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#18 - "say ahh..."
Redecoration
- in which we get a lesson in culinary arts -
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Ron had had a bad feeling the whole day, a strange feeling of foreboding that only kept growing as the day went on. Something was not right, he was sure, but he couldn't tell exactly what it was. All he knew was that there was definitely a serious danger looming behind the corner.
As he arrived home, he found out he had not been wrong. Pansy was in the kitchen, cheerfully working with something that was possibly supposed to be some kind of soup boiling in a large pot in front of her. She beamed at Ron as he entered the kitchen.
"Ron! Just in time to taste this! I've been trying out this new recipe," she informed him, and Ron felt his heart freeze to ice inside him. "Here," she continued, dipping a spoon into the pot and holding it out towards him. "Say ahh!"
"Aaargh," Ron managed, backing towards the door in a panic.
"Come on, don't be like that. It's good, I swear. I just tried some myself."
"Pansy, the only thing worse than testing your cooking is testing new products for the twins." He stared at the spoon she was holding, and swallowed. "Actually, I take that back. I'd rather test Fred and George's stuff than that. I'm sure green like that does not exist in nature."
Pansy looked insulted, and to prove her point she put the spoon to her lips, though Ron was sure none of the soup actually went into her mouth.
"See? It's good!"
And before Ron could do anything, she had closed in on him and pressed the spoon to his lips instead in the most frightening indirect kiss he'd ever encountered. Since the last time she'd cooked, at least.
He was saved, though, as there was an explosion behind them, and Pansy dropped the spoon in startled surprise.
The walls and the ceiling surrounding the disaster-area remained slightly neon green for months afterward - no hexes or spells, or even the Muggle stain remover that Pansy finally reluctantly borrowed from Hermione helped - until one day, Pansy decided to venture into the strange world of cooking again.
They were slightly purple instead after that.