Greetings all. I'm still very much tired from last night, but the desire to write has woken me up. I tried to watch some football, or soccer, and was sorely disappointed. I've never watched sports and after hearing all the praise go to Brazil's football, I honestly expected more, even if their star player and captain are not on the field.
Ah. Don't invade my PM with football arguments, I honestly know nothing.
Anyway, I am very touched from all the support I'm getting. I got past 10 reviews (YAY), and a lot of views/favorites/follows. I'm also surprised at how many people who aren't fluent in English are actually reading this …
WARNING FOR PEOPLE USING TRANSLATOR OR THE SORT: This is going to be a very long chapter. Otherwise it's the usually warning I give for every chapter: I haven't re-read for mistakes.
ONWARDS.
Hermione hummed rather loudly as her fingers were typing madly across the keyboard, her eyes staring quite intently at the screen, all while smiling. Outside, the sun brightly through the windows of the house, shining right into Hermione's eyes. She cringed, pulling her head backwards in an attempt to get rid of the harsh brightness. Sadly, it seemed that the only way to avoid the sunlight was to close the curtains.
"Fleur? Could you close the curtains please?" Hermione called, as loud as she could as she continued typing and blinking rapidly at her screen, "I can't see a thing!"
Fleur popped her head in at first, frowning, "'Ermione, you just need to reach over a little and you can touch the curtains," She reasoned, crossing her arms, "don't be lazy. I refuse to do such a task for you."
Hermione bit back a sigh and spared Fleur a single pleading glance before dropping her head back to the screen on her lap. "Darling please, this really important, if I turn away now, it'll be the end of my life," She went on dramatically as her typing started getting louder and louder every second.
"I don't believe you for a second, what are you doing anyway on that laptop?" Fleur asked, making her way to Hermione who growled rather uncharacteristically at the approaching Fleur, making the blonde veela halt in her steps. "Are you … growling at me?!" She demanded, after her shock she immediately stomped over to the other set of curtains and tugged them all the way to one side, making sure the sunlight hit directly at Hermione's eyes.
All at once, Hermione's hands flew to her eyes while the bushy haired woman shoved the laptop off her lap and sprawled to the side, avoiding the sun altogether, "Fleur! My eyes!" She wailed, feeling the tears gathering in her eyes, "I said to close them, not open them!" She added as she wiped the tears away.
Back where the laptop lay on it's side, both failed to see the headphones that were now unplugged.
"Hermione? Hermione?! HEY, HERMIONE, WHERE ARE YOU?!"
Harry's frantic voice was heard from the laptop, to Fleur's shock. Immediately she turned to Hermione, absolutely confused, "What was zat? What are you and Harry doing?" She did not receive an immediate answer as Hermione seemed to dive for the laptop after hearing Harry - and probably Fleur.
After checking the screen, Hermione groaned, falling onto her back and spreading her arms all over the floor as she glared up at Fleur, "I'm dead. And we lost the game. It's all your fault, Fleur!" She said teasingly as she slapped Fleur's leg affectionately.
"Game? What game is zis?" Fleur questioned as she kicked Hermione's wandering hands away from her hand. "Are you playing something with Harry?" She asked, pointing back at the laptop which had a gray screen with red letters spelling out 'DEFEAT'.
"Hermione is that Fleur? Did something happen?" Harry's concerned voice carried over the two women.
"Oh, yeah. She blinded me, and I threw my laptop to the side, "Hermione replied, picking herself and her laptop up once more, she then turned to Fleur, "See Fleur, even Harry blames you for the loss." She said, smiling as she gave Fleur a playful kiss on the cheek.
Fleur narrowed her eyes, returning the kiss on the cheek before pinching Hermione's nose, "If I am to be blamed, I'll simply make it up. Show me how to play." She said confidently pointing at the screen.
"Uh … I don't think that's such a good idea, Fleur. It's a shooting game, it might be a little hard for you …" Hermione said, as she turned to Fleur with a concerned expression, "It uses a lot of muggle inventions that you might not know how to use."
"Are you calling me stupid now? If I have you and Harry teaching me how to play this, it shouldn't be that hard," Fleur reasoned, latching onto Hermione's shoulders, "please? I want to play with you as well," She whined, shaking Hermione's shoulders.
"I think that's a good idea actually," Harry's voice came again, clearly very amused, "Luna and some of the Weasleys know how to play, we could play a game against them if we want," he suggested, and Hermione was way too tempted at that point to care.
"Alright then, but we'll need to teach Fleur everything as soon as possible, otherwise Bill and Ginny would just wreck us by killing Fleur all the time," Hermione said, ignoring Fleur's scoff, "Get Luna on, I'll download and get Fleur set up."
"Is this thing working?" Fleur asked to herself as she tapped to the microphone that Hermione had plugged into her own laptop.
"Yup! We can hear you loud and clear," Luna chirped from Fleur's laptop speakers, "I'm actually surprised you have experience working with a computer," The younger woman added.
"Well, I have a very skilled muggle girlfriend who is a very good teacher," Fleur replied, turning her head to Hermione who was tapping away at Fleur's keyboard for the game, "in fact, she's helping me set my character up right now … while she's doing that, why don't you tell me how this game is supposed to work?" She suggested.
"Hm … well, Hermione did tell you it was a shooting game, but it's also a game where you have to take your flag from the enemy team, a capture-the-flag game. In the first ten minutes, if one side kills someone, or gets 10 kills collectively, they automatically win. However, after the 10 minutes, if both sides have not acquired the 10 kills, then the flags appear and the first to take it, wins," Luna explained.
"That's just what the objective of the game is," Harry added, "there are more complicated things like the role of each person in a team, the weapons, and special items on the battle field."
"Harry, you're just going to confuse her. We'll explain those things when we actually get Fleur on, in about five minutes actually, I'm almost finished with her settings," Hermione cut in before Harry could add any other useless information.
On a wasteland with ruined buildings stacked on top of each other, four people stood in a tight circle in one of the clear places, a place considered a safe spot. Each person wore a helmet, army styled clothing, and standard type gun.
The scariest part was how each character seemed to resemble certain people … but then as if they had agreed to a silent agreement, they start walking, or slowly jogging towards the exit of the 'safe zone'. All except for one character that remained standing still from the former circle. Taking notice of this, the other characters turned around and started running in circles around that one character.
[Can'tTouchMe: Fleur?]
[CallMeCrazy: … Hermione, have you taught her how to talk or move?]
[iSeeU: … SHIT]
Sadly, it seemed that the character did not know how to move or enter the chat as well.
In reality, they figured to help things move along, Hermione should be seated next to Fleur, where the French woman could use Hermione's help in whatever situation that would come up.
As soon as Hermione sat beside Fleur, she immediately took Fleur's hands and placed them over the arrow keys on the right side, "You use these to move, you can tell where to go by the arrows anyway, have you got that so far?" Hermione asked, and Fleur scoffed before nodding.
With that cleared up, Hermione pointed Fleur's attention to the top right corner where a circular map was, "There's the map, see the circle? That's our safe zone and only we can be in here, to get out of here-"
"'Ermione, there is only one path to get out, I'm not stupid." Fleur reminded her as she waved Hermione's hand away, pressing down on the arrow pointing upward to move towards the path leading out of the safe zone as Hermione helpfully told her to use 'Q' and 'E' to turn the camera angles if she needed to.
"Hey, 'Ermione? Why did Harry and Luna start typing instead of talking?" Fleur asked as the four of their characters moved as one unit towards another big area, where the computer enemies were certainly waiting.
"It's just how they play. They happen to be silent masterminds of evil," Hermione said, smiling as she stopped her character behind a huge wall that probably fell apart from a building. Harry and Luna's characters followed Hermione's example, taking cover behind the huge slab of stone.
The sounds of a sudden explosive going off roared through the speakers of all the players' computers or laptops, confusing the three who were perfectly alive behind their cover. Without a second thought, Hermione took a peek from her cover, moving her camera angle and saw the dead body parts of Fleur's character scattered all over the 'empty' clearing … and the single mine beside her.
"Oh. I died."
Lesson One: Walking.
… CLEARED!
Once Fleur respawned, it was Harry that was there waiting to escort her to where Luna and Hermione were waiting, again at the same spot where Fleur last died.
[Can'tTouchMe: Come on Fleur. Run.]
[Can'tTouchMe: Don't go running out into that again. Stay behind the wall.]
[Can'tTouchMe: … Fleur?]
[iSeeU: Sorry Harry, Fleur doesn't want to type since she's too slow at typing. But she asks when she can shoot someone.]
[Can'tTouchMe: Okay. Right about now?]
Again, another silent agreement was touched upon by all four characters, and this time Fleur was able to move out with them, the four of them popped their heads up from their cover, guns blazing onto the enemies cover, effectively scaring them. Then they all paused, fooling the computer opponents to pop their own head to return fire, only to get wrecked.
Sadly, (or fortunately) no one died from that and the four found themselves lightly wounded but in no danger of dying as of yet.
[iSeeU: BRB, looking through items for something.]
With that, Hermione lead the other three to one of the empty buildings, using one of the floors as their next cover, the bushy haired woman began to look through her inventory and stats, that also meant that she was unable to fire at a moments notice, hence the hiding.
To her side, Fleur poked her, "'Ermione, I press enter to speak, oui?" she asked, as she tilted her camera angle all around.
"Ah, yeah. Press enter to type something in and then press enter again to send it for Luna and Harry to see," Hermione replied, distractedly, "you can also make the messages private or only visible to certain people but I recommend you don't since you have to type more." She added as she finished up with whatever she was looking at, bringing her back to the main game screen.
[TweetTweet: I can see the inside of Hermione's shirt. 3]
[Can'tTouchMe: …]
[CallMeCrazy: Is she wearing a bra?]
[TweetTweet: No. :) 3]
"FLEUR!"
Lesson Two: Talking …
Definitely Cleared.
After that, the group continued to hunt down their opponents, slowly racking up their kills as they neared the ten minute mark. After they disengaged from a fight for the third time, they took cover under more stones and rocks.
[Can'tTouchMe: Fleur, are you aiming properly with your gun?]
[iSeeU: I think she's been clicking at random, brb]
"Aiming? You have to aim in this game?" Fleur asked, slightly put off, this seemed like a very skilled game.
"Yeah … well, it's slightly easier for snipers to aim, but it should be easy even at close quarters to aim, just move the mouse around and once you see … yeah that, then just press w as fast as you can, and they should die soon enough."
"Hmm…Like this?"
Fleur's character turned to Harry's character, letting the target arrows widen and turn red.
"Yup, just like that."
However, no one anticipated for Fleur to actually start shooting Harry. Poor Harry's character stood no chance to the surprise attack from his own teammate who was shooting at point blank rapidly. The scary thing was that the French woman then turned her camera angle, pointing her mouse at Hermione who had no chance to run for it either.
After Hermione screamed at the surprise attack, she took Fleur's laptop away, preventing her from killing Luna, "Fleur! You can kill teammates in this game, don't!"
"Why would they make a game where you can kill your own teammates?!"
"It's suppose to add a realistic edge to the game! You know, like a misfired grenade or using someone as a human shield?!"
"Zat is so stupid!"
"Ahh! Fleur no! Stop shooting randomly, they'll find us!"
Lesson Three: Shooting.
… CLEARED!
[CallMeCrazy: Since I didn't die from that, I volunteer to be target for grenade shooting! :D]
[Can'tTouchMe: Nothing should go wrong hopefully … maybe she'll even miss.]
Hermione look over Fleur's shoulder, frowning. Harry just typed some very famous last words, she stared at Fleur's character who was standing stationary with a single grenade in her hand, and then to her and Harry's character who were standing beside Fleur's character. In all seriousness, there was no way that she or Harry should die to this grenade.
Right.
"Alright, so to throw it to Luna, and hopefully she doesn't throw it back, hit the space bar and-"
A single tap stopped Hermione. She stared in horror as Fleur tapped and released her hold on the space bar, turning back to the screen, she watched as Fleur's character pulled the pin and …
… dropped the grenade at her feet.
[Can'tTouchMe: Hey where did it go?]
[CallMeCrazy: I don't see it either…]
Unfortunately, Hermione didn't even have time to warn Harry to run, much less run away herself. In the end, the three of them exploded, their dead body parts scattering as the grenade finally blew up under their feet.
"... and hold down the space bar so you can throw it further … " Hermione finished off the explanation as she watched the death timer tick away, she turned to Fleur, "If I didn't know you, I'd say you are totally doing this on purpose…"
"'Ermione, it's not my fault. I happen to have trigger happy fingers, you should know this quite well." Fleur replied, smirking as Hermione hung her head in defeat.
Lesson Four: Grenade Throwing.
Failed. But not wanting to experience that again … CLEARED.
After that, they all agreed that they were probably ready to face the Weasley siblings, after all, even if Fleur was still rather new to the game, at least she had the basics, and Hermione to help if anything went wrong at all. That and the fact that Harry and Luna were quite obsessed with the game to probably kill everyone soon enough.
"'Ermione, who exactly are we playing against?"
"Ah. We made the game a four on four. As only four of the Weasley children play this game, so it'll be me, Luna, you, and Hermione against Ginny, Bill, Ron, and George," Harry explained, his voice suddenly making itself known on the communication device they had set up earlier.
"I take it that they are also quite obsessed with this game, oui?" Fleur asked, frowning slightly. After all, she was quite competitive when she got things going.
"... Maybe. I only showed them once, I know Ginny likes the game and Bill is a natural at this game …"
"Very well. What strategies do we have, 'Ermione?" Fleur asked, turning to Hermione as their game loaded.
"...Just don't kill anyone on our side and I think that's it … you're fine on your own despite being somewhat clumsy on your fingers," Hermione teased as they finally made their way onto the battlefield.
[NotGinny: Is Fleur seriously playing?]
[CallMeCrazy: Oh yes. She's quite good at this game, too]
[NotGinny: Challenge accepted :)]
Hermione sighed, it seemed like Ginny still disliked Fleur, even after all these years, and this game was the perfect place to vent out some of that dislike.
On the battlefield, the group decided to separate, to go scout the area before they jumped in for a killing fest. While Hermione decided to look for higher ground, Fleur remained on the ground, slowly walking around the wasteland before she deemed it a safe spot to check up on her items and weapons.
Unfortunately, she failed to see one certain character standing a few steps away from her, that 'certain character' also happened to be Ginny, who simply held a knife in her hands as she stealthily made her way behind Fleur, hoping for an easy First Blood.
/"Stupid Phlegm noob. Take this!"/
It came as an absolute shock when everyone's screens shook, an explosion going off near the center of the arena and the announcer declaring a death on both teams.
[WolfBitesSux: ...Did Fleur manage to buy a rocket launcher?]
[Can'tTouchMe: … fortunately not, who knows what might've happened if she did]
[NotGinny: What the f*** did she do?! How did I die?!]
As the chatbox exploded with possible stories and other such comments, Hermione turned to Fleur who was staring deadpanned at her dead character and the death timer.
"What happened Fleur? I just showed you how to launch grenades, and I know you haven't had the chance to buy a rocket launcher."
At this, Fleur looked a little sheepish as she scratched her cheek, "Uh … I think Ginny was like ... an assassin … she took me by surprise, so I hit the space bar before she could actually kill me …" Fleur explained as the death timer reached zero and she respawned. "Hopefully she will think twice before going after me again," she added, winking playfully as she joined in the chat, adding a smiley face to the raging Ginny.
Hermione only shuddered, even if the veela was clumsy and a noob, she still managed to die in style. And probably will for the remainder of the game if she didn't keep dying before the ten minutes.
[NotGinny: BISH, YOU WANNA FITE. COM AT ME. IMMA RECK U]
[TweetTweet: Hermione says she's going to be mad if I do.]
[TweetTweet: so ... Sex You]
From that point on, everything spiraled downwards ever so slowly …
Special Lesson: Taunting.
Successful.
Back in magical Britain, one Bill (William) Weasley stared at his screen in confusion as his character stood behind a large slab of stone, frowning, he tilted the angle of his camera to confirm his suspicions and was left utterly puzzled. Beside him, Ron picked up on his anxiousness and raised an eyebrow.
"What's up? Did they make a minefield somewhere?" The younger Weasley asked, and the older shook his head, "What's going on?" Ron continued prodding , and this time, he even made his character jog it's way over to where Bill was hiding, a few seconds after checking the map and tilting his angle, he was left confused as well. "Am I seeing what you're seeing?"
Bill nodded gravely, "Seems so little brother, though I do suspect a trap, like with what happened to our dear sister," at this the two bit back a snicker as Ginny sent a warning growl at them both, muttering something along the lines of 'The Phlegm noob is mine, I call dibs'.
Still trying to hide his snickers, Ron leaned over Bill cupping his mouth as he whispered over, "How mad do you think she'd be if we both just jumped in and killed her?"
Bill had to bite his tongue as he nodded at his younger brother, there was no one near Fleur's character and it seemed that the French woman was probably away from her keyboard, checking something, or having a blonde moment. "Alright, sounds like a good idea, you just get her low enough for me to deal a headshot in, got it?"
Ron nodded eagerly, checking if he had enough ammo and magazines before he took aim, waiting for Bill's signal. As he did so, he sent one little innocent message.
[MaiFEWD: GAWD SAF DA QUEEEEEEEEN!]
"Now, Ron!" Bill exclaimed, now that he repositioned his character to higher ground, who was lying down and aiming for Fleur's head as he waited for Ron to jump in and ambush the French woman who was STILL standing still. "She's typing a response, come on!"
"HOLY SHITE," Ron suddenly exclaimed, getting the attention of his siblings, who all stopped and turned to him, wondering what could get him to yell like that, "Bill, were you aiming at me!?" He demanded, turning onto him, clearly frustrated.
"No?! Haven't shot a single shot with this rifle yet, was it Fleur?" Bill replied, thoroughly confused by the situation.
"There's no way, Phlegm can't shoot for shite," Ginny shot back, angered, "Her score hasn't even changed from her … 4 Kills, 4 Deaths and 1 Assist," she added on.
"That doesn't explain how I just got head shot!" Ron grumbled over all the commotion, he turned to Bill, "Look through that scope, see if they've got a sniper or turret around that shot me."
Seeing the logic, Bill looked into the scope of his rifle, stopping over when he saw Fleur's stationed character before moving onto the space around the blonde, narrowing his eyes, he found absolutely nothing around the woman, "Damn … Is she a secret hacker?" He muttered, as he did another look-over around the area.
[iSeeU: Hey Bill, I got a question for ya]
Pausing in his search, Bill kept his target on Fleur before moving to type quickly.
[WolfBitesSux: What's up, 'Mione?]
[iSeeU: but can you see me?]
Everyone, excluding Fleur, who saw Hermione's message shuddered. Hermione's username was obnoxious enough, but whenever she made use of her name along with the obnoxious question, dead bodies were about to fly around.
Immediately, Bill got his hand over his keys, and just as he was about to shoot Fleur, his screen turned bloody red, black words spelt out the word 'HEAD SHOT' as the death timer started off in the corner. Bill sighed, turning to Ron, "Well, looks like we found out who killed you now," he said, easing up the silent war Ginny brew up.
"Never knew Hermione was that good at sniping … probably using Fleur as bait," Ron pointed out, at the blond who was STILL standing still despite everything that happened around the French woman's character.
"Of course, Phlegm probably can't even kill something without assistance,"Ginny growled out as she swept her area, trying to find Hermione, just in case the bushy haired woman heard her insulting Fleur and decided she too needed to be headshot.
"Relax … and stop feeding, the lot of you," George laughed as he crept around his area, "If you can't rack up kills, at least assist me or something," he added, taking a look at his impressive score of 3 Kills, 0 Deaths, and 5 Assists. He took a look at the map and then frowned, "On a second, maybe we should start setting up some traps for defense, they're about to break through."
"You heard him, Ron. Go set up traps," Ginny said, snickering as she continued cutting through things with her knife, "I'm just going to find items … and hopefully find a tank."
"They don't spawn that fast, and bloody Fleur had to roll it over all the mines I set up earlier, why do you think we have no more mines left?"
Hermione grumbled in her seat by the window, Fleur had all but left her to go downstairs when she said … something stupid.
"Fleur!" Hermione yelled, "I'm telling you, your thrall doesn't work on this game, no matter how hard you want it to do so. It's a muggle game and a muggle invention, it can't get charmed and neither can the people far away on the same game get charmed." She explained, yelling loudly so Fleur was sure to hear.
"What was that?!" Fleur's sarcastic voice came afterwards, "I can't hear you, 'Ermione!" She added childishly, and Hermione only stared at her screen, letting a sigh of relief once she saw that Fleur decided to give up on the 'I'll use my thrall and then shoot them' idea and decided to go look for somewhere to hide or group up with Luna.
[Can'tTouchMe: Hermione, I thought Fleur was with you, what is she doing?!]
[iSeeU: She decided to 'use' her thrall, obviously doesn't work, don't worry, I still got her back]
[TweetTweet: Stupid Hermione.]
"AHA! Stupid Phlegm stepped on my trap, she's snared!" Ginny cheered as Fleur's character struggled against the steel traps on its legs.
"REVENGE!" Bill roared playfully as his character was seen running across the map to try and reach where the trapped Fleur was.
[Can'tTouchMe: Luna! Fleur's stuck]
[CallMeCrazy: But the tank! I WANT THE TANK!]
[iSeeU: NO! FLEUR!]
All of a sudden, a single 'BANG' was heard Fleur's laptop all the way downstairs, and the French woman let out a small squeak as her character tumbled to the ground, clearly dead by the headshot George shot from quite far away. Ginny was raging all over the chat, yelling at George for killing the Phelgm when she had dibs'ed it.
[iSeeU: FLEUR!]
[TweetTweet: X . X]
Hermione's character flew in, first sniping off George's head before chasing Bill and Ginny away before her character knelt down next to Fleur's dead body.
[TweetTweet: Hermione …]
[iSeeU: Fleur!]
[TweetTweet: Looks like this is it for me]
[iSeeU: You'll be fine! Luna's on her way!]
[TweetTweet: I leave the rest to you, love … ]
[iSeeU: No! Fleur!]
Before the couple could continue their comedy act, all movements froze on the screen, no characters were able to move, and the chatbox was suddenly frozen, Hermione let out a loud bark of laughter as she heard Fleur's yells of confusion.
After a few seconds, the screen popped back up, letting Hermione's team know that they had won. And that it was Harry's fault that the two were unable to continue with their roleplaying. Once they were all out of the game and simply in a chatroom, she made sure to let Harry know how displeased she was.
"You'd think that he could've maybe just waited a few more seconds to win the game … " Hermione grumbled, then lifted her head to see a pouting Fleur at the door, "Oh, Fleur come here," Hermione pleaded, raising her arms to 'accept' her lover into her embrace. "You did so well in that game," She praised, kissing her soundly.
"I am not pleased," Fleur stated once they broke off from the kiss, "I died 8 times, and I even tried to die beautifully on the last one," She scoffed playfully rolling her eyes.
Hermione only laughed before she kissed Fleur again, as she logged out, she made a note that the two of them should definitely play more video games together. Or at least start roleplaying in the bedroom.
EXTRA
"You know, Hermione … wouldn't it just be easier to get Fleur into the 'Tank' role? I mean, then she could just be bait while you snipe everyone else from far away," Harry suggested, as they were in a relaxed two versus two match, just having some fun.
"No. I refuse to use Fleur in such a cowardly way, she can shoot and get kills on her own too, and I can still snipe your head off with or without a bait," Hermione insisted.
"Well, I'm not hearing any complaining from Fleur you know … and I think she would rather do that than to run around blind and drop grenades everywhere," Luna's amused voice replied from the comm. device Hermione set up.
"Oh, Hermione look!"
"WHERE?!"
"Oh. I died."
"Don't worry, got revenge for you, darling."
Unfortunately, despite Hermione's reluctance to use Fleur as a human shield or bait, the bushy haired woman still used that strategy from the beginning to the end of the game, unknowingly so, until Harry pointed it out at the end of the game. Even then, Hermione denied with all her might. It was only until night time that Hermione apologized for using Fleur as a human shield without even thinking about it.
All she got was a smile and a simple, "Don't worry. I'm more than happy to shield 'Ermione from any kind of danger, video games or not."
… There you go. 4K chapter of absolute randomness. Some of you might find parts of it familiar to ONE certain manga. You get cookies and kisses if you can guess the name of the game and manga.
Prompt: Imagine your OTP playing Sims (or some other involved computer/video game) together, and Person A has to teach Person B how to play.
[Can'tTouchMe] = Harry
[CallMeCrazy] = Luna
[iSeeU] = Hermione
[TweetTweet] = Fleur
[WolfBitesSux] = Bill
[MaiFEWD] = Ron
[NotGinny] = Definitely NOT Ginny
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