A/N:
Ron and Hermione fic ^-^ What can I say about
this one? Hmm… Well, not your usual fluff, that's for sure. Ron goes
temporarily insane; Hermione will probably go insane with him by the next part.
Don't know what I'm talking about? Then read and find out!
Usual disclaimers apply.
The
Underground Cave- Part 1
By
Iris Marie
Ron
Weasley, tall, freckled, and rather scrawny, woke up on one particular day in a
very bad mood. He wasn't able to sleep at all that night, his body unable to
get into that 'perfect' position. At around five in the morning, he was able to
doze off, but only to awaken again in three hours with a jolt. The room was deserted
and the clock read off that it was already half way through first period. First
period that was with Professor Snape.
He had then dashed to the
bathroom, flooded the sink, wasn't even able to shower. He had ran to his stack
of clothing, rummaging through all his dirty robes to only see that there were
no more clean ones.
Needless
to say, the day was progressing very slowly for Ron. From listening to a whole
lecture from Snape and having to screw up his potion, his mood did not lighten
up. Everyone else seemed to be in the best of moods, the teacher's especially
since by the time of lunch, they allowed all the students to relax around the
Hogwarts grounds.
'Hate today, hate today,'
he thought as he sat against the tree that viewed the lake. The sun was still
blazing high in the clear blue sky, everything that was around him seeming to
be happy and dainty. Ron cursed, watching as his fellow classmates took the lunch
break to relax. Harry was talking with Fred and George about something, and
Hermione was in the library, most likely doing research on whatever fancied
her.
"Hey
Ron!" a chirpy voice said as a small red head propped herself in front of him.
"Why do you look so down for?"
"Ginny,
go away," he muttered, covering his eyes with his arms and leaning his back
against the tree. "I don't feel in the mood to talk to you."
"Humph,
fine then," said Ginny, standing up. "I'll go, but only because there's this
really big black spider climbing it's way down the tree."
"WHAT!?!"
Ron screamed, jolting up and scrambling away from the tree. Everyone hushed as
they stared at him. "WHERE!?! IS IT ON ME, GINNY!?!" He screeched,
jumping up and down while swatting the invisible spider off his back. "Is it
OFF!?! IS IT OFF!?!"
"RON!"
Harry ran to his friend, grabbing his arms to calm him down. He laughed
nervously at all the other students. "Yeah… well…" he said as he turned back to
his friend who was still going through the hysterics. "Ron! Calm down!"
"Is it
still ON me!?! Is it!?!"
"There's
nothing on you!"
Ron
calmed down immediately looking at both his shoulders to see if what Harry said
was true. When he felt no little legs crawling at him, he sighed in relief,
falling down on the ground with a thump. When he looked back up, he saw Ginny
also on the ground, her face beet red as uncontrolled laughter spilled from
her. Harry looked towards the direction he was looking at and grinned. "Too
much influence from Fred and George," he said, his eyes getting slightly out of
focus as he stared.
"Wait
till I get me hands on her… I'll… I'll…"
"What
happened to you?"
Ron
turned around to see Hermione with a load of books in her arms, staring at his
ruffled robes in confusion. He sighed, running both his hands through his hair
in both frustration and annoyance. "Nothing… nothing," he muttered, his tone
with an edge. Harry and Hermione exchanged looks, watching as their friend
seemed like a ticking time bomb. "I'll just go jump off a cliff and wait for
the little scavengers to pick at my bones while I rot."
Hermione
stared at him in shock as he then turned away and stormed off. "What's with
him?"
"Bad day,
maybe?" Harry muttered, looking once more towards Ginny who was having massive
difficulty in not laughing. "I'm just going to go…" he trailed off, his eyes
dazing off again.
Hermione
rolled her eyes as he began to walk towards Ginny as if in a trance. With Harry
now drooling over Ginny, she might as well go to Ron, however depressed he may
be. Tugging at her pack and books, she began heading her way towards the
direction Ron had gone.
He had
left to look for a cliff, wondering if he would be lucky enough to find one. He
knew that Harry and Hermione didn't take it literally, but Ron, now looking
around, felt far from taking or saying anything not literally. So, he had
marched off away from everyone else, looking around the landscape. And then his
eyes fell across something… some shape. He quietly walked over towards it and
saw a bush half blocking it.
After a
struggle that soon led to him taking out his wand against the vines, the bush
had been cleared and he stood in front of an opening in a rock.
'A cave!'
he thought, looking into its darkness with pure hunger. In there would be
quietness, blissful quietness! Muttering "Lumos" he began to drag himself in.
He didn't go very far, but far enough that the entrance light was dim to his
left and the rest of the dark cave to his right. Quickly he muttered,
"Incendio" and was capable of conjuring five fires in circles to light his
small area.
Ron took a moment then to
stare around his surroundings and oddly, he began to feel very, very protective
of it. 'Mine… all mine… no one to take this away!' he thought. There were no
clocks, no girls, no Snape, school, work! Happy in his mirth, he laid his back
against a rock and pulled his arms behind his head.
As soon
as he felt the warm feeling of sleepiness start to creep to him, a female voice
broke him out of his reverie. "Ron, what are you doing in here?"
He
shrieked, both in fright and anger, and bolted up from his sitting position to
stare at Hermione who had laid her books and bags on the floor. She was staring
at him in a frown, glancing around the cave constantly. "Really, Ron, it's so
damp in here. You're going to catch a cold!"
"How'd
you find me?" He asked her, staring over her shoulder to make certain that she
was alone.
"It's not
hard to track you down when you left a whole trail of ripped vines, you know,"
she muttered, now taking a comfortable seat on a rock.
Ron shook
his head, staring around his cave… his cave! He watched as she seemed to
start getting comfortable and anxiousness overcame him. "Hermione, you're my
friend… one of my best friends," Ron began, "But if you don't get out of
my cave, I will be forced to force you out."
"Force?
Ron Weasley, you have no right to tell me what to do!"
"But this
is my cave!" He cried out, noticing easily the whine that had interlaced into
his tone. "Mine!"
"I don't
see your name written anywhere," Hermione replied.
"Ah, but
you see, Hermi, it is!" Ron said, his voice seeming to have become temporarily
insane. He raised his wand and cried, "Inscribo!" On the wall to his right, his
name was now spelt out in large letters. Ron, chuckling, turned back to
Hermione with glee. "See! See! Now it has my name! See!"
Hermione
rolled her eyes. "You're such a baby!" she said while taking out her wand and
doing the same charm against the other wall. "Well now, the cave's also mine
since my name's inscribed as well."
"Hey!
Mine was there first! First, first, first!" Ron complained with a pout.
Hermione
giggled, not able to resist the cute pout that he now wore. "Doesn't matter,
Ron. And since you can't do anything about it, I suppose that means that you'll
just have to get used to the fact that this cave is as much yours as mine."
Ron
groaned, crossing his arms. "I can do nothing about, huh?" He said, once more
raising his wand. "Finite Incantatem!" he cried out towards the wall her name
was spelt on. When the magic hit it, her name was gone. "Ha! Now your name-"
He was
interrupted as a jet of magic barely hit his ear. He heard it clash against the
rock and when he turned around, he saw his name replaced by large, sparkling
letters that read, 'Hermione Granger. The owner of this cave.'
Hermione was laughing at
his confused face when he once more tried to remove her name. "There's a
protection charm on it so you can't erase it," she said happily while watching
his face turn red. Spreading her arms, she gave a mock shrug and sigh. "So I
suppose you'll have to-" She was cut short as Ron's voice echoed through the
cave and numerous jets of light going off everywhere. When the light's glare
subsided, she saw Ron's satisfied face and his name written on every inch of
the cave wall.
"Well,
Hermione, as you can't beat that-"
"Can't
beat it?" Hermione asked incredulously. "Watch this!"
More jets of sparks, more
arguing, more magic.
"You
can't-"
"What do
you-"
"You just
wait-"
"Watch
this-"
"No you-"
Both gave
out an aggravated cry and with a flick of their wands, they both screamed,
"FINITE INCATATEM!" A slight rustle noise of rock against rock ensued from the
entrance of the cave and Hermione and Ron quieted.
"Uh oh,"
Ron muttered, staring around. Hermione had her eyes wide, her breathing coming
in gasps. He stared at her and then to the cave walls, uneasiness now flooding
him. "You don't think-" He was cut short as a large jolt shook the floor and
the walls about them began to shake violently.
"RON!!"
Hermione shrieked, rushing into his arms. A few stray rocks were tumbling in,
the light that had once been the entrance dimming drastically. "Oh no! We're
going to DIE! Oh MUM! DAD!"
Ron
watched as the noise continued, of rocks falling and smashing against rocks,
and as every light was extinguished. The ground no longer shook and he felt a
large boulder behind him. He gulped, wondering what might have happened to him
if he had stood a step back.
Soon, the cave was dead
silent and when he finally got the nerve to use his wand and say, "Lumos" he
knew that he'd have to break the news to Hermione soon.
"Umm…
Hermi," he said rather nervously, glancing down at his friend who was holding
unto him tight enough to constrict his breathing to a minimum. "I think we
might have a little problem…"
To be continued…
Haha!
This was just a little preview as to what's up my sleeve for this fic ^-^ What will
I do next with them? Next part will be longer, and hopefully some romance and
laughs. This was so short only because I wanted to give you all a temporary
sneak peak as to what inspiration came my way ^_- Any comments are appreciated!
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