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"Well don't you look nice." Hermione gasped and spun around to find Harry standing in her living room.

"Harry!" she said her hand over her heart, "You are lucky I didn't hex you, what are you doing here unannounced?" Hermione ran her hand through her straightened hair and looked at her best friend pointedly.

"Well it's getting close to Christmas, and we haven't seen allot of you, I thought I would just pop over and make sure you were still planning on coming over to the Burrow for Christmas?"

"Honestly Harry you know how busy the Ministry is right now and of course I am going to be there, why wouldn't I?" She straightened her short sleeved blouse along with her loose skirt.

"Well we weren't sure. But back to why you look so nice, where ya going?" He asked grinning. Hermione narrowed her eyes at him and shook her head.

"None of your business, now you are welcome to hang out in my flat, but I was just on my way out." She said grabbing her purse.

"Why won't you tell me where you are going? You aren't going to visit a certain Werewolf we both know would you?" Hermione stopped mid-step to her fire place and turned around to look at Harry eyebrow raised.

"Why?"

"Well I am watching Teddy for the night, and Remus wouldn't tell me what he was up to." Harry chuckled and held his hands up. "Have fun Hermione." Harry said walking past her and right into her Floo smirking at her as he disappeared into the flames.

Well so much for keeping this little rendezvous between the two of them, she thought to herself. At least Harry would more than likely only share the news with Ginny. Hermione took a deep breath and grabbed some Floo powder herself and in a split second she appeared in Remus' living room.

He was there waiting for her, he looked calm and nervous at the same time. They stood there for a minute taking each other in. He looked comfortable wearing dark khaki pants and a simple white button down shirt. Her eye floated up to his and she bit her lower lip when she saw him grin.

"You look lovely Hermione." He broke the silence and moved forward taking her purse from her and setting it on the mantle before pulling her into a tight embrace. She felt him take a deep breath and she sagged into him burying her face into his neck. "I've missed you."

In this moment, she couldn't imagine anything better than this, locked in his embrace his soft voice in her ear. They lingered together for a moment before he pulled back placing a soft kiss against her cheek.

"I've made us a little something to eat." Hermione nodded and then slipped her hand in his before they walked through the house to the kitchen. Her eyes lit up though at the sight before her. The kitchen table was gone. The lights were out and there were candles floating in the air surrounding a small picnic set up on the floor. "Nothing fancy but I thought it might be nice."

"Not fancy, Remus this is perfect" she said looking up at him a smile on her face. More like romantic she thought to herself but really she didn't want to jump the gun. Though the way he was looking at her from across their small picnic all she wanted to do was jump the gun. Apparently being sexually frustrated was something that they both had in common, because his eyes were hungry and it wasn't a hunger for the fruit they were both eating.

"I've really enjoyed our letters." Hermione said after a while trying to get the conversation flowing. He smiled at he and nodded in agreement.

"As have I, though I must say that is unfair of you to send yours while I am at work." She couldn't stop the grin that graced her lips and she shrugged her shoulders innocently.

"Well you don't have to read them just because you get them at work." Hermione watched his face carefully and waited to see his reaction. His nostrils flared slightly and his eyes grew warm.

"I don't have a choice; I can't seem to help myself." As he spoke he shifted leaning across the small blanket and she did the same meeting him in the middle. "And I don't think I want to." He muttered before covering her lips with his.

The kiss was soft and sweet the only thing moving were their lips against each others. It was short though, too sort. Remus pulled away his eyes blazing into hers. "Is that what we came here for?" she asked. She was confused, not about how she felt but about where they were going, if they kissed like that again she had no idea if she would be able to put a stop to things, and she was determined not to just have sex with him on the first date. She wasn't sure why since she was alright with having a casual relationship with Dean. She just wanted to make sure that this was more than that.

He studied her for a moment and shook his head. "Of course not, even if I did enjoy it and would love to have more, I certainly won't pressure you into anything." Hermione sighed and stood up.

"It's not that I don't want to believe me" she said trying to get her thoughts straight as she turned toward the living room. "It's just that…well I don't want to mess this up." Remus stood to follow her, he had been thinking about their arrangement more and more over the past few days and he wondered if maybe she was starting to think along the same lines as he was. "Maybe I am being too cautious." She turned around her hair fanning out around her. She looked at him, her eyes bright and excited.

"Too cautious about what exactly?" Remus asked moving closer to her, he reached up and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear.

"Too many rules, maybe we should just fully embrace this attraction, let things happen." Hermione reached up and rested her hand on his cheek gently. Remus turned his head just enough to plant a small kiss on her palm. Her breath caught as her eyes never left his face. "In a way we've been seeing each other for over a year now, just not officially or anything." She was justifying this to herself. They had spent so much time together over the past almost two years after the war, they talked, joked, laughed, played with Teddy, so in a way it was true, they had been together, they just didn't know it until the kiss.

"I don't want you to do anything that you'll regret Hermione." He reached up and took her hand in his waiting for the green light to flash so that he could indulge himself in her lips again.

"I'm not going to regret any of my time with you Remus." Her words were sure, and in that moment she decided to let go of the uncertainty that would be her future. Her time with Remus would be worth it, of that she had no doubt.

"That's all I needed" Remus muttered pulling her to him crushing her against him as his lips found hers his hand burying themselves in her hair. It was just as heated as the first one, even more so since they had been teasing each other for the past week. They moved together across the living room floor, Hermione pulled away just long enough to let herself fall back on to the sofa and beckoned Remus to her with a small gesture of her hand.

He maneuvered himself flawlessly on top of her his lips connecting with hers again as her legs spread apart just enough for him to fit himself against her. It was like the Weasley's sofa all over again only a thousand times better. She was just as responsive as ever her hands ghosting along his back small whimpers escaping her lips. Remus tugged on her bottom lip having caught her lower lip between his teeth. She gasped her lips parting and Remus took advantage of that and slid his tongue across her lips before diving inside to meet hers.

Too perfect Hermione thought to herself as she let go and let herself fall into their kiss fully. This was better than anything else they had shared so far, more intense. She was barely away of the fact that his lips had left hers and where making delicious patterns on her neck. "Remus" she groaned arching her neck giving him full access.

"I can't believe how good you taste, how good you feel" Remus muttered against her lips as his hand ran down her side and grabbed her hip tightly. He shifted his gaze so that he could look at her his eyes smoldering .

She took a breath a sultry look coming across her face as she raised her hips up to grind against his. His eyes fluttered for a moment and a smirk crossed her lips before she raised her hips again. His head lowered in record time and caught her lips again in a hot embrace. His hand ran down the length of her resting on the crook of her knee. Her breath caught when she felt him begin to bunch up her skirt not stopping at her knee. But instead she felt his hand graze her bare skin all the way up to her panty clad hip.

She bit her lower lip as his hand shifted again this time to the front of her panties. Her heart was racing, if they were going to have a sex why was he lingering, why were her clothes still on, why were his still on. Merlin what are his fingers doing she thought as his fingers teased her lower lips over her panties. She looked up at him with questions in her eyes as well as excitement.

"No need to rush everything, but I don't see why we can't" He paused his fingers slipping beneath her panties and down the crease of her lips "have a little fun." With that he slipped two of his fingers into her. Her eyes fluttered shut and she gasped. If this is the fun he was talking about well then I'll just have to enjoy it. He leaned down his face buried into her neck as he worked his fingers in and out of her slowly, he took a deep breath taking in her scent. "I can't believe how wet you are." He muttered again while nipping at her neck lightly.

"And I can't believe how hard you are." Hermione said her voice rough as she reached down and cupped his erection in her hand. He growled against her neck and started moving his fingers faster trying to go deeper with every thrust of his hand. Hermione took all of her energy to focus as she slipped the clasp of his pants up and worked her hand inside and shuddered at the feel of his hard cock in her hand. Her paused in his ministrations when she pumped her hand in a slow tender fashion.

Their breaths grew heavy as their hands worked together their faces resting in the crooks of each others necks. Maybe the situation wasn't entirely ideal, but at the moment it felt perfect and as the rhythm his Remus' fingers picked up angling perfectly she felt it, her inner walls contracted and her eyes closed as she came coating his fingers more heavily than they already were. She heard Remus growl again and then felt his release trickle down her fingers.

"Can't remember the last time I had someone do that." He said shifting as their hands slipped from each other and he settled in on her side. She smiled at him and nodded waving her hand between them cleaning them both up.

"It was lovely." Hermione said her eyes shutting but a smile on her lips. "I suppose I should thank you before I fall asleep."

"Thank me for what" He asked watching her face intently feeling more awake than ever before.

"For a wonderful dinner." She said spoke softly snuggling against him her eyes still closed. "And for the most relaxing night I've had in weeks." Remus chuckled and leaned down placing a soft kiss on her forehead.

"Anytime love, anytime."


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