Two Variations on a Theme
Word Count: 100 x 2 = 200
These two drabbles are not in the same 'verse. They contain variations on a theme, but are two different situations.
Title: To Heal the Last Scar
Team Name: The Order
Rating: PG-13 for sensitive topics
Challenge: Christmas Eve
Characters: Hermione/Severus
Authors Notes: Originally written for the romancingwizard prompt "Aromatic Potions," but I decided not to post it. Thanks gelsey for your help.
They thought they’d seen the last scar of battle.
The curse took two weeks to manifest itself. The effects were excruciating.
Potions could only ease the pain. There was no known cure.
She resumed her life under a cloud of sorrow. He stood by her side.
Her research helped dozens of children. She could have none of her own.
In love, they married, destined to remain childless.
Until this Christmas Eve, when Severus stood at his bench, inhaling aromatic potions. This one smelled correct. He dared to hope that this year he’d give Hermione the one gift she wanted most.
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Title: Our Someday
Team Name: The Order
Rating: PG-13 for sensitive topics
Challenge: The Coldest Winter
Characters: Hermione/Severus
Authors Notes: Written for the romancingwizard prompt "Aromatic Potions." Dedicated to my angel baby.
Nothing we could do.
Inevitable.
No cause we can see.
All for the best.
You’ll be able to try again.
Hermione had broken ties with everyone she knew when she’d married Severus and gone into hiding with him in America. Now, the support system she’d had all of her life was gone when she needed it most.
Hand in hand, they left the aromatic potions of the apothecary and walked down the adjacent Muggle street. A glimpse of the mother and baby in a nativity shot pain through her heart.
Severus drew her to his chest. “Someday, my love. Someday.”
These two drabbles are not in the same 'verse. They contain variations on a theme, but are two different situations.
Title: To Heal the Last Scar
Team Name: The Order
Rating: PG-13 for sensitive topics
Challenge: Christmas Eve
Characters: Hermione/Severus
Authors Notes: Originally written for the romancingwizard prompt "Aromatic Potions," but I decided not to post it. Thanks gelsey for your help.
They thought they’d seen the last scar of battle.
The curse took two weeks to manifest itself. The effects were excruciating.
Potions could only ease the pain. There was no known cure.
She resumed her life under a cloud of sorrow. He stood by her side.
Her research helped dozens of children. She could have none of her own.
In love, they married, destined to remain childless.
Until this Christmas Eve, when Severus stood at his bench, inhaling aromatic potions. This one smelled correct. He dared to hope that this year he’d give Hermione the one gift she wanted most.
~~~
Title: Our Someday
Team Name: The Order
Rating: PG-13 for sensitive topics
Challenge: The Coldest Winter
Characters: Hermione/Severus
Authors Notes: Written for the romancingwizard prompt "Aromatic Potions." Dedicated to my angel baby.
Nothing we could do.
Inevitable.
No cause we can see.
All for the best.
You’ll be able to try again.
Hermione had broken ties with everyone she knew when she’d married Severus and gone into hiding with him in America. Now, the support system she’d had all of her life was gone when she needed it most.
Hand in hand, they left the aromatic potions of the apothecary and walked down the adjacent Muggle street. A glimpse of the mother and baby in a nativity shot pain through her heart.
Severus drew her to his chest. “Someday, my love. Someday.”