This is just a quick little thing for Valentine's Day, that I pretty much just came up with, so if there are errors, I'm sorry!

Rating: K+

Not Valentine

By Montley

"This holiday is utterly preposterous," Percy Weasley complained to his loyal co-worker, Audrey Green. "Full of garish decorations crowding up the workplace, distracting so many people, including myself."

Audrey stared at her feet as she paced the hallways with him, both of them carrying many books in their firm grips. She carefully kept glancing up and scrutinizing his annoyed expression. He had been complaining to her literally for weeks about Valentine's Day and how much he despised it. Since she began working at the Ministry, she and Percy had become fast friends; but no matter how intelligent and studious Percy is, she cannot help but realize how stupid he really was for never noticing a single, little thing.

"Yes, I know, Percy, you've been informing me of that fact for weeks," she told him with a slight roll of her brown eyes.

"It's so cheesy, invented by commercial businesses and stores like Honeydukes, and yet so many people here get all mushy with their boyfriends or girlfriends, and even skive off work to tend to them!" Percy vented.

"Yes, yes, I know," Audrey muttered.

"It makes me wish that Valentine's Day did not exist, no Valentine's Day at all. I've only ever had one real girlfriend in the past, and we never made a big deal of it. But all of these couples have to disrupt the pattern of the Ministry every single year! We cannot accept all of these deliveries of chocolates and flowers! May as well toss it all in the fountain!"

"But Percy," she began to say, as her aggravation rose to its highest levels.

"What?" he snapped, clearly acting rotten because of the thoughts running through his mind. He averted his eyes to glare at a couple who were walking by, tightly holding their hands together.

"It's just, I actually like Valentine's Day, and I am quite sick of you complaining about it! It's probably because you're still sore over your last girlfriend that you just don't see how much I fancy you!" Audrey ranted quickly, only slapping her hand over her mouth once she had realized what she had just uttered.

"Wh-what?" Percy spluttered, instantly dropping some of the books he had been carrying with him. Audrey groaned, turned around, took a deep breath and faced him again as both of them immediately bent down to pick up the fallen books.

"Yes, I admit it, since I have no choice now, but I fancy you," she admitted, then stood and handed him his books.

There was a long pause as he looked down at her with a look of slight, shocked, confusion. Her cheeks burned scarlet, and suddenly his ears turned the same shade as well when realization finally dawned on him, shown apparent by his wide blue eyes.

Again, she sighed, wishing away the scarlet that turned her face into a tomato, and she asked, "Percy, will you be my Not Valentine?"

"N-not Valentine?" Percy questioned, a nervous look looming on his features, scarlet on his ears.

"Yes, since you detest it so much," she replied with a half-smile.

His lips formed a small smile. "Yes, in fact I will be your Not Valentine, Audrey."

Thank you for reading! Please review! The more reviews, the more I'll be encouraged!

Also, in your reviews feel free to request a pairing you'd like me to write!

And Audrey's last name in this, it's never been determined, but I remembering seeing Green in another story so I just stole it (I hope whoever it was doesn't mind because it sounded so right!)

Written for:

HP Potions Competition: Erumpent Potion