Loving Simplicity.
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pekelekeTitle: Loving Simplicity.
Author: pekeleke
Pairing: Harry Potter/Severus Snape.
Rating: PG
Warning(s): Fluff. Established colleague-with-benefits relationship.
Word count: 365
Disclaimer: Don't own these characters. No money is being made out of this work.
Written for: hogwarts365 Prompt #121#3: Champagne.
A/N: This piece was written in honor of Severus Snape's birthday. May he keep us all busy singing his praises for many years to come!
Summary: Severus studied Harry's reddening features with incredulous dark eyes. A hundred insane butterflies fluttered in his stomach and he felt strangely dizzy. Hopeful. Terrified. “Are you asking for commitment?”
Loving Simplicity.
Severus stared at the framed picture Harry had just handed him, wondering how his... -what, exactly? Casual lover? Intimate friend? Colleague-with-benefits?- expected him to react to his unusual 'gift'.
“Why preserve such unremarkable instant from the surprise birthday party Minerva sprung on me last year?” He finally asked, uncertain of what else he should say. “Turning pensive memories into pictures is prohibitively expensive. Wasting that amount of galleons on immortalizing my face seems woefully...”
“That was the first smile you ever gave me, Severus.”
“Oh!”
“It was the beginning of us. I'd have never flirted with you, or offered to cook you breakfast, if it wasn't for that smile.”
Severus' gaze lowered towards the frame and he stared at his picture-self's expression with a dazzled sort of wonder.
“I didn't realize you wanted smiles.” He said softly. “I thought you approached me because I was there. I was convenient, bored, willing... I assumed you'd continue 'seeing' me to keep Mistress Loneliness at bay until someone better came along.”
“There's no one better than you. Not for me, at least.”
Severus fidgeted uncomfortably and looked up to stare at Harry's reddening features with incredulous dark eyes. A hundred insane butterflies fluttered in his stomach and he felt strangely dizzy. Hopeful. Terrified.
“Are you asking for commitment?”
Harry twitched nervously:
“I realize that picking your birthday, of all days, to do this isn't ideal but... today is our first anniversary, too. It's been a year already. An entire year. And we—we've survived it.”
“Permanence requires more than survival. It requires romance and flowers. Chocolates. Champagne. Soft violin music… I'm terrible at all that, Harry.”
“That's not permanence. That's fanfare. And I'm terrible at it, too.”
“I—”
“I love you.” Harry interrupted him quietly, cradling his pale face oh-so-tenderly between visibly trembling hands: “Let the Lockharts of this world keep the fanfare to themselves. All I need is you. Your loyalty. Your wit. Your beautiful, shy, smile. Let me call you mine, Severus.”
“I—you must agree to be mine in return then.” Severus answered hoarsely and his supposedly cold heart literally melted upon hearing Harry's soft-toned reply:
“That's all I want to be, my love.”
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Date: 2016-01-09 05:07 pm (UTC)It seems so much like the Severus we know to think that he was not the goal but only a convenience for Harry. Good that Harry finally has the courage to clarify some things.
I think that might be Severus's best birthday present ever.
Thank you for sharing his present with us, dear pekeleke! ^^
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Date: 2016-01-12 06:09 pm (UTC)Thanks, as always, for taking the time to both read and review another work of mine, my friend. Your kind and lovely comment meant the world to me. :)
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Date: 2016-01-09 05:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-01-12 06:20 pm (UTC)Anyway, I'm glad that you enjoyed this drabble so much, mrs_sweetpeach. Thanks, as always, for taking the time to both read and review it. Your kind and lovely comment was greatly appreciated. :D
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Date: 2016-01-09 11:52 pm (UTC)Well done!
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Date: 2016-01-15 11:09 pm (UTC)I was moping non-stop about Alan until I came across a plea majmunka left in her livejournal's RIP post, urging her author friends to write happy, fluffy fics in which Severus lives. "Save him again," that's what she asked for, and that's what I want to do. I've been trying to come up with something like that for the last hour. I haven't managed it yet, but I will. I think Alan would have liked that sort of tribute.
Anyway, I'm glad that you enjoyed this little drabble so much. Thank you for taking the time to both read and review it. And thank you for gifting me the pleasure of hearing from you again. Take care. <3
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Date: 2016-02-01 09:18 pm (UTC)Anyway, thanks, as always, for taking the time to keep up with my work. Your kind and lovely comment left me smiling from ear to ear. :)
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