Special Thanks: to Ruffin (blankpage on for being my beta on the first four installments. You're my hero, yet… not. Lol.
Disclaimer: Characters and original scenes belong to JK Rowling, but that doesn't mean I can't play in my free time for free.
A/N: Takes place while the Trio is on the hunt for the Horcruxes, post-Grimmauld Place. This is a ten one-shot series for LJ's 10themes community.
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For it being the middle of summer, it wasn't as hot that night as she had originally expected it to be that night as she stepped out onto the back porch of the Burrow.
"You should be asleep."
She also wasn't expecting him to be there, though the majority of her was glad that he was. He was sitting on the ground under the kitchen window; his dark cloak wrapped around his large frame and brought him further into the darkness.
"One could say the same for you."
Her voice was barely a whisper, and for all he knew she could have been speaking to the ground.
"I tried sleeping," she told him, "but I-I just couldn't. Not after a-all that happened today. We could have died! Some of us did! T-the l-lights… a-and the screams… your brother. I just… I—"
She scolded herself for breaking. She knew she had to prepare herself, but any walls she had half-attempted to build were immediately brought down by him. At some point during her speech, he had wrapped her body with his arms and his cloak. Her sobs had turned to whimpers, and those to hiccups before finally ceasing altogether.
She pulled away from his chest to wipe her nose and tear stains on her cheeks. He was watching her, she felt it. It was comforting being with someone that understood her, that understood these fears, that knew what to do and what to say in moments like these.
He tilted her chin up gently and wiped away at tears she had missed. It made her feel like a piece of fragile glass, but she knew it wasn't an insult. He cherished her and she knew.
And just as gently as he moved her head, his lips found hers and oh! It was everything she needed and just what she wanted. It didn't hurt that it also happened to be the best, and second, she thought, snog in her life.