Written for somuchtosay, a very good livejournal friend of mine. She requested the pairing and I delivered (

Ginny

She couldn't figure it out. It wasn't the red hair; all Weasleys had red hair, and she certainly wasn't lusting after all of them. Not the brown eyes; the fact that Hermione herself had them made them somewhat unremarkable. It definitely wasn't the slightly-haunted look – she saw enough of that in Harry.

Maybe it was knowing she could make that look go away.

As chapped lips murmured against her skin and found her mouth, Hermione – for once in her life – stopped trying to figure it out. She didn't need a reason to be in love with Ginny; she just was.