"Oh my merlin, sit still." Theo demanded Juniper, her figure moving relentlessly next to him, not being able to sit still. Fleur was finished up getting her egg, the stands cheering for her. Juniper was well aware it would either be Harry or Cedric to be the next to preform the task.

"I can't help it, Theodore." Juniper said as she smacked him upside the head, leg bouncing as she began popping her fingers, "Damn, my fingers can't be popped anymore."

Blaise held out his hand for her to start popping his fingers, which she had.

"You're boyfriends gonna do fine." Theo said as he shook Juniper slightly, "He's got great muscles."

"Strong looking legs." Blaise added in with a knowing look.

"Bet there's a nice set of abs under there too." Theo pointed out as Juniper flushed and nodded her head in agreement.

"Bet so." she said with a sigh, the pair of boys laughed at her words, "I hope my advice was okay, what if Charlie Weasley was lying to me because his mum hates me?"

"Who cared what bloodtraitors thing?" Blaise said as Juniper elbowed him with a huff, "I'm just saying."

"Well, stop just saying." she snapped at him, popping his finger rather hard as he yelped, "I would have been dead if Ginny hadn't caught me that time I fell off my broom."

"Oh, you mean the time you were trying to balance on your broom, twenty feet in the air, in the middle of a Quidditch game that caused Slytherin to loose?" Theo asked her as Blaise hit him from behind Juniper as the wild haired girl nodded her head toward him.

"Yes, that time." she agreed, "No one knew that spell but her, would you rather me be dead? Hum?"

"Course not, June." Blaise said as he put a hand around her. Dumbledore announced Cedrics name as Juniper let out a scream, Theo gave a apologetic look to the ones around them with a small sigh.

"Stay calm, smile, show a little leg, go on." Theo went on as Juniper slapped him, inhaling as she stood up, holding onto the railing on the bleachers in fear. Her leg was bouncing horribly as she saw him, waving toward Hufflepuff while Hagrid went to retrieve his dragon. Cedric scanned Slytherins stands, eyes focusing on Juniper when his eyes found her. He smiled beautifully with a wave. She waved back.

"Blow him a kiss!" Blaise encouraged, Juniper flushed as she turned back to the Hufflepuff, slapping her hand on her mouth and pretending to throw it at him. Theo slapped his forehead. Cedric laughed as he pretended to catch it, before blowing her a much gentler one back.

"June, you better sit down." Theo said as he took notice of the dragon being brought out. She looked back at him nervously, the pair of boys joined her sides.

"Hey! Sit down!" Goyle yelled at them.

"Shut your mouth, you Pillock!" Juniper said to him angrily. Draco laughed at his cousins words, hitting Goyle on the shoulder as the boy pouted.

"Just stay calm, for Cedric." Blaise tried to reassure her, though even he looked ridiculously nervous. Juniper inhaled as the dragon was let from its cage. She hide her face as Cedric dogged the fire it blew. She couldn't watch, not until Blaise was shaking her, "Juniper! Look! Look at your boyfriend!"

When Juniper looked back, she saw Cedric standing before the dragon. He was speaking to it, softly with a hand out. She couldn't hear what he was saying, but by the way his face looked, he was speaking softly and gently. Juniper rocked on her heels as she watched him, her eyes flickering in each direction as he spotted the dragon.

The stands all whispered, confused and worried. Juniper watched as the dragon bowed down a bit, its head dropping as Cedric walked by slowly, keeping his eye and hand out to the dragon. Blaise shook his head, "Hes a lunatic."

"He's perfect." Juniper corrected with a bright smile, watching Cedric grab the golden egg as she cheered, yelling at the top of her lungs with the rest of the stands, pumping her fist into the air and screaming in victory. Cedric looked precious, his egg in hand, smile in every direction so bright and proud. Juniper left Theo and Blaise to meet him back by the tent.

Cedric got plenty of praise afterwards, holding Junipers hand as the pair attempted to get into the Tea Shop. Multiple people were clapping him on the back, begging for a hand shake, snapping photos, congratulating him. Juniper could tell Cedric was enjoying every bit of it, loving the glory he was receiving. She could only hope that would continue on until the end, hoping he'd win and get to feel that love rushing through his body forever.

The pair finally made it past the mob of people, getting their seats at the small booth. They passed many couples that were either snogging or gushing at the other. Cedric smiled as he looked over at her, "Too much?"

"The perfect amount of much." she grinned with a shake of her head, "Fan girls, I see."

Cedric gave her a half grin, "You wouldn't be jealous or anything, would you?"

"Jealous?" Juniper asked in a teasing manor, "In the two months you've known me have you seen any form of jealousy?"

"Not until now." Cedric teased as Juniper looked away with a half grin. The cups of tea were sat before them, Cedric thanked the woman while Juniper gave a small smile, "I'm proud of you."

"Sorry?" Cedric asked, leaned forward to hear her better.

"I'm proud of you." she said with a half grin, "I almost panicked with that dragon, if you would have died because I gave you the wrong advise, I'd have thrown myself off the side of Hogwarts."

Cedric smiled as he grabbed her hand, "Where'd you learn that from, anyways?"

"I took a class with Charlie Weasley this summer for a few weeks, it was one of the first things I learned there." Juniper said with a small smile, Cedric watched her as if she was saying the most interesting thing in the world, "I liked Charlie, he didn't care about my parents, he only lectured me when I tried to strangle one of the house elves that bit my ankle."

Cedric coughed on his tea at her words, "That'll do it."

"I ended up hitting him over the head with one of my crystals, didn't bite my ankles ever again." Juniper said casually as she began drinking her own tea, rubbing her foot onto Cedrics leg after they couldn't hold hands anymore.

"The Weasleys don't seem to mind you much, Harry or Hermione either." Cedric said, remember they were the few faces that hadn't looked feared or full of hate toward her. Juniper shrugged as she looked down, Cedric frowned his eyebrows at her sudden mood change, "What is it?"

"You say that but it's not true." she said with a sigh as Cedric waiting for her to go on, "Charlie had his assistant keep a eye on me the whole time, Ron can't even look at me and I know he says stuff when i'm not around, Fred makes fun of me but doesn't think I know it, Ginny thinks i'm insane and says that why she likes me... I think she thinks it's a compliment but it doesn't feel that way."

Cedric frowned as he gave her a small smile, "You're not insane, you just have a different mind then others, different isn't bad like some may think."

She stared at him with soft eyes, a faint look of red across her face as he leaned back, satisfying before going on, "What about George?"

"What about George?" Juniper repeated with a confused expression.

"You didn't say anything about him." Cedric pointed out as Juniper realized she hadn't, letting her mind wonder on the boy for a moment as she shook her head.

"George's never hurt my feelings." she said with a half grin, sipping at her tea. She was hoping he'd take her up on her potion soon, though she wasn't sure if he was truly interested or just sparing her feelings.

Cedric stared at her, watching her take a sip of the tea before putting it back down. Her eye met him, a odd look on her face, "What the bloody hell are you looking at?"

"Nothing." Cedric said quickly with a laugh, Juniper cracked a grin, "I'm glad we're here."

"Why? So you can try and snog me?" she asked with a snort, looking around at the multiple couples that were connected at the mouth. Cedric's eyebrow shot up her way, turning red.

"Would that be something you'd like?" he asked, popping his fingers, a habit he picked up from her. Juniper chocked on her tea, yelling out as it shot through her nose, "Merlins beard, carful June."

"That was hot." she whined, whipping her nose as Cedric passed her the napkin and grinned, "And I don't kiss on the first date, muggles honor."

"Yeah, of course." he spoke quickly, looking down to avoid her eye. His ears were red, pulling his leg away from her. Juniper frowned, locking her legs around his to bring them back toward her. Cedric looked up at her now, seeing her grinning slightly at him, wiggling her fingers as he took her hand.

"What do you think you need to do with that egg?" Juniper asked with a frown of her eyebrows, shifting their hands to pop the fingers he missed, "Harry said it did a screechy thing, I caught him by the neck before we came here?"

"By the neck?" Cedric asked worried as Juniper nodded casually as Cedric went to speak before shaking his head, "I did, yes. Very loud, like a banshee."

Juniper thought for a moment, "Kill the banshee."

Cedric was the one to chock on his tea now, looking at her bulging eyes with a shocked look, "What?"

"The only way to get a banshee to shut up is to kill it." Juniper said as she stood from her seat to slide into the one next to him, her arm tired of reaching across the table. His arm went around her as his other hand found hers, "Maybe you need to kill your egg."

"How could I kill my egg? Hex it?" he asked, twisting one of the wild curls on her head as she drank his tea, trusting his more then hers now.

"No, no, merlin." Juniper said with a weird look toward him, "Then you won't get it open."

Cedric waited for her to go on as Juniper cleared her throat and turned to look at him better, "Your best out comes would be to drown it, no one can hear something scream underwater. I once trying to drown my sister, not on purpose, but I didn't know anything was wrong because she was screaming underwater and I couldn't hear anything. I was much younger then, I now know to keep others upright so I can see their faces if i'm going to hold them under water."

"You have a sister?" Cedric asked, choosing to ignore the rest of the story, though he was probably the only person that would ever do such a thing.

"She's actually my cousin but we were raised in the same house, around the same age. She's like my sister." Juniper said before her eyes widened she she looked to Cedric, "She was in Hufflepuff too."

Cedric smiled down at her, pushing some of her hair out of her face, "Your family life.. it's okay?"

"My muggle life is, yes. The rest of my family is rather horrible, but I love them, makes me feel closer to my mum." Juniper said with a nod, her eyes flickering around his face as she sighed, "And yours?"

"Normal, bit boring. Just my mum, dad, and I." Cedric said, he suddenly felt guilty for saying so infront of her, "They were here for the first task, did you see them before?"

"I did, I just figured you didn't want me to introduce myself." Juniper said. Cedric frowned his eyebrows as he shifted to look down at her with a odd expression, "You know, because.."

He knew what she was hinting at, though he didn't care, "They wouldn't have cared, they want to meet you."

"Why?" Juniper asked, she had a sense of panic and defense in her voice. She had a few friends thats parents only wanted to meet her to get a better understanding of her mother and father, it's happened more times then she would have liked.

"Because I talk about you in my letters, of course." he said with a odd look, as if it were so causal and she was expected to know what he was talking about, "Neither of them would care about your parents or anything else, they just want to know who i've been spending all my time with."

Juniper stared, she stared like he had just told her the cure to every sickness in the world, like he offered her unlimited money, like he said he loved her, "Really?"

"Yeah, really." he said with a giggle, not understanding why she seemed so in shock and amazed by his words, "No pressure though, if you aren't ready for that."

"I want to." Juniper smiled, "Next task."

Cedric grinned, stroking her hair gently, feeling her body twitch slightly. Her eyes burned holes into his, so ridiculously close they could feel the others breathing on them.

"Will this be all?" the woman asked as she walked over toward them, eyeing Junipers spilled tea slightly.

•

kylie speaks

such a filler
chapter but
i loved it.

do we not have
a ship name for
them?? do we
need to make one
in the comments?
yes.