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Chapter 7 – The Bossy Kind

Ron pushed the sleeves of his white buttoned shirt up his arms and loosened his tie allowing him to unbutton the top button of his shirt, he took a deep breath as he paced outside the door to Hermione Ancient Runes class. He pulled out his new timetable that Professor McGonagall had given him yesterday; he usually had a free period that day, where Harry, Hermione and he would go spend their relaxing by the lake. Ron smiled, and corrected himself, Harry and he would relax and Hermione would have her head stuck in another book. He rubbed his neck and sighed once more when he realized what he had to do, he had decided to give himself a week to tell Hermione about his condition but the more he waited the more the idea seemed less appealing. He had begun to wonder whether he should even tell Hermione the truth, after all he still had a least five more years left to live, and that's not so bad. A prickly sensation rushed through his temples, the same thing had been happening all day, Ron leaned against the wall and braced himself for what he knew was about to follow. As though on queue images quickly flashed before his eyes and the sound of screaming filled his ears. Ron held his stomach as it began to ache, it had started out as sharp pains but as the day progressed it had slowly changed to a duller ache.

The students finally began leaving the classroom, Ron strained his neck to spot Hermione in the mass of faces, he finally spotted her walking towards him, she hadn't noticed him as she was placing her books in her bag, when she looked up and saw him she smiled warmly and waved slightly.

"Ron? What are you doing here I thought we were meeting outside the Great Hall?" Hermione asked as they began to walk down the hallway.

Ron had quickly picked up his bag before following her, he could tell that she was heading down towards the lake but he stopped her as she stepped out into the courtyard. He grabbed her hand and pulled her aside into a secluded corner, the noise from students rushing to class soon faded and Ron was left standing alone with Hermione. She looked shyly from their hands to his face, Ron quickly released her hands and put his safely inside his pockets where he couldn't brush one of Hermione's curly locks behind her ear.

"Look, Hermione I'm really sorry but I can't go to the lake with you today," Ron apologized disappointedly, ever since McGonagall had informed him of his new classes he had despised Jessica if only for the simple fact that her classes prevented him spending time with Hermione.

Hermione looked up at him sadly but she quickly replaced her slight frown with a smile, "Oh that's okay I can just go the library instead,"

'I wonder what he's doing. Are he and Harry doing some guy thing? Or maybe he's going on a date!' Hermione's overactive mind quickly jumped to the sudden conclusion causing Ron to instantly sputter his denial before explaining himself.

"I'm not going on a date! Or with Harry…" Ron scrunched up his face, "Remind me never to use 'Harry' and 'Date' in the same sentence…I'm just taking some extra classes that's all. I mean aren't you always telling me to apply myself."

Although Hermione smiled at his last comment she felt herself staring at Ron blankly, "Umm, okay, I never said that you were going on a date especially not with Harry," Hermione laughed.

"Yes you just di-…" Ron began to say but he was interrupted by Jessica's voice.

'She didn't say anything aloud you dense fool, you're just reading her thoughts,'

Ron scratched his head and looked at Hermione standing in front of him. "I guess I'm losing my mind," Ron joked.

"But you're not going out on a date? I mean it's fine if you are its just you know…as your friend I would like to know…" Hermione avoided Ron's eyes as she spoke as calmly as she could.

Ron stared dumbfounded at Hermione for a moment before replying, "Trust me if I ever go on a date you would definitely be the first to know,"

Hermione finally raised her eyes to meet Ron's and when she did the smile on his face caused her to blush, 'He couldn't be possibly be implying what I think he is…is he?' Hermione questioned herself as she returned his smile.

Ron chuckled when he heard Hermione's thoughts.

'Alright Romeo, you're late for my class!' Jessica's stern voice jolted him back to reality.

"Sorry 'Mione gotta get to class…" Ron started to leave the courtyard but stopped to ask Hermione, "By the way, who's Romeo?"

Hermione gave him a bewildered look before answering matter-of-factly, "He's a fictional character in a muggle play," When Ron continued to stare at her confused she explained herself, "'Rome and Juliet', written by William Shakespeare."

Ron stared at her blankly before he shook his head and rushed to class giving her a quick wave before he disappeared down a corridor. Hermione sighed heavily and sat down beside the fountain in the courtyard, she had been hoping to spend the day with Ron alone. She wasn't sure but she felt as though he had something to tell her, an image of Ron knelling before her confessing his love to her flashed before her eyes causing her to laugh. She leaned over to pick up her books when she noticed that Ron in his rush had forgotten his bag. 'Honestly, if his head wasn't connected to the rest of him he'd probably lose it,' Hermione thought to herself picking up his bag from the ground, she stood staring at the bag, trying to decide whether she should return it to him when he returned from class or try to return to him now. Hermione looked up from the bag and contemplated her choices, finally deciding that he would need his things for class she headed in the direction that she had seen Ron run to, which was the Divination classroom.

Ron stopped to catch his breathe when he reached the divination classroom, Jessica stood leaning against the door frame her arms folded in front of her and an unimpressed look on her face.

'Flirting with your girlfriend again, R.W.?" she questioned.

"No…and she's not my…"

Jessica raised an eyebrow at him when his thoughts suddenly became a muddle of images and words, Jessica stood staring at Ron, she felt confused at what she had seen and heard. Ron's train of thoughts was erratic.

'That's definitely something that needed work,' Jessica made a mental note of this quickly.

Her attention soon returned to Ron's thoughts, one minute he was thinking about soft curly brown hair, then a pair of swirling brown eyes, before jumping to an image of the library and him being buried by mountains of books, and words like 'Yule ball', 'Periwinkle', 'bloody robes,' and with some intense emotion she heard Ron curse someone named 'Krum' or 'Vicky' she wasn't sure which because his thoughts suddenly shifted.

"My bag! I've forgotten it!" Ron said suddenly slapping his forehead.

Jessica rolled her eyes and sighed exasperatedly before grabbing him by the shoulders and shaking him, 'This is what happens when you get distracted by pretty brown haired girls,' she frowned but her annoyance disappeared when she saw Ron blush, she couldn't help but laugh at his expression.

'It's ok,' Ron thought trying to ignore Jessica's laugh, 'Accio bag,' the bag soon flew up the stairs towards them and Ron caught it just before it hit his face, 'That was quick,' Ron looked back at Jessica to see her smile approvingly at him. 'What!'

'Congratulations, you just performed your first non-verbal spell,' she patted him on the shoulder before leading him into the classroom.

Ron's eyes widened, he didn't even think about it when he had performed the spell. 'Maybe I'm not so bad at this stuff after all.'

'Course not, you were born with the ability…but that doesn't mean that it'll be easy. You have a lot to learn before the end of the term,'

Ron groaned as he followed Jessica up a flight of stairs to a secluded room above the usual divination class.

Ron stared at the room he had just entered, it was almost entirely empty, there were no desks and no chairs, there were some books piled in a corner where he saw Jessica's two swords lie against. He looked towards the end of the long room and noticed a sliding door, it was slightly open and he could see a bed inside and he assumed that they it was where Jessica was staying. He thought to ask here why she stayed here in the tower when the teacher's quarters were a few floors above the student's dorms, but Jessica answered him before he had the chance to realize why.

'I hear people's thoughts all the time, R.W, by the way you don't mind that I call you that do you?'

'No it's fine, but people usually call me Ron,'

'Exactly.' Jessica answered before continuing her explanation, 'I wouldn't be able to sleep if I was close to other people, if I'm in the tower, their thoughts and dreams are less vivid. You'll see what I mean tomorrow. But for now I want to start by asking you why you haven't changed you're dragon ribbons?'

'My what?'

Jessica waved her hand over his wrists to reveal the fading red ribbons, 'These are called 'dragon ribbons' I sent some more to you with the package, why didn't you change them?' Jessica touched the ribbons and they quickly latched onto her hand, 'The magic protection has begun to fade, by the time it changes to white they will be useless, except for the simple shield spell,'

Ron stared at the ribbons and pulled his hands hastily away form Jessica, there was a reason he hadn't changed them, but he didn't want Jessica to know. He tried to block his thoughts to prevent her from seeing what he was thinking.

"If you don't want me to know that's fine," Jessica spoke aloud, "and I suppose since we're alone we can talk normally, and don't worry unlike you I can block people's thoughts so you don't have to feel as though I'm invading your personal space."

"Thanks," Ron replied sitting down on the ground when he saw Jessica sit.

"But, this thing you have with this girl…I'm telling you now that it's not a good idea," Jessica said sternly.

"I know," Ron sighed passing a hand through his messy red hair.

"Do you?" she questioned before handing him a rolled up piece of parchment, "I want you to go to the restricted section the library and read these books for background knowledge,"

Ron unraveled the parchment and his eyes bulged when he saw the long list of books.

"All this for just 'background knowledge'?"

"Are you questioning me R.W.?" Jessica cocked an eyebrow at Ron's comment, strangely reminding Ron of Snape when a student disobeyed him.

Ron shook his head, quickly rolling the parchment and placing it inside his bag. "But how will I even get into the restricted section?"

"Don't worry, all the faculty members know about your classes, you won't have any trouble with the librarian."

'That would have been usual a few years ago,' Ron thought as he recalled all the times Harry, Hermione and he had to hide under the invisibility cloak to get into the restricted section of the library.

"Okay, now on with the lesson." Jessica's voice brought him back to reality and he quickly pulled out his books.

Hermione stomped angrily towards the library.

"Not on a date, he says," Hermione spoke vehemently recalling the image of Ron and a young woman standing close together outside the divination classroom. The woman was pretty reminding Hermione of an older version of Cho Chang from Ravenclaw. She frowned when she remembered how Ron blushed when the woman had touched his shoulder and how she had laughed when Ron spoke. Hermione had dropped the bag onto the ground when she saw them standing so close to each other, but she had to quickly hide behind a pillar though when she saw Ron's bag fly up the stairs towards him.

Hermione rubbed her eyes angrily when she felt tears begin to sting at the corners of her eyes.

"Not on a date my foot!"

"Here you go," Jessica handed Ron a sketchbook and some pencils just as he was leaving, "For your weekly assignment I want you to recreate images from your dreams,"

"I'm rubbish at artistic stuff, and you expect me to draw entire scenes, why can't I just use a pensive or something?" Ron complained.

"It's to help you analyze situations," When Ron still seemed unconvinced Jessica continued, "Think about it this way, if a death eater was about to attack you do you really think he'd give you time to take out your memory and put it into a pensive so that you could analyze the situation?"

"But it wouldn't be real life situation, if it's just dreams and surely there's a way to extract the dream without having to draw it?"

"Afraid not, what we do is not an exact science," Jessica continued,

"What's science?" Ron questioned confused.

Jessica gave him an exasperated look, "If you are forced to recreate the scene by drawing it, it forces you to remember every detail because when you see the picture in front of you your mind will know if there's something missing, and that missing piece may be the key the problem. Once you get better at recreating scenes from dreams you will be able to reapply that skill in a 'real life situation' as you called it."

Still seeing the doubtful look on Ron's face as he looked at the sketchbook and pencils in his hands, Jessica continued, "Listen, I wouldn't waste time teaching you something if it wasn't for a reason,"

"Yeah alright…" Ron finally agreed begrudgingly shoving the sketchbook in his bag before leaving.

"Oh, don't forget, two parchment rolls for each Seer in ancient Greece from Aesacus to Cassandra, focusing on their powers and interaction with people from birth to death" Jessica said quickly before Ron had a chance to escape.

Ron rolled his eyes and nodded his head before making his way back to the Gryffindor common room, but remembering the large amount of homework that Jessica had just set him he changed his mind and made his way to the library instead. He wasn't surprised to find it completely empty as most students would still be in class or spending their free period outside. Walking grumpily up to the restricted section he touched the lock and was surprised the see the doors swing open for him, he quickly stepped inside, for some reason he felt a surge of guilt for being there, but dismissed it as a force of habit as he and his friends were always on alert incase a teacher or Filch caught them. He walked along the shelves and quickly retrieved the books that Jessica had written down on the parchment; he thought it ridiculous to attempt to read all the books in one day and instead opted for those that related to Seers with names starting with A to C. Having gathered all the books he thought necessary to do his work, Ron made his way to out of the restricted section but he froze when he saw the figure standing in his way a scowl on her face and her hands on her hips. Ron cringed when he saw Hermione glare daggers at him, as he swallowed nervously he understood why he had felt guilty before.

"Before you eat me alive, let me just say I'm just doing some studying," Ron said quickly closing the door to the restricted section close and moving hastily away from Hermione. He hoped that if he moved towards the main section of the library she wouldn't make a scene, this was after all Hermione and she would never risk being kicked out of the library. Having dumped the books on to the table and turned to look at Hermione standing near him Ron knew that if ever Hermione would break a rule it would be now. He stepped back warily as he practically felt the heat radiate off her from the anger he saw in her face.

"Hermione? You ok?" he ventured moving around the table so that there was a safe distance between them.

"What were you doing in there?" Hermione finally spoke in a low whisper, the spite dripping from each word.

Ron stared at Hermione confused, as surprising as it may seem he had never seen Hermione angry like this. 'What's with her? You'd almost think I just told her that I just threw Crookshanks out of the third story window,' Ron wondered to himself before answering.

"I already said I had to get some books, my new teacher has like a mile long list of books for me to read."

Hermione continued to glare at him before turning in a huff and stalking out of the library.

"Okay…" Ron said slowly, "Even for Hermione that was weird."

"Out of my way Harry," Hermione pushed Harry aside when she stepped into the Gryffindor common room, she had avoided Ron since the library she was still enraged that he would lie to her not only once but twice.

"You alright?" Ginny questioned sharing a concerned look with Harry.

Hermione slumped down into her favorite armchair and stared at the fire.

Ginny noticed Hermione's eyes begin to water and her lip quiver, "What's my idiot of a brother done now?"

Harry moved to sit beside Ginny, he nudged her and whispered, "Maybe he told her,"

Ginny gave him a disbelieving look, "We are talking about Ron right? The guy who considers procrastination a past-time,"

Their attention returned to Hermione when they heard her speak.

"He's got a girlfriend,"

Ginny and Harry stared at Hermione unbelievingly.

"There's no way!" Ginny said shocked.

"Unless that girl is yo…"

Ginny stomped angrily on Harry's foot and he quickly shut his mouth.

"He ditched me during free period to go see her, and then he had the gall to lie to my face about it making up some nonsense about having some extra classes," Hermione explained angrily through clenched teeth.

"Ugh…Hermione…"

But Ginny was cut off by Ron's voice.

"Have you gone completely mental Hermione!"

'More mental,' Ron added internally before taking a step towards her.

Hermione looked up at Ron, sadness more than anger evident on her face startling Ron before he composed himself. He dropped his bag to the floor and knelt down in front of her, "I do have extra classes, here look," he quickly handed her his timetable for her to inspect.

She clenched the piece of parchment in her hand still doubting his words, "And the woman I saw you with?"

"What woman?"

"Don't lie to me!" Hermione screamed pushing him away from her, "the Asian bimbo I saw you flirting with in the divination classroom."

"Jessica! Are you mad! She's my teacher!"

"Oh and I suppose students usually call their teachers by their first names do they!" Hermione accused angrily.

Ron shook his head disbelievingly at Hermione causing her to become even angrier. Ginny and Harry quickly jumped to Ron's defense.

"He's telling the truth Hermione, Dumbledore told us about her when you were at your parents," Harry interjected.

"And Jessica is a…an old acquaintance of the family," Ginny lied convincingly causing Harry to frown at her, he gave her a 'What are you doing?' look but she ignored him.

"Look if you want I'll introduce you to her," Ron said putting a comforting hand on Hermione's shoulder, she pushed it angrily away before turning away from him, "No Thanks!"

"Ummm…Hey Harry can I see that new Quiddicth book you bought before Christmas?" Ginny asked allowing Harry and herself to make a hasty exit leaving Ron and Hermione alone in the common room.

"'Mione…" Ron pleaded turning her around to look at him, "Even if I did think Jessica was pretty, which I don't," He added quickly seeing her frown, "She's just not my type, you know, apart from the fact that she's my teacher those types of girls just don't do it for me."

"What types of girls?" Hermione questioned having calmed down enough to look at Ron's face without feeling the urge to hit him square on the nose.

'Girls whose names aren't Hermione Jane Granger,' Ron was tempted to say but stopped himself, "Girls with straight black hair and eyes with deathly white skin,"

"Then what types of girls do you like?" Hermione said as she looked up at him expectantly.

"Girls with brown curly hair and chocolate brown eyes, you know those bossy know-it-all types," Ron replied unable to stop himself this time.

Hermione turned her face to the side to hide her smile.

"Are we okay now?" Ron questioned when Hermione didn't speak, "Because there's something I wanted to ask you."

"What?"

Ron rubbed his neck and looked down into Hermione's face, "I wanted to know if you…finished your transfiguration essay?" Ron finished lamely, cursing himself for not being able to ask her what he really wanted to know.

"Oh…well I was going to start it now, did you need help?"

"Yeah, if you don't mind."

'This is the perfect opportunity to study…I mean to do some studying with Hermione,' Ron thought.

"Of course not Ron," Hermione said touching his arm causing Ron's heart to quicken suddenly, "I'll just grab my things, wait here I'll be right back,"

Ron watched as Hermione disappeared into the girls dorms.

'Excuse me, but don't you have homework for Advanced Divination to do?'

'I will, but I do have other classes you know. And I thought you said you wouldn't invade my mind anymore?' Ron questioned Jessica.

'I said I wouldn't invade your privacy not your mind, but alright…just no more flirting okay,' Jessica's voice faded and Ron made his way to a desk pulling out his books. When Hermione had returned he was already on the second page of his essay on Aesacus, the interpreter of dreams, he was surprised how easy he found the subject as his hand practically flew across the parchment.

her what he really wated to know.owned,me string coming from Hermione' and his eyes

"What subject is this for?" Hermione questioned from behind him, Ron jumped from his seat when he noticed her leaning over him, a hand on his shoulder.

"Advanced Divination, the new class I was telling you about," Ron said quickly finishing his essay and pulling out his transfiguration work, as he couldn't see her face he couldn't see her frown disapprovingly at him.

"Divination? Why are you wasting your time with that?" she took her seat across from Ron and gave him a suspicious look. 'I thought that crackpot Trelawney taught Divination?'

"She does, but I'm taking 'Advanced Divination' which Jessica teaches," Ron replied to the question that he heard Hermione ask not looking up from his work.

Hermione stared at him surprised, 'If I didn't know better I'd think he was reading my thoughts.'

"What are you on about?" Ron asked lifting his head finally to look at Hermione.

Hermione gasped and placed a hand over her mouth even though she hadn't spoken, 'No, that's not possible…I mean not that it's a rare gift but…there's no way Ron is reading my thoughts!'

Ron realized too late that he had heard Hermione's thoughts again but he tried not to act guilty when he said, "I meant, Professor Trelawney is a terrible at divination but Jessica is much better she can actually…" Ron stopped speaking when he noticed the enraged look on Hermione's face.

'Jessica, Jessica, Jessica …does he ever stop thinking about her!'

'Uh-Oh,' Ron thought as he watched Hermione's frown deepen and her eyes narrow. He tried to think of a way to get out of the whole he had dug for himself. As Hermione continued to glare at him in angry silence Ron felt a sudden pull at his chest. He lifted his hand to his heart; it felt as though it was being pulled from his chest. He looked down at his chest when his hand touched something hot, his eyes widened when he saw a golden glowing string sticking out from his chest. He stared at the strange string and watched as it slowly turned red then to black, he pulled on the string slightly and his eyes shoot up when he heard Hermione yelp in pain. He looked over the table to see her clutching her chest, he froze when he saw the string from his chest was attached to Hermione's chest.

"Hermione!" Ron quickly stepped over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder, "Are you okay?" he questioned lifting her face to look at his.

'Darn him, why does he have to be so sweet?' Hermione cursed pushing his hand away.

Ron knelled down in front of her, "Hermione-Jane, stop being stubborn and tell me what's bothering you?" Ron asked even though he already knew the answer.

"Nothing," Hermione shrugged her voice softening, 'Harry and Ginny are right, he does call me Jane.'

Ron gave a lopsided smile, "Then we better get started, Jane," he said patting her lovingly on the head before returning to his seat.

Hermione touched her head and blushed slightly before opening her Transfiguration essay.

Ron looked down at his chest and noticed that the string had disappeared, 'What the hell was that? I better ask Jessica when I see her tomorrow.'

A/N: Better stop there before this chapter becomes too long. I don't know what it was about this chapter but it didn't turn out the way I wanted it too sigh…but I hope you guys enjoyed reading it nonetheless. Please review! I'm begging you guys, so that I know that people are reading my work.

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