(A/N One day I was reading 'It was bound to happen' by Heaven and I got inspired to write a H/H fanfic for taking down my last story, and I started writing and a friend of mine *sugar-n-spice, I highly recommend you read her stories if you haven't already* read what I had suggested a prequel, so here it is hopefully. Please keep in mind when reading this that I am not British and I'm not even going to try to get all the PHRASES or the accent written, cause I know I'd just murder them. :)

A love to last forever.

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It was raining outside when Hermione looked up from the book she had been reading by the fireplace late at night while waiting for Ron and Harry to get back from quidditch practice. Hermione looked at her watch, 11:45, Hermione decided they must have stopped by the kitchens on their way up here. Surely Oliver wouldn't have kept them so late. I'm sure they're okay, Hermione thought, trying to console herself. Why am I worrying so much, she asked herself, It's just the weather that has you spooked, she thought to herself trying to ignore the feeling that it was something much more big than that. How come after all 6 years of knowing the guy, these feelings have to pop up NOW? she questioned herself. She heard the dorm room door creak open, finally, she thought as she made her way over to the door to greet her friends.

"Hey, how was practice?" Hermione said cheerfully.

"Way to long for my liking." Harry said, trying to hold George up, as he was sleeping, "He fell asleep during Woods pep talk on strategies." he said while nodding on towards the limp body that was George.

"My stupid brother has to cut down on the sweets." Ron said, through big pants of breath as he was trying help Harry hold George up.

"But aren't you glad that Fred woke up when the pear giggled?" Harry said to Ron.

"Yeah, yeah, this time I am, next time I won't be though because then he won't wake up when we get to the kitchens and he'll be all the thicker." Ron said as he dropped his brother into a chair by fireplace with a loud !THUD!

Hermione felt her heart flutter as she watched Harry plop down in a warm chair by the fireplace.

"So, Herm, don't tell me you've been waiting up all night for us?" Harry said while digging into his share of the snacks brought up from the kitchen.

'I can't believe how gorgeous he is, wait a minute, what am I saying?' Hermione just stared at Harry as he bit the head off of a chocolate frog.

"Herm?" Harry said, looking at Hermione oddly, "Hello?"

"Huh, what?" Hermione said, snapping out of her daze.

Ron sat in the other chair, snickering at the two of them staring at each other.

"Why don't you just snog her already." Ron said on his way to the boys dormitories, leaving them alone, "I just leave you two alone."

"What?" Harry and Hermione said in unison.

Ron was already up the winding path, and didn't answer.

Harry and Hermione just started laughing at their own stupidity.

"So....." Harry began.

"So....." Hermione said.

"So....., what do we do know?" Harry replied.

"Go to bed?" Hermione suggested, and almost as quickly as it left her mouth, she scolded herself and felt all the blood rush directly to her face.

"Good idea, your bed or mine?" Harry said jokingly.

"Harry James Potter!!" Hermione exclaimed, clearly not recognizing the joke.

"Relax, Herm, relax, I was just joking!" Harry said with a smile.

"Real funny, Harry, real funny." Hermione said, obviously NOT thinking that it was funny.

At that moment a large clap of thunder made its presence known and at that precise moment a chill crept through the castle and the fire went out to just a smoldering pile of ash with a few embers in it.

Hermione felt herself shiver at the prospect of being alone in the dark. But then she remembered that she wasn't alone, she was with Harry and an indescribable warmth flowed through her.

*Harry's POV*

Perfect timing, mother nature. Now is the perfect time to kiss her. Do it, Do it, he pleaded with himself. Wait, his conscience suddenly said as he started to lean in for the kiss, what if she doesn't like you, what if it scares her off? You'll just have to take that risk, said the devil in Harry. Harry reasoned with himself, I've been living by the angel my whole life, I think that I'll go with the devil this time. So he leaned in for a small kiss, what he ended up with was much more than a small simple kiss he'd been searching for.

*end of Harry's POV*

*Hermione's POV*

Oh my gosh, he's kissing me! What should I do, what if he thinks that I'm not interested? Maybe I should let him know just how interested I am.

*End of Hermione's POV*

So Hermione deepened the kiss, which was a pleasant surprise to both of them, just then a large lighting bolt struck and lighted the whole room for a few fleeting moments and they broke apart and looked at each other in the others eyes. And that fleeting moment seemed to last a lifetime as two of the most meant-to-be, destiny-made couple realized that that's what they were.

"That was incredible." Harry said so simply.

It's a good thing that it's dark, thought Hermione, or else he'd see me blushing furiously. Before she had time to recover from her blushing attack, Harry said a lighting charm that rekindled the fire to a roaring flame.