Disclaimer: JK owns it all.

Thanks to Occasus for beta reading..

A/N: you know runaway brides in the news.. couldn't help myself

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Runaway groom. It had to be a joke. But it wasn't. This past week had gone from frantic worry to terrifying to a joke.

Harry Potter's life had turned into a joke.

Harry sat at the table, his hands wrapped around the coffee cup. His world had been turned upside down...again. If he wasn't so tired and heartbroken, Harry would have packed everything and disappeared. Telling the whole to go to hell.

Abadoned and alone, Harry felt the whole world hated him at that moment. Why couldn't he find someone to love HIM.

Accept Harry Potter for who he was. A man searching for the perfect lover. To watch over him while he slept. Hold him when the nightmares came and rock his foundations to the core. Stand beside him when the world turned on him. Lean on him when the tough got to rough to handle. Just be there when we need them the most... or just because they loved him.

He thought he had that with Ron. But Ron ran, letting everyone think he was abducted by rogue Death Eathers out for revenge against Harry.

But that was all a lie. Ron couldn't take the heat and ran just days before he and Harry were to bond.

Ginny had been by earlier in the morning. "Buck it up, Harry! There's more fish in the sea," she said as she leaned in to kiss and grope him at the same time.

With a wave of his hand, Ginny found herself outside, on her arse, cursing his name.

Hermione had held him while he cried last night. Told him things had a way of working out in the end.

How?

When Harry was always expected to be strong. Stand alone in the storm. Carry the burdens of the world.

Harry closed his eyes as the memories of the last few months passed before him. Severus telling him that no one would except him in Harry's life. That their love wasn't strong enough. Running to the Burrow where Ron Weasley listened as he ranted and raged at the world around him.

Then as the months moved on, Ron and he became closer, lovers and then Ron asking Harry to bond with him.

Molly taking over the planning and turning it into a circus of major proportions. But Ron shouldn't have run if he loved Harry, right?

"Harry?"

Green eyes looked up and met deep pools of black. "Severus?"

"No more, Harry. I let you go once because I thought it was the right thing to do. That you deserved better. "

"I only wanted you, Severus. Only you."

"Do you still love me?"

Harry knew the answer. He was willing to bond with Ron because he thought that no one else wanted him when really all he wanted was Severus. "Yes, I still love you. You great bat!"

"And I you." Severus, in his all his glory, stepped away from the doorway in the arms of the only man he loved.

There would be no more runaway grooms in this life.

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