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Haze

Pansy had no idea which was was up or down; or for that matter what was left or right. A haze had not only settled in her eyes and a buzz in her ears but a fog had come to rest in her mind. She blindly got to her feet at someone's insistence before dutifully following them outside the courtroom during a much needed recess for all there who had just witnessed both disturbing memories.

"Are you okay?" a voice softly rolled through the fog. She looked in the direction of the voice but her eyes couldn't see and her mind couldn't comprehend just what they beheld.

"Pansy," the voice whispered as a hand stroked her face gently. "Pansy, love – are you okay?"

"What?" she choked out, blinking her eyes rapidly trying to desperately push the haze aside.

"Love, are you okay?"

Finally, Ron's concerned face came into view. She nodded her head and whispered, "I'm sorry, watching your memory was harder than I thought."

"My memory?" Ron asked, clearly taken back y her answer.

'Yes," she said, moving closer into him until her body could feel the one that made her's whole. "It hurt to see what you saw that night."

Ron's arms came to wrap around her and squeeze. She softly smiled as she buried her head into his robes; the simple comfort he provided her soul – for he was the piece to her puzzle.

Feeling his lips against her hair, she whispered, "Thank you."

"Why?" he replied as his hands started to rub her back. "We were so worried about you having to see your memory again, that we never considered that anything else would bother you. I should have thought about that and taken you out of the courtroom."

"Ron, even I didn't think it would be an issue," she replied, pulling back after a few minutes of silence before continuing, "After everything we've been through I appreciate you wanting to protect me but you can't protect me from everything that goes bump in the night."

"I know," he sighed, still rubbing her back. "It just doesn't make it easier, or that I'm going to stop trying too."

"I know," was all she could think to say at that moment. Raising up on her toes, she gently placed a kiss on his lips before she whispered, "Partners?"

"Partners."

She softly smiled at her other half before she stole another kiss as if to seal the deal.