Chapter Twenty Five - Quidditch and Lust
"Hermione! Hermione! Come here quick, Lily's trying to walk!" Harry called loudly from the living-room.
"What!" Hermione shouted in shock before running in the room.
Lily was standing up, using her hands to hold onto the edge of the sofa as she moved along it.
"Aw Lily!" Hermione cried delightedly.
Harry was beaming with happiness "She's growing up so quickly."
Hermione smiled "I know." And went to sit down near Lily. "Look at you eh? You are such a clever girl!" Hermione clapped and Lily stopped to sit down and clap along with her mum. Harry felt so elated and came over to join them. "Mummy and Daddy are very proud of you Lily" Harry cooed to her and Lily smiled at him "D-d-d-d!" and turned to Hermione "M-m-m-m."
Harry and Hermione gleamed with joy "Yes sweetheart me and mummy love you very much!" Harry said softly and brought Lily into his arms and cuddled her.
"I know for certain now that leaving my job was the best things to do" Hermione said joyously, "These moments are so precious; I want to be here to experience them all. Lily is the most important thing in our lives and I'm so glad to be a proper full time mum to her now."
Harry grinned "I'm so glad" and Hermione a hug with his free arm.
It was mid February; Harry and Hermione were enjoying a time of relaxation just before Ron, Luna and Artie arrived over for the evening.
"Hey guys!" Harry said to them.
"Hey" Ron and Luna replied, they all exchanged hugs.
"Hey you!" Hermione ruffled Artie's ginger hair with a smile.
"Say hello to Auntie Hermione and Uncle Harry" Luna said to Artie, who grinned up at them and said "Hello" in a small voice and waved.
Harry and Hermione smiled "Tea guys?" Hermione offered.
"I'll come and help you" Luna replied with a smile. The two girls wondered into the kitchen leaving the two guys and Artie in the hallway.
"So how was work?" Harry asked Ron as they went into the living-room, Ron holding Artie's hand.
"Yeah really good. Got a meeting tomorrow to do with the press attention for the big quidditch match next week. Hey and guess what, I managed to get some tickets!"
"Oh brilliant!" Harry said excitedly.
"Yeah" Ron said with a grin "So do you fancy it?"
Harry looked up at Ron, surprised "What, I can go with you?"
Ron laughed "Well yeah that was the idea."
"What about Luna, have you asked if she wants to go with you?"
Ron looked guilty "Uh no, no I haven't."
Harry raised his eyebrows "Well don't you think you ought to ask her?"
"Ask me what?" Luna inquired dreamily as she and Hermione came into the room with tea and handed the mugs out.
"Do you want to go to a quidditch game with Ron next week?" Harry wondered, secretly hoping she would reject the offer.
Luna laughed (she must have sensed Harry's thoughts) "Oh the faces on you two!" she said as she looked at Harry and at Ron, "No its fine, you can go with Ron, Harry. I'm sure you'd enjoy it much more than me."
"You sure?" Harry asked to be certain.
Hermione laughed "Harry she just said its okay."
Harry beamed, as did Ron, "Okay, I'm in!" Harry said to Ron and the two guys whooped with joy and cheered.
Hermione rolled her eyes and laughed.
"Do you want to play with Lily?" she said to Artie who was standing up, with his thumb in his mouth. The little boy nodded and sat down near Lily who was playing with her toys.
Harry, Hermione, Ron and Luna watched the two kids playing happily on the living-room floor.
"Look at them eh?" Harry said with a gleeful smile.
"Yeah I know" Luna said with a smile "So nice to see that they get along, and" Luna gave a bright grin "it seems the two of them will have another playmate before long."
Hermione's mouth went slightly wide and looked at Luna and Ron in shock.
Luna and Ron were grinning from ear to ear, whilst Harry looked a bit confused.
"Luna, you're not?" Hermione said with a bright, hopeful smile.
Luna beamed brightly "Yes, I'm pregnant."
"That's brilliant! Congratulations, come here!" Hermione hugged them both as did Harry.
"I can't believe this!" Harry said with a laugh "You're really pregnant again, Luna?"
Luna nodded happily "Yeah, I'm about six weeks gone."
Hermione snuggled close to Harry on the sofa as they watched Lily and Artie again. Luna and Ron sitting closely on another sofa.
"Ooo you'll never guess what guys, continuing with the good news, Charlie is planning on proposing to Elena tomorrow!" Ron told them.
Harry and Hermione raised their eyebrows "Really?!" Hermione said in a surprised voice, "Aww that's brilliant!"
"How do you know that?" Harry wondered.
"I was out having a drink with Charlie the other night and he let it slip" Ron informed them, "But you have to keep it quiet, don't want Elena finding out, obviously."
"Fair enough" Harry said.
After they had eaten their food, the guys did the washing up while the girls stayed with the kids in the living-room.
"So do you have anything planned for Valentine's Day tomorrow?" Hermione asked Luna.
"Yeah actually, Ron and I are going out for a meal" Luna replied.
"Ooo nice!" Hermione said with a smile.
"What about you and Harry?"
"I don't know really, we don't have anything special planned we'll probably just have a romantic night in."
"Aww that's lovely!" Luna said with a knowing grin also, "Hey tell you what, when the guys go to see that quidditch match next Saturday, shall me and you do something?"
"Oh yeah! I'd love too! Shopping?" Hermione inquired with a wide grin.
"Of course" Luna replied and the two girls giggled.
…
Valentine's Day dawned and Hermione was the first to wake up, she reached across and kissed Harry fully on the lips which alerted him from his sleep straight away. "Mmmm, Happy Valentine's Day Hermione."
"And to you too" Hermione replied happily.
"So what have we got planned today?" Hermione wondered as they both sat up in bed but stayed cuddling up to one another.
"Well I'm off to work" Harry commented.
"Do you really have to go in, can't you pull a sicky?" Hermione complained as she fiddled with Harry's t-shirt.
"Sorry sweetie I've got to go in I'm afraid, but hey you have to get up early too."
"What for?" Hermione asked, curiously.
"Well get dressed and I'll tell you why" Harry told her with a smirk.
Hermione and Harry both got up and dressed before they exchanged Valentine's cards. "And here's yours" Harry said after he had received a really sweet card from Hermione.
Hermione opened it eagerly, and inside were two tickets to a nearby spa.
Hermione gleamed at Harry "Spa tickets?!" she said excitedly.
Harry nodded with a grin "Yep, you and your mum are going, all the stuff already paid for so you can relax and just have a good time. And before you ask about Lily, don't worry your dad is looking after her for the whole day. So, what do you think?"
Hermione leapt into his arms and hugged him tightly "I love it! Harry thank you so much!" she kissed him deeply.
"Thought you'd like it" Harry said with a grin.
"I feel really guilty now" Hermione said as she clutched the tickets in her hand. "Why's that?" Harry wondered.
"To be totally honest, apart from the card I haven't got you anything" she replied looking pretty ashamed.
"Hermione, it's alright I don't mind at all, really" Harry assured her.
"But I mind though!" Hermione said "You've gone to all this effort for me and I haven't even got you a present!"
Harry brought her into a hug and shushed her quietly "Sweetheart, please don't worry about it, honestly." He brought himself out of the hug and stared at her lovingly "I'm sure you can find a way to make it up to me" he winked at her.
"Is that all you think about?" Hermione said with raised eyebrows.
"Not always" Harry said bashfully.
Hermione giggled and wrapped her arms around his neck "Well you'll just have to wait until tonight and you'll find out" she said and kissed him strongly. Hermione packed a very small bag of things and headed off to her parents house with Lily and left her with David, before Joanna and Hermione headed off to the spa a few miles away.
The two women spent the whole day having massages, body wraps, manicures, pedicures, waxing, using the indoor swimming pool, sauna, Jacuzzi and steam room. They both also had their hair cut and their make-up done.
"Oh my goodness I feel so relaxed!" Hermione said after they returned back to the Granger house and collapsed on the sofa.
"It was wonderful!" Joanna piped up "I've never been there before actually, we must go again."
"Oh yes definitely" Hermione said happily and closed her eyes as she lay back against the cushions.
"Wonder where your father and Harry have got to with Lily" Joanna said after a few moments silence.
"Don't know, if they aren't back in thirty minutes I'll call Harry and see where they are."
Luckily, Harry and David returned back to the Granger house with Lily, fifteen minutes later.
"Hey you two, did you have fun?" David asked as they all exchanged greetings.
"Oh yeah it was really amazing!" Hermione replied after she had given Harry a kiss.
"How was Lily today, Dad?" Hermione asked.
"Like a little angel" David replied with a smile to his grand-daughter who he was still holding in his arms "We played with some toys, read some stories and went to feed the ducks at the park, didn't we Lily eh?" Lily looked up at hearing her name and giggled.
Harry and Hermione grinned "Sounds like you had fun!" Hermione cooed as she got handed Lily.
After ten minutes or so of chatting and drinking tea, Harry and Hermione headed home, leaving Lily with Hermione's parents.
"I hope she'll be alright tonight" Hermione worried.
"Yeah she'll be absolutely fine. It'll be nice for us to spend a night on our own" Harry responded.
"Yeah it will be gre…" Hermione began to say but stopped mid sentence when she and Harry entered the dining room and she found the room to be lit by candlelight only and dinner was already served, complete with champagne.
"Oh Harry!" Hermione said in disbelief as she looked at her husband in surprise "When did you do all this?"
"Just before I met up with your dad, the food's charmed so it's stayed warm. And these are for you" he gestured to a very large bunch of red roses placed on the sideboard in the room.
"Thank you, they are gorgeous!" Hermione said sweetly, "You didn't need to do all of this y'know, not that I don't appreciate it, because I do."
Harry chuckled "I'm very glad, and hey I wanted to do this for you Hermione. After all you did the same for me last year aswell as being pregnant at the time."
Hermione giggled "I remember. Well come on then let's eat, I'm starving."
The two of them ate their dinner complete with strawberry cheesecake for dessert and strawberries dipped in chocolate which they fed to eachother, and between the two of them they drunk the whole bottle of champagne.
"Now you cannot come upstairs yet Harry, until I shout down okay?" Hermione told him.
"Alright, alright, I'll stay put" he said in defeat.
Hermione gave a wicked smile and rushed upstairs, she got the candles lit in the bedroom, the rose petals scattered all over the room, put some soft music on before getting changed into a sexy black and red underwear and laid on their bed.
"Harry!" Hermione called loudly.
She heard him run up the stairs quickly and he appeared in the doorway and beamed. "God you look amazing!" Harry said in awe.
"Just shut the door and come over here" Hermione commanded with a cheeky smile.
Harry did what was instructed and came on over and got on their bed.
Hermione was beginning to tease Harry and the spa treatments she had had that same day really made her appearance heighten in beauty.
Hermione moved to straddle his waist and began kissing his neck and Harry moaned "God Hermione, how do you do this to me."
"Easy" she said with a mischievous smile and began kissing him again.
By the next morning, the pair of them was absolutely worn out. They didn't awaken until 10:00am; thankfully it was a Saturday so Harry wasn't working. They awoke within seconds of eachother, both in very compromising positions. Hermione beamed at Harry and they passionately kissed for a few minutes before speaking their first words "My god" Harry said with a gleeful smirk "Last night…flippin' heck, I can't put it into words!"
Hermione giggled and blushed pink "I know. I feel so giddy" she giggled again.
Harry laughed and kissed her forehead "D'ya know what, last night, you looked so hot!" he praised her.
Hermione blushed "You really thought so?"
"Hermione Potter, you were downright bloody sexy! Just..." he breathed a happy sigh "Wow!"
Hermione blushed even more "Thanks" she said bashfully.
"And the things you do to me" this sent a shiver down his spine as he recalled the memory "I'm just totally at your mercy."
Hermione gave a minute giggle before looking at him seductively "What things like this?" she began kissing his neck and his bare chest.
Harry moaned in frustration "Oh god. Hermione, please don't stop."
Hermione giggled at the thought of the things she could do to him and what response she got from them.
The two of them carried on from where they left off last night before eventually stopping.
"I could stay like this all day!" Hermione said with a seductive smile at Harry.
"So could I" Harry replied with equal happiness "But we do have a certain little girl waiting for us, along with your parents who are expecting us..." Harry paused to glance at the clock before his eyes widened "Thirty minutes ago!"
Hermione gasped and began to get out of bed "Come on Harry get dressed, you know my parents like to ask questions, their bound to ask where we've been."
The two of them grabbed the clothes that were closest to them before apparating straight to Hermione's parent's house.
"Where have you two be…oh!" Joanna said and giggled.
The two young adults were standing in the doorway, both of them with their hair extremely messy. Hermione had her top on back to front and Harry had his on inside out. Neither of them were wearing shoes, just socks and the love bite on the base of Harry's neck was clearly visible.
"Been busy I see" David said as he joined his wife in the hallway, holding Lily in his arms.
Harry and Hermione blushed bright red, both very embarrassed.
"I'm sorry we're late, we kind of" Hermione coughed, showing her discomfort "umm lost track of time."
David was trying to hold back his laughter as was Joanna "It's alright. You two aren't that late. So…good night was it?"
This sent both of Hermione's parents over the edge and they began laughing.
Hermione had her mouth wide open in disbelief at her parents and took Lily's bag off her mum and took Lily from her dad.
David and Joanna calmed themselves down and looked at the evidently dishevelled and embarrassed couple.
"Sorry shouldn't have asked that" David said, not sounding really that apologetic.
"Yeah you shouldn't have" Hermione said as she adjusted Lily in her arms.
"By the way Harry I'd get that love bite sorted out if I were you" David said with a cheeky grin. Hermione looked so shocked and embarrassed that with a simple "Bye mum, dad" she disapparated away.
Harry still stood there covering the bite mark with his hand, he seemed quite uncomfortable, looked at his father-in-law "And to answer your earlier question David" he gave a smile "it was bloody brilliant!" and with that he too disapparated back home. Leaving his in-laws stunned, yet they seemed happy enough as they continued to laugh.
"I cannot believe my parents!" Hermione said in an astonished tone of voice as she re-adjusted her clothes after she placed Lily in her high chair.
"Don't fret about it Hermione, they seemed cool enough about it, at least they didn't fly off the handle" Harry assured her.
"Yeah I suppose" Hermione said as she started preparing Lily's dinner.
Harry kept Lily entertained by playing peek-a-boo with her, and fed Lily her dinner, while Hermione prepared hers and Harry's.
"Can we go back to bed now?" Harry moaned, hopeful, a few hours later. Hermione looked up from where she was playing with Lily on the floor and giggled "Harry its just gone three o'clock in the afternoon."
"Doesn't matter, I doubt Lily would mind."
"Oh I think she would!" Hermione said with a grin. Harry moaned and Hermione laughed at this "Stop complaining you, and come down and play with us."
…
Later that evening, Harry went out to The Golden Phoenix to meet up with Ron, Neville, Dean, Seamus, Fred and George.
"Sorry I'm late guys" Harry said as he sat down in between Ron and Seamus.
"That's alright mate, we got you your usual" Dean said as he handed Harry a butterbeer.
"Cheers" Harry said and he drunk a sip "So what's up?"
"Seamus here was just telling us how he hooked up with Chloe last night" Ron said with a grin.
Seamus looked very pleased with himself and Harry grinned "So good night was it then Seamus?"
Seamus chuckled "Oh yeah, definitely!"
The guys laughed.
"Looks like Seamus wasn't the only one who had a good Valentine's" Dean said with a cheeky look at Harry. All the others turned to look at him also, Harry looked at them all confused "And how would you know that?"
"That love bite on your neck says it all" George said with a snigger.
"Oh yeah I see it!" Fred piped up.
Harry turned the same colour as Ron's hair and the guys wolf whistled and laughed.
"So come on then Harry, what did Hermione do to you?" Dean asked.
Harry was used to this kind of questioning from the guys but shook his head "I'm not saying anything."
The guys all complained "Oh come on Harry!"
"Nope I won't, for one Hermione would kill me."
"We won't say a thing, she doesn't have to know you told us" Ron said.
Harry raised his eyebrows "Oh yeah like you guys would keep quiet if I discussed mine and Hermione's love life."
"Harry you're no fun!" Fred said gloomily but within seconds grinned.
Harry laughed and drank some more of his butterbeer.
Harry remained in the pub with the guys for another two hours, all of them getting through a number of bottles of butterbeer as they discussed many things, including Ron's impending fatherhood again, but mainly the news that Elena more than happily accepted Charlie's marriage proposal the night before.
Harry's mobile went off in his pocket around 11:20pm.
"Oh it's his missus" Ron said and the guys laughed.
Harry looked on his phone and read the text message.
Want a repeat of last night? : P I'm waiting….
Love, Hermione xxxxx
Harry's stomach gave a jolt of excitement and he grinned broadly.
"Sorry guys have to go" he said and drained the last dregs of his butterbeer.
The guys rolled their eyes and some whistled "Waiting for you is she?"
"Something like that" Harry replied with a grin "See you guys!"
"Bye Harry" they replied back before Harry disapparated back home straight into his and Hermione's bedroom.
Hermione yelped in shock, "That was quick."
"Yeah, well" Harry said as he stripped down till he was in his boxers "Can't keep a good lady waiting now could I?" he got on the bed and kissed Hermione deeply.
…
A week later …
"Hey honey, how was the quidditch game?" Hermione asked after Harry appeared in the kitchen fully kitted out in Chudley Cannons support kit.
"They won!" Harry cried happily.
Hermione giggled and Harry came over, picked her up in a hug.
"Put me down, you nutcase!" Hermione said with a grin.
Harry did so but was still grinning "Oh it was an incredible match, one of the players had to be taken off on a stretcher, he fell 50 feet from his broom."
"Oh my god, was he alright?" Hermione said in concern
"Yeah they reckon he's broken a leg and his collar bone but he'll be fine. Anyway, how was shopping with Luna?"
"Yeah it was good fun; Lily was a bit of a madam today, she was very fussy."
"Aww, where is she now?"
"In her playpen in the living-room" Hermione said as the phone started to ring "Go on in and I'll be there in a second, just going to answer the phone."
Harry ventured to the living-room and smiled once he laid eyes on Lily.
"Hello sweetheart!" he picked her up into his arms "So what's up with you today, feeling a bit fussy are you?" he tickled her and she giggled.
Harry heard a delighted scream from Hermione in the other room and Harry rushed in to see what was going on.
"Oh that's amazing news! Yeah...okay... oh my god, yes, I'd love to! Thank-you! Okay, I will see you tomorrow!... Yeah...Alright, Bye!"
"Hermione, what's going on?" Harry wondered curiously as he still had Lily in his arms.
"That was Ginny, you will never guess what?! Neville has proposed!"
Harry looked very surprised "Really? Wow that's brilliant!"
"I know, isn't it great?! He proposed last night, and Ginny has been trying to get hold of me all day to tell me. Apparently Neville had initially planned to propose on Valentine's Day, but when he heard that Charlie was planning on doing the same thing to Elena, he postponed it for a few days."
"Bless Neville" Harry smiled, knowing Neville always was so considerate and down to earth "Well that means we've got two weddings to look forward to."
Hermione beamed with excitement "Yeah looks that way, but anyway they are having an engagement party next week, we're all invited."
"Oh fantastic!" Harry grinned "Shall we ask your parents if they mind babysitting?"
"Good plan" Hermione replied before almost jumping about in excitement "Ooo I can't wait!" she calmed herself down as she noticed Lily's behaviour "Oh so now she behaves herself when daddy has come home."
Harry laughed "What can I say… women are irresistible to my charms."
This caused Hermione to roll her eyes and she laughed at her husband who was bouncing a now perfectly content Lily in his arms.