Save The Last Dance For Me

Chapter 14 - Walk Me Down The Middle

"Harry?" She rolled over so that she was facing him on the bed. Her fingers tracing lazy patterns on his chest. "Harry?"

"Mmm," his arms wrapped tighter around her slender waist as he pulled her flush against him, "yes dear?"

"We have to get up. You told Hermione that we would join them for breakfast this morning, and as much as I would like to torture my son by showing up late and engaged, we need to get going."

"I vote for torturing him. That way we can stay in bed longer." He cut off her protests by kissing her, slowly working his way down her neck to the hollow spot right above her collar bone. He placed sloppy, wet, open mouthed kisses there before blowing softly on her skin, causing shivers to course through her body.

Cissa laughed and pushed him off of her, climbing quickly out of the bed before he could capture her in his embrace again. "Come on you." She picked up his boxers from the previous day and threw them at him. "Get out of bed and find the rest of our things from yesterday. We can't just leave our clothes strung through the house."

He pulled the boxers from his head where they had landed and swung his feet over the edge of the bed, following her into the bathroom. "Why not? It's our house."

"Because we are civilized!" She swatted him with her hair brush before using magic to set her hair and makeup for the day.

He watched her in the mirror as they both readied themselves for their morning out. He was done long before she was, and with a peck to her cheek he headed down to find some coffee before they left. When she joined him down stairs he smiled. He loved her in jeans and today she was wearing the same outfit that she had worn for their first date. Dark jeans, emerald blouse and silver accents, her new ring fit in the ensemble perfectly.

He met her at the door and took her hand in his. He lifted it to his lips and kissed each of her knuckles. Pausing longer at her ring finger than any of the others. "I have the most beautiful fiancée in the world."

She laughed, "Let's go handsome." She tried to pull her hand away, but he twined his fingers through hers tugging her with him as they appeared in a deserted alley behind the café they had agreed upon.

Harry dropped her hand and snuck his arm around her waist as they headed for the main entrance. When they stepped through the door they immediately caught sight of the other couple sitting near one of the windows. They slipped into the other side of the booth, "Good morning you two."

"Good morning Mother, Harry." Draco nodded at them and shot Harry a look asking if he had asked for Cissa's hand yet. He smiled when he saw Harry lean down and whisper in his mother's ear and she casually lifted her hands from under the table and placed them in plain view.

"Narcissa!" Hermione reached out across the table and grabbed the older woman's hand. "That is gorgeous!" She lifted Cissa's hand so that she could look closer at the ring. "It blends both you perfectly!" Cissa's laughter rang out as Hermione finally relinquished her hand. The brunette turned to Harry. "It really is wonderful, where did you get it?"

"It's one of a kind, handmade just for her." He smiled proudly when Cissa gasped. He hadn't told her that yet.

"You didn't tell me that! You had it made?"

"Of course. I got the gems out of the vaults, Potter rubies, and a Black diamond and emeralds. Then Andi and I went to a muggle jeweler and she helped me with the setting. I was going to ask Hermione, but I figured Andi's taste would be closer."