Hey everyone, thanks for all the reviews! It always makes me excited when I read them! So this chapter isn't super exciting, but its necessary to explain what happened between Hermione and Ron. Next chapter will be more exciting! Thank you all for reading and I hope you enjoy it!

CHAPTER TWO

Hermione woke up to her head pounding. Silently she got up and got ready for the day, she spent an extra ten minutes deciding what to wear before kicking herself, she didn't need to impress anyone, she decided on a comfortable yellow tee-shirt and jeans. Softly she walked down the hall and popped her head into the guest room.

She tried not to let out a yelp of surprise when she found the guest bed empty and her unwanted guest missing. Quickly she brandished her wand and slowly walked down the hall and into the living room, and there on the couch she saw him, he was reading a note and hadn't noticed her yet.

She took the moment to study him, his red hair was longer and he had some scruff that gave him sexy look, added to the cuts on his face and a bruise that had formed along his cheek bone he looked dangerous, suddenly he looked up and she was drowning in the deep blue of his eyes.

She blinked and nodded to him before continuing to the kitchen to start on breakfast. She tried to calm her pounding heart, she couldn't even look at him without wanting to just throw herself at him.

"Hermione can we talk, please?" A voice asked from the doorway.

Slowly she turned and faced him, she immediately noticed he was limping and he looked even more roughed up the closer she looked. "Okay." She finally answered.

Nodding he walked back to the living room with her soft steps following closely behind. Once they got sat down, she turned to him and waited.

He looked uncomfortable at her direct stare. "Well first off, thank you for helping me last night. Harry left me a note explaining where I was and what was going on so I wouldn't panic when I woke up in a strange place. Secondly, I had no idea this was you're place, and I honestly can't believe out of all the houses in muggle London I end up on your doorstep, and I do apologize I know this isn't very comfortable for you, I'm not sure how I feel about it honestly, but Harry was very adamant that I stay here for my safety until they find out who is after me. So I guess thank you for agreeing, I can't imagine what Harry said to convince you, but I think we should be civil to each other while I'm stuck here?" He finished quickly.

"I'm not uncomfortable Ron, I don't see why I would be, it's been a long time since we dated, and we were friends before that, I wouldn't leave you out in the cold over something that happened so far back in the past. We have both moved on and are happy, and I don't see why I wouldn't be civil? Although I'm a little annoyed you would assume that after three years I would still be sitting around pinning after you." She answered, she knew she was lying through her teeth but she got a certain joy out of seeing him squirm uncomfortably.

"That's…. that isn't what I meant, I just thought, maybe, you held a grudge at how we ended, I mean we haven't talked since that day, so I just figured… you know that you hated me?" He squeaked.

She sighed, "You're not exactly my favorite person in the world, probably just above Draco Malfoy on the list of people I'd want to be locked in a house with. But I'll be civil to you, hopefully Harry can sort out this entire mess quickly, Connor won't be happy when he finds my house missing, and even less happy when he finds out I'm sharing a house with an ex boyfriend."

"Oh how long have you been dating?" Ron asked his eyebrows shooting up.

" Just a few months, he's a wizard from America, and I should probably give him a call before he decides to pop over and starts panicking when he finds a gaping hole where my house used to be." She finished but before she could go on she saw something sitting on her coffee table, leaning over she picked up a sparkly bracelet and a note that sat next to it.

Hermione,

Thank you again for opening you're home to Ron, try to be nice, what happened between you guys wasn't as easy on him as you would like to believe. Also, I left you this bracelet, as long as you're wearing it, if you're ever in need of help, it will alert me and I'll be there in a moment's notice.

Lastly, just imagine you're address, in your head while looking towards your house and it will appear for you and only you, unless you personally bring someone through. Be careful and stay safe.

Harry

Hermione rolled her eyes but put the bracelet on, it couldn't hurt. "Alright Ron, let me check the extent of your injuries, I'm going to need you to get in your underwear, now don't look at me like that, I'm a healer!" She exclaimed trying to keep her cheeks from coloring.

Ron nodded slowly, his ears burning red as he pulled his shirt over his head she noted he was having a lot of difficulty with lifting one of his arms, and then lowered his jeans. She cleared her throat and tried to keep her face passive as she gazed at him, his muscles were lean but defined and she felt herself heating up the longer she gazed at him.

Taking in a quick breath she pulled out her wand and started healing his minor bruises and cuts, starting with his feet, she immediately saw he had sprained his left ankle. Slowly she made her way to his stomach, and very blatantly avoiding any area near his underwear. "Now, I'm going to press down, let me know if it's tender." She told him her big brown eyes meeting his blue one. She ran her hands down the side of his ribs checking for broken bones and trying very hard not to think about how nice his skin felt. She made mental notes when he made a quick intake of breath or flinched, "It seems you have 2 broken ribs, I don't have potions now but I can pick some up before I get back from work tomorrow, you also have a sprained ankle, a few bruises that are too big for minor healing charms, and a dislocated shoulder which I can put in a sling.

After she had patched him up the best she could with what little she had at home she decided it might be best to contact Connor and let him know what happened.

She stuck her head in the fire-place, "Connor are you home?"

"Hermione, what a pleasant surprise I was just going to stop by your place!" Replied a handsome man with black curly hair, and deep brown eyes, "What's up?"

"Something happened last night Connor, I found an unconscious man on my doorstep, so I called Harry. He checked it out and decided my house should be the safe house for him, since I'm a healer I can keep an eye on his injuries, and well, no one would suspect him to be here at my house."

His eyebrows shot up in surprise, "You have an unconscious stranger living with you who was attacked? What if he is a bad guy Mione, What if he attacks you?"

She sighed this was not going to go over well, "He's safe, and he isn't a stranger, its Ron Weasley, I guess someone has been after him for a while now and Harry said it's for the best. But it wasn't my choice, but like I told him earlier, the past is past."

Connor sat in silence for a while, thinking over what she said, finally he sighed, "I trust you Mione, you can't turn away an injured person, not even someone who was so hurtful. You're a good person, can I come over soon?" He asked.

"Maybe we should wait on that for a little while, I just don't want to make things even more awkward, but once I get a little more used to the situation I'll let you know." She answered; she really didn't feel comfortable with Ron meeting Connor.

"Alright, well I've got to run, I just got a huge project given to me for work, I'll see you soon Mione." He answered, pulling away before she could answer.

Sighing she backed up, "You know he strikes me as fishy, he gives me a bad feeling." Ron announced behind her.

"Merlin Ron!" She yelled clutching her chest, "Warn someone of your presence before scaring the shit out of them!"

"Sorry, but he is fishy, no boyfriend is that okay with his girlfriend rooming with an ex that everyone thought she would one day marry. Plus he is more focused on work then comforting you, someone was attacked in your neighborhood and all he cares about is his project! He didn't even wait for you to say good-bye!"

She glared at him, "Connor trusts me, he knows I can take care of myself, and he did try to come over I just wouldn't let him."

"It wouldn't have stopped me." He shrugged flinching at the pain in his shoulder.

"Well thankfully he isn't you then." She snapped before storming to the kitchen.

"Hermione wait!" Ron yelled limping after her.

"What! What do you want Ron?" She snapped fighting back tears, merlin how was she supposed to deal with him in her house! She had a boyfriend but every cell in her wanted Ron back.

"I'm sorry, no really listen I've been working on this apology for 3 years!" he told her when she rolled her eyes, " I have no one to blame for our split but me, you were amazing and I just threw you away and made you feel like it was your fault when it wasn't. See I was frustrated, Harry and Ginny were always together, but you were so busy with healer school and I missed you but I slowly started getting resentful. Then when Lavender kissed me, I didn't push her away right away, and the guilt was killing me, so when you confronted me I knew you deserved better than a fool like me. But I was so angry that I made you think it was your fault, and it wasn't I know that now, but at the time I thought, if you had paid more attention to me I would have immediately pushed her away. I left you and immediately regretted it, you were the best person I had ever met, the pain haunted me, when Harry and I went out you were missing, when I'd come home you were missing, and I had no one to blame but myself. You deserved an apology and I tried, but you moved, and Harry refused to tell me where you were, so now I want to formally apologize for being a bloody jerk." He finished his blue eyes boring into hers.

She felt her blood rushing in her ears, "What about Lavender? I figured you guys got together after our break up?"

He laughed, "No, we just got together this past year, I ran into her for the first time since the incident. She immediately came running to me and apologized, she told me a friend had put a temporary love potion in her chocolate with some of my hair thinking it would be harmless, she tracked me down, and you saw what happened, I guess it was about 10 minutes after I had pulled myself away she came to her senses, and had been so horrified she had avoided me until the guilt ate her alive and she had to apologize. So I invited her to lunch, and she's different then she was in school, I guess the war really took its toll on everyone."

Hermione nodded, "I forgive you Ron, I'm still not happy but now I know what really happened, you have no idea how confused and hurt you left me when you walked out. I'll try to work on letting that pain go as long as you do too, maybe we will be able to hang out with Harry after this is all over," He looked up and smiled a dazzling smile, "I said maybe, don't get to comfortable." She added in worry that he was going to invade her personal space and she would do something foolish like kiss him.

"Okay, well then I have one more question, what do you have for lunch in this place? It's all rabbit food!" He exclaimed, and all she could do was laugh.