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Desire Path (Harry/Hermione, G)
Title: Desire Path
Pairing: Harry/Hermione
Rating: G
Word Count: 240
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: Not mine. JKR's.
Summary: Hermione explains. Harry just kisses.
Notes: A teenyfic gift for heather11483 from inell who requested sweet and romantic Harry/Hermione, summer, stars, desire.

It was finally, gloriously, summer, full-blown summer with its birdsong and its late sunsets, its lemon fizzes and its sunburnt noses. Harry wanted nothing more than to keep kissing the tip of Hermione's own sunburnt nose, though she turned away and laughed whenever he tried.

Harry reached for her hand as they walked the worn path in the woods, stars just beginning to show, twinkling down upon them, peeping through the leaves of the trees. They twined their fingers together and neither of them talked for quite some time, both content just to listen to their footsteps and the sounds of the natural world as it started to fall asleep.

Hermione's voice broke the stillness. "This is called a desire path, did you know that?"

Harry stopped walking. "What is?" He pulled her to him, enveloped her in his arms, and tipped his head back, breathing in the night air.

"This," she said, "this path we're walking. A sort of path of least resistance, worn over time by people or animals who know where they want to go and the quickest way to--"

He kissed her to stop her from explaining further.

When their kiss ended, he touched his forehead to hers and managed, before she realised what he was doing, to press one quick kiss to the very tip of her sunburnt nose.

"There should be one between me and you, then," he told her, and he meant it.