That night, when the house was silent, she quietly tiptoed up the stairs. When she reached the top of the staircase, she saw light flooding out beneath Ron's door. It didn't look like it was coming from his lamp. It was just a bit different from normal light. Then Hermione recognized it. It was coming from Ron's deluminator.

'Why would he be using his deluminator? He has other sources of light in his room.'

She walked in, forgetting to knock. On the bed, Ron sat there, Lavender on his lap. They were snogging.

Hermione stared for a moment, then her mind started to race.

She was back in the Gryffindor common room, staring up at Ron. All around, everyone was cheering for him. He had just won the Quidditch game for Gryffindor. Then Lavender was there, snogging him. Once he started snogging back, the image blurred. She realized it was because there were tears in her eyes. She pushed past Gryffindors who were cheering louder and whistling at the two.

Someone hit her hard on the side. She was brought back to reality by Lavender, who bumped into her as hard as she could while leaving the room. Hermione then realized what had happened.

In her mind, she had relived that night in 6th year when Ron and Lavender had first gotten together.

"Hermione?" Ron asked, walking over to her. "Are you okay?"

It was too much. Everything came crashing down on Hermione. Ron and Lavender. Her and Ron not being friends, and that they would never fix it. Ron marrying Lavender, not her.

Hermione began to cry. "Does it look like I'm okay?" she asked, looking up at him.

He pulled her into a hug. "What's wrong Mione? You having alot of stress from work?"

She pulled away from him and stared at him again. "Yeah. Work." she lied.

But something in her eyes told Ron she was lying.

"Hermione, we need to talk."

He walked her over to his bed and they both sat down.

"Mione, I miss you."

"I miss you too, Ron."

Secretly, they both wanted to replace "miss" with another word.

"Do you want to fix our relationship?"

"Since the day it was ended." she said, giving a small smile.

"Great. So we're friends again." Ron said, smiling.

"Friends." Hermione said in a dull tone.

They stared into each others eyes for a moment, then Hermione started sobbing again.

Ron didn't understand. He hugged her and thought,

'Why is she crying? Didn't she come here to make amends? Unless she... no, that's impossible.'

He sat there hugging her, thinking of all the possibilities why she was crying. After awhile, she became still. Ron looked down at her.

'She fell asleep. What now?' he thought.

As he stared at her, he took in her features, and a memory came back to him.

Flashback

Ron was lying in his bed in the tent. Harry was outside keeping watch, and Hermione was probably on the other side of the tent in her bed. He closed his eyes and tried to sleep, but he was thinking about too many things. He wasn't scared about himself, he was scared about everyone else. His parents, Fred, George, Ginny, Bill, Charlie, Harry. Hermione.

"Ron?" someone whispered. He opened his eyes to see Hermione standing in front of him. He took one look at her, and knew why she was there. He moved over in his bed and let her climb in.

"I'm scared." she said quietly. He could see dried tear marks down her face, and new ones were forming.

"I know. But we're doing the right thing by doing this."

There was silence between them for a moment.

"Please don't leave again."

"I won't. I'll never leave you again."

Soon after that, she fell asleep. Ron watched her sleep for awhile before going to bed himself. The next morning, she was outside keeping watch. But when he woke up, she turned around and smiled at him.

Flashback end

That was the only time they were alone together like that. He pulled her to him as he laid down. After a few minutes, Hermione started to get up, but Ron stopped her.

"Sorry Ron. I'll go back to my room."

"Or you could stay? I mean, if you wanted to..."

She gave him an odd look, then laid back down. It's not everyday that he asks her these kinds of things. He barely talks to her at all anymore.

"Night Mione."

"Night Ron."

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