Chocolate Frog Card: (Bronze) Jugson: Challenge: Your story must take place entirely in the Department of Mysteries.

Gringotts: Hermione/Owen [Hermione - Pairings]

Ultimate Hermione Pairing Challenge: Hermione/Owen Cauldwell

February Event: 21. Jewellery (item) [10 points]

Word Count: 467

"Morning, love," Owen greeted as he entered Hermione's office. With both of them being Unspeakables and having very similar clearance levels (hers was higher, for obvious reasons), it made having a relationship a lot easier.

"Morning," she replied absentmindedly, causing Owen to roll his eyes. She'd only been in the office for an hour and she was meant to be going over paperwork but she'd already got stuck into a new case.

He poked his head over her shoulder to see what case she was reading and rolled his eyes.

"Hermione, we dealt with this weeks ago."

"I know," she whined. "But my gut is telling me that we missed something." She looked at him, pleading.

"Fine," he said. "Give it to one of the newbies and see if they get anything. Tell them it's a test." She chewed her bottom lip, thinking it over before nodding her head.

"Great, now I have a gift for you."

"Ooh, what have you got?"

He held a small box out to her and she smiled, taking it and placing it onto the desk in front of her. She waved her wand over it, checking if it had any dangerous spells in place and Owen rolled his eyes.

"Do you really believe me to be so incompetent that I can't even check whether it is safe or not?"

Hermione shot him a look.

"Come on," he groaned. "That was one time! Are you ever going to let that go?"

"No, Owen," she replied. "I was bald. For a week."

He bit the inside of his cheek to stop himself from laughing but he couldn't help but let an amused smirk slip through. She rolled her eyes and turned back to the box, taking the lid off of it.

"Oh," she gasped. "It's beautiful."

"It is," he agreed.

"Where did you get this one?"

"Gringotts sent it over," he told her. "They've run all their usual diagnostics on it but they retrieved it from a pyramid that has the same symbols as one of the new rooms that appeared. They have no clue what the symbols mean so it's our-"

"Our jurisdiction," she finished, nodding. Her eyes travelled the length of the necklace, ending on the large gem that sat at the end. "Peculiar," she murmured. "It seems to be a combination of both ruby and emerald in one." She chuckled, taking down some notes with her quill. "You get me all the best gifts."

"Of course I do, love," he chuckled. "Also, dinner tonight, dress fancy."

"Owen," she whined. "I didn't want to do anything."

"It's our anniversary," he carried on, ignoring her. "And I'd thought we'd spend it in style before spending it in bed." He leant down and kissed her head. "Love you."

"Love you, too," she grumbled.