A.N. Hiya guys, sorry it took me so long to update. It was finals week and I had to do other things first, but to make up for it, you guys get to bug Remus for a while, I might even have him come back this chappie if my beta will let me.

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They panted furiously, Celine farther ahead of him, racing the sun. At the moment before the sun peaked over the horizonshe threw herself intoa nearbyshack, plastering herself to the wall as Remus dove in after her shoving the door closed with his foot.

In the following silence the sound of skin burning was rather prevalent. Remus turned to Celine taking her arm in his hand, "How bad is it?"

Celine hissed in and out between her teeth. "It's bad, that was overtly close."

Remus pulled his wand, muttering a cooling charm on her still sizzling arm. "There that should help."

"Thank you," she said quietly sliding down the wall of the shack. "I don't know what they would have done to me if you hadn't come."

"That's fine Celine."

Hermione wiped the sweat off her brow as the fumes wrapped around her face cutting off her limited oxygen, she stepped back taking a breath and walking back into the fumes. She slowly added each ingredient fighting the nausea that fought with a valiant effort to reach the surface of her throat.

'When I revise this I have to put a mint in here or something. I can't test it if I can't stomach it!'

"Miss Granger!" Griever called, trying to catch the young girl's attention. When she began working on a project she left to her own universe and was rather hard to track back down to the living.

Hermione stepped away from the potion. "Yes Griever?"

"Perhaps a break would be in order?" he asked sensitively.

"Why on earth would I need a break?" Hermione asked bewildered.

"Milady are you even aware that you have been at that potion for almost three days?"

Hermione looked truly surprised. "Oooops?"

"Ooops indeed, come and rest for a while." Griever said, prowling around the room.

Hermione refrained from glaring at the fluffy nurse, he was becoming more and more like Madam Pomfrey everyday. 'Although, I am rather tired.'

"Sleep child I will watch over you."

Hermione drifted gently off into the dream world.

Harry ran a hand through his hair. "Ok Ron, what's going on?"

Ron glared, "I haven't the slightest clue of what you're talking about."

Harry threw a pillow at his red-headed friend. "You two can't keep this up! Honestly, if you're going to get together then do it, dancing on the lines isn't helping anyone, much less my blood pressure."

Ron rolled over, "Harry mate, I don't know what you want me to say! The girl acts like she's in love with me one minute, but still there's... she's not all in it."

The two boys were out on the Quidditch Pitch, exhausted after a rather frantic snowball fight. They were breathing heavily, broom son the ground next to them. They were two very different images. Harry was dark and brooding, always in another far off world. He was an overpowering force of nature. Ron however was his polar opposite, bright vibrant features, a temper that rivaled the notable. Ron had gained height and muscle they previous year, and he was catching much more female attention than he had previously. Two completely contradicting images, that were the most beautiful when seen together.

"Ron I think if you give Hermione that chance, I know you two could be something, you know?" Harry said lightly smacking Ron on the arm.

"Yeah, I understand," Ron said sighing heavily.

Ron sat down next to his sister who was currently talking with Lavender Brown. "What's up Ron?"

"I need your help. You know where Hermione's staying right?" he asked.

Ginny nodded, "Yeah."

"I need to talk to her right now."

"She's in the library, where Lupin used to be." Ginny said. "Just bang on the portrait, she should hear you. It's in the restricted section; it's the portrait of..."

A rather guilty looking red-head snooped into the restricted section, coming to the portrait Ginny had described, knocking lightly on it.

A very sleepy Hermione opened the door. "Is everything all right?"

Ron smiled, holding his hand out, "Com'on I need to talk to you. I need to show you something."

Hermione lifted an eyebrow, but followed.

"Ron, where are we going?" Hermione asked as he practically drug her into the Green Houses by her hand.

"Have you no patience, don't you know good things come to those who wait?" Ron asked, wiggling his eyebrows suggestively at her.

Hermione did her best to look indignant.

He pulled her out of a hole in the back of green house four. It led out onto a ledge, overlooking the lake and the Forbidden Forest, the stars casting an easy light over everything. His hand rested gently in her's. Hermione's sleepiness faded a bit, stepping farther out onto the ledge, her eyes twinkling. "Ron, it's absolutely gorgeous."

Ron stayed silent, she looked gorgeous, not the landscape he could care less about the landscape. He stepped closer, as she adjusted to him leaning up against him.

"What's this we feel Ron." Hermione asked, her head resting on his shoulder.

"I'm not sure..." he said lightly kissing the top of her head. Hermione... oh never mind."

She turned in his arms, "No tell me! What?"

Ron surveyed her for a moment, "If I ask you this, I don't want to loose you as a friend, or... or otherwise."

Hermione swallowed heavily, "Otherwise?"

Ron gave her a look, "Hermione, we can't keep pretending that nothing's going on." He ran his hand down her cheek, stepping closer. "Something is."

Hermione closed her eyes, pushing away thoughts of grey, searching through to try and find the blue. 'Please Ron, make me forget. Please...' She stepped closer to him, their bodies almost touching. "What should we do about it? There are only two options..."

Ron raised an eyebrow, "Being?"

Hermione worried her bottom lip between her teeth, "We can either put an end to it, or we could try something new."

Ron's hand slid to behind her neck, pulling their faces to the verge of touching. "Hermione."

"Just kiss me." She whispered, as she allowed herself to become putty in his hands, easily bent and moldable.

His lips descended upon her's, soft and willing. His touch was gentle as his hand on her hip wrapped around her lower back holding Hermione close, the woman he thought was perfect. His heart wrenched with the power behind their actions, and the tallismic force of their joining. Her small hands rested on his chest, lying on muscles that were taught with emotion. Ron had never ever thought that this moment would come; he was holding Hermione in his arms, his Hermione. She kissed him with a passion he thought he could never deserve, the abandon of someone in love. With a heavy heart, Ron realized it was not him she was kissing, she was kissing Lupin.

Hermione fought back the gasp of surprise at the emotions Ron was invoking in her. She had expected his kiss to be more like Ron, a safe comfortable boy. His kiss, once past the timid and innocent stage, was demanding, screaming for her without realizing what it was meaning to do. It felt as if Ron pushed every ounce of all his temper and passion, like they melded in that kiss. Rendering Hermione quite decidedly speechless.

She smiled up into his face as he pulled away, "Ron that was..."

Ron gently placed a finger on her lips, "I love you. I always have, I always will. That was the most amazing moment of my life..." Ron paused for a moment gathering his thoughts. "But, you are not mine. You may love me, but only because your mind tells you to. Your heart," He said, taking her hand and placing it over her heart. "Belongs to someone else. I love you so much it hurts all I want to do is take you in my arms and hold you forever. To be able to call you my own, but you aren't, you are Remus'. And I could never have you lie to yourself just for me."

Ron kissed her hand, dropped it, and walked away to leave the Hermione's shocked face.

Celine watched the sun setting; the other Vampires would be back soon.

Remus stared up at her, "What do we do?"

Celine sighed, "Do you want the pretty version or the real version?"

"I always thought that the truth was a better solution to a problem," he said, staring up at her from the ground.

"They're out there waiting for us to leave, and there's not much of a chance of us making it. They are quite unhappy that I got away in the first place, and they were bound to have had some casualties if we caught it that close this morning," Celine said, kneeling next to him. "For what it's worth, thank you for coming."

Remus nodded, "She was so beautiful the first time I saw her, well at least in that light. I didn't tell her I was leaving. I think I should have. She was so much younger than me, I felt like a dirty old man. I really hope she's alright."

Celine nodded, "She must be a wonderful girl to have caught your attention. Remus age doesn't matter when it comes to things like that... A long time ago, I wanted to be with you. Now I see that you are in love with another woman and I should find myself jealous, that you are in love with another. I however find myself happy, happy for you."

"I love her." he whispered as the sun set below the horizon.

A loud pop ensued as another body appeared in the shack. "Remus you fool, grab the shoe!"

"Severus!" Remus gasped, climbing quickly to his feet.

"Grab the portkey, both of you!" Snape said, holding it out to the two. "It will take you back to Hogwarts."

Celine, Remus, and Severus all grabbed the portkey as they disappeared.

A.N. Yeah, so he's gonna be back in the next chapter. I hate what I did to Ron! It was so horrible to him! Ack! Oh well, I'll do my best to make him happy... Not quite sure I like how this chappie turned out. But oh well, I'll fix things in the next one ok? And yes, I will make you guys smile,cry, and laugh at the same time, it's apromise. FYI I'm on winter break and I have 19 school free days, so my updates will be morefrequent between now and then ok?R&R plz!