Their 19 Years: Chapter 37

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"Welcome home sweetheart"

Hermione felt her face grow hot and there was a pounding in her ears. She was so confused and questions were swarming her head in a fog. There was a beautiful house that Ron was claiming was now theirs right in front of her eyes. "What... how.. when?" she stammered turning to look at Ron with a look he had never seen in his life.

Ron laughed and hoisted her into his arms so he could carry her over the threshold bridal style. "Seems like the right thing to do," he explained when Hermione shed him a strange look, but made no attempt to remove herself from his grasp. "And here we are," he announced walking straight through the door and placing her down in the front hall. "Well, have a look around," he smiled when she didn't move and he directed her towards the kitchen.

"Ron," Hermione whispered placing a hand over her mouth as tears came to her eyes. Ron softly placed his arms around her from behind.

"It's all ours," he whispered in her ear, then kissed it for good measure.

"It's, it's," she repeated no words coming easily to her as she ran her fingertips over the stained wood of the counter.

"Here I'll show you the upstairs," he offered taking her hand.

There were three bedrooms in the house, the first door off the stairs was the master to which Hermione gasped at when the door opened. The bed that stood in the middle was no bigger than a queen size and the sheets matched the curtains that hung over the bay window which was cushioned for seating. Two dressers were across from one another, one clearly for Ron and the other for herself. Hermione ran her fingers gingerly over the duvet then sat down, testing it by bouncing a few times.

Ron was leaning against the door frame with a grin he made no attempt to conceal, as he watched his girlfriend take in what he had been working on for the better half of the spring.

"C'mere you big oaf," Hermione said holding her arms out from her seat on the bed. Ron obliged and Hermione pulled him into a kiss. They leaned back and had their first of many snogs on their new bed.

"So I take it you like it?" Ron asked when they pulled away.

"Uh huh," Hermione answered breathless and pulled him into another quick kiss. "But I want to see the rest!" she jumped up suddenly remembering there was still a lot more house to be seen. Ron chuckled and stayed lying on the bed for several more moments watching Hermione scamper out of the room.

"So these are guest rooms?" Hermione said glancing in the spare rooms, which contained only a bed and a dresser.

"For now," Ron chuckled coming up behind her and kissing her neck gently, but Hermione swatted him away playfully and made her way back downstairs.

"Ron this is absolutely gorgeous," Hermione sighed opening up the back door and walking out onto the porch. "But how did you get the money to buy this place?"

"Well it was actually pretty cheap, the bloke who owned it wanted to get rid of it really bad so practically gave it to me for free," Ron explained, taking her hand and leading her out into the yard. "It looked like a right hell-hole when I bought it, but I fixed it up to what it is now," he told her, laughing at her expression.

"You fixed it? So you built it? You Ronald Weasley?" she clarified absolutely shocked that Ron worked that hard on something. "You won't write a potions essay, but you will fix a house?" she laughed.

"Yeah," he blushed scratching the back of his neck. " I actually had some motivation to do this, not so much of it when potions or Snape were involved," he chuckled.

"Well I love it, and I love you," she said standing on her tip-toes to kiss him.

"I love you too."

"Wow we didn't expect to hear from you guys for a few days after Ron showed you the place," George teased. Ron clenched his fists and made a move towards George, but Hermione stopped him with a gentle hand on his arm.

The family's constant sexual innuendos and comments had really started to get to Ron lately Hermione noticed, and brought it up that night as they were getting ready for bed in their new house. Hermione had apparated over to her own house quickly and just brought the necessities as they still had a lot of moving in work to do.

"Ron, honey?" Hermione asked softly lifting the covers of the bed and sliding in beside him.

"What's up, love?" he said turning on his side to face her and brushing her cheek gently with his hand.

"I was just curious, umm about why you react the way you do when George or Ginny make you know those types of jokes," she said not meeting his eyes. "Is it because you are angry that we haven't you knowed yet? Like had sex" she asked cautiously, and glanced up at his face to see him looking at her absolutely flabbergasted.

"Mione, Merlin no of course not," he said exasperated, "you know I will wait as long as you want," he told her honestly cupping her face in both his hands. "Why on earth would you think that?"

"Well I mean Harry and Ginny have," Ron made a disgusted look, "and George apparently has a thing with Angelina, and Ginny caught her leaving his flat one morning, so it is pretty clear what is going on there. So I feel like you might be a bit... I don't know jealous," she said softly.

"Hermione, sweetheart, listen to me," he said sitting up and taking both her hands in his, "the reason I get so upset when people talk about us like that because I hate the idea of anyone thinking about you doing that because you deserve to be thought of as an amazing intelligent woman and I don't want my family joking about you like that because you deserve more respect than that," he told her playing with a curl that framed her face nicely.

"So your defending my honor?" Hermione confirmed, remembering back to all the times Ron had stood up to Malfoy for her.

"Essentially," Ron said blushing deep red.

"Ron I love that you are so protective, but your family is the type to joke about that sort of thing, and I bought into this family along time ago. So I can handle it," she told him kissing his cheek.

"Okay," he agreed, giving her a smile. "But let's forget about my family for now so I can snog my beautiful girlfriend," he grinned leaning down to give her a soft peck on the lips, then pulling back and placing his lips more firmly on hers.

Hermione responded by wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him closer. Ron's hands drew light circles on her hip bones then traveled slowly up her sides to cup her cheeks. After about a minute they broke apart and Ron kissed all over her face then down her neck to her collar bone. Hermione smiled and kissed his temple as he made his way back up to her lips. They were then engaged once again in a heated snog, which Ron eventually slowed so they were lightly kissing lying on their sides.

"Merlin I love you," Ron whispered kissing her nose.

"Just think," Hermione whispered, "you will be able to tell me that every night for the rest of our lives in this exact spot."

"And just that thought makes me love you even more," Ron said kissing her again.

Alright before everyone starts looking for my address to hunt me down with pitch forks and torches, let me say that I am soooo sorry for not updating at all this summer so far. I have been so busy, just got back from a three week vacation and have been working a lot, but here is a chapter, it's not long I know but it has been written for over 2 months and I haven't thought of anything to really add to it so I figured it was better to post it instead of making you guys wait until I got over writers block. Anyway I hope you enjoy the fluff and as usual:

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