Charlie sighed as he stared at the letter in his hands, he knew this day had been coming but he hoped it hadn't been so soon. In his hands was a sheet of crisp parchment, the emblem of the front was stamped in a deep, fiery red and the symbol was of a dragon. He was being called back to the reserve. He had been having that much fun with his family, along with Hermione and Harry over the past couple of weeks he didn't want his leave to come to an end. Even though he had left Romania, a new English reserve had opened up and he had been made the Head Keeper. An honour that was, and it had been something he had been working hard towards ever since he began his training.

The only problem was how was he going to tell Hermione and his Mother. Hermione and himself had been getting on very well over the last weeks, considering the circumstances with her and Ron's break up. He thought she had been seeking solace in him at first but soon grew to learn that she very much enjoyed his company, just as much as he had enjoyed hers. But now receiving this letter was going to through a spanner in the works. He thought it best to tell Hermione first, that way he could gauge her reaction and to some extent try and gauge her feelings towards him.

Charlie slowly walked through the Burrow, not keen on finding her so quickly, that would just result in having to tell her soon. As he walked past the living room to get to the stairs, the rest of his siblings were occupying themselves. It was the same routine they all fell into when everyone was back together, they were just all that comfortable that they didn't have to speak to each other they could just enjoy the silence. Although, it hadn't been like that when they were younger, the noise could have woken up a dragon.

Eventually Charlie found Hermione in Ginny's room, the door had been left open a sliver so as he walked past he caught the familiar brown hair he could grown to love. He gently knocked on the door and pushed it open, seeing Hermione close over a book quickly. "Am I interrupting your reading?"

Hermione shook her head and smiled, "Not at all Charlie. You can come in and sit down, this is your sister's bedroom"

Charlie took a place on Ginny's bed and looked around, "I know, but it always felt...weird coming in her when Ginny wasn't here. I felt like I was invading her privacy"

"Nervous of Ginny are we?" Hermione smirked as the tops of Charlie's ears went pink.

"Me? Nervous of Ginny?" Charlie let out a nervous chuckle before nodding. "Of course I am, have you seen her bat bogey hex?"

"Touche Mr Weasley, touche"

A silence fell between them both, neither were quite sure what to say and Charlie felt his heart hammering inside of his chest. He always hated having to tell the people he cared about that he was leaving. Although this time the reserve was in England so it wasn't far at all. "Hermione, I have something I need to tell you"

Hermione's interest peeked at this, just what could he need to tell her? When she didn't say anything Charlie continued on. "Well, as you know I've left the Romanian reserve" Hermione nodded, still listening intently. Charlie could just imagine she listened with this much interest in one of her classes back at Hogwarts. "But what I didn't mention was that I've got a new job, at a new reserve"

Hermione's face fell ever so slightly as she stared at Charlie, he was going to be leaving again. And to who knows where this time. She couldn't help but feel deflated at the news, but before Charlie could truly read her expression she grinned at him. "Oh Charlie! That's great. Where is the reserve?"

"It's actually based here in England. So it's not far really, but I'll probably not be around the Burrow much while I'm getting settled in. They've made me Head Keeper so there's a lot more rigorous training to do before I start the post so I'll be leaving in a weeks time" Charlie held his breath, trying to see through Hermione at her expression. But he couldn't read anything. Maybe she didn't like him more than a friend? He internally winced at that thought.

Hermione gulped but still kept her smile, "Congratulations Charlie, that's wonderful" She got up from where she was sitting and walked over to him, giving him a tight hug. Embracing the smell of her now favourite shampoo, musk with a hint of vanilla. "You'll do wonderful. You deserve to be Head Keeper after all the years you've been working in Romania. And even though you'll not be staying at the Burrow that often you can always floo over when you like. I'm sure your Mother is still going to be delighted that you'll still be in the country"

But what about you? What do you really think? Charlie thought to himself. "Thanks Hermione" He smiled, ruffling his hand through his dishevelled hair while debating on whether or not to tell her about his feelings for her. But then if he did, he'd be risking their friendship and he had grown to care for Hermione a great deal. He wouldn't want to ruin anything.

"Well, uh. I better be going to tell my Mum" Charlie stood up, coughing slightly and lingering for a moment, waiting for her to say something else.

"Good luck Charlie, I'm sure she'll not be too upset" Hermione gave him that too sweet of a smile again. Every fibre in her being was telling her to shout out her feelings, or just stand up and snog the face off of him. But she didn't want to make a fool of herself. She had done that too often and she wasn't willing to risk it with Charlie.

Charlie nodded at her reply and left the room, feeling dejected and slightly alone. Telling his mother could wait, for now he just wanted to be alone. He walked back to his room and was pleasantly surprised to find his older brother, Bill, waiting for him.