(A/N): Sorry that this chap took a while but I've been really busy with school work and that annoying stuff! Ahaha, it was going to be a longer chap but I didn't want to keep yous waiting any longer, but anyway here it is so enjoy!

Hermione heard footsteps coming down the stairs and turned around. Ron appeared and smiled when he saw her.

"Morning" he said cutely, in Hermione's opinion.

"Good morning" she smiled.

"Care for some breakfast? I thought I'd wait for you" she said blushing slightly.

Ron smiled. "You didn't have to do that."

Hermione shrugged and sat down at the table, Ron sitting across from her. She yawned and took a large bite out of her toast.

"Didn't shlrrp well?" Ron asked with a mouth full of pancakes. Hermione laughed slightly and shrugged.

"Just catching up with what's happened I guess."

Ron nodded while Hermione's curiosity got the better of her.

"Hey, could I um, ask you something?" she said, biting her lip.

"Swure," Ron replied, again with his mouth full.

"Well, when you were with the-" Hermione hesitated for a moment, "The death eaters, did they well, did they give you the dark mark?" she said in a voice barely above a whisper.

Ron turned his gaze to her and looked into her eyes. He thought for a moment before he began to slowly roll up his sleeve.

Hermione's eyes widened and she thought she knew what was coming next but she saw that Ron's pale skin was not etched with a skull with a snake descending from it.

"Oh thank goodness." She gasped out, putting her hands over her mouth.

Ron rolled his sleeve down. "Yeah, I'm bloody glad too," he said.

"Did you ever try to escape?" Hermione blurted out. Ron looked taken back for moment before replying.

"That was a very difficult thing to keep attempting. For the first few weeks I just went for it, not caring if I was being watched, nothing else mattered, I had to get out. But when that kept failing, I had to be mort strategic about it so I planned before I acted but I was eventually caught every time," He explained before standing.

"Of course they thought I'd back down when they began to torture me-"

"What!" Hermione's eyes had widened as her hands flew to her mouth.

"Yeah once or twice-"

"No" Hermione shouted as she stood up and ran to Ron, flinging her arms around him.

"I feared you were going to say that," she whispered into his chest. Ron looked down at her sadly and wrapped his arms around her.

"And just the other day I discovered that they had been brewing some polyjuice potion so I decided to take it while they weren't awake." He said.

"That was brave," Hermione whispered, pulling away and staring at him with slight admiration.

Ron shrugged and smiled softly. "Had to do something," he said. Hermione nodded.

"We have so much to catch up on," she said.

"Yes, like what you've been doing since you left Hogwarts, from the planning that the death eaters have been doing, I heard that you and Harry got jobs at the Ministry," Ron said, grinning.

Hermione smiled "Harry is in auror training and I've just joined the department of magical law enforcement,"

"Ah, thought you would!" Ron said, his eyes sparking. Hermione smiled and nodded shyly. "So these... plans that the death eaters have, tell me more about them," she said.

He nodded and led her to the couch

Ron sighed and thought for a moment. "Well it's basically their idea of revenge, taking the people close to Harry before they get him," Ron explained.

Hermione frowned and sighed. "It's just like Voldemort isn't even dead,"

Ron slowly nodded his head. "I know,"