Can You Make it Stop?
CarEtoDreaM

Summary: It wasn't supposed to happen this way… but when does anything ever turn out the way you want it to?


Hermione Granger stared at her hands while she sat listening to her parents' best friend Katherine Marks talk about the lives of her parents. She wasn't paying attention, she wasn't paying any attention, and one couldn't exactly blame her either. She was still in a state of a shock, a part of her still not willing to believe that her parents were really gone. But she had to face the truth now didn't she? She had to face it now that it stared at her right in the face. What was she going to do now? She never really imagined that she would face such pain if her parents had left her. But then again, Hermione never really spent much time thinking about what would happen if her parents died, it just wasn't something that would normally crosses somebodys mind. And now... here she was, entirely unprepared to what she was faced with...

"Hermione," she heard Ron whisper from beside her, "Go on up now... "

She turned over to look at him and Ron noticed her dull and lifeless her eyes looked right now. She hadn't really spent much time trying to pamper herself, she was in a daze all morning. Her curly brown hair was pulled into a messy pony tail and pinned up into a loose bun. There were shadows underneath her eyes, and oh Merlin, she looked like she was going through so much pain...

Hermione nodded her head slowly and made her way up onto the podium.

She looked so incredibly fragile as she stood up there... she looked so lost... Her mouth opened as if she wanted to say words but nothing came out. Ron stared at her and watched as the tears slowly began to form again in her eyes, watched as her face slowly began to fall again. And he ran up there just as she crumpled down onto the ground, and he held her close as she began sobbing.

She clung tightly onto him, held onto him as if her dear life depended on him being there. And I guess that you could say that her life did depend on him for he was the only thing that was holding her up right now, he was the only person that was keeping him from sinking.

Ron sat there on the ground with his arms enclosed tightly around her, "Let it all out Sweetie, just let it all out," he whispered into her hair.

"Ron, they weren't supposed to die... They weren't supposed to die..." she whispered back to him. "They didn't deserve to die, they never did anything wrong in their life."

"I know they didn't, but isn't it true when I say that all the wrong people die?"

"Oh God Ron, I don't know what to do... When I was sitting there listening to Katherine talk I think that a part of me still hadn't accepted any of it yet... And then I got up here, and it all came crashing back down to me so incredibly hard, and I don't know what to do Ron," she sobbed at him, her voice cracking occasionally from the tears.

"What am I going to do now that they're gone?"

Ron lifted her face to stare at her in the eyes, "Live your life," he whispered softly at her so only she could hear.

So the two of them stood up slowly, Hermione still clinging onto Ron tightly, and Ron refusing to let his grip off of her. She stared back into the little mass of people that gathered there and she spoke.


A/N: So there goes the second part of "Can You Make it Stop?" Hope that you all enjoyed that, and PLEASE REVIEW!!! I'm looking for a beta, so anyone interested???