Word Count: 186
Challenge/Competition: 100 Different Pairings Competition
Prompts: Stay.
Warnings: Implication of sex.
Disclaimer: I don't claim to own Harry Potter, it's all JKR's.
Daphne/Lucius - Stay
As the door swings open with no one behind it, her feet find their own way to the stairs, the elves don't stare nor glare, the house swells with comforting silence; she finds herself in a routine – a circle, guilt to pleasure to guilt. And pain. There's more than even she would have ever imagined.
And as the pleasured moans come to a slow but steady end, the tension in the air gathers and she knows what part comes now. It's always the same. His eyes become cold and hard, there's not an ounce of humanity in the grey to remind her of what she (dare she think it) loves.
But she doesn't even try; there's no will power left in her. He doesn't want her, no one does – she doesn't even want herself. Daphne pulls her pearly slip over her trembling body, and does the same with her dress. There's no goodbye, he doesn't deserve last words when she'll always be coming back anyway.
But a strong hand comes out, grabbing her wrist and she almost misses the croaky utterance of "Stay, please."