100 Seconds: Tick Tock
Tick, tock, tick, tock.
She's in a makeshift cell, her pale skin seeming to glow in the darkness. Light from beneath the heavy locked door is enough to blind her kind gray eyes, and it's all she can do to restrain herself from begging for freedom when her captors deliver food, half starved as she is.
She remembers to feed herself every few days, when her more desperate cellmates sleep and more practical voices prevail within her mind. "We need you, Luna," it whispers.
Tick, tock, tick, tock.
It isn't until chaotic yelling cuts through the dark that it occurs to the frightened girl that the voice isn't her own: instead, it's her favourite Gryffindor and would-be Ravenclaw. Sensible, beautiful, enticingly flawed: she knows Hermione better than she ought.
Staring at the light blazing under the door, Luna promises herself that she won't keep the truth from Hermione when she gets out. Not again.
I'm in love with you.
Tick, tock, tick, tock.
I'm coming for you.
Characters: Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood.
Prompt: Hermione Granger.
Word count: 167