Entry tags:

*fic, character: helga hufflepuff, character: salazar slytherin, community: fanfic100, fandom: harry potter, genre: angst, genre: romance, rating: pg, ship: helga/salazar

A Dream is But a Dream
Title: A Dream is But a Dream
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Helga/Salazar
Prompt: 025 - Stranger
Word Count: 249
Rating: PG
Summary: “Helga.” The voice was gruff and almost a hiss.
Author's Notes: Yay! Finally another one!



“Helga.” The voice was gruff and almost a hiss.

Helga paused, smoothing her dress distractedly at the sound. After a moment, her hand flew to her hair, and she began to toy with it, agitated.

“You must listen to me,” the voice insisted.

She turned a half-circle, twigs snapping beneath her boots. “Where are you?” she called into the night.

At first, her query was met only by the hooting of an owl somewhere deeper in the wood.

“You cannot see me,” the voice said at length, strained. “There are dangers… I cannot bear to…”

“Salazar, please don’t do this to me,” Helga whispered.

“You must—”

“I can’t. You’ve been gone for a month, and we—we’ve moved on. I’ve moved on. Everything is finally beginning to resettle into place.”

“Come with me.”

“I can’t. I’ve told you. Hogwarts is where I belong.”

“And my affection for you—is that to be ignored?”

“I hardly know you anymore, Salazar. It’s as if we’ve become strangers.”

“That can be amended—”

She shook her head vigorously. “No, we can’t. We simply can’t. I don’t love you anymore…”

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Helga wakes with a scream lodged in her throat and the dream still vivid in her mind. Her breaths are heavy, and her heart races. For some reason, this dream is more disconcerting than she thinks it should be.

Beside her, Salazar stirs and mumbles something that she cannot discern. Helga smiles; a dream is but a dream, after all.