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hphalloween_mod (hphalloween_mod) wrote in hp_halloween, @ 2005-10-31 22:33:00

Gift for: verseblack

Original poster: mchoneygoose

Gift for: verseblack
From: florahart




Severus hadn't meant to do this. He'd merely intended to purchase a new cravat, and then the …salesgirl, he supposed, had. Had
bewitched him, somehow.

She'd just been so bloody persistent! And utterly uncowed by his manner, his brusque and sarcastic words, his blustering threats… He only knew one person who'd ever been so able to withstand him, and she'd got tired of waiting. He hadn't seen her in, goodness, nearly two years.

And now, here he was, looking in a mirror at himself dressed in a form-fitting red …thing which had horns and a bleeding pitchfork, and all at once, he was saying, "You and I match now, do we not?"

She paused, then laughed. "It's been said."

"What?"

She blinked, startled. "Oh! The voice! It's part--. Right. Sorry."

She pointed her wand at herself and dissolved the--really, very good, he noted--disguise, and he watched her hair fluff out, her eyes mutate yellow to brown, her chin round and firm…

"Hermione."

"Severus. Sorry. I thought you realized--"

"You work here?"

"Occasionally. Holiday income."

"Ah."

They looked at each other for a moment, then both nodded and turned for the door. Two years was long enough.