Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
A/N: I know that this is very similar to some of the pieces in Astral Romance, even to the point where's I'm recycling a few phrases, but it just seems like this sort of thing is what I'm in the mood to write right now. And I figure, whatever flows, flows. I've always been one for writing the ideas I have, not forcing ones I don't. Just think of it as a sort of companion fic, if you will. BTW, this is meant to be Hermione/Ginny, in case you didn't realize.
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Touch
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Sometimes, words are too much. Sometimes they are too little. And, at times, they are completely inappropriate. They both can feel that now is one of those times.
It would be wrong to break this silence, before the beginning, not of a storm, but of a tempest that threatens to engulf the world. So to preserve the unsteady quiet, they substitute touches for words. A picture speaks a thousand words, but a touch can speak a hundred thousand more.
This touch says, I'm frightened.
And this brush says, me too.
These hands, clasped together, whisper, I love you.
This embrace, I know.
This finger, delicately brushing away a hot tear, cries, I don't want to lose you, and the tear itself replies, How can I promise that you won't?
And though these touches could be interpreted as completely platonic, and both women are clothed modestly in threadbare dresses of a thick, canvas-like material, they stand so close and their touches speak so vividly that one would be a fool to think they were anything but lovers.
This brief kiss on the small one's freckled cheek says, I wish-
And the shake of a brown curly head, the faint, sad smile from the other as she leaves the room, says, We all do. But it's too late now.
Sometimes, words are too much. Sometimes they're insufficient. But, other times, they're just unnecessary.
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