Wifely Duty
Title: Wifely Duty
Team: The Order of the Phoenix
Rating: PG
Challenge: Spousal Duty
Characters: Severus/Hermione
Word Count: 100
A/N This challenge is part of the "humor call" and my drabble muse usually runs to fluff. Not this time...
Cruciatus trained him to endure pain. He won't scream, but the cords stand out in his neck, and when she takes his hand, she sees the marks his nails have made on his palm. She reads the plea in his eyes before he can occlude.
What he had to do for Albus has left a black hole in his spirit. Thirty years afterwards, they finally gave him an Order of Merlin; she found it in the trash. He loves her too much to ask her, but she loves him too much to let him suffer.
"I love you. Avada Kedavra."
Team: The Order of the Phoenix
Rating: PG
Challenge: Spousal Duty
Characters: Severus/Hermione
Word Count: 100
A/N This challenge is part of the "humor call" and my drabble muse usually runs to fluff. Not this time...
Cruciatus trained him to endure pain. He won't scream, but the cords stand out in his neck, and when she takes his hand, she sees the marks his nails have made on his palm. She reads the plea in his eyes before he can occlude.
What he had to do for Albus has left a black hole in his spirit. Thirty years afterwards, they finally gave him an Order of Merlin; she found it in the trash. He loves her too much to ask her, but she loves him too much to let him suffer.
"I love you. Avada Kedavra."