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Roses (Reassembly, spring 2000)
Neville awkwardly patted his jacket pocket, where the box of sugar roses he had bought Midoriko as an 'I'm sorry' gift were located. Ginny had been nice enough to warn him not to buy anything with chocolate in it, since it made fox demons and half fox demons violently ill.
Nestled in the center of the box of sugar roses was a ring. If she had married him by demon laws, he was going to do it properly by wizarding laws. They could not get married until she turned seventeen, but that did not stop him from buying her the engagement ring that he was giving her tonight.
The past week had been a huge adjustment. First off, he had almost died, then he woke up to find out that his half-demon girlfriend had taken him as her mate in order to save his life, then after a meltdown where he came to terms with the fact that he was now married, he had been swamped with information via Ginny, who was married to Midoriko's brother, Hajime. He was still adjusting to the heightened senses and the rapid healing.
He reached up to his shirt collar to rub at his mating mark, which was the ten-pointed star sigil of his wife's house, then stopped himself. Ginny had explained to him that rubbing it could be misinterpreted through the link created by the marks in a sexual manner, and he had no intention of touching het until they were married by both sets of laws. Dori kept her mark, which was on the inside of her wrist, since she had had to take him as her mate quickly in order to save his life, covered up by a five-inch wide embroidered cuff so that she did not accidentally arouse him.
Neville turned off the light in his office and went to go meet Midoriko in Dumbledore's office. From there, they would go to Diagon Alley for dinner, then he would ask her to marry him in the human manner.
