Title: The Pros and Cons of Apparition

Summary: We can pull through this. I'll be here always, even when you don't need me.

Word Count: 252

Rating: G

Warning: None, really. Except that it's very weird. Yeah.

Notes: This was a drabble that I wrote for my friend Ama. She gave me a prompt (which was apparition), a pairing, and I wrote the rest. This doesn't take place in a specific time period, so...yes. And "home" I'll leave for others to interpret. And the title is really random. Heh.

Dedication: To Ama for encouraging me, and always being such an amazing friend. And all my readers and reviewers. This is for you.

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She tells him not to be afraid. That she'll always be there with him, ready to save him if he falls. If something happens to him. We can pull through this. I'll be here always, even when you don't need me.

He tells himself to be brave, to not panic. This is no big deal. It shouldn't be. He can do this. After all, as long he's careful, nothing will happen to him.

And he hears her words in his head just then (always his voice of reason, always his conscience) and he feels comforted. His heart is no longer exploding out of his chest and he knows he can do this, and he's not scared, as long as she's by his side.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

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She pulls him closer to her (for once he's thankful for Side-Along Apparition) and he feels a swoop in his stomach that has nothing to with nervousness. Then all he feels is nothing; everything around him is black and he can't breathe and his eyeballs are being forced back into his head - and then he stumbles. Her hands clutch his arm even more tightly and they find themselves losing their balance; and they fall on the ground.

He shakes off the dizziness and manages to get up, his knees weak and shaking. He offers her his hand and she takes it, and he pulls her up. Together they look all around them, and realize that they're safe.

"We're home," she breathes.