Pairing: HarrySeverus

Prompt: 267. Illegal

Word count: 206

Illegal

It was a battle between heart and mind. They pulled at each other like a game of tug-o-war. Neither side winning, each of determined strength.

The boy reminded him of his mother. His emerald eyes were enough to get his heart beating faster than it should for any student.

And then his mind took over, tugging at his heartstrings with pain. It spoke aggressively, warning him. You cannot do anything.

The cycle would then start over. Knowing he couldn't have the boy, but longing for the boy. His mind responding with force to convince him it was true.

It was like torture, not knowing what way to turn. To follow his heart or his mind.

He would be in serious trouble if he acted, but did that even matter?

As the boy got older, his feelings deepened.

The boy then became an adult, a legal adult. Did that make it right, though?

And so it tortured him for the rest of his life, not knowing what to do. He loved the boy – the man now – but he never acted. It was best for everyone.

He longed, he wanted, he waited. He never acted.

The game of tug-o-war continued. It was wrong, almost illegal.

But he wanted.

This is the beginning of my third instalment to my 1000 prompts I'm writing for the If You Dare Challenge on the HPFC forum. That makes this prompt #201/1000 so still a long way to go.

For those of you who have read the previous two collections, welcome back. For those of you who are new, the previous collections are called 'If You Dare' and 'If You Double Dare'. For this, I accept any and all requests that come to me via PM. I have no qualm if we've never spoken, you've never read something of mine before. I don't care if you feel your request is too strange. I thrive on strange! My only request is that you PM me. That is all. You can request a character, a pairing, a friendship, a group of characters, absolutely anything. I have prompts already to work off, so the characters, etc are enough for me to go with :D For those of you who don't know I've shuffled up all the prompts and use them with he request that lines up with that, so it's an additional challenge, for sometimes it requires out of the box thinking!

I look forward to hearing from everyone throughout this third journey!