A/N: I love RonxHermione. That is all I have to say.
Disclaimer: Um, do I look like I own Harry Potter? Because I don't. :) Thanks for asking.
Delicate Dance
People watched them, day after day, performing their delicate dance towards each other and away again, around each other. Not a dance that would bring them together but one that would only bring them tantalizingly close. So close that it almost hurts, before they whirl away again, occasionally wondering if maybe they should alter the dance -- just a bit.
But they never do.
The music changes as years pass and they grow older, and taller, and different, though never apart. The music changes to fit them, and occasionally new people join in the dance. Viktor Krum, and Lavender Brown, and then Cormac McLaggen.
And yet those people all eventually stumble out of the dance, because they are unimportant, and they hamper the music and the steps. So they are shoved out, or they recognize that they have no part in the dance and leave on their own.
And people watch and wonder, and place the occasional bet, on what will happen in the end. Some claim the dance will just continue on forever, a sad, wistful dance that refuses to allow them to even touch hands.
Others say that they will dance together eventually, that it just takes patience and maybe a little shove.
In the end they didn't need any help. In the end, one of them stumbled. Missed a step in the dance. Screwed up the delicate balance and somehow, in a confused jumble of explanations, blushing faces, and slight hysteria they wound up in each others arms.
Afterwards no one could quite recall which one of them it was that stumbled. Afterwards, no one could quite decide whether they had stumbled on purpose or whether it had been an accident. Afterwards, the details were always a little hazy and only the outcome was clear.
The dance went on, never ending. It swept on, but now, instead of skirting around the edges, the two people danced together, their steps perfectly matched to each others.
A/N: Please tell me what you thought of it. :)