#owl librarian

for @owl-librarian​ 349 words Rated T Aster - Being charmed by someone unanticipated

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“Do you come here often?” A voice sounded from behind her.

Hermione spun, realizing belatedly that it likely wasn’t a great idea given her propensity for falling in heels, and proceeding to stumble directly into the speaker’s arms.

Luckily for her, they were strong arms and she didn’t have to worry very much about the fall.

“Oh!” she exclaimed, laughing nervously as she gripped Oliver Wood for balence.

“Sorry! I didn’t mean to startle you, Granger,” he said, smiling widely. “Just trying to be charming. Did it work?”

“Clearly. You swept me off my feet,” she countered.

He laughed. “I did, didn’t I? Didn’t realize I was good at that.” He made sure she was steady on her feet and then reached up to straighten his tie in a very debonair way.

“To answer your question. I see you at every one of these Ministry dos, so what do you think?” she asked.

“We should just start coming together to these things, you know?”

“Together?” she asked.

“Right. We always end up that way. Talking.”

“If you can call small talk over the spider puffs ‘talking’,” she replied.

“Talk is part of small talk, Granger. You’d think somone as clever as you would realize that.” He grinned and she laughed.

“Fair enough.”

“So what do you say?”

“About what?”

“Be my witch for the evening? You can field away all the questions about my divorce with that lovely smile of yours and I can make Ron even more jealous than he already is.”

Hermione looked over her shoulder to see the wizard in question across the room, Lavender on his arm and glaring daggers in her direction. “Merlin’s beard, Ronald,” she chuckled to herself. It would serve him right. “Alright.”

OIiver offered his arm and Hermione took it. “I promise I’m no slouch. Even though I never have a date to these things,” he assured her, tucking her hand into his as it wound around the crook of her elbow and she was surprised by the heat that rose in her cheeks at the gesture.

heliotrope; have you ever been in a castle?

If ruined ones count, yes (Dunluce Castle in Antrim).

wisteria; whom do you admire and why?

Ursula Le Guin has been a role model ever since I was old enough to read her work--not just because she’s a writer of genius, but because of the way she lived her life and thought deeply about creativity, feminism, the environment, society...

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“I need a T-Bone. Medium rare, please,” Darcy called into the kitchen.

“You’re so polite,” Val mused, a smirk gracing her lips as she slapped a steak down on the grill.

“You’re doing me a favor,” Darcy replied, as if that explained anything at all.

“Nah. We’re feeding the entirely-too-rich, who proceed to tip you pennies while I make an hourly wage. You have every right to be rude to me,” the other woman said.

“What good would that do?”

“What good does being polite get you?”

“Your number, maybe?” Darcy grinned.

Val laughed and flipped the steak. “That’s a good one. I’ll have to remember it.”

“Why? Aren’t you giving me your number?” The server winked and Val almost lost her breath at the sight of her. Damn, she was cute.

“Yeah, yeah. I’ll give it to you. Thought it was a line.” She shrugged.

Darcy giggled. “It was, but I got what I wanted.” She winked again and turned around to start fixing a side salad.

4. how did your elementary school teachers describe you?

Quiet, bright, not very social! I think I got dinged on a few “plays well with others” sections on report cards. Praised often for my reading skills. Once terrified my kindergarten teacher by convincing her that my parents would homeschool me after she wrote my name on the board for talking during class. (It is, hilariously and ever so sadly, the only time I ever got in trouble at school, though it’s not the only time I broke rules. I just did it more quietly after that. ;))

9. favorite smell in the summer?

When the mock orange blooms and the whole yard is just drenched in the scent of it. Also, the ocean, though that smells nice the whole year round.

30. places that you find sacred?

Buildings with good acoustics. The ocean. Waterfalls. Quiet forests.

Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant

So, Show Business is PERFECT for these two. Though obviously it’s a show with talking wolves or werewolves and not dragons, for theme.

Derek Hale, Serious Actor, unexpectedly signs on to do voice acting for--let’s say a movie, shall we? I don’t know if Derek has the patience for television. Anyway, it’s some indie folktaley animated film where the main romance happens to be LGBT, and everyone is salivating over it already.

And Stiles Stilinski, intern in the studio (Peter Hale’s studio, let’s be real), is excited, man! It looks cool, maybe it’s based on a comic book or something so he knows the basis, and he knows the script pretty well, so when the guy who’s supposed to star across from Derek breaks contract to do an action movie, he feels sad about it, and he maybe talks/mocks along with the audition, and Peter Hale is like “... You. Complete unknown who wants to be a scriptwriter someday. Congratulations, you’re starring in a movie.”