Sequel to Swim Tag
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2 years after Hogwarts
Hermione arrived outside of the small cottage that she shared with her girlfriend. She opened the door and propped her briefcase that contained her speech for the Wizengamot, against the wall. She hung her coat in the closet and went into the kitchen.
She blinked. She blinked again. Ginny stood covered head to toe in flour. She looked sheepishly at Hermione, "I was trying to make cookies from scratch and well...." Ginny trailed off. After a few minutes, Hermione couldn't stand it and burst out laughing. Ginny grew pink but Hermione's laughter was contagious so she began to giggle.
Once they had calmed down, Hermione cleaned up the flower with a wave of her wand and said, "Let's go out for dinner, then we'll come back and make cookies. Okay?" Ginny nodded and, giving Hermione a "welcome home" kiss on the cheek, disappeared upstairs to take a shower and change her clothes.
They ended up going to a small, wizarding, Italian restaurant that Ginny had discovered the year before. Hermione had originally come downstairs in jeans and a t-shirt but Ginny had shooed her back upstairs to wear something fancier. Ginny decided that they were going to celebrate Hermione's promotion at work. Even though she hadn't gotten it yet, they were going to celebrate ahead of time, so that they could celebrate twice. That was Ginny's logic.
Ginny had decided on a plain black spaghetti strap dress, along with the one-year anniversary-of-being-together ruby earrings and necklace that Hermione had bought her. Hermione wore a deep blue dress that had a square cut neck line and wore a black beaded choker.
During their dinner, Ginny spoke about her job at the Ministry. She headed a department that helped explain the wizarding world to muggle-borns and others who discovered their powers and were confused. Hermione was in the process of being examined for a Wizengamot member, and had long office hours, while Ginny had short hours because people usually only needed her for consulting and formal things. Ginny did most of her work at home.
They got home later than they expected and Hermione wanted to go to bed and bake the cookies tomorrow. But Ginny gave Hermione "the look", not the bad one, the good one, and Hermione gave in. They pulled on jeans and tied aprons on, "Just in case." Hermione said. Hermione explained that Ginny should add the chocolate chips while Hermione mixed the flour and other ingredients together. Ginny agreed.
"Hermione, you left the water running!" Ginny lied, stuffing chocolate chips into her mouth as Hermione turned.
Hermione turned back and said, "I did not!" But she noticed that Ginny had some chocolate at the corner of her mouth and exclaimed, "Ginny! I told you not to eat them! That's all we have!"
"Eat what?" Ginny returned innocently.
"You know what, the chocolate chips!" Hermione screeched. Geez, thought Ginny, she is really overreacting, probably just nervous about her speech.
"I didn't touch them." Ginny said.
But then, Hermione leaned forward and kissed Ginny on the lips, licking the chocolate from the corner of the later's mouth. When she finally pulled away, she smiled and whispered, "You taste like chocolate." And that settled it.
Author's Note: What do you think? Review please! Oh, and if you don't have a screen name with , send me an email. I will probably continue this pairing in other stories and pick up on the Harry and Ron characters a little more, but until then...Ta!