Title: The Good Son.
Author: unlikely2
Challenge: critical.
Words: 100
House: Slytherin.
Author’s note: suppose the hook nosed man was Eileen’s father? This ties in with my fic ‘Tobias’
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2499448/2/ posted in a series of one-shots over at the Volepit.
Bread, toasted to make it seem more substantial, was spread with the remains of the jam, loosened from the jar with boiling water. He divided the slice diagonally and placed it on the tray with the cup of tea and took it up to her.
‘I’ll be out all day mum.’ He’d be back in the house as soon as she’d gone to work. Ashamed, believing his friends fed him, she’d have felt worse knowing he had no friends.
She said he was wrong to criticise his father, who’d suddenly disappeared without explanation when he was four, but Severus did.