Because I'm bored stiff, delusional on NyQuil, and in a creative mood, I decided to write this.
Just a creative idea I got for a bunch of one-shots. It's called "Word of the Day". I'll open my handy-dandy dictionary open to a random page, close my eyes, and point to a random word. Then I'll write a one-shot of any genre based on that word and its definition. It gives me an excuse to let my short attention span completely forget I was writing about something else entirely previously.
Although the one-shots may be mostly centered on Ron/Hermione, I may also branch off onto other characters or ideas entirely. Harry/Ginny is another couple that will be woven into the stories, just because I like them too much.
Anyway!
Today's word is: countermand KOWN-tuhr-mand, transitive verb:
1. To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
2. To recall or order back by a contrary order.
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Hermione could never make up her bloody mind, Ron figured. He wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing, but the constant flip-flopping of her ideas and actions sometimes drove him crazy.
And yet sometimes, when she yelled things like, "I hate you, Ronald Weasley!" he was glad she swung her feelings around to make her mouth form the words, "I love you" to him as well. He was glad she had those mood-swing things his sister and mother were always talking about, because sometimes he liked it when she got mad at him for something, only to apologize to him a few seconds later.
He wasn't sure why he enjoyed her constantly changing feelings, he guessed he just liked the fact that she wasn't immutable; she wasn't a one dimensional person, she had thoughts, feelings, and ideas and could change them whenever she bloody well pleased.
Sometimes he didn't like it though when she smiled at him and told him she made him feel better all over, but then when he hugged her back and patted her hair, she broke down into tears and he figured she was taking back what she said. He would ask her to help him with his Potions paper, and she would happily oblige on minute and then a few seconds later tell him that he had to do it on his own, how else would he learn?
But whatever Hermione was ordering him to do, he was happy to do it for her, even if a second later she changed her mind. He would follow her to the bridge and jump first—just in case she wanted to change her mind before she did as well.