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"Uma..."
Uma turned around startled from her place next to the counter with various baking supplies scattered on top. There was practically no light considering that it was past 3:00 am and she didn't want to wake anybody. So it was hard to make out the figure who had just arrived but she undoubtedly knew who it was the second he had said her name.
"Hi" Uma said acknowledging the person who had just walked into the kitchen
"You left me"
"I didn't mean to wake you, sorry Harry."
"S'okay, watcha making?" Harry asked rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
"Cookies. I was hungry and I couldn't sleep"
"Can I have some?"
"Yeah... When they're done, it's going to be a while"
"Or I could eat them now" Harry said sliding up next to her, dipping his finger into her mixed cookie dough.
"Harry! You didn't even wash your hands"
"My hands haven't been anywhere out of the ordinary."
"They were a lot of places earlier tonight before you went to sleep" Uma shot back with an implicit tone
"Relax I washed my hands in the bathroom before I came out here" Harry said rolling his eyes.
"Mhmm, sure you did, can you just get a pan and wax paper, while you're here make yourself useful."
"Whatever you need my dear." Harry replied before dipping his finger back in the dough.
"You don't get any if you keep this up." Uma told him
In response Harry wiped the excess dough from his finger across her cheek. Which in turn got a gasp out of Uma. Harry wasn't expecting it when she took out the whisk and flung way more dough on him than the small amount he put on her.
Harry wasn't even mad he just smirked and took Uma in a hug sufficiently getting cookie dough on her clothes.
"That wasn't fair" Uma said as she struggled to be released from his grip. "You're not wearing a shirt, it'll be easier for you to clean up"
"Oh my bad, you want me to help clean you up?" Harry asked
Though it sounded like an innocent apology and suggestion for help Uma knew better. Before she knew it Harry gently took her face in his hands and licked her cheek getting off the cookie dough but leaving her with a wet cheek instead.
"You're the actual worst, can you go back to sleep now?" Uma told him as she wiped her face with her hand
"You loved it" Harry said smiling returning to his mission to get a pan and wax paper
"I tolerate it because I love you, but I'm starting to rethink that last part."
"If only it were that easy, I've got you hooked"
"I'm more hooked on cookies and now I have less thanks to you" Uma said glaring at Harry through the corner of her eye as she started to roll the dough into little balls.
"This might sound crazy but I think you're gonna be okay"
"You're right, it sounds crazy."
"Oh no then, I might have to do something about that, we don't want you to be unwell due to the lacking cookie."
"Yes I suppose you will. Preheat the oven for me will you?"
"Of course"
Uma finished up and put the pan in the oven. Harry already cleaning up and washing dishes. Uma came up behind him and wrapped him in a hug.
"I love you too the fullest again" she muttered against his skin
Harry huffed a laugh "you never didn't"
"You know me too well. And so confident" Uma smirked
"Well if there's one thing I'm confident of it's you" Harry said drying his hands and turning around to reciprocate her embrace.
The cookies baked for about an hour, the pair was deadly tired by the time they finished. Maybe baking at 3 am with no sleep isn't a good idea. It wasn't going to stop them from eating about a dozen cookies between the both of them though. Every last crumb.
Uma slept like the dead but unfortunately not for that long. She looked at the clock to see she had slept for about five hours and it was mid-morning. More unpleasantly she found herself alone. She got up to find Harry who was in the kitchen standing over what seemed to be a plate. He saw her and held out the plate which had three cookies a a decorative flower.
"The lacking cookie plus more!" He said handing her the plate
"When did you do this?" Uma asked in shock
"I don't know, I started like an hour and a half ago"
"So you didn't sleep."
"I slept a little, plus I slept some last night"
Uma eyed him sceptically as she took a bite of one of the cookies on the plate. "This is amazing, you didn't need to do this though"
"I couldn't risk it, you said you wouldn't be okay without it."
"You're perfect"
"Only for you"