Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or have anything to do with it besides being a Potterhead.

Title: Christmas Under the Mistletoe.

Prompt: Confessions.

Pairing: Harry/Hermione.

Hermione sat quietly at the top of the staircase. Christmas had arrived just in time this year. She glanced at Ron and Lavender, glad he was happy.

Harry joined her. "I'm sorry."

"What for?"

Harry gazed silently at his best mate.

"Oh. That's fine, I don't mind at all."

"Well, that's... brilliant."

"Why?" She smiled softly at him.

"I wouldn't want you being sad." Harry raised Hermione's chin so she could look at the mistletoe over them. "I care too much to watch you suffer."

With that, he closed the distance between the two in the sweetest way he could.