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She ran her hands up his chest and to the back of his neck, tangling them in his hair: her favorite tether. His grip around her waist pulled her as close to him as possible as one of his hands traveled up her spine, pausing in the middle of her back. His face turned the fraction required to make eye contact. A low noise emanated from his throat before he found his words.
“You’re not wearing a bra,” he said. It wasn’t a question.
“Who did you say was the obvious one?” Hermione asked in response. She leaned her face into his neck, needing to bolster her courage with the taste of his skin and a break from the silver in his stare. “And the oblivious one?” she continued, breathing the question against his neck. Despite the growing darkness, her entire body felt alight, thrumming with the heat of a star all her own. Together, they could make a constellation.
She placed one of her hands on his, the one perched at her waist. She guided him lower, over the curve of her hip and muscles in her thigh she couldn’t help but flex at the contact. Lower still, she brought his hand to the hem of her dress before beginning their ascent again. This time, with his fingers trailing along her bare flesh, Hermione had to distract herself by kissing his neck to prevent her breath from wavering wildly against him. From her vantage point, she could see that he’d stopped breathing altogether.
She guided his hand along the skin beneath her dress, along the outside of her thigh until it came to rest at her hip. She saw the moment the recognition hit him. He swallowed, fingers immediately flexing, digging into her skin like a man dangling from the edge, his grip and nothing else keeping him from falling.
“You told me not to let Pansy pick my lingerie,” she said into his ear, feeling a thrill of power replacing the nervous stutters behind her heart. “So I opted not to wear any at all.”
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A perfect New Year gift to start a Beginning after 2020 End, special for @mightbewriting by @aiivytx.
Congratulation for B&E's beautiful wrap up Amanda! I hope you to know that waiting for B&E and translate Wait and Hope is my favorite things to do between life full of missions. I love how you plants hope into words, and how you pictured my perfect Draco and Hermione.
This scene is my favourite from Wait and Hope. When she know that she love him all over again. And GOD! my lovely @aiivytx bring it to life, made it extremely fascinating. Thank you Ái, I love you 😘😘
And Happy new Year, Amanda!
