elf-made wine

Aug 25, 2006 21:06

Prompt: elf-made wine
Author: elliek_21
Wizard: Severus Snape
Rating: PG

He inspected the letter again. It had been committed to memory yesterday, but the urge to re-read it was too great.

I’ll arrive at precisely eleven. He doesn’t know.

It was his last chance, his only chance. A nearly inaudible sound came from the door as it opened.

"Were you followed?"

"No."

She rushed to embrace him, accidentally knocking the elf-made wine off the table as she passed. It pooled on the floor like shed blood.

"Severus, does this mean-"

"I never wish to marry."

"Then it's over."

He read about her marriage in The Prophet a week later.
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