*So since so many people seemed to like it here's the second chapter. I'm not sure how quick I'll update because I've just started classes and I'm taking three fast 8 week classes plus four normal paced classes for this first half of the semester plus I work! So bear with me when it comes to my updates. Also, I'm switching up my writing style on the flashbacks because I want to differentiate on each individuals flashbacks. I hope that makes sense, you'll see when you read. I hope you like it, let me know what you think.
-Start-
My head is killing me but I can't figure out why. I try to open my eyes and it feels as though they're so heavy with sleep that it'll be impossible to open them. I try anyway. My eyes creak open and I recognize the room I'm in, this is . Why in the loopy hell am I at ? Then it hits me like a ton of bricks, I remember the light racing towards me, but I can't remember being hit, all I remember is her face and it takes me back to the moment I realized I was in love with her.
-Break-
"Ginny! Wake up sleepy head, we're going to be late for breakfast." Hermione says as she shakes my shoulder in an attempt to wake me up. I feign sleep and roll to my side with a slight groan. I hear her sigh and feel the bed dip where she's clearly climbing onto the bed to peer over my shoulder. Of course I gives herself away by grinning.
"Ginevra Weasley! Get out of bed this minute we're-Oof!" she grunts as I grab her arm and pull her body over my shoulder and into my arms. She starts giggling and her nose scrunches up in the most adorable way. My heart melts for the woman in my arms. "You," she says poking me lightly in the chest, "are going to make us late if you don't hurry up and get out of bed."
I roll her underneath me, nip at her collar bone and start kissing and licking my way towards her ear. "I think I'd prefer to make us late. Especially if it means I get to keep your exquisite little body underneath me, preferably moaning my name." I whisper in her ear and roll my hips into hers. I feel more than hear her breath hitch and her body slightly tremble. This is the most forward I've been in the three months we've been dating. I'm waiting for her to laugh it off and start getting out of bed but when I take a glance down she's looking up at me with a fire in her chocolate pools I didn't know she could have. I groan when her lips press against mine and she fights for dominance in the kiss. This is so unlike the meek Hermione I've been dating that I swear I'm going to short circuit from how turned on this is making me.
Her hands are under my shirt, thumb leaving burning circles as she strokes right above the button to my pajama bottoms. Before I know what she's doing her hand slips beneath my waistband and she's stroking my lips, my whole body is on fire with a want for her I didn't know I had. My mouth is on her breast now, and I'm not even sure how her shirt came off in the first place but I feel her fingers still slightly when I run my tongue across her hardened nipple. "Oh Ginny" she moans breathlessly. Heat floods the lower half of my body going strait to my core. I lean up and throw my shirt to the floor as I gaze down at the woman underneath me. She's running her fingers over her collarbone, tracing the same path my mouth just took as she circles her nipple with her finger and then her eyes pop open and focus one mine and I swear someone has replaced my girlfriend when she's takes the hand that was just teasing me and slowly licks the tips of her fingers one my one. Who is this woman? This can't possibly my Hermione being so forward.
My mouth is back on hers and I'm working quickly to get her jeans off of her. I'm so distracted I never even hear the door open until I hear the girlish scream.
Fuck.
I grab the coverlet and yank it up to cover Hermione's exposed body but it's clearly too late for that anyway because I can hear the stuttering wanker still standing with the door wide open.
"Wha-What are you doing?" Ron babbles.
"Well I thought it was pretty obvious but since you clearly can't tell, I was trying to fuck my girlfriend." Hermione drawls in a scary imitation of an irritated Malfoy. I whip my head back towards Hermione as she says this and see her relaxed, carefree expression as her body is propped up on my pillows. Ron is still standing with his mouth wide open when I notice a black head of hair rising over the banister. Right as Harry's face pops over the banister and he see's me, eyes wide with a sheet partially wrapped around my naked torso, he glances towards Hermione and then he's gone and all I hear is a "Bloody-Ugh" as he drops to the floor.
"That's what you get for being nosy. Now kindly get the bloody hell out!" Hermione says leaning up some and glaring in the most unHermione like way she ever could. As the door closes and I hear the laughter as my brother goes flying down the stairs that collapsed on him I turn back to Hermione. Her cheeks are bright red, hair sticking up on one side of her head from where she's clearly run her hand through it ten times in nervousness while I gawked at the door and she's biting her lip.
Oh gods, I think I'm in love.
-Break-
I swear that memory is so fresh and crisp that it could've been yesterday. That's my Hermione though, brave in the face of danger, able to stamp her nerves down in any situation but the second that door closes I know she's human because that's when the fretting starts. I laugh and it echoes off the empty white walls. Where is everyone, I don't see Hermione, hell I don't even see my family. Oh gods, what if no one made it? I thought I remembered grasping her hand but it could've just been a dream. I throw my legs over the side and push myself off the bed but I barely feel the floor under my feet before I'm a crumpled mess on the floor. Just how long have I been in this damned bed? I know I'll get answers in a second because I can hear the doorknob turn and someone step in.
"Miss Weasley? Oh my goodness! Are you alright? We weren't expecting you to wake up after last week, I never, oh I'm so sorry, here let me help you up." the healer stammers and flicks her wand towards me. I'm levitated back into the bed and the sheet pulls itself over my legs.
"What's going on? Did everyone survive the battle last week? Where's Hermione? My family?"
"Battle last-Oh no Miss Weasley. That battle happened just over two months ago Miss Weasley. You've been in a magical coma of some sort for two months with no response. Last Tuesday you started having what juggles call a seizure and your heart started failing, we thought for sure we'd lost you both."
"Two months? Wait, lost us both?" I question trying to process everything this woman is telling me.
"You and Miss Granger of course. When your heart started failing hers did too and she collapsed. Your heartbeat went back to normal almost instantly, hers stayed barely beating for a few hours after she collapsed but has slowly gone back to normal over the last week."
"I'm sorry but I really don't understand. How does Hermione have anything to do with my-whatever you called it? Is she alright? Am I alright?"
"Well I don't really know exactly, it's just, well..."
"Look I'm not trying to be rude but I've been in a magical coma for over two months, I don't see my family anywhere and you just told me my girlfriend, who I'm in love with, barely had a heartbeat all week long. So if you could manage, please just tell me what the bloody hell is going on!"
"I'm sorry Miss Weasley, it's just hard to say because no one is really sure what it is. All we know is that somehow you survived the killing curse and from what everyone says it was from some shield that Miss Granger cast, it linked the two of you together and well, according to Dumbledore, if one of you dies the other will follow. That's what we thought was happening last week when your heart was failing and she collapsed. But obviously neither of you died. She hasn't woken up though and it very much looks like she's in the same type of magical coma you were in."
"I survived the killing curse? But that's impossible! No one but Harry has survived the curse and his mother died from protecting him."
"Ahh Miss Weasley I see you are finally awake." Albus Dumbledore said as he stepped through the open door.
"Headmaster! It can't be true, can it?"
"I'm sorry Miss Weasley but yes it is true. And because of that you will have a very hard time ahead of you."
"What do you mean?"
"Hermione, without knowing it, enacted the lovers promise. It is very ancient earth magic and much like the magic Harry's mother used to save his life."
"Then how is she alive? And why is it that if one of us dies the other one will?"
"That is what everyone is trying to figure out Ginny. The magic has linked your soul with Hermione's which I believe is why only one of you seems to be awake at a time. Your souls have combined into one and one soul cannot be in two bodies at once. Your report," he said turning towards the healer, "stated that Miss Granger grabbed Miss Weasleys' hand just before collapsing?"
"Yes sir, it was almost instantaneous, she touched her hand and a second later dropped to the ground."
"The transfer of soul, the contact transferred it, it was instinctual for Hermione to reach for you, your body was dying from not having a soul for so long and somehow your combined souls recognized that and transferred. You will not be able to leave the immediate area where Hermione is Ginevra. Hermione tried to help with the research and it was devastating to her health and I imagine it will be the same for you."
"Ugh my head hurts with al of this information. Where is my family? What happened at the battle after I fell? And what was Hermione trying to research?"
"Most of your family is helping to research night and day, as is mostly everyone in the order. The battle was an amazing, if not unexpected, success. You see, the lover's promise takes an amazing amount of earth magic, more than I ever realized Hermione had, and when she cast it it mainly surrounded the two of you but the backlash-well it killed the body Voldemort was in."
"You mean he's gone?"
"Not permanently. There's still one more horcrux, which is what most of the order is researching on how to destroy and everyone else is researching how to separate yours and Hermione's souls so that you can both survive this."
"Why not just destroy it with the sword or the basilisk fang like the rest of them? Or use the spell Hermione created last year, it worked better than anything else and she was still developing it."
"Because Ginevra the horcrux is Harry and after speaking with Hermione that is why she was developing that spell to begin with. Apparently, which should not shock anyone, she figured it out some time ago that Harry myself was a horcrux, but she has not been able to finish developing it from here."
"Oh." I say as my mind turns back to the crazy time when I thought Hermione and I wouldn't last because of that blasted research, now all I felt was guilty for pressuring her to relax.
-Break-
"Come on Hermione, this is the second Hogsmeade weekend you've blown off for this bloody research! What could be that important?"
"It's to help Harry, Ginny. I'm sorry if you don't understand but it has to be done and Harry and Ron are useless."
"Of course I understand, I'm the one who yelled at you for not letting anyone help with anything but this is becoming ridiculous. You won't let any of us help with certain aspects of it, you're being secretive with parts so we can only help with small sections. You have to take a break at some point."
"Voldemort is it going to take break! He doesn't care that it's Hogsmeade weekend unless he's planning on trying to kill someone during it. Why can't any of you understand that? This is more important than anything else in our lives right ow, Harry could die, we could all, die!How important will Hosmeade weekend be then?"
"Don't be so dramatic Hermione. Everyone needs a break, and every relationship needs time spent away from the library and books, even one that involves the great Hermione Granger." Ginny spat.
"Sometimes," Hermione said packing her books into her bag and swinging it onto her shoulder, "you're as thick as your brother. Perhaps you should look into a relationship that doesn't involve the 'Great Hermione Granger' if you want to have someone solely dedicated to you. That's not me, and even after the war is over, it still won't be me Ginny. I'll always have research or my career that has my attention on top of our relationship. Have a good day in Hogsmeade Ginny." with that she turned and left the library, leaving behind a very angry and hurt Ginny.
-Break-
A tear slipped down my cheek from the raw emotion that coursed through my body. I was so rash to complain about her doing her research when all she was doing was trying to save one of her best friends. Why didn't she confide in me? I'd have kept it from Harry and then I could've helped her research. Of course, that's t Hermione though, she never wants to burden anyone, always takes on always tries to protect everyone around her from any pain that she can.
That's whys I love her.
Gods I love her and I know she loves me back.
Will I ever get to hear her say it?
-Break-
"Hermione?" Ginny shouted
"Yes?" Hermione said simply as she turned in the hall filled with students.
"I really need to talk to you. Do you have time?"
"Unless it's an emergency, Head Girl hours don't start until after dinner and run until curfew."
"It's about us Hermione, doesn't have anything to do with school."
"With the way you've been the past two weeks, I wasn't even aware there was an us. So as I said, unless it's an emergency I really should be getting to class, if you forget my Head Girl hours they're posted outside of my rooms." Hermione turned and headed towards her next class, leaving Ginny standing in the now empty hallway, completely baffled.
-Break-
I feel more tears sliding down my cheeks but I don't have the energy to wipe them away. I remember that hollow feeling as she walked down the hall away from me and it was terrible. I'd been a right prat, I know that now but I was so upset by what she'd I'd. As though I was being selfish, asking her to take a break and actually spend some real time with me. After the morning Ron and Harry had accidentally found us it'd seemed like she was being standoffish, avoiding any contact that went further than friendly. And it hurt. Then when she added on focusing on her research so much it was too much. I know Hermione, I know how focused and diligent she is with her studies and research. I was just upset and then I didn't know how to confront her afterwards, I needed time to calm down. I never realized those words had meant that she was breaking it off.
Looking back on how much that hurt then I can't imagine how it'll be if we can't both be awake at the same time. It's hardly comforting that I know I have a piece of Hermione in me now. I want all of her.
Forever.
-Break-
Ginny's pacing back and forth in front of Hermione's rooms, debating whether or ot she should knock on the door. It is Head Girl hours, which technically is when she'd told her to come back at yesterday. Ginny lifted her hand to knock when the door was pulled back.
"Just come in already Ginny before you wear a hole in the hall." Hermione said stepping back to the side to allow her in.
"I'm sorry. I just, well-after yesterday I didn't really know if you wanted to see me." Ginny sighed.
"I'm not quite sure I do want to see you to be honest but I also don't want everyone who walks by my rooms to see you pacing outside and know that we're having a row."
"I'm pretty sure they know that anyway Hermione, it's been pretty obvious you've been avoiding me all week."
"Yes we'll I tout you made it pretty clear that you needed a different type of girlfriend. Far be it from me to stand in your way." she snapped.
"I don't need a different type of girlfriend Hermione. I was hurt, you've barely spent anytime with me and when you had been it was like we were back to being friends again."
"I'm sorry. I really wasn't trying to pull away from you. I just-that's what I'm used to. And I know, logically, that that isn't a good excuse but it's the truth. I'm not someone who gets attached like you do Ginny. I'm not as passionate or rash in my decisions when it comes to relationships, or anything for that matter. You just have to give me time." Hermione said looking t Ginny.
"I don't get it Hermione, why are you like that? You let in Harry and Ron, you let me in as a friend, why can't you let me in more?"
"Because bad things happen in war time Ginny and I seem to be the only one who remembers that."
"You aren't the only one who remembers that Hermione, but for some of us love out weighs that. I'm willing to risk losing you because I can't imagine my life without every having you in it. Please don't push me away, don't let Voldemort take this away from us."
"Okay." Hermione says stepping forward into Ginny's arms.
"Besides," Ginny says kissing her lips lightly, "didn't you know that love conquers all?"
-Break-
Love conquers all indeed.
-Author's Note-
*So here's the next chapter, i know its a little shorter and yes its from Ginnys point of view and the next chapter will be too I believe, we will see if the whole chapter stays that me know what you think about the lovers promise, you'll find out more about it next chapter and where I plan on going with it. Sorry for the change up in tense at the first flashback but for some reason I can't write sexual scenes very well unless I'm writing it in first person, it always reads repetitively for me when I write it differently. I always see a lot of people flame girl on girl scenes so if you have a problem with it then I really am sorry, I'm taking it from personal experience so it won't sound so, amateur. But it may still sound like that! Hopefully not, if it wasn't good let me know and I'll just avoid writing them as vividly into the story. So...let me know what you think.