A/N: I don't own Harry Potter or any related characters
caveman AU
Word count: 463
Herm watched the sky light up. Her brown eyes studying the dark clouds, following the flash of lightening. The loud clap of thunder sent everyone else scurrying back inside their caves. She didn't run, instead, she sat transfixed by the storm.
Slowly, she stepped out into the pouring rain, letting it wash over her. Her skin prickled as she felt eyes upon her. She turned back to the caves her family called home. Not seeing anyone watching her from there, she made her way further from the safety of the caves.
There, standing on the top of the cliff above her was a figure. She could determine it was a man, and not part of her clan. Curiosity won her over and she quickly climbed the rock face. It was a bit more a task during the rain. Herm had not realized just how slippery the rocks had become.
Her hand slipped. The man reached down, grabbing her wrist before she fell. He pulled her up until she was level with him. Her brown eyes met his dark ones. He turned his attention from her and back to the storm. Another bolt of lightening lit up the sky, splitting into a large white Y shape. Herm's eyes widened as one of the ends struck a tree in the distance.
"Fire," the man stated, pointing. Herm watched as smoke filled the air, and then fizzled out as the pouring rain managed to put out the small fire. She turned her attention to the man standing next to her. He was different than those of her clan. He had paler skin and black hair. The skin he wore was also darker than any animal she had seen.
"Traveler?" she asked. He looked over at her, as if seeing her for the first time.
"I follow fire," he answered. "Camp where it is. Keeps danger away," he answered. Herm nodded. She'd seen how fire could keep a cave save. She'd seen how dangerous it could be. She thought about her family, all scared of the loud sky. Her family who didn't care to venture from the safety of their little cliff. Her eyes scanned the horizon, at the whole world that she had never seen. She turned to him.
"I, Herm," she said.
"Sev," he answered. She smiled. Even his name seemed different from those she had heard.
"Come with you? Travel to fire?" she asked, holding her breath, hoping that his strange man might be her way out of the routine safe life she knew. Sev looked at her, at her shaggy brown hair, at the basic brown pelt she wore.
"Herm come with," he agreed, returning her smile as he took her hand and they headed off towards the smoldering remains of the fire.