Blurred Visions of Tomorrow

Christmas with the Blacks

Mild smut

A few weeks later-

"No, Hermione. I'm not just packing up and leaving MY house." Bella and Hermione had been going back and forth about this very sensitive issue for the past three weeks since Hermione received that letter. "I'm not going to be threatened into leaving my personal space." Bella had always been stubborn but her reluctance to leave took it to a whole new level. "I don't get scared, pet. I ...do the scaring." Bella said, emphasizing every word as it came out of her mouth ending in her signature smirk.

"Merlin Bella. Are you even hearing yourself?" Hermione got up and walked over to the big picture window in the library. "Someone has been here in our home. They know where we live! No matter how scary you think you are, I am scared, Bella."

"I won't let anything happen to you. Nobody messes with my family. I'll kill anyone who comes for anyone that I love." Bella was trying to calm Hermione down but it was a losing battle."Plus there haven't been any more threats." Hermione whipped her head around so fast that Bella knew she had said the wrong thing.

"How can you say that?" Hermione fumed.

"I protected the manor, pet. My wards are strong." Bella said, sticking her chin further into the air.

"That's not enough." Hermione practically growled in frustration. "You don't get it. They were here, Bella. Where we live and sleep. Just because there hasn't been an active threat doesn't mean it won't come when we least expect it."

"What do you suggest we do then?" Bella asked, matching Hermione's frustrated tone.

Hermione didn't miss a beat, "we leave."

"Oh we leave? And where would we go exactly?" Bella crossed her arms over her chest.

"Anywhere, Bella." Hermione sighed. "Harry offered for us to stay with him."

"Grimmauld Place?" Bella shouted. "Are you mad?! I'm not staying there. Nothing will get me to stay there."

"As long as we continue to stay here just know that we won't be having sex."

Bella narrowed her eyes, "you wouldn't dare."

At that moment, Hermione broke into a shit eating grin and infuriating smile, "oh but I would. Try me, Bella. I can withhold sex. I'm not sex driven like you. I can hold out for as long as I need. Could be days. Could be months. Maybe years."

"Years?!" Bella shouted. "You can't possibly go that long." Bella rolled her eyes looking unamused.

"I'll go as long as I need."

"You can't do that to me. Frequent sex is in the unwritten girlfriend contract."

"The unwritten girlfriend contract?" Hermione laughed. "That's not a thing, Bella."

Bella waved her hand dismissively, "semantics, pet."

Hermione crossed her arms over her chest and stomped her foot, "we are going and that's that."

"Oh really? That's that?"

"Yes. For once, that is that. I'm putting my foot down and I'm getting my way this time."

Bella stared at her girlfriend in disbelief. "And if I refuse to go with you?"

Hermione conjured her and Bella's suitcases that she had packed weeks ago. "If you refuse to go then you are going to be awfully lonely here in this big Manor all alone." Hermione shrunk the suitcases down and put them in her purse. "Twiggy?" Twiggy popped into the room holding Crookshanks. "Are you ready to go?" Twiggy nodded. "Well, Bella, Twiggy, Crooks and I are leaving. Are you coming or staying here?"