Title: The Beginning
Rating: T
Pairing(s)/Character(s): Tom/Merope
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em - not making any money off 'em. Dern it.
Word Count: 219
Summary: This is how it all begins.
Notes:
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry: Two Week Drabbles Wars - International Woman's Day: Task Prompt - Write your character doing something bad/bad for/bad to someone. : Dialogue Prompt - "Well behaved women rarely make history." - Eleanor Roosevelt
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry: Tobias Stump - Bronze - Prompts Used - Powder, Goblet, Frame, Observe
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry: [Writing Club!] The Word Prompt Express - Prompt Used - 61. Beginning
Merope sprinkled some powder into the goblet and observed the potion bubble. When the potion finished, she looked at the framed picture of the wall. It was a candid shot of her beloved Tom. He didn't even know anyone was taking a picture of him so his expression was completely open. It was how she liked to picture him in her mind. It's how she pictured he would be with her.
It strengthened her resolve to do this. She knew it was wrong. She knew she could go to Azkaban if she was caught. And she was scared that would happen, but she was done being well behaved and never getting anything she desired.
"Well behaved women rarely make history," she muttered to herself.
She put the potion in a vile and pocketed it. She left her rundown home and found him in the marketplace.
She managed to get him a drink with some of the potion mixed in and watched as he took a gulp from the doused juice.
As she watched him, there was no noticeable difference, but when he looked up and his eyes met hers, she saw what she had always wanted to see within his gaze. Love. Devouring, undeniable love.
And when he walked over to her, Merope smiled. This was just the beginning.