I am so sorry that it has taken this long. My grades started slipping and my depression/anxiety was getting pretty bad because of the stress. I'm starting to do a little better so I'll try to write more often. Thanks for sticking with me you guys.

The next several days were uneventful. Hermione went to work, went to lunch with Harry, looked for a new home, and then went back to Draco's to sleep. Astoria was back now but avoided Hermione and Hermione didn't really mind. Ron was still having lunch with her and Harry and things were going alright. The biggest problem was that right now for the most part all the houses that Hermione could find were more suited to a family with children. She was still single and didn't have any hope of a family in the near future so all these homes seemed too big and she felt as if they were taunting her.

"This is ridiculous. I have to find a place by tomorrow. Astoria won't allow me to stay any longer. I can't stay with you, Harry, Luna is about to pop and I really don't want to get in the way of her nesting. I don't know what to do!" Hermione huffed, getting more and more frustrated as the days wore on.

"You'll figure something out, Hermione." Harry reassured her. He was worried as well, he wished he could help her more but with Luna so close to having the triplets he knew Hermione didn't want to be there.

"Well I wasn't sure if I should say anything but I was wondering if you would like to move in with me for a bit. I have enough room and it's cleaned up now. I was also wondering if you'd like to go to dinner sometime soon." Ron said gently, looking at Hermione, trying to read her expression. There didn't seem to be much alternative.

"I suppose. It's not a bad idea. It won't be permanent. I just need more time to find a house." She consented.

Hermione returned to work and found Draco in her office waiting for her. She smiled and walked in sitting at her desk. He was leaned up against the wall beside the door facing her desk.

"Well Draco I think that I found somewhere to stay." Hermione informed him smiling a little sadly. She had enjoyed Draco's company over the last week. They had sometimes stayed up to talk about work and life and other things. They had enjoyed each other immensely.

"Oh? Where?" He asked raising an eyebrow.

"At Ronald's for the time being. He has space and I can only stay with you for tonight before I am supposed to have found a new home but I need more time. So this seems like a good temporary solution." She explained, trying to smile and reassure him that she harbored no ill will to him, since it was Astoria who didn't wish her to stay.

"I see. Well I can help you move things if you wish." He said calmly. Internally he was almost screaming. He was going to talk to her about how he felt finally. He was going to ask if she wanted to stay. If she would stay with to be with him. But it seemed she would go back to Weasley. And if that is what made her happy he would deal with it.

"That would be lovely." Hermione replied a little disappointed. She had wanted him to ask her to stay. Not to leave.

"I'll see you after work then." And he walked back to his office to loose himself in the work so he didn't have to listen to the voice in his head telling him to walk back in there and push her up against a wall and take her right there in the middle of the day while they were at work.

Draco helped Hermione move in the next day. It was uneventful and easy. Ron was civil with Draco and they even laughed together.

Hermione smiled and reached for a doorknob of the room next to Ron's bedroom. He hadn't explained what this room was and she got curious. Before her skin made contact Ron stopped her hand.

"That is the only room that is off limits. It's my office and I would prefer to keep it private." Ron said gently and with a kind smile, treating Hermione as though she was a child that had done something that they didn't know was wrong. She didn't like it one bit and she promised herself that she would find out what was in that room, even if for no reason other than to sate her own curiosity. But for now she just smiled and walked away, fileing the room for more investigation in her mind.

After the move things went back to normal. Hermione worked and talked with Draco occasionally. She had lunch with Harry then went back to Ron's and had dinner and finished up work.

The only thing that seemed out of the ordinary was Ron. He spent all of his time with Hermione when she was home then as soon as she went to bed he locked himself in his "office". She found this behaviour a bit odd. She decided that the first chance she got she would explore this "office".

About a week and a half after she moved in with Ron, Hermione came home to find the house empty. She called thought out the house a few times, but got no reply. She figured it was safe to check out Ron's secret room.

She make her way to the door and when her hand touched the handle she shivered from a sudden sense of foreboding. She turned the knob and stepped in.

"Oh, Merlin!" She covered her mouth in utter horror. There were pictures of her everywhere. They covered the walls. Some of her things were there as well. Things from her home. Things she'd been missing since the break in.

There were pictures of her that spanned over the last several years. She recognized a few pictures from when she had returned to Hogwarts to redo her seventh year. But the most disturbing thing in the room was the corpse of her cat. Her cat that she had loved dearly. She almost vomited from the sight of the body that was beginning to decompose. Of all the things she thought she would find in this room, this was just about the farthest thing from her mind.

"I told you not to come in here," Said an eerily calm voice from the doorway. Hermione whipped around and was confronted by none other than the man that had obviously been stalking her for years now. She backed away terrified.

"I… I was just curious… Please… Ronald, let me go." she said beginning to panic at the terrifying look in Ron's eyes.

"And let you run back to that snake? I don't think so, darling. In fact I don't think you will ever see him again. You see, tomorrow you are going to send a letter saying that you are resigning effective immediately. You will stay here do you understand?" He was moving toward her slowly but with definite purpose, his wand at his side ready to cast a spell.

"I wouldn't do tha…" but she never finished her sentence.

There was a flash of light right after she heard Ron yell "Imperio!"