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17 drabbles: Severus/Hermione
Title: In the Woods #11 (part 84 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
Hermione felt trapped. The woods were suddenly closing in on her. The darkness seemed to engulf everything around her so she couldn't make out where she was. She had ran so far without a destination, she had ran directly into her nightmare and so deep she couldn't get out.
Every way she turned she saw the same thing: trees surrounding a clearing. She half expected the Death Eaters to Apparate with the prisoner while she stood there.
She leaned against the tree she had stopped at and tried to regain her composure. "It's only a nightmare," she whispered to herself.
Title: In the Woods #12 (part 85 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
Severus followed Hermione after giving her a few moments of a head start, and he made sure she couldn't see him as he followed.
He stopped when he saw Hermione. Hermione looked like she was having a panic attack of sorts.
"It's only a nightmare," he vaguely heard Hermione whisper.
For a moment Severus stood there confused, watching his wife lean against a tree, taking deep breaths, and whispering to herself. This was a Hermione he rarely saw. She looked almost fragile and weak. She never allowed herself to look fragile and weak.
"She's scared," Severus whispered his realization aloud.
Title: In the Woods #13 (part 86 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
Severus surveyed the scene looking for what could be the cause of Hermione's fright. No one was around her; nothing was surrounding her but trees. There was no threat.
"It's only a nightmare."
"Oh my God," Severus gasped.
He franticly looked around once again. He saw it. The nightmare. The prisoner in her nightmare was being held in this clearing by the Death Eater. Being killed. This is the exact spot where Hermione had watched her loved ones die over and over again while she was sleeping.
I don't care if it's only a boggart, Severus realized, She's genuinely scared.
Title: In the Woods #14 (part 87 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: out of his comfort zone
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
Severus advanced slowly. He didn't want to scare her more. "Hermione," he whispered when he was still a few feet away from her. It was a disadvantage that her back was to him.
She visibly jumped, but swung around instantly. The look of pure terror on her face pushed aside any residual anger. She pushed away from the tree, and at first he thought she was going to run from him again. Instead, she ran at him.
He allowed her to crash into him and wrapped his arms around her in comfort. "It's okay. It's okay," he tried to soothe.
Title: In the Woods #15 (part 88 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"No," she whispered franticly against his shoulder. "It's not okay." He felt his shoulder start to grow wet as she started to cry. She pulled back to reveal that tears were running down her face and the look of terror was still firmly in place. "He's going to kill them. All of them."
Her words were frantic as well as her eyes. She looked like she was feeling something deeper than terror.
He was surprised, despite how haunting her nightmares had been, she was taking the setting of the nightmare so hard.
"You and I are the only ones here."
Title: In the Woods #16 (part 89 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / out of his comfortable zone
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"No," she unreasonably denied.
"Hermione, look around. You and I are the only ones here."
She shook her head. A sudden calmness overcame her, and she whispered, "Severus, we are not alone."
Severus was shocked. He knew they were alone but the seriousness in her voice was almost a frightening change from her panic stricken actions a moment before. "Hermione," he whispered, pushing stray strands of hair from her face, "What do you mean? We are the only ones."
She shook her head again. The frantic state was coming over her again, and tears began to stream down her face.
Title: In the Woods #17 (part 90 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / out of his comfort zone
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"You aren't dreaming," he tried, "You are not in your nightmare." When all she did was cry, he began to shake her lightly, "Snap out of it!"
Severus was growing more uncomfortable and confused by the moment. Hermione's action did not make sense, nor did her state seem to be normal. Even if she believed she was in her nightmare, this was no way his Hermione would react. Something wasn’t right.
He shook her lightly again and pleaded, "Hermione, please!"
She didn't respond. She just looked at him in horror as she cried.
"Hermione, you are not in your nightmare!"
Title: In the Woods #18 (part 91 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
Hermione could hear Severus pleads. She wanted desperately to respond to him, to reassure him she was fine. But she couldn't control herself. All she felt was an immobilizing fear. She felt as if as every minute passed she was loosing more and more control over her own actions.
"Hermione!" She felt him shaking her.
She forced herself to stop crying, but she couldn’t stop feeling the horror.
"You and I are the only ones here!"
"I know," she whispered.
Title: In the Woods #19 (part 92 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
Severus let go of Hermione. Then quickly he pulled her back in his arms. "Hermione, what happened?"
She looked up at him with genuine fear in her eyes. "I don't know."
He kissed her forehead and let her go. He walked around the clearing, checking everywhere for something amiss.
"Hermione," he turned to her. "Were you under a spell?"
She blinked at him. "Yes... I think I was."
He nodded. "When did the nightmares really start?"
She shrugged. "Months ago."
"Hermione, please, when?"
"I don't know. Months ago," she repeated herself.
He sighed. "Fine. Do you recall if it was before her after our marriage?"
She thought for a moment, "Before."
"Have you ever been in these woods before?"
"Sure."
Title: In the Woods #20 (part 93 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"Well, I mean, other than the nightmare."
"I know. I've been here many times. I basically grew up at the Burrow after fourth year."
"Of course. Of course you did."
"Severus, what are you thinking?"
"There was no boggart."
"I know."
"The nightmares weren't real."
"Whatever you say."
"No, Hermione, they were figments of someone's imagination."
"Don't you dare say mine!"
"Not yours."
"Severus, then who? What are you thinking?"
"I think the answers to your nightmares have been in this clearing the whole damn time."
"Severus, tell me what you are thinking, please. Your cryptic talk is just annoying."
Title: In the Woods #21 (part 94 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"I'm sorry."
"You should be," she muttered.
"No, not for that."
"Then what, you infuriating man?"
"For making you a target indirectly."
"Severus, what are you talking about?"
"People hate me, Hermione."
"I don't. Continue please."
"Other people do." He picked up a small leather pouch for powders from off the ground that seemed to appear out of nowhere.
"What are you suggesting?" Her annoyance was quickly changing into frustration and confusion.
He tossed the pouch to Hermione. "What's in there?"
She opened in it and looked inside. "A fine blue powder." She looked at him questioningly.
"It's dreamweaver powder."
Title: In the Woods #22 (part 95 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
Hermione poured a little amount of the powder onto her hand. It was the perfect color and texture that dreamweaver was supposed to be. She cautiously smelt the powder. The dizzying euphoria that the auroma of dreamweaver was supposed to produce was quicker than expected. She quickly thrust the powder away from her nose and into the pouch.
"So?"
"The cause of your nightmare."
"What?"
"It makes perfect sense."
"Not really."
"Yes, it does. You came here after your talk with Harry and Ron. You didn't see a boggart nor did you see Death Eaters killing someone in this clearing."
Title: In the Woods #23 (part 96 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"Ignoring the flaws in your theory, why me?"
"It probably was meant for me."
"Oh of course! I can be mistaken for you so easily!"
"No need for sarcasm, woman."
"Then make sense."
"I do. If dreamweaver is inhaled directly it's supposed to cause euphoria which makes it easy to place dreams--or nightmares in your case--in someone's subconscious. Basically, when dreamweaver is in your system, you will believe anything. Once it leaves your system you have no memory of what happened."
"I know that! Tell me something I don't know, like what this has to do with me."
Title: In the Woods #24 (part 97 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"You inhaled it. The person came up behind you and made sure it was close enough to you to inhale which you were sure to forget doing. One of the best effects of dreamweaver is when you are exposed to it again, the fabricated dream, memory, or nightmare raises to your conscious and you believe you are there. Like you believed the Death Eaters were here with the two of us. A wizard or witch can overpower dreamweaver though."
"I know."
"You know you inhaled it?"
"No, I know what the effects of dreamweaver do. I wasn't exposed to dreamweaver."
Title: In the Woods #25 (part 98 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"I don't believe you."
"What?"
"You honestly don't remember the experience."
"I would know."
"How?"
"I... I... Severus! What would someone have to gain to exposing me to dreamweaver, to creating a nightmare in my mind?"
"You can think of no one that could gain anything from trying to scare you?"
"Scare me from what exactly?"
"Me."
"WHAT?!"
"Have you ever finished the nightmare, Hermione?"
"No, I don't think so. But you are one of the ones I see dying."
"Even if the nightmare was placed in your subconscious, you can still change it just like you can overpower it."
Title: In the Woods #26 (part 99 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"Finish your nightmare, Hermione. Please prove me right or wrong." He raised his wand and said his spell silently.
She started at him in shock only a moment before she slumped over, fast asleep.
Concentrating as hard has he could, Severus entered his wife's mind again. This time he was thrust into the clearing in her nightmare.
He saw her crouching behind the cluster of trees watching in horror. He turned slowly. It was the same as before.
The Death Eater brought the knife down deliberately. Once it stabbed the prisoner the Death Eater’s mask vanished.
Severus was proven right when he was faced with himself.
Title: In the Woods #27 (part 100 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is 100/100. The end. The last 100 words. Comments make me happy.
Hermione opened her eyes slowly. "It was you," she accused looking over at Severus.
"No. Well yes. It wasn’t really me."
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why did I dream you killed yourself as well as the others?"
"I'm sure it didn't start out as me as the prisoner with the others. I'm sure that was something you changed. Originally I was only the Death Eater, the murderer."
“But who?”
"I have no guesses."
"Severus, you love to prove yourself right."
"Not this time dear," he said as he gently kissed her forehead. "Let's go home."
A/N That's the end. Obviously, I made up the dreamweaver powder. I hope this makes sense to everyone; it makes sense to me but of course I wrote it. I hope that everyone enjoyed the whole drabble series. I hope that everything was explained. Thanks for reading!
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
Hermione felt trapped. The woods were suddenly closing in on her. The darkness seemed to engulf everything around her so she couldn't make out where she was. She had ran so far without a destination, she had ran directly into her nightmare and so deep she couldn't get out.
Every way she turned she saw the same thing: trees surrounding a clearing. She half expected the Death Eaters to Apparate with the prisoner while she stood there.
She leaned against the tree she had stopped at and tried to regain her composure. "It's only a nightmare," she whispered to herself.
Title: In the Woods #12 (part 85 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
Severus followed Hermione after giving her a few moments of a head start, and he made sure she couldn't see him as he followed.
He stopped when he saw Hermione. Hermione looked like she was having a panic attack of sorts.
"It's only a nightmare," he vaguely heard Hermione whisper.
For a moment Severus stood there confused, watching his wife lean against a tree, taking deep breaths, and whispering to herself. This was a Hermione he rarely saw. She looked almost fragile and weak. She never allowed herself to look fragile and weak.
"She's scared," Severus whispered his realization aloud.
Title: In the Woods #13 (part 86 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
Severus surveyed the scene looking for what could be the cause of Hermione's fright. No one was around her; nothing was surrounding her but trees. There was no threat.
"It's only a nightmare."
"Oh my God," Severus gasped.
He franticly looked around once again. He saw it. The nightmare. The prisoner in her nightmare was being held in this clearing by the Death Eater. Being killed. This is the exact spot where Hermione had watched her loved ones die over and over again while she was sleeping.
I don't care if it's only a boggart, Severus realized, She's genuinely scared.
Title: In the Woods #14 (part 87 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: out of his comfort zone
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
Severus advanced slowly. He didn't want to scare her more. "Hermione," he whispered when he was still a few feet away from her. It was a disadvantage that her back was to him.
She visibly jumped, but swung around instantly. The look of pure terror on her face pushed aside any residual anger. She pushed away from the tree, and at first he thought she was going to run from him again. Instead, she ran at him.
He allowed her to crash into him and wrapped his arms around her in comfort. "It's okay. It's okay," he tried to soothe.
Title: In the Woods #15 (part 88 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"No," she whispered franticly against his shoulder. "It's not okay." He felt his shoulder start to grow wet as she started to cry. She pulled back to reveal that tears were running down her face and the look of terror was still firmly in place. "He's going to kill them. All of them."
Her words were frantic as well as her eyes. She looked like she was feeling something deeper than terror.
He was surprised, despite how haunting her nightmares had been, she was taking the setting of the nightmare so hard.
"You and I are the only ones here."
Title: In the Woods #16 (part 89 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / out of his comfortable zone
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"No," she unreasonably denied.
"Hermione, look around. You and I are the only ones here."
She shook her head. A sudden calmness overcame her, and she whispered, "Severus, we are not alone."
Severus was shocked. He knew they were alone but the seriousness in her voice was almost a frightening change from her panic stricken actions a moment before. "Hermione," he whispered, pushing stray strands of hair from her face, "What do you mean? We are the only ones."
She shook her head again. The frantic state was coming over her again, and tears began to stream down her face.
Title: In the Woods #17 (part 90 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / out of his comfort zone
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"You aren't dreaming," he tried, "You are not in your nightmare." When all she did was cry, he began to shake her lightly, "Snap out of it!"
Severus was growing more uncomfortable and confused by the moment. Hermione's action did not make sense, nor did her state seem to be normal. Even if she believed she was in her nightmare, this was no way his Hermione would react. Something wasn’t right.
He shook her lightly again and pleaded, "Hermione, please!"
She didn't respond. She just looked at him in horror as she cried.
"Hermione, you are not in your nightmare!"
Title: In the Woods #18 (part 91 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
Hermione could hear Severus pleads. She wanted desperately to respond to him, to reassure him she was fine. But she couldn't control herself. All she felt was an immobilizing fear. She felt as if as every minute passed she was loosing more and more control over her own actions.
"Hermione!" She felt him shaking her.
She forced herself to stop crying, but she couldn’t stop feeling the horror.
"You and I are the only ones here!"
"I know," she whispered.
Title: In the Woods #19 (part 92 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
Severus let go of Hermione. Then quickly he pulled her back in his arms. "Hermione, what happened?"
She looked up at him with genuine fear in her eyes. "I don't know."
He kissed her forehead and let her go. He walked around the clearing, checking everywhere for something amiss.
"Hermione," he turned to her. "Were you under a spell?"
She blinked at him. "Yes... I think I was."
He nodded. "When did the nightmares really start?"
She shrugged. "Months ago."
"Hermione, please, when?"
"I don't know. Months ago," she repeated herself.
He sighed. "Fine. Do you recall if it was before her after our marriage?"
She thought for a moment, "Before."
"Have you ever been in these woods before?"
"Sure."
Title: In the Woods #20 (part 93 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"Well, I mean, other than the nightmare."
"I know. I've been here many times. I basically grew up at the Burrow after fourth year."
"Of course. Of course you did."
"Severus, what are you thinking?"
"There was no boggart."
"I know."
"The nightmares weren't real."
"Whatever you say."
"No, Hermione, they were figments of someone's imagination."
"Don't you dare say mine!"
"Not yours."
"Severus, then who? What are you thinking?"
"I think the answers to your nightmares have been in this clearing the whole damn time."
"Severus, tell me what you are thinking, please. Your cryptic talk is just annoying."
Title: In the Woods #21 (part 94 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"I'm sorry."
"You should be," she muttered.
"No, not for that."
"Then what, you infuriating man?"
"For making you a target indirectly."
"Severus, what are you talking about?"
"People hate me, Hermione."
"I don't. Continue please."
"Other people do." He picked up a small leather pouch for powders from off the ground that seemed to appear out of nowhere.
"What are you suggesting?" Her annoyance was quickly changing into frustration and confusion.
He tossed the pouch to Hermione. "What's in there?"
She opened in it and looked inside. "A fine blue powder." She looked at him questioningly.
"It's dreamweaver powder."
Title: In the Woods #22 (part 95 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
Hermione poured a little amount of the powder onto her hand. It was the perfect color and texture that dreamweaver was supposed to be. She cautiously smelt the powder. The dizzying euphoria that the auroma of dreamweaver was supposed to produce was quicker than expected. She quickly thrust the powder away from her nose and into the pouch.
"So?"
"The cause of your nightmare."
"What?"
"It makes perfect sense."
"Not really."
"Yes, it does. You came here after your talk with Harry and Ron. You didn't see a boggart nor did you see Death Eaters killing someone in this clearing."
Title: In the Woods #23 (part 96 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"Ignoring the flaws in your theory, why me?"
"It probably was meant for me."
"Oh of course! I can be mistaken for you so easily!"
"No need for sarcasm, woman."
"Then make sense."
"I do. If dreamweaver is inhaled directly it's supposed to cause euphoria which makes it easy to place dreams--or nightmares in your case--in someone's subconscious. Basically, when dreamweaver is in your system, you will believe anything. Once it leaves your system you have no memory of what happened."
"I know that! Tell me something I don't know, like what this has to do with me."
Title: In the Woods #24 (part 97 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"You inhaled it. The person came up behind you and made sure it was close enough to you to inhale which you were sure to forget doing. One of the best effects of dreamweaver is when you are exposed to it again, the fabricated dream, memory, or nightmare raises to your conscious and you believe you are there. Like you believed the Death Eaters were here with the two of us. A wizard or witch can overpower dreamweaver though."
"I know."
"You know you inhaled it?"
"No, I know what the effects of dreamweaver do. I wasn't exposed to dreamweaver."
Title: In the Woods #25 (part 98 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"I don't believe you."
"What?"
"You honestly don't remember the experience."
"I would know."
"How?"
"I... I... Severus! What would someone have to gain to exposing me to dreamweaver, to creating a nightmare in my mind?"
"You can think of no one that could gain anything from trying to scare you?"
"Scare me from what exactly?"
"Me."
"WHAT?!"
"Have you ever finished the nightmare, Hermione?"
"No, I don't think so. But you are one of the ones I see dying."
"Even if the nightmare was placed in your subconscious, you can still change it just like you can overpower it."
Title: In the Woods #26 (part 99 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is the last installment of UM. Comments make me happy.
"Finish your nightmare, Hermione. Please prove me right or wrong." He raised his wand and said his spell silently.
She started at him in shock only a moment before she slumped over, fast asleep.
Concentrating as hard has he could, Severus entered his wife's mind again. This time he was thrust into the clearing in her nightmare.
He saw her crouching behind the cluster of trees watching in horror. He turned slowly. It was the same as before.
The Death Eater brought the knife down deliberately. Once it stabbed the prisoner the Death Eater’s mask vanished.
Severus was proven right when he was faced with himself.
Title: In the Woods #27 (part 100 of 'Unchained Melodies')
Words: 100
Challenge: nightmare / exposed
Rating: PG
Characers/Pairings: Snape/Hermione
Warnings: teacher/student
Author's Notes: This is 100/100. The end. The last 100 words. Comments make me happy.
Hermione opened her eyes slowly. "It was you," she accused looking over at Severus.
"No. Well yes. It wasn’t really me."
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why did I dream you killed yourself as well as the others?"
"I'm sure it didn't start out as me as the prisoner with the others. I'm sure that was something you changed. Originally I was only the Death Eater, the murderer."
“But who?”
"I have no guesses."
"Severus, you love to prove yourself right."
"Not this time dear," he said as he gently kissed her forehead. "Let's go home."
A/N That's the end. Obviously, I made up the dreamweaver powder. I hope this makes sense to everyone; it makes sense to me but of course I wrote it. I hope that everyone enjoyed the whole drabble series. I hope that everything was explained. Thanks for reading!
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