Disclaimer: I'll not lie, Harry Potter is not mine.

It's not like I would have been able to get away with it anyhow.

A/N: So, this is a lil something I wrote up in one of my classes today. My sickness is invading other parts of my life, so I was dropping the class anyway and thought, 'What a perfect time to write some drabbles!' So I did just that. Hope you guys like. Wanna tell me so?

In silence, he waited. In silence, he watched.

The sun had long ago bid the world goodbye. Everyone else had fled from the room: her sanctuary. At last she was alone with the peace and quiet she yearned for. Even as she scribbled furiously on lantern-lit paper, she relaxed, giving in to the siren call of the night spent alone, away from the chaos of life.

Helpless to the pull that whispered from his superior blood, he sat hidden from her view. There, in the darkness, he could steal the fruit his starving heart screamed for.

There, and only there.