Everything is JK Rowling's except for the plot.. that's mine.

Chapter 4.Exhausted

"Ron wait up!".

"What do you want Ginny? If your going to remind me about Mom's remembrance supper tonight don't bother, I'll be there." Ron said exhaustedly.

"It wasn't about the supper. I was just wondering if you were ok. I guess I shouldn't have asked." Ginny walked away in a rage.

Watching his only sister stalk away Ron wondered if he was doing the right thing, if all the pain that was going to happen tonight was going to be worth it. Of course it will be. Ron thought to himself. Anything to give them back to the world. They should have never left us all alone. It should have been me that left. Not them, not them. It's all my fault. I wasn't powerful enough to help. I wasn't good enough. I wasn't brave enough. If they had given me the option would I have been able to do what they did? Would I have agreed to their crazy plan? No. I'm living a lie. A lie that will soon become truth in just a couple of hours. I just hope that the world will understand what I am doing and forgive me in the end.

With a new resolve to make what was wrong right, Ron walked over to the fireplace that had been set up on the field. He passed by multitudes of people, children with awed looks on their small faces, people who were twice his age leaping out of his way. Ron fought to keep his lunch down as he watched them. Was this how people had acted towards Harry while he was alive? No wonder he hated fame. Somehow I don't blame him. Worse of all were his former classmates.

He had once been plain old, poor Ronald Weasley, with friends he could always talk to and people who would talk to him about everyday things without a look of awe present on their faces. That all changed afterwards. No one would look him in the eye. As if they were afraid that they weren't good enough for that. Not even his brothers would. Only Ginny, his mother, and his father would ever talk to him or treat him like a person, not a hero.

He was rich from the money the ministry and the rest of the wizarding world gave him in tribute for defeating Voldemort, but the money didn't matter anymore. He had put most of it in an account for the orphans of the wizards and witches that were killed in that last battle in honor of Harry, but it gave him no satisfaction. He just wanted to be Ron again.

Soon, he thought. Soon, things will be back to the way they were supposed to be. Well, they'll be close. Only missing one element to be complete and that element has to be eliminated in order for most of it to become normal. The sacrifice of one in order to save two. That is the way things should have been. That is the way they will be.