A shooting pain caused her to cry out in pain and double over, holding her stomach, blood pouring down her legs. Her eyes rolled in her head as someone called an ambulance.
After Harry had defeated Voldemort in his 7th year, he had refused to become an Auror, straight out of school, he wanted to be away from the limelight, so he and Moony decided to take 4 years out of the magical world and quite literally disappeared of the face of the Earth, except for a letter every 2 weeks.
Ron had finally asked her out in 6th year and they were happy. But after Harry disappeared; all the attention turned to Ron, and that with Quidditch changed him completely.
Hermione stared at the ceiling of the hospital room, thinking of all the times she had had with Ron over the 2 years their best friend had been away. She thought of all the times she had been in public with him and as soon as his 'mates' had turned up she had been forgotten, he zoned her out. God he had flirted with other women in front of her, had even talked about her as if she was nothing. All the while she smiled for the cameras, staring at nothing. She had made Ron get a mobile, which he had loved and never switched off. The doctors' couldn't get hold of him. He hadn't even known she had been pregnant, let alone 4 months!
She was in for a week. He hadn't noticed. Back home she rang his flat, for one grateful they didn't live together. Answer phone.
'Hello Ronald. It's been 4 years since you asked me out under our tree by the lake. The last two have been hell, you want to know why; I'll tell you.
'Are you aware of what you make me feel, baby?
Right now I feel invisible to you, like I'm not real.
Didn't you feel me lock my arms around you?
Why'd you turn away?
Here's what I have to say I was left to cry there,
Waiting outside there grinning with a lost stare,
That's when I decided.
Why should I care?
Cuz you weren't there when I was scared, I was so alone
You, you need to listen I'm starting to trip
I'm losing my grip and I'm in this thing alone
Am I just some chick you place beside you, to take somebody's place
When you turn around do you recognize my face, you used to love me
You used to hug me
But that wasn't the case
Everything wasn't ok I was left alone to cry there
Waiting outside grinning with a lost stare
That's when I decided
Crying out loud, I'm crying out loud
Crying out loud, I'm crying out loud
Open your eyes
Open up wide
Why should I care
Cuz you weren't there
When I was scared I was so alone why should I care
Cuz you weren't there when I was scared
I was so alone
Why should I care
If you don't care then I don't care we're not going anywhere
Why should I care Cuz you weren't there when I was scared I was so alone
Why should I care if you don't care then I don't care we're not going anywhere.
I whish I knew who you were so I could say goodbye, but I don't so I can't. 4 months Weasley; 4 bloody months. 5 more and you would have been a shite father. Just to let you know a girl, Natalie.'
Ron stared at the phone as the love of his life hung up. He had long collapsed in to the chair next to the phone. He looked down at the scan of his baby daughter he carried everywhere. He had told the doctors he didn't want to know what had happened. He didn't want them to tell him his baby girl had died before she had had the chance of life. He didn't want to go and see Hermione and let her tell him it was his entire fault, he already knew that.
His head shot up.
What had she meant by goodbye?
He was there seconds later.
Too late.
'I do care.'