A/N: Wow, this was a fast update, two chapters in less than 24 hours! Don't get used to it! The only reason was because I was having major problems with uploading on Portkey! But I'm back now, and I'm ready! I love this story…lol, its so much fun! I'm not sure how many chapters, I don't want to think about this story coming to an end, but it really will only last like 7 chapters. Thanks to all my loyally wonderful readers. I only ask that you PLEASE review!!!! I love seeing how many hits I have, but I like it a lot better when I can hear that my readers read it. Thanks!
You'll be pleased for a whole lot of H/Hr, and a few R/L moments! Hope you enjoy the next installment!
Muchh Mucch Looovee!
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It was Friday morning and Cho Chang was riding the elevator from the lowest floor to the highest to meet Harry for lunch, tapping her foot on the ground in annoyance as the elevator slowed down two floors before her departure, when the elevator doors opened.
None other than Hermione Granger was now walking in, joining her in the elevator. "Hello." She said politely.
"What are you doing?" Cho asked. "Aren't you supposed to be, working?"
Hermione fought the urge to roll her eyes, almost unsuccessfully. "I am working. Harry needed me to
get something from one of our colleagues."
Cho lost all control and stomped over to the elevator buttons, forcefully hitting the STOP button on the elevator.
"Hey!" Hermione exclaimed in surprise.
"That is it!!" Cho screamed. "I can not take you anymore! He is your boss, call him sir, or Mr. Potter, whatever, but you don't call him Harry!! He doesn't need you!! Because I'm firing you, you can't work here anymore!"
Instead of screaming back, Hermione laughed. Almost hysterically. "You're firing me?" She said between fits of laughter. "Cho Chang, you are NOT my boss! You can't fire me! If Harry wants to fire me, he will! Get over yourself, I can call my boss what he wants me to call him, and he wants me to call him Harry! Now, if you'll excuse me…" Hermione reached over and pressed the button to make the elevator go again.
Cho came very close to opening her mouth to a snappy retort, but the elevator doors opened abruptly.
"Nice talking to you, Cho." Hermione said sweetly. "We should really do this again some time." She turned and walked farther into the office.
Cho got out of the elevator and huffed, mumbling under her breath. "We'll just see about this…"
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Cho walked out fast, and practically ran to Harry's office.
Hermione retreated to her desk to see Luna sitting on the edge of her own desk, batting her eyes at Ron, who was standing in front of her. "Ronald, you musn't get so stressed. You sound as if you've been attacked by nargles."
"Nar-What?" Ron looked confused. "Luna, could you just…get me the file! I don't know where you put it!"
Amused, Hermione sat down at her desk and watched. "Really, Ronald, can't you just use your brilliant magic to find it. I'd love to see you work your skills."
"Okay, Lovegood. This is getting crazy. Just get me the file!" Ron exclaimed.
"Whatever you say." Luna said, slipping around the side of her desk, muttering a spell and handing it to him. "Just name it, and I'll do it." She winked.
Ron shuddered and fled in the other direction. Hermione laughed. "Luna!!"
"What?" Luna asked innocently.
"You're impossible." Hermione rolled her eyes. "Anyways, what are you up to today?"
"Nothing big." Luna shrugged, going through files on her computer. "Just fixing some files, calling some clients, confirming some meetings. Pulling strings with their names to get them tickets to the World Cup…"
"Ah." Hermione nodded. "Yeah, been kind of boring around here lately."
Luna nodded mutedly. "Oh, um, Harry needed to see you. He asked for you while you were gone."
Hermione sprang up from her desk. "Oh, right!"
Luna eyed her curiously. "You know," She started. "You two have been spending a lot of time in that office, everything still PG in there?"
Hermione's jaw dropped. "Luna!"
"What?" Luna asked innocently, returning to her work.
"Ugh…" Hermione sighed and walked into Harry's office to see Cho practically throwing herself on Harry, sitting on his desk in front of an annoyed Harry.
"Oh, um…" Hermione said, not sure what to do or where to go. She felt a pang of jealously go through her. No, not jealously, why would she possibly be jealous of Cho Chang?
Harry jumped up, slightly embarrassed. "No, no…it's fine. We were just talking."
"Are you sure…I didn't interrupt…anything?" Hermione looked apprehensive.
"Yes, you were." Cho glared at her. "We were busy."
"No." Harry looked at his girlfriend. "We weren't. We were talking about lunch."
Hermione sat there, not knowing what to do or where to go. Harry sighed. "Hermione, I'm so sorry, I've had you running all over the place today, but would you mind popping to the other side of town to visit Fred and George Weasley's shop? They have an inventory sheet going, and they need someone to get it."
"Sure." Hermione agreed. "I'll be right back."
Hermione walked out the room to hear Cho's muffled fight with her boyfriend. She rode the elevator down to the bottom floor in order to apparate, since you could not inside office grounds. She disappeared with a faint pop to Fred and George's joke shop in Diagon Alley.
As she walked in, Fred noticed her. "Oy! Could this be Hermione Granger, Harry's assistant walking into our store?"
Hermione laughed. "Nice to see you again, Fred. Where's George?"
"In the back." Fred answered. "Oy, George, get your lazy arse out here, we've got an important visitor!"
George appeared out of nowhere. "And just who might you be?"
"You remember George, she's that secretary of Harry's." Fred laughed.
"Harry…?" George asked.
Hermione rolled her eyes. "Nice to see you again, George. Harry sent me. I'm here to get the inventory and status reports."
Hermione had met Fred and George Weasley on her first day of work. They had so kindly informed her of how many assistants Harry had gone through, when the company had only opened a month before her joining. They teased her a bit, but Hermione was growing to become friends with them.
"That's Harry." Fred sighed. "Always business. He still dating Cho Chang?"
Hermione nodded and frowned. "Yep."
George laughed. "You're kidding? Thought he'd dump her ages ago."
Hermione shrugged. "So, how `bout that paperwork?"
Fred muttered. "Accio Status Reports."
A bunch of papers, unorganized, flew into Fred's hand, and he handed them to her. "There you are. Black and white. Think Harry will be rather impressed this month."
Hermione nodded. "Thanks guys. See ya later."
"Bye!" George said.
"Bye." Fred said.
Hermione smiled and disapparated, back to the office and grabbed a cup of Harry's favorite coffee before walking to his office. She knocked on his door. "Come in."
"Hey." She greeted, slipping in the door. "I've got the reports you needed."
"And coffee." Harry added with a smile.
"And coffee." Hermione smiled.
She handed it to him, and for the briefest moment, their hands brushed. Hermione gasped and pulled her hand away. Harry looked down at his coffee to hide his smile. So she felt it too.
"Um…" She started, standing up rather quickly, heading towards the door. "I should…I should go."
What are these feelings I'm having? She thought to herself. This is Harry, my boss. But, when our hands met…I…Oh my god…
"Hermione, wait." Harry said, standing up and catching her by the arm when she looked up. Those eyes, those damn bloody eyes. Electrifying. Intense. Driving me crazy…
"Y-Yes?" Hermione asked, feeling as though she might fall over.
He just stared at her, and slowly they began to moved closer, and realized they were about to kiss. Just when their lips had barely brushed hers, the door flew open and they jumped away from each other to see Luna and Cho.
Luna was wide eyed. "Um, Harry, Cho's here. Again." She said, regaining her composure.
Cho looked annoyed at how close they were standing, and had obviously not known what Harry and Hermione were about to do. "Harry, I need to talk to you. Alone." She glared at Hermione and Luna. "That is, if you're not too busy."
"Well…I…" Harry stammered.
"I was just going…um, I'll go take a copy of these to Ron…" Hermione said. "Um, bye." She ran out of the office as fast as she could with out looking too obvious.
She felt someone grab her by the arm and turned to face Luna. "What was that?" Luna asked.
"Nothing, Luna. It's nothing…we were just talking." Hermione replied. "I've gotta go." She turned and walked to Ron's office.
Ginny walked past the brisk-paced Hermione and looked at Luna questioningly. "What was that about?"
Luna smirked. "I caught Miss Hermione over there and Harry in a precarious situation."
Ginny gasped. "Oh, Merlin, were they, did you-"
"Almost!" Luna exclaimed. "But I think we interrupted the `moment' or whatever."
Ginny shook her head and smiled. "Only a matter of time."
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"Harry, what was that about?" Cho demanded.
"Nothing." He murmured. "Nothing."
"Good." Cho said, moving closer to him, pressing a kiss to his lips. But he didn't want to kiss her. He tried to pull away, but she wouldn't let him.
"Harry, why are you resisting?" Cho asked, playing with his tie.
"Cho, not now…not here. Please, go." Harry said, turning to face the window.
"But…" Cho stared.
"Go." Harry told her.
Cho huffed and turned around, walking out, leaving Harry deep in thought. I almost kissed her. Her. Hermione. Merlin, I wanted her. Bad. I still do. If only she wasn't tied down, if only I wasn't tied down. If only she wasn't his employee.
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It was getting late, and the only one's left in the office were Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny.
Ginny decided to leave and went to see Hermione before she left. "Hey, Hermione. I'm closing up shop…you coming?"
Hermione shook her head. "I'll leave in a minute, right now I have to finish this."
"K…I'm meeting the boyfriend tonight." Ginny smiled. "Wait, aren't you?"
Hermione nodded. "Yea. He's…um, cooking dinner at my flat."
"Oh…how romantic!" Ginny squealed.
"Um, yeah." Hermione said, trying to concentrate on her work. But she couldn't. She couldn't concentrate on Ginny either. All she could think of was that almost-kiss. His hand, his eyes, his lips…it was driving her crazy.
"You don't sound convinced." Ginny frowned.
"I'm just…busy." Hermione lied.
"Ok, if you say so." Ginny said. "Bye! Have a nice weekend!"
Hermione nodded. "Bye."
Several minutes later, Hermione saw Ron leave and decided she should leave too. When she reached the elevator, her heart pounded hard in her chest when she saw who was standing there, waiting for the elevator. Harry.
She swallowed the lump in her throat and stood beside him. "Hey."
He looked to her and smiled. "Hey."
They were silent as they walked onto the elevator. Both only one thing on their minds: each other. She hit the 1 button as they started their slow descent from floor 98, to floor 1. Harry was trying to keep control of himself, he really was. But he was about to lose himself. He looked at her, to find her looking at him. And she looked away.
"Hermione…" Harry started.
"Harry…no." She said, but moved an inch closer to him.
Harry was pulled by some unknown magnetic force toward her. "What is this?"
"I-I don't know…" Hermione said, unable to look from his eyes. "I-I'm your assistant…I'm your friend…"
Harry brought his hand up to her cheek. "I know you better than you think."
She shook her head. "No, no. You don't. You know me in the office…until today I've never…"
"Thought about me this way?" Harry said, getting closer to her, if it was possible.
She opened her mouth trying to find something to say. He backed away from her a few steps before saying. "Merlin, I don't care, I can't take it anymore!"
He grabbed Hermione's arm and pulled her into him, their lips locked firmly. She automatically responded by kissing him deeply. He had her backed up against the elevator wall. His tongue went across her lips and she opened it almost immediately, slipping her tongue in his mouth. Their mouths frantically exploring one another, the fireworks were going off in their heads. She whimpered against his lips and he pulled her closer.
When they pulled apart, only for a second, he managed to get out. "You'll be the death of me."
Somewhere around floor 50, Harry's hand was going up her shirt, and she was letting him. Her head was whirling. Everything else just slipped away, she had no control over what she was doing. Thank Merlin no one called the elevator, they wouldn't have pulled apart.
Harry was getting lost in her. His secretary. His assistant. IT was too much, this was nothing like any kiss he had ever had in his life. Not like kissing Cho. No, definitely NOT like kissing Cho.
Hermione knew what she was doing was wrong, but her brain was completely dead. She also managed to say something in between kisses. "OhmygodHarry." Was all that came out before meeting her lips again.
She groaned at the work his fingers were doing under her shirt, the feeling of his lips against hers. She opened her eyes just for a moment and saw Floor 2 flash upon the screen, she tried desperately to pull away, but couldn't. Finally, she pulled away, both breathless and stared at him as the doors opened. She ran out, not looking back, not believing what she had just done. Her boss. Her boss. She had a boyfriend…he was her boss. But he was driving her crazy, a madness within her that she had never felt before.
She quickly left and went home, realizing that any minute, Viktor would be walking through the door.
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Harry walked out of the elevator, dumbstruck. Had they just done that? Had they just…kissed…no, kissed wasn't a strong enough word. Not even by a long shot.
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A/N: Hee hee!! You got what you wanted didn't you? I loved that. I'm so obsessed with this story. I hope you liked this chapter, I did my best, I'm trying. Thanks you guys!
--Next Chapter:
More Kissing.
More Evil Cho getting what she deserves.
More Ron and Luna.
More Hermione and Harry.
More quirky remarks.
..and so much more! -
Muuchh much loovee!
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