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Chapter 7 Harry's Flat.

Hermione took the tea pot off the stove and poured the water into her cup. She sat drinking her tea on the sofa in silence. Thinking isn't all what it's cracked up to be, if you think to much things become more complicated than they are. Your brain takes a simple thing and it's turns into billions. Did he mean this? Does that mean that? Am I over reacting? Am I being stupid? I'm pathetic? The more you think about it, the more you blame yourself. Well in this case Hermione did believe it was her fault. She couldn't help thinking she did this and she couldn't get the feeling of total failure and disappointment out of her head. Well not a short distance away Ron was thinking the same thing.

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Ron knew he was stubborn but all of a sudden he felt like an idiot. He was over reacting leaving everything because he didn't want to see Hermione was childish. They're adult they should've worked something out. Did everyone think he was an idiot for doing this? And Hermione, she wouldn't try an hurt him like that. If she didn't feel the same way it isn't her fault. She can't help how she feels about it. And he can't help how he feels about it.

When she had said no so very long ago, he was sure he was going to die. He didn't though, it just had hurt a lot. And all the aspects of his life seemed less fun, less there. He felt neither happiness besides passing nor did he feel great sorrow. He didn't feel, because the one thing that had made waking up a treat everyday would never be his.

But always as things can be seen, the other side of the argument is that she was evil. The entire while she had acting in a way that made him feel that she wanted him and no other. All those years of never dating. He thought in his mind that it was a mutual understanding. Everywhere they went, they were together. Hermione was his closest friend, besides Harry. He was so comfortable with Hermione. He hadn't thought of her in that way at first, he had grown to love her. To love everything about her, but no he would never measure up to her standards. He would always be the friend and nothing more.

"So close and yet so far away."He whispered the cliche as he entered the apartment building in London.

He unlocked the door and went into the room. There was a light on next to the couch but the couch was empty. Ron went into the kitchen, Hermione was putting her dish in the sink. She turned around and screamed.

"Damn it Ron! You scared me!" She said realizing who it was. "What the bloody hell are you doing here!?" She screamed.

"Hermione calmed down, I just wanted to talk to you." He explained in a calm voice.

"Oh isn't that so bloody peachy, you finally decided you want to talk to me when I have no inclination to talk."She walked past him and into the living room. "But seeing that you are here, what do you want to talk about."

"I...I...I want to know why you and Victor broke up?" Hermione saw what he was getting at and anger hit her.

"Don't flatter yourself that much Ron!" He stared her down and she sighed and slouched on the couch. "I thought I had been pregnant." Ron's gut clenched at the thought of it.

"Are you?" Ron asked sitting on a seat across from her.

"No." She whispered and Ron visibly relaxed. "When I was thinking I could be pregnant I felt horrible, it hit me I didn't want a baby with Victor, and at the moment I found out I wasn't, I was so...relieved about it. I told Victor I didn't want to be with him anymore and he flipped and accused you and me of cheating on him." She explained. Ron sat in silence not knowing what to say to that. "Hermione, I want to apologize to you." Ron said.

"For what, for admitting that you liked me, for moving away and refusing to talk to me?" She asked.

"For moving away and refusing to talk to you, I'll never apologize for telling you how I feel about you." She looked like she was going to cry."I overacted about the whole thing, you're my friend I can't change your mind about it, so I should just learn to get over it. It just hit me so hard when I was rejected. I just want to know why, you acted like you wanted to be in a relationship too." He commented.

"I did like you Ron during our 6th year at Hogwarts, but then when you went after Lavender I had thought I had lost you, so I tried moving on but it didn't work, I felt so horrible all the time and Harry's and Ginny's perfect relationship wasn't helping. Then Victor came into the picture and he was so nice and sweet and he wanted to be with me so bad. So I started falling for him. When you came and told me that you wanted me. I didn't want to go through feeling that hurt again if you changed your mind. You broke my heart when you did that. So I stayed with Victor, I know now that that was a bad decision." She rambled on.

"So you said no because you didn't want to get hurt?" Ron asked.

"Ron think about it, if we didn't work we wouldn't be that close I didn't want that at all. But now in hind sight it didn't matter because me saying no messed it up anyhow right?"

"Yeah it kinda did. I could never move on from, it if I was here. But then again I haven't yet anyway." He muttered.

"Ron, I never got the chance to thank you."

"Thank me for what?" He asked confused.

"For stopping that which from torturing me and risking your life for it!" She said.

"Oh, well I couldn't bear to see you in so much pain."He explained."You mean so much to me Hermione, you'll never know how much."

"Ron I do know how much, I care about you that much too." She explained. "I had never gotten over you either, you were always there in the back of my mind. When...when."She started sobbing. "When you had gone down that day I couldn't stop crying. I held you thinking you were dead, it was the worst thing that's ever happened to me. Thinking that you were dead. I thought my life was over, and then when I found out that you were alive I was completely revived, but yo uleft before I got a chance to see you." She was in hysterics now, Ron went over to the couch and put his arm around her shoulder and let her lean on him.

"Hermione look at me." She raised her head to look at him and he dried her tears of her face with his hand. "I'm alive, you don't have to feel sorry about it anymore, I would do the same thing if it happened again."

Hermione couldn't contain herself. He forced her head forward and kissed him. Grabbing the corners of her face and holding them to her. Ron was confused for 1 second, and then he kissed her back. He wrapped his arms around her holding her against him. She leaned back from him.

"Please don't leave." She pleaded kissing him again.

"I won't." He whispered in her ear as he rested her head on his shoulder. Ron leaned back so his back was resting on the arm of the couch and Hermione lie on top of him. They hugged each other in silence, Hermione soon fell asleep. Ron flinched his wand at the light and it turned off. He kissed her forehead. "Goodnight." He whispered and she snuggled further into his chest.

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Authors note: ok should I put the two through anymore conflict, because I haven't decided yet. I could or I could just have an epilogue. Tell me what you think, please feedback always helps.