I Scorn to Change My State With Kings

Ch. 3; Sonnet 10.

The hand kiss prompt for this is:

you’re only semi-lucid and are sort of reaching for my face and for various reasons I shouldn’t kiss YOUR face, but your hand is right here and I still need to convey affection

Warnings for:

• Canon typical violence
• References torture
• Open ended/ambiguous ending.

Snippet below the cut!

Not for the first time, she remembers the letter that landed at her window one night in the sixth year, the owl come and gone before she reached the latch.

You’re not safe here. I can’t do anything to change that.

Hermione, go home. Go be safe.

I Scorn to Change My State with Kings

Chapter 2, Sonnet 14

Prompt

“I was just holding your hand to convey sincerity and you said something I don’t have an immediate answer to, so I’m going to kiss your hand instead.”

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His feet crunch across the frigid fallen leaves, away— away from her— and she acts without thinking. A dart, and she grabs his fisted hand, stopping him in his tracks. Their extended arms are a single bridge across an expanse of wet, frosty peaks of orange, yellow and brown. He glares at the connection, but doesn’t send his steely gaze to meet her eyes.

The line of his shoulders are taut like a tension wire.

“What,Granger?” He spits the words like a curse. “What do you want from me?”