hearts are often broken by words left unspoken

by Hermitt

{He sits in his high-backed chair, watching and wishing she could have been his. Dreams flitter past his eyes, intangible and impossible to grasp.} This is a series of drabbles of lots of different pairings both canon and not focused around the phrase "hearts are often broken by words left unspoken". I am very open to pairing requests, as well. In fact, I demand them! ;)

2. Change of Heart

It was in the moment she cried to the entire Great Hall to turn him over to the Dark Lord that she stopped to think. The support they showed him, the unsurmountable loyalty to him despite the danger to their lives that had nearly knocked her off her feet and had certainly knocked her breath straight from her lungs. The moment when they all surged to their feet to defend him had never been forgotten by her. She'd stared at them all in shock and slight fear that the mob would turn on her. After all, she was a Slytherin who openly agreed with the Dark Lord's ideals. Then she had been ordered from the Hall by the Mother Lioness herself and escorted with the rest of her fellow snakes by their Head of House out and away from the approaching battle. Somewhere in herself she regretted it.

Then the battle for the school and for the Light was over and so many people were dead. People she'd known, people she'd heard of, people she'd seen in passing and then those she'd never known existed. But he had won and people were happy again that their saviour had saved them all. All their years together yet apart at Hogwarts she'd sneered at and insulted him and his friends and in return they'd done the same, their favourite insult likening her to a squashed-faced dog. She knew he wasn't the saint they all likened him to be, but she knew, deep down, she revered him nonetheless.

She saw him at the Ministry, sometimes, so confident and happy and mature now. Even a little taller, too. But she glimpsed sadness sometimes, hidden behind those emerald eyes of his. They'd twinkle and glisten and shine and break her heart. He was still the one who had brought her illusion crashing down but she still felt warm when she saw or thought of him.

She allowed herself to smile when she was alone. Her friends, his friends and their whole society would never understand. And neither would he.

But she still smiled at the thought of her raven-haired saviour.

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A pairing request by MrsMalfoy14 and I did like this one. The last pairing was kind of obviously Hermione/Draco, but can you guess this couple? Do tell if there's a pairing you like, though, and I'll see what I can do.

Take care,

Hermitt