Hermione was jerked awake by a noise that broke through her tiredness, tugging her out of sleep.

What-where was-she was instantaneously fully alert at the realization that she couldn’t see Harry.

She sat up and grabbed her wand in one smooth movement, glancing first outside to the mouth of the cave to see that it was still dark and still pouring ( Read more... )

A torrential rainstorm drove them to find shelter.

Hermione half-stumbled, momentarily losing her footing, and Harry hauled her up against his side, keeping his arm around her as he peered through the downpour. He squinted, thankful for Hermione’s foresight on seeing the darkening clouds a little while ago to cast the spell on his glasses that ( Read more... )

“Hermione?”

She turned her head to look at him.  “Hi, Harry.”

“Why aren’t you sleeping?”

“I could ask you the same thing,” he returned, deflecting the question automatically.

She gave him a look that told him she’d noticed his deflection but was going to let him get away with it-this time.  But then, too, she knew better than anyone just why he ( Read more... )

What Love Is

He knew she was there before she spoke.

“Harry?”

He didn’t respond.   He knew what he had to do, had known it for days now.   He just hadn’t had the strength to do it but now, tonight, he knew he needed to.

“Harry, why don’t you get some sleep?   We’re safe enough here.”

He didn’t look at her.  He couldn’t look at her.   If he ( Read more... )

He was in Hell, Harry decided matter-of-factly.  The special level of Hell for people caught in the middle of a fight.

Wasn’t there a children’s game about something like this, he wondered-in an attempt to distract himself from the positively Arctic temperature of the silence around him.   A game involving a person caught in the middle-what was ( Read more... )

What does it say about me that I spent half my day (at work, no less) writing fluffy smut so I could post it today ( Read more... )

I was planning on today's post to be the next installment of the 'All He Ever Wanted' series but that fic didn't end up getting finished on time-- partly because I was distracted by this fic, that was originally meant to be a one-shot but it got long and I realized that there was no way I was going to end this fic without smut. (Really, a fic ( Read more... )

The rest of 'Just For Tonight'-- here's the smut! ;-)

Again, rated NC-17.

Part 1

( Just For Tonight (2/2) )

(And my ego-- really, who needs canon when there are fans like you to keep me feeling good ( Read more... )

Because I am JKR so I believe that true love consists of blazing looks, the crushes of a 10-year-old jellyfishgirl, and chest monsters ( Read more... )