Hermione quickly left the house and decided to apparate to her parent's home. But then she figured that's the number one place that Ron would come looking for her. As much as she would love to go to her parents and have them comfort and hug her, she really wasn't ready to answer all their questions on why she left in the first place. So she decided to go stay in a motel for a couple of days instead. She entered a motel called Sam's Motel and went to check in.
"A room for one please?" Hermione told the person at the front desk.
"How many days?" He asked.
Hermione thought for a minute. "A week please" Hermione answered. A week would give her some time to think and decide what to do next. He handed the key to her room and she went to the fourth floor. She opened her door and settled on the bed. It was quite comfy she thought. She then got settled in by putting her suitcase down and getting ready for bed. It was 6 am and she realized she was extremely tired. She got in her pajamas and went straight to bed. She fell asleep in seconds.
Hermione woke up to a knocking at the door. She prayed that it wasn't Ron. She went over to the door and looked out the peep hole. It was only the maid. She didn't answer. The maid eventually went to the next room. Hermione looked at the clock. It was 3 in the afternoon. Wow she slept for that long. She figured it was alright since she hasn't slept this long in weeks. She thought back on Ron. I hope he's having fun she thought. He probably doesn't even notice I'm gone she thought again. Then she thought of Rose and Hugo. Who was going to take care of them? Ron would probably be at work right now. Ron better have stayed home she said in her mind. She missed her children terribly. She knew she was a wonderful mother and that they would need her, but she wasn't ready to go home yet. She wasn't even sure if she would ever go home. Maybe when Ron's at work she would pop home to see how their doing once in a while she thought.
Back home, Ron was still on the floor. He fell asleep. He woke up and realized that he was late for work. He also remembered the night before. He had hit Hermione and she had left. He decided to go check up on the children when he realized that they were already awake. He went to their room and Rose was awake. She sleeps so late for a 9 year old Ron thought.
"Hi Rose. Time to wake up honey." He said to Rose
"Hi daddy. Where's mummy?" Rose asked her dad.
Ron knew this was coming eventually. What was he going to say? That daddy hit mummy and that she left? No Rose wasn't ready for that yet. So Ron said "Oh umm mum just went away for a couple of days, you know for work and such."
"Oh ok." Rose got out of her bed and ran to give a hug to her dad. Ron realized that it's been so long since he gave her kids a hug. He really was a bad father after all.
"I missed you daddy. You never came home. Me and Hugo never even got to see you at all." Rose murmured. Ron started to tear up. Before Rose realized he was crying, he wiped away his tears.
"Yea I know sweetheart. And daddy's sorry. Let's go check up on Hugo ok?" Ron told Rose.
They both went next door to see Hugo awake as well. Ron reached down to pick Hugo up.
"Hey big boy! How you doing?" Ron said while lifting up his 7 year old son. He had gotten so big. Ron touched his face and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Then looked at Rose and said "You guys hungry?"
"Yes daddy" Rose replied.
"Alright. Let's go downstairs and see what we can make for breakfast." Ron told his children while heading downstairs. Hermione always cooked breakfast, but she was gone. But he had to take responsibility for his actions. He was willing to take care of Rose and Hugo and prayed that Hermione would come home. She didn't have to come home for him, but at least for the children. They at least deserved a mother like Hermione. Ron never gave Hermione the credit of being such a wonderful mother these past few months. God he missed her terribly. This was one of their worst fights of their marriage and hoped that she would please come home. But remembering what he did, he knew that she wasn't going to give in that easily. It's going to take some effort to get Hermione back and for them to heal and become a family again.