A/N: Hello all! I'm so excited to finally make a fanfiction! And using my favourite paring too, George/Hermione. Also, Fred/Hermione is another on of my favourites along with Fred/Hermione/George, but I could only have one of the twins with Hermione in this story, so I picked George. This story is going to start in the Golden Trio's seventh year and we'll just see where it goes from there. Also, there is going to be a bit of Harry/Ginny throughout the story too. Oh yeah, and a warning to all you Ron and Lavender fans, there's going to be quite a bit of bashing in this story! Anyway, please, please review my first story and tell me if you like it and tell me if I should continue with it!
Full Summary:
Hermione walks into the Gryffindor Common Room just to find her boyfriend, Ron, cheating on her with Lavender Brown. After she breaks up with him, she starts blaming herself for being the reason why Ron cheated on her. However, George knows that this is his only chance to be with Hermione, so he starts to help her get over Ron and soon they start dating. But after a huge fight with Ron, George starts to wonder if Hermione really loves him or if he is just her rebound guy.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters.
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Rebound Guy
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Chapter 1
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Hermione was the happiest she had ever been in her whole life. She was practically skipping down the halls of Hogwarts as she made her way back up to the Gryffindor Common Room. And why shouldn't she happy? It was snowing outside, and she absolutely loved the snow, Lord Voldemort had finally been defeated just months before, hardly anyone had died in the Last Battle (although George did have his left ear cut off) and she got to confess to the love of her life just how much she loved him... and he loves her back!
'Oh, Ron...' She thought, her smile brightening.
She had told him she would be going straight to the library after their last class of the day; Potions. But the thought of staying in the stuffy library for hours on end, for once, didn't appeal to her. Instead, she was going to surprise Ron by going to the Common Room early and then maybe they would be able to go outside for a nice long walk in the snow! She couldn't wait.
Things were going great between Ron and herself. She was pretty sure Ron was as happy and in love with her as she was with him. Although they had their fights, which would happen nearly everyday, they were still going strong. There was only one problem in their relationship so far.
Sex.
Ron has been bugging her lately about finally sleeping with him. Yet, she wanted it to be special, after all, a girl only looses her virginity once, and she wanted it all to be perfect. She didn't want it to just be a quick shag in one of the classrooms or up in the boys dormitory. She wanted it to be... romantic.
Hermione wasn't really one for romance, but every girl has to have a little bit in their life, right? And she knew Ron was getting agitated and restless of waiting, after all, he wasn't exactly known for his patience, but he had been very good so far and only brought up their lack of a sex life when they were fighting. She just knew he would wait as long as necessary for her, even though he complains all the time about it.
Hermione was finally in front of the portrait of the Fat Lady. "Password?" The Fat Lady asked, smiling at the huge, beaming smile on Hermione's face.
"Golden Lion." Hermione chirped.
The portrait flew open and before Hermione could even step inside the Common Room, she heard loud moaning. She crinkled up her nose in disgust. 'Can't they do that somewhere privet?' She asked herself, just as she heard a louder moan. She blushed slightly at the sound.
'I wonder who it is?' Hermione asked herself, but there was no way she was going to step foot in the Common Room. She didn't want to know who it was. All she knew was that she would never look at the Gryffindor Common Room the same way ever again. 'What if they are going it on one of the sofa's?!' She asked herself, horrified. Didn't those two know that fellow Gryffindor's had to sit on the very same sofa?!
She was about to turn and walk away (She was pretty sure she was scarred for life) until she heard the girl moan out "Ohhh, Ron." This made Hermione freeze on the spot, her heart stopping along with the rest of her body. Did she just hear correctly? Could that possibly be her boyfriend?
'No! I'm just being silly. There's no way Ron would cheat on me!' She thought to herself, but she knew she was going to have to check to make sure.
So, she took in a deep breath and reluctantly stepped foot into the Gryffindor Common Room. Her heart had started beating again by now, but it was now beating painfully against her rib cage, making her breathing become quite short and ragged. She took a few steps into the room so that she could finally see everything in the room, including the sofa next to the fireplace.
Her breath caught in her throat and her heart seemed to stop beating once again at the sight before her. She felt tears start to form at the corner of her amber coloured eyes, and her breathing was becoming faster and harder as she tried to keep her tears from falling.
There on the sofa, right before her very eyes, was Ron in nothing but a pair of white and red dotted boxers, with Lavender Brown underneath him in nothing but her bra and matching knickers. Their clothes were thrown everywhere around the Common Room and Ron was practically devouring Lavender's mouth while trying to take her bra off. Lavender was also practically eating her boyfriends face as she kept running her hands up and down Ron's back.
Hermione stood there in shock. They hadn't even heard the portrait open or hear her come in and gasp. They were too caught up in each other to notice.
Hermione felt like her heart had just been ripped out of her chest, stamped on a couple of times, then cut into a gazillion pieces. She was frozen to the spot as she watched her boyfriend snog a completely different person. She felt shocked, angered, betrayed, but nothing was as bad as the pain she felt in her heart.
She couldn't stop them when her tears started coming, so she just let them slide down her face. She didn't bother wiping them away. All that was going through her mind was one word;
Why?
She slowly backed away from the snogging couple until she was once again outside the Fat Lady's portrait. Now that had scarred her for life. She didn't know what to feel. Should she be angry at Ron when it was her fault he hadn't been getting any and so turned to Lavender, of all people, to get some? Should she feel shocked when she knew Lavender had been giving Ron lustful looks for ages now? Was she allowed to feel betrayed when she had always had a feeling that this was going to happen? All she knew was that her heart felt heavy and hurt terribly. Why did he have to do that?
"Are you alright, dear?" The Fat Lady asked. She couldn't believe this was the same girl who had just given her the password with the biggest smile she had ever seen on anyones face before.
Hermione didn't answer. Instead she slowly backed away from the portrait before turning on her heal and running away from the scene she had just witnessed.
She ran through the halls, not caring that the people in the halls were stopping and whispering about her or trying to stop her to ask if she was alright. She just kept running until she found herself outside on the Hogwart grounds, running through the snow to the only place she knew where she could be alone to sort out her thoughts and her feelings;
The Black Lake.
She sat down by the edge of the lake on the snowy ground, and she leaned her back on a large, snow covered tree. Once she had settled down properly, she started to try and sort out her thoughts and feelings to what she had just witnessed in the Common Room.
But no matter what, she could only focus on that one word; Why? She pulled her knees up to her chest and rested her forehead on her knees as the thoughts raced around in her head. Why did Ron do this to her? Wasn't she good enough for him? Hadn't she given up everything for him? All she had ever asked him to do was to wait until she was ready, and he couldn't even do that! Why couldn't he have just waited a little longer? And she was just starting to consider sleeping with him, too!
Hermione cried into her knees, hoping that crying would somehow ease away the pain, even just a small fraction of the pain in her heart. But no. It didn't help at all, yet she couldn't seem to stop crying.
Why was Ron such a git?
Why? Why!? Why?!
Hermione sat there for at least an hour with the freezing wind whipping her bushy hair around her flushed face. She only had a small, thin jacket on, but she couldn't feel the cold. She felt... numb. Her heart didn't even hurt any more. She just felt numb.
She was pulled out of her thoughts a little while later by the sound of footsteps and crunching snow. They were coming closer to her from behind her, so she pressed her back against the large tree, as though doing so would make her become invisible. But, no such luck, since the next thing she knew someone sat down beside her and greeted her,
"Hello, my little bookworm!"
She would have groaned if she had the energy. Who knew crying could take up so much energy? There was only one person who called her their little bookworm, and that was George Weasley.
Mrs Weasley had made Fred and George go back to school to graduate with Hermione and the rest of the seventh years since the twins are not allowed to open their shop again until the Order are sure Diagon Alley is safe once again from surviving Death Eaters.
"Leave me alone, George." She sniffed out as she wiped away the last of her tears, still not looking up at him.
George frowned at the top of her bushy brown hair. He couldn't see her face, but it was pretty obvious she had been crying. What had his idiot of a brother done this time? Didn't Hermione know yet that she deserved better than Ron? From day one Ron had always treated her like crap, using her for homework and for exams, just to throw her away until he needed her again. Even though Ron was his little brother, George knew Hermione deserved someone who would treat her better than his little brother.
He got up from where he had been sitting beside her and knelt down in front of her. "What did ickle Ronnikins do this time?" George asked her with concern. Honestly, how has she been able to put up with his little brother for so long?
Hermione shook her head from side to side in response.
George sighed, "Hermione-" He stopped to gasp when he took her little hands into his larger ones. They were bloody freezing! "Bloody hell, Mione! How long have you been out here?" He took in her appearance and rolled his emerald coloured eyes at her, "No wonder why you're so freezing! You've only got a thin jacket on!" He exclaimed in disbelief.
He tugged on Hermione's hands and helped her up to her feet without any protest from her. George was starting to get the feeling Ron had done something extremely wrong and stupid. She hadn't even lifted her head to look at him yet, much to his disappointment and displeasure.
He tugged on his red and gold stripped Gryffindor scarf that was wrapped warmly around his neck, and made enough room so that he could still wear the scarf, but also put it over Hermione's head and around her neck.
Hermione's head snapped up and came nose to nose with George. Her face brightened with the most adorable blush George had ever seen as she stuttered out, "W-What are you... you doing?"
"You're cold." Was his short reply.
George then unzipped his large navy coloured coat that had fur on the edge of his hood, and opened his arms out wide. Hermione took the hint and wrapped her arms around his narrow waist. He then wrapped his arms around her, along with his coat, and she felt the zipper to his coat glide up along her back as George zipped up his coat. They were both quite surprised that they were both able to fit in the coat.
Hermione hadn't noticed how cold she was until George started rubbing his hands in small circles up and down her back through the coat. She leaned her head on his muscular chest, making sure the scarf wouldn't strangle one of them as she did so.
"Now," She could feel the rumble in his chest as he was speaking, and Hermione decided she liked it. "Tell me what Ron has done this time."
At the mention of her ex-boyfriend's name, tears flooded her vision. She still didn't understand why Ron had done what he did. Didn't he love her at all? No. Because if he did then he wouldn't have broken her heart. He would have waited for her. Without even realizing it, Hermione had started sobbing again, and it was only when George pressed a few shy kisses to her hair and her temple, she noticed.
George was starting to get angry and impatient. Whatever Ron had done had obviously hurt her more than usual if she couldn't even bear to hear his name. It was a surprise for George, though, since Hermione had always been so brave and strong. He promised himself that he would make Ron his and his twins' personal test dummy if he did something terrible to her.
"Please, my little bookworm. Don't cry." He cooed, "What did he do, Mione?"
Hermione knew she had to tell him. She had to tell someone. She berried her face into his chest, much to George's surprise and pleasure, and started telling him what happened, "Ron... Common Room... cheated... whore... Lavender." She cried out at the end.
Although George had only managed to hear a few of the muffled words, it was obvious what his prat of a brother had done. George stiffened in anger, making Hermione lift her head from George's chest. She saw George's eyes flash from a gorgeous emerald colour to a dark green colour, almost black. Hermione knew then that George was beyond pissed off, and that didn't happen a lot. In fact, the only other time she had seen his eyes go such a dark colour had been when Umbridge had banned Fred, Harry and himself from Quiddich for life.
"I'm ganna kill 'im!" George grounded out between clenched teeth. He unconsciously hugged Hermione tighter to him as he repeated, "I'm ganna kill 'im!"
Hermione knew that if she didn't stop him now, then he really would kill his little brother, and she couldn't let that happen, no matter how much Ron had hurt her. So, she tightened her arms around his waist and shook her head from side to side at George.
"Please don't." She whispered, though George could hear her perfectly well since they were so close to each other. "Please don't hurt him... just-just hold me?" She asked and rested her head back on George's chest.
George knew he would like nothing more than to go up to his little brother and use him as a test dummy for the next millennium, but he couldn't and wouldn't leave Hermione in the state she was in right now. So, he willed his anger to go away and relaxed his stance. He knew his eyes should be slowly starting to return back to their normal colour.
"All right, my little bookworm. You win." He sighed and placed another shy kiss to her temple before resting his chin on the top of her head.
"Thank you." She murmured into his already damp shirt, but he didn't mind one bit.
She continued to cry over her broken heart as George rocked them back and fore, rubbing her back in soothing circles and cooing to her softly now and again. "I promise I'll be there for you, Mione. Even when you confront him. I'll be there every step of the way." George whispered into her ear.
Hermione answered with a thankful squeeze around his waist as he went back to comforting her.
And that's how George's twin brother, Fred, found them a few hours later.
A/N: So, do you like it? I hope you do! I'd really appreciate it if you could review for me and tell me what you think. I have no idea how good my writing skills are (If my writing is good at all) so please tell me what you think and if I should continue. Also, the more reviews I get, the quicker I'll update. Also, yes, I do know Fred dies at the Last Battle, but I just had to have him in this story. I have no idea how J.K.Rowling was able to kill Fred off, but this is FanFiction after all, so I decided he's going to live in my story. Now go R&R for me and make me happy!
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