Just Another Day
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A One-Shot Set Off Twin Souls
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Summary: Set right before Chapter 6 of Twin Souls, but can be read as a stand-alone. Hermione thinks about her daughter and her own life without her daughter's father.
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The book mentioned later, Blue Is For Nightmares, and Harry Potter do not belong to me. Nor do Inuyasha, Detective Conan, or Yu Yu Hakusho. Anything related to Final Fantasy doesn't either.
Another day has passed, and I still sit here. I'm lucky, I suppose... I thought he'd come for me by now... but he hasn't.
He doesn't know if I kept the baby or whether it's a girl or boy... He doesn't know if I'm still alive or if I've married anyone...
I haven't married... and our daughter is six years old now... Sometimes she looks up at me the same way her father used to look at me. But on her face she looks mischevious...
Her name is Nyx Pandora. She has dark brown eyes that take a black color with a purplish tint when she looks at me the way her father did... Her hair is black... silky, black... It reaches her shoulders, and curls the same way mine used to before I grew it out when I was ten.
She looks so much like him... pale skin, black hair... sometimes I wonder if she'd have the attitude as he has when she's older. But... now she's just my sweet baby girl.
She's sleeping in the backseat or our rental car, mumbling every once in a while about her favorite book or movie. Her face is shadowed by her hair, but I still see the scar on her right cheek from the car accident. Shaped like a skull with a snake in it's mouth... A familiar shape...
Sometimes it scares me... I don't tell her that, just smile weakly at her and tell her she's my baby...
She loves to read... even more so than I it seems sometimes... She doesn't attend a school like I did when I was younger. I teach her at home, in front of the fireplace that's always going, even in the hot summer. She's smart for her age, too... reading algebra and high school english books...
But, I haven't told her about who I really am... She's overheard me talk about the war to myself when I write my letters to Ginny... So I tell her that it wasn't really a war... and I know she doesn't believe me... but she doesn't push it. Sometimes she uses Legilimency on me without knowing it... She has more raw power and magic than anyone I know...
I call her Nyxie a lot... she reminds me of a pixie... She's hardly a pixie... but still... She doesn't like being outside, unless it's night and raining, something that had me fascinated about her...
She loves anything magical in part, like her favorite book, Blue is For Nightmares... She's not a big fan of cartoons, and claims they're too childish, and opts for Japanese anime every time we rent or buy movies... Anime like Inuyasha, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Detective Conan fascinate her... She loves video games too, something I had never taken an interest in before. Her favorite game is called Final Fantasy VIII, and I had played it with her...
But... she never asks about her father... She never has...
She asks about Ginny and Ron... and when I was her age... but never her father... Sometimes I wonder if she's an empath... it would explain many things...
Two hours have past since she fell asleep, and I've finally pulled to a stop. We are in the town we'll call home until the day he comes for us... If he does... I look over at the coffee shop and sigh...
Just another day. Another day with my daughter... and I'm happy for the first time since I left...
Just another day...