spfestmod (spfestmod) wrote in snape_potter, @ 2013-12-14 13:04:00 |
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Entry tags: | fic, rating: pg, secret snarry swap13 |
Secret Snarry Swap: Hope for Christmas
Title: Hope for Christmas
Author: lygtemanden
Prompted by: accioslash
Rating: PG
Word count: 1,290 words
Content/Warning(s): (highlight for spoilers) *Pre-slash, both are adults*
Summary/Prompt: Prompt #32 - Even though he knew it was senseless and a complete waste of time, every year since he was four, Severus wrote a letter to Father Christmas.
A/N: As requested, a hopeful ending. Dear Prompter, I hope this is to your liking. I’ve played a bit with the universe as it’s been a while since I really immersed myself in it; I hope it won’t ruin things if I have missed anything.
Dear Saint Nicholas,
I've been writing these letters since I was four years old even though I don’t remember a single year where I got what I wished for, at least until last year. I remember my mother helping me write the first one. It was, I think, very simple: a boy poor in money but rich in love. It was before my first display of magic, back when my dad didn't drink and was kind to both me and Mother.
Later they were less magical and more concerned with getting back the love I had so callously lost when I said those words to my only friend, driving her away. I remember some of the one I wrote in those following dark years, how I asked for her back, or for the Dark Lord's favour. After that it was mostly forgiveness I wanted, something which remained a staple even though Albus said I had earned it all those years ago, a broken man on his doorstep.
When I wrote to you last year I had only a single wish, which was to find the courage to ask a certain young man if he would consider going to dinner with me. I did, and it has been as delightful as I could have dreamed. He is witty and interesting, and capable of calming me with a word or two. He is everything I had hoped he would be, so this year I will make a final wish with regard to Harry.
I wish for the courage to ask him if he would care to celebrate Winter Solstice with me, and if he agrees, I hope that I may finally find it in me to ask for his permission to court him for a year and a day in accordance with the old traditions. I am certain that should I find the courage to ask he will respond with kindness, even if the answer is a no, but I do wish that he will allow me to show him how well we would suit each other.
I can think of nothing else that I would want this year.
Yours,
Severus