Then I Saw You Standing There
Title: Then I Saw You Standing There Author: lexywrites Word Count: 100 Rating: G Pairing: Hermoine, Harry Prompt: Fire Warnings: none
He’d looked for hours, breathing greasy smoke from the surrounding devastation. He refused to think about what was in the smoke that choked him and focused on his search.
Harry saw her.
She couldn’t have been called beautiful before and she certainly wasn’t now. Her hair had been hacked off. She winced when she moved wrong and her eyes had fading yellow bruises underneath.
He hesitantly ghosted a finger down her shattered nose, continuing until he ended up at her bloody lip.
Standing there, outlined in the fires burning on the hillside, she was the best thing he’d ever seen.