Two Worlds Collide

Hermione P.O.V.

It has been a few weeks since the Champion Selection and Viktor and I still haven’t been able to get anytime to discuss our relationship…or if we even are in a relationship…can one say they are in a relationship if the only interactions that the two people have are by letters and sly glances across the Great Hall?

Trying not to freak out and have an anxiety attack, I run to the one person who has been helping me through this entire fiasco!

“What if this is some kind of game to him? He is from another school, hell he’s from another country! He is going to leave at the end of the school year! Do you think he would want to write during the summer or meet up or is this a onetime thing? Do you think he is just trying to get in my knickers? He has sent me all those gifts and the nickna ….” I stop ranting when head snaps to the side and my cheek starts to burn, looking back I see Ginny standing there with her hand raised and a raised eyebrow. Knowing I shouldn’t say anything I look at Ginny and wait.

“Hermione, I know that it has been awhile since you have talked to him. I have been right next to you whenever you have received a letter or trinket, and I do not think that he is ‘just trying to get in your knickers,’ as you said.  Go back and reread the letters that he has sent you, there is a lot of emotion behind them. As for summer or the breaks, I don’t know. That is a questions you will have to ask him when the time is right. Now let’s head to your room so we can look through those letters and possibly work on the self-confidence that you are so desperately lacking.”

I shoot Ginny a glare, but I know she is right. My self-confidence has be extremely low due to Draco and Viktor, though Viktor is trying to rectify that situation. So the two of us head back to my room and curl up on my bed with Crookshanks and start to go through the handful of letters that Viktor has sent me. As we go through the letters, Ginny will stop and give me advice about how I should act or how I should hold myself during a conversation.  Honestly I don’t know how she does it and I ask her.  Her only reply was a shrug and “magazines” to which she accio-ed and told me to read them and then left to go do some of her homework.

Putting the stack on my nightstand, I take the top one off and open it. Being the fast reader that I am, I finish the stack in about two hours and come to one conclusion…I do not want to be like the tarts in these magazines.  I can see where Ginny gets some of her ideas when she flirts, but she is nothing like the girls that are on the pages of the magazines.  Gathering up the magazines, I head to Ginny’s room and lay the stack on her bed before heading to the Common Room to “work on my self-confidence.”

After about twenty minutes, the Fat Lady is in her smaller portrait saying that there is someone waiting for me out side in the hallway. Getting up I quickly smooth my clothes of any wrinkles, and head to the door wondering who would want to meet me.

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Viktor’s P.O.V.

“GAH! It has been weeks since I have seen my Mimi with the earrings I sent her!”

“Calm down cousin, you will see her soon.  It is not your fault that the Headmaster decided to keep you under lock and key. You are our Champion after all…”

“Dah, Champion…great…I don’t really care! I want to see Mimi in person and not across the Great Hall or in the hallways.  I haven’t been able to properly ask her to court me, because of the fucking Headmaster! I am over this, I need to see her now!”

I storm off the ship, I quickly cross the grass that separates the ship and castle before bounding up the stairs trying to remember the way to the portrait of the Fat Lady. After wandering around the different hallways and stairs, I finally find the portrait of the Fat Lady.

“Escuse me, Fat Lady. Is Her-my-oh-knee Granger in common room?” I ask, trying hard to correctly pronounce Mimi’s name.

“Hmm, my dear boy. Let me go check.” She answers as she leaves her portrait.

I pace nervously as I wait for the painting to return, but to my surprise the portrait swings open and Mimi walks out with a confused look on her face. That was until she saw me and smiled.

“Mimi, hallo!” I greet her with a small bow.

“Hello Viktor, long time no see.” She says with a blushing smile.

“Dah, long time no see. I vas sick of Headmaster locking me up and treating like little kid, so I left. I vanted to see you, letters are not enuff.” I tell her.

“I agree, I have wanted to see you for the last few weeks but I could never get anywhere near you. Anyways, would you like to take a walk around the lake? Since it is Friday evening, I don’t have any evening classes so I am free. I mean if you are, if you aren’t then no worries I can find something to study…” I couldn’t help but chuckle as she cutely rambled on. I finally interrupt her.

“Mimi, I vould love to walk around lake vith you. Now is perfect time.” I say with a smile, I gently grab her hand and put it in the crook of my elbow. I smile when I see a blush form across her delicate cheeks.

“You vill haff to lead way, I got lost trying to find portrait.” I say trying not to look too embarrassed.

“Don’t worry, you can get lost quite easily around here. Let me show you an easy way to get to the main doors.” She says

Keeping her hand on my arm, she gently steers me down the opposite corridor that I came and to another set of stairs. It is at the bottom of the stairs that we make a right turn, then walk until we are in front of the main doors I ran through awhile earlier.

Once out of the door, I took over leading and decided to go as far away from the Durmstrang ship as I could. The two of us walk in a comfortable silence as we walk around the lake, both look anywhere but each other.  Finding a small alcove in the trees, I slowly lead Mimi into it and gently help her sit. Sitting next to her, the two of us look out into the lake catching a glimpse of the giant squid every so often. After about a half hour of silence, I clear my throat and start to ask her questions about school, likes and dislikes, and she did the same. After a few hours of the two of us talking and watching the sun set, I finally get the courage to ask her the one question that has been on my mind for the last few weeks.

“Mimi, I haff to ask you question.”

“Sure Viktor, what is up? Are you hungry? We have been here for a while and forgot to bring anything.”

“No…vell dah, I am hungry, but not question I vanted to ask. Vhat I vant to ask is, vill you be my girl?”