Gift for Reynardo

[gelsey]

Gift for: reynardo

From: cecelle

Title: Secret Santa
Pairing: Snape/Vector
Rating: G


He hadn't been in favor of having a staff Secret Santa, but he’d been overruled. It was with ill grace that he drew a name out of the Sorting Hat.

But then he looked.

It was her name.

The idea came to him immediately. And just as immediately, he dismissed it. Too much out of his comfort zone. But the idea kept circling back. She might be conceived as tough and no-nonsense, but after a year together, he knew she loved a grand gesture.

And so he sat at the Christmas party, heart pounding, while Pomfrey unwrapped a cross-stitched panda, Flitwick a set of juggling balls, and he himself - suppressing a grimace - a gift certificate to Slug and Jiggers. How original.

But then Minerva pulled that package out from under the tree. He held his breath.

Septima tore off the wrapper, flipped open the lid of the black velvet box - and gasped. A one carat diamond ring sparkled in the glow of the fairy lights. Her eyes flew up, startled, meeting her not-so-secret Santa’s.

There was a moment of collective silence.

“Well,” Bathilda Babbling said disapprovingly. “I thought we had a five Galleon spending limit.”

And then his arms were around Septima as a happy babble of voices erupted around them. “About time one plus one made two.” “So you finally figured out a common denominator!” “Seems Vector found her complement.”

But he only heard her voice as she answered his whispered question.

“Of course I do. And Merry Christmas!”