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A/N: Written for the A Bit of Motivation Competition, the One Million Words Added Challenge, the Chocolate Frog Challenge, the Pairing Diversity Boot Camp Challenge, the 335 Pairing Bonanza Challenge, the If You Dare...Continued Challenge, the Disney-A-Thon Challenge, the Hogwarts Classes Challenge.

Prompts: Purple, Write about Pomona Sprout (Rosetta), Pomona Sprout/Xenophilius Lovegood, Hearthstone, Must be outside for 75% of the story, Germany.

Romantic Walks Outside

Happiness blossomed inside of Pomona as she held the hand of her long time crush, Xenophilius Lovegood. Her smile was as bright as the summer sun shining down upon the pair as they walked out of Hogwarts castle through a little known side door.

"Amazing," Xenophilius gasped out with wide eyes as he took in the sight that met him. "Is that a Hearthstone in the middle of the garden? The last time I saw one was in Germany and it was guarded because of how rare it is."

Pomona felt her face warm up as a blush appeared on her face at Xenophilius' kind words. Her heart pounded in her chest as she watched Xenophilius stare out into her garden, his eyes picked out the various purple flowers that she had mixed in with more strong and brighter colours to make a nice wave of colour.

"If you want...we can go farther into the garden," Pomona said with a small nervous smile. "This garden is my personal garden after all, I am the one who gets to chose who enters this place and who does not."

"You would let me enter this amazing place?" Xenophilius asked with an excited grin as they took a few more steps outside and farther into the garden. "I love this place, it looks like it would be the perfect place for floflippers to live."

"Floflippers?" Pomona asked, her interest captured by Xenophilius' mention of the magical creature she had never heard of. "Even through Herbology is my first love in subjects I do like Magical Creatures and have done my own fair share of reading in the subject but I have not heard of Floflippers before."

At Pomona's words Xenophilius face broke out into a smile of pure joy causing Pomona to nervously look down at her feet.

"Floflippers are creatures who love gardens, really beautiful ones. If they find a garden to call home they try to help out the human with their gardening," Xenophilius explained, he only grew more animated when he realised that his secret crush was listening to him. "Have you ever planted some bulbs or seeds in a pot only to find that they come up in another area of the garden?"

"Yes, I have but I always thought that it was just the squirrels or the birds," Pomona answered with a thoughtful expression on her face. "I mean we are outside, and I know that my garden attracts wildlife..."

"And it also attracts rare magical creatures too," Xenophilius said as he lifted Pomona's hand up to his lips and gave it a kiss causing Pomona to blush. "You my dear lady are a truly gifted woman."

Pomona felt her heart begin to speed up and her stomach do flip flops at Xenophilius' words. Happiness washed over her like a wave crashing up against the beach, her eyes shone with pure joy and love which were mirrored by Xenophilius.

"You know...I never thought I would find another woman quiet like my wife, she had this certain flare to her that I have not been able to find," Xenophilius said softly as he reached up and cupped Pomona's face with his hand. "You know...Luna likes you, when I left to met with you this morning she told me that she approved of you...and that I..."

"Luna is a very smart and special young lady, she knows a lot about Herbology," Pomona said softly with a smile as she began to led Xenophilius around the garden. "What does Luna approve of?"

Xenophilius suddenly felt his mouth go dry, as he tried to speak no sound came out of his mouth. His stomach did summer salutes while sweat poured off of him like a waterfall. As Xenophilius stared into Pomona's eyes a sudden wave of emotion washed over him preventing him from looking away. Without realising it words came out of his mouth naturally and filled with love while the world around him seemed to slow down and come to a standstill.

"That I can ask you out and for you to start acting like her mother," Xenophilius said softly, Pomona let out a happy gasp as her eyes sparkled with happiness and hope. "Both Luna and I want this to work. We want you to join our family and hopefully...we want you to be part of our family for a very long time."

" Xenophilius..." Pomona gasped out in shock as tears of happiness fell down her face. "You...you really mean it? I...this is not some cruel joke?"

"Of course not, I would never joke about something like this," Xenophilius said with a small frown, honesty shone from his eyes as he stared at Pomona. "I promise. Both Luna and I would love for you to be part of our family and during the summer go hunting for magical creatures and rare plants. Please, Pom-Pom, please say yes. It would mean so much to Luna and I."

" Xenophilius...My dear Xen...I do not have to think about this one tiny bit, I already know what my answer will be," Pomona said honestly without a single sign of doubt in her eyes or on her face. "My answer is...yes. Of course it is going to be yes you silly thing!"

Unable to help himself Xenophilius let out a joy filled laugh and pulled Pomona into a tight hug, their eyes connected and each one of them could easily read the message in the other's eyes.

"I love you so much," Pomona said softly as she placed her head on Xenophilius' chest and listened to his strong heartbeat with a happy sigh. "I love you so much that it hurts but it is a pain that I am more than happy to take on. It is a pain that I love and never want to go away."

"And I mirror that feeling my beloved Pom-Pom," Xenophilius said honestly with pure unconditional love shining in his eyes. "I will give you and Luna the world and my heart."

"But Xen," Pomona said softly as she leant up and placed a short shy kiss on Xenophilius' check. "I do not need the world, all I need is you and Luna, my family."

End.