RP: It's Over When: July 10, 2000 Who: Ron Weasley, Bill Weasley Where: Starting at Shell Cottage and then ? Private/Public: Private/then semi-public Rating: PG-13 Summary: Ron just broke up with Hermione and comes by for a chat.
Ron had never slept much in the last week and it was showing. All day long at work, he had been complaining to anyone about anything. He was sure that Harry was sick of hearing it right along with everyone else. He didn't want to cheer up. He really didn't want to go to the Burrow for dinner, only to have his mother try to tell him that they would be back together soon enough and then they would get married and have children. His Hermione was gone - to better their careers and themselves or so she had said. It all sounded like tosh to him and it tore at him. He didn't want to understand it, even if he had just nodded and let her go.
Debating on what to do, Ron left the ministry and walked to the corner to buy a Daily Prophet to take home. He thumbed through it, stalling. He didn't want to go home and feel how empty it was. There were not many places that he wanted to be either. Oddly, he ended up on the doorstep of Bill and Fleur's cottage. Victorie was only a two months old but she always brightened his day. He needed that.
Knocking at the door, he knew his brother would take him in, at least for a little while. He might even be able to help. Maybe...