So here is the Next chapter! only this chapter and an Epilogue left :O thank you to those who followed and did 'favorite' my story and to those who reviewed.

Stumbling the distance to her he attempted to touch her cheek, to hold it in his hand and kiss her, just one more time, but his hand fell through her. A tear fell down her ghostly cheek.

"Ron!" Hermione said once again, it was as if she were too happy to talk.

"Hermione I'm so sorry!" Ron began, desperate to say everything and anything he had been wishing he could have said before. "I'm SORRY I could couldn't save you, I'm sorry that I was weak, that I didn't know what spells to cast, that was always your thing…" the two let out a small giggle as they took a breath.

"I wish…" he continued, looking at the ground, not sure how to say it, scared to say it, "… I wish I told you that I loved you sooner, instead of wasting all that time being jealous of you with Krum! I admit it I was jealous." He smiled, Hermione thought of the first smile she had saw when he returned after he had left their camping sight after that big fight.

"I love you Hermione!" he added, taking a deep breath.

"I love you too Ron, I always have and I always will."

Ron and Hermione stood so close to each other, Ron holding his eyes open for as long as he could, scared to blink, scared she would disappear.

"Are you… are you…"

Hermione laughed inside, "I'm ok." She shed a single tear and Ron instinctively went to wipe it off her cheek, but stop as he remembered he couldn't, he just held his hand at her cheek.

He watched as Hermione closed her eyes imagining his hand on her cheek, imagining what it the warmth of his hand would feel like against her skin.

"Hermione!" Ron said softly, her eyes flicking open and staring directly at his, "I have to tell Ginny and Harry… They're just over there…."Ron said point through a few trees across the clearing.

He looked back and his heart sank, she was gone, she hadn't said goodbye, he hadn't said goodbye. Quickly Ron raced across the clearing yelling "Ginny, Harry! I found it!"

Harry and Ginny emerged from the darkness of the forest, sprinting and out of breath.

"Is that…?" Ginny asked, her hands on her knees as she lent over, trying to slow her breathing down.

"Yea… that's the resurrection stone!" Harry said, his eyes fixed on the stone, "just think of them Ron, Hermione, Fred, anyone and they'll appear to us!"

Ron did as Harry said, even though he was well aware of how to use the stone, he closed his eyes and pictured Hermione, Fred, Tonks, Lupin and even Lavender, each standing around them, in a circle, smiling.

Ginny gasped "Fred!" Ron slowly opened his eyes to see them, each of their smiles refreshing.

Harry had firstly stumbled over to Hermione, it was relaxing to see her, to know that he could remember her the way she was, he felt his heart mending at the sight of all their faces, he felt the weight lift from his shoulders now that Ron could say goodbye and move on with his life rather than wallowing in depression.

As Harry looked over to Ron he saw him talking quietly to Lavender, "he had already seen you hadn't he, before he called us!"

Hermione simply smiled "you always did put two and two together."

As he looked back over to Ron he heard a "no hard feelings about anything in the past then." Lavender peacefully nodded in agreement.

Ron visited Fred, interrupting a conversation about George, which he was having with Ginny, his face looked relieved but sad still, and Ron understood it would have been horrible to have been separated from someone as special as a twin.

"Hey Ron!" he said forcing a smile as Ron appeared.

"Hey Fred!" he replied holing back more tears, Ginny took his hand and gripped it tightly, the three smiling at each other, as their eyes watered in happiness.

Ron quickly spoke to both Lupin and Tonks, before he returned to Hermione and Harry. Fred walked with Ginny and the two greeted Lupin and Tonks.

I wish I could ask her to pull that duck face again, Ginny thought, desperate to laugh as she once had, when everything was easier.

Ron, Harry and Hermione stood together in a comfortable silence, Harry not bothering to give them time for a 'private word', considering he had already used the stone.

"Would it be inappropriate to make a joke?" Ron asked after a smile broke his straight face.

Since no one objected he continued, "at least you didn't get expelled….." Hermione and Harry looked at him, "…cause you know, that's the worse thing that can happen to you!"

They all let out a small burst of laughter, just like they used to, the Golden Trio, back in the days.

"It's time!" Lupin said interrupting everyone's conversations and the laughter that echoed through the forest.

Ron's heart raced at the thought of her leaving again, but he knew it had to happen; this was the way it had to be.

Ginny walked over to where Ron and Harry stood and the three watched as Fred, Lavender, Tonks and Lupin stood beside each other, all their eyes focused on the three who stood before them and Hermione would stood looking at Ron.

Hermione and Ron looked at each other, his eyes determined not to blink, not to miss a second of the time they had left.

"We will always be with you Ronald!" She glanced at Harry, then Ginny and back at Ron; "In here!" she raised her hand and held it over his heart. Just like Harry had told them when they began the search for the stone. Ron raised his hand and held it to her cheek, and watched as she slowly backed away and took her place beside the others.

"Just remember we love you… all of you!" she said her eyes flicking over to Lavender.

Then the five departed, slowly fading until they were no longer in sight.

Ron took a deep breath and let it out, for the first time he felt like it was ok, not a feeling when he knew it would be ok eventually, or he felt ok, but only for a short time, it was the feeling of happiness which he had not felt for a long time.

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