Year/ position: 6th Year Hufflepuff
Category: Drabble
Prompt(s):
[Speech] "No, no… keep going… I want to see where this ends up."
[Speech] "Calling him/her/them my other half means that neither of us is whole."
[First Line] To my (fill in the blank), I leave…
[Character] Frank Bryce
[Character] Your House's Founder.
[Song Prompt] Only Prettier - Miranda Lambert
[Object] Cherry Cheesecake
[Emotion] Disgust
[Event] Going ice skating
[Word] Disaster
Title: When All Else Fails
Wordcount: 490
Beta(s): Rose, Pix,
A/N: Warnings: mentions of Helga Hufflepuff/Rowena Ravenclaw pairing, bullying mentioned, Muggle!AU, Homosexuality mentioned, OOC behavior, Non-Canon, Canon Divergent, Lily Evans/Severus Snape pairing, Young McGonagall, Older(I think) Snape, Teacher!McGonagall, Teacher!Snape, Snape is Married to Lily, Snape is Harry's step-father. I really loved writing this and I think Muggle AU's are super fun to write, and read. Maybe that'll be a personal goal. Yáll will just have to see. I had to cut 211 words and I'm heartbroken because I loved them all so much, but the story still takes good shape, I think, so enjoy!
To my dearest friend, I leave...Minerva began to think about how she'd plan her will if she died from the pure stress that these students were causing her. She'd planned on going ice skating over the break she'd needed desperately, she'd be able to use her skills from childhood and relax. Minerva McGonagall was a teacher at a high school in Georgia. She loved her job, and tried to work with as much creativity that she could, which seemed to have a positive effect on her students. She taught English, and was recently a student too. She'd graduated college early, and left to teach and get on her feet at the age of twenty. She was almost twenty-one, and looking forward to a birthday break. She was snapped out of her thoughts by the disgusted look of her colleague, Severus Snape. He taught History, and he was feared by most students. He was in his early thirties, not the most friendly, but they held conversations from time to time. The headmistress, Helga Hufflepuff, was a kind woman who made many equality policies at the school, seeing how she had a wife and hated bullying. Minerva put on a warm smile as she approached the man. He greeted her with a soft expression, disgust still present. He was on his phone, talking about a woman he'd been dating, Lily Evans, who had recently been divorced, and had a son who Minerva taught.
"Lucius, calling her my other half would mean that neither of us is whole. Goodbye," he said, and hung up, addressing Minerva.
"Severus, what may I help you with?" she asked warmly.
"Not me," he said, dragging her to the mess hall to find the students in the middle of a foodfight. She was pulled back by her arm, just as a cherry cheesecake flew past her head.
That cheesecake did have some appeal to it. It was the perfect missile. Peering out again, now in less danger of flying confectionaries, she saw the school gardener, Frank Bryce, trying keep this 'disaster' away. Minerva heard the lyrics to "Only Prettier" by Miranda Lambert. She'd been thinking that that song was somewhat perfect for the moment, and it was playing on a boombox next to a quiet girl, Luna Lovegood, who'd been throwing back whatever came her way.
Severus rounded the corner to calm everyone when a student, Hermione Granger came running towards her, the angel. She had a pie in hand, and food in her messy brown hair.
"I'm sorry," the teenage girl said.
Minerva chuckled and spoke."No, no…..keep going...I want to see where this ends up."
She positioned the pie better in the brunette's hand and pushed her back into the fray of the food fight. This earned her a surprised and amused look from her colleague.
"What? Let them be kids," she said, a cheeky smile on her face. She loved her job.