Just a little fic about how Ron feels after he leaves Harry and Hermione in Deathly Hallows. Enjoy!

'What are you doing?'

'What do you mean?'

'Are you staying, or what?'

'I…yes – yes, I'm staying. Ron we said we'd go with Harry, we said we'd help-'

'I get it. You choose him.'

'Ron, no – please – come back, come back!'

He walked out of the tent, anger seeming to pour off him. He could hear Hermione following him, hear the agony in her voice, hear her desperate pleas. But he was so sure it would always be Harry for her. He'd been so blind, not seeing it before, but now it was obvious she'd never want him.

It could only have been a minute, but already he was tired of the begging from the person he would never have, maybe even never see again. All he wanted was to get away from it all. So he twisted, concentration dominating his face, and as he Disapparated a loud crack! echoed around the trees.

In that final instant before he was sucked into nothingness, he saw her face. And in that one second, he hated her.

He hated her.

Hated her for looking at him like she needed him, when it was so evident she didn't. Hated her for choosing not to come with him. Hated her for making him love her.

Then she vanished from his vision, and he was pulled into the swirling nothing.

As soon as he felt ground beneath his feet, the hatred disappeared. He felt again that irrevocable love for her he had carried since he was twelve years old, since he had seen her petrified form lying in that bed in the hospital wing. He knew immediately that he wanted to go back, to tell her he would never leave her again, to beg her to forgive him, to tell her he loved her. He needed to go back for all these reasons, but there was just one slight problem. It was walking towards him in the form of a Snatcher gang. He heard a rasping chuckle, then the words that sent a chill down his spine.

'Well, well. What have we got here then?'

He swallowed. So much for going back.

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