OOOK people, sorry for the late update, happy holidays :) So many things happened, Nine was amazing, RIP my dear, beautiful Brittany Murphy!
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Chapter 10 – Broken
Under your spell again
I can't say no to you
crave my heart and it's bleeding in your hand
I can't say no to you
Shouldn't have let you torture me so sweetly
now I can't let go of this dream
I can't breathe but I feel
Good enough
I feel good enough for you
Drink up sweet decadence
I can't say no to you
and I've completely lost myself
and I don't mind
I can't say no to you
Shouldn't have let you
conquer me completely
now I can't let go of this dream
can't believe that I feel
Good enough
I feel good enough
it's been such a long time coming,
but I feel good
And I'm still waiting for the rain to fall
pour real life down on me
cause I can't hold on to anything this good
enough
am I good enough
for you to love me too?
So take care what you ask of me
cause I can't say no
(Evanescence)
Harry and Hermione left from the ministry at five, after they had made the papers of Harry being Rosalie's father officially and after they talked with a smiling and beaming Kingsley about the charges they wanted to press against the Daily Prophet. Kingsley had reassured them that the matter would be soon solved in a quiet court as Harry requested so and the two were finally leaving for the Burrow through the floo.
They showed up at the Burrow and Hermione came out of the floo dusting her clothes as Harry stumbled out of the fireplace with a small groan that made Hermione grin.
'You will never learn to come out of the floo carefully,' Hermione commented and Harry grinned and chuckled.
'It's funny… I'm good on staying on a broom even with bludgers trying to hit me and I can't stand when coming out of the fireplace… it's like someone is pushing me at the last moment.' Harry said and Hermione chuckled as Molly and her very pregnant daughter showed up from the kitchen. Harry and Hermione were greeted by Molly with her usual hugs but Ginny stood behind and just smiled at both Harry and Hermione with a small flicker of jealousy in her eyes.
'So good to see both of you!' Molly was saying as Hermione exchanged a glance with Ginny who was mostly looking at Harry. Hermione felt her heart and stomach aching at the sight of Ginny's eyes filling with longing. Maybe it was longing for her friend but Hermione had a feeling that it wasn't just that, the fact that Ginny was now expecting her second child with Dean made Hermione's heart ache even more.
'Rosalie is in Percy's room with little Arthur, playing house,' Molly said and Hermione nodded her head and looked at Harry, for some reason she didn't feel right just to go upstairs and take her daughter while Harry would be there with Ginny.
'OK, I'll go get her,' Harry said with a smile as he looked at Hermione and glanced at Molly. As he moved up the stairs he was glad that seeing Ginny only awakened feelings of care like it did with the rest of the Weasley family. He knew things with Ginny were over for years now but a small part of him was afraid of that stupid chest monster of his sixteen year old self. He was more than happy that having stimulants like his first proper girlfriend meant nothing to him as long as he had his true love next to him, the woman he cared about like no other, the woman that had beaten every other before and after their sixth year at Hogwarts.
The image of himself pulling her instead of anyone else, Ginny included, when they were all so close together in the department of Mysteries in fifth year flashed through his mind right before he could open the door of Percy's old room to reveal Rosalie bossing around poor Arthur about how he shook a baby doll in his hands. Harry chuckled as he watched the two playing house with Rosalie being the actual leader of the game….
'Not like that, Arthur! Slower!' Rosalie commanded and Arthur sighed and nodded his head as he glared at the doll in his arms. Harry laughed this time and drew Rosalie's attention that ran right in his arms and hugged him tightly squealing "daddy" all the while. Arthur even at age of four and not sure of who that man was looked relieved and happy with Rosalie away, finally.
'I'm not really sure about the dinner, Molly…' Hermione was saying as Harry entered the kitchen with Rosalie in his arms and Arthur next to him, a few minutes later. Molly chuckled and waved Hermione off, Ginny was watching all the while sat on a chair.
'Oh come on sweetie, Harry is back and there is a reason to celebrate… it's no big deal, we'll just have fun,' Molly said and Hermione sighed as she looked at Harry and took Rosalie from his arms who kissed her mom lovingly.
'Maybe Hermione is right, mom,' Ginny said after a moment and both Harry and Hermione looked at the youngest Weasley as her mother glared at her. 'Maybe it's too soon for a gathering, with Ron on the warpath with Harry.' Ginny said for the first time Harry's name and looked at him again as she rubbed her belly. Harry and Hermione sighed and nodded their heads even if they hated Ginny's sharp tone.
'Nonsense, Ronald will have to grow up eventually,' Molly said and Rosalie looked quizzically at her parents.
'Why Ron is angry?' she asked and Hermione gave a brave smile and shook her head.
'It's nothing sweetie,' Hermione said reassuringly and Rosalie shrugged and yawned, giving the best opportunity for Harry and Hermione to leave the Burrow.
'OK, I want you both here, the day after tomorrow, at seven,' Molly said finally and both Harry and Hermione sighed and nodded their heads, they knew they just couldn't mess with her. Ginny sighed and shook her head, something that wasn't unnoticed by the rest of people in the room right before Harry and Hermione could floo away with their daughter.
'OK, I need both of you to be good so I can go and get ready,' Hermione said two days later at five as she stood before Harry and Rosalie in Harry's apartment. The two had decided that Harry would take care of Rosalie in his own flat so Hermione could have some time to get ready in peace. Both Harry and Rosalie nodded their heads and Hermione did the same as she was still unsure of the plan, it was the actual first time to leave Harry take care of Rosalie on his own and she was kind of worried even if she would be next door. Her fear wasn't about Harry's abilities as a guardian but Rosalie's talent to put people in trouble, with a mental grin Hermione thought that it could be good to have Harry taste his own medicine for once.
'We'll behave, we promise,' Harry said seriously but grinned at Rosalie who grinned back, the mischief of the father being inherited to the daughter. Hermione sighed, knowing that it wouldn't get too bad just in two hours so she nodded her head and left the flat as Harry attacked Rosalie with his tickling fingers that had their daughter squealing and giggling.
'Daddy, enough, we should play a good game,' Rosalie said breathlessly after a while as Harry stopped tickling her and gave her a big kiss on the cheek.
'OK, what kind of game?' Harry asked as his daughter looked at him with the same joy and love he had in his gaze.
'Hide and seek,' Rosalie said and Harry grinned and nodded his head. 'You will go to the kitchen and you will start counting, I will hide and you will find me OK?' Rosalie instructed and Harry nodded his head but the parental instinct kicked inside of him.
'OK but you won't hide anywhere dangerous,' Harry said and Rosalie nodded her head. Harry grinned and moved to the kitchen where he started counting, for a moment he thought of sneaking as to see where was she trying to hide but he decided not to cheat.
'One hundred!' Harry finally said after a few minutes of counting and moved to the living room again, 'Come out come out wherever you are…' Harry said with mirth in his voice as he opened the first door of his bathroom but found the room empty, what he caught with the corner of his eyes made his heart jump as he saw that the front door was open.
'No…' Harry said in panic as he opened the door wider and looked around in the corridor. Rosalie seemed nowhere to be found and Harry moved out of the house, the elevator wasn't called so Harry moved back in the corridor and sighed in huge relief when he saw the door of Hermione's flat being slightly open as well. He moved back in his house and saw that his keys along with the key Hermione had given him the previous day were missing so Harry smiled relieved and moved in Hermione's flat as to find his daughter.
He crept in the house in silence as he focused on where his child could be. He tried to listen to any sound but he heard nothing and the three closed doors of the bathroom, Rose's room and Hermione's chamber were making him wonder. He decided that Rose's room was too easy. Hermione was probably in her chamber getting ready so he decided not to interrupt so he opened the door of the bathroom with force only to have his breath stolen away and Hermione screaming in fright as she had just came out of the shower in her naked glory and she was about to wrap a towel around her wet mane.
Harry shut the door after an instant of staring and lusting over Hermione's beautiful body that had became even more beautiful in the past five years before he could gasp and kick himself mentally.
Hermione screamed in fright when the door opened as she thought she was alone in the house and then her heart sped up as she saw Harry staring at her before he could mumble a sorry and shut the door. She hadn't heard any kind of sound as she was lost in her thoughts while she took her bath so she didn't expect anyone, let alone Harry, to burst in the bathroom the moment she had just came out of the water.
Hermione felt her cheeks burning as she realized that Harry, her once best friend and lover and current…parent of her child had seen her like he had before, when their sexual encounters were a reason to hide. The thoughts of how erratically things were changing in the last days were now overshadowed by this. She was matured however and she needed to be careful with this, she pushed the disturbing thoughts of her pride because of Harry's lustful gaze upon her body and put the logic back on track.
'Hermione… I'm so sorry, I was playing hide and seek with Rose, and she left my flat and came here. I thought you were in your bedroom,' Harry's pleading voice was heard from the other side of the door and Hermione looked at her blushing self in the mirror. She sighed and took a towel, wrapped it around herself and gathered all her dignity as she opened her door and looked at the equally blushed Harry the moment Rosalie peered from her door and looked at her parents with interest in her eyes.
'We were playing mommy, it wasn't daddy's fault,' Rosalie said as she came out of her hiding place and moved close to her dad who smiled weakly at his child and lowered his head as he looked at Hermione, frightened that he had lost any hope to have that chance for her heart.
Hermione watched her daughter and Harry's apologetic faces and suddenly a wave of snicker came out of her lips before she could start laughing even harder. Harry looked at her in wonder as she waved her daughter to go in her bedroom and get ready for the dinner at the Burrow. Rosalie nodded her head and left but not before she could wink at her dad.
'I'm sorry for laughing… just… a week ago I thought I was hating the ground you stepped on and now, just a few days after… you're back and you make both us happy and I thought it wouldn't get any crazier but you burst in the bathroom…' Hermione said between her laughing and Harry just watched her before he could chuckle and laugh himself.
'It's crazy, isn't it?' Harry asked as they both calmed down after a moment or two and only then they realized that they were really close to each other and Hermione was only in her towel.
'Yeah… it is…' Hermione confirmed as Harry's hand moved up and touched her cheek right before he could kiss it. Hermione's eyes closed at the sensation of his lips against her cheek and only then the insecurity and the troubles kicked in.
'I really didn't mean to burst in the bathroom like that,' Harry said and Hermione nodded her head as she moved away.
'I know… it's ok, it wasn't your fault, just... why don't you go to your flat and get ready? Come back here so we can all go to the Burrow?' Hermione tried and Harry smiled uneasy and nodded his head as he moved for the door. Hermione nodded her head as her cheek still burnt from the touch of his lips. When Harry turned around and looked at her she did the same and Harry spoke with a small light of actual lust and love and care all mixed in the emerald of his eyes.
'For what it's worth…. Wow…' Harry only said as he gestured gracefully at her body with his hand right before he could turn around and leave the flat, leaving Hermione behind him with a huge smile on her face and the butterflies in her stomach having a dance.
When the trio flooed to the Burrow with Rosalie between them, the girl's arm was slightly jerked as Harry stumbled his way out of the fireplace, causing both Rosalie and Hermione to giggle and shake their heads.
Hermione was in a beautiful black dress that toned her slim body and her long hair was free on her back in beautiful curls, she had light make-up on and she was wearing high heels. Rosalie was wearing a purple dress to her knees and flat shoes with small butterflies on them, her own long hair was up in a ponytail with small wisps escaping. Harry was wearing black trousers, a deep green blouse that fitted perfectly against his toned body and a pair of black shoes.
'Welcome!!' Molly showed up and hugged them as the trio could hear the noise from the rest of the house on the background. Molly hugged both Harry and Hermione and scooped Rosalie in her arms. Both Harry and Hermione followed Molly after they glanced at each other with worry and tension in their orbs.
When the four entered the kitchen of the Burrow almost everyone greeted the newcomers in joy, apart Ginny who was looking at them almost in anger as Dean was seating next to her with little Arthur on his lap, looking at his wife in the same anger. Ron was the other person in the room that looked angry at Harry and Hermione, his gaze softening only when his eyes fell on Rosalie in Molly's arms.
'Hello everyone, sit down it's dinner time and we're all going to have fun,' Arthur said and everyone nodded and agreed uncomfortable as they noticed Ginny and Ron's mood. Harry and Hermione sat on the far end of the table with Rosalie on Harry's lap as the girl wanted while Ginny and Ron were on the other side of the table close to their parents.
'So how have you two been? With adjusting and everything?' a few minutes after, George tried to start the conversation and Harry and Hermione smiled at him and nodded.
'Well we're doing fine,' Hermione tried as she looked at Harry who smiled at her. 'Harry actually helped me very much in a mission,' Hermione said the mild version of Harry saving her since Rosalie and the rest of the little kids were around. Harry shook his head.
'It was nothing really, I just did what Hermione would do for me,' Harry said as he looked at Hermione, sometimes it felt like it was just the two of them and none else around.
'We saw the Prophet… it's annoying really,' Molly said and brought back to reality the pair who nodded and sighed.
'We already sued the paper for showing Rose's pictures,' Harry said and kissed Rosalie's head who smiled and kept playing with little Amelia from George's lap who was next to Harry.
'You… as both of you?' Ron finally spoke and both Harry and Hermione looked at each other and nodded their heads.
'Yes… Harry is officially Rosalie's dad, in the papers as well; he has a right to… be a part of her life in all aspects.' Hermione said and most of the Weasleys nodded their heads, it wasn't missed that both Ron and Ginny's ears turned red however and Dean huffed as he looked at his wife.
'Probably the Prophet will be even more aggressive with the two of us till we can settle things with the lawsuit but when wasn't it? We also decided to give Luna and the Quibbler a small interview as to clear things up hoping that everyone will stop caring so much… especially with Rosalie in the picture…' Harry said and everyone nodded and George actually patted Harry's shoulder as their daughters kept playing with each other all the while giggling.
A slap on the tabletop that shook every object on it halted every kind of talking of adults or little ones when Ron glared at his once best friends. His heated glare at first was on Harry.
'Rosalie is in the picture… Rosalie has been in the picture for so long but of course now you're here…' Ron said in anger, he then looked at Hermione.
'You've changed so much, you were once vowing that you'd never forgiven him, that he was dead for you,' Ron said both in anger and pain.
'Not in front of Rose, please, Ron.' Hermione only said and Ron laughed bitterly and nodded his head as he stood up and moved out of the kitchen. Hermione stood up too and Harry kissed Rosalie who had been watching the scene with worry in her green eyes.
'Will you please stay here for a while princess? Mommy and Daddy will be back in a minute, please? I will explain everything later,' He said as he knew it was the only way for Rose to listen. The girl indeed nodded her head and moved close to Molly who had opened her arms for her. Both Harry and Hermione moved out of the building and they found Ron just a few feet away from the garden close to the start of the hill that separated the Burrow from Luna's old house. The two approached Ron not being sure how to start a conversation but they needed no invitation to the talk as Ron turned around and glared at both of them.
'I'm so sick of you!' Ron started as he pointed his index finger on Harry. 'Taking everything that is mine, with no trouble, no problem, and I'm so sick of you!' He went on as he looked at Hermione. 'For choosing him over me every bloody time!' he bellowed and both Harry and Hermione's tempers rose at the same time.
'She was never yours to take! She's not a price!' Harry screamed.
'I'm not an object, Ronald!' Hermione shouted at the same time with the wizard next to her.
'Yeah yeah, I know you're not a price or an object, but you're an idiot for letting him in so easily, for letting him in Rosalie's life so easily, a life that can easily be destroyed because of him!' Ron shouted as he looked at Hermione with furry. 'You forgave him so easily, but my departure back in that tent have been looming over us for so many years! When his departure left you broken and with a child! Alone!' Ron screamed and Hermione closed her eyes and covered her face in exasperation.
'He was there for so many years! He was there when you weren't and I was there for him when you abandoned us because of you, he left because of me and he tried to protect both me and him by what we both had done. He didn't leave because he couldn't get over himself! Can't you see the difference? He escaped from something that both he and I had created and was destroying us! You left because you couldn't get over yourself, Ron!' Hermione screamed reasoning and giving justice to Harry and clearing things up at the same time. 'You are judging me for things that have nothing to do with you! I forgave him because he tried to save me; you left in the middle of a war because you were selfish! You promised me back in my flat that you'd try to respect my choices!' Hermione kept screaming, causing Harry to have his hand on her back in a soothing manner as Ron kept looking at Hermione.
Ron finally threw his arms in the air and let them hit his body as he laughed sarcastically.
'Of course… I have nothing to do with your life… well you want it or not, I was there. I held Rosalie in my arms when you were sleeping after the birth, not him, even if you wished for him, it was me, I know things about Rosalie that he doesn't. I have seen Rosalie growing up, learning to walk to speak, not him!' Ron screamed and Hermione almost whimpered in desperation, of course, when Ron couldn't argue he always hurts the others.
'It was you because I wanted you to be there, it was you because even if Harry would be there, you'd be there too but obviously, now you prove yourself unworthy!' Hermione finally said in a calm voice. 'At least he's trying, and if he had won my forgiveness so "easily" then that's because he's worthy. Because I am sure that he will never say the words you're speaking now! Because I know that if he knew, he would be there unconditionally! He wouldn't wait for years as to rub anything in my face like you're doing now, as if it was my fault!' Hermione screamed and both Ron and Harry remained silent as they watched her tears running down her cheeks in the dim light that came from the Burrow.
Hermione turned around and started moving away from both Harry and Ron. Harry's hand on her arm halted her for a moment but she jerked her arm away as she did her best to hold the tears and the pain inside for a little longer.
'Not now, please, I don't want to hear him or you or anything else, I'm taking Rosalie home,' Hermione said in a broken voice as she kept moving and Harry was left behind her along with the dumbstruck Ron who hadn't said a word after Hermione spoke.
She kept moving, quickly, almost running and she stormed in the kitchen of the Burrow. Everyone stopped talking when they saw her sad face but she ignored everyone and took Rosalie in her arms.
'Where's daddy?' Rosalie asked and Hermione sighed and took a deep breath as she moved close to the floo. 'Why you're crying mommy?' Rosalie kept asking as Hermione flooed both back in her flat.
'He will wake you up sweetie. Now I need you to go to bed. I'm fine, just tired, I need you to go to bed like a good girl, have Wicca with you, ok?' Hermione pleaded in tears and to her surprise Rosalie nodded her head as her worried expression was broken by a yawn. Hermione nodded her head and kissed her cheek lovingly. 'I love you so much, Rosalie, I love you,' Hermione said and felt her daughter kissing her back, bringing her just one more step to her breaking point.
'I love you too mommy,' Rosalie said as Hermione helped her child on the floor before she could kiss her little head and have her girl moving away.
The moment Rosalie closed the door behind her, Hermione whimpered once again and then she burst in tears as her hands covered her mouth in a try not be heard from her already worried child.
~*~
Harry remained there for a few more moments, his body rigid, his hands clutched in fists and his jaw set in furry and pain as he watched Hermione running away from him and Ron. The moments of Ron's immaturity and its results flashed through his mind's eyes like a tape. He remembered all the moments Ron made Hermione cry, his time not believing Harry in the fourth year, his abandoning them in the Hunt, Hermione's tears because of Ron post war during their relationship. The addition of these tears of Hermione's because of Ron were simply the icing on the cake.
'You're so fucked up…' Harry only whispered as he started moving away, he hadn't moved for a couple feet when he felt two hands shoving him down on the ground. The memory of Ron trying to kill him because of the locket flashed in his mind and Harry wouldn't have this now for once again. He turned around quickly and took his wand, with a bright beam, Ron was sent some feet away on his back. Harry stood up and couldn't even get mad at Ron as his only concern was Hermione and Rosalie right now. Many things had happened in the past years for Hermione and many things had happened in the past week with Hermione not having a break. Harry was concerned that the incident with the hide and seek and now Ron's immaturity would push her off the edge.
Harry didn't even moved toward the Burrow, he just moved a few more feet away as to focus his crazed mind and then he apparated away.
The next moment he was in his flat, he moved around and covered his face with his palms as he tried to think of what to do. She had asked for him to stay away just for awhile, to give her space but his entire being was aching for him to go and comfort him. He had been there before, when she would cry, he knew how it was, usually a hug would calm her down but right now, partly it was him and not the banes he once endured that hurt her and he wasn't sure if the warmth of his arms would do the trick.
He sighed and sat down as he tried to calm. If he wanted to stay strong for her, he needed to stay strong in general. The furry and the pain because of Ron still surged in his veins and caused his hands to tremble in an effort not to cause any kind of damage around him or to go back to the Burrow and hex Ron to oblivion.
A small part of him had hoped for this night to turn out in a good way. He wished he could have Ron close to him and Hermione and Rosalie but obviously Ron had matured enough as to pretend that he was matured. He hated the fact that his words were true, that Ron was there instead of him for Rose and Hermione in the past. Alleviation only touched his heart when Harry remembered Hermione's words, her defending was a moment of light and hope in the tension between the trio of once best friends, broken lovers and current confused people.
Once, Harry would be the glue between Ron and Hermione and then Hermione would be the glue for the two mates, Ron never played the role of the linking circle because Hermione and Harry never separated at school. The only time that Ron had to play that role was when Harry left and even then the redhead made sure to absorb every good thing from what Hermione shared with him and he never tried to do something as to give Rosalie her true father. The only time Ron had the chance to prove himself as a good friend; he made sure to be selfish and try to have Hermione back when her heart belonged to Harry from the beginning.
Harry sighed as he looked at the frame on his coffee table; Hermione was looking back at him with a happy smile and was waving. He wished he could talk to her, he wished he would be there for her like she had let him be for the past days, like she always did. He could feel the unshed tears burning his eyes as his lips were never good with expressing his feelings. He would usually scream his feelings at people when he wouldn't be able to hold them back any longer but now it was about Hermione and he needed to find a way to talk to her but respect her request of not hearing anything from him at the same time…
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Hermione was still in her living room, sat on the edge of her couch with her hands holding her head and covering her face as she wept. She needed the time to take out all her pain and all the stress. In a matter of a week, she had neared death and love closer than ever in the past five years of Harry's absence. He had invaded her life and heart once again and though she struggled to accept him, to share things with him, things that she had learnt to keep for herself in fear of being hurt. Everything had changed, Ron had changed, again, and now she was supposed to rely on Harry, once something so easy and natural for her now seemed like a challenge. She felt desperate as she had thought that Ron was fine with her decisions and he only had rubbed on her face all the liberties that she had given him.
She wasn't angry at herself for allowing Harry in; she was scared however and hurt because of Ron's ways. It was ironic that Ron wounded her soul once again when Harry was the one supposed not to know her after so long away from her. She was almost amazed at how easily she and Harry worked things out so far, she was scared too but she was only happy for him being there, for making Rosalie happy. Harry was making her whole and that scared her the most, the lack of him once again would destroy her for good.
Ron had left and returned and she had been hurt but she had forgiven him in the past. Then Harry had left, for entirely different reasons, she had been spoiled but when he returned she found the carriage to forgive him too. Now she was terrified of him leaving again, Ron had made it to surface her worst fear: having Harry away from her.
The doorbell brought her out of her uncontrolled sobs and she dragged her feet to the door. She took a deep, shaky breath and opened the door, ready to face an angry Ron or a helpful Harry even if she knew that the slightest sound of their voices would actually make her crawl. Harry was standing there with a pack of big sheets of paper in his hands, in his choppy handwriting there were some words.
"I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR EVEN MY BREATH BUT PLEASE DON'T CLOSE THE DOOR!" was written on the first page which Harry took and let it fall on the floor next to him as to reveal the second. Hermione watched him in interest as she felt ready to bear this odd way of communication with him. She wiped her tears so her vision could finally not be so blurry.
"I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU AND I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU!" Harry let that paper down as well.
"WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH HELL TOGETHER AND I KNOW WE CAN DO IT, WE CAN MAKE IT!" Harry watched Hermione's eyes run from her left to right as she read the sentence.
"I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU NO MATTER WHAT, LIKE I DID AND DO!" Hermione nodded her head a bit with more tears ran down her eyes.
"YOU AND ROSIE ARE MY LIFE AND I LOVE YOU BOTH AND IF I KNOW WHAT LOVE IS, IT IF BECAUSE OF YOU." Harry let the paper fall next to him as to reveal the last one.
"I CAN'T LEAVE AGAIN EVEN IF I WANTED TO. BECAUSE IT'S NOT THAT I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU, IT'S THAT I DON'T EVEN WANT TO TRY." He let Hermione read the last paper and then sighed as he saw her staying still for a moment, his heart sunk as he saw her unmoving, only with the tears running down her cheeks. He waved his hand as he looked down at the papers and they vanished.
He gasped as he felt Hermione throwing her arms around him in a tight crushing hug like she would do back in the past. His own arms wrapped around her as she started crying again.
'I can't do this anymore,' Hermione said between tears and Harry's heart ached, was that the end? 'I can't be away from you anymore; I can't keep you away, in that distance!' Hermione went on and Harry's heart ached this time in happiness, for a fraction he feared he'd have a heart attack because of the sudden change of emotions. 'I thought it'd be better for me to heal little by little with you in a distance but I can't, I can't do this without you,' Hermione said as Harry moved slightly away and framed her face with his palms as she looked up at him and he at her. He could see the strong warrior, the fine Auror, the great mom, the beautiful woman, but he could also see her broken heart, her pained soul in her eyes.
'I love you, we have each other, you have me…' Harry whispered in a desperate attempt to show her that he was there for her. Hermione smiled and sobbed at the same time as she hugged him again tightly before she could pull away again as to look at him.
'We have each other,' Hermione confirmed and Harry smiled at her and nodded his head as he leaned in and her eyes closed.
Their lips touched in a light kiss, it was painful, alleviating, torturing and healing at the same time. They kept their lips fastened with each other's for a moment more before Harry's arms could roam on Hermione's back and her own arms could roam on his shoulders and hair. The kiss turned into a passionate exchange of love and passion as the couple hugged and kissed with vigor and need. Soon the two were pushing each other in Hermione's flat and in the living room.
The two soon were moving on the couch together. Hermione broke the kiss with a gasp and let her forehead touch Harry's as their noses touched too.
'I'm exhausted,' Hermione whispered and Harry smiled and touched her cheek with his hand.
'I'm in love with you,' He said and Hermione smiled too and sniffed as her breath was still choppy because of the kiss and the crying. 'We should rest,' Harry whispered and Hermione looked deep in his eyes and nodded before she could close hers and caress his face with her own as she inhaled his familiar sent. Hermione let herself on the couch as Harry followed, soon the two were laying in a tight hug with Harry's head resting on the arm of the couch and Hermione's head resting on Harry's arm as she snuggled as close as possible.
'I missed sleeping in your hug,' Hermione whispered and Harry smiled and wrapped his arms around her tighter, if that was possible, and kissed her forehead.
'I'm finally gonna sleep without snapping up or having nightmares,' Harry commented lightly and Hermione looked up at him with soft eyes. They two held each other's gazes for a moment before Hermione could kiss Harry's lips, jaw and neck.
'I love you,' they both whispered at each other before they could close their eyes. Harry waved his hand and the house's wards were blocking everyone that might tried to get in, at least for the night, they had the right to enjoy each other's presence and only…
sooo what u think of it guys? please do review and comment on everything, what u think ot Rose's hide and seek and the bathroom scene? what about the burrow and Ron? and what's on with Ginny and her silent anger? the scene with the papers was stolen from Love actually, i so love that scene and i so love that movie!
sooo we have our two lovebirds finally together but we have more to see :)
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