A/N: Guys, I'm on a small trip for my mother's birthday and I really had no time to proofread this chapter. I hope it's not too full of mistakes! Enjoy!
Hermione went to her bedroom quickly, wondering what she would use as she didn't bring much muggle clothes to Hogwarts and certainly none would fit a party night. As soon as she entered her room she noticed some clothes carefully placed on her bed. A red t-shirt, white jeans and the leather jacket that was currently her favorite pies of clothing. Realizing that Ginny was probably the one behind that, she made a mental note to thank the redhead. She changed and headed back to the common room. They were all already there, waiting for her and the three had changed too. As she approached them, she heard someone call her. Looking to where the voice came she saw Moire and smiled.
"Hi, Moire!"
"Uhm, hi! I wanted to go with you to Hogsmeade but clearly I can't. So I asked my parents to buy this for you…" The girl smiled, showing a package wrapped in red and gold.
"Thanks, Moire! But you shouldn't have…"
"I wanted to. Hope you like it! Enjoy your night…" As soon as Hermione took the gift, she hugged her and went running towards the dorms.
"That's sweet…" Luna said, smiling. They all nodded.
"Hey, put it here." Ginny said, extending the bag she was carrying. "You can open it later. We have to go…"
No matter how much she asked, they denied to give her any information about who would be there. To be honest, she was simply following them not even knowing where they were headed to. At least they took the normal access to the village, a carriage was expecting them at the castle's entrance. They walked towards the Three Broomsticks, Hermione as unconsciously nervous. Not knowing what was going to happen making her restless. Harry noticed it and side hugged her.
"Relax. There are only people who you would want to see." He said, smiling.
"I just can't believe I forgot my own birthday…" She said quietly as they walked.
"I figured you would. Your mind is full with other worries…" Harry said.
"Yeah, full of a certain veela!" Ginny said, laughing. Her three friends laughed of her blushing the rest of the way. When they reached the entry of the pub, Ginny knocked in a certain pattern Hermione recognized as one she used with her brothers and opened the door after a second.
"Happy birthday!" She heard a chorus scream and felt Harry guide her inside the inn. Hermione was beaming, seeing all of her friends were there, everyone from the DA and the Order.
"Your parents couldn't come, but said they want to have lunch with you tomorrow." Harry told her as she recognized who was there. She nodded.
A beaming Fleur approached her. Hermione smiled even more, if that was possible.
"Bon anniversaire, 'ermione!" She motioned to hug her, but Hermione decided to kiss her. And obviously a wolf whistle was heard, from Ginny as she guessed. As they pulled back, they beamed at each other. Hermione tried to ignore the noise the rest of her friends were doing, half of them were completely dumbfounded but the other half screamed 'finally's and 'It's damn time!'.
"Thank you…" She said quietly. After the completely pulled away, Fleur handled her a package. Opening, she revealed a jewelry box. Her eyes flicked from the gift to Fleur.
"Open it…" Fleur was smiling, Hermione could see the glee sparkling on her eyes.
As soon as she clicked the opening bottom, she was in awe. A silver otter pendant held by a delicate silver chain in it. She felt her eyes fill with tears as she looked at it. When she looked at Fleur, she saw the blonde's eyes full with concern. "It's beautiful! Thanks!" She softly kissed her and moved so the veela could place it around her neck. Hermione felt a light kiss on her neck as soon as the other woman finished.
After that, everyone in the inn went to talk to her and give her their gifts. These Ginny forced her to put inside the bag or it would take forever for them to sit. Fleur never left her side. When there were no one else left to talk to them, Ginny shrunk the bag and gave it to Harry so he could keep it until they got back to their bedrooms. A waiter passed through them and Fleur paused him, taking two drinks on her hands.
"Firewhiskey?" Fleur extended one of the glassed to her, which she accepted.
Taking in the interior of the bar, she noticed the usual booths had been replaced by several small round tables and one that she guessed she was supposed to sit, as it was the biggest one. Dobby appeared and said something to Harry, who thanked him. The house elf, then, wished happy birthday to her and vanished.
"Dinner is about to begin!" Harry stated loudly and directed her and Fleur to the bigger table. After dinner, she could hear everyone chatter and enjoyed her conversation with her closest friends. After a while, Madam Rosmerta appeared from the kitchens with a rather big cake and everyone begun to sing happy birthday to her. Obviously, the twins managed to sing louder then everyone and awfully out of tone and soon the music became an absurd cacophony. As it finished and Hermione blew the candles, Fred began to chant for a speech joined closely by everyone in the room. She shook her head, not really knowing what to say. Harry stood, holding his glass and smiled as everybody's voice calmed down.
"Hello!" Everyone screamed hi to him. "I guess 'Mione doesn't know what to say, for once." He smiled as he heard laughs and saw his friend's face become red. "So I'll begin the toast. Eight years passed since I first knew her. We were coming to Hogwarts for the first time and Ron here was trying to change his rat's color, the spell didn't work in case you are wondering." He began to remember their first encounter, making everyone laugh at his last phrase. "Hermione entered the cabin we were sharing as he begun to perform it. And as soon as he failed it, she said she had already learned some spells and demonstrated it by mending my glasses. Which she had to do again more times then I like to admit." Once more everyone laughed. Then he turned serious. "I'd like to say our friendship begun then but it actually happened a few weeks into the school year that I believe we really became friends. Ron said something that really upset her and she hide at a girl's bathroom. That was the same night a troll invaded the school." A gasp was heard from the few that hadn't heard the story. "We went looking for her to make her get back to the common room but we were kind of late and the troll was in the exact same bathroom as she." Another gasp. "We managed to make it pass out." Cheers. "I believe she thought she owned us her life, because since then she has been saving mine and Ron's." Laughs and mostly nods from their friends as most recalled their adventures. He turned to her and smiled, "Thanks for all the adventures we had. I hope we are able to have some more."
"Preferably not life threatening!" Someone said loudly. Hermione guessed it was Mrs. Weasley.
"Yes." He answered and raised his glass. "To Hermione" After everyone cheered, he smiled and added: "Thanks for being my sister." Hermione couldn't stop smiling. Ginny got up from Harry's side and smiled at her.
"I hope you are ready to hear some embarrassing stories about the birthday girl!" The twins screamed agreeing and Hermione groaned. "Relax, I'll tell only one…" The brunette starred at her and Ginny relented. "Sorry guys, I just received the Granger Glare…" Everyone laughed, apparently knowing what she was talking about. "No embarrassing stories… Anyway, I'll have to be content with thanking her for being my friend ever since we met and for taking care of these two apes here." She pointed at her boyfriend and brother as everyone laughed. She sat back and smiled at Hermione, who returned the smile. The room became quiet once again.
Hermione was too distracted thanking Ginny for not saying anything to notice that another person had gotten up and was preparing to say something. "Well, 'ello everyone!" She froze as she heard Fleur's voice. After some cheering from the twins, the french continued: "I guess I can't say 'ermione and I were friend's from zee beginning eizer, 'arry. So we are in zee same boat." She paused as everyone started laughing. "But compared to yours I might 'ave to say my friendship wiz 'er ees simply beginning. Alzough I feel like eet's been ages." She winked at Hermione. "I don't really 'ave much to say about 'er zat you all don't know. But I might 'ave to say I've been 'earing about 'er since before I came 'ere to the Triwizard Tournament. Apparently, being friends wiz 'arry Potter makes you famous worldwide. But not only, I 'eard some zat knew 'er say zat she was probably zee brightest witch of 'er age and zat we all know ees nothing but zee truz." Hermione blushed slightly. "But you see, when I came to England for zee first time I was quite idiot and actually zought zee world should be at my feet. 'Ermione was one of zee only ones zat didn't agree wiz me, as my thrall didn't work on 'er. I believe she 'ated me until recently…" Hermione blushed even deeply. "I don't know eef all of you are familiar wiz some of zee veela traditions…" The majority nodded. "Good, so you will probably understand." Hermione froze, what on earth is she going to say? "When zese three came back from zeir journey and we went into zee last battle against Voldemort," some gasped and others froze at the mention of his name, "As soon as I saw 'er appear I noticed somezing different about 'er and in me. I felt my veela stir." Some smiled knowingly and others gasped as soon as they understood what her words meant. Hermione's face was becoming redder as Fleur spoke. "For zee rest of zee battle I observed 'er and 'elped zem as much as I could. Two days after zat battle, it came to my knowledge zat, before going on zat journey to 'elp 'arry, she 'ad erased 'erself from 'er parents memories in order to keep zem safe from zee death eaters. Zat made me admire 'er even more zan I ever did. I 'ad the opportunity to 'elp 'er wiz zee spell to bring zeir memories back. She ees indeed zee most brilliant witch of 'er age." Hermione's face was so red that her ears and her neck were beginning to get red too. "I 'ope our friendship survives for years. Zank you for being yourself and letting me be your friend." Fleur smiled at her and raised her glass. "To zee brightest witch of 'er age!" Everyone laughed and repeated her.
Fred raised his glass and shouted: "To the brains of the Golden Trio!" She and Harry groaned at the nickname while Ron simply smiled. Fleur sat back, beaming at her, and placed a kiss on her cheek. With that, Hermione felt herself relaxing. Whoa! She's falling hard for Fleur. She looked at the blonde and smiled at her.
"Want some wine?" The french asked, apparently seeing she almost didn't touch her firewhiskey. Hermione nodded and the blonde got up once again and went to the counter, where Madam Rosmerta was and returned with two glasses of wine. "Eet will refil eetself. Papa and Maman sent you a bottle of our finest, but zis ees ze same we 'ad last Sunday."
"Thank you!" Hermione said, accepting the glass and giving Fleur a quick kiss.
The night went on and when all of them decided to leave and go to sleep, the sun was almost rising. Hermione was grateful about the wine Fleur had brought because it kept her from being completely drunk as Harry and Ginny were. The blonde offered to walk her to her room, knowing she would be able to floo back home from there. Hermione smiled at Fleur as they entered the living room. The silence there was really good. A moment later, Harry and Ginny entered the room laughing and talking loudly, she rolled her eyes and thanked every possible god that she had the spirit of casting a silencing spell on their room. As soon as the closed the door, everything went silent again. Fleur raised a brow to her, silently asking what happened.
"I casted a silencing spell before we left to the inn." She smiled proudly.
"Zee brightest witch…" Fleur murmured and nodded. Hermione simply blushed.
"Are you tired? Want to stay a little longer?"
"Non, I could stay eef you wish." Both smiled and sat on a couch. Hermione got comfortable besides Fleur and leaned the head at her shoulder. She heard the sound of her new pendant sliding through the chain and smiled, looking at it. Changing the way she sat, Hermione managed to kiss Fleur's cheek who smiled and looked at her.
"Thank you." She motioned to the small silver otter.
"Je t'en prie mon cher…" Fleur said.
"I might have to learn French…" Hermione chuckled.
"I said you are welcome…" the blonde smiled.
"Oh…" She kissed Fleur once more. Those kissed were kind of addictive. "So, that date next Saturday…"
"Oui?"
"Still want to go?" Hermione asked, blushing.
"Of course. What time should I be 'ere?"
"How about two in the afternoon?"
"Perfect."
They stayed in silence for a while, hugging each other. Hermione snuggled closer to Fleur and placed a kiss on the blonde's neck, after kissing her deeply, which made the veela shiver slightly. Hermione smiled, noticing the other's reaction.
Fleur heard the brunette's breath begin to get even and calm. Smiling, it was the second time she had fallen asleep on her arms, she carefully got up making sure she wouldn't wake Hermione up. She then took the sleeping woman in her arms and got up stairs in order to put her in the bed. Writing a note to Hermione and making sure the alarm clock was set so she wouldn't miss lunch with her parents, Fleur left.
As soon as she reached her flat, Fleur sighed. She didn't know how but every day that passed she was falling more in love with the brunette. Quickly taking a potion to keep her from a headache when she wakes up, she changed and went to sleep happily.
Hermione woke up the next day on her bed and with a slight headache about five minutes before the alarm clock went off. Tuning it off, she crawled out of her bed and searched for the headache potion she knew she had. After taking it, she noticed a peace of paper on her nightstand. She curiously took it and before she read it, she recognized Fleur's handwriting. Hermione placed it aside deciding to read it as soon as she was ready to leave, knowing she was a little late and she still had to get ready to leave to her parents' house. Hopefully it would make her get ready quicker. About an hour later, Hermione was ready and sat on her bed to read the note.
Good Morning, Hermione!
Hope you didn't get a hangover. You slept so I brought you up, sorry if I did wrong. Can't wait for our date, I hope to hear from you this week. If not, see you Friday.
With love,
Fleur
Hermione smiled at the note and placed it along with the letters the blonde had written to her, in a little box she kept on the nightstand's drawer. She left her room quickly and went downstairs, it was quite obvious to her that Ginny and Harry were yet to wake up. Flooing to her parents house should be the best option so she first checked to see if she would be able to go there. She called them from the fireplace and when she saw it was okay, she flooed there. It has been a while since she had visited her parents. She smiled while taking in the surroundings. Nothing changed, she stated in her mind.
A/N: So, birthday speeches! Hope you liked this as much as I loved writing it! And PDA! Thanks for reading!
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