A/N: Hello, update number three for the week! Sadly, it will also be my last update for the week. I also cannot make any promises what is to come next week, as I have a full plate. I am hopeful that at least one, if not two updates will be able to come along. We will see though.

So my fun story, it'll just be from this past Monday actually. I spent 10.5 hours watching the entire Twilight Saga with a new friend. The best way to bond with anyone is to sit and have a Twilight marathon.

Our next plan is going to be a Harry Potter marathon, but we did agree that will have to be broken up over a two-day period. Now thinking back though, I cannot remember the last time I watched all the HP movies. The books, I read/listen to multiple times a year. The movies, however, I only seem to visit once every few years.

Oh, the other movie I watched over the weekend with my husband was Mean Girls. I expect for the next few weeks, I'll be wearing pink on Wednesdays.

Also, just because I'm obsessed. If you are a shojo manga fan, Snow White with the Red Hair is my guilty pleasure. I just realized that volume 15 was released, so off I go to buy that and read it within the day. Shameless plug that I get nothing for. There is also an anime that has two seasons that was really good.

Okay, my ramblings are complete. I'll be back sometime next week!

Week Eleven

Charlie,
I'm sorry I was short with you. I'm just frustrated with how slowly this is taking to heal, and I shouldn't have taken my frustrations out on you.

I'm also sorry that I didn't wait for you at the infirmary, I needed to clear my head and I felt that it would be better to do with a short walk. It helped me find some clarity, and I feel like I owe it to you to also ponder the same questions that I have been asking myself.

How do you feel about me Charlie? What type of life are you wanting, and does that life include me? What things are you willing to give up to be with me? What would you ask me to give up to be with you?

I know things have become very muddled the last few weeks and that we've spent so much time together and it's been easy for me to get lost in you. Before we're back in England, I want to take a little time to evaluate what it is that we truly want for our personal lives.

If we are going to actually be together, I want to give us a real shot. I hope you understand.

My heart is with you,
Hermione

Hermione had hardly had the time to see Charlie for the past week, much less think about what direction she wanted to continue with him. She felt like she was missing a piece of herself not seeing him and spending time with him.

Hermione had already decided, she was all in with Charlie. She had known it before she even sat down to think over her options. If he wanted to leave Scotland and return to Romania, she knew that she'd follow him back. She was willing to follow him wherever and help him build his dreams and she knew that she would be able to build her new dreams wherever they were.

He just hadn't said anything back to her about it.

She'd sent him that letter last Friday and he hadn't responded to her at all. He hadn't even verbally acknowledged that he'd gotten it. This was unbearably frustrating for her.

She just needed to know because she knew then she could tell him that she was all in. The sooner he did, the sooner she would be able to start figuring out her next move career wise.

She also knew that she was going to have to tell Harry, Ron, and Ginny. She had never told any of them about sleeping with Charlie and she was sure that this would be a bit of a shock for all of them. She also knew that as soon as Molly heard about a relationship between her and Charlie that she would have the wedding planned within the week.

So much with so little time, she just needed to know what to prepare for when it concerned her friends.

"Hey, Hermione" Casey waved at her, Hermione realized that she no longer had her arm wrapped in a bandage.

"Casey, how's your arm?" Hermione glanced down towards her still bandaged leg. Her shoulder had finally stopped bleeding, but her leg was stubbornly still bleeding. She was starting to question if she was going to be drinking blood replenishing potion for the rest of her life.

"It's fine, I've got to go check on Clover so I'll see you later." Casey summoned her broom and was off towards the longhorn enclosures.

Hermione turned and was heading back towards her quarters when she saw the back of a familiar red head heading into the men's living quarters. Putting her shoulders back, Hermione decided that she was tired of waiting on Charlie to come to her. That and she knew that Casey wouldn't notice she wasn't in her room for the foreseeable future.

She'd followed far enough away from Charlie that he didn't seem to realize that she had been following him. She saw him enter his room and close the door to his room. Taking a deep breath, she knocked on the door, but she didn't get an answer.

Hermione knocked again, and there was still no answer.

Gathering all her Gryffindor courage, she slowly opened the door and stuck her head inside, looking for Charlie. He was no where in sight, as she slipped into the room. The faint sound of water running made Hermione take a deep breath.

She shouldn't be in here when he was showering. However, she started thinking about how long it had been since they'd spent time together without clothes.

Hermione turned towards the door and silently locked it to make sure that they wouldn't be disturbed. She quickly pulled her shirt over her head, slipped out of her shorts, and removed her bra and knickers.

Without a sound, Hermione slipped into the steam filled bathroom. She could see the outline of Charlie as he ran his head under the water. Knowing he couldn't hear her, she slipped in behind him, pressing her naked body against his back.

Charlie whipped around in surprise, but at once his eye grew dark with lust as he ran them up and down her body. Without warning, Charlie's lips crashed against Hermione's. With a gasp of surprise, she felt at once when his tongue ran across her lips.

She threw her arms around his neck as he lifted her and wrapped her legs around his waist. Charlie pressed her back against the tiles, a low rumble came through his throat. Hermione felt the warmth in her stomach spread as just the sound made her folds wet with desire.

Hermione wiggled her way out of his hold and slid herself down the front of his body. Hermione could feel the haze of lust in her eyes as she looked over his body. She couldn't help but admire the curves of his muscles and the firmness beneath her wandering hands.

Hermione let her lips pepper kisses down his body. She kissed down one arm and then down the other. Using her tongue, she ran a trail down his chest and toward his pelvis. Once she reached his stiff member, she settled herself onto her knees and used her tongue on the underside of his shaft.

Charlie let out a hiss of pleasure as she flicked his tip with her tongue. Taking him in her mouth, Charlie let out a grunt of pleasure, encouraging Hermione to keep rubbing him with the tongue while she worked to take even more of him into her mouth.

She could feel as he wrapped her hair in his fists and causing her to bob her head in a steady rhythm. She relaxed her throat to take him in deeper, causing another hiss to escape from Charlie's lips. Using one of her hands, Hermione began to gently play with Charlie's sack and massaged his balls while she continued to take him into her mouth.

"If you don't stop, I'm going to in your mouth." Charlie stated looking down at her with dark eyes.

Hermione started to pull Charlie slowly out of her mouth while looking up him in the eye. With a lick of her lips, Hermione sucked him back into her mouth in one movement still looking up at Charlie.

He threw his head back and began to thrust his hips into her mouth while still holding onto her hair. Hermione could feel her own climax building just from doing this act on Charlie. With her free hand, she began to pull and twist at her nipple.

She hurried her rhythm with her mouth and moved a hand down between her legs to rub on her own clit. Daring to look back up, she saw the hunger in Charlie's eyes. Watching her with him in her mouth and playing with herself at the same time.

He tightened his grip and held her head still as he released into her mouth. At the same time, Hermione felt her body shudder with her own release.

"Bloody hell woman" Charlie reached down towards her to help her stand.

"I want to be with you, whatever that means." Hermione rested her forehead against his as she still struggled to take steady breaths in the aftermath of her climax.

"I do too, we can figure out the details. I just know I want it to be the two of us." Charlie rubbed his head against hers.

At once, everything felt right, perfect, and Hermione was looking forward to what her future with Charlie held.

Week Twelve

Hermione,
HAPPY LAST BIRTHDAY IN YOUR TWENTIES!

Can't wait to celebrate!

With love,
Ginny

Mione,
Happy Birthday, see you Saturday.

Love,
Harry

Mione,
Happy Birthday

See you soon,
Ron

Hermione,
Happy Birthday sweetheart, we're so glad you've had such a good time in Romania. We miss you. See you Saturday for your and Louis's party.

We're so proud of you.

Love,
Molly and Arthur

Hermione,
Happy Birthday, beautiful. I'll see you tonight. I look forward to celebrating you.

-Charlie

Hermione was standing in the middle of her nearly empty room thinking of everything that she had accumulated in the past twelve weeks. She couldn't believe that her time in Romania was already coming to an end and that she would be back in England tomorrow.

Hermione also couldn't believe that today was also her twenty ninth birthday.

"Hermione! Good, you're here. Come on then, we've got places to go, things to see." Casey strolled into her room and grabbed her hand and began to pull her towards the door.

"Casey, where are we going?" Hermione stumbled being pulled on as they were leaving her room.

"You'll just have to wait and see." Casey continued to pull on Hermione until they had reached Casey's broom and climbed on. Without waiting for another response, Casey kicked off the ground and they shot into the sky.

Hermione couldn't help but letting a scream escape her lips. While she'd been recovering Casey had managed to fly without terrifying Hermione. However, ever since her leg had fully healed, Casey had gone back to flying like a lunatic.

Burring her face into Casey's back, Hermione let out a sob as she felt Casey dip a weave through the trees, when at last she felt the movement stop and they had landed. Hermione was struggling with releasing her grip on Casey's shirt, but Casey couldn't stop laughing to herself.

"Hermione, come on. You can't stay on the broom all day. Unless, you want me to take you for another ride?" With that threat, Hermione released Casey and fell to the ground with a thump. "Well come on, get up. We've got things to see."

Bringing herself into a sitting position, Hermione brushed all the dirt off her clothes and stumbled to her feet. Casey was already much ahead of her, but Hermione recognized the area as the longhorn enclosure.

"Casey, what are we doing with the longhorns?" Hermione ran to catch up with Casey and her long strides.

"I told you, you'll just have to wait and see." Casey threw her a glance over her should with a smirk to show just how excited Casey was for this as well. As they rounded the path to come to the front of the enclosure, Hermione could see Charlie standing there waiting for her.

He was bouncing on the balls of his feet and couldn't help the grin that had split across his face.

"Casey, seriously. What's going on." Hermione could feel herself flooding with anticipation.

Casey stopped her approach of Charlie, but shoved Hermione to keep moving forward.

"Charlie, what's going on? I feel like I'm the only person who isn't in on something big."

"Just, watch." Charlie leaned down and left a kiss on the corner of her mouth. Turning towards the enclosure, Charlie let out a high pitch whistle. Hermione looked at the clearing in front of them, then back to Charlie. He still had a smile on his face, making her suspect that they were just waiting.

Trotting into the clearing was a small horse sized longhorn. Hermione's hands shot up to her face and covered her mouth. Clover had glittering golden horns protruding from her head and around one of the horns was a glittering necklace.

Clover noticed Charlie, lowering her head she began to charge towards him. Before she reached the wards, she lifted her head to watch for his reaction. When he began to praise her Clover lifted her head and slowly pranced around, shooting small bursts of fire into the air to show her joy.

Charlie flicked his wand and summoned the necklace from Clover, who had taken to jumping into the air and attempting to flap her wings to keep her airborne.

"Happy birthday, Hermione." Charlie took the locket and leaned to clasp it around her neck. Opening the locket, Hermione could see inside there was a picture of her and Charlie looking at each other, then slowly leaning in for a kiss, then breaking apart. It was a perfect loop; she couldn't tell where the moment began and where it ended.

"This is incredible, Charlie. Thank you." Hermione met his eyes. Everything else melted away and nothing but this moment with Charlie mattered.

"I love you, Hermione" Charlie whispered as he captured her lips with his. Hermione threw her arms around Charlie's neck. She felt like she couldn't get enough of him, her lips craved every ounce of him and she just wanted to breath him in and feel the fire coming off her finger tips as their skin met.

"I love you, Charlie." Hermione pulled back from Charlie and looked to see that the sunset was starting, sending a swirl of reds, pinks, oranges, and yellows in the sky.

They sat and enjoyed the sunset, and watching Emerald walking over towards Clover who was starting to yawn and stretch showing that she was starting to get tired. As if that was a que, Charlie stood and held his hand out to her.

"Are you ready to go back, my lady?" With a smile Hermione accepted his hand and stood, being pulled into a warm embrace and another kiss.

"Why yes good sir, let's get back to finish celebrating my birthday." Hermione shot Charlie a quick wink to let him know how she exactly planned to finish her birthday night.

She climbed onto the back of his broom, burring her face into his back. Hermione couldn't help but breathing in the smell of Charlie. The warmth of his body radiating from under the shirt that was pulled tight over his muscles.

When they landed, Hermione looked up and realized that her ears were being assaulted by blaring loud music and twinkling lights of different colors shining all over the courtyard. At the center was a large cake with a "29" with sparkler fireworks on top of them.

"SURPRISE!" came a chorus of voices, Hermione looked around and recognized all of Charlie's quidditch team mates, other dragon keepers that she'd worked with, Vlad, Ivo, and Casey.

Before Hermione could say anything, fireworks started exploding above them in the night sky. One of them had been charmed to make her face appear with a wide smile and winking. Hermione hadn't even noticed when she was handed a shot of fire whiskey.

"Happy birthday, love." Charlie called as he held up a shot. Together they clinked their glasses and downed the liquid in one go.

"Happy birthday, Hermione!" Casey came into view, handing her and Charlie another shot of fire whiskey. The three of them did another round of shots as the music let off ground shaking beats in the background.

"How did you put this together?" Hermione asked leaning towards Casey nearly shouting.

"Oh well, I told you before we have parties on Friday nights. I just had to get the cake and charm a few fireworks." Casey gave Hermione a wink, handing them all another shot to take.

After taking her third shot in less than ten minutes, Hermione leaned towards Casey and yelled "I'm too old to be drinking like this now."

Casey laughed and shook her head, handing Hermione a mixed drink this time. "If you're too old to be doing this, then Charlie and Ivo have no excuse." Casey gestured over to where Charlie and Ivo stood at a bar taking double shots together.

"It's your birthday and tomorrow you'll be going back to England and diving into work. If you want to be able to let loose, you'll have to do it now." Casey laughed, picking up another shot off a floating tray.

Shaking her head, Hermione took the shot from Casey and downed it in one go. She was right, it was her last birthday in her twenties and she was going to go above and beyond in celebrating it.

With the aid of all the alcohol flowing in her system, Hermione made her with Casey to where there was dancing. She noted that there were a lot of women here, so she assumed that they had come from the village to act as dates for some of the dragon keepers.

Throwing her hands in the air, Hermione hadn't felt so free in a notably long time. Hermione danced with Casey for a while until Anton came walking over with another round of shots for the three of them. After throwing hers back, Hermione noticed, with a haze that Casey and Anton were now dancing together. This was a new development that Hermione wanted to remember to ask Casey about later.

Hermione felt as warm strong arms wrapped around her waist and lips began to kiss on her neck, finding the exact spot that he knew drove her wild. "I love you, Hermione." Charlie grumbled against her skin.

Following the music's tempo, Hermione and Charlie swayed together on the dance floor. Hermione turned her head ever so slightly to capture his lips. As Hermione deepened the kiss, she could feel Charlie rubbing small circles onto the exposed skin of her hips.

Humming against his lips in approval of the touch, Charlie let his hands wander across her abdomen. Hermione felt the heat radiating from his soft touch. Reaching her hand up, she grasped his jaw so that she could run her fingers up and down his face.

Charlie spun her around, so that Hermione's chest was now pressed against Charlie's. They continued to slowly sway to the music that was still playing in the background, but Hermione's thoughts were all consumed by the touch of the wizard in front of her.

Letting the alcohol give her the carelessness, Hermione slipped her free hand between their bodies and into Charlie's trousers. She could feel that he was already hard for her. Charlie let out a low moan as she gripped him and ran her hand back and forth on his shaft.

"Am I going to need to take you back to my room now?" Charlie asked with a growl in his voice.

Pulling back from Charlie, Hermione removed her hand and tried to give the most innocent look possible. "Did I do something wrong?"

Letting out a bark of a laugh, Charlie tugged her back into his arms and began to sway to the music and leave the dance floor. From the corner of her eye, Hermione spotted Casey wrapped around Anton snogging him.

Charlie brought her back to their moment when he nipped at her ear. Cooing with pleasure, Charlie lifted Hermione into his arms, grabbing her arse and taking long purposeful strides until they were alone in his quarters.

Their kisses became hurried and desperate. They both knew that after tonight, they weren't going to be seeing each other for almost three months. Hermione threw back her head, letting Charlie nip and suck at the exposed skin.

Letting a deep moan slip from her lips, Hermione felt as Charlie lowered her onto his bed. Stepping back from her, Charlie began to slowly remove his shirt. Seeing the rippling muscles in front of her caused a purr to slip from her.

Charlie continued to undress for her, slowly undoing his belt and the buttons of his trousers. She could hear the thump of his boots when he kicked them off. Hermione could feel that her kickers were already drenched and could feel herself getting closer to the edge just from watching him.

Charlie crawled above her body and tugged at her loose-fitting shirt, pulling it easily over her head. He unbuttoned the shorts she was wearing with one hand, and tugged them down her legs. Leaving her in just a pair of lace red kickers.

Licking his lips, Charlie kissed his way up the inside of her legs. When he reached the scar from her vampire bite, he made sure to stop and gently kiss the spot.

He continued his journey towards her center, slowly using his hand to rub on the outside of her kickers.

"You're already wet" he observed of her.

"This is what you do to me" Hermione whispered with a husky lust filled voice.

Charlie's fingers dipped inside her kickers and slid within her folds. Using his thumb, he began to rub circles on her clit. With two of his other fingers, he put them inside her body and began to move them in and out.

Hermione was already close before he'd started and she knew that it would only be a matter of a minute at most before she toppled over her edge into her climax. It was when she felt his tongue on her clit, her legs began to shake and Hermione screamed Charlie's name in pleasure with her orgasm.

Hermione's body was still trembling from her release and eyes closed when she felt Charlie's body hovering over her. With a shift motion, Hermione felt the delicate lace being ripped from her body.

Without another word, Hermione felt Charlie's tip at her entrance and she was ready. It had been so long, and she was ready to feel him fill her completely. Hermione bucked her hips forward, bringing him inside her. With a hiss of pleasure, Charlie began to thrust his hips building up the momentum.

Hermione wrapped her legs around his waist and dug her heels into his back, encouraging him to keep the tempo up. With each thrust, Charlie was diving deep into her. Hermione racked her nails through his back, to the point they felt dampened with his blood. Charlie let out a yell, falling onto her collarbone and biting down. Hermione yelped, and felt herself contract around Charlie's penis inside her.

Charlie thrust his hand between their bodies and gave her clit a rub, and Hermione was overcome with another explosive orgasm. As she shuttered, she could also feel Charlie release inside her. The feeling of him pulsing inside her caused another explosive tumble for Hermione.

Breathing heavy, Hermione could feel that sleep was going to quickly take over her. The alcohol in addition to multiple orgasms, had Hermione just hanging on.

"This was the best birthday I think I've ever had." She whispered into his chest as she snuggled closer to Charlie's side.

Charlie hummed in agreement. Without another word, Hermione let the exhaustion take hold and lull her into a deep sleep with peaceful dreams.