Title: Perfection
Author: Anna Scathach / lyre_flowers
Rating: T
Word Count: 3 x 100
Summary: Severus and Hermione are looking for the perfect present. SSHG drabble series for Lynnylou and the HPCon_Envy community on Livejournal.
Perfection
"No, this isn't it," she murmured. "Can't offer him potions ingredients. Even if the unicorn hair would be quite useful for that new potion he is developing."
Sighing, Hermione Snape rummaged through her purse.
"I know I had a list for this. There has to be something that he wants. Something, anything really."
"Excuse me, Madam Snape," the shop owner approached her. "May I ask what it is you're looking for?"
"I have no idea," she grumbled. "I love him dearly, my Severus, I do, but honestly, why must things always be complicated for us?"
"And now," Severus Snape moaned, "she'll be expecting a gift."
A gift. Why hadn't he realised it sooner?
What did she want? Flowers, too easy. Books, done a million times. Jewellery – well, it wasn't that she didn't like jewellery, only she wore such gifts once or twice and then buried them safely beneath her work clothes.
"Oh please," he snorted. "I'm not Ronald Weasley who offers her chocolate and calendars for her birthday, for Cernunnos' sake."
"Why must she be so bloody difficult?" he sighed. "Although I wouldn't love her as much if things were different."
The quest for perfection never was easy and the course of true love never did run smooth. The Snapes knew this well.
Their courtship had been a rocky one. People had stared and whispered and pointed fingers. They hadn't cared.
At first they had agreed not to marry purely out of spite, out of disdain for old-fashioned Wizarding customs.
When Severus and Hermione had married, it had been a private ceremony. The bride wore blue robes, the husband his customary black.
On their ten year anniversary, all they gave each other was a simple kiss. To them, it was perfection.
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