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Percy came home from work tired. He headed into the kitchen to find his parents, George and Charlie's family sitting in the huge dining table. "Hi" he said to everyone as he gave his mother a peck on the cheek.

"Sit Percy and have some dinner" said his mother as she put a helping of mashers on his plate.

Percy sat on his usual seat and started to put food on his plate when Charlie entered the dining room with the youngest of his kids in arms. He waved at Percy and sat his daughter on a highchair beside his seat. Percy's mind was in rehearsal of how he was going to speak to Cal later on. "Perce" said Charlie and Percy looked up from his plate.

"Hi Charlie.."

"Hey whats this I hear you brought a girl home last night?"

"…."

Molly waved her hand and said "Ask later Charlie, now Percy do you want peas? You need fattening up you know. All the stress from work"

"Mum thanks but I think im not that hungry tonight"

"Oh okay dear…" Molly said as she loaded peas on Percy' plate as if she hadnt heard him earlier.

Charlie looked at Percy again and smiled evilly. Percy knew he was going to get a lot of question later after dinner from his older brother and his younger brother…He didn't really look forward t that.

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"Great, then how bout dinner tonight?" Asked Oliver.

Hermione didnt believe but smiled and said "I...sure why not, can I just make a phone call?"

"K…"

Hermione headed out to the veranda to make a phone call to her house making sure her housemate wasn't worried where she has gone to. The phone rang a few times and then a groggy Callista picked up the phone.

"Helloo" Callista said.

"Hey Cal"

"Oh hi Herms…where art thou"

"Don't speak Shakespearean at me…" Hermione said as she stifled a laugh. When her housemate is sleepy, different ways of speaking comes out of her mouth.

"Ita vero" Cal said lazily on the other side.

"Oh don't speak Latin either…"

"Quid facit? Quo es tu?"

"I'm here at Oliver's stacking Groceries"

"Oh"

"Yea…I'm having dinner with him."

"Dude, have fun, do what I would do or did"

"Ha-ha…well, I'll be back later. Just calling to tell you that's all."

"Thank you for your concern Dr. Granger but I think I have an appoint with what I call somnus"

"Bye Cal"

"Valete"

Hermione hung up the phone smiling. She went back into the kitchen to find it already fixed from how it was and Oliver was sitting on a chair reading the evening prophet. She approached him and said "well that was fast"

Oliver smiled at her and waved his wand "Wizards use their wands Hermione"

"Well that's just plain lazy…" Hermione said as she scrunched up her face in disagreement.

"Hahaha…well dinner?" he asked.

"yups" Hermione said to him as she nodded. Oliver stood up and headed for the door , coat in hand, when she said "Oliver, maybe a home cooked meal would be better".

Oliver looked back at her with a questioning face, "Huh? Oh…I don't cook well" he was shaking his head. Hermione was amused at him. Guys don't like to cook, only some do.

"I do, you could help me" she said as she walked up to him. She took his coat from his hands and hung them on coat hanger by the door.

"Why not just out?" asked Oliver.

"Well, its more expensive to eat out"

"Money is no problem?" Oliver said in an unsure tone. He didn't want to make it like he was one of those Quiddtich players who flaunted their wealth. Hermione shook her head in disagreement, It not that she didn't have the money to always eat out she just liked to eat a home cooked meal once this week. "Look at it this way you can taste my cooking, then you could decide if you really want to go out on a date with me".

He took her hand and kissed it then said. "If you put it that way…okay then Hermione. Dinner here it is." Hermione then lead him back into the kitchen and they started to make their dinner. "but I don't think I'll change my mind asking you out…" Hermione giggled and the kitchen door swung close.

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Percy and his two brothers were now in the living room as they were shooed out by their mother and Charlie's wife Carmen out of the dinning room. Percy sat silently holding the cordless phone in hand. He was staring at it oddly. Charlie smiled from where he sat. "Scared to put out?" he asked Percy. Percy just blinked at him at few times when George said "Oh definitely looks like he's scared Charlie". George and Charlie laughed loudly as Percy then started pressing the buttons on the phone. The beeping sound that came from it stopped Geroge and Charlie. "He's actually doing it..!" exclaimed George.

"Hello May I please speak to Callista?"

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If someone was filming the two in that kitchen they would assume they were a married couple making dinner. Hermione was telling Oliver what to do and Oliver would mockingly say "Yes sweetie" trying to mimic her earlier in the grocery store.

Hermione and Oliver both had Aprons on; oddly Oliver got stuck with his mum's old frilly pink apron that said "the best cook" in front of it. Oliver groaned at it when Hermione handed it to him. "Why did I have to have the pink frilly one?" he asked her "and why did you get the neutral looking one. I look like a faerie here!". Hermione laughed as she was chopping an onion. "You look fine, who would see you in that?"

"You have a point" He concluded, he was chopping up random vegetables that included celery and carrots. "How long will this thing cook?" asked Oliver. "Hmm muggle ways, about 2 hours, wizard way around 20 minutes" She said as she took out the boiled piece of meat from the cooking pot and placed it in an oven dish lightly powdering the meat with flour.

"Why did you have to boil it?" Hermione looked at Oliver quite amused. She noted that his inquisitive expression right now just made him more cute than he was before. When he looked back at her, he smiled his most warm smile at her and she nearly gasped. Why did he have that much affect on her? She shrugged the thought off and replied.

"To let the insides slightly cook and to infuse some of the herbs flavor in the meat"

"What's the flour for?" Oliver surely was like a little kid lost in the kitchen.

"To lightly cover the outside of this meat and we can brown it then chuck it in the oven with those vegetables your chopping"

"Then, its done in 20 minutes?"

"yups"

"Cool…here I'm done. Anything else I can help with?" he asked as he handed her the vegetables.

Hermione smiled at him and said "Set the dinner table that's all." Oliver flicked his fingers and said

"No problem" as he headed to the dining table.

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The phone rang again and Cal pissed off from the ringing interrupting her slumber picked up the phone. "Hello?" she said and a voice she wasn't expecting to hear at all had spoken up "Hello May I please speak to Callista?" Callista fell off the sofa, luckily the rabbit was far from where she fell. "speaking"

"Cal, hi its me-" he said but she cut him off. "-Percy". Percy shook his head in amusement as a small smile creeped into his face. "Yea…" he agreed.

"Hi what may I do for you Perce?"

"I did say I was going to call right?"

"Oh yea…"

"And you doubted me and believed I wouldn't call"

"Err yea, stop picking my brain Percy"

"I'm not seriously, I almost the same as you" Percy said lightly laughing on the other end of the phone.

"So…"

"So…this is awkward" Percy said. Even though she was far away from him he still felt weird and a blush came into his face. His brothers saw it and started laughing.

"Slightly" Callista said as she stomach growled quite loudly. Percy on the other side heard it asked "is there a wolf there, I just heard a growl"

"That was my stomach…not a wolf. I dislike dogs"

"Haven't had dinner yet have you? That isn't healthy my dear"

"Well darling, I came home about an hour ago and fell asleep on the sofa. Hermione isn't home. She's at Oliver's"

"At Oliver's you say, well he finally stepped up to the challenge huh"

"Maybe, she said he asked her out"

"Oh…" Percy said as he heard Callista shuffling on the other end.

"Gah I don't want to cook…order out then" she said.

Percy lightly laughed as he stood up from his seat to get away from his two brothers who were eaves dropping. "Ah-ha there it is, Japanese food take out….hmm…this sucks…." He heard some paper crumpling.

"What does?" Asked percy , he was in the garden just far enough from the back door.

"Eating alone…"

"You know I could always come over" he offered.

"Well you could…but…I don't want to impose on you" Callista said as she looked through the menu she had in hand.

"Oh no not at all."

"whats the point anyways, you already ate dinner didn't you?"

"Well, I didn't eat as much, you never know maybe I'm still hungry"

"Right well, you are more than welcome to come. I don't like eating alone. Makes me feel I'm back in the field" she said in a shudder.

"Okay then…I'll be there in a few minutes"

"Hmm...okay…"

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The meat was now in the oven and Hermione checked to where Oliver had gone to. She looked at the table in the kitchen and found it not ready for dinner. "Oliver?" She shouted and Oliver replied to her with a simple "yes?" She followed his voice and went through a door south of the oven. She peered into the room and found it to be a small formal dinning room and it was set up for a nice dinner.

Oliver was still placing down the silver wear down when Hermione walked in. She smiled at the sight. The dining room had dark wood flooring and the table was made from cherry wood. It was a 6-seater table with nice matching seats. Oliver was bent over the table placing a spoon on the other side. He had placed nice white plates on each grey placemat and white napkins on top of it. "Well, doesn't this look nice… I didn't know you knew how to set up a formal dinner"

"My mum, she made me and Helen learned it when we were little. Etiquette is at the top most priority during dinner in the Wood household" said Oliver as he made his way to Hermione who was standing by the door with her arms crossed around her chest smiling at him.

"Ah I see…well food will be done in 15 minutes" She said as Oliver placed his arms around her waist. He bent in and said "hmm..K…". Hermione giggled and said "trying to steal a kiss again aren't you?".

"Well. If you put it that way, sure I am" He then kissed her lightly on the lips. Since when did he ever get so easily comfortable with a woman. Scratch that. He did get comfortable with those girl he speed dated because, but with Katie before it took him at least 3 weeks before he could do this things. Then again he was still an odd 17 year old fresh out of Hogwarts. He was just lucky Hermione let him do that, who ever knew Hogwart's bookworm was so amorous when it came to guys?

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Charlie and George heard "I'll be there in a few minutes" and then ran back to the seats. Percy walked back in smiling as she placed back the phone in its cradle. He then smugly smiled at his brothers and walked into the kitchen. The next thing they knew it they heard their mother say "Oh be safe dear, what time are you getting home?"

"I don't know yet mum no later that 2 am I think, I don't have work tomorrow" and with that a pop was heard and Percy was gone. Charlie and George entered the dinning room in search for their brother and found their mom sitting on the table talking with Carmen. "Where is he?"

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Hermione headed back into the kitchen with Oliver in tow. Oliver was telling Hermione something that made her giggle. She stopped in front of the oven and checked the meat before they headed into the living room.

As they sat down, Hermione noticed a chess set on the coffee table. She sat near it and pulled it near to them. "Want to play a short game?" she asked Oliver who sat down beside her. He shrugged and said . "sure but you are in for it, no one beat Oliver Wood"

"Last time I heard you were beaten once at Hogwarts"

"That was a fluke…"

"Uh huh…"

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In a single pop Percy had came over to the Granger house. He knocked on the door and Callista opened it still in her office clothes. Percy smiled at her as she let him in. he was greeted by crookshanks who was sitting in the stair and the rabbit who was doing laps around the house as of the moment. Callista gestured to go into the kitchen and he followed. She pressed the coffee maker as Percy sat down. "Thanks for coming,"

"No problem…" Percy said as he looked around the kitchen. He found another cat with its huge tummy lying in a basket by the corner of the room.

"Food will be here in 15 minutes"

"Oh ok…" Percy said as he silently stood up from his seat and crept up behind Callista who was placing coffee into the coffee maker. She jumped when Percy came behind he hugging her around her waist.

"Hmm?"

"You smell good" Percy said as she sniffed the back of her ears making her stifle a laugh.

"That's coffee you smell not me" she said as she elbowed him lightly on the stomach.

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15 minutes later:

Oliver and Hermione found themselves in a truce. Hermione could check him as much as he could check him, and there was no way they wanted to go longer in this game. Oliver's stomach growled as he smelled the food that was coming from the kitchen. Hermione sensing that Oliver was hungry, and her as well, she called the truce in the game and went into the kitchen to take out the food.

As the sat across each other Oliver was eating in delight his home cooked meal. He hasn't had some home cooked meals for a quite a time now and he enjoyed every bite of his meal tonight. He looked at Hermione who was also enjoying her food and said "Tastes great…" Hermione smiled at him and offered to pour him more wine. He nodded and said his thanks and they proceeded in eating their dinner talking about the upcoming Quiddtich ball and games that were to start in a week after the opening ball.

At the granger house the situation was very much the same but in less rigid room. Callista and Percy were sitting in the sofa eating from the boxes the food was in. They sat there watching a random movie that was on TV, today it was Troy and Percy could only laugh at Callista's shouts of anger towards the movie. Percy looked at Callista whose hair was still in its messy state after, he guessed, sleeping on the sofa before he called. It brought a smile into his face, not only because the food was good but he was in good company. He never would've imagined he would be sitting in this girl's living room eating dinner together while they watched TV. Some how he saw this as a possible event of a day he would love to have every single night of his life. When the commercial went on Callista looked at Percy, who was smiling at her, and asked him what he was smiling at and she asked if she had food in her face. "De ja vu" Percy said and Callista smiled and leaned in to give him a soft kiss on the lips. "thousay trew" she whispered at the break of contact. Percy looked at her oddly and she merely giggled and explained how she sometimes talks in differently tongues, for the hell of it at least.

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