This might be my last update for a while. I'm going away and won't have access to a computer for a while,and for those of you who were wondering, this is an AU fic (alternate univerce fot those of you who don't know fna fiction lingo). IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DH. I wrote it before DH and just figured out how to get it up. Meaning That nothing from DH has happened,.
Oh and for those of you who remember hermione saying that she never really liked horses AUAUAUAU muhahaha I can make her do what ever I want! laughing hope you enjoy the chapter LOVE you all!
Chapter Three Riding and Jealously
Ron watched as three muggle trucks pulled into the camp. Each truck had a large trailer attached to it. Hermione was helping one of the men open the hatch to the first trailer. As the man opened the back hatch, Ron gulped nervously. There was a huge rear of an animal that practically touched the top of the trailer. It reminded him frighteningly of Buck Beak or Witherwings as he is now called. The rear started to move and was followed by a long back, neck and head. Hermione beckoned Ron over and gave him the lead to a bay pony.
"Hold Flippy for a moment." She said before getting back into the trailer, and backing up a large red, Arabo-Quarterhorse-Fresian. "Come on Goddess" She mumbled as the horse hesitated. "Fire Goddess!" Hermione snapped and tugged on the lead line. A bird flew between Goddess and Hermione and the horse backed up frantically, nearly smashing into Ron.
Ron sent a questioning look at Hermione who laughed. "I had Flippy and Goddess sent over from England last week, we're going riding!"
"R-r-r-riding?" Ron stuttered, "Like on their backs?"
Hermione giggled. "Of course! How else! Come on!" Hermione walked off, the mare following meekly behind her. Ron was unsure of how to follow Hermione while still holding the horse. She turned around, "Come on! Just walk forward! He'll follow!"
Ron hesitantly walked forward and maliciously, the horse followed. Hermione laughed at Ron's astonished expression. "Don't act as if they're not trained!" she laughed and began to jog. The horse at the end of her lead line jogged along with her. "Good girl Goddess," Hermione crooned and motioned for Ron to catch up. Ron jogged after Hermione. Praising Flippy as Hermione had Goddess. The moment Ron and Flippy caught up to Hermione and Goddess, they sprinted away. "Ready?" Ron asked Flippy, who snorted. Ron sprinted off toward the girl and horse in the distance. Ron caught up with Hermione who was laughing. He watched her as they ran into the sun. Her mosey hair turned gold and a golden aura surrounded her. 'I've never seen anything like this she's so beautiful.' Hermione caught Ron staring at her and blushed a deep pink. They walked the last mile to the temporary stables, cooling the horses out.
Hermione quickly cross tied the horses and showed Ron how to groom them. Soon, after Hermione explained every part of horse grooming to Ron the horse's coats were shining, and Hermione was buckling Ron's girth to the billets. Ron lead Flippy to the small stool they were using as a mounting block, put his right foot in the stirrup and ended up facing the horse's rear. Hermione laughed and showed him how to mount properly.
"Where are we going?" Ron asked as Hermione hooked a lunge line onto the halter she had slipped over Flippy's bridle.
"A nearby stable," Hermione said cueing Goddess into a walk, "With out you knowing how to ride, it would be easier for both of us to be in a ring instead of an open field. So I called this stable down the road, and they're letting us use one of their rings."
Ron and Hermione chatted as they rode down the road and onto a short trail, which in turn lead to a small field with a swing-set with a small ring near the swings. There were four people and a horse exiting the ring. There was a boy on a large bay laughing at something one of the other three people had said. There were two girls walking on either side of the horse, holding the pommel of the saddle, with their arms resting on the boy's thighs preventing him from falling. The woman was leading the horse with a shank attached to his bridle.
Ron looked inquisitively at the group as the woman, and someone who appeared to be the boy's father lifted him out of saddle and placed him in a wheelchair.
"Therapeutic riding." Hermione explained, "It helps handicapped kids to regain strength and have fun in a way that they can't anyway else."
As they entered the stable a girl lead the horse out with a different saddle, along with the woman they had seen earlier but with out the two girls. "Hi!" came a voice from somewhere in the stable. Ron looked around frantically for the cause of the voice, there was a giggle. "Up here!" came another voice. Ron and Hermione looked up to see two girls around twelve or thirteen up in the hayloft.
The shorter brunette girl swung off the loft and landed neatly in front of the couple. "The bay looks kind off." She said in a low voice. "May I?" Hermione nodded and the girl took the reins from Ron, leading the horse forward watching the horses left back leg.
"Could you toss me down Blaire's pick?" The shorter girl asked and The taller girl reached into a white box and tossed the other girl a hoof pick, who gently prodded under the horses hoof, and pulling a small pebble out from under the shoe. "Here," she said holding it out to Ron.
"Thanks." Hermione said shortly, snatching the pebble from the girl.
"You're welcome." The girl said unfazed, "Oh, and the small ring is being used, but the big ring is open for forty minutes and there's a jumping field in the back that's open.
"Ok. Ron said, leading Hermione and the horses out, "thank you."
I'M BAAAACCCCKKK!! A little girl about eight called and ran into the barn as Ron led a fuming Hermione out of the building. They heard some one cry "No! Not the shedding blade!" From inside the barn.
"Mione?" Ron asked cautiously, "Is everything ok?"
"Yeah fine, Hermione mumbled, heading down to the big ring.
"Hermione Jane Granger," Ron started grabbing her shirt. "I've known you for too long not to know when…" Ron stopped mid-sentence and laughed, hard.
"WHAT!" Hermione snapped, annoyed.
"You-you-you're Jealous! Of two thirteen year olds!"
"No! Why would I be jealous I just didn't want her staring at you like a piece of meat! It was like Lavender Brown part 2!"
Ron laughed louder, "Hermione they were thirteen! And, she was not staring at me! She was looking all around, and was only looking in our direction because of Flippy here! And his hoof thing… She looked nervous if you ask me, probably of that little girl that ran in after them."
Hermione blushed, and hiding her face within hair headed down to the large ring, and swinging her self onto Fire Goddess. Ron tried to copy her putting his right foot in the sturp and swing himself over only to find himself facing Flippy's tail. Hermione giggled, Ron's mistake startling her self out of her own embarrassment, and showed him to spin himself around to the front of the saddle squeezing Goddess onto the rail. Hermione was surprised at how natural Ron looked on Flippy. She only had to correct him minimally and he had one of the most balanced rising trot that she had seen on a beginner rider.
"Ron," Hermione warned, "I'm going to pick up something called the canter, it's fast and can be a little jarring, maybe you want to stand in the middle?"
"Nah!" said Ron shaking his head, (he had found this to be a valuable American expression) "I think I can handle it!"
Hermione sighed, even though she thought it a bad idea she was not one to go against Ron. "Outside leg to inside hand," she instructed, demonstrating, as Goddess took off into a left lead canter. Ron copied Hermione's movements, Flippy started cantering and Ron promptly, fell off.
"RON!" Hermione cried, jumping off Goddess and running to him as he sat up, "Ron are you ok?"
Ron laughed "Mione I'm ok! I just was startled, at the bounce of it you know." Hermione smiled and hugged him. "Do you want to go back to the campsite?" She asked him tentively stroking a stray hair from his face.
"Actually," Ron said jumping top his feet, and pulling Hermione up, "I wanna try that again!" Hermione laughed as Ron hopped up on Flippy who had wandered over to see what had happened. She mounted goddess and soon they were cantering around the ring together. By the end of the day Ron had jumped a small cross rail. ( A.N This is why I write fanfiction, things like this could never happen! And that is fun!!!)
Hermione and Ron thanked the two girls who had found the rock in Flippy's shoe for letting them use the ring, and as they left a boy of about fourteen skipped in singing Party Like a Rock Star.
"Are all Americans this crazy Mione?" Ron asked bewildered. Hermione laughed, and they rode back to the campsite.
Did you like it? I based the barn kids after kids at my stables. YES we hide in haylofts attack each other with brushes and there is a 14 year old boy who skips while singing I think it's basically to drive us mad...
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