A/N: I'm back! The finals are finally done! Now, for the next 3 months, all I will be doing is just working full-time and go one a 1 week long vacation. I shouldn't have a problem getting a chapter out every week and maybe more than 1 chapter per week, it depends. Although, I may be really busy for one whole month in August because I am transferring to another school about 8-9 hours away.

Now, we are on Chapter 25 which takes place during the last part of Chapter 9 to Chapter 11 of the Deathly Hallows. Yes, I know that is 3 chapters for just one chapter, but there will be several chapters that will be pieced together for just one chapter. I think there may be only 15 chapters or less left in this story. Let's not worry about that now. We know in the last chapter, Harry was a cock-blocker. Damn him! Still, let's see Harry's reaction…

(Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter)

Chapter 25:
Back to Grimmauld Place

Harold had decided that Grimmauld Place was the safest place for them at the moment. Ron had mentioned that it may have been safer to hide out in the muggle world, but George mentioned that the ministry now had Harold on the wanted list in both the wizarding and the muggle world. It was madness. Ron knew that not everyone would believe it, but that they would have no choice but to follow the ministry's wishes. However, he knew that some of them would rather help Harold instead of the ministry.

"We're here." Hermione said as they apparated in a small area with trees across the street from Grimmauld Place. "Oh no." Hermione gasped. Ron turned to see two men in black cloaks standing in front of Grimmauld Place as if waiting for someone.

"Hermione, Bill told me that as long as we don't get off the steps of the building, they can't see us. Do you think you can apparate us onto the steps?" Harold asked from next to Hermione. Neville was standing behind Harold as well.

Ron looked down at Hermione to find her looking worried. "Please?" Harold asked once again. Hermione finally nodded. She turned and stared at the steps of Grimmauld Place and tried to put as much detail as she could in her mind before grabbing Harold's hands and apparating. They re-appeared on top of the steps. The men in cloaks didn't react, so that meant Bill was right about them not being able to see the steps. Ron took a deep breath before focusing on the steps as well. He then grabbed Neville's arm and felt his insides squeezing as he disapparated and re-appeared on the steps as well.

"Woah. I can't believe that worked. Okay, let's get inside. I really don't fancy standing on the steps all day while those guys watch us." Ron said.

They turned to the door and Potter opened the door and stepped in first before anyone else. All of a sudden, the gas lamps around them flickered to life. Then Ron heard a deep voice snarl out, "Severus Snape?" and then his tongue got stuck inside the top of his mouth. He felt like gagging while Harold tried to do something. He said something and the tongue sticking stopped. "What the fuck was that?" Ron said out loud. Nobody decided to answer him.

In the back of his mind, he wished he had stayed at home with his family. At least, he wouldn't be targeted, even though the ministry didn't know he was with them. No one knew anything about Ron, just the Golden Trio. Still, he would rather be with Hermione than leave her alone on the hunt. He knew that he wouldn't be very good at protecting Hermione since all three of them were much more advanced in spells than anyone else. Ron was just an average duelist, but he hoped that while on this 'Horcrux' hunt he would pick up some skills.

Ron was currently lying on the floor next to Hermione. He wasn't happy because Harold had insisted they sleep in the same room. He knew the real reason was that Potter wanted to prevent them from shagging anymore. It really wasn't on his mind tonight anyways, but still it pissed Ron off. With that last thought, he snuck a look at Harold and wrapped his arms around Hermione's waist as he pulled her against his chest before closing his eyes.

The next morning, Ron woke up to find Hermione snuggled up against the crook of his neck, her bushy hair tickling his nose. He turned his head to look around to see that it was morning and that Harold was not in the room. He looked back down at Hermione face that was only a few inches from his. He smiled at how peaceful she looked and couldn't suppress the urge to disturb her sleep as he leaned forward and kissed her on the mouth.

Hermione groaned into his mouth as she slowly blinked her eyes opened. She looked into the azure eyes that were gazing back at her, only a few inches from her. "Ron." Hermione whispered as she turned away from him to stretch.

"Good morning, gorgeous." Ron muttered into her ear. Hermione shivered, but not from the cold.

"I must look awful right now. I just woke up." Hermione replied. Ron chuckled quietly, as not to accidentally wake up Neville who was sleeping on the floor a couple feet away.

"Nah, you always look sexy to me, but right now, all your hair is all over the place and it makes you look wild. If Neville wasn't in here, I'd be fucking you right now." Ron lightly bit into her ear lobe as she moaned.

"I think it's too early for you to be vulgar right now, no matter how much I would like that right now. Where's Harry?" Hermione looked around for Harry, trying to push Ron away from her. She didn't want to do anything at the moment because Neville was sleeping close to them.

"I don't know; I just woke up a couple minutes ago." Ron looked at Neville who was now snoring a little louder. Hermione turned to the noise and rolled her eyes playfully.

"It's not safe for Harry to go somewhere without us knowing. We should go look for him. Let's wake Neville up." Hermione did just that as she pulled herself out of Ron's embrace and nudged Neville awake with her foot.

Ron groaned as he pushed himself off the ground. A few minutes later, Neville was now standing with his wand in his hand. Hermione was going to look upstairs while Neville was going to look downstairs. They both completely ignored Ron as they left the room. Ron rolled his eyes at this as he went down the stairs to the kitchen. He knew that they were the Golden Trio and it had always been just the three of them.

While he was making tea, he was startled as he heard Hermione yell loudly, "Neville! Come here!" Ron felt like panicking because it sounded like Hermione was in trouble, so he grabbed his wand as he pushed down the feeling of annoyance to Hermione calling Neville instead of Ron.

After getting up there, catching up to Neville, Hermione was okay. There wasn't anything wrong with her and Ron now knew it was going to be hard to tell the difference between her excited and scared yell from a distance. He didn't know why they were getting excited over some guy's name, R.A.B. He knew who Regulus Black was from some stories. He rolled his eyes as he went back downstairs to the kitchen once again.

Ron absolutely liked Kreacher. He was getting along with Kreacher, even though he was helping the 'blood traitors'. It was because of Ron's background as a Weasley. He also pitied Kreacher because of what happened to Regulus. Right now, Ron was looking around the house while the Golden Trio talked to each other. Kreacher was currently looking for Mundungus Fletcher for Harold.

There was a bang downstairs and Ron immediately grabbed his wand and ran down the stairs. He heard Hermione's voice reprimanding Harold. He barged into the room to see a graying haired man flee out of the room. Harold was currently on his butt on the floor. "What's going on here?" Ron annoyingly said.

Hermione explained everything that had just happened in the last couple minutes. It was later that night when Harold wanted to sleep in Sirius's room that everyone got separate rooms. Harold wanted Hermione to sleep in the room next to hers, but she wanted a room with a window to outside. So, her room was now the bedroom above Sirius's. Ron's room was near the top of the building and definitely one of the farthest rooms away from Harold's. Neville took a room on the second floor.

Ron was getting ready to fall asleep when he heard his door open. He looked up to see Hermione in her pajamas which consisted of only Ron's Chudley Cannon's t-shirt that went past her knees. It was definitely too big for her, but she looked sexy in it.

"Ron, I can't sleep in my room. Do you mind if I sleep with you?" Hermione asked from the side of Ron's bed. Ron nodded without saying anything. Hermione hesitated before asking, "Do you mind if you took your clothes off? I don't want to have sex, but I just want to feel your skin against mine while we sleep?" Hermione said as she grabbed the hem of her shirt and pulled it over her head to reveal that she wasn't wearing anything underneath. Ron removed his clothes as well and pulled Hermione into the bed. He cradled Hermione's small, almost fragile, and naked body against his chest as he closed his eyes.

Days later, Kreacher finally turned up with Mundungus Fletcher. "Get him off me!" Mundungus yelled. Harold commanded Kreacher to back off as the Golden Trio tried to get him to reveal everything about the locket. It was revealed that Dolores Umbridge had taken the locket from Fletcher. The Golden Trio had dark looks on their face as Ron appeared normal. It was because he had somewhat gotten along with her and the last time he saw her was when he was helping her try to catch the D.A., Dumbledore's Army. Ron then heard the most ridiculous thing come out of Potter's mouth; they would be breaking into the ministry just to get the locket back. Harold definitely was stupid.

A/N: Yes, I know this was a somewhat short chapter, but like I said, there will be some chapters that are short. There are only a few ideas that I have that I can use in some chapters and they will definitely be long. So, we really are almost done with this story.

Still, I hope you enjoyed it and I really hope you guys review. I am only 20 more reviews until hitting the 200 reviews mark! That is freaking awesome. You guys are awesome. See you next time…