Chapter Fourteen: Anniversary Surprises

Ron had managed to keep his plans for his and Hermione's anniversary a secret. He could not wait to find out her reaction to those plans. Hermione had tried to get him to give her a hint or two as to what he had in mind, but he would not tell her anything. Ron hoped that she would appreciate what he had planned for them.

The morning of their anniversary, Ron awoke early to prepare breakfast for the both of them. Abby, of course, wanted to help and Ron obliged her, and thanks to Abby, the breakfast was made a lot quicker, before it was sent to their bedroom. Ron quietly slipped into the bedroom where Hermione was still sleeping. Ron gently shook her awake and said, 'Happy Anniversary, my love.'

'Happy Anniversary to you too, sweetheart,' she replied smiling before they shared a loving and passionate kiss.

When they finished, Ron placed the tray filled with food over both their laps and together they shared breakfast in bed.

When Ron and Hermione had polished off all the food on the tray, Ron took it out and placed it on a table before returning to his wife. Hermione gave him a come hither look so he removed his clothing and joined his already naked wife in bed.

'Do you want your gift, love?' asked Ron.

'Yes, but I want to go first,' replied Hermione.

Ron nodded and so Hermione got up and walked over to her closet to take out an envelope. She walked back to him to find him ogling her before slipping back into bed with him and then handed him the envelope.

He carefully took the flap out of the envelope and saw what was inside.

His jaw dropped.

'Seriously?' he asked.

'Mmm-hmm,' she replied.

Ron gave her a huge smile before snogging her senseless.

Inside the envelope were tickets to the Quidditch World Cup Final in August taking place in the U.S.A.

When the snogging ended, Ron said, 'This is for us, right, I mean you'll be coming with me?'

'Of course!' said Hermione.

'Good, I wouldn't want to go without you, I know you don't like Quidditch that much, but I would want you with me, I love you, Hermione Jean Weasley,' Ron said.

'I love you too, Ron, now, where's mine?'

'Well, it's at your parents' house, so I thought as we are having dinner with them tonight I could give it to you then, is that okay?' he replied.

'All right, but it had better be good!'

'It is, and now I need to thank you for my gift …' said Ron before he dived under the covers to go down on her.

'Oh, Ron!' she exclaimed.

Ron and Hermione spent the next three hours making love. They were so into each other that they did not notice the food tray Ron had brought up earlier had been collected by Abby. However, they were soon disturbed by a tapping on the window mid-fuck.

Ron turned his head to see if he could recognise the owl, unfortunately, it was an owl he knew.

'Ignore it, and fuck me, Ron!'

'Can't, love, it's Errol, he's probably knackered from his journey …' Ron replied.

Hermione was about to groan in frustration until Ron picked up his wand and pointed it at the window. The window opened wide enough for Errol fly inside and drop like a stone on the table. Ron then summoned the letter before opening and reading its contents.

'Bugger,' he said when he had finished.

'What's wrong?' she asked as she twisted her body and neck around to look at him as she was bent over the bed with him pounding into her from behind.

'Mum,' he said, 'she's gone and invited us to have lunch with her and dad to celebrate our anniversary.'

'You don't want to go, do you?'

'Not particularly,' he replied, 'I want to stay here and fuck you some more before we go to your parents' house.'

'I expect the others will be there too, sweetheart,' she said.

'This is fucking typical of mum, she expects us all to drop what, or in this case, who we're doing and to come running with no consideration for how busy we might be!'

Hermione couldn't help the giggle before sighing and saying, 'Perhaps we should just finish, shower, get dressed and go over there?'

'Finish?' he exclaimed, 'the moment I started talking about mum I lost my erection.'

Again Hermione giggled, but said, 'Well, we'll just have to get it back, won't we?'

Ron pulled out of her and then watched as she began to touch herself, making her moan his name.

It didn't take very long before Ron was ready to make Hermione scream his name to the heavens before they showered, dressed and left Potter Manor to Apparate to the Burrow.

When they arrived, the only absentees were Harry and Ginny, they were going to have dinner with them at her parents' house along with Sirius, Amelia, Susan, Remus, Tonks, Teddy, Ted and Andromeda. The family took it in turns to hug Hermione, while the brothers all shook hands with Ron and slapped him on the back in a manly gesture, before Ron shared a hug with his father.

When they all sat down to lunch, Ron's mother laid on a rather excellent lunchtime feast. As he ate, Ron told his brothers about the Quidditch World Cup Final tickets she had bought him as a gift. Fred and George had been rather envious, as had Charlie, but they were pleased that Ron would get to see more of the world. Of course, this did not stop Fred and George from trying to tease Ron about being alone with Hermione in another country, and far away from unwanted and unexpected letters. Hermione was talking with Fleur about France and how often she planned on going back there to visit her parents and sister. Unsurprisingly, Ron was not making a total pig of himself as he knew there would be more food to come later on, as Hermione began conversing with Arthur about muggle devices, while he talked to Fleur in French, teasing Bill somewhat.

It soon became to leave, Ron and Hermione thanked Molly for the amazing feast before saying goodbye and Disapparating back to Potter Manor for a few more hours of alone time. Their alone time consisted of Ron giving Hermione a full body massage, reading to each other and making love.

At six pm, they Apparated to Hermione's parents' house, although dinner was not due to start until seven, they arrived earlier so Ron could give Hermione his gift to her. They greeted Richard and Helen warmly before going upstairs to be alone. Ron then handed Hermione an envelope. She opened it and took out what was inside.

'A ferry ride to Calais?' she asked.

'Yes, but that's not all, come downstairs with me,' he replied.

Hermione then followed Ron downstairs and out the front door. He then opened the garage door to reveal something under a sheet.

'Pull off the sheet,' said Ron.

'Okay,' said Hermione, before complying.

Under the sheet was a car. It was a silver Mercedes Benz convertible.

'Wow, it's beautiful, and terribly expensive, Ron,' she said.

'I know but we need it for our trip, you see not only will we be going to Calais on the ferry, we'll be driving through France, Southern Germany and Italy together for the next three weeks, just you and me, what do you think?' said Ron, smiling at her.

'Really?' she asked.

'Yeah, just you and me on a road trip to Italy and back, but we go through France and Spain to finish in Portugal, so what do you reckon?' he answered.

'Ron, I don't know what to say, except bloody brilliant!' Hermione said before jumping into his arms and snogging him.

She stopped and said, 'We'll be back for Harry's birthday, won't we?'

'Yep,' replied Ron.

'We need to pack –'

'Already taken care of, Angel,' he said cutting her off.

'Did you pack me any underwear this time?'

'Yeah, I did, believe me, I didn't want to, but I thought I'd better, but I packed plenty of hot weather clothes for you to look really sexy in, bikinis, short skirts and t-shirts,' Ron told her.

Hermione blushed at being called sexy before giving him another kiss signifying he had done well before going back inside. He told her that they would take it in turns to drive and that they would be staying in nice hotels each night or if they found a campsite they would camp. Hermione was very impressed that Ron had done everything, including putting all their cases in the car already, he also told her he had put charms on the car similar to that of Sirius' as well as an extension charm on the boot.

Soon all the guests arrived and Ron and Hermione took the time to catch up with Sirius and Amelia. Sirius told them he had been appointed Head of the Auror Office. Hermione was pleased at this piece of news as she knew that Sirius wants Harry to finish Hogwarts before becoming an Auror, and as Head he had the right to choose candidates as he saw fit. So with the likelihood of Harry going back to school to finish, Ron would have to also, however, she still hoped that Ron would get to be Head Boy if she was Head Girl.

Sirius and Richard were talking about football while Hermione was catching up with Susan, Ginny and Tonks, while Harry, Ted, Remus and Ron were making faces at Teddy, while Andromeda and Helen were observing everyone and chatting to each other.

Unlike during lunch Ron had no qualms about making a pig of himself as he ate whatever Helen was putting in front of him. They were all sitting together at the large dining room table making conversation before Sirius tapped his glass with a fork to get everyone's attention.

He got to his feet and said, 'Congratulations, Ron and Hermione, on one year of marriage. As I was the one who cast the wedding charm for you, and as you are my godson's closest friends, it gives me a great deal of pleasure to see you both so happy together, and I'm sure that will continue for many years to come. I also do not doubt that Harry has found his soul-mate as Ron and Hermione have theirs in each other, but what I'd like to do now is talk about me for a moment. For those of you who don't know, I've been made the Head of the Auror Office, and I do hope to make changes in the department in the coming years, but first, I need to go back to soul-mates for a moment. As you all know I have been seeing Amelia for nearly four years, she has brought me a lot of happiness and light into my life, she makes me happier than I ever thought I could be, so what I am about to say and do next should come as a surprise to no-one.'

Sirius then took Amelia's hand and took a knee in front of her and said, 'Amelia Susan Bones, I love you so much, will you marry me?'

Amelia blushed as she put her hand over her mouth in shock, but then nodded, saying, 'Yes, I will.'

Sirius slid the ring he had been keeping on his person for the last month on to her finger before they stood and shared a loving kiss. They were congratulated by everyone, and the ladies all got a look at the engagement ring Amelia was now wearing. The ring itself was gold with a large diamond that sparkled beautifully, it was simple and not an ugly gaudy thing, it was beautiful.

The party broke up at around ten pm as people began to go home, leaving Ron and Hermione alone with her parents. Hermione went into the kitchen to clean everything with a few simple flicks of her wand as her parents went to bed. With the task complete, she and Ron went upstairs to go to sleep as tomorrow they would leave for their ferry/road trip to Italy, and on the way back, Portugal.