A/N: Happy Birthday to the lovely faerieflightz ! Your fic, For the Fallen , is just awesome.

I had lots of fun writing this ficlet. Hope your birthday is a good one

-Magical AU
-Alternate World(s)
-No Voldemort
-Lucius / Severus / Hermione


Dreams


Toys and books filled his days, and he forgot about the girl from his dreams.

Months would pass until he dreamt of her again. She lived during those moments.

~ o ~ o ~

Lucius played with other children, but none of the girls he met had hair the color of cinnamon, long locks which twisted like tendrils of smoke.

~ o ~ o ~

Soon, he was eleven years old. Lucius hoped to meet her at Hogwarts.

Dark grey eyes looked upon many faces as the years came and went, but he never found her.

~ o ~ o ~

When Lucius met Severus, they had been school children. Being the older wizard out of the pair, Lucius ignored the other boy. He had other things on his mind, like soft lips and the gentle curve of breasts.

~ o ~ o ~

He thought he found her once.

Lucius was mistaken. From the back, Andromeda Black looked very similar to her at first glance, but her eyes weren't the right color. She was pretty of course,though her face didn't match either.

It didn't stop him from kissing her.

~ o ~ o ~

He knew she was real. He felt her smile warming his skin like a gentle summer breeze. Lucius had other witches, indeed he did, but he only ever wanted her.

~ o ~ o ~

Malfoys didn't need employment, but he needed access to the trinkets and resources the Ministry locked away.

Years later, Lucius was proud to call himself an Unspeakable. Not that anyone else could know.

~ o ~ o ~

Lucius was twenty-five years old when he met Severus for a second time. He vaguely remembered the younger wizard from their brief school years together. Slowly, they bonded over potions, rare plants and poisons. They held their secrets close, gripped tightly within their hearts.

It was a gradual process, first becoming friends, learning to trust, and then lovers.

Together, they enjoyed hard sinew lines of flesh, and the push and pull of hot caresses.

~ o ~ o ~

Severus shared his secrets with his best friend and lover. There was an end goal to all his research, the long nights he spent locked away in his potions lab. Imagine Lucius' surprise when Severus told him about his dreams: visions of a woman with a warm honey-eyed gaze, curly mane, and sharp laugh. Severus would find a way to get to her.

Luckily, Lucius was of the same mind.

~ o ~ o ~

In her dreams they laughed and cried.

In her dreams they talked about their hopes.

In her dreams they grew from small boys to handsome wizards.

Hermione was twenty-five years old when she split the curtain between worlds. She reached in with sure hands, pulling them through. She knew them as well as she knew her most favored books, her heart, and soul.

They were hers as much as she was theirs.