Title: A Small Thing
Summary: Blaise wants to make his mother happy again
Pairing/Characters:Blaise and his mother
Rating:K
Warnings: N/A
Notes:A new drabble collection, this one for the 365 drabble challenge at Hogwarts School Forum

His fingers were a little chubby for what he was trying to do. Blaise thought about stealing his mother's wand and trying some magic, but that would be bad. He was really trying to be good today. His mother needed him to be good today.

"Stiffy!" he called out. The next moment a bowing house elf appeared in front of him.

"What can Stiffy do for young master?" The house elf's ears were almost touching the ground, but his eyes were scanning Blaise.

"I need help with this," he said, holding two ends of a piece of string. "My fingers can't tie the knot."

With a quick click of his fingers, the ends were tied together in a tight knot that would be almost impossible to untie.

"Great!" In his excitement, Blaise doesn't notice when the house elf left.

He ran out of the room and towards his mother's bedroom. He could hear the soft sounds of her crying and hesitated, but not for long. He wanted to make his mother stop crying, and this was going to do it.

"Mum?" He's unusually quiet when he speaks, and his mother looks up in concern.

"Blaise, hun? What are you doing in here? I told you I needed some alone time." She was looking at him with wet, red eyes and furrowed eyebrows. Her cheeks were wet with tears, but she quickly tried to wipe them away so he didn't see them.

"I made this for you." He held up the handmade necklace with childish excitement. "I know you're sad, and you always make me soup when I'm sad, but I can't make soup so I made this instead." He didn't call it a Christmas present. Christmas was tomorrow, not tonight, so it wasn't a Christmas gift, just a gift. He shuffled his feet and glanced to the ground for a moment. "Does it make you happy?"

Blaise's mother's eyes watered and another tear slipped down her cheek. For a moment Blaise thought he'd done something wrong, but then he was pulled into his mum's arms.

"Yes," she said into his hair. "Yes, this makes me very happy. This is brilliant."

Blaise smiled, but it didn't last long when he realised she was still crying. "If it's so brilliant, why are you still crying?"

His mother chuckled and pulled away, smiling in the same way he was. "Because I've just realised something important. Something I should have known a long time ago."

"What?"

Blaise's mother kissed him on the forehead before answering. "I've realised that you are the only man I'm ever going to need."

Blaise didn't really know what his mother meant, but he smiled again, recognising the compliment for what it was. "I'm glad you have me, then."

His mother chuckled again and pulled him close. "So am I."

(w.c 470)

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