"HERMIONE!" Ron yelled, right after she apparated. He began running around, looking wildly from place to place.

"Ron," Harry said firmly, "We can follow her."

Ron turned around, his eyes wide. "How? How?!"

"Easy, we go to her parents."

Meanwhile, Hermione was sitting on a rock, sobbing her eyes out.

'I was so careful. They can't have known. I was so careful!' She flung herself down on the dirt, and passed out.

Two hours later

"Harry, I still can't find her!" Ron was pale; the scars on his arms were showing up brightly. "Harry!"

"Ron, shut it. We checked her parent's house, and she wasn't there. Let's try the village," Harry pointed to a large sign.

"Welcome to the Village of Fornits."

CRASH

"What the bloody hell was that!" Ron said. Then they heard a shriek.

"Let's GO!" Harry yelled, pulling out his wand. The heard the shriek again, and then a dark figure ran from the village, straight into Harry.

"Oh…lord…he's…Vol--!" the figure said. They could see more clearly that it was a girl. With black hair.

Harry ran; he ran until he saw what he had seen many times before.

The Dark Mark floating over a woman's body.

"Mate!" Harry ran back at the call of Ron's voice. "Oy, I think that the girl is half dead!"

When Harry was close enough, he saw that the girl was bleeding profusely.

"Ron, who is she?"

"I have no idea."

After careful consideration, Ron and Harry decided to take the girl to Hermione's house, so they could at least stop the bleeding.

Thankfully, the Grangers weren't home. Ron went into the woods to find some roots that could be used to stop bleeding. As he was walking, he tripped over something.

"Goddammit…Hermione?" Ron exclaimed as he saw what it was. Hermione sat up, and was rubbing her head.

"R—Ron?" She said. Ron nodded, praying that she was ok.

"Hermione?" She stood up and smiled.

"I think I'm all right now," she said, smiling. That smile was the one that made Ron weak. The one that showed how perfect her teeth were, and how wonderful she was…

"Good. Hermione?" Ron said tentatively, getting up to his feet.

"What Ron?"

"Can I do something?"

"Hmmm?"

"I just want you to know that I was so worr--" he was cut off by Hermione's mouth on his. His eyes closed as he sank into the feeling of their kiss. He opened his mouth, and let his tongue run across the line of her lips, as she opened her mouth.

After a possibility of several hours, they broke apart.

"Ron, that was amazing. But," she said, her eyes pleading, "Ron, I am not the one for you, I'm too… "

Ron kissed her again. "Hermione, there's no one else I would rather have with me. We need to get back to your place. Hermione, there was an attack on the Village of Fornits, and there's this girl that was injured. We need you to make a blood-replenishing potion for her!"

Hermione got up and started for her house.