Shifting
Prompt: Excitement
Title: Shifting
Author: lectura35
Characters/Ship: Ron/Hermione
Rating/Warning: PG
Word Count: 304
A/N: Thanks so much, Jenn ;)
Shifting
She knew what he was trying to do. She knew him that well.
Remembering those screams of his that had matched her agony, she realized that the power of his voice was hers for each instant she couldn’t use her own.
Since they had arrived at the cottage, he had been aware of each of her movements and needs. When he was sitting in front of her at dinner, she had felt the warmth of his legs enveloping her slightly shaking ones under the table. It was his silent way of communicating an irrevocable determination. From now on, his body would be her shield.
And then he made the final move. The perfect one. When it was time to head to bed, he walked with her to the bedroom she was going to share with Luna for the night. He looked her in the eyes for a brief moment and, with wonderful resolve, lowered his mouth to the spot on her neck where hate and human misery had nearly cemented her fate, and brushed his lips over it.
She knew his goal was the sigh of excitement the caress elicited from her. As he wasn’t able to erase the burn that wound had left on her flesh, he tried to replace it with a different kind of burn. Something born of hope, exhilaration, and life.
He was taking the worst night in all her life, and imprinting a memory there that wasn’t shaded with despair and anguish. And he was doing it in the best way he knew how, through his actions.
This day, the lowest attempt at disintegrating her dignity had been made, but the knight in him wouldn’t allow her to feel sorry for herself.
He loved her to pieces. Now she knew.
And she was his to the very end.