Drabble 25: Ron/Harry/Hermione (Frozen Moonlight)

Emotions: Affection and Angst

Rating: M

AN: The prompt 'crimson' was used for it's meaning. The color crimson represents the color of fresh blood, and can even be associated with love due to it's connection with the color red. The prompt 'maroon' was as well. The color maroon in the color representing sacrifice and bravery.

'Is this how it feels like to die?' Ron wondered. Sighing to himself, Ron slowly looked up at the night sky. Stars littered it, and the moon shined brightly. Leaves rustled in the distance, and the faint sound of the water from the Black Lake swooshing with it's tide carried over to him.

Cold enveloped his being, and Ron shivered against the pale white snow he lay buried in. There was no warmth, and his teeth clattered loudly against each other.

He hadn't intended for it to turn out this way, but now that he lay dying in the cold winter air, he couldn't help but think that this may have been for the best.

Hermione, Harry, and himself had been here mere hours before talking about non important things, and they had been having a good time. Laughs went around, and if Ron concentrated hard enough, he could hear both Harry and Hermione's melodic laughs echoing in the distance.

Big smiles stretched across their faces, and they panted slightly as they ran around, enjoying the freedom that came with having defeated Voldemort. It had been such a happy occasion, and they loved the sense of freedom they got as they finally got to relish in the childish task of running around in the snow without any interferences.

Faster and faster snowballs in the air sailed, and Ron could recall the gleam in emerald eyes as a snowball impacted with Hermione's face, enticing a loud 'oomph' from the smartest witch of the century.

His own loud laughing echoed around him, and Ron smiled shakily as he remembered all three of them coming back together and hugging to retain warmth.

It seemed so childish to be enjoying just running outside, but to them it fell as if they had been relieved of a huge burden and finally got to live the childhoods they never had due to the raging war.

It had been so easy to forget, and later on that had been their downfall.

It happened so quickly that even now Ron struggled with accepting the fact that it did in fact happen.

Everything had been silent save for their laughs and taunts, until finally a loud thump echoed in the distance and blue eyes widened as both Harry and Hermione dropped to the floor like rag dolls.

Their breaths ceased, and Ron could feel himself going into shock all over again as his friends bodies lay on the floor before him, lifeless.

For a split second, he recalled the full horror of the situation as it finally hit him that his friends lay on the floor, not breathing!

Immediately dropping down, Ron focused on Hermione first and looked for any open wounds yet could find none. Deeming her okay for the moment, he went to Harry and did the same and found no wounds as well. Frowning, Ron cast a spell on Harry and Hermione that would allow him to see what had been done to them, only for his frown to droop even lower when he noticed nothing was wrong.

It had been in that moment, that an angry red spell hit him in the back, and Ron hit the floor kicking and screaming in pain. It was intense, and it felt like he was being burned alive.

Higher and higher his screams went, and Ron didn't know how long the fiery inferno surrounded him. Seemingly millennia's later, the pain finally dulled into a dull ache and his screams finally began to cease. Blood stained the snow around him, and the air reeked of the strong metallic substance.

His breathing labored, Ron whispered into the still air, "Death is nothing, but the next great adventure."

Smiling softly at a star, Ron wondered if maybe, just maybe, Dumbledore was watching him pass onto the after life from above.

Prompts:

Gringotts Wizarding Prompt Bank Prompts Galore! Forum: (All Colours) Crimson, (Celestial Prompts) Star, (Weather Prompts) Snow

Ultimate Chocolate Frog Club:(Gold) Ronald Weasley. (Challenge) Write about Ronald Weasley.

Gringotts Prompt Bank: (Title) Frozen Moonlight, (Celestial Prompt) Star

September Event: 30. (color) Maroon.