AN - Not mine don'townanyone. I would love to hear what people think about this, so please review.
What a good man – Dec 1st, 2005
'He's not a bad man." Hermione thought as she coward under a desk. 'He's not; it's only this beast that comes out of him. It's only this beast.' She noticed that her breathing was getting heaver so she tried some calming breathes, still trying not to move much.
'He's a good man, he always has been. Try to remember all the times where he was loving and caring, this isn't him. This is the beast'
She thought back to when she had first met the man, how he had saved Harry first off. Saved him from a fate worse than death. She thought back to him teaching her all he knew. All about the world that she craved to belong to, and so did he.
The desk being thrown across the room started Hermione enough to forget that he was a good man, that she loved him, that he loved her. She forgot that this wasn't him; she just had, had enough.
She reached for her wand and put him in a body bind. Struggling and howling with anger he fought the invisible ropes that held him. She shrunk him then, him now only four inches tall.
She then laid down with him on a couch near by, her waiting out this thing that consumed him.
Hermione woke suddenly, noticing the sunshine that played across the carpeted floor. She heard a tiny sound she had never heard before, somewhere between a squeak and a drum. She looked down at the still tiny man and realized he was crying.
She quickly unbound him and un-shrunk him. He stood looking around the room, his eyes lost and scared. He looked over at her.
"I'm leaving"
And he did, with her sobbing, "No you're a good man, you're such a good man."