Chapter 6...
Ron sat in the common room silently with Harry until Harry decided he was too tired.
"Ron, I'm headin' up...coming?" Ron looked up at Harry with heavy eyes before shaking his head. "All right then...go to bed soon though. Don't stay up all night over this. G'night."
"Night Harry." Ron yawned as he looked back toward the fire. What can I say to her? He asked himself. "Hey Hermione, I can feel all of your emotions, wanna go to the movies with me? Yeah right." He lowered his head to think of how pathetic and unbelievable he would sound. His eyes began to burn more violently from looking at the fire when finally, his eyelids shut.
He was back in the hospital ward, sitting in that chair that had become his bed for the past two weeks. He was watching Hermione sleep. Her hair was tied up in a black ribbon and her cheeks were flushed. Her eyes twitched and she groaned before her eyes opened to look at Ron. She still looked half asleep.
"Oh my gosh Ron, thank God you're here! I just had the most awful dream! You were taken away from me, taken by Voldemort and he wouldn't let me say goodbye to you! He wouldn't let me and I was crying and you were yelling for me and I couldn't help you! But then he used the Cruciatus Curse on you and I could feel it, I could feel how badly you were hurting! And I tried to help you, I tried so hard, but I couldn't! I'm sorry Ron! I tried so hard!" Ron had stood up from his chair and sat on her bed to comfort her and he wrapped his arms around her. She collapsed in his embrace and sobbed.
"Shh...Hermione, it was a dream, it wasn't real, I'm here now, I won't leave you." Ron coaxed her.
"Please Ron, don't leave me; never leave me again." Hermione wept into his sweater.
"I never left you in the first place, and I won't ever...I promise." Ron looked down at her bushy hair and kissed the top of her head. Hermione looked up at him with watery eyes, as if suddenly seeing him in a whole new way. Their eyes fixed on one another's as they slowly moved closer and closer to each other....
Ron's eyes snapped open and he looked around the empty common room... and his heart sank.