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Across the Universe	By : Marionne25 Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female Views: 5055 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Author's Notes:

Greetings!!
Yes, yes my dear readers. I'm still very much alive.
Been caught with a lot of sudden work and errands, gym and yoga schedule and classes, a couple of room renovation at home, replacing and updating work documents and ofcourse that lovely writer's block.
I had two weeks allergies as well and I could barely crawl out of bed. I'm getting better now though.
How's everyone?
Old readers, thanks for your patience.
New readers, this is WIP and more to come.
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A03

Chapter VII
Ministry Conference

“Hello, Harry.” Hermione’s slurring words greeted him by the doorway of her apartment at around half past two in the morning.
A man-servant so it would seem held her around the arms as they waited for Harry to open up the door as they rang the bell several times.
His footsteps were quick and it was so obvious that he had been up the whole night waiting for her.
His green eyes took a look at the man that held her and then back at Hermione who was smiling at her with beady eyes that told him everything he needed to know.
“Er – thanks.” Harry said to the man as Hermione fell forward into his arms while the man gave him a look and left without a word.
But before Harry could even ask the man what exactly has happened, Hermione made a sound in her mouth and managed to mutter the word ‘bathroom’ and that alerted Harry what he had to do.
He kicked the door closed and dragged Hermione as fast as he could possibly carry her weighed and drunken form up into the second floor bathroom of her apartment.
He had barely managed to get her inside the bathroom when she waved at him to drop her and she literary crawled over the carpeted floor and into the lower sink where she managed start throwing up just on time.
Harry’s eyes kept darting back at their entrance door where he had been thinking to check if the man was still there to ask several questions but thought better of it.
He stood by the door with arms crossed over his chest as he listened to the sounds Hermione was making as if her internal organs were struggling to crawl out of her.
Words were already forming inside his head on how he was going to start berating her about what she had done for the night and demand why she came home un the ungodly hours.
But he was Harry and she was Hermione so he stood by the doorway without a word, a towel at hand and a pair fresh of pajamas for her ten minutes later.
Hermione had been speaking what sounded like nonsense in between her bathroom business as she made about four absolute rounds in the bathroom.

“Are you about done?” Harry asked in a firm tone although he was secretly worried because it had been a long time since he had seen her this drank without the slightest care in the world.
Her mouth was damped and the ends of her hair was wet from the water’s sink and the stench was giving Harry a headache.
“Oh, Harry.” Hermione said with a sly smile as her blurry visions stared up at his figure by the door. “Nice to see you dropping by. You need anything?”
Harry rolled his eyes at her sleepy and tired smile as she struggled to close the faucet before her.
“Bloody hell.” Harry muttered shaking his head and breathing heavily as he finally entered the bathroom and helped her out.

He patiently seated her up to the edge of her empty bathtub and rolled up his own pants and long-sleeves and patiently began to tend to Hermione.
He took time cleaning her hair and her arms with the hot compress and then took a while to clean her face with the towel because she kept telling him and or rather laughing her story out at him about her night.
He wasn’t sure which he was most irritated about – her getting home in that state or her getting home finding out that she had been with that Loki Laufeyson the whole goddamn night.
Or perhaps both reason.

He had been clear into telling her what she had to do for the time she would meet him and that didn’t seem to end well the way he had hoped for.
After cleaning her, Harry helped her inside the tub where he did only as far as loosened up the buttons and ties of her clothing and told her that he was going to open the shower warm and pour into her the moment she clears herself of her clothes so she can take a bath.
Hermione was still barely there and so without a choice and because he was also slightly irritated of what has happened, Harry opened up the shower and as it sprung to life.
Hermione’s squeals never left him as it echoed all the way down the corridor of her room.
As the door closed and Harry dived away from the door, all he could hear were her merciless promise that he was going to pay for that one the moment she gets back onto her feet.
Irate as he was, Harry left the bathroom with quick steps and a laughing arse.
He could just hear Hermione cursing him off as she struggled with her clothes inside the tub while the water splashed out from the shower.
Harry laughed as he held in his hand the warm compress he used on her and the towel.
He took them downstairs to clear up in the kitchen and only when he was done there did he hear Hermione finish up in the bathroom and walked her way back into her room.
He cleared everything and washed his hands and decided to check on her.
“Hermione?” he asked as he reached her door. “I can sleep over or I can go home.”
He knocked before opening the door and when he did so, she was already in her night gown and was squeezed under her thick blankets and large pillows.
“’Mione?” he whispered entering the room and moving towards her bed.
She was already dead tired and fast asleep.

He sighed heavily, both wonder and irritation ebbing away from him as he kissed her forehead and pulled the sheets over her.
He knew that she was tired and tired of the routinary life she had chosen for herself.
And he couldn’t hate her for doing this tonight or any other night.
But he had to make sure that if this happens again, someone had to be responsible for it.
With a slightly disappointed and defeated heart tonight, Harry walked out of the room as quiet as he could to clear up the dinner that had been waiting for Hermione for hours in the kitchens that she was never going to be able to eat anyway.

“Not a fucking word.” Hermione warned Harry as she opened the door of her apartment.
She was in full Ministry Worker clothes, her work bag at the other hand and shades firmly placed over her swollen eyes filled with dark circles around the lids.
Harry stood by her apartment door with a small cup of coffee and bagel at the other hand.
He was smiling at her with all the memories of the previous night still fresh and intact from both of their minds.

“I didn’t say anything.” Harry said with a hint of amusement in his tone as he held her with her small bag while she placed the wards all over her apartment to secure it.
Hermione finished up and gave him a look from under her shades and grabbed her bag and the bagel from Harry’s hand.
It was her hang-over comfort food on mornings like that and as irate as she was with Harry’s expression, she was grateful that he never forgot to be the good friend despite of it all.

Harry followed her down the steps of her apartment and walked a few steps behind her while he tucked her bag under his arms and held her coffee in the other hand while she tried to quickly finish off her large bagel with butter and cream cheese as they both hurried for work.

“Am I allowed to ask later in the afternoon?” Harry asked him with a snigger in her tone.
“No.” Hermione flatly said as she finished half her breakfast. “Not later, not tonight, not ever.”
“Right.” Harry quietly nodded at her knowing she would also reveal the night that was anyway. “So any luck in telling this Laufey off?”
“I told you I’m not in the mood to talk about it.” Hermione said feeling the blush climb all the way to her face as the slow recollection of things and conversations she willingly exchanged with Mr. Loki Laufeyson.
The man was endearing and persuasive indeed and she was blatantly not ready for that kind of approach from a man.
He had Viktor Krum who had always been masculine outside but a certain gentleman, Ron had been insensitive and yet caring in a way, Harry was always sweet and warm but he always stood out as a very close friend.
She dated a wizard or two and they were always seemingly intimidated by her intelligence and place in the society that the relationship didn’t really go anywhere and she found them, well – boring. .
But this Loki Laufeyson.
No, they weren’t dating but his mind and his whole being seemed of a challenge to her.
He was a gentleman but he knew what he wanted and obviously knew how to get it or rather, how to get his way around it if his first try doesn’t work.
And that was what made her even more curious about his personality.
He wasn’t from town and he obviously didn’t know her history as part of the Golden Trio that saved the whole Wizarding World and he certainly doesn’t know the honors she graduated with at Hogwarts and that places him in a neutral position.
He couldn’t jump onto conclusion about her nor judge her for he didn’t knew her that well and in that way, Hermione knew that he’d be as blunt and as honest to her as he could possibly be.
And he was.
And that exactly was how he was picking her brains and attention altogether.

“Mr. Potter.” an Auror quickly greeted them both as the lift opened up to the conference floor. “Goodmorning. And to you too, Miss Granger.”
They both looked at the wizard who looked slightly harassed at early eight in the morning and was seemingly anticipating their arrival.
“Is everything alright?” Harry quickly asked seeing the man’s expression and actions.
“Oh, yes.” he replied. “But the Minister is looking for both of you.”
“Both of us?” Hermione asked wondering what Kingsley may need her for.
Unless it was another emergency, the Ministry usually left things and details with Harry to be relied to her.
“Yes.” the wizard replied. “A meeting is already being held at the main room. They’re waiting for the both of you. Heads of Departments.”
“But I didn’t get a notice.” Harry quickly said as they paced a little faster this time.
“Oh, no.” the wizard said. “It was only this morning and it isn’t exactly an emergency. The Minister only wanted all present Heads to be in the meeting. They’ve only just began. Breakfast and coffee are being served around.”
“This is regarding what?” Hermione asked the wizard with slight irritation in her tone at being informed for something important as this early in the morning and yet there she was, forcibly dragging her hangover self to her workplace.
“Oh, well. I can’t really discuss as I’m not sure of all the details. I’m sure you two will be filled in for all the details you need.”

They stared at the wizard as they halted outside the double doors of the main hall.
They thanked him and Harry stared at Hermione, waiting for her to gather herself altogether for the meeting.
“You alright?” Harry concernedly asked her. “I can excuse you if need be.”
“Oh please, Harry Potter..” Hermione haughtily said removing her shades and pushing her hair behind her back and then straightening her uniform. “We’ve battled crazy, rode a dragon, travelled in time and don’t forget we haunted down Horcruxes in the middle of nowhere. What exactly could I possibly not do at this very moment?”

Harry smiled back at her as they both soon found out leaving Hermione with wide eyes and a dry mouth.
Harry had turned the knobs and opened the door for the two of them only to find themselves to be greeted by a room filled with Ministry Department Heads and the Ministery of Magic himself talking and seemingly enjoying his conversation with a formally dressed looking Mr. Loki Laufeyson whose eyes slowly turned up the door to greet Hermione’s as if he knew that she was about to arrive, greeting her with expressive eyes as if they shared a secret that the rest of the people in the room knew not.
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