather pants with an orange silk short sleeved shirt that showed off his physique. Dean normally would have loved that outfit but he was repulsed instead with it clashing badly with his orange-red hair.
"Hey Boss, I have been waiting for the signal to see you," declared Dudley. Dean looked at him in surprised, which made Dud chuckle. "We figured that there was going to be trouble after Ron and his 'date' showed up. The girls talked about their well-known fights while in school."
Dean snorted, "No kidding."
"Do you think we will need Milly if Cho decides to interfere?" asked Dudley.
Dean pondered the thought and quickly sent a message to her as well. "Good idea, Big D," praised Dean.
"Those two never got along at Hogwarts so I hate to see what is going to happen when Hermione sees them together considering that she and Ron are dating," explained Dean.
Dudley dipped in appreciation as he took Milly's hand as she approached the station.
"OK, this is the game plan. Milly, I want you to keep an eye on Cho Chang. Don't do anything until she starts to get physical. Dudley, you do the same with Ron. Obviously you can't miss them," Dean spat in disgust.
The other two cackled at his expression. They knew he would be appalled at their outfits.
"Don't worry about Hermione because George will look out for her especially since she just comforted him in his time of need," Dean informed them.
They looked confused so Dean pointed to the painting behind him and drawled, "Milly, you remember this scene, don't you?" She looked up and let out a sad groan.
"Hey those are the twins that pranked me," piped in Dudley.
"Yes you have that right, Dudley but George got really upset over it. I will probably take it down in the morning," Dean solemnly explained.
"OK. I see that Seamus just came down the stairs. We best get into our places." He groaned when he quickly glanced to see where they were dancing.
"Damn, GO! Hermione isn't going to miss them this time since they are practically in front of the stairs." Dudley and Millicent rushed off the stage area as Seamus looked at them strangely.
He looked at Dean's scared face and figured something was about to happen. "Seamus, do me a favor find me two songs for me and have them ready to play in a moment's notice. Ron is about to his ass chewed out."
Seamus looked at him in surprise and quirked his eyebrow. Dean just pointed to the couple in orange. Seamus crunched his face in disgust. "He came with Cho? Oh Hermione is so not going to like that and they weren't too far behind me," rumbled Seamus.
Dean chuckle mirthlessly, "I know."
"Now tell me which two you had in mind since this song will be over shortly." Dean whispered in his ear and Seamus started snickering as he drew them up on the monitor. He smirked and cheered, "Let the party begin!"
Dean just shook his head as he noticed that Hermione and George were at the bottom of the stairs talking to themselves for a second. Dean groaned as he watched Hermione turn towards the other couple due to the brightness of their outfits.
Hermione had to chuckle as she and George slowly came down the stairs. They were playing 'Too Close' by Next. "What is it with them playing sexual innuendo songs," smirked Hermione.
George burst out laughing and remarked, "Love, you are forgetting who is spinning the music." Hermione chuckled some more when she realized that he was right in that regards.
Once she caught her breath as she reached the bottom of the stairs, she turned toward him and eyeballed him. She had to make sure that he was alright even though he appeared fine. She wanted to double check on his emotional state. Hermione tipped her head towards his ear and whispered, "George, are you okay to continue with tonight? We could just go back to your flat and have tea."
George's face expressed tenderness and softly confessed, "I am a bit tired," George had put a finger on her soft pink lips to stop her from interrupting him, "but I am not ready to leave this place. I want to dance with you some more."
Hermione shyly smiled at him and whispered, "Alright, love." Hermione squeezed his hand.
"Plus it would be interesting to see what others are wearing," remarked George as he skimmed the crowd. His eyes widened when he saw a couple in an atrocious outfit. He chortled and pointed them out to Hermione, "I mean like them in their ridiculous orange outfits. Hell even Ron would like them."
He quickly glanced at Hermione for her reaction and was surprised to see that she looked like she was ready to rip someone's heart out. His face crunched up for minute before retorting, "What's wrong, Mione?"
Hermione's flushed angry face looked at George's fearful face and growled out, "George, you don't recognize the couple?"
"Er...no," whimpered George as he shook his head.
Hermione huffed in frustration. "It's RON and he is not even with Marietta. He is with CHO CHANG!" snapped Hermione.
George looked shocked as he looked back at the couple and realized that she was right. He turned to say something to calm her and realized that she wasn't with him anymore. He swore softly under his breath as he followed a stomping mad Hermione.
Hermione was fast approaching Ron and Cho, who looked a bit too cozy to her liking. Ron had his face buried into Cho's hair and Hermione could see that the skank was rubbing herself along Ron's left leg.
Just she got to the couple, the song changed to 'Undo It' by Carrie Underwood. She sneered at Seamus. Seamus threw up his hands like it wasn't me and pointed to Dean.
Hermione growled and screeched "RON!" Ron and Cho jumped back away from each other. She could see them panting almost like if they were doing something that they shouldn't have to begin with.
"Hermione!" stammered Ron.
"Can it, Ron! What the bloody hell are you doing here and with Cho Chang to be exact," beseeched Hermione. She was drawing a crowd around them.
George made sure he was near her in case. Dudley and Milly were lurking.
"He is here because I asked him to," chimed in Cho.
George groaned and shook his head as he thought to himself, 'shut up, bitch.'
"SHUT UP, CHO!" yelled Hermione and Ron. She shrank back a little when she realized her mistake.
Hermione turned back towards Ron and started poking him in the chest. She was pushing him back until his legs hit the back of a chair. She started into him again, "Did you know that TONIGHT was our ANNIVERSARY, RON? Not just some stupid date with little old me!"
Ron's eyes widened when he realized that she was right and muttered, "Bloody Hell!"
"I am so sick of your attitude towards us," continued Hermione as she poked him some more. "Did you think just maybe I might have gone with you if you had asked? BUT NOOOO, you just assumed that I wouldn't want to go because I don't talk about it 24/7."
Hermione walked away a bit and waved her arms up in the air. She spun back around and retorted before he could get a word in, "and where did you get that ridiculous outfit?" Hermione put her hands on her hips while she waited for an answer.
Ron slowly straightened up and took a deep breath because he knew that she wasn't going to like his answer. Ron was getting sick and tired of her nitpicking and didn't give a damn anymore. He stared into her molten chocolate eyes full of fury and sneered, "That's right, I didn't ask you to the game because I am tired of explaining it to you. The reason that Cho is here is because Mariette sent her in her place. She is still has issues from the scar you gave her."
Hermione and George both scoffed. Ron realized that George was there. He pointed to him and spat, "What is my brother doing here?"
"He is here because I asked him. He has better manners than you," Hermione retorted back. "We went and had a nice supper at the Leaky Cauldron and then decided to go dancing. It was nice to see everyone again. At least he was nice enough to match me with his suit. We ALWAYS clashed!"
"You went out on a date with my brother?!" shouted Ron.
"What do you call this with Cho?" Hermione jeered back. Ron waved her off. "See, this is what I mean. You just don't give a damn. You don't think. Tell me Ron why did you even want to go out with me?"
"You want to know why?" growled Ron. Hermione sneered that would have made Malfoy proud.
"Because I took pity on you and I figured that no one would want to date a scarred woman." Retorted Ron. The crowd gasped as George just shook his head as Ron dug himself into a hole.
"SCARRED! Ron, everyone that fought in that war has scars!" blurted Hermione.
George started to inch closer when Hermione said that. He had a sneaky feeling that Ron was going to tell everyone about one particular scar.
Ron mockingly laughed and taunted her as he grabbed her scarred arm, "Do they have one like this?" Ron wandlessly ended the charm that cover her Mudblood scar. The crowd muttered to themselves. Cho was looking at Ron like he was a leech.
"I bet you are the only one with this, Mudblood." Ron spat into her face as she finally jerked her arm out of his hand.
"I HATE YOU! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DID THIS TO ME!" hollered Hermione as tears started going down her face. "WE ARE THROUGH!" Hermione spun around and ran back up the stairs to the last chorus of 'Kiss This' by Aaron Tippin.
George punched Ron right in the nose and knocked him flat onto the dance floor once the bawling Hermione went by him. George stood over him and glared down at his pathetic, cowling little brother and ranted, "How the bloody hell are you my brother? Our parents raised us better than that. I don't want to see you at the apartment ever again! I will be sending your stuff to the Burrow. Have fun explaining to Mum why you have to move back in." George shivered at the thought.
"Now I need to go and check on MY date because you, my dear brother, don't know how to keep them," snarled George.
He gave Ron a swift kick in the stomach before he spun around and darted up the stair once again. 'This is becoming a habit.'
George stopped just outside their door. He sighed sadly as he could hear Hermione's pain lamenting through the door. He walked through the door and shut it behind him so they could have some privacy. When he saw her curled up on one of the leather sofas bawling, he breathed, "Oh Hermione." He walked over to her and scooped her up and sat in her place as he held her. His body shook from her distress. "Sh…Hermione. Everything will be alright. I punched him for you and kicked him out of the apartment."
Hermione's head popped up and she looked at him in shock. "W-why?" stammered Hermione.
"Oh love, do note that he wasn't raised to be such a bloody prat. Here I thought Percy was the biggest one but Ron just topped the cake."
When he reached up to wipe the tears away with his thumbs, she pulled her scarred arm tighter to her body.
"I am going to kill my brother," muttered George.
Hermione's eyes widened at the last remark and shook her head. "Please George don't. I don't want you to do anything stupid. Prank him once or twice but that's it," pleaded Hermione. Hermione's tearful eyes implored him to not to do anything crazy.
George sighed as he dipped his head in agreement. "Alright Hermione, I will go easy on him. I can't say the same for the rest of the family," informed George. "I honestly don't want to know what my mother will do when she finds out." George waved away the thought.
As he searched her face and still saw the scared look in her eyes, he softly enquired, "What's wrong, dear?" Hermione shook her head. "Is it about this scar?" George gently pulled her arm away from her body. Hermione whimpered. "HERMIONE! STOP!" snapped George.
Hermione stopped and stared at him wide-eyed.
"Listen to me. Ron will NEVER touch you again or make any more spiteful remarks against you. NEVER AGAIN! Do you hear me?" growled George but he got startled out of his little pep talk when Kelly Clarkson's 'Never Again' song came on in the room.
Hermione giggled at his face and rasped, "The room has the ability to play what the person wants. When you yelled 'Never Again', it started to play it for you."
George's face cleared up with the explanation.
"Anyways Hermione," George chimed in, "I guess we will be doing this now and not Saturday." Hermione sighed sadly. George gently grasped her chin so he could look into her beautiful wet brown eyes.
"What have I been telling you all night?" urged George.
"I don't know," mumbled Hermione as she shrugged her shoulders.
"Hermione, you are a beautiful woman," lamented George.
She shook her head in disbelief. George growled and mumbled something she didn't quite catch. "What?" whimpered Hermione?
Hermione!" George snapped. "You need to stop this self-pity party. It doesn't become you."
Hermione's eyes popped out a little when he snapped at her. His eyes softened a little as he took a deep breath and asserted, "I refuse to let this," holding up her scarred arm, "get in the way of your beauty. Yes, it is a part of you and yes, it is what you are. A Muggleborn. Be proud of it. Don't let it bother you. It doesn't bother me. You know why?"
Hermione shook her head and softly asked, "Why?"
"I will tell you why because we both have a cursed scar," reminded George as he pushed back his hair to show her his reminder from Severus Snape. Hermione sniffed once more as she wistfully touched his soft but slightly rough cheek. She leaned in and gave him kisses around his scarred area.
When Hermione pulled back, George could still see the hint of disbelief in her woeful eyes. George put his hand on top of hers on his cheek. He nudged into it a bit before letting go.
As he took in her emotional state, he gently picked up the scarred arm and returned the favor. He slowly kissed each letter and then kissed slowly around the whole word. As he went around the word, he punctuated each kiss with a word. Smooch. "YOU' Smooch "ARE" smooch "A" smooch "BEAUTIFUL" smooch "WOMAN." He kissed right in the middle of the word as he emphasized, "BEAUTIFUL!"
Hermione's eyes slowly turned into molten dark chocolate full of desire. She gently caressed his face as they inched closer for a kiss.
KNOCK KNOCK
