HP Sapphic November 2022

13/11/22 - Dangerous

Bonsoir lads (this is becoming a habit now). This one feels really short but anyway. I know where I was trying to go with it but I don't think I really got there, but it doesn't really matter anyway. I think it half slays, so just read it and tell me what ya think. 

Pansmione again because we love

"Hermione."

"Pansy."

There was an ominous beat of silence as the two girls stood in the deserted room, eyeing each other carefully with purposefully blank faces. Finally, Pansy snapped.

"How could you even think of doing that!" she yelled, balling her hands into fists. "That was so reckless, dangerous, unwise-"

"I had to-" Hermione tried, but Pansy raged on.

"You broke into Gringotts and rode away on a dragon. A dragon! You're scared of flying, Hermione. You also managed to get caught by snatchers and brought to Malfoy manor, and Salazar only knows what awful things you had to go through in their house." Pansy stopped to breathe, and Hermione just managed to get a word in.

"I didn't want to, Pansy I promise. I had to because it was the only way to stop V-Voldemort." Even after he had died, Hermione still shuddered every time his name was brought up.

"You could have told me," Pansy whispered, calming down a bit. "I would have come with you, you didn't need to go by yourself."

"I wasn't by myself," Hermione argued. "I had Harry and Ron-"

"You know what I mean," Pansy snapped. "They know nothing about you. Nothing! You've been friends for 7 years, and they know nothing. They only realised you were a girl after 3 and a half years, for Merlin's sake." Hermione tried to protest, but deep down she knew it was true. "They have no idea that you almost died when you were little, because the school kids tried to beat you up for being 'weird'. They have no clue that you almost left Hogwarts in first year before you became friends with them. They haven't any idea why you flinch every time the subject of cars is brought up." Hermione did flinch, and Pansy cursed herself for saying it but ploughed on anyway. "They know nothing about you. No one does! I know how alone you felt on that journey across the country. I felt alone when you were gone, even under the imperius curse that my idiotic father put on me before the start of the year. I still felt it."

Pansy gasped for breath, sitting down on the chair that the room of requirement had provided.

"I'm sorry," whispered Hermione. Pansy scrunched up her face.

"Don't say that, Hermione. Don't apologise." Pansy shook her head to stop herself from crying. "I don't know how to deal with my emotions, you know this. I was just so worried when you didn't come back last year, and then I heard that you'd broken into the ministry and even though I was under the imperius curse I still felt so worried and then it got worse and then I didn't know what would happen and-" she broke off.

Hermione had a few tears on her face, but she wiped them off and hugged the girl in front of her.

"I know," she murmured, brushing Pansy's hair out of her face. "I know." 

Soooooo? I'm finally up to date with the writing, no doubt I'll fall behind again in 0.2 seconds once it's the next prompt but anygays, I'm happy now so it's fine. Once again, this is not edited at all. Maybe I'll go back and edit them all when it's no longer November. Maybe. Probably not but maybe.