Fic: The Smallest Shift (PG-13)

[emmacmf]

Title: The Smallest Shift
Author: emmacmf
Rating: PG-13 for language
Challenge: (Both of them as Aurors) A dangerous mission leads to a very close miss for one of the boys. The other is so relieved they're both safe he kisses his mate without thinking about it.
Summary: When Ron acts on instinct, he thinks he's ruined the most important thing in his life

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[shocolate]

*has tagasm*

Harry's trainee, however, is a complete knob.

[ahh, a British!Ron…]

I pushed material aside, and when I saw the shiny pink intestine poking out of the slash across his stomach, I retched, but managed not to vomit.

[ah, people who work in hospitals scare me…]

We've had too much bloody practise at this - we know exactly what to say to our best mate when he wakes up in hospital.

[big sigh]

'Sorry,' he murmurs. 'But you're alright.' He pulls his hand out from underneath Hermione's fingers, and rests it on top of mine, at his shoulder. 'You're all right,' he repeats,

[which is all he cares about…]

By it, I mean kiss him.

[*big silly grin, even though it was the prompt*]

It's been a week since Harry's accident, and I haven't seen anybody in all that time. After leaving the hospital, I sent Robards an Owl to say I was too stressed to go to work, grabbed some stuff from home, and booked a room at The Leaky Cauldron to hide out in.

[*smacks him*]

And unless the Leaky routinely Polyjuices its cleaning staff in to black-haired, green-eyed Aurors, then it's not a maid standing in the doorway, it's Harry bloody Potter,

[awesome!!!]

'Done sulking?' he asks

[because he knows him really wel]

So you have to kiss me again, now I'm not drugged up on potions, so I can see if I like it or not.' He looks nervous but determined, and angles his body towards mine. 'Go on then.'

[oh, awesome, he hasn't been waiting to kiss him, he was too drugged to know!]

I look at his fluttering eyelashes and his pursed lips and think that he looks like a fish, and I start to laugh.

[excellent and likely and not sweeping him off his feet]

I look up to answer him and his nose is a centimetre from mine, and he tilts his head to the left and then he kisses me.

[GRYFFINDOR!]

I need his lips on mine again, so I turn my head and seek his mouth out, and I could do this forever, just sit here kissing him, because it's perfect.

[excellent - kisses are underrated]

'Do you want to, um, you know? Go out with me?' Harry asks, and his voice is nervous. 'I mean, I'm a bloke and everything, so …'

[swwwwwwwwwwwwwwww]

Hermione'd call me bisexual, Bill'd call me greedy, and George'd call me a pervert, but I'd call me … open-minded.

[excellent sequence]

'I don't know,' I say. 'You just looked at me, and you bit your lip, and … yeah.'

[as simple as that]

'It took me a couple of days to get my head around it,' he confesses. 'But it seems sort of inevitable. It's always been me and you, really.'

[and as simple as that]

' "Things"?' I echo. 'What kind of things, and how do you know about them?'

[*giggles*]

'All sorts of things,' he says airily. 'When I told Hermione I thought I could fancy you, she bought me …'

A BOOK!

'A book,' we both chorus

[canon]

We know each other so well it's ridiculous, we live together, we spend most of our working day and our free time together … the only time we're apart is at night. It's the smallest shift to go from best friends to, well, boyfriends.

[see - this is why I ship them - they simply adore each other]

she stuck little sticky tab things on all the pages she thought would be useful, and gave me a list of more books we might like to read.'

[canon]

I like having him at my side - I always have, and it feels wrong when he's not there, like I've Apparated and splinched something.

[oh, canon!]

[emmacmf]

I was totally thinking of you when I wrote about Hermione and her little sticky tab things!

Thank you for holding my hand through writing this!

[shocolate]

ah, you're totally a Harry/Ron writer, now... fly my little one, fly!!!

[emmacmf]

You're completely to blame!