Length: about 525 words (I say it'll suffice...)

Disclaimer: Actually, the idea of HP came to me first and JKR simply STOLE it from me!! ... Okay, maybe some of you will be doubting this since she began writing back in 1990 and I was approximately one year old at that time... But you have to consider that I was a really intelligent one-year-old!! ... You still don't believe me, do you? -sigh- Fine, I'll admit it. She didn't steal the idea from me, JKR really thought it up and wrote HP all by herself. Are you happy now?? (And to be honest, I wasn't even an intelligent one-year-old... god, I feel so depressed all of a sudden. -.-)

Author's Notes: So this series of vignettes actually ended with the last chapter, but still I wrote an epilogue since I thought that... well, duh, I simply had to! It was required, by myself that is, and I wanted just for once to write something lighter (in this chaptered fic). Therefore now, I wish you fun with reading (because this time, you'll probably really have it!)...

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9. Promise #2 - Love

He loved her. Everything about her. Every freckle on her nose that she would show when unmorphed, every strand of her natural brown hair, every little bruise on her knees and arms and every character trait of hers; her usual happiness and cheerfulness, sometimes in the most unsuitable situations, mixed with occasional self-consciousness and silent pondering or even bitter resentment as well as the quite remarkable sense of sarcasm of hers, both lately having been directed at him though he knew that he had definitely deserved those. There was no way of capturing all the little things that he loved about her, but gladly it was still enough to make it obvious that he did, indeed, love her.

However most of all, he loved her laugh. The way her mouth curved up, the way she crinkled her nose and at the same time pinched her eyes shut. Not to mention the adorable sound of it; light, carefree, soothing in some way… It was heaven, or possibly another seven steps ahead.

So when she cried out for him to stop, though she could barely utter the words whilst shrieking out loud and giggling and sniggering in the process, he couldn't resist the temptation and simply kept going on, trailing along his preferred paths by placing his lips to the sensitive spot right under her left earlobe and in the curve of her neck and then downwards, downwards…

Well certainly, humour was a wonderful means of expression but it had to stop somewhere, preferably at a time when things got a little bit more serious. So soon enough, her laughing was replaced by long sighs and outright moans and begging for more. If it was possible, he loved these even more.

However, there was one thing troubling his mind still. He couldn't help but constantly wonder how he could have resisted her this long, thinking about the last three months and what they could've done together all this time if only he hadn't decided on being such a stubborn stupid git, as she had teasingly put it some ten or twenty minutes ago.

He had no answer to this.

But he knew that he wouldn't, couldn't, put up a fight ever again, especially when she was concerned. Because clearly, it wasn't worth it. And clearly, on the other hand, it was worth it to see her laugh with all her heart, or better yet moan in pleasure with all her heart at his caresses. Clearly, it was worth it to promise never to leave her again for she had stated this to be the most brilliant words she had ever heard him say. He supposed that she would agree all along to his musings if he would tell her about them although it was hard to figure out whether she would even be able to answer to anything at all, at least not right now…

But one thing, he was sure, remained clearer than all of his musings altogether: he should've known from the start that resistance to love was an awful stupid thing to even try. And thank Merlin he had come to understand this just in time...

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Did you love the fic? Nah, probably not love it, but did you like it? You shouldn't even try to resist reviewing, because it really is a wonderful thing to do...

For the record: This epilogue-ish chapter is dedicated both to Bookish Brownie (not because you dedicated a chapter to me which, of course, I really truly appreciated, but I wanted to dedicate this chapter of mine to you from the beginning anyway - we had the same thought there!) and Flo M Nimo who have been reviewing almost all of my fics and were very kind in doing so! Thanks a lot you two!! ;-D (And thanks even more to Bookish Brownie for obvious reasons now. Still can't believe it...)

So finally, this is the end, and finally, I'm done with the whole storyline. Oh... is this a tear in my eye? ... Anyway, thanks to everybody who has been reading both Vignettes and Vignettes #2. And of course thanks to everybody who even enjoyed reading. I'm happy now! (And happy Jord is always a good fella!)

At the end, lets have a little game of "Choose your favourite sentence (out of the whole fic)"! Mine is in this chapter (or epilogue or whatever it is) here: It was heaven, or possibly another seven steps ahead. I somehow love this sentence, it creates such a beautiful picture in my mind! Do you have a favourite sentence? It's okay if not, but if you actually have, please tell me! ;-D (As you can see, I love choosing favourite sentences out of fics. Authors whose stories I have reviewed so far might tell...)

See these stars above shining so beautiful? Oh, it's Sirius! (and Bellatrix since I do love her despite her lack of sanity... and despite the fact that JKR claims her to have killed two of my favourite characters in HP...-.-); bye bye und tschüß