Disclaimer: I own nothing; I bow down to JK and her amazing talent.

Note To The Readers: Firstly I would like to apologize for the long delay, I had planned to get this up much sooner, but life as we all know will get in the way and change your plans at the last minute. I hope to make it up to you all, and in doing so I am going to try and get a chapter up every week. Also I have no re-loaded this story and changed out the Thanksgiving with Remembrance Day, which as I looked up is celebrated around Nov. 11th, as a way to remember all those who died in World War One. Sorry for that huge over site, it is an American Holiday and just snuck right in there!


"So you really aren't coming to the Burrow for Remembrance Day this year?" Hermione looked over the racks of dresses at Ginny and shrugged her shoulders. "It will be so weird; you've been with us for Remembrance Day since forever."

"I'm sure you guys will be fine without me, besides my parents said it was really important" It wasn't a total lie, her parents had asked her to come for Remembrance Day dinner, like they did every year only this year she didn't decline and say that she would be there for Christmas. They had been delighted really, but she didn't have the heart to admit to anyone other than Dean that she just needed a break from Remus for a little while. It might not have been the best thing to do but it was the only thing she could think to do. Dean didn't say anything against her plan but let her know that he was around to talk.

"Well they certainly won't be short a person" Luna said as she drifted down the aisle that Hermione was standing in. She glanced back over at Ginny who shrugged her shoulders.

"What do you mean Luna?" Hermione asked turning her attention back to her.

"Well I'll be there as well, so if you don't go it will be the same as always right?" She asked sliding a peach colored dress from the rack and holding for them both to see as Ginny joined them.

"No" Ginny said no hesitation at all in her voice.

Hermione wasn't sure how to ask why she was going to the Burrow for dinner and wasn't sure how to phrase it in a way that didn't sound bad. She chuckled when Luna frowned at Ginny before putting the dress back on the rack and pulling out a tangerine colored one with a rather large bow on the back. "This one?" Hermione shook her head, and wondered how in the world she could pick out such horrible dresses.

"I don't think so, nothing with bows" Ginny said "And what I have in mind for the ceremony, I think you guys need to be in silver. And what do you mean you are coming to the Burrow for Remembrance Day, when did Mum invite you?" Leave it to Ginny to just out right ask what had been on her mind for the past few minutes.

"Oh she didn't" Luna said simply turning around and heading toward the section that had some silver dresses. Hermione tried to stop from laughing but the look on Ginny's face really didn't help.

"Okay, so did you invite yourself?" Ginny asked grabbing Hermione's arm as they headed to her.

"No, Ron asked me." She was glad that she wasn't holding anything because she probably would have dropped it.

"How long have you two been…" Ginny trailed off her hands trying to finish the sentence for her.

"Six months give or take." Luna didn't even look up as she spoke instead she was flipping through the dresses, like she had just said the sky is blue.

"Six months!" Ginny said her eyes wide "Are you serious? Why are we just hearing about this now?"

Hermione saw Luna sigh as she turned to face the pair of them. "Well it didn't really start off the way most relationships do, we were both plastered at a pub one night and we got more than carried away with each other at my flat." She shrugged her shoulders "We were both embarrassed about it, but we got together for lunch a few days after that, and things just sort of progressed from there."

"Well I think it's great" Hermione said "As long as you guys are happy." She said looking at Luna who smiled lightly and nodded her head.

"Six months! I still can't believe you guys kept it a secret for so long." Hermione watched Luna for a moment, she had a feeling about the reason she had been alright with keeping it quiet. After Hermione dated Ron and they realized they were better off as friends, He sort of went from girl to girl never staying with one for more than a week or two at most.

"Leave her along Ginny," Hermione said "Your Mum is going to be bad enough when she comes for dinner."

"Alright, no more questions," Ginny said with a sigh as she handed them both a handful of dresses ushering them into their respective dressing rooms. "Try those on, and come out so that we can see them all."

"Are you sure these silver dresses aren't going to clash with my hair?" Luna asked after she slid the curtain closed.

"I'm sure it will be fine." And even though Hermione couldn't see Ginny's face, she heard the doubt in her voice.

As it turns out the silver was flattering for both of them. It just took over an hour of pulling on dress after dress on before they found the one, a strapless almost silk like dress that hugged their curves nicely, and flared out slightly near the bottom that would essentially skim the ground as they walked. Hermione didn't even mind the price when she saw how lovely the dress seemed to fit her. They were also pleased when the sales Lady came up to them to set the dresses aside for Luna and Hermione, offering to show Ginny to the wedding dresses, but when she found out the Harry Potter was her fiancé, she promised them all a discount, saying it was the least she could do for Harry Potter.

It took way too long to get the sales girl to leave after that though, Hermione had to use her serious voice and insist that this was going to be personal thing and that when they found what they were looking for then they would call her back.

"You certainly do have a way with people Hermione" Luna said as she sat down on one of the chairs near the rather large dressing area. Hermione couldn't help but laugh but when she saw the girl come back out of the corner of her eye she turned with a frown about to say something, but say a small tray in her hands.

"Compliments of the house" she said setting it down and then backed out smiling.

"What is it?" Ginny asked not able to pull her head up from the rack of dresses before her.

"Champagne anyone?" Hermione asked turning around with a bottle in her hand.

"Seriously?"

"This whole being married to Harry Potter is going to be even more awesome than I thought," Ginny said walking toward her friends and reaching for a glass.

"And we both know you don't meant that because of the added perks" Hermione said pouring them each a glass. "Cheers" she said holding her glass up and the three friends clinked their glasses together.

"So Ginny were you and Harry able to save yourself for your Wedding night?" Luna asked in her dreamy voice that Hermione remembered so well from school.

"Yeah right" Ginny said rolling her eyes. "After the war we took things slow, we wanted to adjust and have time to mourn, but when we hit the six month mark, and he met me for a Hogsmeade weekend, and apparated us away, and we haven't been able to keep our hands off each other since." Hermione couldn't help but study her friends face as she spoke, there was a light smile that definitely reached her eyes, the mark of a true smile, and her face looked completely content. "He's absolutely perfect."

"No one is perfect Gin." Hermione said not able to stop herself.

"Well I know that, but he is perfect for me, we just fit together so well." Hermione made a face at her and held her hand up.

"Too much info Gin," she said jokingly.

"Well I didn't mean that but it certainly applies. We both seem to just know what the other wants, in bed and out. It's really nice to have that connection, like I don't particularly care for oral, but I don't mind giving it and that doesn't seem to bother Harry at all." Ginny said grabbing a dress and heading for the dressing room.

"You don't like it?" Luna asked flipping through the dresses as well, "It might be my favorite part, Ron is quite enthusiastic about it, he joked once that he likes to eat." Luna laughed lightly when she spoke and Hermione did her best not to laugh out loud, sadly she knew that about Ron, and now that they were back to best friends, she wished she could erase that from her brain. "And of course he is very responsive when I return the favor, though he's rather large and I can't put him all in my mouth."

Sometimes the conversations girls ended up having together were a little surreal, here they were trying on clothes and talks about sex. Hermione didn't grow up with a sister and it wasn't until she went to Hogwarts that she got this extended family and she was glad that she had this.

"I did not need to know that about my brother, but thanks." Ginny said coming out wearing a strange look on her face, "This dress is awful" and with that she turned around and went back while Hermione handed her another one to try on.

"I think you and Remus will be rather explosive when you finally go to bed together." Hermione nearly dropped her glass on the floor. She had not been expecting that, or anything close to it. Ginny pulled the curtain back clad in her bra and panties her mouth wide open. "Well I'm serious, you two have so much in common but you've both also got a temper which will probably work in your favor in the bedroom." Everyone was quiet for a moment as Luna looked from Hermione to Ginny and then back to Hermione "What did I miss?"

"I wish I could tell you." Ginny said looking at Hermione with a pointed look.

"Ginny I really don't want to talk about it." She shook her head and ushered Ginny back toward the dressing room. "Just leave it and go try on some dresses." Ginny reluctantly went through the curtain.

"I can't wait for you two to work things out." Luna said thoughtfully.

"That makes two of us, and this dress isn't right either" she said "Hand me another?" Luna got up and walked one over to her.

"After what he called me we may never know" she had meant to say it lower, and to herself but they both heard. Luna looked at her curiously and Ginny shot her head out from behind the curtain.

"What did he call you?" Ginny practically demanded. Hermione sighed and figure it couldn't hurt to share this story with them, so she explained what happened between herself and Remus when they were at the Burrow two weeks ago.

"And when I told him that it shouldn't matter to him since he had made it clear he didn't want to be with me he asked if that gave me the right to whore myself out."

"He did not say that" Ginny said frowning.

"It's not like you were with multiple people, he is over reacting." Luna said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world and while Hermione wanted to jump on the bandwagon with her but she couldn't.

"You think he's got a point don't you?" Ginny asked her eyes wide.

"Not exactly" she said shaking her head. "It's more that I feel guilty." Her friends looked at her with wide eyes. "I was up front with Dean and everything, but every time we were together I was thinking of Remus, I wanted Remus, and if I really wanted him I should have just dealt with it, and waited, given us time to figure things out but I didn't. I think he has every right to be mad."

She had only thought this to herself she hadn't even admit this much to Dean in their many conversations, but it felt good to say it now, like having a burden lifted from her chest. Her friends all had supportive things to say of course, each one believing that they would be able to work it out in the end. Hermione loved that they were so genuine and just took them at their words, and then they all focused on finding Ginny a dress and of course it just happened to be the last dress that she tried on. It was perfect and her bridesmaids were sworn to secrecy not to tell anyone what it looked like.

After they had their dresses wrapped and sent to their respective houses, they headed out to dinner, but Hermione couldn't take her mind off of Remus, she really felt like she had messed things up and she had no idea how to fix it.


"So this shouldn't take too long, we are going to keep it simple" Harry said as they walked into Modern Wizard Robes, "Ginny told me they settled on Silver for the Bridesmaids, so we will need some accent color or something, at least that's what Ginny asked me to do."

"Asked or told?" Ron asked with a grin.

"I would venture she told him, but he doesn't want us to know that." Remus said chuckling.

"Despite that, I want to make her happy, so we need to get to work." Harry nodded lightly and then went to speak with the assistant who had been assigned to his small party. Harry described exactly what he wanted and within five minutes they were all standing there dressed in black dress robes, Harry having a satin handkerchief folded in his pocket while the other two had no handkerchief but had a delicate silver design embedded in their vests.

"Ginny is going to be so mad" Ron said grinning from ear to ear "Luna told me that they were looking for dresses for almost three hours before they found what they wanted, we've been here for ten minutes and we are done." Remus nodded and glanced at the price tag and inwardly winced, but then realized that it was an old reflex, he was in the best shape of his life physically and financially. He would be able to buy this without worrying how he would put food on the table for the next month.

"We'll take these" Harry said receiving a nod from the assistant before he disappeared back to the front to get the paper work in order. "And did you say Luna?" All three were changing back into their Muggle clothes.

"Oh yeah" Ron said with a nod pulling his shirt on over his head pointing out the face that his ears had gone red. "I guess I should tell you guys, we've been seeing each other for a little while now."

"Is she your mystery guest to Remembrance Day?" Harry asked pulling his shoes on. Remus didn't ask any questions, not really wanting to talk about relationships at the moment.

"Yeah she is, apparently Ginny and Hermione were pretty surprised." Remus couldn't stop his head from snapping in Ron's direction when he mentioned her name. "Surprised but supportive."

"Of course they are going to be supportive" Remus said adjusting the collar of his shirt. "Now where is this place we are going for dinner?" He asked desperately wanting to change the subject.

"Well the place I wanted to go was closed, so I thought we could just pop over to Three Broom Sticks." They all agreed and after paying for their things and making sure they would be sent to their homes they all disappeared.

"I love this place" Ron muttered in between stuffing bite after bite in his mouth. Remus held back a chuckle and Harry just rolled his eyes.

"You love any place with good food." Remus nodded his head in agreement as he took a long swig from his glass. "So I have the Honeymoon all planned out, we are going to start off with a cruise and then spend a few days in Hawaii" Ron's jaw dropped.

"You are going to spend a fortune" he said and Remus chuckled.

"It will be completely worth it" Harry said with a grin. "I got a sneak peak of some of what Ginny plans to wear while we are there. Her bathing suit is…"

"That's my baby sister, I really don't need to hear that." Ron said making a face.

"I bet he's had to put up with plenty of stories from you over the years." Remus pointed out, though he really didn't want to think much about relationships.

"Yeah but Harry never really minded, not until Hermione." Harry gave Ron a look that he missed before looking at Remus who had tensed at the mention of Hermione "After we slept together the first time Harry had to hit me with a silencing charm because I wouldn't stop talking about how fantastic a shag she was." Ron finally looked up from his plate and saw that Harry was shaking his head at him. Confused he looked over at Remus he had a horribly irritated look on his face. "What did I miss?"

"Nothing, we just shouldn't talk about Hermione right now, or girls. We should talk about Quidditch or something."

"Why can't we talk about Hermione?"

Harry glanced over at Remus and then back at Ron not sure what he should say and was hoping that Remus would give something away but really he looked as though he was fighting with himself not to slug Ron for his comments about shagging Hermione.

"No way, you and Mione?" Ron said his eyes wide as he looked at Remus. "I never thought you two would come around." He grinned for a moment and when he noticed he was the only one smiling he frowned and shook his head. "You guys aren't together?"

"No we are not." Remus said straightening up in his chair.

"Why the bloody hell not?" Harry almost choked when Ron said that, at the same time trying not to laugh.

"Excuse me?"

"I didn't really want to see it at first, but you two are perfect for each other, almost sickeningly perfect." When Remus shook his head about to counter that Ron continued "Don't waste your breath, no one reads as much as the two of you, you can both be quite which usually leads to something scary, and you both have a temper. I'm really surprised that you guys haven't gotten together yet." The expression on Remus' face changed momentarily and for once Ron caught it. "But you've kissed."

"How on earth did you know that?" Harry asked, he had seen Ron do some amazing things in his time, but to catch on to something so quickly, well that wasn't like him at all.

"You can tell by the look on his face." Ron said motioning with his hand. "So what happened?" Remus took a deep breath and then started in on what had happened, normally he kept all of this to himself, but with everything staying bottled up, and not sure how to get what he wanted. Maybe talking to her best friends would help.

"Bloody hell…" Ron let out breath as he sat back when Remus finished telling his story. "You're lucky all she did was slap you."

"Ron's right." Harry said. "Merlin I can't believe you said that."

"Well what would you have done?" It was a dumb question really, he knew he shouldn't have said it, he was just overcome with emotion, mainly jealousy.

"And you haven't talked to her in two weeks?" Harry asked.

"No and I haven't even tried, I have no idea where to start."

"Do you want her?" Ron asked and then grinned shaking her head "I don't just mean that, I mean like in the long term?"

Remus thought for a moment, there were a lot of things to consider but after his inner conversations and his fake conversation with Dora. There wasn't any real reason not to try to have a relationship with Dora, none at all. "Yeah I do." He said thoughtfully feeling as though a weight had been lifted by just admitting it to Harry and Ron.

"Well then I think we can help." Ron said with an evil grin. "But you are going to have to apologize."

"Right, this is what we are going to do…" Harry said leaning on the table and speaking in a low voice.


"So why did Ron and Harry say to meet them here?" Hermione asked trying her best to fight off a yawn. They had been out for most of the day and she really wanted to was to go home and take a long hot bath and get into bed.

"I'm not really sure to be honest, they just sent a note and asked that we meet them here for a drink." Ginny said. "I think he just missed me." Luna said nothing but pushed the door open to the Three Broom Sticks and scanned the place.

"Over in the corner" she said catching site of Ron's red hair. As they started to walk Hermione finally let herself look over toward their table and almost stopped dead in her tracks. Ginny caught the hesitation and looked at her confused before looking back at the table.

"I'll kill him." Ginny muttered under her breath shooting Harry and rare angry look.

"I'll pay for this later, so this had better work" Harry said under his breath to Remus as the girls reached the table. Ron held a chair out for Luna to sit and Harry did the same catching a whisper from Ginny and wincing.

"I think I'll just go" Hermione said glancing at her friends too tired to be angry, but she certainly didn't have enough energy to deal with this right now.

"You can't even stay for one drink?" Ron asked looking up at her with that innocent we didn't do anything look plastered all over his face. She sighed and shook her head.

"No I'm just going to go home." She turned and headed back out of the Three Broom Sticks, and just as she was about to get out of the way of all of the foot traffic and apparate home, she felt a hand on her arm. She cursed herself, she hadn't even heard him behind her.

"Please don't go just because I'm here." She turned around to look at him and at the same time he let his hand slid off of her arm.

"I wouldn't think you'd be comfortable with a whore at the table" she said crossing her arms over her chest. She could be handling this situation better but really she just didn't want to, seeing him here just brought back a rush of angry feelings from their last encounter. He sighed and reached up running his hands through his hair.

"You have no idea how sorry I am about that, it was the worst possible thing to say and I really didn't mean it." He watched her carefully not sure how she would take that. She raised an eyebrow.

"Then why say it, I told you that it was nothing, that it didn't mean anything, but you just wouldn't listen."

"I wish you could understand what I was feeling at the time." Hermione made a move to say something but he cut her off "You were there, and then we were kissing, and you have no idea how wonderful it felt for me to have you that close, to feel you respond to my touch, and then to have it all ripped away when I smelled his scent. I was over whelmed." He paused for a moment and watched her chest rise and fall her breath a little quicker than normal."

"Remus, we have got to figure out what we want, and then figure out how to make things work." She let her arms fall slightly into a more relaxed position.

"I want us, I want you, I just, I worry that I won't be enough." She closed the short distance between them and reached out taking his hand.

"That's for me to decide, and you know I don't jump into things lightly."

"What about…"

"That wasn't the best decision, though it was mine to make, and I put a stop to it but we are friends." She said watching him carefully. His nose flared slightly but he nodded his head. "We just need to take this slow." Remus shifted closer to her reaching up to tuck a loose strand of hair behind her ear. "And I think we should write letters to each other."

"Letters?" He asked letting his hand rest along her neck his thumb sliding along her jaw. She swallowed hard and nodded. "Why letters?"

"Because if we spend time together like this, slow is not going to happen." She said her eyes closed her tongue darting out to moisten her lips.

"What exactly do you think is going to happen?" he asked leaning in to whisper against her ear. She reached out and clutched his shirt in a tight grip.

"All things naughty" she said stepping back just as he was about to claim her lips. "And as much fun as that is going to be, I really don't want to rush that with you. I want it to be right, and for the right reasons." She knew that it probably sounded bad, particularly after her arrangement with Dean.

"Why would you worry about that when you were do open with your friend" He asked, not sounding upset but honestly confused.

She smiled at him and took another step back, she really didn't trust herself to be that close to him. "This is different, whatever we have, it's different, lasting, and I don't want to do anything to ruin that. So letters, for now."

He nodded, feeling as though he understood what she meant now, they had a future in her eyes and that meant allot. "I can do that." He said stepping forward and leaning in to kiss her cheek, it took all of his willpower not to crash his lips against hers. "I want this to work."

"Me too Remus, me too." Hermione said with a smile on her face as she disappeared.


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