hphalloween_mod (hphalloween_mod) wrote in hp_halloween, @ 2012-10-31 08:17:00 |
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Entry tags: | !2012, #het, *scumblack, ^severus/hermione, rating: pg13 |
Halloween Gift for Lyre_Flowers
Gift for: lyre_flowers
From: scumblack
Title: The Halfway
Pairing: Severus Snape/Hermione Granger
Rating: T / PG-13
Summary: In which Hermione Granger dabbles in forbidden things.
Notes: This is a bit dark… surprise, surprise!
He comes to her at the halfway point between the equinox and the solstice.
“I know you’re there,” she breathes into the shadows deranged and limping. She keeps to the fire for protection, the fire gorged on his glistening bones. He was slaughtered like cattle to keep them alive in the winter.
“I know you’re there,” she says louder. Her voice half-delirious with fear. Half-hoping.
She thinks that she hears a miserable rattling, something wretchedly cold winding down her spine, but she can’t be sure.
She prayed to the stones for him. Three stones under her pillow; one for substance, one for virtue, one for strength. She fingers the salt in her pocket and concentrates on expanding her lungs.
He is a liquid black tinged with the stench of smoke. He is a malignant evanescence come to steal her soul. She tells herself she is brave, but she draws closer to the fire.
They don’t go by their earthly names, they told her. Never call them. Never touch them, if you don’t want them to take you.
He is halfway redeemed and halfway damned, but she prefers his purgatory to their perdition.
“Severus,” she whispers, reaching out her hand.