So now what
Chapter 2
"Oh Ron, please don't move out. I –I can't take loosing another son right now…" Mrs. Weasley wailed.
Ron gave a torchured look to Harry and he nodded back to him. Harry knew they wouldn't be able to move about right now, maybe in a few weeks. Harry, of course, didn't mind waiting because he wanted to get Ginny back in his life before he left for good.
Later that same night, around midnight, Mr. Weasley made the comment that it was full moon.
"At least he doesn't have to suffer anymore." Hermione quietly said to Harry. They had all grown silent, lost in their thoughts of Remus Lupin.
Harry knew she was right, but he felt so horrible for Teddy. Harry knew how it felt to grow up without parents, but at least he would be raised in a loving household with his grandparents. Teddy's grandparents wanted to have Teddy live with them, and Harry gladly let them. He relieved the pressure was off of him though he still wanted to be there for Teddy.
"I think we're going to head to bed." Mr. Weasley said after realizing that his wife was sobbing again. He took her by the hand, while scratching his balding head with the other and went upstairs, leaving the golden trio alone.
Fifteen minutes later, "Pst! Are they gone yet?" Ginny whispered from the stair well.
Harry laughed, "Yeah, Gin, the coast is clear."
"Jeeze, I thought they'd never go to bed!"
"What were you waiting for? It's not like you have a bed time." Harry said, amused and mystified, as he usually was around Ginny.
"I didn't think I could take mum bursting into hystericals again...and I wanted to take you on a walk." She said to Harry, taking his hand and leading him to the door.
Ron must have been really thinking hard about something, Hermione thought, since he didn't object to Harry and Ginny wondering alone outside so late. Hermione moved to the couch, where Ron was sitting and stared at him.
He really was handsome, she said to herself. His fiery red hair was so beautiful and his blue eyes, oh those blue eyes! They were brighter than the sky on its brightest days. They were reflecting the fire, making his whole face turn a golden hue. She timidly placed her hand on his cheek.
"A penny for your thoughts?"
He turned to her and leaned his head into her warm hand.
"I love you." He said it like it was first time he'd admitted it.
She lightly chuckled, "I love you, too."
"No, I mean, I love you."
He cupped his large hands around her face. She smiled at him while she tried to understand where this was leading.
"I mean, this is it, Hermione. You and me. Forever. This is the real thing."
"What do you mean?" Her eye brow quirked in curiosity.
He turned his face away from her and faced the fire again.
"Ron?" Hermione shifted toward him, trying to catch his eye.
He turned toward her with a new look in his eye. He was confident and sure of whatever he was going to say next.
"I want to marry you."
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"Where are we going Ginny?"
"Some where." She laughed at his exasperated look. She took his hand and dragged him toward the woods.
"Ok, new question; do you know where we're going?"
"Kinda."
"Great." He rolled his eyes, though he was secretly loving this. This was the Ginny he fell in love with, she was free and beautiful and laughing. His stomach gave a jolt as he inhaled her flowery scent he loved so much.
She laughed at him and pulled him further. Her long dark hair danced in front of him, memorizing him again as he followed her. He would follow her anywhere.
"We're here."
"We're where?"
"My favorite tree."
Harry looked up at the huge tree in front of him. He cocked his eye brow at her, "You took me to a tree?"
She smiled, "Yep."
"What are you doing?"
"I'm climbing the tree."
"But, its dark and this tree, its, its HUGE!"
She giggled, "Oh Harry, you really are thick."
He was a little put out by this since he didn't know what she on about. All he knew was that they're were still death eaters out there, and the love of his life was climbing one mother of a tree, in the dark, without her wand.
"I'm waiting Harry."
"For what?"
"For you to follow me, of course." She sounded happy yet annoyed at the same time.
So, he climbed the tree and sat next to her on the enormous branch.
"Gin?"
"Yes Harry?" She was so close to his face that he could feel her warm breath on his neck.
"Why am I in a tree?"
She smiled at him, and took his arm to put around her shoulders. "Because you said we were going talk. About everything. So, I brought you up to this wonderful tree with the beautiful view of the burrow and the sun rise."
"Ginny, it's going to be at least five or six hours until the sun rise."
"I don't know if you remember Harry, but you were gone for a whole year. And I want to know everything that happened, and I figured you would only want to talk about it all with me once, so I thought we'd just get everything out in the open."
He nodded his head and brought his lips to her hair, inhaling her flower scent.
"And you know Harry; I have to tell you everything last year too, so it will a full night of tell-all's."
"Oh yea, what did you do last year?"
"Well that's the point, isn't it? For all you know I could have gotten a tattoo on my right butt cheek."
"Well, as long as it says 'do not touch or Harry Potter, vanquisher of the dark lord, will kick your ass,' I'm totally fine with that."
"Damn, wish I'd thought of that. Now I'll always have 'Malfoys are Hot' on my ass."
"Not Funny."
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"What?"
"I said, I want to marry you."
"I heard you Ronald, I'm just trying to understand you. Where is this coming from? The war is over, there is no threat of being killed now, we dont have to rush into anything. I mean, Merlin, we're 17!"
He chuckled at her slightly, "I know all of that Hermione, I just wanted to tell you that whenever you're ready, I want to marry you. I want to grow old with you. I want us to start a family-granted not one as large as mine, but a family nonetheless-" He was babbling, so Hermione thought of the only way to shut him up. Gave him the kiss of his life.
"Well, now that you've given me a heart attack, can I ask why?"
He laughed her, "What do you mean, why?" He turned toward her beautiful face and smiled at her. Her hair was messy from his hands tangling in it, her lips were starting to show some swelling, her eyes were looking quizzically at him, and she was smiling. It made him smile that smile that made her melt, the one that always got her to do his homework, that always made her forgive him.
"I mean why would you say all of this now? I mean, I dont-I dont want you to think you have to- I mean just because we're together now doesn't mean we'll always be. People break up all the time and-"
He laughed in earnest now, "Hermione, you know this is it. I know what we have is real, I know that no matter what I am, who I am, where I end up I am always going to love you. I am always going to want you. I know that it took me a while to put my shit together, but…"
She flung herself at him and kissed those adorable lips that could talk her into anything.
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"So I pretended I was dead until the right moment…And the rest you saw,"
They were quiet for a few minutes while Ginny let everything he had told her sink in.
"You know what's funny?" Harry said.
"Nothing you just told me."
"Sometimes, well a lot of the time actually, at night when Hermione and Ron were asleep, I would pull out my map and watch your dot."
"You watched my dot?" He nodded at her.
"Just to make sure you were alright, that you were safe."
"Well, Harry, that's the most romantic thing I think you've ever said to me."
"Wow, I watched your dot is the most romantic thing I've ever said to you? Bloody hell, I'm a horrible boyfriend..." He just realized that he had said all of this without her actually taking him back.
"Yes, you are. But I'll take you." He smiled at her, understanding her meaning behind the words.
She just smiled at him and snuggled in closer.
"Look, Gin," Her whispered into her ear, "The sun is rising."
"It's beautiful."
"Yes, yes it is." But Harry's eyes never left Ginny.
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