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Recipient:sirmioneforever
Title: The Third Law of Unintended Consequences
Pairing: Rabastan/Hermione
Request/Prompt: Second chances
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 625
Summary: Hermione goes on an assignment for the Ministry that changes her life in ways she could never imagine.
Author's Notes: This turned a bit darker then I intended and I’m sorry if it’s not exactly whatsirmioneforever was looking for.
It begins as an assignment for the Ministry though you tell yourself that being sent back in time twenty years is the opportunity of a lifetime to study living history.
You’re given letters of introduction to Dumbledore in case you need to turn to someone for help. It’s always risky to tamper with the past though everybody knows that Dumbledore can be trusted to protect the timeline. But before you can talk to him, you’re captured by Death Eaters.
Or rather, a Death Eater, one Death Eater in particular, Rabastan Lestrange.
It’s the scariest moment in your life, knowing that he’s going to torture you. He’ll torture you for information, but mostly he’ll torture you for fun.
You command yourself to think, to use logic to find a way out of your predicament but you can’t. There isn’t one.
You’re no stranger to pain or to the Unforgivable Curses. But looking up at him, past his wand, knowing he’s about to kill you, you break.
You break and you tell him everything. Everything you know that in your time is read out of a history book but for him, it hasn’t happened yet.
Completely broken, you tell him about the prophecy, the fall of Voldemort, his resurrection, the Order of the Phoenix, you tell him about Harry and how Snape becomes a spy. You tell him about the final battle and everyone who dies.
And before you know it, the Potters are dead. So are the Longbottoms and Snape and the Weasleys and even your parents. Bitter, broken and full of self-loathing, you try to mourn the dead, you try to cry for them but you can’t.
A hundred days of pain and the death of everything you once stood for have destroyed who you once were.
In your body, a new person is born, who cares only about living, fears dying and will do anything it takes to survive.
For his loyal service, Voldemort gives you to Rabastan do with as he wishes and what he wishes is cruel enough.
He doesn’t wish to torture you. He doesn’t wish to kill you. His only wish is for you to love him and so you do. At first you love him because you fear him and because he spared your life but slowly, over time, it grows until you love him for the man he is, not the evil machination you once thought he was.
As a Lestrange, you spend time with other servants of the Dark Lord. You become an acquaintance of your sister-in-law, Bellatrix and her sister-in-law, Narcissa. You aren’t friends because friendships aren’t encouraged, but you trade on gossip and secrets so you can help your husband maneuver for power.
As a loyal wife, you help Rabastan supplant Lucius Malfoy as the Dark Lord’s most loyal and gifted acolyte. He is rewarded for this and in return, he rewards you. You have fine clothes and servants who bow and scrape and grovel as you enter the room. You’ve totally forgotten about the silly girl you used to be and the foolish ideals you used to preach.
You give him a child and then another to help perpetuate his line. You see your sons off to Hogwarts and you don’t fear for them because you’ve prepared them for the challenges ahead. You are a proud mother when they leave Hogwarts and take the Dark Mark as servants of the Dark Lord. As a muggle born, you were never allowed but your sons make you proud of them in a way you were never proud of yourself.
At night, as you lay in bed with Rabastan, you think back on the life he’s given you and the second chance at life he’s given you.
plaidphoenixRecipient:
sirmioneforeverTitle: The Third Law of Unintended Consequences
Pairing: Rabastan/Hermione
Request/Prompt: Second chances
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 625
Summary: Hermione goes on an assignment for the Ministry that changes her life in ways she could never imagine.
Author's Notes: This turned a bit darker then I intended and I’m sorry if it’s not exactly what
sirmioneforever was looking for.It begins as an assignment for the Ministry though you tell yourself that being sent back in time twenty years is the opportunity of a lifetime to study living history.
You’re given letters of introduction to Dumbledore in case you need to turn to someone for help. It’s always risky to tamper with the past though everybody knows that Dumbledore can be trusted to protect the timeline. But before you can talk to him, you’re captured by Death Eaters.
Or rather, a Death Eater, one Death Eater in particular, Rabastan Lestrange.
It’s the scariest moment in your life, knowing that he’s going to torture you. He’ll torture you for information, but mostly he’ll torture you for fun.
You command yourself to think, to use logic to find a way out of your predicament but you can’t. There isn’t one.
You’re no stranger to pain or to the Unforgivable Curses. But looking up at him, past his wand, knowing he’s about to kill you, you break.
You break and you tell him everything. Everything you know that in your time is read out of a history book but for him, it hasn’t happened yet.
Completely broken, you tell him about the prophecy, the fall of Voldemort, his resurrection, the Order of the Phoenix, you tell him about Harry and how Snape becomes a spy. You tell him about the final battle and everyone who dies.
And before you know it, the Potters are dead. So are the Longbottoms and Snape and the Weasleys and even your parents. Bitter, broken and full of self-loathing, you try to mourn the dead, you try to cry for them but you can’t.
A hundred days of pain and the death of everything you once stood for have destroyed who you once were.
In your body, a new person is born, who cares only about living, fears dying and will do anything it takes to survive.
For his loyal service, Voldemort gives you to Rabastan do with as he wishes and what he wishes is cruel enough.
He doesn’t wish to torture you. He doesn’t wish to kill you. His only wish is for you to love him and so you do. At first you love him because you fear him and because he spared your life but slowly, over time, it grows until you love him for the man he is, not the evil machination you once thought he was.
As a Lestrange, you spend time with other servants of the Dark Lord. You become an acquaintance of your sister-in-law, Bellatrix and her sister-in-law, Narcissa. You aren’t friends because friendships aren’t encouraged, but you trade on gossip and secrets so you can help your husband maneuver for power.
As a loyal wife, you help Rabastan supplant Lucius Malfoy as the Dark Lord’s most loyal and gifted acolyte. He is rewarded for this and in return, he rewards you. You have fine clothes and servants who bow and scrape and grovel as you enter the room. You’ve totally forgotten about the silly girl you used to be and the foolish ideals you used to preach.
You give him a child and then another to help perpetuate his line. You see your sons off to Hogwarts and you don’t fear for them because you’ve prepared them for the challenges ahead. You are a proud mother when they leave Hogwarts and take the Dark Mark as servants of the Dark Lord. As a muggle born, you were never allowed but your sons make you proud of them in a way you were never proud of yourself.
At night, as you lay in bed with Rabastan, you think back on the life he’s given you and the second chance at life he’s given you.
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