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049. Fleeting

"And you happen to be the first person I want to see in the morning and the last person I want to talk to at nigh," Ron's voice came from behind, where she sat with Charlie. "No matter what happens."

So thankful to hear his voice, that she scrambled to her feet. Tears began to fall down her face in joy, hoping this meant he was choosing her for the right reasons not his stupid noble ones – the biggest one being the simple fact that he may love her even half as much as she loved him. Seeing his arms open, welcoming her home, she threw herself into him – wrapping her arms around his neck, her legs around his waist as he wrapped his arms around her.

"Please tell me you are choosing me for the right reasons," she pleaded, her head buried into his neck. She knew she shouldn't ask but she just had to know. "I can't bear to know you are choosing me out of a sense of duty. I need more than that."

"Then how about I'm choosing you because I love you. You are my world," he whispered back, sending even more tears rolling down her face. Feeling his tears too, she whispered into his ear that she loved him too. That he was her everything.

His arms wrapped around her tighter as he rocked them back and forth. Realizing that there was something else going on that he hadn't told her, she pulled her head back and looked at him carefully, seeing the sadness in his eyes, she asked, "What's the matter?" as she wiped away the stray tears on his own face.

"My father won't part with the bands therefore no Weasley marriage bind."

Her fading tears renewed their pathways as they ebbed from joy to sadness as his words soaked into her mind. Quietly, she asked, "What are we going to do?"

"I don't know," he whispered back, as she tucked her head back into the crook of his arm. "I don't know."

"Ron..."

"Yes?" he whispered moving back towards the house, Pansy still wrapped around his body and in his arms.

"Can we go lie down in your room? I don't want to be around anyone else at the moment."

"Neither do I," he replied, kissing her head gently before continuing up to the Burrow.