Halloween Treat for Scumblack
Gift for: scumblack
From: severed_lies
Title: One More Night
Pairing: Severus Snape/Hermione Snape
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: A house, sometimes, wants to be a home.
Hermione was convinced that the cottage wanted them to leave. Severus hesitated to agree, but when they returned late one evening to find their home covered in thorny canes and turned 180 degrees on its foundation, Severus wordlessly accioed their belongings as Hermione held open her ‘infernal’ bag to receive the potion bottles, tea set, clothes, and that horrid chartreuse settee.
“Must we?”, Hermione asked, as she poked her wand into her bun.
“Just one night”, Severus promised. He had made this promise too many times.
Neither wanted to return to that dingy place, but they were loathed to bother one more friend in their search for accommodations. Some people, well Ginny and Harry, had the gall to suggest that they were a bit too particular.
The flat above their apothecary shop where it snowed inside, the gatehouse on the Malfoy estate with the disappearing windows and Luna’s tree house that tended to block access to the loo proved to Hermione that something outside their control was preventing them from finally vacating Spinners End.
Now the cottage.
With a sigh, Severus followed his wife into the musty abode, and trailed the floating tea set into the kitchen.
One more night.