RP: What are you doing the rest of your life?

[shh_ron]

Date: 14 February 2005 - dawn
Characters: Ron Weasley and Lavender Brown
Location: Their house, then Socks
Status: Private
Summary: Once again, Ron surprises Lavender on Valentine's Day. This year his surprise is a lot bigger.
Completion: Complete

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[shh_lavender]

When Lavender awoke this morning, it wasn't with Ron beside her, but with him hovering above her already fully dressed and gently touching her shoulder to wake her. As the grogginess of sleep cleared from her head, Lavender started to feel excited. It was Valentine's day and Ron seemed to have something planned. Merlin, she loved it when he got all romantic and did things like this

[shh_ron]

Lavender seemed really pleased and excited by Ron's plan, which made him happy. She sat in front of him on the broomstick, her arms wrapped around his chest, and Ron kicked off from the ground. Protected by the Impervius charm, they soared above Albus Avenue, turning and flying above Alpha Street, turning again at Beta Street and finally setting down on the pavement in front of Socks.

"Well, here we are," he said. She got off and Ron smiled, taking his broom in hand. "Hope you're hungry. I thought we'd have breakfast here today, like we did last year."

[shh_lavender]

Stoatshead Hill was lovely at this time of the morning, even with the rain. It had changed in the last year. There were more and more people living in the town now, so it wasn't exactly dead in the streets at this time of the morning. As they flew above the houses, Lavender held Ron securely, watching as the town woke up beneath them and people went about their business.

Lavender was careful as she slipped from the broomstick to the pavement, unable to help a grin at the sight of Socks. It was so very sweet that he'd brought her here again, their own little tradition. Before last year, she'd never had a Valentine's Day like it, so it was nice to have something that was theirs.

"I'm hungry," she agreed, stopping him as he took his broom in his hand to give him a quick kiss. "This is lovely, thank you."

[shh_ron]

"You're welcome," Ron said with a smile. He held the door open for Lavender as they went into the pub. The moment they walked in, Dobby appeared, a gigantic grin on his face.

"Oh, hello, Mr Wheezy! Miss Lavennah! You is back for eating this rainy morning. You was eating breakfast at Socks a long time ago, wasn't you? Dobby is happy you is coming for breakfast again."

Ron grinned at the house elf. "You've got a great memory, Dobby. Yes, we came for breakfast last year on Valentine's Day too. I'd like a table or booth that's out of the way, if you don't mind. Something quiet."

Dobby nodded and led them to a booth on the far side of the pub.

[shh_lavender]

Lavender watched in a state of shock as Ron slid the beautiful ring onto her finger. "Of course I'll marry you," she murmured, elated and stroking a hand down the side of his face. Merlin, she'd known for a long time now that if Ron ever asked she'd say 'yes'. She just hadn't expected him to ask any time soon. There wasn't a single doubt in her mind.

As Ron got up and slid into the booth next to her, Lavender embraced him, kissing him tenderly. "I love you," she whispered, tears still in her eyes.

[shh_ron]

Ron was thrilled by Lavender's reaction to his proposal and the ring. He was grinning from ear to ear, and as he climbed into the booth to sit next to Lavender, she stroked his face tenderly and kissed him. The whole thing was so bloody brilliant he thought his heart would burst. "I love you too, sweetheart," he murmured. "And now the whole world knows it too. Or they will once we get married."

When they finally broke the kiss, Ron grinned again. "Well, my mum already knows about this. I told her a few days ago that I planned to propose. But now, I reckon it's about time I finally met your parents."

[shh_lavender]

Lavender bit her lip, nodding. For some reason, she was fighting the urge to laugh, so utterly amazed and elated by all this. "Once we get married," she repeated in a whisper.

She grinned back at him. "Okay," she agreed. She knew she'd been awful about introducing Ron to her parents and she still didn't know why she hadn't done it; there was no logical reason why not. "We'll have dinner with them this weekend, yeah?"

[shh_ron]

"I'd like that," Ron said. "I've been wanting to meet them for a long time."

His smile seemed to be permanent now, or at least it would last the rest of the day. He'd not told Hermione he was going to do this, so when he saw her at work she would probably put two and two together and figure it out right off. He would owl Harry later in the day with his good news, and Floo-call his mother once he got to work.

There would be plenty of details to work out, like when to get married and so forth. And there was the tiny possibility that Lavender's parents wouldn't like him, or would be unhappy about the engagement, but he put that out of his mind. For the moment, all he needed to know was that he was going to marry Lavender, and he was sure he was the happiest wizard in England, if not the happiest bloke in the world.