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Written for the February Event (Teamwork) and Hermione Granger Pairing Challenge over on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)

Task: Write about someone who cheats at something

Extra Prompt: (Word) Puny

Prompts: (Object) Lingerie; (Title) Friends With Benefits

Pairing: Hermione/Blaise

Gringotts: Pairing: Same Gen Het - Hermione/Blaise; Genre Specific: Romance – (Word) Red, (Object) Lingerie; Noun – South, London, Week, Past, Cat, Wall, Body, Otter, Stairs, Passion, Children, Husband, Affair, Clothes, Relationship; Adjective – Empty, Heavy, Irresistible, Eerie, Amazing, New, Red, Familiar, Angry, Furious; Verb – Repair, Glance, Smirk, Happen

Word Count: 449

Friends With Benefits

Hermione rapped on the front door of the house in the south of London.

Here she was again, less than a week after promising herself that she wouldn't allow this to happen any longer, that whatever it was that had been going on between them was over and they should put it in the past.

Those were all empty words though now it would seem, and as she heard his heavy footsteps approach the door she knew that he would more or less say exactly the same, all whilst having an irresistible smirk on his face.

She cast a glance over both of her shoulder, with an eerie feeling that she was being watched by someone, or something. The witch shook it off as paranoia when she noticed the snowy white cat sitting on the wall.

"I knew you'd be back, Hermione," he whispered seductively. "You just can't get enough of me and my amazing body can you my insatiable little otter."

She placed her hands gently on the cocky Slytherin's shoulders and pushed him into the house, connecting her lips with his as they went.

"Bedroom. Now." he demanded against her lips, taking her hand and pulling her up the stairs.

She was clad only in her brand new red lingerie.

Blaise was kissing her neck with a passion and desire that she had only ever known from him. He was making her feel things that she only ever read about, or seen in the movies.

It was times like these when she briefly entertained the idea of them being more than friends with benefits. Those ideas were quickly rid from her mind when she thought of the two young children she had at home, as well as the husband whom she had long since stopped loving.

The couple were so engrossed in their actions that they didn't hear the bedroom door being slammed open.

"WHAT THE DEVIL IS GOING ON HERE?" a familiar and angry voice shouted.

Hermione jumped away from Blaise, and was greeted by the furious face of her husband, Ron.

"Well?" he demanded. "How long has this affair been going on for? You know I'm not even bothered; have a nice life with that puny idiot Hermione."

Blaise leant against the headboard with his arms resting behind his neck, whilst Hermione scrambled around for her clothes and hurried after her husband.

Over the next few weeks, Hermione and Ron's marriage imploded. No amount of talking, apologising or counselling was enough to repair their fractured relationship.

Within a month of their divorce, Hermione was back in Blaise's arms, no longer as friends with benefits, but as boyfriend and girlfriend and they couldn't be happier.

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