Round V of Ficlette Fiasco II -- one Inevitable ficlette

[mhalachai]

A Harry/Micah ficlette for the Ficlette Fiasco II. (master list found here)

Title: Quiet
Characters: Harry, Micah, Anita
Disclaimer: All Anita Blake characters belong to Laurell K. Hamilton. All Harry Potter characters belong to J.K. Rowling. I am only borrowing them for a short while and am receiving nothing.
Author's Note: For empathic_siren. A stream of consciousness set in the Inevitable universe, as one confused teenager hears things he wishes he couldn't. Set about a week after the last published chapter of Inevitable

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Hermione once told me that you can learn more from your enemies than from your friends.

I don't know if she's right; I don't think Malfoy has anything to teach me, but maybe she meant that people who don't like you can teach you things. I think that's what's happening with Micah.

He's not glaring at me anymore, which is a start. Anita's been taking me to work with her a bit, so we're spending some time together, but Micah doesn't mind that. But I saw him looking at Anita tonight as we drove up to the house, and it reminded me of how Ron used to look at Hermione. Like he didn't believe she was his.

Micah was more touchy than usual. At dinner, he kept touching Anita's hand, or face. I don't know if she noticed it or not; some days I'm not sure what she notices. But I'd just been getting into bed, when I heard them. They must have left their door open, so the silencing charm on their room wasn't working, but I could hear everything they were saying, or rather, what they weren't saying.

It's not possible to sleep when they're doing that, that's why I asked Anita if I could put a charm between her room and mine in the first place. I stared up at the ceiling, listening to Anita being enthusiastic as usual, and I wondered if Micah left the door open on purpose.

I'm not a total idiot, contrary to a lot of people's assumptions back home. I know that no matter what I might wish for, Anita's never going to notice a kid like me. Micah knows this, he has to.

I cast a silencing charm on my own room, and the noise mercifully stopped. It took me a while to fall asleep, though.

Micah's shown me a lot, like how to handle crazy lycanthropes, and stuff that I can't put into words about what's happening to me. But under it all, I have this feeling like he's only putting up with me because Anita wants me there. I don't know if he sees the way she looks at him sometimes, with a whole bunch of emotions that just make me uncomfortable, mostly because I can't begin to understand what she's thinking.

I wonder if anyone will ever look at me like that.

Comments

[catherinecookmn.livejournal.com]

Heh. Now I've a mind to write Micah/McGonagall. ("Heeeere, pussy pussy pussy...")