A Girl's Guide to Living and Dying

by prying.delilah

Hermione's been fatally cursed and there's only one Potions Master who can help her. But there are more obstacles in her way than she anticipated including the charismatic and dangerous Malfoys. Multichapter drabble version of What Not To Do by cordyangel

3. Don't Speak

Chapter 3: Don't Speak

What the hell…?

Snape released Hermione's head roughly as if he'd been burned, causing it to roll forward. Properly shocked, he scrambled away from her.

"What?"

"Like killing Dumbledore," she repeated. "Everyone in the Order believes you returned to the Dark Side. Except me."

"Went back?" A trademark sneer. "I never left." His lies were pouring out like poison, and it felt so good to release them.

He was scaring her at last. He hadn't use for those who weren't afraid of him. But more disturbingly, he was scaring himself, beginning to forget where lies ended and the truth began.