Testing
Original poster: cruisedirector
Title: Testing
Author: cruisedirector
Word Count: 100
Rating(s): PG
Challenge: #19 – Their idiosyncrasies.
Warning: Sentimental schlock.
A/N: First post here, only just discovered the community and then had to write this. I blame schemingreader for it, because I can. *whistles*
Severus still thinks about what might have happened had he failed.
He had asked, naughtily, what Harry wanted for his birthday. The half-joking shrug had offered the choice of smirking at the reply:
"I want you to tell me you love me."
Yet Severus had seen doubt in Harry's eyes. That mistrust was more unpleasant than swallowing his dignity and uttering the banal endearment.
Now he imagines the consequences had pride prevented him from speaking. Would Harry have left him, craving the certainty of that phrase?
The words still come reluctantly, but Severus says them. They are, after all, true.