100 Words

by smashing sugar

A series of 100-word drabbles taken from my responses to the hp100 LJ community's weekly challenges. Ficlets feature various ships, characters, genres, and settings -- whatever goes for the topic at hand, so read for your quick enjoyment!

6. Red Paint

Title: Red Paint
Word Count: 100
Genre: Drama
Characters/Pairings: Ginny Weasley
A/N: Maybe rated PG-13...not sure...
Challenge: SOFA (School of Fine Arts; anything to do with the arts)

She loved the paint's color, despite her infamous history with it.

Ever since her first year, the scarlet hue had secretly captivated her mind. She believed herself to be the only one who could admire it for its sensuous, lustful worth.

Now, however, she would go beyond the paint. She needed to fill the canvas before her with something delicate, real, and symbolic of the color that gave her hair its vivacity.

Determined, she pierced her skin with a knife, and watched as droplets of beautiful red fell aesthetically onto the sheet of blinding white, pain far from her thoughts.

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