A/N: This is a challenge fic for the song and dance challenge on the HPFC forum: choose an album and write a oneshot inspired by each song (so I'm going to have 12). Eventually a few of them will include a dance too… My album is 'A Lesson In Romantics' by Mayday Parade. So here goes! And I don't own Harry Potter.
1: Jamie All Over
It was the evening of August 31st and Hermione was spending her last night at the burrow before she would have to leave for her so called 'eighth year' at Hogwarts. Ron and Harry had decided not to return to the school to finish, so she was going to be the sole member of the aptly named 'golden trio' who would be at the school.
Hermione was sitting on a patch of grass near the garden at the burrow watching the sun slowly go down on the horizon. Only months ago, Hermione hadn't been sure that she would ever see another sunset again, especially the moments before the final war began. She had been perfectly certain that she wouldn't make it out alive. Ever since it had ended she had gained a much higher appreciation for the beauty and simplicity of nature all around her.
She closed her eyes, placed her hands behind her and gripped at the green grass.
"Hermione?" she jumped at the sound of her name and turned around to see Ron standing with his hands in his pockets. "Erm…Can I sit with you?" he sputtered.
"Sure Ron," she said closing her eyes again. He slowly sat down next to her in a similar fashion and looked out at the descending orange sun.
"Um Hermione?" he asked quietly.
"Yes Ronald?" she answered, letting her eyelids flutter open.
"What were you doing out here alone?"
"Just taking everything in," Hermione answered. "It's just lovely out here when the sun's going down, you know. You just kind of close your eyes and then when you open them up, you can lose yourself in the bright lights."
"Yeah, it's gorgeous" Ron commented. Hermione leaned her head to her side and placed it on Ron's shoulder, instinctively he placed his arm around her. "'Mione what am I going to do when you're gone to Hogwarts?" he asked.
"I wish that I could say that I won't go back to Hogwarts…" Hermione began.
"But I already know that you have to" Ron finished with a smile. He turned and kissed her forehead lightly. "You know, I don't think I've ever seen the sunset be so bright."
"And the sky is so…blue," Hermione said.
"I love you Hermione," Ron whispered looking at her with hopeful eyes.
"When the war began," she started, turning to look at Ron, "one of the things running through my head was that I wanted to see another sunset with you. I love you too Ron."
A/N: Reviews? And I think that I'm going to make each chapter/song a different Hermione romance, just to keep it interesting.
