Author's Note: After a long hiatus from writing, I compiled together a drabble series featuring Hermione Granger and Severus Snape. It's still an ongoing process, but I've already written many, so the series should be updated daily. The romance will be a slow burn, but it will come, so please bear with me.
I'm borrowing inspiration from the novel 'Kokoro' by Natsume Soseki. It's a beautifully poignant tale of an intrinsically lonely, bitter man.
Oh, and I hope that this will be my first and last 'Author's Note' until the end of this series. It would be kind of sad if the AN's were longer than the actual drabbles, which this clearly is.
I'll shut up now!
- Pen.
Summary:A romantic drabble series based on Hermione Granger and Severus Snape's relationship post-war. DH compliant but EWE.
Disclaimer: All characters and recognisable locations are the property of J. K. Rowling. Especially the cringe-tastic epilogue. (I fart in your general direction!)
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The Heart of Things: A Collection.
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'I do not want your admiration now, because I do not want your insults in the future. I bear with my loneliness now in order to avoid greater loneliness in the years ahead.'
– Sensei, Kokoro.
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They stared at each other for a single breath.
The breath stretched outwards like an expanding balloon, filling with tension and an emotion that remained amorphous and incomprehensible.
There was no pop of derision, no sudden burst of fury. And in that moment of wondering, of standing on the edge of breathlessness, it felt like an eternity had passed.
Still. So still.
Then; she moved, startling him until she sat on the lonely wooden chair by his bedside, uncertain if she was unwelcome and unwanted.
The balloon remained between them with no rupture and no explosion, just a silence that was upheld by him and perpetuated by her.
As the stillness grew to become a living, breathing entity, she wondered if he had forgiven her.
She liked to think that he had.
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