Disclaimer: Un-break my heart
Say you'll love me again
Un-do this hurt you caused
When you walked out the door
And walked outta my life
Un-cry these tears
I cried so many nights
Un-break my heart, my heart
-Toni Braxton, Unbreak My Heart
"Ginny. Where's Hermione?" Ginny glared at Ron.
"She wasn't feeling well today." Ron ignored her and continued reading a letter he had received from Charlie. Harry glanced at him and then returned to his food. Ron had been silent since he had exited his room yesterday. Hermione had surfaced half an hour later, sobbing. Harry had tried to talk to her but she had insisted that she didn't want to talk to anyone and declared that Ron could go to hell. Harry was still worried about the two but he had other things to think about at the moment. Lupin was coming in an hour and Harry had failed to talk to Hermione about the proposal. He had gone over it with Ron last night but all he got was a grunt and a look Harry had yet to decipher. Ginny, like always, had gotten it out of Hermione, though, as she had told Harry earlier that morning, that it took a while to understand what Hermione was saying through the tears. Cadin was upstairs trying to get into Ginny's room to talk to Hermione.
"Oh dear. Is the poor thing alright?" Mrs. Granger coughed politely.
"Maybe we should ask your son that Molly?" Ron finally looked up. Molly turned to him.
"Ron, what-"
"What did you do to her you bastard?" Ron stood to face his angry twin. Ginny would have laughed if the situation weren't so serious.
"What makes you think I did something?" Ron asked menacingly. Cadin snorted.
"Hermione's upstairs crying her head off. Who else could it have been?" Ron grabbed Cadin's shirt.
"Listen you piece of crap. Stay out of my business." Cadin shoved Ron away.
"You're an asshole you know. Hermione deserves a better friend, not some prick that makes her cry all the time." Ron's fist came so fast that it took everyone in the kitchen a few moments to realize what had happened. The two boys were on the floor, punching and kicking each other.
"Stop it!" Hermione ran into the room and pulled out her wand. "Reducto!" Ron was blasted back into the wall. Hermione ran over to Cadin and helped him up. After making sure he was ok, she stormed over to Ron, tears still in her eyes. He struggled to his feet, glaring at the boy across the room. "Stop it!" She pushed against his chest. "STOP IT!" Ron gaze fixed on her and she saw the blaze start to become bigger. "Stay away from him!"
"He better stay away from me!" She shoved him into the wall.
"STAY AWAY FROM HIM!" That's when everyone saw his jaw clench and his fist ball up. Harry took a step forward, his eyes traveling from a distraught Hermione to Ron's balled fist. Hermione noticed also and she glared at him, holding up her head defiantly.
"Go on! Hit me! If that will help me stay out your way, hit me!" For one horrifying moment, Ron looked like he would hit her. For one horrifying moment, Ron's hand raised and for one horrifying moment, Hermione's whole body quaked with fear. Ron's hand finally relaxed, but his glare didn't. Ron shoved past Hermione and stormed up the stairs. Hermione stayed where she was, her eyes closed, trying not to cry again. The look on Ron's face had terrified her.
"Hermione…" She turned to face them. Harry stepped forward. "Are you ok?" Hermione looked around, as if trying to find something to distract her, but she couldn't stop the tears. She looked back at Harry and shook her head.
"No… no…" She pushed past everyone and disappeared up the stairs.
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"How could you Ron?"
"Piss off Ginny."
"Is that what you told her?" Ron whirled around.
"What does it matter?" She looked at him disbelievingly.
"I can't believe you! She loves you and all you can do is ask what it matters? She's in her room crying! She hasn't stopped crying since yesterday." Ginny shook her head. "I never knew someone could cry so much." Ron paced like a dangerous animal.
"I never meant to hurt her..." Ginny got up from the bed and touched his arm.
"Ron... what's holding you back? She loves you and we all know you love her. Why can't you tell her that?" Ron shook his head.
"I... I just can't... you wouldn't understand..." Ginny frowned and placed herself in front of him.
"So you're just going to hurt her?" Ron looked at her.
"That's just it Ginny… you know how me and Hermione fight." Ron crossed over to the window. "I'm just afraid that I might say something that I know I'll regret… I wouldn't be able to forgive myself…" Ginny stared at him, amazed.
"You're afraid of loving her aren't you…" Ron turned around to her.
"I don't know anymore…" Ginny walked over to her brother and pulled him into a hug. At first she thought he would pull away but to her surprise he held on to her. She could feel his need for her to be there. When he finally pulled away, he didn't look her in the eyes. Ginny offered him a small smile.
"It'll be ok." He looked out the window.
"I hope you're right…"
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Hermione wiped furiously at her eyes.
Why am I letting him get to us?
Because he almost hit us!
But he didn't!
You saw the way he looked at us. If looks could kill, he'd be waiting for the Dementor's kiss right now!
Hermione let out a frustrated moan.
Why is he doing this?
Being the brain, can I offer my opinion, seeing as it's probably more though out than yours.
Be my guest.
Well… maybe he just doesn't love us.
No.
Ugh. Why can't you just face the fact that he might not love us?
Because! I've seen the looks he's given us. A guy doesn't give those types of looks without there being something behind them.
Looks don't mean anything!
He kissed us so many times!
It didn't mean anything to him.
Don't say that…Why? Never has he told us that he's loved us. NEVER! Yet you still break yourself over him. You cause us so much hurt! This is your fault.
I think-That's just it! You don't think! That's what I'm up here for! All you do is cause us to cry! Maybe you should just forget Ron! He doesn't want anything to do with us.
But…I thought he loved me… We both did… we both did…Hermione put her face in her hands. She hated crying, but that seemed to be all she was doing. How did he do it? How did he make her feel like the only woman in the world one minute and then reduce her to a crying mess the next?
"Hermione?" She turned around.
"Oh hi Harry." He regarded her carefully before sitting next to her.
"You ok?"
"Do I look ok?" Harry frowned.
"You shouldn't have done that Hermione." She turned to him, disbelief in her eyes.
"What? Protect Cadin?"
"No. Egg Ron on." She gave him an incredulous look.
"Egg him on?" Harry rolled his eyes at her stubbornness.
"Dammit Hermione. He could have knocked you out! He probably would have to if you had kept on talking!" Hermione avoided his eyes.
"I didn't do anything." Harry looked slightly disgusted at her childish behavior.
"Oh please! We all saw what happened! You saw what happened! He was going to hit you Hermione! You know that. Then what? What would you have done then?" He calmed himself down and then kneeled down in front of her. Hermione looked up into his eyes. "I'm worried about you Hermione." She looked away.
"I can't keep doing this to myself…I have Cadin, why am I crying over Ron?" Harry didn't answer. Instead he took her hand and kissed it.
"Ron loves you." Hermione held on to his hand.
"Harry."
"What?" She looked back at him.
"What is he afraid of?" Harry was silent for a while. Then he finally looked up.
"The same thing I'm afraid of." She gave him a ghost of a smile.
"And what's that?" Harry's gaze shifted to Ginny's bed.
"Loving someone he might lose."
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Lupin waited patiently for Ron. Hermione had been updated on what Lupin was here for and now she and Harry were in the backyard with Remus, waiting for Ron to show up. When he finally appeared at the door, he froze. His eyes were on Hermione. He seemed uncertain, but finally came out anyway. Shaking Lupin's hand he leaned against the tree.
"Well… now that we're all here… Harry?" There was a silence.
"I… I think it would be a bad idea at the moment." Harry hadn't had time to tell Remus about Ron and Hermione's fight. Putting them in a house together for a week would probably land one of them in Azkaban. Harry wasn't about to put them through that type of torture.
"Why?" Harry glanced uneasily at his two friends.
"Well…" he took a deep breath. "Ron and Hermione are fighting." He received glares from both friends. Realization dawned on Lupin's face.
"Ahhh… well… it wouldn't be good to put you two in the same house." Hermione stood up.
"You make it sound like we're going to kill each other."
"I might." Ron muttered. She rounded on him.
"I wasn't talking to you."
"Neither was I." She marched up to him.
"Listen you bastard. The next time you decide to threaten me, I'll curse you." Ron sneered, leaning in.
"Do it. I dare you." Hermione's wand whipped out, but Ron's hand was faster. Quidditch was to thank for that. Again the fear was in her eyes. Harry stood up as Lupin stepped forward.
"Ron!" Ron glanced at them.
"Stay out of this," he growled. Turning back to a frightened Hermione, he pulled her closer.
"The next time you decide to threaten me with your bloody wand, don't," he hissed. Letting her go, he stalked back into the house. Hermione stood there for a moment and then she swung around, her eyes blazing.
"I HATE YOU!" Ron froze in the doorframe. Harry and Lupin stared. Tears were pouring down her face as she glared at Ron's back. "I HATE YOU!" Ron's body seemed to sag as he disappeared into the house. Lupin touched Hermione.
"Hermione?" She wrenched away from him, sobbing.
"Don't touch me!" She sunk to the ground. "I hate him… I hate him so much…"
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Chapter Tease:
"Whats going on?" Ginny asked, scooting closer to Harry. He looked around.
"What are we doing here?"
"Look..." Hermione murmured. Ginny and Harry turned around.
"The Shrieking Shack?" Hermione frowned.
"Do you think their in there?" Ginny stood up straighter.
"Only one way to find out."
