Fire and Lust
A/N: I am enoying reading all of your reviews, and writing this story. This is a quick little chapter leading to a big smutty chapter. Hope you enjoy, and as always please leave a Review.
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-Florence
Charlie was walking home, so he knew some of what George had told him. He knew Fred and her had a thing in the past. He thought it was just a school thing, bored in the same place at the same time kind of thing. I mean they didn't even tell anyone, no one in his family knew and from what he had just heard it was kept pretty quiet. The way George described it was was an epic love story, that ended with no real cause. Fred and George left school early and then Harry, Hermione and Ron went on the run.
They had started dating when she went to visit the summer before her fourth year, and they dated off and on till Fred left school, have a thing here and there when they saw p after. Finally after the war Fred started dating Katie Bell publicly and it didn't seem to bother Hermione and she hadn't seen anyone since then.
George said Fred didn't even share Hermione with him, which apparently was the first and only girl that applied too. They loved each other, he could understand that, but Fred had moved on. He was with Katie now and had been dating for a while, off and on apparently. Hermione dind't seem too upset by seeing them together last night, and she had snuck off with him.
Charlie walked into the kitchen still deep in thought when he ran into Ginny. "Watch where you are going won't ya?" Ginny looked up at him and noticed he was still distracted.
"Hey Charlie, what's up?" She pulled on his arm so he spun around and was looking at her. "Nothing, sorry Ginny I was deep in thought, I think i'm going to go take a nap and rest up a bit before dinner." He went up the stairs to his old room that he had shared with Bill and went to sleep.
"Hermione! You home?" Ginny had unlocked the door to her best friends house and greeted Crookshanks. She sat her stuff down on the counter and went into Hermione's room.
Hermione was sitting on her bed looking through boxes. "Hey Gin, is it time for cooking lessons already? Sorry I was looking for something from school, can't find it though."
"Hermione you look amazing, what's the occasion?" Ginny fell onto the bed making notes bounce up. Hermione quickly grabbed them before Ginny could see them, even her best friend didn't know that she had been with her brother, well brothers now.
"I had to run some errands and decided to put some effort into this week. Took forever to get my hair straight though, I wouldn't put the effort in normally but this is a big week and I woke up early enough to start it all."
"Well, it looks great. You are glowing too, you seem to be in a good mood." Ginny looked up at her like she was trying to read between the lines. Her friend knew her well that was true.
"Thanks Gin, just been a good few days is all I guess. I haven't got the food we will be cooking tonight so we will have to run down to the muggle market really quick and pick it up, come on."
"Harry is going to lose his marbles, when we finally move in together and I can cook all his favorite muggle meals. Some of them aren't that bad. Mom tried showing me how to cook when I was younger and we would just argue the whole time, She would tell me to add a pinch of something and apparently my pinch was too much and I would ruin the whole meal." Ginny laughed at the memory. She had been getting cooking lessons from Hermione for about two months now and really enjoyed cooking which was defiantly a first for her.
"He is going to be happy just have you. You to are lucky that it is easy for you both now. We are going to be cooking one of my family recipes. It's a chicken dish." Hermione got all the things they would need and headed back up to her flat.
They started cooking in the kitchen and drinking some wine and just talking. Hermione always loved spinning time with Ginny she was one of few girls who she didn't mind. The gossip and drama that most girls had with them was just too much for her. She had always preferred the company of males.
"Oh, you know how Charlie is staying at home for the week? Well I think something is up with him. I ran into him on my way here and he was so lost in thought he ran into me. Which is really rare for him because he works with dragons he is always on guard. I am happy he is home though I never get to see him anymore."
"Yeah," was all Hermione could say though. She had been distracted all day wondering why he didn't respond to her letter.
"You okay, you seem to have been distracted since Ron's wedding." Ginny was sitting in the arm chair drinking her wine staring at her.
"I am fine, just a lot on my mind. I met someone.." Before she could get anymore out Ginny had choked on her sip of wine.
"What do you mean you met someone, Oh Merlin! You were wearing someone else's shirt the other day to brunch, I knew that wasn't yours! Why are you just now telling me, I need to know everything. I tell you everything between me and Harry."
"For Merlin's sake Ginny, calm down. I said I met someone, I have met people before you know? As far as you telling me everything that happens between you and Harry, I could do with a few less details." Ginny laughed.
"I met someone at Ron's wedding, well I didn't meet them, meet them. I already knew him, just never had the time to talk or really get to know each other. Not that we did a lot of talking." Hermione laughed at her own joke. Her cheeks flushing as the memories of the past few days played in her mind.
"Go on..." Ginny said getting up from her seat checking on the chicken in the oven and the vegetables in the steamer. She grabbed the bottle of wine and filled her and Hermione's glass and then went back to sit down.
"Well we you knowed. A lot actually. We just clicked there you know it wasn't like it was whe I was with Krum or Theo or anyone else. It was amazing Ginny. Now, he is all I can think about and I am not that girl. I don't want to be that girl. He wrote to me this morning asking if we could meet up that we needed to talk and I told him I couldn't. I mean I could have but, I just maybe it was a nice fling you know? Maybe, it wasn't meant to be a relationship there would be a lot of obstacles to work out.."
"Hermione are you listening to yourself? You really like this person, whoever he is. Your problem is you try and keep your personal life too secret. You didn't tell anyone about Krum until they all had to know. You didn't tell anyone ever that you and Theo Nott had been shagging and making out all over the castle. You never even told me, your best friend, about whoever it was who was making you glow and babble almost all of your fifth year. Yes, I know you were seeing someone, just respected your privacy enough not to mention, or ask who it was." Hermione looked at her blankly.
"You see what you do, you try and hide it and then tell yourself for whatever reason that it just wouldn't work out. You had to much school work for a public relationship, you were too busy saving the world, now work. You are aloud to have a relationship and a career, and you don't have to start popping out babies just because it's public. Harry and I both have Careers, and we aren't even living together. There have been more articles about us in the damn paper than I care to count and we are doing just fine."
"I know, I know. I just don't want to get my hopes up. I'm not making this up in my head though, a relationship with this man would be hard. It would just be a lot, and I don't even know if he wants that. You know? We shagged, and it was great. I mean great, great. He did this thing with his tongue. Well I don't want to go into details but it was the best thing I have ever felt in my life Ginny." Hermione felt a bit guilty and didn't want to go into further detail because she was telling Ginny all about her older brother, and that would be awkward if Ginny ever found out.
"Dinner is almost done, come and take this out of the over put the vegetables in with it, put the glaze we made over it all and put it back in the over for 10 minutes." Hermione sat on the counter with her wine glass and watched Ginny follow all her instructions. After it was back in the over she wrote it down in her cookbook she was making.
"It smells amazing, I think actually working for the food you cook and not just magicing the whole meal makes it taste better. Look, I know what you are thinking, and I know you, but I think that you need to write him back and tell him that you want to meet up for dinner tomorrow. Listen to him, don't make excuses as to why it won't work out until you have all the details. If anything else he can shag you again and you can be done with it. At least you know you actually tried."
They ate dinner, and it was just as good as when she used to make it with her mom. They finished off their bottle of wine, she magically cleaned the kitchen and all of the dishes. thaw was one thing she wasn't going to do the muggle way. She boxed the left overs and sent them home with Ginny. She hadn't told anyone she was teaching Ginny to cook, but no one ever questioned where food came from in the Burrow. It was normally gone within a few hours anyway.
Ginny hugged her and headed home.
When Ginny got to the burrow Charlie was outside drinking some mead and looking at the stars. "Hey baby sister, come sit with me for a minute. Where have you been?" Charlie pulled up a chair next to him and Ginny sat down and got under the blanket that he had tossed her.
"I was having dinner with Hermione, and chatting. We have dinner every Sunday night together its nice to be able to catch up. She had a lot to get off her mind tonight I guess, It was nice."
"She seems to be everywhere with this family. What all did she have to talk about, is she okay?" Charlie sat up a little straighter.
"Oh nothing really some girl stuff. I didn't even get all the details." Ginny said taking his glass of mead and having a sip.
"Oh, well that's good. I am glad she is okay and has you to talk too. She seems like a nice person."
"I forget you don't know her as well as the rest of us. She practically lived here during school holidays. Ron likes to think she came for him, even though she never liked him like that, she came to give me company most of the time."
And to shag our brother under all of your noses, Charlie thought to himself.
Ginny being a bit drunk after all the wine and the mead now kept talking. "I think she is falling for someone right now, which you didn't hear I shouldn't have said that." Ginny said a bit fast.
"Oh, she told you she was falling for someone?" He asked hopefully wanting more details but when he looked over his little sister had fallen asleep curled up in her blanket. He sighed and stood up, picking her up from her chair and carrying her to her room.
So his witch was falling for him, and talking about him probably but Ginny didn't seem to know it was him she heard about. Good to know... He tucked his little sister into bed, and went to his own room. Sat down at his desk and went to write Hermione another letter.
