Chapter 6

Now What?

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"Ron. Wake up. Ron." Hermione called, slightly pressing on his arm.

He rolled over and looked her in the eyes. "I'm sorry; I didn't mean to fall asleep."

"It's ok, Ron." She kissed his nose. "We need to get dressed. I have to go back to work."

"Oh, do you have to." He whined, holding her tighter.

"No, I don't have to, we have to!" She said rolling off the bed. "We have damage control to deal with."

Ron stifled a yawn and rolled out of bed with her. "You're right Hermione but first…" Ron grabbed Hermione's waist before she left the room. "I wanted to tell you how amazing that was."

Hermione blushed slightly as she turned around and put her hands on his lower back. "It was, Ron. If I didn't have work, I'd want nothing more than to stay in bed with you all day and keep doing that."

Ron smiled and then said, "Come on, let's just stay here. Please." And gave a pouty, puppy dog look.

"I'm sorry, Ron, come on…your clothes have to be dry by now." She turned and left the room.

Ron walked around the bedroom and bathroom picking up his clothes and putting them on as he found them. Hermione went to her closet and put on some clean clothes. She stopped at her vanity, put on some fresh make-up and started to brush her hair. Ron sat on the edge of the bed and watched her.

"You're beautiful, Hermione." He said, still watching her.

"You're not so bad looking, yourself." She giggled as she got up and attempted to brush his hair. "God I love that red hair of yours."

"Come on, Ron. Let's go." She said, giving him a small kiss.

Hermione gave the mirror one last glance and with a soft Pop she was gone. Ron followed suite feeling slightly disappointed at having to go back to work.

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"And where have you two been?" Ginny asked as Ron and Hermione entered the office.

"We went out for a coffee to clam down from this morning." Hermione said in a rather high pitched voice.

"Right." Ginny replied, still staring at them both. "Well, I have to run out; we're out of parchment again. If we need more donations, we are going to have to double our efforts. Bye." She walked out of the office.

The moment Ginny left, Ron tried to grab Hermione around the waist. Hermione, however, was too quick for him and spun around before he could.

"No, Ron! We can't here. We need to work; there is just too much to do. Besides, Ginny won't be gone long. What if she catches us?"

"So what? Let her catch us." Ron said. "I want the whole world to know."

"Ron, Ginny already knows about us, it's just that I don't think she would be happy to see us snogging in the office. That and we don't need anyone else walking in on us. The last thing we want is for Lavender to find out we're together. She would blow a fuse!" Hermione said.

"Oh, alright, Hermione. I'll just go back to work, shall I?" Ron said.

Hermione smiled and said, "Yes dear."

They went back to work. Both of them would scribble out a note, seal the envelope then look in each others direction. Ron kept making goofy faces which were making Hermione blush; Hermione would toss her hair and send Ron a sexy wink in return. This went on until Ginny came bounding back into the office, some twenty minutes later.

"Well…" she said. "I don't think we have to worry about donations anymore. I just ran down to the Daily Prophet."

"What for?" Ron asked.

"To ask them to type up an article in the paper tomorrow." Ginny replied.

"About what?" Hermione asked, turning in her seat to look at Ginny.

"About Ron of course! You see, if people know that Ron is working here, they're going to want to help out! I mean, everyone adores Ron for the whole helping Harry fight Voldemort thing, so I thought we could use him for publicity!" Ginny said with a huge smile.

"Oh, great, Ginny. Just what I need, more public attention." Ron snarled.

Hermione on the other hand looked radiant. "That's brilliant, Ginny! Maybe that will make people respond to our letters!"

"That's what I thought." Ginny said looking in Ron's direction. "But if Ron isn't okay with it, I can go and tell them not to print it."

Hermione cast Ron a pleading look. He took one look into her eyes and smiled.

"Oh, alright, but it better be a small article. I'm tired being famous for being Harry's sidekick." He replied.

A/N: Ok, so 1) This is a short chapter and 2) It is an odd chapter. You see this story used to be about Harry and seeing Ron as this big famous person is really OOC, just go with it for the sake of the story, don't be to harsh on me. Thanks for the reviews!