My Best Friend and Roommate

February 2000

Harry entered his and Hermione\'s flat totally exhausted. He was on a four day stake out at an abandoned warehouse keeping his eye out for Deatheater activity. The tip they received was bogus. All the Deatheaters were officially dead or in prison, with the exception of Lucius Malfoy, who it turns out was under the Imperious charm his whole life. He was under strict surveillance by the Aurors, Harry being the leading Auror in the Malfoy case. Harry dragged himself into his bedroom, and dropped onto the bed. He fell asleep the moment his head hit the pillow. He was just getting to sleep when he heard the door bang. \"Harry, you are never going to believe what the Ministry is thinking of doing!\" Harry groaned as he rolled over, and sat up. Hermione came into his room, and gasped seeing his sleepy state. \"Oh, Harry, I\'m sorry,\" she said,\" I didn\'t realize you were trying to sleep.\"

\"S\'okay,\" he said, \"What about the Ministry?\"

\"They are thinking of making a marriage law,\" she said. She handed him the Daily Prophet. \"Granted that it may not be passed for another eight to eleven months, but a marriage law can only mean trouble.\"

\"Trouble?\"

\"Look at the details.\" Harry looked at a brief part of the marriage that would pass.

\"Any unmarried pure blood must marry a half blood or muggle born chosen by the Ministry by their twenty first birthday.\"

\"You realize I could end up with Draco Malfoy as a husband.\"

\"Now, don\'t get rational, Mia,\" he said, \"This law may not even pass.\" He put the paper down, and stood up. \"Who\'s turn is it to cook?\"

\"Mine,\" Hermione said as she headed into the kitchen.

As Hermione made supper, Harry could tell she was distracted. She was thinking about the marriage law again. If he didn\'t act fast he could lose her. Ron was already engaged to Susan Bones, another Pure blood and redhead. It was no question Hermione could be matched to a former Slytherin student. Hermione was already twenty one, and he was far from turning twenty one. \"Hermione, have you ever thought of marriage?\"

\"Not really,\" she said boiling noodles for her tuna casserole.

\"Well, maybe if, you know, we get married ....\"

\"Us?\" she asked, \"Harry, I love you, but not enough to get married.\"

\"Why did you ask me to move in with you, Mia?\"

\"Well, financial reasons.\"

\"Whatever happened between you and Ron?\" he asked, \"You were happy together.\"

\"We just fell apart,\" she said, \"I wasn\'t in love with him.\" Harry walked closer to Hermione, and stopped her from stirring the noodles.

\"I never told you this, but Ron was jealous of me when you asked me to move into an apartment with you.\"

\"He was?\"

\"I mean, he\'s not anymore now that he has Susan, but he was hoping since you weren\'t dating you\'d ask him.\" Hermione chuckled.

\"Me live with my ex boyfriend?\"

\"Okay, maybe it was a stretch, but ......\"

\"A long stretch, Harry.\" Harry laughed. \"Harry, I have to stir the noodles.\"

\"Sorry,\" he said letting her get back to her cooking. \"I\'m going to wash up.\"

\"Okay.\" Harry left the kitchen, and walked into the bathroom. He was so close to telling her. He unzipped his pants, putting up the toilet seat, and relieved himself.

\"Dammit, why didn\'t you just tell her?\" He finished his business, and flushed the toilet. He tucked himself back into his pants, and zipped up. He washed his hands before walking back out to the kitchen.

\"It\'s going to be about twenty five minutes,\" she said.

\"Okay,\" he said. He sat down at the table, and opened the wine that was sitting there.

\"Harry, are you okay?\"

\"Fine,\" he said popping open the bottle. He poured himself a full glass, and began downing it.

\"Harry, what did I say about getting drunk.\"

\"Mia, you\'re not my mother.\"

\"No, I\'m not, but someone has to look after you,\" Hermione said, \"You haven\'t bothered looking for a wife. The only woman in your life is me.\" Harry chuckled.

\"I have Mrs. Weasley, Ginny, Cho, Lavender ...\"

\"Yeah, but I\'m the only one you see all the time.\"

\"What do you want me to do, Mia? Propose to you?\" he asked, \"I mean, it\'s not like you\'re going to say \"yes\" if I do.\"

\"You\'d propose to me?\"

\"I didn\'t say that,\" he said, \"I said \"if\" I do.\"

\"So, there is a chance you will propose to me,\" she said.

\"What are you saying, Mia?\"

\"I, I, I don\'t know,\" she stammered. Harry sighed.

\"I\'m sorry, I\'m not hungry.\" He drank the rest of his wine before leaving the kitchen. \"I was trying to tell you that I love you, okay?\" Hermione jumped hearing his bedroom door slam, and sobbed softly. She ate alone that night, but set aside some casserole for Harry whenever he did get hungry. She went into her own bedroom, and changed into her red negligee. She crawled into bed, and tried to go to sleep. Harry was up a 230 in the morning, restless and hungry. He pulled on his bottoms, and walked into the kitchen, hoping Hermione set some casserole aside for him. He opened the fridge to find some casserole, and decided to look for something to go with it. As he stood there with the fridge open, he didn\'t hear Hermione walk in.

\"You shouldn\'t do that,\" she said.

\"Do what?\" he asked turning to her. He froze seeing her in red negligee. She had her robe on, but it was open, giving him a perfect view of her cleavage. \"Hermione, what are you wearing?\" Hermione looked down to see she was exposed to Harry, and quickly tied the robe up. I didn\'t know you owned something like that.\"

\"Ginny got for me for my twenty first birthday.\"

\"Ah, of course, Gin.\"

\"Harry, close the fridge.\" Harry pulled the casserole out, and closed the fridge. He put the casserole in the microwave, and punched in the time for it. The microwave powered up, and he turned around to face Hermione.

\"Couldn\'t sleep?\" he asked.

\"Yeah, got a craving for yogurt.\" She got some yogurt out of the fridge, and reached around Harry to get a spoon out the drawer. \'God, he smells good.\' Then she realized he was trained in Occulmency, and prayed he didn\'t hear that.

\"It\'s that new Axe body spray.\" He heard. \"You smell good, too.\" Hermione found herself staring at her best friend, before realizing that she wanted to be more than a best friend. The microwave dinged telling Harry that his casserole was done, but he didn\'t move to the microwave. He moved toward Hermione.

\"Your casserole\'s done,\" she said. He licked his lips causing her to do the same.

\"I\'m not hungry for casserole,\" he said before capturing her lips in a passionate kiss. She put her yogurt down before wrapping her arms around his neck. Harry wrapped his arms around her, backing her into the fridge. They moaned at the contact of their bodies made, and Harry lifted her up. Hermione untied her robe, and Harry pushed if off her shoulders, knocking off a few magnets. They kissed, groped and moaned before they both had enough sense to move to the bedroom. Harry did his best to guide them to the bedroom while still attached to Hermione\'s lips in passionate kisses. However, they missed the bedroom door, and they hit the wall. Hermione moaned in Harry\'s mouth, clawing at his back.
Harry\'s lips left hers, and trailed down her neck. \"Oh, Harry,\" she moaned. His hands cupped her ass, squeezing it delicately. \"Get us to the bedroom already.\" He carried her to his bedroom, and tossed her onto the bed. Hermione unhooked the mechanism on the top of her negligee as Harry pulled his bottoms off. She licked her lips seeing his \"equipment\" again, and he crawled onto the bed. His fingers slid into the hem of her panties, and he pulled them off. He tossed them behind him, and settled in between her legs. He joined their lips together for a passionate kiss before pulling back. His left hand rested under her thigh. \"Harry, I .....\"

\"I know,\" he said. Lifting her leg up, he rested it on his shoulder, and nudged her entrance with his cock. Hermione brought her other leg up around his waist, urging him forward, and he entered her. She let out a gasped moan causing him to stop.

\"Don\'t stop, lover,\" she pleaded. Harry continued to push into her, getting a long strangled moan from the woman beneath him. He let her leg come down from his shoulder when he was finally sheathed in her all the way.

\"Holy Merlin, Mia,\" he moaned, \"I\'m not going to last.\"

\"Then move,\" she said. Harry gasped out a moan as he pulled back, and he thrust back into her. \"Come on, you can do better than that.\" Harry groaned before getting the leverage he needed to really thrust into her. Hermione moaned out closing her legs around Harry\'s waist. He thrust in and out of her, groaning as her heat enveloped him. She pulled him down into a kiss, running her hands through his untidy hair.

\"Oh, I\'m close,\" he said as he nipped at her neck. He groaned when he felt her muscles clutch down on his cock. Hermione squeezed her legs around him, moaning out her orgasm.

\"Harry!\" she cried. Between her legs tightly squeezing and her muscles clenching down on him, Harry thrust a few more times before he came in a moan. He spilled his seed into her before collapsing on top of her. \"Oh, Harry,\" she said, \"That was ....\"

\"Fantastic, I know.\" Hermione chuckled before pulling Harry into a kiss. They moaned passionate feeling up for another round of love making. Harry grunted when Hermione rolled them over to be on top.

\"My turn,\" she said. Harry moaned as she rolled her hips, making him hard.

Five minutes and a blow job later, Harry and Hermione were wrapped up in each other\'s arms basking in the afterglow of their love making. She was on her side curled up next to him with her head on his chest while he had his arm around her. \"We should go to sleep,\" he said.

\"Hmm, waking up in your arms sounds nice,\" she said snuggling deeper into him, if that was possible. They both drifted off to sleep.

Unfortunately for Hermione, she didn\'t wake up in Harry\'s arms. However, she did hear the shower running, and got out of bed. She pulled on something that looked liked Harry\'s robe, and walked into the bathroom. It was nice and steamy thanks to the hot shower Harry was taken. She decided to surprise him, and walked up to the shower. She pulled the curtain back startling Harry who let out a yelp. \"Merlin, you scared the shit out of me.\" She chuckled as she took off the red robe, taking in the hungry look in Harry\'s eyes as he licked his lips.

\"Can I join you?\"

\"You bet your ass you can.\" Hermione yelped out when he pulled her into the shower, and pressed her against the wall. \"We should consider dating each other.\"

\"Harry, we\'re past the dating scene,\" she said, \"We\'ve made love twice already, and working on a third time.\"

\"Maybe we should keep this a secret.\"

\"Why?\"

Well, your girlfriends for one.\"

\"Harry, they\'ll know that if they come within an inch of you, they\'ll have me to answer to.\" Harry growled as he attacked her neck, bringing her closer to his naked body.

\"I love a possessive girlfriend,\" he said. Hermione was getting on the ride of her life.