Author: Emmie
Title: Meant To Be
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing(s): Harry/Ron
Rating: PG
Continuity: Early 4th year.
Author's note: Inspired by a certain moment in the GoF movie. Only slashy if you tilt your head and squint.
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't sue, plzthx.
Summary: It's not that Ron is bitter...
"Piss off," Ron mutters, and all right, maybe it isn't the most mature comeback in the history of the Wizarding world. Then again, Ron has never exactly been the most mature person around, either. It's not that he doesn't try. It's just that he seems to always be the goofy one, the clumsy one, the one that says exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time.
He doesn't mean to be bitter, and he's not, not really. It's just that he's watching his best friends, the people he cares most for in the world, grow into the people they are meant to be, while he simply grows taller, and more awkward. He can't help but wonder how long it will be before they realize what a burden he really is – silly Ron, the sidekick, not special, not much good at anything, really, aside from making a fool of himself – and leave him behind.
It is that fear that allows him to believe Harry is lying, and with that belief, thankfully, comes anger. Still, when he hears Harry move in the darkness, feels the mattress dip slightly as the other boy sits down on it, trying to say in silence what he could not with words, it is fear that makes Ron turn away, burrowing deeper under his covers, body tight and rigid and sending its own unspoken message: go away. Eventually, Harry does, and though the self-righteous anger that seems to have consumed Ron is quite pleased with itself, it still takes him a very long time to go to sleep.