Hold Me While The Darkness Bashes At The Door

by The Bickering Kingdom

100 drabbles of various pairings that are bound together by grief and the need to forget that grief and the things they have seen. Het, Slash & Femslash. Requests welcomed.

11. Lost So Much

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Harry Potter.

Written for Nori'sLilThief: Ernie Macmillan/Susan Bones.

Susan has lost count of the family and friends that are dead and buried.
All at the hands of Voldemort and his followers. She has become numb to death and loss, nearly all her family wiped out during the first war and her last remaining aunt in the second.

Her friends, other students who might one day have been her friend dead before their time so she became numb to it.

But Ernie still had this sort of innocence, not burnt away into ashes by the war, the deaths or grief.

It's what made her love him and made her feel something again.