Pairing: LuciusIsobel
Prompt: 940. A child's dream
Word count: 211
A Child's Dream
That night Lucius dreamed of her. He dreamed of her nervous expression, her look of adoration for the last son she was sending off to Hogwarts. There was something about that woman that sent Lucius' heart racing. He just had to see her again.
"You're too young, idiot," Bellatrix Black said to him, whacking him on the arm. He had expressed his sudden affection for the older woman to the girl, but had received a less than supportive response. "Besides, she's married to a filthy Muggle. Wouldn't go near the children either."
Still, the young Lucius Malfoy fantasised about the McGonagall woman, dreaming of her and waiting impatiently for the next time he reached the Hogwarts Express.
She was Lucius' very first serious crush, and despite her being much, much older than he, he dreamed about one day making her happy.
Until, of course, news surrounded the castle a year later that the woman Lucius loved had passed.
After that, he dreamed of her every night. One night he even had the courage to tell her he loved her. Of which she returned his affections.
Lucius spent the next year in her arms, but only in dreams. For he knew that in reality, what he wanted would never come to be.
This was written for the Pairing the Character Challenge on HPFC (LuciusIsobel)
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