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Summary: Harry and Hermione are in love, engaged and ready for action. They've made it past their personal troubles, but what does life have in store for them once they leave school?

A/N: Ok, I know that there is absolutely no excuse for the fact that I have been waiting months and months between each update, but I am really really super sorry!!!! Again, I know I said this last time, but with summer coming, I really mean it this time: I promise from now on they will be much more frequent ( Ok, That's all! Wait, did I mention how AMAZINGLY sorry I am? Well, I am. I hope you all enjoy it, and more importantly, REVIEW IT!!! (Please?? I'll love you forever!!!) Bye! R&R!!!!

~*~ Lavender ~*~

Harry and Hermione came downstairs to the smell of warm coffee cake, bacon, eggs, cinnamon toast and coffee, which they say displayed beautifully on the table of the Real Kitchen. Hermione began to help herself to a generous slice of coffee cake, before pausing suddenly and taking a sharp step back.

"By any chance, did Lavender make all this?" she asked cautiously, not wanted to hurt her friend's feelings, but wanting even more not to subject herself to eating one of Lavenders meals, if they could even be called that.

"Non, non, non! C'etait moi! Oui! It was I! I have created this masterpiece of culinary delight for you and your friends!" The new chef that Hermione and Ron had hired not a day before turned around to face his employers.

"Oh! Goodness, I didn't even see you there, Jacques!" Hermione replied.

"I was just practicing for the big opening day! It is in one week, non?"

"That's right." Ron replied. "But, speaking of Lavender, have you guys seen her? She didn't come home last night. I'm really worried."

"Really?" Harry asked, as their new French chef turned away and busied himself with the dishes. "I figured she just came in late and went straight to bed." Both he and Hermione began to look worried as well. It wasn't like Lavender at all to stay out and not even call.

"Maybe she just had a lot of work." Hermione suggested, although half- heartedly. "We should call her office." Ron nodded and headed toward the kitchen fire, but before he could begin, the front door slammed shut.

"Anybody home?" Lavender's voice filled the front hall.

"We're in the kitchen, honey." Ron called back to her. All three of them looked noticeably relieved.

"See." Hermione said, as if she had been absolutely sure of her guess moments before. "I told you it was nothing." Harry and Ron rolled their eyes.

"Of course, dear." Harry responded and all three of them laughed.

"What's so funny? Lavender asked as she entered the kitchen.

"Nothing." Ron replied. "Where were you?"

"Oh, just a ton of work. I fell asleep in my chair! Can you believe that? So, I woke up a few minutes ago and Apparated home." Hermione simply beamed, and Harry walked over to envelope her in a one arm hug (the other holding three strips of bacon).

"Maybe you should go work as a Seer." He whispered jokingly in her ear.

"Harry! You know exactly how I feel about - " But Harry didn't get to hear, for the thousandth time, what Hermione thought of Divination, because he kissed her, drowning out the rest of her words.

~*~*~*~*~*~

"They'll figure it out right away! My friends are - "

"Oh, will you shut up? I'll stun you again if I must, you intolerable little brat. Your friends have no idea whatsoever. Observe." Sean tapped a mirror with his wand and the Real Kitchen swam into view on the surface. Harry and Hermione were snogging while Ron was trying to catch bits of bacon in his mouth that Lavender was tossing to him. The scene was rather sweet, but with one detrimental flaw - Lavender was tied up next to her boss. Sean and Yvonne had taken them prisoner. They had sent a copy of Lavender to her friends, thanks to a freshly brewed batch of Polyjuice potion. Mr. Hogan was much easier to deal with, as he lacked a family altogether.

Lavender looked crushed as she looked into the mirror. He was right; her friends had absolutely no idea. Even Ron hadn't noticed. Lavender stopped fussing and trying to undo the ropes, for the moment, anyway.

"I'd better get to work, Sean. I'll need to come up with a story about these two. You remembered to erase this one's sight, right?" Yvonne asked, gesturing to Lavender.

"Yes, of course." He looked at the mirror, a look of slight worry in his eyes. "Are you sure your sister can handle this?" Yvonne turned and watched Katrina, Lavender's double, joking around with Ron at the B&B.

"She seems to be doing fine." Yvonne responded. "I'll step in if necessary, but I think it's more important for me to take care of Crime Watch. If Brown figured it out, the more talented agents are bound to." Lavender glared at her captor.

"They're probably already - " Lavender's vote of confidence in her co- workers was stopped short, as both Yvonne and Sean shouted "STUPIFY!" over their shoulders. Lavender slumped slightly, passed out.

~*~*~*~*~*~

"Mmm . . . all right. You win, if you want me to go be a Seer I will. Just do that again, and I'll go do whatever you want." Hermione whispered seductively to her fiancé.

"Anything? Even that thing we did a few nights ago?" Harry looked at Hermione mischievously.

"Oh, you liked that, did you?" Hermione responded.

"Oy! What are you two whispering about, anyway?" Ron turned to look at Harry and Hermione. They didn't seem to hear him.

"Bombs Away!!" Lavender shouted, throwing her entire handful of bacon at them. This time, they broke apart.

"What's that all about, Lav?" Hermione jokingly retorted.

"You two want trouble? You got it!" Harry cried, causing a handful of coffee cake crumbs to shower over Lavender and Ron. Hermione seemed torn between amusement and worry; it was only when an egg, sunny-side up, made it's way from Ron's hand into her hair that she joined in. Jacques five- star breakfast turned the kitchen into a war-zone as Ron and Lavender turned the table over to create a makeshift fort.

"You think that will stop us?" Hermione called. "Fortium Agrimento!" Suddenly, a small stone fort enclosed Harry and Hermione.

"Whoa." Ron said, peeping up from his barricade. "Know that spell, Lav?"

"Ah, no." she responded. "But I know this one: Rainius Cremiana!" A shower of Jell-O began to fall through the roofless fort Hermione had created. All four friends began to laugh so hard it was impossible to continue. Jell-O continued to fall, but that wasn't as important to them as the fact that they were all together, having one of the greatest times of their lives.

"Okay!" Hermione called, after a few moments of rolling on the Jell-O covered floor, laughing until there were tears in her eyes. "Disaperatia Forto!" the fort vanished. "Truce!" She called out.

"Truce!" Harry agreed.

"If you insist." Ron said.

"But only because we won!!" Lavender shouted.

"No way!" Harry retorted.

"Yes way!" Ron called back.

"Fine, then." Hermione said, a naughty look in her eye. "Wingardium Leviosa!" Hermione levitated all the food that had been thrown in the last few minutes and let it hover over Ron and Lavender's heads. "Who won?" She asked dangerously.

"Cheater! We called a truce!" Ron cried.

"Who won, Ron? Lavender?" Hermione simply repeated. Harry doubled up laughing again, this time on a spotless floor.

"Please hold, we need a team huddle." Ron responded calmly. He and Lavender huddled up for a moment, discussing their answer.

"WE WON!" They shouted suddenly. Hermione dropped the shower of food on them, and all four of them again exploded into laughter. Lavender and Ron began snogging, cloaked in the remnants of their food fight. Harry and Hermione picked up on their queue.

"We totally won." Hermione said, wrapping her arms around Harry.

"Damn straight." He responded, as he leaned in for a kiss.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Lavender, freshly awoken by her captor so she could catch the end of the fight in the kitchen, let a silent tear fall down her cheek. Sean smirked to himself.

"Yes, Brown. Your boyfriend certainly seems to care a whole lot about the change." He said, clearly pleased to pieces with himself for waking her in time. Lavender couldn't come up with a come back, because the truth was, he was right. Another tear fell.

A/N: What did you guys think? I know, it was pretty fluffy, but who doesn't love fluff? I sure do! Please review and tell me what you think! I promise the next chapter will be up in ABSOLUTELY no longer than a week. Probably sooner, because we all know that I'd rather be doing this than studying for finals! So please (with ice cream and sprinkles and a cherry on top, and I know none of you can resist ice cream and sprinkles and a cherry) REVIEW!!! I'll love you forever! Bye Bye!!!