Also for the Monthly Slash-tastic Drabble-athon competition (17. cracked)
You were wrong.
Just becoming Dean once again doesn't make everything fine. You didn't know it when you first awoke, but there was a reason that you were hurting all over, apart from the obvious explanation of the battle.
You're scarred, and badly. It turns out running into a burning classroom is never a good thing, even if you did it to save a trapped first year.
They say that all the scars will fade in time. But it doesn't change the fact that you're going to need months of rehabilitation – and then there's your hands.
They're the most badly injured parts of your body. It makes sense – you used them to grab onto that little girl's hand and pull her through the classroom, after all. And yet- the first time you see them, you can almost hear your heart breaking into two. You're an artist, and what good is an artist without functional hands?
Seamus tells you that you're just being defeatist. That your hands aren't permanently damaged – they're just scarred, and with proper care, ever those will fade. He promises you that he'll be there by your side throughout your physical therapy sessions, but you cannot help but feel like some essential part of you has broken irreversibly.
And then the doctors give you an all clear – at least, the all clear that you've been waiting for. When Seamus' lips truly touch yours after nearly a week of agonizing closeness and stolen half-kisses, you can almost believe that everything will be okay.
You have Seamus by your side, after all.
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