Chapter 13: What He Deserves

Disclaimer: I unfortunately do not own Harry Potter. It all belongs to JK. Rowling. I own nothing but the plot. This is all in fun.

A/N: Okay Okay I know that I said that this would be the last chapter but for one thing, some people didn't want me to finish just yet. For another I don't want to finish it yet either and finally, it just works out better this way... I'm going to stop saying that next will be the last chapter because you never know (although it probably will be lol) Hope you like it! Enjoy! x0x0z

Ron's POV

Harry and Ron both took out and lit their wands and ran even faster through the trees.

"Hermione!" Ron yelled. "Hermione where are you?"

"Hermione!" yelled Harry as well.

"She could be anywhere, Harry! This forest is huge!" said Ron frantically.

"What's that over there?" Harry said pointing to a tree branch. He ran towards it with Ron close behind.

"It looks like a piece of Hermione's robes" said Ron. "Look there's broken branches and foot prints in the mud! She must have gone this way."

So they took off again trying to get to the heart of the wood as quickly as possible, praying that they weren't too late.

Ron then stopped abruptly.

"Why did you stop?" asked Harry.

"Shhh! Listen! It sounds like someone screaming!" said Ron. "That's definitely Hermione!"

"It's coming from over here!" said Harry.

Ron plummeted through the bushes and peeked through them along with Harry. They saw Hermione on the ground bound to a tree looking extremely tortured and beaten. She had stopped screaming now and was crying to herself. Draco was standing beside her looking very pleased with himself.

Ron was about to go and attack Malfoy but Harry stopped him and said, "Wait one minute so we can think of a plan to get her out of there."

Ron was about to retort back to Harry but shut up because Malfoy has started talking again.

"Now Mudblood, I'm going to do something that I've wanted to do since the moment I met you!" Draco sneered.

Hermione looked up at him through the hair that was falling over her scratched face; her weary eyes filled with fear.

Ron's mouth opened wide in horror. "He's going to kill her Harry! I'm going in!"

But before Ron could do anything he saw Draco grab Hermione by the head and did the most unexpected thing Ron could ever imagine--- he kissed her!!!!!

Ron felt like he was going to be sick! He didn't even bother with magic. After yelling, "Get your filthy lips off of her!" Ron immediately ran up behind Draco and tore him away from Hermione with his bare hands!

Ron then threw him to the ground and started punching him with all of his might! Hermione was screaming and Harry was yelling something but Ron couldn't hear what they were shouting. All that mattered now was that he hurt Draco as much as possible! For the first time in his life, Ron Weasley wanted to seriously kill another person. Sure he had murderous thoughts for Draco and even Snape before but never like this. Ron actually wanted to kill Draco with his own two hands!

They were both rolling on the ground hitting each other and Draco's wand fell out of his hand and rolled across the ground near them. Draco and Ron were both reaching for it when Ron heard Harry say "Accio Wand!"

The wand flew up to Harry's hand and he grabbed it. He pointed his own wand at them and said, "Ron get away from Malfoy!" Ron didn't need telling twice. He kicked Draco once more, got up and ran beside Harry who still had his wand pointed at Malfoy. Ron got out his own wand and pointed it at him as well.

"That's it Malfoy! It's over! You've never going to hurt us again!" Harry said severely.

"What are you going to do to me?" Draco replied in a high pitched voice.

"You don't deserve to see another day after what you've done to Hermione and everything that you have done to us over the years! We're going to make you pay for all the pain you've caused us!" Ron yelled fiercely glaring at Draco with the utmost of loathing.

"Ha! You wouldn't kill me! Y-you don't have the guts!" Draco spat although he looked extremely frightened.

"Try me!" said Ron, raising his wand and taking a large step towards Draco who dropped to his knees and shielded himself with his arms while whimpering cowardly.

Hermione then spoke up, "Ron NO! You can't kill him!"

"Why the hell not?" said Ron still not taking his narrowed eyes off of Draco.

"That would be stooping to his level! You're not like him Ron, and neither are you Harry! You're not killers! I won't have my best friends in the world being sent to Azkaban because of me! You can't do this!"

"Hermione, this bastard just used the Cruticus curse on you! He even kissed you for crying out loud and that alone probably will scar you for life! He deserves to die!"

"Wait Ron, Hermione has a point." Harry said, looking like he was in deep thought about something.

"What are you on about Harry?" Ron spat impatiently.

"Just listen to me, alright? I was just thinking about something Dumbledore said last year in the Department of Mysteries. He basically said that there are things that are worse than death, and he was right. Let Malfoy live and suffer everyday from what he's done! He deserves it!"

Hermione said desperately, "Harry's right Ron! We need to trust Dumbledore. Malfoy's not worth going to Azkaban for. Please if you care about me at all, put your wand down."

Ron looked at her and then back at Malfoy. Ron wanted nothing more than to kill the git for what he's done. For how much he has hurt the love of his life. But then he thought of what Harry and Hermione had just said and had to admit that they had a point. Dumbledore was usually right about these things. Maybe it would be an even bigger punishment to let the slime ball live. Ron looked at Harry who nodded at him as if saying that everything will be alright if he just lowered his wand. Ron took one more look at Hermione who was staring at him with a pleading look in her teary brown eyes. He sighed and lowered his wand.

Draco looked up and saw that Ron had done so and smirked. "I knew that you would never have the guts to use an Unforgivable. And since there're no teachers around, what happened here is your word against mine. There's no way I could get in trouble for this!"

Then Draco started laughing evilly again, until his face went very pale as he was looking behind Ron and Harry.

Ron heard Hermione gasp. He and Harry turned around to see what Hermione and Draco were staring at.

It was Dumbledore.