Where do you want to be?
They lay on the grass as the sun beamed down. Wounds were still sore, hearts were still breaking and emotions were still running high. Hermione picked some daisies and started to make a daisy chain as Ron watched her with interest. Harry tutted at Ron's behaviour and he grinned in reply. The difference was, before the battle, if this was just a normal day at Hogwarts, Ron would have been embarrassed, mortified at been caught staring at Hermione. But now...
"So, what's the plan for today" Harry said.
"There isn't one"
It felt great to say that, thought Ron. No plans, no Horcruxes, no Voldemort, no more death. Nothing. Just a future.
"Hermione wants to start planning for Australia" Ron said
"Oh, when do you leave Hermione?"
"Well, Ron and I are going two weeks tomorrow. I would have asked you to come Harry -"
"Oh no, I'm good here" he said knowingly as Ron shot him a look. "Besides, you two need a holiday, some time away"
"Oh" Hermione asked "And you don't?"
"I've got Ginny. That's a holiday all year round"
Hermione chuckled and Ron rolled his eyes.
"It's wierd, isn't it? Knowing we've actually got a future to look forward to. We can do what ever we want now. How crazy is that?" Ron said.
"It should have been like that all along" Harry said glumly. They sat in silence for a few minutes.
"So, say we've got this future" Hermione began "Where do you want to be in ten years?"
Ron was on his stomach on the grass, leaning on his elbows, his head in his hands, and with the most gorgeous smile Hermione had ever seen, replied,
"Married to you"
Hermione stopped her daisy chain and looked him in the eyes. It seemed he was not joking.
"Oh" she said, trying to hold her excitement in, for at the moment she felt like running, jumping, dancing, letting all this amazing feeling out. But she sat there and resumed her daisy chain "I suppose that's a plausible idea". Her face was redder than Ron's hair.
"Was that a proposal Ron? Cause if it was, it wasn't a very good one" Harry said sitting next to them, breaking them out of their reverie.
"Oh bugger off Harry. Of course it wasn't" Ron said "We've got plenty of time for that" he murmured to himself, but Hermione caught it.
"Right, well, I'd love to stay and chat, but to be honest this is making me slightly uncomfortable, so I'll see you in a bit" Harry said, walking away and towards the castle. Ron laughed and rolled on his back. Hermione crawled over to him, placing her daisy chain crown onto Ron's head, humming Weasley is our King as she did so.
"So, Australia? You nervous?" Ron asked.
"Nope. You?"
"If you're with me? Never"
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I know this one was quite short but I intended it to be. It was just a little snippet and I hope you liked it. Cant believe I've only got a few chapters left *sob*
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