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Ronald B. Weasley ([info]geroffme) wrote in [info]wished,
@ 2010-01-17 22:42:00

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Entry tags:!1998: 01, !incomplete, hermione granger, ron weasley

Who: Ron and Hermione
Where: In the woods, by the lake
When: Today
What: Study break!
Warnings: TBA

Ron took a seat on one of the dryer logs that sat by the side of the lake, and huddled into his coat to wait for Hermione. She really didn't relax enough, not that anyone could blame her. There wasn't much to turn to to unwind, here - the scenery wasn't exactly inspiring, all grey and bare forest and muddy, frosty water. Might as well stay inside and pour over impossible old books, when this was the alternative.

... But if she actually went cross-eyed, they'd have to rely on his and Harry's take on Runes, and might as well just turn themselves in now - so maybe staring at dead trees was the lesser of two evils. The company was definitely appreciated, anyway; he'd been wanting time with her since he'd found his way back, but there was always something that needed done, some intervening emergency. That wasn't going to stop any time soon. But while the peace and quiet lasted (not too much longer, apparently, judging by Harry's behavior), he could take it for what little it was worth.


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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-18 04:04 am UTC (link)
It didn't take Hermione that long to go to the water and find him, she was bundled heavily - she'd risked putting mild warming charms onto their heavy coats when they'd found themselves back in the forest and laying low after their run in with the Death Eaters at Lovegood's home, since they'd decided they wouldn't move for a few days, at least, until things were quieter. So she was almost warm, with the coat and the wool hat, and she felt a little bit like a huge puffy bear as she sat down next to him. It was infuriating, sometimes, that she only felt that self-conscious around Ron.

"This isn't exactly a prize winning landscape, is it?" she asked, but she looked out over the frozen lake, and it was good enough, really. Better than the alternatives if things had gone differently at Lovegood's, at least.

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-18 04:13 am UTC (link)
"Nope." Ron smiled up at her as she sat - she looked warmer than he did, and it made him want to tug her in a little closer. Instead he leaned down to pick up a chip of wood, and toss it over the water, where it skipped dully along the ice and stopped. "Bloody depressing, actually. But at least it's quiet. Not so bad, if you don't get it in your head to go swimming." He found it harder to relax inside, though it was warmer there. Here he was further away from anything he or Hermione or Harry had to do, and though it was far past the point of pretending it wasn't there, it made for a little comfort, at least.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-18 04:15 am UTC (link)
"Still," Hermione added, and then she didn't have anything to say to finish the comparison. She didn't really want to think about what might have happened that day, where they might have ended up that wasn't here.

"Harry's still asleep," She said instead, giving a little shrug. "We ought to probably let him sleep as long as he can. I don't think he got much last night at all."

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-18 04:23 am UTC (link)
Ron let his eyes linger on the stick he'd thrown for a few moments longer, his mouth hardening a little. "Yeah. You're probably right. Seems like it was really something." And while that didn't seem to lead to anything good these days, he found he almost didn't mind. "I hope it is - I hope it tells us something, I mean. Not like last time we headed off to find something ended up that well, but - it's better than sitting here til spring." He rested his hand in his chin, and glanced over at her. "Even if it is safe. For now."

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-18 04:39 am UTC (link)
"We did find something," Hermione answered, but she didn't look like she'd liked that last outing any more than he did. What they'd learned about the Hallows seemed important, but it also seemed... well, ridiculous, and incomprehensible at the moment. And figuring out what the other Horcrux are seemed far more important.

When he looked at her, she felt herself blush for no reason at all, but she looked at him too, giving him a little shrug. "It is. For now."

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-18 04:50 am UTC (link)
Ron snorted. "We sure did." A nutty old man, three Death Eaters, an obscure and sort of twisted story ... It didn't seem to have put them very far ahead, but maybe they just didn't know enough to understand. He had a little more faith in Dumbledore to point them in the right direction, these days.

His mouth pulled up into half a smile; her face looked a little red in the cold, and he reached over to take her hand, entirely unable to decide if he wished he had gloves. "I know we'll have to go ..." Well, it was hard to finish that optimistically. he looked out into the woods on the other side of the lake. "We'll find somewhere else. When we have to."

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-18 04:57 am UTC (link)
"Maybe whatever Harry saw..." Hermione sighed, and instead of finishing that thought looked down to where Ron had taken her hand. She had gloves, back in the tent. She never wore them, though, and she had to admit that this might be why. She moved her fingers to curl them with his.

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-18 05:06 am UTC (link)
Ron fought his growing smile as she tightened her hand around his - her fingers felt almost as icy as his did, but warmth hadn't been the goal, anyway. (Had it?) "If he's dreaming about a safehouse with a proper bed and a great big fireplace, I want to hear about it. Whatever it is - doesn't make much sense to worry about it too much. It can't be all that much worse than what we've run into."

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-18 05:10 am UTC (link)
"I don't think that would have him fidgeting with his scar all morning and waking up in a sweat," Hermione squeezed Ron's fingers, though, and a moment later she hesitantly moved until she was sitting close in to his side, and could put her head on his shoulder. "So, what were you doing out here?"

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-18 05:21 am UTC (link)
Ron took in a deep breath, and resisted the urge to let go of her fingers to slide his arm around her. He liked the feel of her hand in his. It took a moment for the question to register, and then he wasn't really sure what to say. "Just - thinking. You know." Rather, not-thinking. But that didn't sound right. "Sometimes it's just all a little - a little much, back there." He felt his own face coloring a little, at that. He wasn't at all sure Hermione felt the same way. He knew she got tired enough of it to need to get away - obviously - but had the feeling she wasn't as easily overwhelmed as he was. He really ought to have been used to it by now.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-19 02:00 am UTC (link)
Hermione looked back in the direction of the tent, and nodded. "I know." Even if she thought Ron felt it more acutely than she did - she could forget how uncomfortable it was, most of the time, and focus on one task, like translating runes. It made things easier until she finished a task and started to think about it. She squeezed his fingers again, sighing. At this point, she wasn't sure what the next step was.

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-19 02:53 am UTC (link)
Ron nodded. He had found what he was looking for in his brief recess from the tent, anyhow - the pressure of Hermione's head on his shoulder was drawing his mind further and further from anything unpleasant that might have been waiting for him in the near future. After a moment, he slipped his hand out of hers and wrapped his arm about her waist, keeping his eyes focused on the far side of the lake. This felt warmer - almost peaceful - like it could last a bit longer than the few minutes he knew they had before the cold or some pressing task (or Harry waking up, he thought) took them away from the shore. It wasn't much to look at, but it was better than books and tinned soup.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-22 03:20 am UTC (link)
Hermione looked out over things too, and she wished she could say something to Ron that would be remotely normal - but asking him about things that would usually let him talk, Quidditch or his family or anything, would just remind them more and more about what they didn't know, what they didn't have here.

"Viktor said he'd get us a Wireless somehow," she said after a moment.

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-22 01:30 pm UTC (link)
Ron was silent for a few seconds. "That'd be good," he conceded. There was absolutely no sense in arguing the point. "Has it been ... pretty easy, picking up the stuff he's sent along? Seems to be a lot of it." And something to bring in another voice or two would be a welcome addition (quite aside from the access to news). Tensions were clearly running lower, but one of his worst fears was that they'd just become sick of one another.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-25 02:26 am UTC (link)
"I managed most of it pretty easily when he left the food packages, save for the last one." Where she'd been sure she was almost caught, and Hermione shivered a little remembering, and squeezed Ron's hand again. "But we'll be more careful this time."

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-25 02:37 am UTC (link)
"What do you -" The pressure on his hand reminded him to keep his mouth shut - insisting on finding fault with her methods or Krum's deliveries wouldn't lead him anywhere he wanted to go, especially when he had nothing to offer in the way of ideas. "There's no reason we all have to do it, you know," he pointed out, without much hope of convincing her. The last thing he wanted to think about was what would happen if something went wrong, just for ... a few tins of soup, or a Wireless.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-25 02:41 am UTC (link)
"No, there's not." Hermione looked confused, looking up from his shoulder to his eyes. "I meant Viktor and I would be more careful this time. It's safer if only one of us goes to grab the things?"

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-25 02:45 am UTC (link)
"Oh. - Yeah, of course. Much better if it's just one of us." He tightened his grip on her hand slightly, and kept his gaze firmly on the far side of the lake. "Viktor and I will be more careful, this time." It was only fair he should take his turn, wasn't it? And it would be nice, he thought hopefully, to be able to do so without any argument.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-25 02:49 am UTC (link)
"Ron, don't be silly. He'll tell me exactly where he's put things, it will go faster if I ... " she trailed off then, sighing. She didn't want to fight about anything right now. Especially not about Viktor, because those rows were a bit legendary, weren't they?

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-25 02:54 am UTC (link)
Ron waited for Hermione to justify herself - Merlin knew she was capable of going at it until he didn't have a rational leg to stand on - and unwound a little when she seemed to decide it wasn't worth it. "He can tell me just as easily, anyway," he said with half a shrug. He didn't want an argument, and he didn't want to jostle her head from his shoulder. "- It'll be nice to have. It's a good idea."

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-25 03:34 am UTC (link)
"He'll tell me, and I'll tell you." Hermione could just imagine the confusion if Ron tried to follow Viktor's directions. If Ron tried to follow anyone's direction, really. But instead of saying that, she put her head back onto his shoulder, sighing. "I'll write him again about it soon." Not now.

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-26 01:47 am UTC (link)
Ron smiled slightly. "Sure." An easy victory was rare enough that he knew not to press. And it wasn't like he was dying to see her run back to the tent to pen a letter to Krum. He brought his hand up to rest over her hat - not as nice as her hair, of course, but the weather was a little brutal. "You're taking a break, anyway," he ventured, as though it were indisputable. "Business and that sort of thing can wait a bit."

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-26 01:51 am UTC (link)
"Was that an order?" Hermione chuckled, but then sighed easily enough and closed her eyes for a moment on his shoulder. "You're right though, until Harry tells us whatever it was, it can wait...." She didn't quite know why they needed a wireless, anyway. Ginny had said something about a radio show, but she had no idea how that would help.

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-26 02:06 am UTC (link)
"Would I order you to do anything?" He was pretty sure he had spent the past several years close to begging her to do his homework. "Yeah, he's got the right idea. If you can't have a nap, a breather's a close second." Ron was sure having a few extra tidbits of news would be more than helpful, but was largely looking forward to the wireless because he thought it might be cheery to sit back and listen to some Quidditch if they happened to be lucky enough to catch a game. It might be nice to go the rest of the season without being confirmed in his suspicion that Chudley would continue to crash like a broom on fire, but ... well, this might be their year.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-26 02:11 am UTC (link)
"Alright, what's your excuse then?" Hermione was teasing now, and she chuckled but then sat up a little from his shoulder so that she could look at him properly. "I did really miss you, you know," She said unexpectedly. They hadn't really talked about Ron's leaving, since he'd come back.

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-26 02:20 am UTC (link)
"Me? Did I make breakfast this morning, or didn't I?" He made to push her head playfully back down against his shoulder, but stopped when she looked at him. "I missed you, too," he said, feeling suddenly a little hot. "I mean - I think ... that's how I found you. This thing -" He dug into his coat pocket, fishing around for the Deluminator. "I was thinking about how much I wanted to see you, and ... here I was." He shoved it back in his pocket, and looked down to the ground. There was no need to explain further, really. It was embarrassing enough without going on about lights and all of that.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-26 02:23 am UTC (link)
Hermione wasn't sure if that meant that he'd wanted to see her and Harry, or if he'd wanted to see her, and for the first time in months she took a minute to entertain that thought that she'd rather it was just her he was thinking about. That somehow he'd come back for her.

"Dumbledore must have known," She said after a moment, smiling a little even if there was a sad touch to it.How much of this would have been easier if he'd just told them what he knew.

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-26 02:29 am UTC (link)
"Yeah, great," Ron muttered - more relieved to see her smile than he let on. "I can just imagine - 'Weasley, he'll probably turn tail at some point, better give him the retrace-your-steps gadget.'" But don't tell him what it is, let him stew on it for a while. Damn the man. "I guess it's not much worse than a book that points you in a hundred different directions."

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-26 02:42 am UTC (link)
"All at once," Hermione said with a frown, but then she studied Ron a little more carefully, taking his hand with both of hers and holding it that way. "I don't think that's what he saw. I think he saw that there would be a time that we'd really need you..."

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-26 03:01 am UTC (link)
Ron's face started burning a little - but after a moment of looking out into the woods, he found the will to meet her eyes, somehow. He even managed half a smile (part of him, after all, felt like grinning ear to ear). "He was always a little cracked," he said, quietly. He squeezed her hand. Whatever he'd seen ... he was grateful for it. Now that he was back here with them - with her - he couldn't think of how he'd ever thought he wanted to be elsewhere.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-26 03:12 am UTC (link)
Hermione licked her lips unconsciously - the way he was looking at her did strange things to her stomach. He looked happy, torn between happy an embarrassed, really, but happy, and the way he looked at her it was like she was part of the reason for that.

And it was wishful thinking, and stupid, and not at all helpful with what they needed to do.

But it was nice, too.

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[info]geroffme
2010-01-27 03:39 am UTC (link)
Ron's eyes flickered down to her mouth, and suddenly it was very hard not to think about being pressed up close against her on the couch, sitting in the warmth of the fire and steadfastly ignoring horcrux research. It did nothing to ease the oddly wobbly feeling that seemed to have overtaken him. The truth of it was, he didn't really care how royally Dumbledore had screwed them over, if he had at all. He'd given Ron a way to come back; and now that he had, everything else seemed ... secondary. It might not seem that way in the morning, but in the moment, he was simply pleased to be here - with her.

He leaned closer to her, letting his forehead rest against hers. It was strange how coming back had been such a relief.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-01-31 04:19 am UTC (link)
Hermione thought he'd been about to kiss her. She even turned her face up a little to meet it, but then he only pressed his forehead against hers and she felt her cheeks burning red at thinking he was going to do anything else.

She pressed hers solidly back against his, though, because he was there, and stable, and back, and maybe the rest didn't matter as much as those things did.

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[info]geroffme
2010-02-02 02:01 am UTC (link)
Fighting the grin spreading over his face would only end in a stupid, twisted half-smile ... so he let it go. She was too close to see anyway, wasn't she? It was great to have her this near, without having to worry about anything - except that it felt like a bloody lifetime since the time he'd kissed her, and that hadn't ended very ... Well, it hadn't ended any way, had it; just part of the gloomy blur that he'd been in when the Horcrux had still been with them, and he'd left. And now he'd come back, and Harry thought of her as a sister, and he didn't know why it all had to be so complicated. It didn't feel like it should be.

When she didn't pull away, he decided that maybe it wasn't. He tilted his face slightly to kiss her, more confidently than he felt. Her hands around his were reassuring, and he held to them securely.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-02-04 03:43 am UTC (link)
Hermione hadn't thought he'd try, after he hadn't when she'd thought of it before, so she tensed, surprised, when he did kiss her - but he seemed... confident. It was such a change that she found herself swaying against him, letting him kiss her for just a moment - and then beginning to kiss him back.

She wasn't an expert at this. Reading didn't really prepare you for the practical application of some things, and it had been a very long time since he'd kissed her before... But she closed her eyes, moved her mouth against his. She thought he was actually very good at this. Good enough to follow his lead, at least.

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[info]geroffme
2010-02-05 09:08 pm UTC (link)
Ron had a minor explosion of nerves when Hermione stiffened, all the more acute because he hadn't really expected an objection. But she wasn't pulling away, and there wasn't time for his heart to sink too much before she was kissing him back. His shoulders slumped a little in relief. It was hard to think of anything else, really, but he found himself reflecting that she did this very differently than Lavender - and immediately felt stupid that it had even occurred to him. Of course there wouldn't just be one way, and of course the two of them wouldn't be anything like one another. He slipped his hand up to the back of her neck and pressed in a bit closer, suddenly wishing he had left the gloves behind.

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