“Don’t marry him”
@sapphicmicrofics
Pairing: Pandora Lovegood/Emmeline Vance
Wordcount: 296
Pinning the cloth is wizard slang for getting married, I saw it in a post last year and decided to steal it.
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It was the night before her wedding, and Pandora De Montmorency(Soon to be Lovegood) was sitting inside her dark kitchen, drinking chamomile tea. The waxing moon shone from outside the window above the sink.
She heard soft footsteps behind her, and looked over her shoulder.
Emmeline was padding toward her.
Pandora sipped her tea, whilst Emmeline clambered onto a chair.
“Pandora—I, it’s really the big day tomorrow, isn’t it?” Said Emmeline.
“Yes, Emmeline. I’d have thought you’d remembered, seeing as it’s been the only thing on your mind for months,” replied Pandora.
“Pandora, I’m just worried, for us, what’s going to happen after you pin the cloth to that lunatic?” Whispered Emmeline, placing a tentative kiss on Pandora’s forehead.
Pandora looked away.
“Nothing’s going to happen to us, it’s not that uncommon for purebloods to have lovers outside of their marriages, no one would care. And that ‘lunatic’ is still my friend, even if I’d rather not marry him,” said Pandora, getting up to leave.
Emmeline grabbed her hand.
“Pandora, please—don’t marry him, I couldn’t live with it—” Pandora jerked her hand away from Emmeline before she could finish her sentence, and ran down to her potions laboratory.
She rested her arm against the wall, and took in several breaths.
She would continue working on her potion until her mother and bridesmaids came, she had to finish as soon as possible. Fertility issues didn’t run in her family, so she would likely be pregnant soon, and she couldn’t pass her affiliation to her child. She’d hate herself if she did.
Slivers of moonlight danced on the floor, coming through from a small window on the east facing wall.
Pandora braced herself for the long day ahead, and then opened her potions cabinet, and got to work.