A/N: Due to all the reviewers that suggested that I continue with this story I have decided to continue it for a couple of chapters. I would like to thank everyone for all their nice comments and I hope that you keep on reviewing.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry potter or any of the other characters. They belong to J.K.Rowling and Warner brothers. I am in no way affiliated with them and this story is for entertainment purposes only.
Author: heaven85
Spoiler: Books 1-5
Chapter 2:
Ron was tossing and turning in his sleep and then jolted up. He had a nightmare about when they were fighting all the Death Eaters. The battles were hard on everyone and continue to haunt him especially since the final battle between Harry and "You know who" was approaching.
Ron couldn't help but worry about his best friend Harry Potter of seven years. Sure Harry has become such a powerful and really amazing wizard over the last few years. But was he good enough to survive fighting him?
Ron hoped and believed that Harry would win after he has escaped him so many times. But this time it was different. It would lead to an end. He didn't know who would survive but either way this was it and one way or another it will all end.
Then Ron's thoughts directed towards his girlfriend Hermione Granger. He thought with a laugh that she would probably be up being worried about Harry. She seemed to be worried about him a lot lately. In this case Ron couldn't really blame her after all this really was a really big deal but sometimes she seemed too concerned and it bugged him just a little. He couldn't help but feel that it would be nice if she worried about him. Ron bit his lip and thought to be really fair since it wasn't like Hermione wasn't concerned about his safety. It's just that she seemed a little more concerned for Harry than for him.
Ron knew that Hermione was worried about how distant Harry seemed to be with them. They knew that something was wrong but he wouldn't tell him what it was when he asked Harry about it. He was a little hurt by it but he knew that Harry needed some space but Hermione seemed really hurt by it. He could see it in her eyes when she looked at Harry.
Ron knew that Harry and Hermione were closer then Ron and Hermione were and always had been but Ron had to admit that he was a little jealous because even if he was dating Hermione that she still seemed to be a little closer to Harry then to him. There had been so many times in which it seemed as they were on the same page and he was an outsider. They talked as if they had some language that he didn't understand and he didn't really know what they were talking about and that made him feel a little left out.
Ron didn't know why but Hermione also seemed not to be all there at times, he noticed that she shot glances at Harry when she thought he wasn't looking. Ron frowned then thought, in fact things between him and Hermione were going great for awhile and then, for some reason he felt that something had changed between them and that was when Hermione asked for some time to sort through some things. He sometimes wondered if this had something to do with Harry. If maybe she had feelings for him and that maybe Harry felt the same way. But he shook off that thought because he didn't believe that his friend would do that to him.
One thing for sure is that Ron knows that he still loves Hermione very much and hope that things would work out for them. He was wondering if he should go over to talk and be there for Hermione because talking really does help and they could worry about Harry together. But he didn't want to seem like he was pushing her for an answer or anything.
Ron decided to head over to the head boy and head girl dorm where Harry and Hermione were staying this year. It felt kind of strange for him that since he was prefect that Harry would be Head boy. It kind of made him wonder if he really was meant to be prefect after all. It made him feel a little bit more inferior to Harry than he already felt but just a little bit after all he was happy for Harry.
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Harry woke up and smiled and looked at the sleeping Hermione next to him. He couldn't help but smile as he thought about their talk and was happy that he had the love of such an amazing girl. A nagging voice in his head asked "What about Ron?"
"What about Ron?" he answered the voice back.
"Hermione is his girlfriend." The nagging voice responded.
"I know." Harry answered back.
"You're stabbing your other best friend in the back." The voice answered back.
"That's not what I'm doing." He answered.
"Then what do you call it?" the voice asked.
"I don't know." He whispered.
He felt some movement and turned to see that Hermione had started shifting and was muttering something.
Harry leaned in to hear what she was muttering.
"Leave Harry alone. Don't take him." Hermione said quietly at first.
Then she sat up and screamed, "NO Harry."
"Come on Hermione. I'm here." Harry sat looking at her concerned.
"Harry. You're okay." Hermione said grabbing on to him and holding on.
"It's okay. It was just a dream." Harry said holding on and stroking her back.
"I know. You're safe right now." Hermione answered quietly.
"Yes I am, I'm good. Don't worry about me." Harry replied quickly.
"You think I can?" Hermione replied with a smile.
"Well you can try." Harry replied back with a smile.
"I can't stop thinking about tomorrow." Hermione asked quietly.
"Me either." Harry replied.
"Can you promise me that my dream will only just be a dream?" Hermione asked with hope in her eyes.
"You know I can't." Harry answered looking down.
"I know. Don't look so sad. It's beyond your control." Hermione answered lifting up his head.
"I wish I could you know." Harry said looking into her eyes.
"I know. It's just that I love you so much." Hermione replied back.
"I love you too." Harry said kissing her quickly on the lips before taking her back in his arms.
"I can't believe you two!" Ron yelled.
Harry turned around and saw Ron who looked incredibly angry and his face looked really red.
"Ron?" Hermione said looking really surprised.
"How long have you been here?" Harry asked.
"Enough to know that my two best friends have just stabbed me in the back." Ron shouted.
"It's not like that." Hermione said walking over to him.
"Well what is it then? I hear you telling him that you love him and he loves you and I see the two of you kissing. What is it then? Huh? What excuse do you have for me now Hermione?" Ron shouted angrily.
Hermione stared back at him with tears brimming from her eyes but Ron refused to back away.
He grabbed Hermione's arm and shook her, "Tell me!"
"It's not what you think. We haven't gone out behind your back. What happened between me and Harry just happened." Hermione pleaded.
Ron let go of Hermione's arm and turned around staring violently at the floor.
"Ron, please…" Hermione said quietly.
Ron spun around. "Yeah right! I've seen the way you look at him. You can't tell me that you haven't been in love with him for a long time." Ron asked her looking at her angrily.
"Ron. It's true. We haven't gone out behind your back but yes I do love Hermione and I'm really sorry." Harry told Ron.
"How can you do this to me Harry? You knew how I felt about her. You think that you can take everything don't you? You already have so much, why did you have to take her away from me?" Ron shouted getting angrier and angrier.
"Look, Ron I'm really sorry. The last thing that we wanted to do was to hurt you." Harry answered.
" Yeah like the two of you getting together wouldn't hurt me." Ron said with a hollow laugh.
"You know what we mean. Ron we never planned this, honestly we didn't." Harry replied back.
"Ron, I'm sorry." Hermione pleaded with tears in her eyes as she touched his arm.
Ron pulled back as if her touch hurt him, "Don't Hermione. You know, I always felt a little bit inferior to Harry but I thought that you'd never see that way but I was wrong. You probably only went out with me until Harry decided not to huh?" Ron shouted bitterly.
"It's not like that Ron. I never thought about you like that. I went out with you because you were such a great guy and I wanted to." Hermione replied pleadingly.
"In fact you were probably thinking because Harry doesn't like me hey, I'll go out with Ron. He likes me." Ron spat out harshly.
"That's not fair Ron." Hermione replied.
"And now that it's like. Harry likes me so I'll go with him. Who cares if I'm dating Ron?" Ron shouted out.
"Ron I do care. Ron I really do." Hermione answered crying.
"If you're mad at me take it out on me. Don't talk like that about Hermione." Harry replied.
"You don't have the right to talk. In fact this is entirely your fault. So don't tell me what I can and can't say." Ron shouted.
"Ron please calm down." Hermione responded.
" Yes Ron please listen to us." Harry said walking closer to Ron.
"I'll calm down all right. In fact I don't have to listen to all of your lies." Ron replied abruptly and stormed out.
Harry walked toward Hermione and wrapped his arms around Hermione.
"That didn't turn out well did it." Harry said weakly.
"Understatement of the century." Hermione replied with a small smile.
"What are we going to do with him?" Harry asked.
"Ron will understand eventually. I know he will." Hermione answered.
"You okay?" Harry asked moving back and taking a good look at her.
"I will be." Hermione replied with a smile.
"I'm sorry about that. If I hadn't…" Harry started before Hermione place her hand on his mouth.
"Harry, If I had to do it all over again. I wouldn't have changed anything that happened." Hermione answered.
"Nothing?" Harry whispered.
"Nothing. I cherish what happened with us earlier. In fact, honestly, I would be unhappier if I had never known how you felt. How about you? Do you want to change anything? " Hermione asked.
"No. I have never felt happier in my life than when you told me you loved me." Harry answered giving her another hug.
"Never." Hermione asked with a smile.
"Never." Harry said softly and kissed her softly.
"Come on. I'm tired. I'm going to sleep." Hermione said
Harry started to leave until Hermione grabbed him and kissed him hard on the lips before saying, "Where do you think you're going?"
"Back to my room." Harry answered with a smile.
"No Harry. I like sleeping next to you. Please stay." Hermione said with a pout.
"How can I resist that?" Harry replied with a grin.
Then they lay next to each other content in the others presence and drifted off to sleep.
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Meanwhile Ron was pacing off in his dorm room trying to walk off all the anger and sadness he felt as he thought back to what he saw.
`How could they do that to him? Did Hermione like him at all?' Ron thought with anger and sadness.
In the midst of his anger, he heard a voice say " You don't deserve this. Your best friends shouldn't have stabbed you in the back. Who needs them?"
"Yeah, I don't deserve this." Ron thought to himself.
"You don't. You need to find better friends that will treat you with the respect that you deserve." The voice responded
"I do. I don't need them." Ron said
"Just listen to me and you'll find what you want." The voice continued
Ron got up and walked out of his dorm and walked towards the hallway into the darkness…
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