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Fic: Break a Little, Heal a Lot
Title:Break a Little, Heal a Lot| ao3
Pairing: Poppy/Minerva
Rating:PG-13
Disclaimer:I own nothing and no profit is made.
Word Count:1000
A/N:promptFor the prompt #2'break'
Summery: No one notices Poppy and that is why she can help everyone in that horrible year. That is why she knows things other teachers do not. That is why she can support her lover when no one else can.
Poppy stays at Hogwarts because she is a Healer and knows nothing else. Whether she is at Hogwarts or St Mungos she will see terrible things and Hogwarts often seems like the safer option. The option least likely to break her at least. Plus, the children need her help. Of course, she is not allowed to officially heal them after detentions but no one pays attention to Poppy. No one ever has. Slipping from corridor to corridor and Common Room to Common Room comes easy. Other than that she writes notes about what students can do to help themselves and has Filius, Minerva and Pomona slip them into homework feedback notes and revised timetables. Horace is more careful and can often help the Slytherins that can be trusted himself.
If she left Hogwarts she would become a passive bystander. Working in a shop she would do nothing and therefore it appears as if she approves. At Hogwarts she can help and show the students not to give up. She shows the students that if the new teachers try their best to break them then Poppy will do better to put them back together. When children start hiding in the Room of Requirement Poppy is the only teacher that knows, the only one they trust completely. Minerva is trusted of course but Minerva is also a target. If the Carrows try to break someone's mind it will be hers. No one notices Poppy. That used to bother her. Now it means everything.
What the students never realise is that they are not the only ones subjected to brutality. The teachers are hexed and cursed in staff meetings to keep them in line. Poppy hides at the back and makes sure that when she is in the hospital wing that she is nice to the children she suspects and fluffs their pillows more. Horace makes more potions than she logs and Severus slips more her way after that. It keeps Poppy going. The way Minerva talks at night she knows she does not trust Severus or believe he is on their side. A great risk has been taken to show Poppy that he cares and that trust means a lot. More importantly it gives her hope.
Minerva must always be available for her students so Poppy always goes to her. Sometimes the rooms are empty when she arrives and she can waste so much time looking at pictures and ornaments on shelves and learning a little more every time. Their relationship has lasted a long time but always because while they lived together they were still apart. Corridors and floors divided them and so Minerva could preserve the barriers that make her feel safe. Every year Poppy has chipped a little more away but it is not until they are all but imprisoned that they fall away completely.
She is looking at a photo of Minerva's dead husband when the door shuts behind her and she startles, "Min. There you are. Is everything ok?"
Minerva does not even notice what Poppy is looking at as she staggers across the room while pulling off her hat and outer robes. She slumps into a chair and presses her fingers to her temples. Poppy immediately makes her way over and sits in the chair opposite. " Longbottom has disappeared. He left coded message that makes me think that is he is ok but...another one Pop. I worry about them all."
Guilt floods Poppy's system. She knows where Neville is. She healed his latest bruises before coming to Minerva's chambers. "I'm sure the lad is fine, Min. He has changed so much this year. Grown up so much. Potter helped him there."
"Potter is not here! Maybe if he were this would not be happening! Maybe he could...Instead he is on some blasted task for Albus and frankly Pop...you saw him at the end. I can't believe...I...Merlin knows what crusade he has sent that poor boy on."
"Neville can think for himself. Whatever he has done he has done because he believed in it. We know all the things he did this year. Things got too hot here, as the kids say, and he has got out of harm's way. The old Neville could never have done any of that. Trust him."
"He is just a boy, Pop. They are all just children." She looks far older than she is in that moment and so Poppy gets to her feet and sets about making tea. She wonders if she should tell and if so what. She turns it over in her mind as she swirls the tea pot and levitates mugs over. She takes a risk.
"Min. They are fighting a war that we failed to win the first time but they are smarter than we were. They have resources we did not have and... they will find a way to be safe. Trust me on that, please?"
Her tone is different and her hand takes Minerva's as she says it and that makes the other woman stare. They don't touch unless they are being intimate. Minerva struggles with it and it has never bothered Poppy so Minerva recognises the sign to listen carefully. It takes her a while but she nods eventually. Poppy has said nothing that can be used against either of them because no one else understands how they work. Minerva knows though. She knows Poppy knows they are safe and she trusts her enough to ask nothing more.
"I'm tired, Pop."
"I know, Min. Let's get you ready for bed."
Poppy helps Minerva get ready, her heart breaking the whole time, and ushers her into bed and pulling the older woman into her arms. She ignores the trembles because Minerva would want her to.
When the alarm sounds in the chambers that someone has broken into Ravenclaw Tower Minerva goes ridged. One word escapes her lips before she is throwing off the covers and climbing to her feet with a gasp.
"Potter."
Pairing: Poppy/Minerva
Rating:PG-13
Disclaimer:I own nothing and no profit is made.
Word Count:1000
A/N:promptFor the prompt #2'break'
Summery: No one notices Poppy and that is why she can help everyone in that horrible year. That is why she knows things other teachers do not. That is why she can support her lover when no one else can.
Poppy stays at Hogwarts because she is a Healer and knows nothing else. Whether she is at Hogwarts or St Mungos she will see terrible things and Hogwarts often seems like the safer option. The option least likely to break her at least. Plus, the children need her help. Of course, she is not allowed to officially heal them after detentions but no one pays attention to Poppy. No one ever has. Slipping from corridor to corridor and Common Room to Common Room comes easy. Other than that she writes notes about what students can do to help themselves and has Filius, Minerva and Pomona slip them into homework feedback notes and revised timetables. Horace is more careful and can often help the Slytherins that can be trusted himself.
If she left Hogwarts she would become a passive bystander. Working in a shop she would do nothing and therefore it appears as if she approves. At Hogwarts she can help and show the students not to give up. She shows the students that if the new teachers try their best to break them then Poppy will do better to put them back together. When children start hiding in the Room of Requirement Poppy is the only teacher that knows, the only one they trust completely. Minerva is trusted of course but Minerva is also a target. If the Carrows try to break someone's mind it will be hers. No one notices Poppy. That used to bother her. Now it means everything.
What the students never realise is that they are not the only ones subjected to brutality. The teachers are hexed and cursed in staff meetings to keep them in line. Poppy hides at the back and makes sure that when she is in the hospital wing that she is nice to the children she suspects and fluffs their pillows more. Horace makes more potions than she logs and Severus slips more her way after that. It keeps Poppy going. The way Minerva talks at night she knows she does not trust Severus or believe he is on their side. A great risk has been taken to show Poppy that he cares and that trust means a lot. More importantly it gives her hope.
Minerva must always be available for her students so Poppy always goes to her. Sometimes the rooms are empty when she arrives and she can waste so much time looking at pictures and ornaments on shelves and learning a little more every time. Their relationship has lasted a long time but always because while they lived together they were still apart. Corridors and floors divided them and so Minerva could preserve the barriers that make her feel safe. Every year Poppy has chipped a little more away but it is not until they are all but imprisoned that they fall away completely.
She is looking at a photo of Minerva's dead husband when the door shuts behind her and she startles, "Min. There you are. Is everything ok?"
Minerva does not even notice what Poppy is looking at as she staggers across the room while pulling off her hat and outer robes. She slumps into a chair and presses her fingers to her temples. Poppy immediately makes her way over and sits in the chair opposite. " Longbottom has disappeared. He left coded message that makes me think that is he is ok but...another one Pop. I worry about them all."
Guilt floods Poppy's system. She knows where Neville is. She healed his latest bruises before coming to Minerva's chambers. "I'm sure the lad is fine, Min. He has changed so much this year. Grown up so much. Potter helped him there."
"Potter is not here! Maybe if he were this would not be happening! Maybe he could...Instead he is on some blasted task for Albus and frankly Pop...you saw him at the end. I can't believe...I...Merlin knows what crusade he has sent that poor boy on."
"Neville can think for himself. Whatever he has done he has done because he believed in it. We know all the things he did this year. Things got too hot here, as the kids say, and he has got out of harm's way. The old Neville could never have done any of that. Trust him."
"He is just a boy, Pop. They are all just children." She looks far older than she is in that moment and so Poppy gets to her feet and sets about making tea. She wonders if she should tell and if so what. She turns it over in her mind as she swirls the tea pot and levitates mugs over. She takes a risk.
"Min. They are fighting a war that we failed to win the first time but they are smarter than we were. They have resources we did not have and... they will find a way to be safe. Trust me on that, please?"
Her tone is different and her hand takes Minerva's as she says it and that makes the other woman stare. They don't touch unless they are being intimate. Minerva struggles with it and it has never bothered Poppy so Minerva recognises the sign to listen carefully. It takes her a while but she nods eventually. Poppy has said nothing that can be used against either of them because no one else understands how they work. Minerva knows though. She knows Poppy knows they are safe and she trusts her enough to ask nothing more.
"I'm tired, Pop."
"I know, Min. Let's get you ready for bed."
Poppy helps Minerva get ready, her heart breaking the whole time, and ushers her into bed and pulling the older woman into her arms. She ignores the trembles because Minerva would want her to.
When the alarm sounds in the chambers that someone has broken into Ravenclaw Tower Minerva goes ridged. One word escapes her lips before she is throwing off the covers and climbing to her feet with a gasp.
"Potter."