A/N - January 10
Prompt: Flutter
Characters: Neville/Hannah
Rating: K+
This is the second chapter I've posted today as I won't be able to post over the weekend, so be sure to check out Chapter 9 as well. :)
Neville awoke to the soft light of dawn as it filtered in through a small opening in the curtains. He sighed. Clearly he was still on his Hogwarts schedule despite it being the second week of the summer holidays. He never seemed able to sleep in these days.
Still, it wasn't all bad, he decided as he looked down at the woman whose head currently lay on his chest. It gave him the chance to study her unhindered. Whenever she caught him at it, Hannah would roll her eyes and shake her head, telling him he was mental. She didn't take compliments well and brushed him off whenever he told her she was beautiful.
He gently moved her so her head was on his pillow and he lay on his side next to her, propped up on one elbow. Her eyelashes were a shade darker than her hair, long and curled up slightly at the ends. When her eyes were closed they lay in two golden fans in the hollow beneath her eyes. He gently ran a finger along the ends of them and she twitched, but didn't stir. This was what he missed the most when he was away at Hogwarts teaching; waking up beside her every morning. Even after five years of marriage, she still made his heart speed up when he looked at her.
She shifted in her sleep again and he heard her breathing change a bit. He knew she was waking and so he simply stared, as this was his favorite part. Her eyes moved behind her lids and then her lashes fluttered against her cheeks for a few seconds before they opened completely and she looked up at him.
"Good morning," he said with a smile. She blinked slowly once and then a small smile graced her lips.
"Staring again were you?" Neville shrugged unapologetically. "Are you ever going to stop doing that?"
"Never." She rolled her eyes and he chuckled before he leaned down and gave her a proper good morning.