A/N: You may notice that the beginning of this chapter is a bit different from previous chapters, very thoughtful and non-dialogue. But if you keep reading it will return to its normality. Some of you might want to, as I said, not be to happy with me after this chapter, but just hang in there, I wont keep you waiting too too long.
Enjoy!! Much Much Love!
~~~
Hermione fell onto her bed, her head swimming with thoughts. His hands on her, his lips on hers. God, it felt so good. How could something so wrong, feel so good? She shouldn't have done it. She has a boyfriend. She only knows Harry as her boss. That's it. Sure, we're friends, we talk…but its still wrong. Besides, he has a girlfriend.
Must get ready for Viktor. Yes, that's it, focus energy on something else. She quickly got up and dressed into her nicest dress, fixed her hair up nicely and even went far enough to put on make up. This was the way it was supposed to go.
~
Harry's mind was completely blank besides the memory imprinted on his skin, the feel of her against him, her lips pressed firmly against his. He knew he couldn't take just watching her must longer, and he took action. She didn't pull away. Hermione didn't pull away, she just…ran when the elevator opened. Anyone would, right?
He opened the door to his flat and walked in. So what if he has a girlfriend? Cho's not right for him; she's not the one he wants to be with. But Hermione, she has a boyfriend. He makes her happy. If she was happy…he was okay. But he wasn't sure how good restraining himself was going to do; he wasn't sure how long he could do that.
~
Hermione opened the door when a loud knock sounded on it. "Viktor!" She exclaimed, smiling a smile as genuine, yet so fake, as she could.
"Hello, Hermi-ow-ninny. You look b-oo-tiful." Viktor said, kissing her and walking inside. As he walked past her, she thought a minute, those lips against hers…it wasn't right. Those weren't the ones that felt right. They should be Harry's. But that was wrong, and she was going to have to get over it.
"Hey, Viktor…so, what are you making tonight?" Hermione asked sweetly, as she sat down on a barstool in her kitchen.
"It's a surprise, but I promise you will like it." Viktor said. Hermione smiled back and watched as he cooked muggle style. Or tried to.
She sat through dinner, steak, which quite truthfully she wasn't too crazy about. She made conversation with him, and tried to be as sweet as she could, without losing her mind. He was so sweet. Why should she break his heart over something as silly as one amazing, mind blowing, passionate kiss?
After he left, she cleared her thoughts and prepared herself for a weekend free of any of these thoughts, she was going to hang out with her friends, her boyfriend, spend some time by herself, and completely forget everything. She hoped.
~
Monday morning eventually rolled around, and for a moment, Hermione actually forgot that she had to face him, her boss, Harry, at work today. But only for a moment, when she hit her alarm button "OFF" and stumbled out of bed to let the cold water fall around her.
Arriving at work and stepping in that elevator was a huge wake up call. She had 98 floors to remember, to be in the same elevator where "it" happened. She kept her mind focused on the ticker that was counting off floors. Though this did not seem to work, since around floor 45 she thought, And this was where he slipped his hand in my back pocket…
She shook her head of these thoughts and stepped off on floor 98, holding her head high. After all, just another day at the office.
Hermione smiled and greeted everyone on the way to her desk and sat down. "Hey, Luna."
"Hey, Hermione. How's it goin'?" Luna asked from her desk.
"Pretty good." Hermione replied. "What about you?"
Luna shrugged. "Okay, I guess." Hermione nodded.
Ron flew by, obviously in a hurry. "Granger, Lovegood. Harry's office in five."
Hermione laughed as she saw Ron race off to Harry's office. "What is that about?"
Luna shrugged, dreamy eyed, "I think we've got another big day today, some big shot company from Australia's coming in."
Hermione nodded as she and Luna stood to make their way to Harry's office. They knocked on the door twice, and when told to come in, Hermione took a deep breath and turned the knob. As she walked in, she felt as if someone had just knocked the wind out of her. There he was, standing only across the room from her, his eyes connected with hers. She tried to move, tried to say something. Anything, but her body would not respond. Luna jabbed her in the side with her elbow. "You needed to see us?"
Hermione was brought back to life instantly and focused on what she was doing. Ron decided to speak, since Harry obviously looked as if he was unable to. "Er…Okay you two, this is huge. This is a day where screw-ups are not allowed. No room for mistakes. Australia Wizardry International is coming in today and everything has to be perfect. They'll be here around noon, so we need the conference room set up, the papers ready, everything organized, and the standard for a meeting like this. Understood?"
All Hermione could do was nod, still looking into Harry's eyes. This exchange did not go unnoticed by Luna or Ron, who looked puzzled. Luna decided to speak. "Yes, Ronald, we'll have it all in order. I promise, we won't let you down. Right Hermione?"
Hermione forced her gaze from Harry's eyes and smiled. "Right. Of course. Won't let you down. Perfection."
"Good." Harry said. "Thanks guys."
They nodded and left, and Hermione exhaled a deep breath. "Hermione, what was that?"
"Hmm?"
"That…you and…Harry. You couldn't take your eyes off each other. You couldn't speak. What's up?" Luna asked. "Did something happen between you two?"
Hermione shook her head and lied "Nothing, Luna. It was nothing. C'mon lets get to work."
Luna shrugged and added. "Ronald is so cute."
Hermione laughed and continued on down the hallway.
~
Back in Harry's office, Ron was the one grilling Harry. "Hey, mate, what's going on between you and Hermione?"
"Nothin'" Harry lied. "Nothing at all."
"Whatever." Ron shook his head. "Did you see the way Luna was all dreamy-eyed over me?"
Harry laughed. "Ron, get over it, she's all over you and your just now noticing lately? She's been in love with you since like…fifth year."
"No way." Ron said, eyes bulging out of his head. "That's…"
"C'mon, Ron, you know you like her." Harry smirked.
"That is not even funny…she's…Loony Lovegood, no. I definitely do not have a thing for her."
"Whatever you say." Harry shrugged, picking up his phone.
"I don't!" Ron protested, storming out of the office.
~
"Just as I said, perfect. As usual." A male voice came from behind Hermione, who was in the conference room setting up. She turned around to see Harry leaning in the doorway.
"Oh, um…Hi. Thanks." Hermione said, forcing herself to put her mind in other places.
Harry pushed himself off the doorway and walked closer to her. "Hermione, we should talk."
"No." Hermione said, walking fast around the table laying papers out. "No, we shouldn't."
Harry caught her by the wrist right as she was whirling by him. "You're right, perhaps we shouldn't."
Hermione's eyes locked with his and she found herself all of the sudden weakened by him. He looked at her and leaned into kiss her. Yeah, this whole `restraining' thing, not working to well.
She tried to protest, tried to run away, but she couldn't. Thankfully, before their lips met, they heard Cho's booming voice arguing with Ginny coming down the hallway. Harry closed his eyes and let go of her, as she reluctantly went back to her work, her body still not functioning properly.
Harry walked out of the doorway to meet Cho and Ginny. "Something wrong, ladies?"
Ginny finally stood up to her friend by yelling so the whole office could hear. "YES SOMETHING IS WRONG! YOUR GIRLFRIEND IS WRONG! YOUR STUCK UP, SPOILED, CONTROL FREAK DRAMA QUEEN GIRLFRIEND! THE BITCH THINKS SHE HAS SOME HIGH POWER OVER ME!"
"Ginny, calm down." Harry said, taking a deep breath.
"NO! I WILL NOT CALM DOWN! NO! YOU WANT TO DATE HER THEN FINE! DATE HER! BUT GET HER THE HELL OUT OF THIS OFFICE, OR AT LEAST AWAY FROM MY OFFICE!" Ginny screamed, stomping away.
"Cho, why don't we go to my office?" Harry said leading her away.
"Sure, baby, anything you want." Cho cooed as she followed him back.
Hermione watched in disgust as he dragged her away. She couldn't believe he almost kissed her again. She almost let herself get caught up in him again. No, not anymore, that's for sure.
She walked out to find Luna rummaging through papers. "Uh! It's got to be here, somewhere!" Hermione
furrowed her brow in confusion. "Never mind that, I'll find it. Hermione do you mind getting the coffee?
Ronald told me to get it, but…"
Just then, Ron came running by. "I don't care who the hell gets the coffee as long as somebody gets it. Harry's making out with his girlfriend in his office, so I have to do everything!!!"
"You know, Ronald you're quite cute when you're stressed." Luna called after him. He stopped abruptly and turned around looking at her as if she was crazy. Which, in all fairness, she was. He shook his head and continued running.
The only words Hermione could comprehend were, "Harry's making out with his girlfriend in his office." How could he do that? Snog her like crazy in the elevator one day, almost kiss her today, and then in the same day just bounce off to his girlfriend? Well, it didn't matter, she thought. They could shag each other senseless in that office and she wouldn't care one bit, because he was not hers in the first place. And she now had no attraction to him what-so-ever.
~
As she made her way back from the coffee shop with about a dozen scalding coffees in her hand, afraid to levitate them and afraid to apparate, she ran into Cho, who was coming down the office corridor. "God, your so clumsy." She said, as the coffees swayed her hands dangerously. Ron was definitely right at what they had been up to in Harry's office. Cho looked it.
"Well, hello, Cho. Getting kicked out?" Hermione smirked.
"No. Just getting out of here. Tonight I'm going to Harry's and I can guarantee you it'll be a night that will make him totally forget about you." Cho hissed with a smirk.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Hermione asked, glaring at her.
"Oh, don't play games with me, Granger. I know you like him. And I know he has some kind off odd attraction to you, but I've got the ropes tied pretty tight on this one. He's not going anywhere." Cho said, as she breezed past her.
Hermione rolled her eyes and shook her head, making her way to her conference room. She sat down the coffee cups at all their designated spots and turned to make a soon very regretted visit to Harry's office.
She didn't bother knocking, seeing as how frustrated she was, and just opened the door. "Hello, Harry. I'm done. I did everything. It's perfect. Okay?"
Harry looked up and her. "Um, okay? But, are we okay?"
Hermione closed the door behind her hard and sneered. "No we are not okay! I am your assistant. Your secretary. I am supposed to be your employee! I am-"
"Incredibly sexy when you're angry." Harry said standing up and walking towards her.
"Wh-What are you doing?" Hermione asked as he approached her.
"Finishing what we started." He said, before pressing her up against the door and kissing her soundlessly.
She put her hands on his chest and forced his lips away from hers. "No. You can't just do that to me."
"C'mon, Hermione." Harry said seriously. "I know you have feelings for me."
"I do not." Hermione lied.
"You're lying." Harry said in a serious tone again. "And I'd be lying if I said I didn't have feelings for you."
Hermione laughed. "Yeah, I'm sure. You were just snogging your bitch of a girlfriend in here minutes ago!"
Harry glared at her. "No, I was not. She keeps forcing herself on me. How many times do I have to say it! Ever since yesterday, I can't stop thinking about you."
"This is wrong." Hermione said, desperately keeping herself from falling for him again.
"Then why, does it feel so right?" Harry asked her, kissing her again. She gave in this time, almost, yes almost, against her volition. She wound her arms around his neck and his arms found her waist. It was getting deep again, as his hand lingered dangerously close to the hem of her shirt. She didn't care anymore, she allowed herself to get lost in him.
~
Outside, Ron approached Luna. "Do you have any idea where Harry is?"
"Dunno, but I can't find Hermione either." Luna said.
They thought for a moment before looking at each other and gasping, "OHHH!!"
Ron and Luna nervously walked toward Harry's office door where they could have sworn they heard Hermione giggle softly. Ron gulped and Luna bit her lip to keep from laughing. "Just knock." She whispered.
Ron nodded and took a deep breath before knocking on the door. "Harry, mate, are you in there?"
"Oh shit." They heard a quiet voice whisper on the other side.
"This is all your fault." They heard another whisper.
~
Hermione pulled away from Harry kissing her. "I shouldn't have let you take advantage of me again like that." She whispered.
"I'm not taking advantage of you." He whispered back, looking at her as if she was crazy. "Just go, sit in that chair and act like we were talking, okay?"
"Fine!" She whispered. "Whatever. At least it stopped after 5 minutes."
As she turned and tried to walk to the chair, he grabbed her arm, spun her around and kissing her soundlessly. "Don't do that. Sit."
She glared at him and huffed as she turned and sat down. He fixed his ruffled hair and sat in his office chair across from her. "Yeah, I'm in here." Harry called back.
Luna and Ron held back their laughter as they walked in to find Hermione glaring at Harry, who was looking at them. "We were just-"
"Snogging each other like crazy?" Luna threw in.
Harry glared at her. "Discussing some things that needed to be done around here."
Ron smirked. "Whatever. The Australian gits are here."
Harry stood up and said. "Ron please don't call them that while they are here, we are trying to run a business."
Ron chuckled and patted Harry on the back as they walked out the door. Hermione looked up and saw Luna smiled at her.
"What?" Hermione asked innocently.
Luna shook her head and laughed, as she turned and walked away.
Hermione took a deep breath and thought for a moment. Sure, they were mildly attracted to each other, but this could not happen. Nope, none of it. And she had to tell him. She had to.
~~
6:00 rolled around quickly and Hermione packed up, as Harry came up to her. "Hey."
"Hey." She said smiling as they walked to the elevator. She turned to him as they were waiting. "Harry, we cant do this. You don't really have any feelings for me, I know it. And you have a girlfriend, I have a boyfriend. I love Viktor."
"Are you sure?" Harry asked.
Hermione thought it over. No. "Yes."
"Okay then, fine." Harry said.
"Good, I mean, I'm your secretary. This isn't right. You cant just kiss me when you're bored." Hermione said. "I just cant do this."
Harry shrugged. "Okay, Hermione. If you don't think you have any feelings for me, then fine. But I have feelings for you and I know that I was not the only one that felt like I did while we kissed. I'll…I'll leave you alone."
Hermione nodded. They rode in silence down to the first floor and apparated. She couldn't believe that she just did that. Just flat out lied. She wanted him, she wanted him bad. It was killing her to see him with Cho. But he was fooling himself if he thought he had feelings for plain, old boring her. She was with Viktor, and she was happy enough. She didn't need Harry to make her life complete. She really didn't…
~
Harry knew he had just accepted to completely ignore every feeling he felt when he was with her. Like he was supposed to forget every kiss, every look. He said he'd leave it alone. He didn't want to. But if she was happier with Viktor, then her happiness was good enough for him. He can just find solace in Cho while getting over Hermione. It would be easy, right?
~
A/N: okay, okay, I know. A bit less than you bargained for. But they kissed again. Huh, right? That's…that's good. Lol. Leave a review: Liked it? Hated it?
***The more you review the happier I get. The happier I am the more initiative to update really really quickly.***
-->