A/N: Hey guys, I'm back! Sad to say it, but this is the LAST chapter of The Office. **tears** It's been amazing that all you guys have enjoyed it! But all good things must come to an end, right? I will be updating my newest story, `Leaving the Past Behind' within the next day or two. As well as ROAH (return of a hero). Glad you guys liked the last chapter…! Thanks for all the reviews! Love ya always!
Ps. This chapter…things are heating up…a lot of its just fluff…just a bit…not too bad. I mean, some people just write all out smut that's like…well…porn writing and I can't take that. Sorry, not that I don't love you all as authors…you know what I mean.
Pps. This chapter didn't turn out as funny as I intended it to be!
I decided it was time to throw a little Hogwarts in here as well!
Oh! One more thing…personally I don't like this chapter. So I understand if you don't, its way too choppy and moves way to fast. But hey, its kind of summing things up. So sorry, all that counts was that the rest of it was good.
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Harry woke up gently and felt a warm body against him. He looked down and smiled at the brown wave of curls beside him, that underneath it lie Hermione. She had come to him last night, finally admitting the truth. Merlin only knows how much well, fun they'd had the night before.
He watched as Hermione shifted in his arms and her eyes fluttered open. She smiled. "Harry…"
"Morning beautiful." Harry said kissing the top of her head.
She shifted in his arms again to get closer to him, closing her eyes. All of the sudden, her eyes shot open.
"Harry! Work…"
"Doesn't matter right now." He said chuckling.
"Merlin…yes it does. What time is it?"
"Who cares?"
"I do!" She exclaimed. "Merlin, Harry, I love you and as much as I want to just stay with you…you
have a business to run. And I am your secretary. So in a word…yes. We do have to go to work today. C'mon." She
said getting up and pulling him out of bed.
"Mione…" He groaned as she pulled him to his feet and he began to slip his pants on.
She smirked and kissed him. "Get up, and I promise you'll get your reward later."
Harry smiled at her words and said, "Fine."
She stopped and turned to him. "Are…are you sure about this, Harry? I…I mean, it's only been a week and last night-"
He stopped her by kissing her. "I am more sure about this than anything I've ever done."
She sighed and kissed him one last time. "Good…I have to go home and get dressed." She said while pulling on his t-shirt.
"I dunno…" He waggled his eyebrows. "I like you like this…"
She hit him on the arm playfully, "Sod off, perv. I'll see you in a bit."
"Bye." Harry called after her and shook his head smiling as he watched her apparate out.
The things this woman could do to him…
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Hermione couldn't help but smiling as she walked around her flat getting ready. Within 24 hours, she had destroyed a bitchy girlfriend, stole a mans heart, dumped a guy, and had incredibly mind blowing sex. Sure, she wasn't too happy about the part where she dumped a guy, but the rest was good. She had gone from unaware and unsure to confidant and happy.
Once she had dressed in a black v-neck jumper and beige skirt. The skirt wasn't exactly short, but it wasn't long enough to be considered business appropriate. She didn't care. With Harry as her boss, she might get a little…leeway.
With a slight smirk on her face, she apparated from her flat and landed her self on the first floor of the building. She took the long elevator ride up with a much happier feeling within her than before.
"Hey Ginny…" Hermione greeted, poking her head in Ginny's office, who was currently coughing.
"Hey girl…what's up with you? You look…happy…" Ginny smirked, wiping her nose with a tissue.
"Because I am, Gin." Hermione sighed. "I am."
Ginny rolled her eyes. "This wouldn't have something to do with a certain sexy dark haired boss of
ours?"
Hermione raised her eyebrows. "Maybe…maybe not…Feel better." She teased as she closed the door and walked down the hall. Yep, she was happy. And it did have something to do with the certain sexy dark haired boss, Oh, it defiantly did. Hermione walked further down the hallway until she came to her and Luna's desk. She stood behind her desk, rearranging and putting away some files she had sprawled about her usually organized desk.
It was when she was on the last folder when she felt someone come behind her, wrap his arms around her waist and say, hot breath on her neck, "Did you wear that skirt just to tease me?"
She smirked and asked, "Is it working?"
"Yes." Harry breathed and waited a second before adding cheekily, "Can I take it off now?"
She spun around, still smiling and scolded lightly, "Harry!"
"What?!" He asked innocently.
Hermione rolled her eyes. "Honestly, Harry, we are working! I am your employee, downplay it, okay?"
"Is that a promise for later?" Harry asked.
She rolled her eyes again, trying to keep from smiling. "Shut up and go back to your office."
"Kiss me." Harry told her, with an evil smile.
"No!" Hermione exclaimed, annoyed that he was just about to win her over, so that a few heads turned, astonished at their bosses position. "No." She repeated quietly with a grin.
"Yes." Harry said, as a matter-of-factly.
She looked around to make sure no one was looking and quickly kissed him. "There. Now, Go. Work. Make something of yourself." She pushed him on his chest so that he backed away from her.
"I love you." He whispered as he kissed her on the cheek. She smiled as he walked away and noticed Luna was behind her now.
"You know," Luna started, "If I didn't know any better…I'd swear I just saw you kissing the boss."
"Shut it, Luna." Hermione smiled. "You know very well what happened."
Luna grinned. "I don't know ALL of it. Just the part where you break it off with Viktor and go running into Harry's arms."
Hermione rolled her eyes. "Well then, that's all you need to know."
Luna shrugged and walked to her desk to begin her work. "Oh!" She remembered. "Ron said he's calling a staff meeting today."
Hermione groaned. "Greatt…"
Luna smirked. "I love his meetings."
"That's because you get to stare at him dazedly the whole time." Hermione pointed out. "Everyone else nearly falls asleep at how boring they are."
"Whatever." Luna rolled her eyes. "It's an hour…so…"
"Kay." Hermione said.
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Hermione spent the next hour or so getting as much work done as she could, considering how distracted she'd been the day before. She had only just finished revising a status report when Luna waved a hand in front of her face. "Hullo?? Hermione...it's time to go!"
"Oh!" Hermione smiled. "Sorry Luna got a little caught up in work."
"S'okay." Luna shrugged. "C'mon, we've gotta get good seats!"
Hermione shook her head as Luna pulled her into the conference room. Ron and Harry were already in there, talking strategics, so Hermione and Luna stood in the doorway.
"So cute when they're working." Luna commented.
"Oh, yes…incredibly sexy, Luna." Hermione grinned at Harry as he was in serious- business mood.
Ron eventually looked up and tried hard not to grin too widely when he saw Luna. "Hey…um, you can…come in…"
Hermione and Luna nodded and walked in. Harry and Ron were sitting across from each other on opposite sides of the end of the table, so Luna took her seat by Ron, and Hermione gladly took hers by Harry. He had to restrain himself from kissing her, or devouring her whole at the sight of her. He loved how she made him feel.
"Hello…" Hermione said casually.
"Hey." Harry winked at her.
"Hey…" Ron sighed.
Luna sighed as well. "Hmm…here they come," She said, referring to the people now entering the conference room.
When everyone was seated, Harry greeted them and thanked them for coming before sitting to allow Ron to take the floor. Ron started his typical, long, drone like speech, with occasional funny or quirky remarks in it.
About 10 minutes into Ron's `talk' Hermione began to feel tired in restless. She didn't think she could sit in this seat any more and listen to his words go on and on. Harry wasn't looking at Ron, or paying the least bit of attention to him. Instead, he was staring at Hermione as she looked at Ron in seriousness. Occasionally, she would meet his gaze and smile before turning her concentration back to Ron.
Harry started to feel a little restless as well, and reached over and put his hand on Hermione's thigh. She gasped quietly in surprise; she had not expected someone's hand to appear there. He grinned to himself and began moving his hand slowly up her leg and up her skirt.
Hermione tried to hold her breath and squirmed as his fingers began toying with the edges of her knickers. She looked at him in a piercing gaze that told him to stop it because she was losing her concentration.
He didn't give in and moved his fingers inside her knickers when she squirmed again and whimpered softly. Ron
stopped for a minute and said, "Hermione, are you alright?"
Hermione regained her composure and cast a pointed look at Harry. "I'm fine." She said. If only they knew….
Harry removed his hand from her, smirking and finally looked to Ron, who continued his speech.
Only about 5 minutes later, the meeting had ended and Harry turned to Hermione. "Can I see you in my office for a minute?"
Hermione shook her head but sighed. "Yes…I'll be there in a second."
Luna bit her lip to stifle a giggle as she looked to Ron. "Oh, Ronald, wasn't there something you needed to show me in your office?"
Ron looked at her confused by nodded. "Oh! Right, er…yes. Come to my office."
Ron, Luna, Harry and Hermione walked out of the room and continued to their meeting spots.
Once Harry entered his office behind Hermione and closed the door, Harry exhaled a deep breath. "Thank Merlin."
Hermione smirked. "Did you need something, Mr. Potter?"
Harry looked up in mock thought. "Hmm…Oh yeah." Harry said. "You."
She took a step closer to him, "I don't know…"
He closed the gap between them and kissed her gently, then rougher. She muttered `Silencio' and charmed the door locked. Harry had never loved those spells more. She pulled back and her face fell. "Harry…maybe, maybe we're moving too fast with this. I mean…it hasn't been that long…"
Harry looked at her seriously. "Do you want to?"
She thought for a moment. "I don't know. I mean, this is all new. I've never felt like this before. It…scares me."
"I know." Harry said. "I know it does. But I love you…whatever you want to do…I'm okay."
"I…" Hermione contemplated all the thoughts in her head and made up her mind. "I want you, Harry. I want you so bad." She confessed taking a deep breath.
"Then take me." He told her before kissing her. His arms came to rest on her hips and her arms wrapped loosely around his neck. The kiss intensified as their tongues frantically met one another.
His hands wandered down her body, making her spine tingle as his fingers danced under her shirt. He pushed aside her bra and cupped her breast, making her whimper and kiss him harder. He was teasing her at first to see how far she could get without scolding him for moving too slow.
The only problem is, with the silencing spell she cast, no one outside could hear a thing, but they could hear what was outside.
"Harry?" Came a loud, unidentifiable male voice, knocking on the door. "Harry Potter, are you in there?"
"Shit." Harry cursed softly as he kissed her one last time before pulling away and straightening himself. "Sorry." He said to Hermione. "I can't ignore him, it'll just be worse."
She nodded, straightening herself up and lifted the silencing charm. "Yeah, yeah, come in." Harry said, sitting on the chair behind his desk and Hermione sat in one of the arm chairs across from him.
Imagine their surprise when they saw Remus Lupin walking through the door. "Why hello, I didn't interrupt
anything? No important meeting?"
"It's alright," Harry smiled to Hermione. "Nothing that can't be taken care of later." Hermione fought the urge to roll her eyes and turned to smile at Remus.
"Remus, how are you?" She asked. Lupin had been in the office frequently, since he was somewhat of a replacement god father to Harry, and she had spoken with him more than once.
"Doing fine, and how about you Miss Granger?" Remus winked at Harry, as if he knew what was going on.
"I'm…good." She said, not missing the exchange between Remus and Harry.
"Well…" Harry said changing the subject. "What's going on, Remus?"
"Oh, well, McGonagall and I have been talking a lot lately, and I just thought it was at my best liberty to tell you that she is not doing well in the health area. Seems she had an unknown spell hit her when she interfered in one of the older boys' fights. He won't talk."
"That's terrible." Harry said. "Is the Ministry on the case?"
"Well, yes. The boy was expelled because he wouldn't tell anyone and apparently, at least according to the minister, he doesn't even know."
Hermione nodded. "Yep, you know the ministry."
"That's for sure." Remus commented. "I was actually just on my way to see her, care to join us. Hermione can come as well…she's only been there a couple times, correct?"
"Oh, really!? Could I? I'd love to. It's such an interesting castle!" Hermione said excitedly.
Harry laughed at her enthusiasm. "Yeah, sure that'd be good. I'm sure Ron and Luna would love to come, too. Ginny's got some sort of Wizardry cold, so she won't come. But yeah, I'll go get them."
Hermione jumped up to help Harry as they left the room and Remus stopped, standing in the doorway. He looked at the two, and used his ungodly mind reading powers, or better yet just took a look on Harry's face, and deducted everything there was not black and white.
When they reached the door, Hermione whispered to Harry as he reached for the door knob. "Wait, knock first. Just remember what we were doing in your office five minutes ago."
Harry smiled and shook his head. "Naw, this is Ron… but fine, I'll knock." Harry knocked on the door
called. "Hey mate, its Harry, ya in there?"
"Just…one second!" Ron exclaimed through the door. Hermione bit her lip to stifle her laugher and Harry looked questioningly at her. She shook her head and they entered the door when Ron yelled back for them to come in.
"Hey Ron." Harry said. "You up for a road trip?" He noticed that Luna Lovegood was also in the office and staring at Ron with dreamy eyes and shot a look to Hermione that said, `Maybe you were right'. "We're going to Hogwarts with Remus…you and Luna wanna come?"
Ron looked to Luna whose eyes were brighter than before. "Yeah. I'm sure that'd be good. Luna looks happy about it too."
"I am! Let's go! Blowing off work for a day…fine with me!" Luna exclaimed.
Hermione laughed. "Okay then, c'mon, I think we're taking a Portkey so that we don't have to go through Hogsmeade."
Ron and Luna followed them out the door as they met Remus in Harry's office. He laid a hat on their desk, which they all grabbed onto as it activated and they shot through the air and landed ever-so-gracefully in one of the corridors.
"Hmm…this was supposed to take us directly to her office. C'mon then, you know the way." Remus said, leading them towards the headmistress's office.
Hermione slipped her hand in Harry's and whispered, "This place is amazing."
"Yes. Kind of like you." Harry offhandly commented with a smirk. She rolled her eyes and smiled.
They were led into the grand office that once was occupied by Dumbledore, a precious man in Harry Potter's life, until the day that he died. "Well, this is a surprise. I didn't know you were bringing some of the children. But of course, they are not children anymore. Welcome!" McGonagall exclaimed as she saw they walk through.
"Hello, Minerva." Remus said kindly. "Nice to see you."
"Hello, Professor McGonagall." Harry smiled. "Ron, Luna and I decided to pay you a visit with Remus. Do you remember Hermione Granger?"
"Well, of course I do, Mr. Potter." McGonagall smiled as she walked towards Hermione. "Very pleased to see you again, dear."
"It's good to see you too, Professor. How are you?" Hermione asked.
"Oh…" McGonagall sighed. "Well. I'm doing well."
"That's great." Luna said smiling.
They spent the next hour or so in her office talking about things going on around Hogwarts, classes, how the business was doing…just…catching up. Harry felt himself looking at Hermione whenever he got the chance, he couldn't restrain it any longer.
"Well, it's been wonderful, but I really do have a lot of work." McGonagall said. "Feel free to stay and wonder. I'm sure the students will be most enlightened at your presence. If they give you any trouble, send them here."
"Sure will." Ron winked. "Thanks. We'll see you soon."
They walked out of the office and started off down the corridor. "If you don't mind," Remus started, "Tonks is teaching just down the hall. I'll see if I can go catch her. Bye."
"Bye." They chorused after him.
Harry looked around. "You wanna walk around, Mione?"
Ron looked at Harry questioningly, but ignored it. "Sure." Hermione said. "Let's go."
"We'll catch up with you later." Ron said. "I'll just `wonder' with Luna."
"What's gotten into them?" Harry asked Hermione when they had walked away.
"Oh…nothing." Hermione smiled.
Harry shook his head and came upon the Great Hall, where the students were congregating for lunch. "Hm, I see someone I need to have a word with. You mind? I'll be back in a second."
"Course not. I'll just look around." Hermione shrugged.
"Kay." He said. "I'll see you in a minute."
Hermione was slowly walking past the entrance way when two young boys who looked to be in their seventh year approached her. They were wearing red and gold badges, so Hermione knew that they were in Gryffindor.
"Hello…" One of them said, extending a hand. "I'm Robby…"
"I'm Adam," The other one said, shaking her hand. "And you are…"
"Um…Hermione…" She said nervously, she had no idea who she was talking to.
"Well, what are you doing here?" Robby asked. "It isn't safe for such a pretty woman like you to go roaming through the castle. No matter how old you are." Adam winked. Hermione stifled a laugh and she heard someone come up behind her.
"Adam, Robby! Nice to see you!" Harry exclaimed from behind her.
She spun around to face him smiling as Harry stood next to Robby and Adam. "What's up boys, what are you doing?"
"Hiya Harry!" Robby exclaimed. "Nice to see you!"
"We're just…" Adam waggled his eyebrows to Hermione who was trying desperately to hold back laughter. "Meeting a new…friend…"
"Oh, really." Harry said grinning. "Nice to meet you. I'm Harry Potter." He said extending a hand to Hermione.
"Hermione Granger." She said, grinning back, taking his hand.
But instead of shaking her hand, he yanked her forward and kissed her hard on the lips. She smiled against him and opened her mouth to him. They began kissing deeply until Harry moved his hand to go under her shirt and she raised her hand and slapped it down fiercely, remembering that there were two young boys standing there.
They pulled apart slowly and turned to face two gaping seventh year boys. "Geez, Harry you move fast. How do you do it?" Robby breathed in shock. Adam just continued to stare.
Harry laughed and looked to Hermione, who was smiling, and said. "Perhaps you haven't been formally introduced. This," He pointed to Hermione, "Is Hermione. My girlfriend."
Robby and Adam's faces turned pale white. "Oh...er… We didn't mean to…"
"It's fine…fine, boys. Just be careful who you have your eyes on, or you just might find you have no eyes anymore." Harry told them, joking, but yet somewhat serious.
"Um…yes…of course." Robby said, taking the threat very seriously. "How are you?"
"Good." Harry said. "Nice to see you again, but we really must be going. I've just realized that we should probably be getting back to work. We should go get Ron and Luna."
"Tell Ron we said hi!" Adam said.
"Sure." Hermione answered. "Bye, boys. Hopefully we'll see each other again, eh?" She smiled and followed Harry as the walked away, leaving Adam and Robby dumbstruck.
"Sorry about them." Harry said, as they walked hand in hand down the halls to find Ron and Luna.
"Its fine. They're cute." Hermione said.
"Hey." Harry said stopping.
"But you're so much cuter. And sexier." Hermione smiled and dragged him further.
"Uh huh…" Harry mumbled as she pulled him closer and found the knob to a broom closet.
"C'mon." She whispered.
"So this is what you do. You butter me up and then take advantage of me. Using me?" Harry said as she opened the door and wrapped an arm around her waist.
Only instead of finding an empty closet, they found Ron and Luna in a serious lip lock.
Hermione gasped and threw her hand over her mouth and Harry's jaw dropped. Luna pulled back and grinned at them sheepishly. "Hey…guys." She said, Ron looking to them smiling.
"Ron….are you dating your secretary?" Harry asked a hint of amusement in his voice.
"It's the new thing." Ron said, winking as he saw Harry's arm around Hermione. "All the cool kids are doing it."
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They had arrived back to the office not too long after the broom closet run in, and attempted to finish off any work they'd left behind.
Hermione was sitting on her desk, typing away when Ginny walked over. "Hey girl. I feel loads better. Wanna hit the pub tonight?"
Hermione sighed. "Sorry Gin, can't. I told Harry I'd let him take me out."
"Ohh…" Ginny squealed. "Of course."
"Shut up." Hermione grumbled.
"I'm sure glad you straightened him out. And that Cho got what she deserved." Ginny said.
"Guess again." Hermione said, eyebrows raised, as her gaze was fixed pointedly on the elevator.
Ginny looked over her shoulder and followed her gaze. "Oy!" She exclaimed when she saw Cho standing there, looking her normal bitchy self. "Great. Just what I need."
Hermione laughed. "Not to worry…not to worry…"
Cho approached Hermione at her desk. "I know what you did. You used some kind of love potion on him. How else could he choose you over me! I am going in there, hopefully now it's worn off and he'll kiss me hello like he always has. I told you Granger, chains are tight on this one." She said walking away to Harry's office.
Though, instead of being angry, Hermione laughed and Ginny sighed saying, "She really has no idea what she's getting into."
They heard screaming coming from Harry's office as Cho stormed out. Hermione smirked. "Oh, I think she has a pretty good idea now."
Cho ran by Hermione's desk and Hermione called after her amused, "You're right, chains tied real tight!"
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A/N: Maybe you were hoping for more, but that's it. Not as long as I wanted it to be, but there's not much you can do with the story after H/Hr are together. I treat this as more of an epilogue. Glad you guys enjoyed it! I'll be updating my other stories regularly now that this is over and done with.
Sorry for the lack of "Office" scenes on this one. Love you!
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