The Truth or Something Like It

Jun 27, 2007 09:44

Title: The Truth or Something Like It (6/23)
Team Name: Death Eaters
Word Count: 100 x 2
Rating: All Ages
Challenge: Compulsion
Characters: Hermione/Severus
Authors Notes: Here’s the next piece of my meandering drabble cluster in the Silly Little Girl universe (and look, UberGeek gave me a rudimentary graphics program so I made an icon!) To see previous drabbles in this series, please go to the Table of Contents.

Remember, it’s all x_weasley’s fault - she fed that initial little bunny … and it multiplied. Of course, the rest of you kept offering it chocolate. Who knew it was a chocoholic?

~o0o~

“Let me get this straight. Hermione’s parents are spies?” Harry crossed the sitting room, kicking an abandoned Prophet from his path.

“Not quite. More like a repository of information.” Remus stood tall, authority clothed in rags. “The battle against He-Who--”

“Just say the bloody name, Remus!”

“We’re fighting on more than one front, Harry, and there are things I can’t tell you. Confidences --”

Harry interrupted. “Is Hermione safe?”

Remus faced him squarely, but Harry cut him off before he could lie. “Don’t play with me.”

“You’re more like Lily every year.” His expression was strained. “Yes, Hermione’s safe.”

~o0o~

Miss Granger,

I’ll not bandy words. Trust Severus Snape and your parents. They’ve worked together for years …

Hermione dropped the letter as if it had burnt her. “Years?”

So many lies, she thought.

Helen avoided her eyes, but her father and Snape shared a look.

One she recognized.

Harry and Ron looked at each other like that.

She covered her mouth. “I’m sick.”

They let her go.

Hermione stared into the mirror, fingering the coins sewn into her jeans' waistband. She had to protect Harry and Ron.

The window above the toilet opened easily.

Her tears were already falling.

~o0o~
Next cluster: Where Do We Go From Here?

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