Written for and posted on the grangersnape100 LiveJournal Community on October 14, 2006. Challenge: Back from the Dead.
The Wheel of Life
Hermione rolled over and stared at her sleeping husband.
She'd heard the sniggers behind her back, the whispers, when she'd married someone twenty years younger than herself, but she had no regrets. The decades she had endured alone after Severus had died in the Final Battle had made her feel as if she was nothing but jagged edges inside until Simon had healed her with a look. There had been something in those black eyes. . . . Even if she had never been able to share with him anything of her past . . .
He smirked in his dreams. "Insufferable know-it-all," he mumbled softly.