Misplaced Trust

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Inside, Draco looks at Hermione warily.

"You said you wouldn't mention the 'up with the skirt' thing." Hermione stomps her foot.

"I wouldnt have mentioned it if you didnt say i corrupted you!" Hermione looks at him.

Draco runs a hand through his immaculate hair, mussing it.

"I was joking, Hermione...I didn't expect you to get upset by it..." Hermione looks down slightly and sighs softly.

"I didnt think i would get upset either but... im sorry." Draco seems to accept this, nodding.

"As am I." He reaches out and takes a lock of Hermione's hair in his fingers, twining it slowly.

Eventually, his twining makes the hair tight, subtly pulling Hermione toward him without hurting her. Hermione moves close pressing her body to his.

"Draco... do you think we can go through with this year?" Draco smiles.

"I think if we can survive living in a house with my Auntie, your Weasley, and Harry bloody Potter, we can face anything." He leans down and sweeps his lips across hers in a touch so fleeting and gentle it could barely be called a kiss.

"Together." Hermione purrs then grabs him by his hair but not enough to hurt him.

"Your being a bad boy." She pulls him down and kisses him hard.

Draco submits easily to his girlfriend's kiss, parting his lips and cupping her face as he falls back against the door. At the thump, Harry glances over and rolls his eyes.

"I don't think they'll be out for a while..." Pansy rubs her forehead sitting down in their compartment.

"Harry could you find the cart and get me a box of chocolate frogs please?" Pansy needed to talk to Ron alone about something.

She didnt want Harry to feel left out but this was important. Harry nods absently and leaves the compartment. Ron watches him go with trepidation, still trying to figure out exactly what Bellatrix LeStrange and his parents have done to him to make him obey so easily... Pansy gestures for Ron to come in. In her pocket was a letter that made her very worried.

"Please come in here." Ron does so, seating himself close to Pansy's side automatically.

He puts an arm over her shoulder, noticing her unease.

"What's wrong?" Pansy shuts the door and puts a charm around the compartment.

She reaches into her robe and pulls out one of Dumbledore's letters.

"What was this doing on the desk in our room?" Ron stares at the letter for a full minute, his mind reeling.

His eyes dart to Pansy's before he speaks.

"Have you read it?" Pansy nods as tears start to well up into her eyes.

"Lily asked me a few minutes after i found this and asked me if i trusted you. Do you know how hard it was for me tell her i did?" Ron nods, his heart sinking.

He had to make her understand! He spoke calmly.

"Will you listen to me explain, or have you already decided what to believe?" Pansy sets the letter on fire as she slowly looks into his eyes.

"The only reason i havent told Harry this is because i love you... now why are you double crossing us?"

"I'm not!" Ron stands and moves in front of Pansy, but doesn't reach for her hand as he wishes he could. He knows she woulnd't allow it right now. "You don't understand. Lily and James betrayed Dumbledore! They've been lying to Harry and they've been lying to you! They aren't who you think they are, Pansy. Dumbledore's trying to keep the wizarding world safe, and they're undermining hime wherever they can! I don't know what theyv'e done to Harry, but I'm going to find out and protect him like he's always protected others....and me. Pansy..." Ron took a deep breath, finally prepared to tell her what he felt. "Pansy, I love you. I won't see you hurt by them..."

Pansy looks at him for a few moments processing the information then stands up and slams her fist into his face cracking his nose. Ron stumbles back, more in surprise than pain, his hand going up to his gushing nose. It's a moment before he realizes what her reaction means and the absent pain suddenly blooms, huge and terrible, but not in his face. It steals his breath from the region of his heart. Still, he reaches out to her, bright tears in his eyes.

"Please...Pansy." He chokes.

Pansy glares at him as her heart was torn to shreds. The one man she had opened her heart to had betrayed them he had betrayed everyone that she loved dear.

"Let me fill you in on something Weasley. Dumbledore is a manipulating jack ass! You have lived with these people and have you seen one shred of proof that we have done anything wrong?! No! Lily and James love Harry and so does Bella..." Pansy's eyes widen as her hands turn into fists.

"You told him about the twins didnt you! He's going to take the babies when they are born! Thats why he kept you here! Where you going to snatch those babies from your best friend's arms for that maniac that you say is so good?!" Pansy could feel herself getting more angry at the thought of Ron hurting Harry or Bella.

Ron's own eyes widened as he remembered his orders. If Pansy became a problem...He lowered his eyes, looking ashamed.

"I...look they...I'm..." He stammered as he turned slightly away from her, secretly pulling out his wand.

When he turned back, he wasted no time.

"Petrificus Totalus!" he shouted, tears falling freely.

Pansy gasps and falls to the growl her eyes horror stricken. Her face that of betrayal and sadness. Ron carefully lifts her back up, running a hand over her hair and butting her forehead with his own, trying unsuccessfully to hold back his tears.

"I love you, Pansy, I do. But you have to understand that this is bigger than both of us. I have to protect Harry and you from those people. I have to!" He methodically casts several binding spells, tought by Dumbledore himself, and lowered her into the second compartment of his new trunk, also a gift from Dumbledore.

As he set her lovingly down in the magically enlarged area, he caressed her face.

"I'll make sure nothing ever hurts you..." The sound of knocking to the door was heard.

"Ron, Pansy, Harry? Are you in there?" It was Hermione she was wondering why the door was locked.

Ron shuts the chest, putting it back where it was and casting a quick blushing glamour on his face. He undid the top button of his pants and mussed his hair before unlocking the door and looking Hermione in the eye.

"Oh....er...h-h-hello." He said, the stammering coming easily.

"Pansy went to find Harry and I...er....well." He looks down at his unclasped button and allows the glamour's blush to deepen, letting Hermione draw her own conclusions about the locked door.

Hermione blushes slightly as she covers her eyes. She was play acting shyness. Something was up with Ron. Pansy may love to tease Ron but she never left him to masturbate alone.

"Ron please fix yourself." Ron does so quickly.

"Where's the ferret?" he asked, but with no real rancour.

Between he and Draco, things like Ferret and Weasel had become merely affectations between...well, perhaps not friends, but familiar persons.

"He went to go find Harry. The train is about to dock at Hogwarts. Is everything alright?" Hermione was thoroughly worried now.

Ron nodded, running a hand through his hair as though agitated, while inside he was strangely calm. Hermione nods.

"Im going to find Pansy. She said she was going to tell me where the secret passage to the Slytherin dorms was. See ya Ron."

"Yeah. See you." He said without any real feeling.

Once she was gone he slumped down in the seat, leaning forward slightly to pet the side of his trunk lovingly. The trunk was silent as the train slowly stops. A sudden sick feeling moves into his stomach like the feeling of someone watching him. Ron glances around nervously. The compartment suddenly goes dark. The darkness seem to invade his very soul.

"Care to explain what you are doing Weasley?" A dark voice is heard all around him.

Ron jumps violently, looking around.

"Wh...who...?" Out of the window a single figure steps in.

A nice black suit was wrapped around the body of the snake man known as Voldemort. The Dark Lord looked down on a boy whose very existance made his blood boil. He hated the Weasley's but for the sake of Harry and Pansy he would make an acception for Ron. Ron's face lost all color as he lost concentration on the glamour. His eyes widened and he froze, unable to think, let alone move. Voldemort looked down at the trunk as his jaw tightens. His beady eyes slowly turn to Ron.

"Give me one damn good reason why i shouldnt kill you where you stand for what you have done to Pansy?" Ron stammers for a few moments before swallowing again.

"I...was following...orders."

"So you have turned your back on your friends...especially Harry. Hm i must say im surprised... i thought you Weasley's were all about friendship." Voldemort asked as he crossed his arms over his chest.

Ron's courage returned and he glared at the Dark Lord.

"We are! I'm protecting Harry and Pansy! I'll do whatever I have to do to keep them from harm! I'll..." Ron shook slightly, fearing his next statement might just come true.

"I'll die if I have to..."

"Really? Tell me Weasley what was Harry's one wish? The one single thing that would make him happier than anyone?" Voldemort knew that somewhere in Ron's tini-tiny brain there was the truth of his words.

Ron shook his head.

"They manipulate him with his need for a family. Lilly and James playing parents when they'd never even tried to get him back before then! Then that Lestrange bitch getting herself knocked up just to tighten their hold! He doesn't need family like that! He needs people who love him! Who'll protect him like I do!" Voldemort clentches his jaw.

"Who are you really trying to save Ron? And be honest when you answer this. Harry's future or your ego?" Voldemort waves his wand and the trunk is lifted onto the seat.

"Pansy is going to wake up... you better be ready when she does." Quickly Voldemort disappears as the room goes back to normal.

Ron stands and wipes at the dried blood on his face, watching the trunk with trepidation. The lid of the trunk was kicked open as Pansy crawls out growling murderously.

"Ronald Weasley! How dare you!" Ron says nothing, his head lowered.

He feels his throat stiffen as emotion overwhelms him, threatening tears again, but he cannot meet Pansy's eyes. Pansy moves fast and shoves him against the wall.

"I should have listened to Hermione. She was right... how could i have been so stupid." Ron looks away and his voice is low and tremulous.

"I was trying to protect you. Dumbledore told me to kill you but....I couldn't...can't..." Pansy looks at him then steps back.

"Dont you see what he's done to you? He has filled your head with nonsense tell me what have any of us done to make you want to hurt us. Name one thing!" Pansy knew she was desperate.

She wanted Ron to see that they werent evil. That Dumbledore was the real evil. Ron looks up into Pansy's eyes finally, his own desperate and wet, swollen over his broken nose.

"Dumbledore said....he told me..." Pansy takes his hands as her own were shaking.

"No! Forget Dumbledore! Tell me what we have done to hurt you or anyone else?" Pansy gripped his hands.

"V-voldemort! He's killed....hundreds...thousands of people!" Ron cried, sounding desperate.

Pansy looks at him.

"So has Dumbledore..." Her body starts to shake. "If your parents werent so gulible... Dumbledore wouldnt hesitate to kill every last red hair on their heads."

Ron shudders violently. It can't be true. None of it. Because if it was...No! Even if it was true, he had not betrayed Harry! He would never! But Ron feared that that was exactly what he *had* done. Betrayed the one person who had been there for him time and time again...Ron's shoulders sagged and he crumpled to the ground, covering his eyes as he convulsed in silent tears for what he'd done, what he'd intended to do...

"Oh God..." Pansy catches him and sits him on the ground.

She holds onto him tight as her own sobs escape.

"Oh Ron..." she knew he had finally realized what he had done.

"H-how-" Ron had to swallow before continuing, tears coursing down his cheeks.

"How are you still here..." He looked up at Pansy, wonder and fear in his eyes along with a bone-deep regret.

"After everything I've done to you..." Pansy sniffs as she rest her forehead against his.

"I dont know... any other guy i would have killed him... you... i love you too much to lose you." Pansy holds onto him tight.

"I love you...God, I love you too." Ron pulls Pansy to him, crushing her against his chest in a tight hug, all of his feelings overflowing and making him shake with the force of them.

Pansy holds onto him gripping his shoulders tight. God she loved him so much... she wasnt going to lose him. Suddenly something started nagging at her.

"How did i get out of the trunk?" Ron freezes

"V-v-voldemort." he says, fearing he'll never get used to saying the name but determined anyhow.

Pansy looks at him and giggles.

"And your still alive?" She was trying to lighten the mood.

"Er..." Ron smiles reluctantly, beginning to see the humor.

"Yeah, apparently. He wasn't too happy about..." his smile falls away, but he doesn't lower his head.

Pansy nods.

"Voldemort is protective of us. Especially Bella. If he knew what Dumbledore wanted with the twins... i dont think you would have lasted to speak a word." Ron nods, then something seems to occur to him.

"If...then...bloody fuck." He drops his forhead against Pansy's shoulder.

"Fighting Dumbledore is a lot scarier than fighting V-voldemort." He sighs, almos unbelieving that his decision was changed so quickly.

Was he fickle? Gullible? Stupid? Probably, he answered himself, but for Pansy...he would serve Grindelwald himself.

"I must say yes Dumbledore is more dangerous than Voldemort..." Pansy runs her fingers through his hair.

"Come on we should get going." Ron nods and stands, but pauses as he reaches for the door, seeing smeared blood on his hand.

"Oh..." He says in surprise.

"I forgot about my face." Pansy pulls out her wand and quickly heals his nose.

"I guess i dont know my own strength." Ron grins, his pain gone.

"Yeah. It's nice to feel strong for protecting a girl, but a lot less stress to know she can protect herself if worse comes to worse." He takes Pansy's hips and pulls her against him for a quick kiss.

"Hey. Does this mean you still want to fuck me regularly?" He asks with a roguish grin, obviously joking.

Pansy giggles and reaches down and grabbed his cock through his pants.

"Damn straight you have ALOT of making up to do for locking me in that trunk. We wont mention this to anyone else." Ron nods, his cheeks flushing as his cock hardens.

"No one else." Pansy smirks and stands up letting go.

"Come on." Pansy helps him up.

Ron's eyes widen and he stands quickly, adjusting himself.

"Oh that is *not* fair!" Pansy smirks and pushes her hair behind her ear.

"Just wait til tonight." Ron nods reluctantly and follows Pansy into the hall.

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