* * * Starring * * *
Emma Watson
"Hermione Granger"
Evanna Lynch
"Luna Lovegood"
Can't Fight the Moonlight
"Heaven" Copyright © 2008
Episode Eleven
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Summary: None
Original Airdate: December 2, 2008 @ 9:00 p.m.
Story Codes: no sex
Hermione was skipping through the ministry of magic on her way to the cafeteria. Now, skipping wasn’t normally how Hermione moved, but being in love had that effect. It was the day after she and Luna had become girlfriends and Hermione now thought of it as the best day in her life so far. After Harry had left, she and Luna had gone out for a really long walk together. They had walked for hours, talking animatedly about all kinds of things, big and small. They had agreed on much, but there had also been some disagreement. Luna was very good at defending her views, some times even using Hermione’s logic against her.
“Hermione, do you agree with the following statement? Absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”
“Yes, of course. That is a fundamental rule in logic reasoning.”
“And don’t you also admit that there have been times when something previously not thought existing has been proven to exist?”
Hermione was beginning to understand where this was going, but she had to answer honestly.
“Yes, there have been such instances.” Hermione admitted.
“Then, it follows as a logical consequence of your statements that the existence of snorcacks, nargles and wrackspurts is possible.” Luna declared with a proud smile.
“Fine, I admit that there might be a possibility that they exist, but I won’t actually believe it until I have proof.”
Hermione was a bit flustered and irritated about being about the whole thing, but fortunately Luna made those feelings go away simply by kissing her girlfriend. After hours of walking both had become hungry again and Hermione had treated to Luna to dinner on one of her favourite Italian restaurants. It wasn’t luxurious, but the place had great atmosphere and the food was genuine. After that they had gone to see a movie. It was a crappy, commercial romantic comedy, but that didn’t matter much since they spent most of their time kissing and when they didn’t do that Hermione explained some of the finer points of muggle living. Luna wasn’t ignorant of the muggle world as many other witches of and wizards, but there was a few things she wanted Hermione to explain. The night had ended with Hermione kissing Luna goodbye outside of Luna’s new apartment in Diagon Alley.
Back in the present Hermione entered the cafeteria and saw Padma and Ernie waiting for her at one of the tables. She took a sandwich and sat down with her friends.
“Last time I saw you looked really upset and now you’re all smiles and bounce in your walk. What happened?” Padma asked.
“Exactly what I had hoped for.” Hermione answered.
“You mean that you and Luna…?”
“Yes, yes, yes. That’s right. Me and Luna.” Hermione answered with a dreamy smile.
“What are you talking about? What is it about you and Luna?” Ernie asked perplexed.
“You haven’t told him?” Hermione asked Padma.
“No, I haven’t told anyone.”
“That’s good, but it doesn’t matter now. It’s not a secret anymore. Ernie, me and Luna are now girlfriends.”
Like Harry before Ernie was surprised, but in his case it quickly passed.
“Well, I think that is very nice. I can see how happy you are about it and I wish the two of you all the best.” Ernie declared.
“Thank you, that is good to hear.” Hermione answered.
“So, spill it. How did it happen?” Padma asked.
Hermione proceeded to tell Padma about all that had happened between her and Luna, only leaving it that little detail about grabbing Luna’s ass. Somehow a well lit cafeteria didn’t seem like the right place to discuss such topics. Padma was especially amused by Harry’s dumbfounded reaction.
“So, does Ron know yet?” Padma asked.
“No, and I’m a bit worried about that part. I made Harry swear that he wouldn’t say anything, but I have to tell him before he finds out from someone else. We’re completely open about our relationship so word might start to spread.”
“Yes, that would probably be for the best.” Padma agreed.
A few hours later Hermione had finished work and was on her way to Luna. However, she had one thing to do before that and that was to deliver the news to Ron. He did deserve to hear it from her after all. Hearing it from someone else would be utterly humiliating and Hermione didn’t think he deserved that. She took one deep breath before she stepped into the shop. It was almost closing time and there were only a few customers in there.
“Ms Granger. How delightful.” George greeted her theatrically.
“Actually I’m here to speak to Ron. Is he in?” Hermione said in a very serious tone.
“He’s in the back doing inventory.”
Hermione knew her way around the shop and made her way to the storage. She could hear Ron swearing as she approached.
“Bloody hell! Get of me you little piece of shit. I’m gonna grind you down to meatloaf if you don’t get the hell off of me!”
Hermione entered the room and saw Ron flailing around wildly, pulling his own nose. Even stranger was the fact that Ron’s nose now was big as an orange and full of hairy warts. Hermione couldn’t help but laugh and thus announced her presence. Ron stopped pulling his nose and turned to see her.
“Ohh, hi. What’s up?” Ron greeted Hermione. He spoke as if nothing was out of the ordinary, despite the fact that his nose now seemed to be pulsating in a very creepy manner.
Hermione needed this to be a serious discussion and she couldn’t possibly do that while his nose looked like that.
“What’s up with your nose?”
“My nose is ok; it’s just that this thing is sitting right on top of it. It’s supposed to be a funny prank that you can make anyone go around with this ugly thing in their face. It’s very popular among kids who have older teenage siblings.”
“Can you get it off?”
“Well, it falls off after a few hours, but I kinda want to get rid of it now.”
“How about you sneeze in it?” Hermione suggested.
“Yeah, that might work.”
Ron went over to a shelf and took just a pinch of powder from a jar labelled “sneezing powder”. He took it in his mouth and after only a few seconds it took effect. He took a deep breath and then closed his mouth to force the sneeze out of the nose. With a very powerful sneeze the fake nose flew across the room where it hit the wall, burst and spread a yellowish slimy substance all over the wall.
“Pretty disgusting huh? One can make that yellow stuff slowly drop out of the nose, giving someone the most disgusting cold ever.”
“It’s disgusting alright.” Hermione agreed.
Unlike Ron she wasn’t enthusiastic about it.
“So, what can I do for you?” Rona asked casually.
“I have something to tell you.”
“Ok, shoot.”
Hermione took a deep breath before speaking.
“I’m dating Luna Lovegood, we are together now.”
“Yes, sure and I’m dating Draco Malfoy, so what was it that you wanted?” Rona said with a grin.
Hermione sighed. She had been focused on actually saying it, but now she was going to have to explain it as well.
“Listen very carefully now. I really am together with Luna. We are in love. I have been interested in her for quite some time, but I never cheated on you. I tried to suppress it, but my feelings for her are too strong. I’m going to visit her now. She lives above Ollivander’s.”
“Ohh. I see.” Ron said.
Hermione could see a mixture of feelings on display in Ron’s face. There was confusion, shock, hurt and anger. Hermione decided it was best to speak before Ron said anything else.
“Again, listen very carefully to me. I don’t want to be on bad terms with you. I really do hope we can be friends. I know that’s cliché, but the fact is that we were friends for much longer than we were together. However if that is going to happen you will bloody well have to accept that me and Luna are together. I don’t want any jealousy, any resentment or any nasty comments from you about Luna.” Hermione said sternly.
Ron still had the same feelings on display, but now with fear added.
“Ok.” He whispered.
“Good, now I understand that you’ll need some time to absorb this and I want to get to Luna, so I’m leaving now. Ok?”
“Good bye Ron.” Hermione said and left the room.
As she came back into the store she saw George with guilty look on his face and a sneakoscope in his hand.
“You really ought to hide that thing after you’ve eavesdropped.” Hermione said with a friendly smile.
“Yeah, that might work better.” George answered with a guilty smile. “I guess you deserve congratulations. I’m actually quite impressed that you had it in you to fall for someone like Luna.”
“How so?”
“Well, she isn’t exactly…..conventional, now is she?”
“No, she sure isn’t.” Hermione answered with a dreamy smile.
“Well, I’m happy for you. I’d advice you to stay out of the way of Molly though.”
“Well, you can’t please everyone I guess.”
“I heard from dad that she was fuming for days about the break-up. It wouldn’t have surprised me if she had already decided names for your kids.”
Hermione resisted the temptation to say anything bad about Molly. George could do it, but she couldn’t.
“Well, I must go. I hope she doesn’t take it too hard.”
“One can always hope.” George answered with a weary smile as Hermione left.
Hermione drew a deep sigh of relief as she left the joke shop and made her way towards Luna’s apartment. Luna had invited Hermione for dinner earlier in the day and Hermione was very curious about what Luna would be serving. She was also very curious about Luna’s apartment. Luna had only lived in it for less than 24 hours yet, but Hermione had a feeling that her girlfriend would already have made it her home.
There was a small door on the backside of Ollivander’s shop. Behind the door was a creaky and narrow staircase that led up to the second floor and the door to Luna’s apartment. The first thing Hermione noticed as she ascended the staircase was a faint blue glow. When she reached Luna’s door she found out why. The door was light blue, but unlike normal doors it was glowing. It looked very much like the sky on a bright summer day and even more so after a white cloud flowed by on the surface of the door. Hermione was just about to knock when the door instead simply vanished and allowed Hermione entrance.
“Welcome to my place. Unfortunately I haven’t named it yet, do you have any ideas?” Luna greeted.
Luna was standing by a stove and was busy stirring a large pan. She was dressed in a summer gown and she was had nothing on her feet.
“Thank you.” Hermione answered, unable to answer Luna’s sudden question.
Hermione walked into what was obviously the kitchen. Hermione looked around the walls of the kitchen and saw that they too looked exactly like heaven. There were clouds floating by and there was a sun shining on one of the walls, giving light to the kitchen. It wasn’t just the walls however, the ceiling also looked like the sky. Hermione looked down and saw that there was no floor, but green grass and as she drew in breath it smelt exactly like real grass. To complete the illusion of being outside there was even a soft breeze, rustling Hermione’s hair.
“I’ve missed you all day. Do you want to kiss?” Luna said brightly and momentarily stopped her stirring.
“You don’t have to ask me Luna. I do want to kiss you. I’ve missed you too all day.”
With that Hermione stepped closer and she and Luna started to make out. They were getting used to kissing by now, but the excitement Hermione felt just kept increasing. For the first time in what might very well have been forever, Hermione had not been happy about working. She had done her work at the ministry alright, but not a minute had gone by when she had not wished that she could be with Luna instead.
“So, do you have any suggestions?” Luna asked as the kissing ended.
Hermione looked around again and said the first thing that came to her mind.
“Heaven. This apartment is heaven.” Hermione answered.
“Yes, that is true. I think that is a good name. I’ll call it the Heaven”
“So, how did you do this?” Hermione asked, always curious about how things worked.
“All the walls and ceilings are connected to the real weather. I can get any weather from around the world in here. This is the weather from Jamaica. I like that.”
Hermione did a quick calculation in her head and realized that it was indeed daytime in Jamaica. Early evening in England meant the middle of the day in Jamaica.
“You did this in just one afternoon?” Hermione asked in amazement.
“Yes, it was quite easy. This is a modification of what they have at Hogwarts.”
“Of course, I should have caught that. I didn’t really think much about that ceiling. I was amazed at first, but then I got used to it.”
“I believe that one must be amazed by every day.” Luna said before returning her attention to the pot.
Hermione sat down on chair and let Luna’s word sink in. What Luna said indeed sounded like wisdom. At first it was depressing, because it was very rare that Hermione was amazed. However it didn’t take her long to realize that there was an exception.
“I am you know….. Amazed.” Hermione said.
Luna looked very sceptical and Hermione understood that she had to clarify.
“I am amazed by you Luna. Every time since I first started paying you attention I have been amazed. Sure, I have been irritated a few times, but that doesn’t change the fact that I have always been intrigued by you. You have never seized to amaze and surprise me.” Hermione said.
“You think I am amazing?”
“Yes, you truly are in every sense of the word. With you I never know what to expect and I must admit that it makes life a whole lot more interesting.”
Luna fell silent, but she had a very happy smile on her face. Hermione guessed that Luna wasn’t used to such praise.
“I think dinner is ready.” Luna announced.
“It smells delicious.” Hermione answered as she sat down at the table.
The dinner had indeed been delicious and now the two girls had moved into the living room. It was larger than the kitchen and also had the sky on the walls. The living room bathed in the glowing light of a permanent sunset. The weather and lighting of the room followed the sunset across the globe.
“This is wonderful.” Hermione said as she admired the room.
“Yes, I have been told that sunsets are romantic and since you are my girlfriend I thought it would be appropriate.” Luna answered.
“Well, I guess it works on me, because I’m feeling very romantic.” Hermione said and gave Luna a quick kiss.
“Ohh, good.”
“Who told you that by the way?”
“Neville told me when he was here earlier. He was very surprised when I told him about us, but he took it rather well in the end and gave me all kinds of advice on how to be romantic.”
“Did, he now? I didn’t think he knew so much about that.”
“Apparently he met a very nice girl in Brazil. She’s coming to visit him later.”
“Good for him.”
“Yes, but he was really nervous about it. He was fretting about giving her a gift once she comes here but he didn’t know what.”
“That reminds me. I’ve actually got a present for you.” Hermione said.
Luan’s eyes lit up in curiosity.
“It isn’t much, really. Just something I did last night after I came home. I hope you’ll like it.” Hermione said as she summoned a small parcel from her briefcase.
Luna tore into it and before Hermione could blink the carefully wrapped gift was unwrapped.
“This is beautiful.” Luna said in a sincere tone as she saw what Hermione had given her.
“I have a few photos from my time at Hogwarts in a box and I went through it to find this one of you and me. I really like it.”
The photo in question was taken during one of the training sessions for the DA. It showed Luna and Hermione standing close together with their wands out. It looked like Hermione was explaining something and Luna was listening intently.
“These are shells from our day at the beach. You said you were going to put them on a frame and now you did.” Luna stated.
“Yes, I’ve been meaning to use those shells, but I didn’t really feel inspired until I did this.” Hermione explained.
This time Luna didn’t say anything before kissing, instead she simply leaned in and started to kiss. Hermione willingly accepted and pulled the younger girl up in her lap. From there it went quickly. There was a lot of pent up desire in Hermione and she started to fully explore Luna’s body through the thin material of the dress.
“I want you Luna. I have never done this before and don’t really know how to do it, but I do know that I want you. I’ve only been with Ron and that really isn’t the same.”
“Don’t worry, I know what to do.”
Hermione was surprised to hear it and she felt a brief sting of jealousy, but that quickly disappeared as Luna started to work her hands under Hermione’s shirt. Luna’s soft touch felt wonderful and Hermione couldn’t wait to feel the full force of it. The couch was a bit small however and Hermione wanted the first time to be perfect.
“Can we go to your bedroom?” Hermione asked.
“Yes, that would be more practical.” Luna agreed.
Luna took Hermione’s hand and led her in to the bedroom. As much as Hermione was excited about what was to happen she couldn’t help but being briefly distracted by the sky in Luna’s bedroom. It was night, but not completely dark thanks to thousands of sparkling stars and a moon.
“Do you like it?” Luna asked.
“Yes…oooh yes. But I like you more.” Hermione said and started to kiss Luna again.
What followed was without a doubt the best time in Hermione’s life so far. Clothes were quickly discarded and after that came pleasure that Hermione had never imagined. Luna seemed to know things about Hermione’s body that Hermione herself had not yet discovered. Hermione had a lot to learn and looked forward to doing so, but that didn’t mean that she was lousy. She simply followed instinct and desire and managed to make Luna scream out in pleasure on several occasions. They went on pleasuring each other for what seemed like a blissful eternity. It wasn’t until they were both completely drained of energy that they stopped. They shared one last kiss before Hermione fell asleep with a very satisfied smile on her face.
Written by
Rupert
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