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Character: SS/SB
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Bit of violent imagery.
Het, Slash or Gen: Gen.
Description: Snape & Black: a hate story. A drabble, written for [livejournal.com profile] ac1d6urn.

Severus Snape's joy in Black's death was shortlived.

The first day he returned to Grimmauld Place he felt exhilarated. Walking across the threshold gave him a thrill. Even Black's mother couldn't dampen his spirits. He gave Lupin a nasty, triumphant smile and walked into the kitchen.

During the meeting the other members of the Order looked sad. Severus gave his report, detailing the Dark Lord's plans for recovery, rejoicing that Black was not here to frown at him from across the table.

Moody took over next, explaining how they were planning on incarcerating the Death Eaters without Dementors.

That's when he felt it.

The knives were angry. The knives were shaking in the drawer. They hated him, wanted to flay him alive, they wanted to excise his liver and fillet his heart.

Minerva commented that he looked pale, and the feeling faded.

During the next visit the troll's leg muttered nasty bone-breaking curses under its breath.

Then it was the curtains, who wanted to strangle him, stuff his mouth with dust, shred him and rend him.

He dreamed at night that the glasses rose up and crashed over him like a wave, like the deathless wave of the sea, green and shining and suffocating. He dreamed that the stairs were warping and bending and imprisoning him within their knots. He dreamed that the pictures were all blank, emptied of Black, of Lupin, of Potter, that they gleamed and gaped at him, latched onto his robes, pulling, strangling.

In the middle of the night he stole away to Black's grave.

"Stupid bastard," he seethed. "Fine. I'm sorry."

The next meeting he sat quietly. He could just faintly make out the milk-jug, giggling.

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Date: 2007-06-24 06:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nehalenia.livejournal.com
Wow!!! What a clever idea! I love everything in the house ganging up on Severus, and the last line is a killer. Wonderful.

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Date: 2007-06-24 09:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valis2.livejournal.com
Yay! I'm so glad you liked it. This is one of my favorite shorts. I so enjoyed writing it!

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Date: 2007-06-24 07:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sylvadin.livejournal.com
I've always believed that a house can take on its owner's aura...but when that aura manifests...

A giggling milk-jug? LOL! It better be careful else Severus might decide to curdle its contents with a hex.

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Date: 2007-06-24 09:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valis2.livejournal.com
You just know Severus has a long list of curses he can inflict upon that poor little milk-jug...

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