Disclaimer: Oh this again? Nope, I'm still not the most famous author of my decade, so I must not be JKR. By the way, the song in this chapter is "Start the Fire" By No Doubt, but you already knew that.

A/N: I wrote and rewrote this chapter many times. Eventually I decided that the final chapter just couldn't be written on its own and added it to the previous chapter. So if this sounds familiar, it is. On a final note, I want to thank my Beta Persimone.

Ron ran. He ran out into the pouring rain after Hermione, his sister still yelling after him "TALK to her damn it!" As he looked a wisp of 'bushy' brown hair turned the corner. Ron rushed down the cobblestone street and followed. He spotted Hermione in the middle of the street, and thanked his lucky stars that Hermione tended to forget she was a witch when under emotional stress. Ron whispered "appareo" and disappeared with a pop apparating to a spot two yards in front of Hermione with a faint sound that blended in with the distant thunder.

Go on and baby get the lighter
We're gonna start the fire

A moment later there was a loud thwack as Hermione, still running full speed ahead, crashed into Ron's open arms. His arms wrapped around her to keep her from bouncing off of him and onto the ground. It felt so good to embrace her again. He just wanted to stand there and hold her forever.

After getting over the shock of running into someone Hermione looked up, she already knew whose arms she was in, the rain had heightened her senses, and she could smell cinnamon and cloves. When she looked up Hermione found Ron's clear blue eyes looking down at her intently. She looked down, burying her face in his chest, later she would look back, and see the irony of hiding in the chest of the same person she was hiding from.

The army of words in me
Silent the soldier weeps
Lying here back to back
Waiting for you to react

"'Hermione? Are you alright?" Ron asked.

"No Ron, I'm not. I'm miserable, I'm just not myself without you." Hermione replied quietly, looking back up, but refusing to meet his eyes.

Ron reached a hand out, and gently lifted her face, forcing her to make eye contact. "'Mione, I've missed you, too. I love you, and nothing, especially something as trivial as a house, will ever change that." He searched her milk-chocolate eyes, then kissed her softly. Hermione melted in Ron's arms, and kissed back gently. Before too long she pulled back, "Ron we have to deal with our living-situation …we can't just leave it…" then a thought hit her. What if Ron didn't want to live together anymore? What if that was the whole reason he'd put up a fight about moving in the first place? What if…Ron grabbed Hermione's hand and pulled her under the protection of a near-by awning.

Hermione stopping dead in the middle of a sentence was never a good sign. Whatever she was thinking of, it couldn't be good, all the blood had run out of her face, and she was wearing an expression as if someone had just slapped her. They ended up right outside Florian Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor. Ron sat Hermione down in one of the chairs in front of the shop, then pulled another one up for himself. He was sitting right in front of her, with their knees touching; his crystal blue eyes looked intensely into hers.

And sometimes all I need is a good push
Roll over and whisper some goodness
Go on baby you be the hero
Now can we go back to zero?

"About that, Hermione. I've had a lot of time to think about the fight we had and, well, you were right. It's common practice here to apparate to a friend's front door, and Floo to work; but it still startles your parents when we just show up in their living room, even when we call first. I'm sorry." Ron's face turned from serious and apologetic to laid back and teasing, "you do realize that a house decked out in Muggle stuff means Dad'll be over all the time though, right?"

Go on and get the lighter, we're gonna need some fire
Let's get a little higher, the battlefield is tired
Nevermind all that
Go on and baby get the lighter, we're gonna start the fire

"Oh, Ron." Hermione sighed; she pivoted herself out of her chair and into his lap in a swift second. Ron smiled at hearing the same two words Hermione usually said when he had exasperated her. Ron's left arm went behind Hermione to pull her close, as his right sought out her hand.


Just come here and cuddle up
I feel a little rough
I missed you in my sleep
Are you still mad at me?

The moon must have mended my bad mood
Come kiss me the way you meant to
Last night I was just playing
Lets put it all away and...

"Circe, I've missed you, Ron. I've woken up with tearstains on my face almost every morning since we fought." Hermione thought of the nightmare she'd had that morning and felt stronger just being in Ron's arms. "I love you. You're part of me Ron; you have been ever since we started school. And I just don't work if that part of me is missing." Hermione snuggled more firmly into Ron's chest.

Go on and get the lighter, we're gonna need some fire
Let's get a little higher, the battlefield is tired
Nevermind all that
Go on and baby get the lighter, we're gonna start the fire

Go on and baby get the lighter, we're gonna start the fire

Go on and baby get the lighter, we're gonna start the fire
Start the fire


Climb in and love me
Climb in and love me
Go on now baby, you get it


Ron settled his chin contentedly on the top of Hermione's head, and wrapped his arms around her, holding her close. After a few moments he noticed that Hermione was shivering. Ron stood up, setting Hermione delicately on the ground. He pulled out his wand, pointed it at her and said, "Sicco," causing the cold, wet, rain to dry. He then dried himself and settled his cloak around Hermione's shoulders.

"Much better." Hermione smiled and laid her head back against his shoulder, as the two started back towards Harry and Ginny at the Shrieking Banshee karaoke bar.

Had quite a heavy night
So delicate our love and pride
The most stubborn girl around
You really know how to bring me down


One more famous night to remember
Let's laugh at my silly temper
Now let's burn the morning sweetly
Get over here now and complete me

Harry and Ginny smiled as they watched the infamous duo return from the fight that had had both members in the dismal moods for the past week. They smirked at each other, and a sickle exchanged hands. "I told you it wouldn't take them long." Harry said with a knowing smirk. Ginny had been prepared for some damage control later in the evening. Her eyes were a little wide as she watched the couple return with their arms around each other's waists instead of having their hands wrapped around one another's throats.

"Really Harry, I've known those two as long as you have; how come you can predict them so much better?!"

"I've seen them fight more; they go nutters if they can't shout at each other for too long. They're really quite terrible with the silent treatment."

When Ron and Hermione stepped into hearing range Ginny said loudly "It'll be a lovely story to tell their kids one day, 'your parents almost didn't make it because your sodding father didn't want to apparate to work.'"

"Ginny, If you're trying to calculate the odds of our relationship, I have to add that it's a miracle we ever started dating! It took him four years to figure out that I was a girl! And then two more to ask me out, honestly I got tired of writing Victor novels, but it was the only way I could make him" She glared playfully towards Ron, "realize that I wasn't just one of his best friends…"

Go on and get the lighter, we're gonna need some fire
Let's get a little higher, the battlefield is tired
Nevermind all that
Go on and baby get the lighter, we're gonna start the fire

Go on and baby get the lighter, we're gonna start the fire

Go on and baby get the lighter, we're gonna start the fire

Go on and baby get the lighter, we're gonna start the fire

The End

Go on now baby, you get it

Ok guys, I know this took me forever, and I officially promise not to post anymore multi-chapter stories without doing a bit more pre-planning so they don't take so long. Thank you all for reading and especially for reviewing hint hint