Chocolate Frog Card: (Bronze) Phoebe Black: Challenge: Write about a woman who doesn't want to marry or be a mother.

Gringotts: Hermione/Rolf [Hermione - Pairings]

Ultimate Hermione Pairing Challenge: Hermione/Rolf Scamander

February Event: 25. Heart (word) [5 points]

Word Count: 332

"You're breaking up with me?" Rolf asked, eyebrow raised in disbelief. "We've been together for eight months; eight months of happiness and great sex and you're breaking up with me? Why?"

"You deserve better," Hermione told him, shrugging when he gaped at her. "It's true. I can't give you what you need."

"What I need? Hermione, you're what I need!"

"Yeah, now. But in a few years, if we were even still together then, you'd be wanting to expand your family. I can't do that for you."

"Hermione-" he said softly but was interrupted.

"No. It's true. Bellatrix not only tortured me and drew on me like a blank canvas, but she prevented me from ever reproducing. I'm barren."

"And I still want you," he snapped, releasing some anger. It startled her and she leant back in her chair, eyes wide. "I want to explore the world and I want to find new things, educate people, right books and I want you. Children don't mix well with constant moving and if you can't have them, we won't have them. I didn't even want them anyway."

"Neither did I," Hermione admitted quietly, dropping her gaze to her drink. "I don't want to get married either," she blurted. Better to get everything out now than regret something later.

"We won't get married then," he said simply, taking a bite out of a cookie. She stared at him. "What?"

"How can you be so accepting of all of this? I thought everyone wanted to settle down and have a family."

"In a few years time, when we decide to settle down, Hermione Granger and Rolf Scamander with buy a home, live in it and have a million and one pets to shower with our love. That will be us settling down and having a family."

"Rolf," she sighed happily. "You're incredible. I don't ever want to let you go."

"You have my heart, Hermione," he told her. "It would physically hurt me to leave you."