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Hermione

"Hermione," A soft voice called in a distinctive French accent.

I turned around with a smile as I gazed dreamily at the girl behind me, "You're finally here." I sighed.

She ran up to me and embraced me, I snaked my arms around her, returning the hug, "I am," she whispered into my ear before she started lightly kissing it.

I gasped as her lips slowly trailed along my jaw and to my own lips. As her lips attached themselves to mine, my arms tightened around her, keeping her firmly in place. Her tongue emerged from her mouth and started to lightly press against my lips, asking for entrance. I immediately granted it, allowing her tongue dominance over mine as it swirled around and massaged mine.

Her left hand released its hold of my back and slowly slid around to the front of my school robes. She gently squeezed my left breast, massaging it, eliciting quiet moans from my mouth, mingling with her own light panting. She slowly released my breast, her hand lightly trailing down my stomach, slowly her hand reached my center, lightly grazing my clit through my robes.

I woke up with a gasp, a light sheen of sweat covered my body, and I felt a familiar tingling sensation coming from between my legs, not again, I'd been having that same dream more often than not ever since meeting Fleur. I groaned as I rose out of my bed noticing it was five-thirty in the morning, knowing I was not going to be able to get back to sleep, I grabbed my robes and headed to the showers. I found the showers were empty causing me to sigh a little in frustration, an empty shower meant I was free to take care of the ache. And doing so in a shared shower always felt weird, but I knew that I would end up doing it anyway if the showers remained empty.

I felt much happier, much more alive after my shower for one reason only, with no one else entering, I just went for it, fantasizing about Fleur. Upon entering my shared room, I felt a little guilt build up thanks to what I'd just done in one of the shower stalls, but the guilt wasn't enough to bring my mood down. I glanced in the direction of Ginny's bed and noticed she wasn't there, so I looked at the bed next to hers and saw her holding onto Pansy, whispering comforting words into her ear.

I couldn't stop a small smile from forming on my face, ever since the nightmare from a few weeks ago, Ginny had taken it upon herself to comfort Pansy whenever she had one. I knew my friend had it bad for the ex-Slytherin, even if she denied it tooth and nail. I smirked at her as rose from Pansy's bed, looking slightly disheveled from sleep.

She walked over to me and lightly slapped me "Wipe that look off your face," she grumbled quietly, "I'm not into her."

I nodded along, not believing her for a second, but my expression changed to one of concern as I looked over at Pansy, "Is she doing okay?"

Ginny shook her head, "The bullying still hasn't stopped, I think it may be what's causing the nightmares," she spoke sadly.

"Probably, at least she has us to help though," I tried to reassure Ginny.

"We know that, but I don't think she does." Ginny replied glumly, "I think we need to take drastic measures with getting her to see that we're her friends."

I nodded, and couldn't help teasing the redhead about the resolve I heard in her voice, "Would you be acting this way over just anyone?" I asked suggestively.

She slapped me harder this time, "I can't deal with this so early in the morning," she muttered, "Why the hell are you so chipper anyway?" She turned away, apparently not expecting an answer. But had she not turned away she would have seen my face burn bright red and she may have had some idea.

"Oh, by the way, I wanted to talk to you about the House Elves," I chirped.

Ginny turned a confused look toward me, "What about them?"

"Well, haven't you noticed that they are basically slaves?" I asked incredulously. "I mean, they cook, clean, fix broken items, and are treated like dirt."

Ginny nodded along, "I get that some people treat them badly, but the House Elves here are treated with respect."

I huffed at her response, "Sure, respect, I've seen them working round the clock cleaning this entire castle over and over again, and why? They never have so much before, and do they even get holidays? Paid? Allowed to even visit their families?"

"Well, they aren't human, and they seem to like working for us, I don't really see a problem."

"That's what people said way back when, you know when the Europeans enslaved black people!" I was starting to get angry thinking about it, "It's only different because the House Elves aren't defending themselves. And after hundreds of years of slavery what else do they know? Has any House Elf alive today known the taste of freedom?" I was seething with anger, they were slaves to the wizards, there to be used and cast aside when not wanted.

"Mione, calm down, you need to eat something," I looked around confused when the hell did we even get to the Great Hall?

Shrugging I started to begrudgingly eat some eggs on toast, I hated that all the food was made by House Elves, but I needed to eat. Ginny sighed causing me to look up at her, she was looking towards the doors of the Great Hall with a lazy smile on her face. Following her gaze, I instantly knew what, or who had her smiling, walking towards us were Pansy and Emily.

They sat down across from us, Emily with her usual happy smile and Pansy with a mask of indifference, which usually meant she'd already been bullied by someone. They set about eating their food and conversing quietly with each other and sometimes Ginny. I watched my friend as she brightened whenever Pansy would ask her a question, before immediately becoming dejected when Pansy started to talk to Emily again. I rolled my eyes at her insistence on saying she didn't have a thing for the older girl.

Ignoring them my mind went back to the House Elves, thinking how they were being used, I decided I needed to do something, whatever I could, they deserved… I don't know… something. Dammit, I need to do some research on this. I looked at the two girls in front of me and decided to get some input from them.

"Hey Emily, Pansy, can I ask something?" I interrupted their conversation, they nodded motioning for me to go ahead. "Well, I wanted to know where you guys stood on House Elves?"

Emily just shrugged her shoulders, "All I really know about them is that they work for wizards, beyond that I don't know anything about them."

Pansy smiled at the question, "House Elves are great!" She exclaimed, startling me. "Or at least the one at my home is, she's really nice, I could always talk to her about things I felt I couldn't with my parents. I just wish they weren't so loyal, I've seen a lot of mistreatment happen to the poor creatures, and they don't fight back," Pansy sighed sadly.

I smiled happily as Pansy spoke, "I want to try to free them, would you care to help?" I asked. Pansy was silent for a while, staring at her food, causing me to become frustrated, if she felt like that wouldn't she want to help? Before I could ask, she started speaking.

"I don't know Hermione, the Elves won't take kindly to being freed," Pansy replied.

I frowned in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"Well, from what I've gathered by speaking with Eli the Elf that works for my family, she doesn't want to be free, none of them do," Pansy explained.

I was visibly upset upon hearing this revelation, "But we need to do something, they're being beaten and starved by some wizards… We need to help them."

Pansy didn't respond for a while once again, but I could see she was deep in thought, "What if we try to fight for their rights, fight to make it illegal to beat and starve Elves, make it so they get proper clothes and proper living quarters. Anything greater and all we'll end up doing is alienating the very creatures we're trying to help."

I nodded a little annoyed that we couldn't do more for them, but it was a start, maybe once they got a taste of freedom, they'd want more. "Alright, we can do it that way."

"I want to help too!" Ginny piped up from next to me, I looked at her with a knowing smile which caused her to roll her eyes. Looking back at the two girls across from us, Emily wore a smirk while Pansy just looked confused.

"I'll help too," Emily smirked at me.

Ginny glared at the two of us while Pansy somehow remained oblivious, I plastered an innocent smile on my face, "Thank you all, I'll get things set up, and we can hold a meeting in the middle of next month." I said before I stood up and walked to my class first class of the day.

Ginny

I sat in the common room with Pansy, Emily, and Hermione, we were holding the first S.P.E.W meeting ever, and I'd ended up sitting next to Pansy. I couldn't wipe the smile off my face, and when pressed I just said I'd become excited about helping House Elf's, which was kind of true, but definitely not the reason I was so happy. The meeting lasted for hours and by the end of it Pansy was named Treasurer and co-Founder, I was the secretary and co-Founder, Emily was just a co-Founder and Hermione was, obviously, the Boss, and co-Founder. We were each given a small box for donations and a handful of S.P.E.W badges for anyone who donates.

Pansy and Emily walked up to the dorm while Hermione stayed behind in the common room, I stayed with her because I needed to speak with her about some things. I stayed silent at first, not really knowing how to start, or if I even wanted to. "Hermione, we need to talk." I blurted after a considerable amount of pushing myself.

She turned around with a grin on plastered over her face, "What's this about?" she asked all too innocently.

Rolling my eyes at her, I sat on the couch, "I'm guessing you already know…"

Hermione sat next to me and grabbed my hand, "I do know," I wasn't looking at her, but I could hear the smile in her voice.

"What do I do?" I asked, I knew she didn't have any experience either, but I really didn't know what to do. I was scared, I'd never felt like this about a girl before.

"I don't know, tell her?" she suggested.

I let out a snort, "There is no way I can do that, what if she says no… We may not be able to stay friends like that." The thought saddened me.

"Well then I don't know, you could try fishing for information… Find out if she likes you the same way, or even what she looks for in a person."

I shook my head, "She's smart, she could piece it together, I think I'm just going to stay her friend, that way we can always be together." But even as I spoke I didn't believe it, I knew if things kept going the way they were I wouldn't be able to live like that.

Pansy

I ran back to the common room as fast as I could, I was massively upset, it felt as though my heart was being ripped to shreds, and it hurt, it hurt more than when I was cast from the Slytherin's like a piece of garbage. By the time I'd made it back to the dorm room, I had tears trailing down my face, I threw myself down on my bed and started openly weeping into my pillow.

I felt the bed dip down as someone sat down, a warm hand started rubbing along my back slowly, comfortingly. "What's wrong?" Emily's soothing voice filled my ears, and I clutched onto her, I needed to hold someone. I wasn't able to calm down enough to answer her, and I quickly fell asleep without answering the question.

Throughout the night, I had dreams of Ginny, I saw her kissing a lot of different people, tearing my heart to shreds every time I saw it. The other girl was never me. I awoke in the middle of the night, I was now alone in my bed, Emily had gone to her own bed to sleep. Ginny and Hemione had come up from the common room sometime while I was asleep, a small lamp was lit next to Ginny's bed, making her completely visible, she was facing me, her mouth slightly parted.

I stared at her, I imagined what it would feel like to kiss her beautiful lips, how great it would be if she were to reciprocate the kiss. But she had a crush on someone, I didn't know who, but I knew it couldn't be me. I rose from my bed and gingerly walked over to hers, keeping my steps as silent as I could, before kneeling down next to her.

"Why Ginny? Why can't it be me?" I whispered, "I-I think I love you, but how could you feel the same, you could have anyone, you're so smart, kind and goddammit, you're beautiful." I leaned in and went to press a quick kiss to her cheek, but just before my lips came into contact, her eyes flew open. I wasn't able to pull back fast enough, but to my surprise, she moved her face so my lips connected to hers, I tried to pull away, terrified that she was going to hate me now, but she grabbed my head and held it in place.

The kiss was sloppy, terrible, but it was also our first, I couldn't help but hold out hope that it wouldn't be our last, even if they were all just as terrible, I wanted it to happen again. I finally pulled away when she let go, she was smiling at me, and I couldn't help but return the smile. She pulled me onto the bed with her and wrapped her arms around me, the feeling of her arms around me was amazing, and it took everything I had to control my hormonal body. I could feel clearly that her breasts were poking into my back and her hands were resting just below mine, I thought I was going to go insane with frustration.

"You know Pansy if you say you might love me so early then what is there for me to work towards? I mean, love is basically the end game, until we leave school and think about a family."

"I-I-I" I couldn't respond, I was too happy and embarrassed at the same time.

Ginny let out a quiet giggle, "You're so cute," she smiled into the crook of my neck.

"No, I'm not," I mumbled, with a smile on my face, "And even if I was, you're much cuter." I turned around to face her, "I mean just look at you, your skin is so beautifully white, your long red hair feels so soft," I said as I stroked it, "And your eyes are so blue I could get lost in them." Her mouth opened and closed as she tried to speak, but before she was ever able to, I leaned in and pecked her on the lips, hoping I hadn't gone too far. "We can talk tomorrow, we should get some sleep, and since tomorrow is a Saturday, we'll have plenty of time."

She nodded so I started to get out of her bed to sleep in my own but her hold tightened effectively keeping me in place, "Where are you going?" she asked with a pout.

"To sleep?" I replied hesitantly.

"You can sleep here you know."

I really wanted to, so much so that I almost just stayed in her embrace, but I knew if I did, she'd know about me… About what I was, and I couldn't have that, at least not yet. She must have sensed my inner conflict because her arms loosened their grip around me.

"I know, it's too soon, I'm just really happy, but you're right… Goodnight, Pansy." She leaned in and kissed me lightly, as she pulled away she lightly nibbled on my bottom lip. She was teasing me, and I could tell she still wanted me to stay with her, but I couldn't, not yet.

"Goodnight Ginny." I kissed her back before rising from her bed and going to sleep in my own.

Ginny

I woke the next morning with a smile, I got up and was going to run to Pansy but she wasn't in her bed, I felt a little dejected but gathered my things for a quick shower, before returning to the dorm room and sitting on my bed. I decided to lay back down but heard a light crumpling as I did, my hand moved under my pillow, and I felt a piece of paper. I pulled it out and quickly read it.

Ginny,

I woke up early this morning and Hermione was awake, she asked me to help her with some S.P.E.W things, but we'll talk later on.

Pansy.

I groaned as I read the note, "Damn Hermione," I grumbled.

"What's wrong?" Emily asked from her bed having just woke up.

"Nothing," I sighed.

"Doesn't sound like nothing," I shrugged in response, "What, did Pansy finally get up the courage to tell you how she feels, but before you could really talk she was stolen away?" she said with a smirk.

"You were awake last night." I deadpanned.

"I totally was and it was so cute to listen too, I mean at first she thought she was talking to you while you slept, and you kept quiet throughout her entire confession and everything, then I watched as she went to kiss you on the cheek but you moved and held her down so you could kiss her lips, then-"

"Okay!" I yelled trying to get her to stop rambling, "I'm sorry but I know what happened, I was there, remember?"

Emily looked down at the floor embarrassedly, "I know, sorry, just got excited."

I put a hand on her shoulder, "It's fine, I'm glad that you are as it shows you really like… my Pansy."

Emily let out a soft giggle at the way I phrased it "Yes, your Pansy," she smiled.

I returned her smile, "I'm going to grab breakfast, care to join me?" I inquired.

"Sure, just let me get dressed."

I nodded and headed down to the common room to wait for her. While waiting I was approached by a few girls in the same year as me, "Hey your friends with Pansy, right?" One of the girls asked I nodded my response, "Is it true that she has a… you know?"

I rolled my eyes at her, "Professor Dumbledore himself said she didn't." I replied.

"Yeah, but he's the headmaster, he could have easily been protecting her."

I sighed, "She doesn't have one okay?" I didn't actually know, I would have been able to believe she didn't have one, but since we met I'd seen the occasional glimpse of what I thought could have been a bulge, but I couldn't be sure.

"I told you!" one of the other girls chirped to her friends.

The girls walked away, still talking about what was in Pansy's panties. "Ready to go?" Emily asked as she emerged from the staircase. Nodding, I stood up and walked with her to the Great Hall, noticing Ron and Harry we walked over and joined them. They were busy playing Wizard's Chess.

"Hi Harry," Emily greeted Harry a little shyly.

"Hey," Harry responded lamely, I rolled my eyes at him, he's so oblivious.

We sat in the Great Hall watching Harry and Ron play game after game of chess while we spoke, it was a few hours before Pansy and Hermione finally joined us, I smiled at Pansy as she sat down next to me. I slipped my hand into hers and leaned into her slightly, wanting to be as close to her as possible, I knew Ron would be to engrossed in the game to notice what was happening between Pansy and me.

I craned my head up to her ear, "You want to go somewhere private to talk?" I asked hopefully.

She nodded with a smile as she stood, pulling me up with her she led me out of the Great Hall. I followed her through the halls of the castle before she pulled me through the front entrance. We walked silently off the grounds of the school and to a small snowy field that overlooked the lake.

"It looks so beautiful," I said staring out at the sun reflecting off the black lake.

"Not as beautiful as you," Pansy said pulling me into a hug.

"Flatterer," I smiled as I returned the embrace, resting my head underneath her chin. We stood there silently for a few minutes just enjoying each other until I felt her start to move a little, my eyes widened as I realized why she was moving. Poking into my waist was something long, something hard. I pulled back staring at her, "W-What was that?" I asked a little scared.

Pansy looked down at my tone, "What the Slytherin's said… it's true," she whispered, I could hear the dread in her voice.

I re-closed the small gap that had formed between us and placed a light kiss to her lips while my right hand trailed down her abdomen. She grabbed my hand stopping me from reaching my destination, her eyes were wide "We're not ready for that," she whispered half-heartedly.

"I know," I smirked at her, "But I need to feel it, it may sound weird, but I need to know for sure." Her hand let go of my own, allowing my hand to slowly roll down and graze her, my eyes widened "You really have one," I whispered.

"I do… you hate me, now don't you?"

"Definitely not," I replied in a firm tone, "It may take some getting used to, but I still want to be with you."

As the words left my mouth, Pansy's mouth came crashing down onto mine, she kissed me desperately holding me tightly. She pulled away panting, as I opened my eyes I saw tears dripping down her face, I lifted my hands to her face, wiping the tears away. "Thank you," she whispered.

I smiled at her, "No need to thank me, how could I hate this sexy body," I smirked as her face turned completely red.

"H-H-How c-can you s-say something l-like that so e-easily?" She stuttered. I didn't answer, I just kept smiling at her, we spent the rest of the afternoon joined at the hip, just talking with each other with a little teasing here and there.

Hermione

We were all sitting in the Great Hall early Sunday morning, waiting for the post to be delivered. I sat silently just, listening to my friends talk, occasionally laughing along with them. But I was distracted, I'd had another dream of Fleur and wasn't able to relieve myself in the shower, so now I felt odd, somehow wrong.

A squeal from overhead signaled the arrival of the owls, I watched as people received gifts and letters from their parents and family until I received my own. I went to read the letter from my parents, but a blue piece of parchment caught my eye. I opened it and was hit with the amazing scent of blueberry with a hint of vanilla, they handwriting on the inside was done with clean, measured strokes without any mistakes. But it was the content that baffled me the most.

Dear Hermione,

It has been some time since I last saw you, but soon that will change, I can't wait to see that pretty face of yours, even if it is scowling I need it.

See you soon ma belle,

Yours, Fleur Delacour

I quickly folded the note and slipped it into one of my pockets, throughout the rest of the day my hand would slip into my pocket just to feel the note, I contemplated taking it out and re-reading it, but I was always decided against it. I groaned in annoyance as I reached into my pocket for the umpteenth time in the past hour alone, I had no idea why I wanted to read is so badly but I did.

That night I was unable to fall asleep, the note lay on my bedside table, taunting me, I didn't want to read it, I needed to. So, snatching it up I generated some light with my wand so I could read it. I read it and re-read it over and over until I finally fell asleep with the note laying on my face.

A.N Fleurs finally going to be returning, Yay!