Hemlock

[cruisedirector]

Title: Conium Immaculatum
Author: cruisedirector
Word Count: 100
Challenge: #2, Promises
Note: This is probably cheating for the challenge as it hooks into a series I wrote, but it insisted upon being written anyway, so I figured I'd post it. The series is here and is quite NC17.

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"You're smiling, Lupin."

"Has the Ministry passed an edict against smiling?"

"I merely wondered why, since you were looking at me."

"Oh. I suppose I was."

"Well? What's so amusing?"

"I was thinking...hemlock."

"'Hemlock.'"

"That's right. Hemlock, Severus."

"I see."

"Do you?"

"I suppose I should have said 'I hear.' Or 'I understand.'"

"Do you promise?"

"I do."

"But do you concur?"

"...hemlock."

"As in, stop?"

"As in, hemlock."

"Are you only repeating it because I said it?"

"When have I ever repeated anything just because you said it?"

"An excellent point, love. That is, hemlock."

"You're still smiling."