Fic: Invisibility (1/1)
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fiery_flamingoTitle: Invisibility
Characters: Millicent Bulstrode, Neville Longbottom
Words: 377
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Author's Note: I'm an almost winnar! Second place at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sortinghatdrabs. I tied with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
leigh_adams, who is avoiding our cage match to determine a proper winner.
Millicent’s greatest wish is to be invisible. It’s a skill that she works on all her life; fading into the background, making her frame seem less than it is. Often, she succeeds, quietly entering and exiting without disturbing a soul--enough practice can make even small elephants step as lightly as ballerinas.
But she knows she can't attribute this only to her skill. She's resigned herself to the truth that she is highly visible. She’s too tall, too blunt, just all in all too much. And as much as she'd rather people not see her, she knows that others want to not see her more.
She's no pixie, after all.
Invisibility is a team effort.
And so she ghosts her way through existence, lashing out whenever the illusion is broken to ensure that she remains comfortably unseen and miserably ignored.
That is until she's paired with pudgy, clumsy Gryffindor Longbottom in Care of Magical Creatures.
She ignores him, mostly, and focuses on their assignment. When she does speak its only to direct him or rebuke him for stupidly mistreating a creature, her tone sharp and menacing.
Millicent plays her part, assuming he'll follow along and so she misses his eyes on her as she gently cares for crups and gladly scatters gold for nifflers.
His quiet insistence on remaining her partner for the term is baffling but also a relief. Millicent hates having to find new partners for anything and Longbottom always follows her directions.
She also never notices when their hands brush trying to catch a clabbert that his ears turn red.
She does notice the care that he puts into whatever she directs him to do. And she certainly notices the plants he smuggles from the greenhouses for the sickly creatures Hagrid keeps near his hut, helping to cure what ails them.
Millicent begins to think that Neville may not be so bad--for a Gryffindor.
Its not until his stuttered offer of fresh catnip for her cat is mixed up with a Hogsmeade date offer that Millicent realizes something has gone wrong, that her skills seems to have failed her. But that doesn't seem like such a bad thing when it comes to Neville.
She's unaware that her invisibility slips when she smiles.
Characters: Millicent Bulstrode, Neville Longbottom
Words: 377
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Author's Note: I'm an almost winnar! Second place at
sortinghatdrabs. I tied with leigh_adams, who is avoiding our cage match to determine a proper winner.Millicent’s greatest wish is to be invisible. It’s a skill that she works on all her life; fading into the background, making her frame seem less than it is. Often, she succeeds, quietly entering and exiting without disturbing a soul--enough practice can make even small elephants step as lightly as ballerinas.
But she knows she can't attribute this only to her skill. She's resigned herself to the truth that she is highly visible. She’s too tall, too blunt, just all in all too much. And as much as she'd rather people not see her, she knows that others want to not see her more.
She's no pixie, after all.
Invisibility is a team effort.
And so she ghosts her way through existence, lashing out whenever the illusion is broken to ensure that she remains comfortably unseen and miserably ignored.
That is until she's paired with pudgy, clumsy Gryffindor Longbottom in Care of Magical Creatures.
She ignores him, mostly, and focuses on their assignment. When she does speak its only to direct him or rebuke him for stupidly mistreating a creature, her tone sharp and menacing.
Millicent plays her part, assuming he'll follow along and so she misses his eyes on her as she gently cares for crups and gladly scatters gold for nifflers.
His quiet insistence on remaining her partner for the term is baffling but also a relief. Millicent hates having to find new partners for anything and Longbottom always follows her directions.
She also never notices when their hands brush trying to catch a clabbert that his ears turn red.
She does notice the care that he puts into whatever she directs him to do. And she certainly notices the plants he smuggles from the greenhouses for the sickly creatures Hagrid keeps near his hut, helping to cure what ails them.
Millicent begins to think that Neville may not be so bad--for a Gryffindor.
Its not until his stuttered offer of fresh catnip for her cat is mixed up with a Hogsmeade date offer that Millicent realizes something has gone wrong, that her skills seems to have failed her. But that doesn't seem like such a bad thing when it comes to Neville.
She's unaware that her invisibility slips when she smiles.
