A/N: So sorry about the long wait on this one and especially for a short interlude and not a whole chapter. RL has been hectic and my mind is being overrun by plot bunnies for a seventh book. Makes it hard to write on other stories but I'm doing my best to ignore them for now. The next chapter will be a full sized one and im going for 5000 words

Interlude

It didn't take long after Nym had left him to concentrate on his morning's lesson that he realized what a complete prat he was being. He was rude, whiny, and inconsiderate to her, his wife and only realizing it after the fact made him feel even worse. She hadn't even mentioned it, just took it in stride or she let it seem so. He had a feeling that she was hurt by the way he treated her but their agreement to keep their relationship out of the training stalled any comment she might've made. In hindsight everything's 20-20 and he knew that any agreement to keep their feelings for each other out of training was little more than an ill formed illusion.

Now he had to find her and make it up to her. As far as he was concerned Dumbledore's impending arrival and further conversation on his training and apparently strange abilities could wait. They may not have been married long, or even dated for much longer than that, but he had learned a lot about his wife in the last month or so and he'd be damned if he'd let his actions hurt her any longer than they already had. He loved her after all and in the end, that's all that matters. Now he just had to find her.

"Dobby," Harry called.

Dobby arrived in the kitchen again with a slight crack courtesy of the displaced air. "Yes, sir, Harry, sir?"

"Do you know where Nym took off to after she left the kitchen earlier?"

Dobby looked around uncertainly, what he was uncertain of Harry didn't know. "Mistress Tonksy be in your room, Harry, sir."

"Thanks Dobby." Harry got up and headed for the stairs to go back to his room and apologize to Nym.

Harry walked up the stair case and paused briefly outside the door to their room. He was somewhat surprised to see it closed but shrugged it off and opened the door slightly before walking in. As soon as his entrance was noticed, Nym snapped close the book she was writing in and looked at Harry somewhat surprised.

"I just wanted to apologize," Harry said. Despite being married to the woman, he stood before her nervously with his hands shoved down into his jeans pockets. Taking her silence to mean that she wasn't letting him off that easily, he continued.

"I mean that I'm sorry for acting like a git at breakfast. I was being rude and had no reason to treat you that way."

After another minute of silence Harry looked her straight in the face and what he saw didn't give him hope that he would be forgiven. In fact, it didn't really tell him anything at all. Her expression was so closed that he had no idea what she was thinking or feeling.

He shifted his weight on his feet nervously. "Can you please say something?"

"Good."

"Excuse me?"

"Good. As in good job. You're getting better at understanding when you're a git and what you need to do about it.

"The only thing you could have done differently, in my opinion, which I guess in this case, that's all that matters," she smirked. "Is you could have come in here apologized and than throw me on the bed and ravish me, but hey, I guess a girl can't expect too much yet. I hear that it takes years to train a husband correctly."

The last was said with such an innocent expression on her face that Harry couldn't help the guffaw of laughter that came out. The expression of mock hurt that replaced the innocent expression did little to contain his laughter either.

It took Harry a moment to gain control of himself again but when he did he called for Dobby and ignored Nym for the moment. He got down on one knee and whispered a few instructions in his ear before Dobby nodded and disappeared from the room.

Without preamble Harry strode purposefully across the room and picked up his wife, throwing her over his shoulder and walking out the room not even listening to her squawks of protest.

He had to hand it to her; the potion that Andy had picked up for him to help get him back to where he should be physically was a godsend. It hadn't been very long yet but he could already feel the dramatic increase in his energy level and though his wife wasn't overweight by any means, the scrawny boy that stepped onto platform 9 ¾ two months ago was a far cry from the young man carrying his wife down the steps and out the back door.

Nym kept trying to get his attention, not that she didn't have it, by swatting at his butt and legs and playfully asking to be let down so she could walk again.

"How's the ride, Nym?" Harry asked with a cheeky grin peering under his arm to see her mock scowl aimed right back at him.

"Very funny," she said before adopting a look on her face that made Harry extremely nervous. Without warning, Nym morphed her small feminine hands into large, meaty, Hagrid sized hands before pinching Harry's ass as hard as she could.

Harry was so startled he didn't even have a chance to realize what was going on. His instincts took over and he tumbled over backwards bringing both him and Nym crashing down in a tangle of limbs on the back yard meadow.

"Hey what was the big idea with that," He asked indignantly, rubbing his sore bum.

Nym said nothing but grinned unrepentantly back at him before collapsing back onto the grass in an all out laugh. It didn't take long for Harry to join in and laugh a long with her. He had no room to say anything after his stunt that led them outside in the first place.

A soft crack announced the arrival of Dobby, who just stared at the two of them in all out confusion. He obviously still didn't know what it was like to work for a master that had fun with his life, when he could, and didn't do everything the ways that were proper.

Shaking his head and vowing to never try to understand humans he clicked his fingers and moved the picnic lunch he had prepared for his master and mistress from the spot by the lake and set it up next to where they were unable to get control of themselves. He figured they would eat when they were ready and he popped back to the house to get ready for the great wizard Albus Dumbledore's arrival.

A/N: Hoping the next one is out REALLY SOON.