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Prompt: 039. Taste
Rating: PG
Word Count: 153
The first time he kisses her, she tastes like her strawberry chapstick and just a little butterbeer from the one he bought her in the Three Broomsticks.
The seventeenth time he kisses her she tastes salty and sweet at the same time. Her tears mix with the rest of her at her lips and he kisses her, hoping to erase them.
Their first kiss as married people tastes how James thinks hope would. She trusts him and he loves her and he laughs against her when she pulls him down farther as their second kiss like this in the middle of the aisle.
In their last kiss, he can taste the fear on her lips; can see the tears threaten at the corners of her eyes. “I’ll hold him off,” he tells her, kisses her, and thinks about strawberries and butterbeer and tears and hope and daring and goes to face his death.