Truth or Dare ✔️

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Hermione's eyes fluttered open and she squealed as she threw her arms around his waist, completely disrupting his reading which normally, he wouldn't take kindly to. She
didn't expect to find him there in the middle of the morning, but she was nearly delirious with happiness that he was. Her body completely pulled the paper from his grasp and he chuckled.

"Good morning Sunshine," he said, smiling warmly. "Feeling better?"

"A bit. I've a raging headache though."

"No surprise there. Bet you won't do that again any time soon, eh?"

She shook her head. "No Sir."

"Good," he said nodding as he reached for something on a tray nearby. "Been keeping this warm for you. Here, eat it." He handed her a piece of dry toast. "I ate the eggs. You do need the protein, but well...I got hungry and didn't want to leave you. My luck you would have awakened whilst I was gone"

She whined and clamped her mouth shut as she shook her head.

"Come on, don't be whinger, eat it! Oh, and ya might want to slip into your jimjams, Remus and Tonks both want to see you. They've both been peeking in at you all morning."

She rolled her eyes and tore at the toast with her mouth, causing crumbs to fall onto the sheet. She laughed when he stared at her with amusement.

"You're incredibly fortunate that I fancy you Missy...I'd hafta kick ye out of m'bed!"

Of course, she huffed a giggle, causing more crumbs to fall to the sheet.

"Oh now you're just...Oooooo!" He moved toward her as if to grab her, but she squealed and rose from the bed quickly only to stop momentarily as both of her hands rose to cradle her head and she sat back down. Sirius crawled over the mattress and nodded. "Uh huh. Careful, Love."

She groaned her lament as he rested his chin on her bare shoulder.

"Yeah, this is gonna haunt ya for a while."

She turned her head and nodded. "Please don't let me do that again? Promise me?"

He chuckled. "Alright. Come on, lets get you into...something." He stood and looked for anything that might belong to her, then remembering that she came up to his room donned in a bath towel. He walked over to his dresser and withdrew a clean tee shirt and unfolded it and then helped her into it.

She scooted over to his side of the bed and attempted to wipe away the crumbs from the dry toast and he cleared this throat. She looked up to him and she moved out of his way as he waved his wand; seconds later, the crumbs were no more and she smiled.

"Ah it's good to be Wizard," he said as he grinned. "What's say that I go fetch them before they both go bonkers with worry?"

She looked into his eyes and nodded finally.

"Just tell him the truth, Hermione. The truth is always a dish best served as soon as possible, you know that. No matter how heated. And if it burns, so be it," he offered.

She nodded again as she lowered her eyes and sighed. "You're right, of course," she said quietly. "Just, stay with me please?"

He nodded and smiled as he kissed her brow. "Back in two shakes of a puppy's tail!"

Minutes later, Tonks and Remus were sitting on the edge of the bed. Tonks took her hands in her and kissed them, tears in her eyes. "I'm so happy that you're all right," she said gently. "We were both so worried!"

"I know, I'm sorry." She looked up at Sirius who had remained by the opened door.

"Well, you two obviously need to talk it out so I'm going to head back downstairs. I only wanted to see for myself that you were alright." Tonks rose from the edge of the bed and embraced Hermione and kissed her cheek, and Hermione's eyes filled with tears quickly as she held on. Sirius felt like she was stalling, that she really didn't want to confront her former Professor and he breathed in deeply and sighed hard. She looked up at him and saw his eyes wandering around the room and when his gaze finally rested on her again, she looked at him with pleading eyes...She wished that he could tell Remus her thoughts because undoubtedly, he'd voiced them to the man before and was probably quite practiced.