Moonlight Sonata

Today was the day. Hermione lay in the large, fluffy bed, staring up at the ceiling, as it finally hit her. After all that panicked rushing and preparing all week, it was finally here.

“I'm getting married.” She whispered.

“Yes...you are...” Eriko murmured to her left.

“It's so amazing...” Akiko added from her right.

The two women had taken it upon themselves to hold Hermione's bachelorette party. To the disappointment of reporters everywhere, they'd held it in the manor – Draco's bachelor party had been held there also, in another wing. They'd been warded to keep either party from finding the other, just to be safe, and so they technically spent a nice night in.

Hermione had no idea what Draco's party had been like, but her own had been quite tame, only close female friends and relatives taking part, and just to keep things easier on Hermione, there was no alcohol permitted other than a few glasses of champagne, sipped slowly over the evening, and only after a nice dinner.

The gifts, however, were anything but tame. Hermione had to blush at the thought of the lingerie Narcissa had given her. Her future mother-in-law! It was tasteful, of course, and she was so proud of the woman, because it was from a muggle shop, but nevertheless, it was lingerie! Ginny had apparently thought along the same lines – though her choice was not nearly as chaste looking. Narcissa had even blushed at the sight of it...before smiling and mentioning it would be excellent for the honeymoon. When Ginny grinned, Hermione knew they had plotted it together. She was relieved to find that, for the most part, the gifts after that were less openly sexy.

Molly's, in fact, was barely sexy at all – it was a recipe book she had written herself – a gift given to each of her daughters or daughters-in-law before they married. Of course, from the smirk on a few faces, she wasn't sure she wanted to know just what sort of recipes lay deeper in the book than the stew and bread ones she saw in the first few pages.

Eriko had given her one of the Satoshi family heirlooms, much to her shock. It seemed that the family had saved every katana made in the olden days, and they were passed down through the line to the daughters, when they married. As they were the only Satoshi clan daughters of the generation, three of them had been handed down to them by various relatives. Narcissa had chuckled as she told her it would probably come in handy when she needed to keep her husband in line. Eriko had set the party into laughter by saying that was why they were given them.

Akiko's was closer to the rank of the lingerie she had been given, as she opened her present to find the words 'Kama Sutra' beneath the wrapping, as well as a bottle of Honeyduke's Chocolate Syrup. Fortuately, while everyone chuckled at the syrup, the witches had no idea what the book was – being muggle in nature. The rest of the gifts were books, for the most part innocent ones.

Everyone knew Hermione was not the type to enjoy blatant perversion, so there were books on meditation, mostly from Luna, (“Heaven knows you'll need it with a husband,” Molly had said) and a joking one on managing a man, and of course a few old classics of magic content that she had not yet aquired.

“I really enjoyed last night.” Hermione told them, thinking about it. “...I was horribly embarrassed, but at the same time...it was wonderful. And not at all what I'd expected.”

“We vetoed Lavender's plan to take you out to a male strip club. It was just too tacky – and bars? Not at all your style.” Akiko huffed. “That girl just doesn't know you very well.”

“She does. She just wants to get me to have a larger comfort zone. I'm afraid I like it just where it is – naked men dancing around just doesn't thrill me.” A sigh. “I need to get up, don't I?”

“Not yet. Narcissa ordered us to keep you in bed until breakfast arrived – we're having it in the sitting room up here. Mum and Narcissa will be joining us.” Ginny informed her from the massive pile of down comforters on the floor. She jumped at the voice, before they all burst into laughter. “I told you you'd forget I was down here. See, letting me sleep in this amazing nest didn't keep you up all night at all!”

“There was room for you up here, you know.” Hermione scolded, smiling. “But how long until breakfast, anyway?”

“About an hour – it's six in the morning...we got to bed early last night, remember?” Eriko told her, as the three settled into more comfortable positions on the giant bed – Ginny refused to leave her nest. “It wasn't your typical bachelorette party, but it was so much calmer than mine...”

“We took you to compete in a martial arts competition. You won, and we went to a bar and got wasted to celebrate.” Akiko muttered. “Mine was insane. Dinner, strip club, then home to pass out on the floor giggling for no reason.”

“I remember them – I was there.” Hermione laughed. “Ginny, what was yours like?”

“...the twins threw it 'in light of your absence'.” The looks of horror on their faces made her start laughing, and shaking her head. “No, it wasn't bad, really. They had a bar in their old flat, remember? We all met there, and we watched movies and got rather happy with the aid of excellent alcohol, then we headed over to Harry's bachelor party and used some of their newer items to end the night with a bang.”

“If I have an hour...I'm getting out of this bed and taking a bath.” Hermione grumbled to them.

“And I have an idea.” Ginny's head popped out of the nest, her smile wide. “We'll join you. Remember how we used to magically enlarge the bathtub back home?”

“Good idea...though I'm certain it's already big enough for the four of us. It's about a quarter of the size of the prefect's bath back at Hogwarts.” Hermione stood, as did the others, heading into the bathroom to turn on the bath – making sure to use unscented bubbles in the water, though the type in it was a nice thick foam. Once it was full, all four girls sank into it with sighs of pleasure, each taking a rounded corner to sit on the ledge within it, leaning back and closing their eyes.

“So, who's willing to bet the boys got completely tanked last night?” Ginny's voice was full of amusement, before she frowned. “I hope they didn't fight.”

“...what do you mean?” Hermione was confused, opening her eyes to look over at her friend. “I thought he'd just be having his friends over, like I did.”

“In the interests of keeping the peace, our husbands decided to convince Lucius to let them throw the party.” Eriko informed her. “They invited Harry...and Percy. ...not to mention some of the boys from your school days.”

“Oh dear.” Hermione sighed slightly, closing her eyes. “Well, let's hope nothing awful happened...”

Author's Note:

Wooo another chapter! It's just flowing like magic for me at the moment! Ironically, I wrote this before the previous, when I decided to show Draco's bachelor party before the girls' morning.By the way, being bored out of my mind and enjoying any excuse to look at this site:

Narcissa's Gift: http://www.fredericks.com/Sabrina_Satin_+_Lace_Babydoll_Plus/45779,default,pd.html?cgid=li12

Ginny's Gift: http://www.fredericks.com/Fairy_Tale_Petal_Babydoll/45710,default,pd.html?cgid=li12

Pretty, ne?