It was a few days after Easter, and everyone had almost cooled off about our little "incident" two nights ago. Except for Crabbe and Goyle, everyone seemed to kind of move off the subject. It was nice. We could easily avoid Crabbe and Goyle, but we couldn't avoid all of Slytherin.

Having had breakfast, Ron and I went to the hospital wing to visit Harry. He still looked very pale and sick, maybe even worse than before.

"Hi, you guys," Harry said, in a really weak voice. "It's nice to see you."

"It's very nice to see you too, Harry," I said, with a sad smile.

"I have some really bad news. Will you listen?" Harry said, sounded unhappy.

"What is it?" Ron said, deeply concerned.

"I... I have cancer."

"YOU WHAT?" Ron shouted, and then was shushed sharply by Madam Pomfrey.

"It's no lie," Harry said, "Madam Pomfrey told me the news this morning. I was as shocked as you were."

I thought that maybe he was kidding at first, but when I realized that he wasn't I broke down in tears. Ron put his arm around me and shushed me lightly.

"We don't want to lose you, Harry," I said through my sobs.

"And I don't want to be lost," Harry responded, "but I survived an attack from Voldemort. I can survive cancer."

"I guess you're right," I said, taking control of myself a little.

Just then, Ginny burst in the room and ran over to Harry, giving him a big hug.

"Harry! How are you feeling?" she asked enthusiastically.

"Not so good, Ginny. I need to tell you something."

Harry then proceeded to tell Ginny about his cancer, and Ginny sobbed, too. This time, Harry was the one to comfort her. He told her the same thing that he had told us in reassurance, and then she, too, seemed to feel better. Harry had a magical way of doing that.

"Well, we need to go get to class, Harry," I said. "See you later."

"Yeah, see ya." he responded.

Ron and I walked down the hall in total silence for a while. Then, suddenly, I broke down sobbing again.

"He's our best friend, Ron! I'm so worried for him!" I said, sniffling loudly. "He may have been able to beat Voldemort, but cancer is a whole different issue!"

"It's ok, Hermione," Ron said, kissing my cheek and gently wiping away my tears, "he'll be all right, I'm sure of it. He's tough."

"Yeah. Hey, Ron, you know what I just realized?"

"What?"

"I'm already four months pregnant. Which means that I'll have my baby about a month after school is out."

"Yeah, I know. It seems weird to me, too."

"Ron," I said suddenly, "we need to move in together before I have my baby. When we get out of school, let's buy a nice apartment together. Then I'll have my baby, and you'll be there, and then we can get married!"

"Sounds good to me," Ron said, with a smile, kissing me once again. Even though I was totally messed up over what was going on with Harry, I could be happy with Ron. I've changed so much in my impression of him over the past few years. It's amazing.

I must've gone off into a daydreaming state for a while, because somehow I ended up in Ancient Runes class and didn't even know how I got there. I was thinking about my future with Ron, and about the next Hogsmeade trip. Ron and I had decided that we would just stay at school during the trip. All the teachers and students would be going and staying the night this time, so Ron and I could do as we pleased.

After all our classes for the day were done, Ron and I did homework then said our good nights. I crawled into bed and laid there, staring at the ceiling, thinking about the day ahead, the day of the Hogsmeade trip.

I woke up to a nice spring day. Everyone was already gone for Hogsmeade; they had all left really early. So I went down the the common room, not even bothering to get dressed. When I got down there, Ron was there waiting for me. He was in his pajamas, too.

"Hey, Ron," I said cheerfully. "What do you want to do today?"

"Oh, I've got it all planned out," Ron said, with a wink. "You see, Fred and George told me about this magical hot spring place they discovered. You need a portkey to get there, of course, and a password for the portkey. And I happen to have that portkey." Ron held out a small glass ball.

"Sounds really good to me," I said, smirking mysteriously at him. So we joined hands and Ron touched the portkey.

"Lemon drop," he said. I laughed at this funny password, but I didn't have much time to laugh because that second I was being whisked away by the portkey. I felt the odd pulling force that I'd felt few times before, and suddenly we landed on solid ground.

We were at the hot spring. It was very beautiful, surrounded by greenery of all sorts and colorful birds. I turned to face Ron and got his bare butt instead. Obviously he had already stripped down to get into the spring. I followed his lead, and we both sunk down into the wonderful warmth of the hot spring. I went over to Ron and set myself down between his legs. He put his arms around me. I could feel his masculinity against my back. It felt odd, but good.

I turned to face Ron and kissed him. We made out for quite some time. Then we decided to get out of the spring and lay on the grass. It felt strangely pleasing to lay completely nude and vulnerable on the grass. I shifted so that I was on top of Ron, and he once again stuck himself inside me. I love these moments, where we give all of ourselves and have nothing to hide. It's a beautiful thing.

After the moment had lasted for quite a long time, Ron and I fell, exhausted, into the grass. Ron suddenly sat up and stared wonderingly at my body. "Hermione, you're so beautiful," he said.

"Stop it, Ron," I said playfully. "You're just saying that."

"No, I'm not. I swear it. You're beautiful. I love you so much."

Even though he had said this before, I was still blown away. "I... I love you too, Ron."

"We should get back to the castle though. They're almost back from Hogsmeade." He said.

"Really?" I asked, shocked.

"Yeah."

So we quickly put all our clothes back on and took the portkey back to Hogwarts. I had never wanted it to end, it had been the best time of my life. We got back to the school just in time. The people who had gone to Hogsmeade were flooding into the school. I searched for Harry in the crowd. Finally, I spotted his jet black hair. I raced towards him, dragging Ron along behind me.

But when we got up to where he was, it wasn't Harry. Then it suddenly came back to me: Harry was still in the hospital wing. I guess it hadn't hit Ron either. He gave a nervous laugh. Then we turned to look at eachother and at the same time started racing up the stairs to the hospital wing.

"Hey, Harry!" I said, panting.

"Hi, Hermione. Hi, Ron," Harry said weakly. "How are you guys?"

I interrupted Ron as he began to speak."We're fine, Harry. But the real question is, how are YOU?"

"I'm fine," he responded, although he look even more pale than before. Suddenly, he brightened. "Hey, how was the Hogsmeade trip? Did you bring anything back for me?"

"No," Ron responded, with a guilty look. "We didn't go."

"Why not?"

"Well," I responded, "We just wanted some time, you know... alone. And anyway, if we had gone to Hogsmeade we would've been picked on by Malfoy. His torture has gotten even worse since he discovered Ron and I are together."

I realized that while I said this, Harry wasn't listening. He had spontaneously drifted off into sleep, which happened often to cancer patients from what I'd read.

"We'd better go, Ron," I whispered, pointing at the sleeping Harry.

"Yeah, we'd better."

When we got up to the common room, everyone was sleeping already, exhausted by the activity of the day. We took this to our advantage and had a makeout session on the couch in front of the blazing fire. It was amazing, as it always is. Then, exhausted, we fell asleep on the couch. I realized this when we woke up the next morning to the flash of a camera.

"Hahaha!" Colin Creevy. "I caught you two sleeping together on the couch! I have to go show Harry!" He started racing off to the hospital wing, but I stopped him.

"RICTUSEMPRA!" I yelled. Instantly, he fell to the floor and starting laughing uncontrollably. "I'll leave him like that for a while," I said, and walked out the door to Potions.

I would go into more detail about the day, but I view it as pointless. It was a very normal day. Nothing at all was exciting. So I'll just skip to the end of the day. At the end of the day, Ron and I went through the portrait hole and into the common room. I found Colin Creevy passed out on the floor. He must've laughed so much he ran out of breath.

"Ron, let's take Colin to the hospital wing. I'm sure he'll be glad to see Harry."

"All right," Ron responded, "Let's."

So we lugged the little deadweight's body out the portrait hole and down to the hospital wing. When we got there, Madam Pomfroy simply pointed to the nearest bed. We put him down there and left.

I felt a little guilty about making Colin pass out, so I decided to visit him later that day. He wasn't in the bed, so I walked over to Harry's bed. Sure enough, he was by Harry's bed snapping pictures of him.

"COLIN!" I yelled, "STOP BOTHERING HARRY! HE NEEDS HIS REST!" Colin scuttled out of the room, obviously afraid of having a spell cast on him again. I stormed out of the hospital wing after him, Ron following me.

When we got to the common room, we found Colin hiding behind a chair, shaking. Time to begin my lecture.

"Colin, you're a sixth year student! I would think you'd be old enough to realize that it's rude to take pictures of people when they're sick and SLEEPING, for that matter! Just go away, GET OUT OF OUR LIVES!"

Ron grabbed me to calm me down, because I was obviously delirious. "Hermione, calm down. You're overreacting!"

"NO, I'm not, Ron! How would you feel if you were deathly ill and someone came to your bedside just to snap photos of you?"

"Yeah, I guess you're right," he said, with a sigh. "Colin, can you just stay out of this for now?" Colin was standing there, listening intently. Right when Ron said that, he ran up to the boys' dormitory.

Ron kissed me goodnight, and then he followed Colin. Tomorrow would be an early day, so it would be best to get some sleep.

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I bet you're thinking "YES, FINALLY, THE SIXTH CHAPTER!" I'm thinking that, too. I've been really lazy with getting the chapters out, and I'm REALLY SORRY! I just had writer's block and a slight lack of determination for a while. Anyway, here it is, so I hope you were happy with it! I tried to portray Hermione a little more like herself towards the end, so I hope I did ok. Please leave comments, I LOVE them. Thanks for reading, and stay tuned!