As always: Kudos to Joanne! And thanks to all of you who reviewed. It's a very satisfying feeling! Sorry, I had trouble with updating, but here's the second chapter finally:

Hiding and escaping

"Ron!" Hermione leaned over his sleeping body and whispered in his ear this time a tiny bit louder.

"Ron! Sorry, but you need to get up!"

He turned around and looked her in the eyes. "It's alright, I wasn't sleeping anyway", he whispered back. She wondered why he had not answered the first time then.

He pushed back his blanket and stood up. They silently slipped out of his room so that they would not wake up Harry.

"This one's for you", Hermione pointed at a steaming coffee mug on the counter. "You are so brilliant!" Ron stated, causing Hermione to smile.

"Hurry up, our port key is going to leave in fifteen minutes!" she edged him on after he had drunken his coffee nearly burning his mouth.

"'right, let's go then", he took their shared traveling bag and turned towards her. "Would you, please, hurry up?" he teased her and they both left the Burrow.

Hermione felt his hand grab hers. She could feel her heart speeding up and her thoughts racing. Though he often touched her hand nowadays she had not got used to it yet.

"So, this is the moment?" Ron asked at that moment and she was grateful for the distraction, but then recognized his reference to Harry's saying after their kiss.

"This is it", she answered and forced herself to look him directly in his eyes.

He winked, smiled and squeezed her hand carefully. Hermione's calmness faded.

Suddenly she felt something tugging right behind her navel. Her hand which held the old, black umbrella started shaking and then the port key catapulted them to a country where both of them had never been before.

Red and green lights were flashing; explosions filled the air, fragments raining over their heads. Masked people were attacking them. Remaining Death Eaters…

"Over here!" Ron screamed and trailed her with him, throwing curses over his shoulder. They ran and stumbled through bushes and underwood. All of a sudden, Ron stood still. They disapparated with a 'plop'.

Hermione found herself in a different place, but not in a different situation. Her lungs longed for fresh air, but all they could do was run. "NO!" she screamed. "It is not safe to apparate!"

Ron shortly looked at her in a strange way, then turned around and continued to run, pulling her with him.

The flashed and noises started to fade and when they turned around they saw that the Death Eaters had given up on them.

"You are supposed to know that it is not safe to apparate!" Hermione started shrieking. "We know that there are remaining Death Eaters and that they are able to control the network anyhow! You put us in great danger and…"

"Would you shut up?" He grabbed her shoulders and shook her upper body. "Sorry about being so bloody scared not to think of a different way to keep you safe! The only thing I could think of was keeping you secure. So would you STOP screaming? You are waking up the last bloody sleeping foxes in this stupid forest!" He then stomped away.

Hermione shook her head, being not able to focus anything of her surroundings.

She loved what he had just said, but she hated the thought of waiting months until he would finally say something like this again.

She followed him, pondering on a way how to get to Australia without any incidents like they just experienced.

I am definitely going to continue.

Special thanks to HermyandRon and Stonerlove! You are great inspirations!

So for now, I am done. Please review!!!