Title: Scarred

Author: RedWitch

Rated: PG-13

Pairing: Hermione/Ron

Summary: It's almost over. Only one more left after this chapter! Ron's 'magical' powers of love save Hermione from destroying herself even more.

Disclaimer: JK Rowling owns all this. I'm just a crazy person playing with the characters!

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Part Eleven

Hermione sat up painfully. Where was she? Her eyes became focused and she saw the Hospital Wing. She looked to the weight on her legs and saw Ron. Instantly tears came to her eyes.

"I'm sorry." She whispered. "I'm sorry you got stuck with the girl who tried to kill herself. I'm sorry I was bad when I was little. I'm sorry I argued. I'm sorry I'm alive."

"Why?" Ron mumbled.

"Because!"

"Shh, Hermione, nothing will ever change the way I feel about you. If anything it will only make me love you more. I've liked you before I could even like girls. Tell me, tell me everything."

Hermione laughed, "Hey what else do I have to lose?" Ron didn't laugh, so she continued, "I was at an all girl's privet school. Lots of rules. I didn't follow. I wrote with my left hand. I argued. From the first grade till the end. When I was ten after smacking my hand with a ruler and whipping my back, they liked to use the old ways of discipline, I was brought to the headmaster. He said I as bad. And bad girls needed to be punished. I didn't understand, well not until last year did I truly understand, but he raped me." Hermione began to cry. She drew her knees up and hugged her legs. "He said I deserved it. I was meant for him and no one would want me now. See, you're disgusted with me."

"Never," Ron said, "The only thing I'm disgusted with is the muggle school you went to. I'm amazed that you survived. It only makes you an even better person, you were so brave. Hermione Granger, I still love you. I wish you had told me sooner."

"When I came here I had to be perfect. That way I wouldn't be sent to the Headmaster's or get beat. No one would know about the old me. She was dead."

"Hermione, listen to me. You're perfect the way you are. I don't want you to ever change. I'll help you threw this. I swear." Ron sat beside her and pulled her into his warn embrace, "I'd do anything to know that you were safe and happy."

"Why Ron?" Hermione looked up with confused eyes.

"Because I love you in every way possible. I love you more than I thought I could love someone. Your past is just that, the past. It only affects your future it you want it to. What do you say? Will you let me help you?"

"Yes Ron."