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Insane Prompt Challenge:

176 Theme: Protection.

72 Hour Speed comp

Word: 3. Understanding

This is for the Harry Potter Fanfiction Challenges forum

Are you crazy enough to do it Challenge

380. (restriction) Can't use Harry, Draco, Hermione, Ron, Dumbledore, or any of the Weasley's in a story.

If You Dare Challenge

399: Marriage

Word Count: 492

She tensed at his touch, the noise around her seemed so loud, so overbearing. She wished someone would turn the radio off, wished someone would put out the crackling fire.

"Daphne, shhh, it's going to be alright, here, come to me," he whispered. She slowly crawled into his waiting arms. He held her tightly against his chest, her breathing slowly slightly.

"What happened?"

"Panic attack."

"I know that much, Daph, what triggered it? That's what I meant to ask."

"Oh, yelling, in the hallway, I think...it might have been Dumbledore yelling at some one. He scares me Theo, so bad."

"Shh, I know, I know, with him comes chaos, with chaos comes panic. Here, why don't we add a little order to this day, can you tell me a creature that starts with 'A'?" She nodded, her mind starting to list animals mentally.

"Um, Ant."

"I have 'B', so boar." Daphne smiled slightly.

"Chimera."

"Dog."

"Erumpant." Daphne sighed laying her head against Theo's shoulder.

"Fish."

"Thank you, Theo. I feel better now, you always know how to make the world make sense again."

"I'll always be here for you, Daphne, if you'd let me." Daphne lifted her head.

"What do you mean, Theo?"

"Daphne, I'd like your permission to ask your father for a betrothal contract. If you approve of course." The sixteen year old girl shrieked like a banshee for a second.

"Yes, yes, yes, I do approve, Theo. And no, I'm not already in a contract."

"I'll write him tonight, Daphne. Would you like to help me with the wording, I want to get it exactly right." She nodded giving him a smile before kissing him lightly on the lips.

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"Daphne, isn't that your father's owl?" Daphne looked up from her porridge at the flock of owls circling the great hall.

"Yes, yes it is, I didn't think he'd respond so quickly, what if..."

"If he says 'no'? Then we'll run away, to another world and start our lives there, I'm not giving up on you, Daphne." The owl landed in front of Theo and presented its leg. With trembling hands, Theo removed the attached piece of parchment. It was wrapped with a green ribbon and sealed with the Greengrass family quest. Daphne held her breath as he broke the seal and opened the parchment.

"Well?" she asked leaning over eagerly.

"Your father says that you are to be the next Madame Nott," Theo announced. He watched as Daphne's smile filled the room and silently thanked Merlin her father had approved.

"I love you, Theo," she whispered sliding her hand in his.

"I love you too, Daphne." He slid his tie clip from his robe. "I know it's not a ring, not yet, but until I can get you a proper ring, will you wear my tie clip?"

"Yes, I will, proudly," she stated kissing him again happy to have found a small piece of certainty in all the building chaos.