Title: Nedric Side Drabbles
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Nedric- though it's sort of vague in some spots, and is in a past tense.
Author: Smurf-chan
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A/N: Since Nedric is taking forever for me to finish (due to my own anal retentiveness when it comes to getting it as close to cannon as possible while at the same time remaining AU-ish and involving a pairing which is purely of my own imagination), I've decided to release the side stories in the meanwhile. Please note that these are merely drabbles told from several different characters' POV. The title of each chapter will coincide with the character whose thoughts on the Nedric pairing are being shown. There are about twenty-two drabbles in total. Hope you enjoy them!
Medi-Wizard; Drabble the First
Unforgivable's are just that; unforgivable. They are Magic that's been twisted and misused, to control, to corrupt, to torture, and to kill.
The torture victims are the worst though. As a Medi-Wizard with a background in psychology, those are the ones I see daily. The victim's who die, are in a sense, lucky. They don't have to live with the psychological after effects.
Frank and Alice Longbottom, and their family, are perfect examples of why such perversions of magic are unforgivable. Both Frank and Alice are confined to a hospital room to live out the remainder of their days. Really, though, it isn't the room in which they are living; both of them are living inside of their own minds.
There are times, however, that a tiny spark of real life seems to ignite in them, and they seem less trapped, less frightened, less lost. The spark isn't big, and it isn't bright, but it is there.
It's there when the boy, their boy, Neville Longbottom, visits them, to tell stories, or recount the details of his life between visits. It can be seen in the way Frank's eyes become less cloudy, not by much, but enough so that a keen and well trained eye could catch the difference. It can be seen in the way Alice allows herself to be touched without becoming violent as she is known to do with the staff; she remains skittish, but not defensive.
That small spark can be seen as she hums a whimsical tune, and Frank watches from his crouched position at the foot of his bed; Alice allowing the boy, their son, though in all honesty they probably don't know it, to rest his head on her lap while he cries and recounts to his parents, whom most would see as only breathing shells, the loss of yet another person he cherished to an Unforgivable Curse.
That spark, throughout the sad encounter, is there. It can be seen quite clearly through the small window centered on the upper half of the closed door, as I attempt to distract the boy's formidable Witch of a Grandmother from disturbing the three occupants of Frank and Alice Longbottom's permanent hospital room.
There we go! Part one of twenty-two down.
Next up: Frank Longbottom.
Hugs and Oreos!
Smurf-chan
