Incontrovertible
Rating: G
Pairing: Michael/Daphne
Characters: Michael Corner and Daphne Greengrass
Summary: Daphne is stubborn! Michael is swayed.
Notes: Writing challenge based on Merriam Webster's word of the day.

There were a lot of times she could not be argued with. In fact, when she got an idea in her head, there was often no changing her mind. Stubborn, that's what it was, but Michael knew she was when he started dating her. Daphne was one of those people that always had to be right... He'd only heard her admit she was wrong once in the years they'd known each other. Technically, that came to a grand total of three years or four, depending on when one estimated their time of meeting. After all, they'd talked before their sixth year at Hogwarts, but not really a lot before that. But there were five years there when Michael knew the name 'Daphne' and Daphne knew the name 'Michael.' All that time really couldn't count, though, unless you summarized in into another year. It worked. Kinda.

But the point in all that was that Daphne's decisions were very rarely open to question. During their seventh year, he'd called her incontrovertible, which he thought was a neat little word to summarize that rather annoying trait of hers... She'd called him a stubborn ass. Which, in hindsight, was probably a bit more of an effective insult, but Michael really hadn't been trying to make her mad.

It was a quality which he'd come to like. Respect, too. Especially when dealing with things that neither of them wanted to deal with. He didn't mind doing things Daphne's way, because they were similar enough to his so that it didn't much matter.

And with all that in mind, as she made those starry eyes at the little baby griffon kitten, he felt it would be a much better idea if he just said "Yes," right away, which he did. Because if he hadn't, they'd argue, and it would end with him saying yes anyway, so... It was just saving time. Really.

But he wasn't cleaning up after it, and he was putting his foot down on that. At least, until Daphne decided otherwise.

Michael sighed, and smiled.