Chapter 4:

Both Ron and Hermione opened their eyes the next morning as someone cleared their throat. They were spooning.

"Umm, excuse me, you two." It was Harry, standing at the foot of the bed smiling like a fool.

Ron and Hermione broke apart and both sat up quickly.

"Harry," Hermione started. "Good morning, we were just…" she trailed off.

"Sleeping together?" Harry said.

"No," Ron said. "Well, yes, I suppose, I mean how to you mean?" He stammered.

Harry laughed and held up his hands. "Whoa, you two, calm down. I went to Hermione's room first to wake her up, and when I didn't find her there, I knew instantly where she was. You don't owe me any explanation. The whole world knows you two are crazy about each other. We were all just waiting for you guys to figure it out. And don't even try to tell me that you were just scared or lonely. I know better," he warned.

"Well, then," Ron said. "I guess the cat's out of the bag," he said laughing, and ran his hands through his wild bed-head mop of red hair.

"Harry," Hermione said. "We promise we won't let anything of this interfere with the mission."

"Scouts honor," Ron said smiling. "Isn't that a muggle term?" he laughed turning to Hermione.

"It is and you used it correctly," she said back.

"I know you guys won't let me down," Harry said. "The truth is I think it's about bloody time. Just keep the snogging to a minimum around me, k?"

"Deal," Ron and Hermione said in unison. They both knew he meant what he said. He was happy for them.

"Now if you can possibly tear yourselves away from each other, we have to go break into the Ministry. I'll wait for you in the kitchen," Harry said and turned to go.

Hermione collapsed back onto the pillow laughing. "You know, I went to sleep last night thinking about how and when we were going to tell Harry. I guess that takes care of that." "Guess so," Ron said and leaned over to try and kiss her. She put her hand over her mouth and blocked him. "What's the problem?" Ron said. "Did you already change your mind?"

"No," she said giggling. "Morning breath. I just don't want you to kiss me till I brush my teeth."

Ron rolled his eyes, "Fine," he said laughing not surprised at all. Hermione was nothing if not prim and proper. "We should really get going anyways, I suppose," Ron said.

"Yep," Hermione agreed and they both jumped up. Hermione scattered out of the room to go and get ready.

15 minutes later Ron was leaned up against the hall wall waiting as Hermione came out of her room. He barely let her close the door before he stepped quickly across the hall and gathered her in his arms. He pushed her back against the wall and kissed her like it might be the last time he got to do so. Her breath was minty fresh. "Wanted to get that out of the way before we had to behave in front of Harry," Ron said. "Good idea," she said back and kissed him one more time.

They walked downstairs hand in hand. Surely Harry wouldn't mind that. They were off to find another horcrux. Both were glad they'd had such a great few nights leading up to what was sure to be a hard and dangerous day.

***Hope you enjoyed it. Please Review. I know this is not how Ron and Hermione get together in the last movie or book, but I could have seen this happening too, then them breaking up because of the Horcrux and getting back together during the battle.