Happy Anniversay
Title: Happy Anniversary
Team Name: Spy for the Toasted Turkeys
Word Count: 100 x 6
Rating: PG
Challenge: Grey Nightshirt
Characters: Severus, Hermione and a brief appearance by Winky
Authors Notes: Okay, so I wrote this yesterday and was going to discard it. My other half had other ideas and posted it up on my LJ account where my f-list have been posting sweet comments about it.
Fluffiness abounds in this piece, and I thank both my other half for giving me a metaphorical boot up the bottom.
As yet I still do not own Potterverse; It all belongs to JK Rowling and other too numerous to mention. I make no money from this endeavor, all I get is a warm fluffy feeling inside because in my Potterverse Snape is alive and kicking.
Happy Anniversary
Severus had spent hours, nay days, searching for the perfect gift for his young wife. What did one purchase their wife for their first anniversary?
Flowers would be an easy gesture to make. No, Hermione deserved so much more than that.
Chocolate? That was another easy option, but yet again he felt that they fell short of what he wanted to say to his wife.
A necklace? No that wouldn’t be right either: he had given her a necklace when she had been camping in the damn awful tent with her two idiot friends.
What could he give his wife?
****
Sighing, Severus rested his head on his entwined fingers. Inspiration hit from left field. Of course! It was so simple yet so perfect. Grabbing a fresh piece of parchment and his trusted quill, Severus sat down to pen a letter to his wife.
The nib of his quill danced across the surface of the parchment as he wrote to his Hermione. They had shared many letters during their courtship. Not just because she was completing her studies in France, but because it was easier to communicate how he felt about the witch with written words rather than articulating them aloud.
*****
Checking the letter once more Severus decided it would diminish it’s meaning if he tweaked it much more. Looking at the mantle clock he realised that his wife would be home shortly. He had much to prepare before she got home.
“Winky?”
“Master called, what is you needing Winky do?”
“I just wanted to check that everything was ready.”
“It is, we is ready whenever you is ready,” the elf replied bowing slightly.
Severus turned, heading to the lounge to place the note in clear view for when Hermione returned. Satisfied that everything was ready he retired to the bathroom.
*****
Hermione entered the Dungeon apartment she shared with her husband, exhausted after a day of teaching. She was beginning to understand Severus’ viewpoint about certain student being dunderheads.
“Severus, I’m home!”
Hermione surveyed the lounge area of their apartment expecting to see Severus hunched over his desk, muttering about dunderheads and bemoaning the lack of understanding students had for his topic.
“Where are you?”
Her eyes fell upon an envelope and single rose that were laid on his desk. Slowly she opened the envelope and withdrew the parchment. Her eyes began to water as she read what Severus had written.
****
Absentmindedly she wandered into their bedroom reading the note once more.
To my nymph,
I considered getting you flowers, jewellery or your favourite chocolates, but all seemed contrived.
I know I don’t have the softest touch, and I am aware that I do not say the words often enough but I’m yours.
You have healed my scars with your love. You are the only angel in my life.
So today, as I did a year ago, I give you all that I am and all that I have and hope that it is enough
Happy Anniversary, Madame Snape.
Love
Severus.
****
Hermione looked up to see her husband sat in his chair, a look of apprehension on his face. She smiled at Severus as she lazy looked him up and down.
“I didn’t know what to get you as a present, so I decided to write down what you mean to me.”
“Severus, it is beautiful.”
“Not as beautiful as you, my sweet nymph,” he purred motioning her to join him.
“You are more than enough. To me you are beautiful, even if you insist on keeping this tatty old grey nightshirt.”
Hermione leaned in to give Severus a gentle kiss.