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Ron was the first to wake, sitting straight up in his bed, believing himself to be too tired for his unconscious to allow the nightmares creep into his sleep, however the started reeling off the past events in a jumbled order. He sank back into his bed, looking at his watch he had got for his seventeenth birthday, it showed two fifteen in the morning, although when they were living in the tent they no set pattern to who took watch at particular times, Harry, Ron and Hermione seemed to fall into a routine, Harry usually taking first watch, followed by Hermione, which meant that she was probably preparing to get to sleep in the next ten minutes or so, then Ron's turn would come, his watch lasting until the morning, when either Harry or Hermione woke. Then reality smacked him in the face; so far up to now he had numb, but they were no longer in the tent, no longer in danger, all the Horcruxes had been destroyed, they were free, well not completely free, the pain of losing Fred, Lupin and Tonks will still be there, it laid heavy on his heart, like a tonne of bricks were resting on his chest. He was so wrapped up in thoughts, that he didn't notice his curtains surrounding his bed open and small figure sitting on the edge of his bed. It wasn't until he felt the soft hand covering his that he realised who was there.
"Hermione" he breathed once he had been pulled from his retrieve by soft hand resting on his.
"I noticed it was your watch time, which meant you would be awake. I just wanted to make sure you were okay"
"I suppose it will take a while for us to get out of the routine, and ill be alright, what about you?"
"I am fine, or least I will be, its going to take time. Do you think we could talk for a while, not really keen on going back to sleep just yet"
"Yeah, sure"
As Hermione positioned her self so she was more comfortable on the bed, Ron turning so he was facing her, they began to talk through their issues, how they felt, not only about each other, but also about the situation they had been in for the past ten months. They discussed issues involving Victor Krum and Lavender Brown, what happened in The Room of Requirement and about nothing in particular when the conversation became to serious, and sharing small kisses when they had run out of things to say. After hours of deliberating, sorting through their demons and being truthful to each other, they decided they were ready to make the slow progression from friends to being involved in a relationship together. Slowly exhaustion started creeping back into their systems, and although neither wanted to succumb, it was inevitable, both sinking back into a deep sleep, Hermione staying where she was not even bothering to pull the covers over her self.