"Unanswered Prayers"

“Unanswered Prayers”

AN: This piece, my first in this fandom and this relationship (SS/HG), is a response to a challenge by MissCourtneyC who asked in the Story Wanted forum on this site:

“Topic 9: Having my iTunes on shuffle certainly is a helpful inspiration. At the moment I just thought of a song fic Garth Brooks' 'Unanswered Prayers'

And of course, I am biased. I'd love to see this as ending in Snape/Hermione (or Ginny [I can't really see Severus Snape with anyone but Hermione or Ginny. Any other female else usually gives me the creeps]) with the hint of (obviously) Snape/Lilly since that was who he used to want.”

Albus Dumbledore here is the Richard Harris edition, not Michael Gambon’s interpretation. I needed a different nuance to make the interactions with Snape work. Also - obviously - Snape survives the snake's attack.

No beta on this one - it's happening pretty quickly.

So here’s it is. Comment/Review away.

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“Get Poppy! He’s still alive.”

“Minerva, she’s quite busy —“ Nurse Wainscott pleaded. So many casualties…

“No one deserves her attentions more than this man! Now GO! Have her meet me in the hospital wing. Oh! And bring Ms. Granger; she might be of help.”

With a flick of her wand, Minerva levitated the injured Order of the Phoenix member through the hallways. She transfigured an empty but clean chamber pot into a medical bed and a wilted stand of cut flowers into bedding before laying him tenderly in it.

“Stay with us, Severus. You’ve earned a long life and a quiet rest…”