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Andromeda padded out to the back garden, eyes focused on the young woman sitting at the little picnic table beneath the soft glow of the setting sun. It had become tradition for them to spend their weekend evenings out in the back garden, especially now that they were slowly approaching fall weather, and it would soon be too chilly at night for them to sit outside. She made her way to the bench and sat beside Hermione, offering her a warm mug of tea and putting the tray of cheese and crackers down between them.
“Mhmm… Vanilla and honey tea.” Hermione sighed, inhaling the sweet signatures that wafted up towards her nose. “I love how you make it. Just the right hint of sweetness for my tastes.”
“Anything for you, dearest.” Andy hummed in response, taking a sip of her own tea before popping a cube of cheddar cheese into her mouth.
“Is Teddy staying with Cissy tonight?”
“Mmhm… Well, Cissy for a bit, then he’s going over to stay with Harry for the night. The poor boy so desperately wanted Teddy to come over, and I know Cissy has a hard time getting him to stay in bed at night, so she happily agreed to let Harry take him.” Andy chuckled, thinking of her poor little sister attempting to get Teddy to bed. “The last time she had him overnight, he had shifted his hair color six times, grew horns and a tail, then morphed his mouth into a beak. Poor Cissy hasn’t offered to keep him overnight since then.”
Both of them laughed at Narcissa’s misfortune of handling Teddy on one of his ‘change days’, as he was so prone to calling the incidents, but they had managed to convince her to take him on calm days, such as this, even if it was only for a few hours at best. Thankfully, Harry had rushed in to save their night together by offering to take Teddy from Cissy.
They curled up together on the bench, Hermione draping her right leg over Andy’s left, and leaning her head on Andy’s shoulder, smiling as her wife placed a kiss to the crown of her head. Andy placed her cheek against the spot, inhaling the subtle hint of coconut that still lingered from her shower earlier, calming her as they sat and watched the sunset.
“It is beautiful tonight… A little chilly, but nothing a few layers and a warming spell can’t fix.” Andy smiled, placing a kiss to the top of Hermione’s head as the young woman snuggled up closer to her. “And body heat, I suppose.”
Hermione chuckled then, tilting her head to gaze up at Andy, taking her lips in a tender kiss before pulling back just slightly. She studied her love for a few moments, taking in the light hint of a blush on her cheeks, from the breeze or their kiss, Hermione wasn’t sure, but thought she was beautiful all the same. Her pale blue eyes, so much like her sister’s, yet all her own. Her defined cheeks and perfectly shaped eyebrows, they way her eyes glistened in sunlight and moonlight. Andromeda was everything Hermione could ever hope for when it came to looks, but she was beyond intelligent and kept Hermione in conversation for hours on end, offering her book recommendations and teaching her new spells that only the Sacred Twenty-Eight had known. She buried her face in the crook of Andy’s neck, settling in against her lover with a sense of vulnerability she hadn’t shown in many years.
“You’re so relaxed tonight, darling.” Andy hummed, reaching up to brush Hermione’s wild curls back from her face and behind her ear. “It’s been a while since I’ve seen you as such… Well, except for when we’re in the confines of our bedroom.”
“Andromeda Eliana Black!” Hermione gasped, tucking her face closer to Andromeda’s neck, earning a fit of laughter from the middle Black sister. “Don’t tease me like that!”
“Oh, darling, you make it so easy to do!” She replied, wiping at her eyes as tears began to trickle down her cheeks from laughing so hard. “Come now, don’t make such a face. I can feel you frowning against my neck.”
“No… You’re being far too cheeky for me not to frown.” Hermione mumbled out, desperately trying to hide her flushed cheeks.
“Love, I can feel the blush on your face.” This brought a whole new bout of laughter from Andy at poor Hermione’s expense.
“Fine!” The young woman replied, pulling away from Andy and facing the elder witch with her flushed cheeks darkening to an even darker shade of crimson.
Before Andy could comment on her blush, the young witch closed the distance between them, taking Andy’s lips in a hard, heavy kiss, pushing the elder woman back until she was balancing on the bench by supporting herself with one hand as the other gripped the edge of the table. Said hand soon left the table and tangled itself in thick, brunette locks, pulling the young witch closer and deepening the kiss they shared. By the time they broke apart, Hermione was sitting on Andromeda’s lap, cheeks flaring with her blush, and gripping the front of Andy’s shirt in her hands.
“I think it’s a good thing Harry took Teddy for the night.” Andy huffed, biting her bottom lip for a moment as the intensity of the kiss slowly left her body. “I don’t think it would do him any length of good to see his grandmother and her girlfriend making out so intensely.”
“Well then… Shall we take this to our room?”
Andy smiled at the question, nodding her head, and tossing her own brunette locks about her shoulders as she pulled Hermione to her feet and dragged her towards their room. Hermione stopped them for just a moment so she could grab a couple water bottles from the refrigerator, then continued behind Andy until she closed their bedroom door behind them, shielding their bare bodies away from the world, even if it was just for the night.