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[a_bees_buzz]

Title: Yuletide Potions XXIII
Team: Spy for the Order of the Phoenix
Word Count: 7 x 100
Rating: G
Challenges: Comfort and Joy, Christmas Eve/Day, Dinner Conversation
Characters: Severus, Hermione
A/N: Since this will be my last set, I want to take a moment to thank Kel for setting it up and Droxy for letting us use grangersnape100 to post our story. This

Comments

[kribu]

Yay! I love the way you made it difficult for Hermione to get him to accept the invitation - even after everything that's happened, he's finding it hard to believe he is really wanted, for himself and not because of something he might be able to help with. The silly, stubborn man.

Nice way to resolve the mystery around where he got the Portkey!

And heh... with the last drabble, I have to admit that my first thought (before "yay!" was "oh dear, bedroom immediately after having a proper heavy meal? not even a bit of time to let the food settle down?" ... but I guess they've been waiting long enough. Hermione certainly seemed impatient. :-D

[a_bees_buzz]

He is a very stubborn man, but at least she's wise to him now and won't let him keep getting away with it.

I don't think they finished that meal. No, that plate he pushed away was definitely still half-full. So no problem there. :D

[kribu]

Right. *grins* Well, we do know cooking wasn't canon!Hermione's strongest skill anyway, so that might explain that... ;-)

[a_bees_buzz]

Do we know that? I don't remember it in the books, but that doesn't mean anything. Of course, in this story she's been part of the Weasley family for a few years, so she may well have learned. I prefer to think that, even after a week of casseroles, Severus chooses intimacy over beef.

[dickgloucester]

*happy feeling* I just love the first line of the last drabble. And what a scarifice for him to make - a grand gesture indeed, going public!

[a_bees_buzz]

It's not enough, of course. Given her bossy nature, sooner or later he'll find himself bullied into letting her do all sorts of nice things for him; it's a sacrifice he's just going to have to learn to make. But she's letting him start out slowly.

It is a grand gesture, but to some degree it's for himself as well. He couldn't realistically ask her to be in a secret romantic relationship, though at the time he made the gesture he didn't quite believe he'd end up getting the girl. Still, it was necessary if there was even going to be a possibility of anything between them.

[ginny_weasley31]

Clever woman! I cannot tell you how thrilled I was to read where he got the Portkeys. My thoughts were right in those same lines. :D

Hmmmm. I wonder what Misstee will write next...

Do you think that if I sit here and hit refresh that it'll make her post faster?

[a_bees_buzz]

Great minds and all that! Both the Portkeys and the question of his status in the wizarding world really needed to be addressed, but I didn't want to waste a lot of time on either one. So I just tied them together.

Do you think that if I sit here and hit refresh that it'll make her post faster?

Of course it will. Assuming that you have a magical refresh key. Mine doesn't work that way. ;D

[ginny_weasley31]

Yes, it just seemed like a good way to clear up the issue about him being dead and no one knowing that he's alive. It really wouldn't be much of a relationship if he continued to hide that way.

Damn! My magical refresh key is in the shop!

[a_bees_buzz]

You could just use a timeturner to jump to when it's posted. ;D

[a_bees_buzz]

I just love being squeeed! And a double squee is twice as nice. Thank you for that.

He's been nobly self-sacrificing through this entire series, I thought it was about time she called him on it and showed some sign of being able to give a bit back. He deserves that.

[droxy]

ahem..

SQUEEEEEE

there I forgot to squee.

[a_bees_buzz]

*faints*

*is revived by Mr. Buzzy*

*blushes and faints again*

A Dark Mod squee is a rare honor. Thank you, my dear.

[misstee123]

Great set. I love what you've done with them here I have so enjoyed doing this round robin with all of y'all.

Except now. Good Lord. You've left me leading them into the bedroom. Which I've never done before. You sure you don't want to go again tomorrow? :D

[a_bees_buzz]

You could always just wuss out and write 100 words of "they lived happily ever after". Besides, you are in no position to play innocent when it comes to leaving bombshells, not after what you did to Shug! *grins*

[misstee123]

Well, yes, of course I left a bombshell for Shug! I knew that she could handle it. And so could you! And Ginny...and Kel...and Kribu.

But I'm likely to be pelted with virtual rotten tomatoes if I wuss out like that, so we'll have to see what I can do with them once they get into that bedroom...there's always a first time for everything, I s'pose...and I technically have 36 hours to post my part. :D

[a_bees_buzz]

Well, sbrande has given you a good suggestion. That would be one way to go. Or the smut route. There are quite a few choices. I have no doubt you'll do just fine.

Besides, virtual tomatoes don't leave stains. ;D