AHH! ITALY WON? What
the fuck… oh well. Not that I don't love Italians… I love that
everyday Italian show on the food network… that women looks just
like Natalie Portman... hot. So yeah, here's the chapter. Sorry it
took so long, it's been a week from hell. After this it's only
the epilogue then we are done! I have a few other stories brewing,
so keep your eyes peeled. It will probably be posted next week.
So here you go! Enjoy!
And thanks for the reviews everybody!
"So if I were to kiss you again?"
Hermione could not even look into her eyes. She was to busy staring intensely at Ginny's lips, her perfectly formed lips…
Ginny could feel her heart beating so fast she felt as if it was going to burst from her chest. Her breathing began to shallow and when she saw Hermione lick her bottom lip, it sent her over the edge.
Ginny leaned into do what she had wanted to do since she first saw Hermione. She felt Hermione's hot breath against her skin and as she was about to claim her lips and exclaim her undying love,
"Hey guys I just saw… oh sorry I didn't mean to… well… interrupt." Harry had just happened to walk up the stairs and into the corridor Hermione and Ginny were sharing.
Hermione began to regain her senses. The passion she felt only moments before was being replaced with fear and doubt. Feeling embarrassed and scared Hermione moved towards her portrait that led to her room.
"No Harry, you weren't interrupting anything. I was just going to bed. Good night Harry," she nodded, "Ginny."
"Hermione…" Ginny started but was interrupted.
"No Ginny, I'm fine, we'll talk tomorrow."
And with that she turned and went through the portrait and into her room. Ginny looked over at Harry angrily.
"Gin, I'm so sorry. I didn't know."
"Men," Ginny laughed jokingly, "You just always know how to ruin everything. No its okay Harry, its not your fault. Maybe its mine."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, its just… maybe I am trying to make Hermione into something she's not."
"Are you joking?" Harry asked.
"Why would I be joking?"
"Its just… everyone can see Hermione's crazy about you."
"Really?" Ginny looked up at him hopefully.
It was then that Harry really realized that Ginny had no idea of what she was doing or even what Hermione thought about her.
"Uh, yeah Gin. God I swear you are just as bad as your brother."
"Hey!" said Ginny curtly, "Oh wait… what do you mean… and which brother?"
"Ron"
"Oh… then Hey!"
"He couldn't see when Hermione liked him. For all seven years that we attended Hogwarts, he loved her dearly, but she couldn't feel the same way for long. Especially with what happened our seventh year."
"Why, what happened?"
"You happened Gin. Now I know that you are exactly like your brother." Harry said sarcastically.
"Oh I am not. Besides, if she was so crazy about me... why didn't she do anything about it?"
"Because she was scared Ginny! I mean look at you. You tend to be a bit intimidating. Plus you were dating some hot model… the star of a major quidditch team. Hermione had to be a bit scared."
"So she fucks my brother instead?" Ginny remarked bitterly beginning to get a bit angry at where the conversation was going.
Suddenly they could both hear shouting from the other side of the wall. "If your going to talk about me, could at least do it somewhere where I wont be able to hear it?"
"Hermione come out of there! Ginny needs to talk to you!" Harry shouted through the portrait.
'I am going to bed Harry! Good night!"
"Well that's just not good enough." Ginny muttered to Harry, "I think she forgets that I am the charms teacher." She smirked.
She muttered a quick spell that tore the portrait door open. Ginny stormed in as Harry closed the portrait door behind her so they could have some privacy.
"What in the hell do you think you're doing?" Hermione screamed.
Ginny could tell Hermione had been crying. Her eyes were slightly puffy and her cheeks were pink and blotchy.
"You wouldn't talk to me, so I decided to make you."
"I don't have anything to say." Hermione said coldly.
"Bullshit, you know
what you want to say, you just don't want to say it.'
"Your
right, I don't"
"Fuck that Hermione, Grow a back bone, and prove why you were put in Gryffindor in the first place by actually being courageous."
"Fuck you Ginny… How can you say that to me? I fought with you in the war, have been friends with you for how many years? And you have the audacity to say that to me? No, fuck you Ginny. Fuck you and get out of my room."
As she went to walk up to her room, Ginny grabbed her arm and said, "No, don't you walk away from me. I need to talk to you."
Hermione tore her arm away from Ginnys grasp.
"You want to know what I think Gin? You want to know what I think… You have called me a coward Ginny and maybe I am. But what does that make you? You may think that you are better than me because you have declared your sexuality to the world. But you are not better than me Gin, you are the exact same. Because you have loved me since you were sixteen. But instead of facing your feelings, you know being courageous, you left. For eight years I have had to live with these feelings by myself. Not knowing what to do, how to feel. So I did the best I could, with what I had. I taught myself how to be happy. Then... like you always do… you come back into my life? You show up and you kiss me. You ruined my engagement, and now we are back at Hogwarts, back again and for what Gin? You can't just come in and out of my life as you see fit."
"I broke up your engagement? I did? I don't recall forcing you to do anything!"
"You said I had to choose between you and Percy."
"Yes and you choose me."
"You're right I did, I choose you but you weren't around to know that. You were off again, and I didn't even see you for another year."
"I had to work!"
"Well now what Ginny? I made up my mind, I really made up my mind nine years ago, its time for you to finally make up yours."
Tears had now replaced Hermione's anger and were falling freely down her face as she leaned against one of her many bookshelves, her face illuminated only by the fire residing in her fireplace. Ginny hated herself for the first time in a long while. She had no idea that she had troubled Hermione as much as she had troubled her for all those years. She hated that she had troubled her so much, and hated her self even more for making Hermione cry.
As she sat down on Hermione's couch she put her face in her hands slightly chuckled, "Harry's right. I am an idiot just like my brother."
"What are you talking about?"
"Well, you know Ron loved you all threw school right?"
"I got that distinct impression, why?" Hermione spat still visibly angry and upset.
"He watched and waited, for years he just watched and waited for the right time. But in the end it didn't come because he waited to long, and so he moved on. He pushed you away until he convinced himself that he didn't want you anymore. And I am just as bad."
Hermione moved closer and looked down at the younger women before her. Ginny looked up at her tears streaming from her eyes.
"Only, I am not as dedicated as Ron. I may have left, for eight long years, but not one day went by that I didn't think about you. You're in my soul Hermione Granger, and I don't think I will ever be able to get rid of you."
Hermione sobbing just smiled and chuckled to herself. Ginny stood up and cupped Hermione's face in her hands.
"And for as long as I live, I will never leave you again. I love you Hermione, fuck I have loved you since I was sixteen. Its just something that's never going to change."
And with that Ginny leaned in and kissed Hermione softly on her lips. Softly yet immensely passionate. When they finally broke apart, Hermione said, "Ginny it's always been hard for me to say how I feel."
"Then don't…" Ginny smirked and caught her lips again. This time it was not sweet but filled with raw and undying passion. At first Ginny was taking charge, but much to her surprise Hermione pushed back and they ended up pressed against the wall of her room.
"Where did that come from? " Ginny asked as she broke the kiss.
"Well I had to get your attention some how. But listen, I need to say this."
"Okay, okay" Ginny grabbed Hermione's hand and looked at Hermione intently.
"Nothing has ever felt right Gin. Ron, Viktor Percy and all those in between."
"All those in between? Who else..."
"Stop interrupting!" Hermione laughed.
"Oh sorry, please continue."
"Anyways… The only time I have ever felt right, the only time I have been completely happy, was with you. It's always been you Gin. I actually have saved all the clippings from news articles you were in. Percy always thought it was weird that I was so enthralled by his little sister. Jealous a bit I think, you know how he can get. But they are all in a book at home and everything else that I could find. I guess I thought..."
"Skip to the point…"
"Look," Hermione smiled, " I never knew you cared Gin. I thought you had left me all alone, to live this empty shell of a life. But you haven't. Happiness isn't even the right word to describe how you make me feel. It is so much more than that. Sometimes, I want to take you in my arms, others times, I want to strangle you so you can see how much I care. I love you Ginny, no matter what happens, I have always and will always love you."
And with that Ginny took Hermione's lips once again and for the first time, felt what it meant to be completely happy.
"Come on, you look tired and we only have a few hours before we need to get up."
"Oh alright, I guess I will see you tomorrow then."
"Yes you will. Good night Hermione."
"Good night Ginny."
And with a smile on her face, Ginny walked into the hall feeling the happiest she had ever felt.
As she began to open up her portrait Hermione ran out of her own and pressed Ginny against her portrait and kissed her. Ginny felt like she was on fire. Hermione kissed her passionately again, biting down on her bottom lip playfully, teasing her lips with her tongue.
"Alright," Hermione said in a husky voice unlike her own, "now I'll say goodnight."
"You could come in you know."
"Gin…"
"Hey, I mean completely innocently. Just to sleep."
"Hmm…"
"Its just, I would love to wake up with you in the morning."
"Oh, alright, but completely innocently!"
"Oh of course!" Ginny smiled devilishly, "well not too innocently."
And with that, Hermione and Ginny climbed through the portrait hole, and went to bed.
Ahh… how sweet. So everything is resolved, and we will see what will happen in the last chapter.. coming soon! Please review guys I love to get reviews!
Thanks everybody!
