Word Count: 163
Challenge/Competition: 100 pairings challenge
Prompts: Hope
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: I don't claim to own Harry Potter, it's all JKR's.
Note: Alright guys, first go at this pairing, this is AU with Sirius not dying, so Hermione isn't too young. Please be nice!
Hermione/Sirius – Light Me Up
Hermione knows that the day she stops hoping is the day that they are done. Although hoping is hard – it takes everything out of her, she is pale and exhausted and withdrawn and has only one thought SiriusSiriusSirus, it is worth it because without hope everything will crumble.
Without Sirius, or, without the hope of what they can and will be, every light turns off in her world. She doesn't care, she doesn't care that there's so much to lose because there's still so much to gain in her mind – she loves him and he loves her, love is something to explore!
Maybe her mind is just the ramblings of a delusional teenage girl, but she is intelligent and so is he. They recognize that they are going to have to fight for what they want, they recognize that things will never be easy but they are also (as well as very intelligent) hopeless romantics and all they want is their happy little ending.