rarepair_shorts | FICLET: Please (Severus/Barty, Jr.)

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Title: Please
Character Pairing: Severus Snape/Barty Crouch, Jr.
Prompt: "nevermore, nevermore"
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 421
Summary: "Thank Merlin someone can save him from what he wants to do."
Author's Notes: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
Link to Prompt Table: Link!

Being that November is peak cold season, the Hospital Wing’s hardly been empty, but Barty has never felt more alone. Other students have been running in and out all day, and Pomfrey’s been bustling about, everywhere and back, but the one figure that matters remains inert. Severus hasn’t even rolled onto his side.

Slughorn told all the Prefects this morning what had happened, or something rather like it. Apparently, someone tricked Severus into a near-death experience; of the lot, only Barty knows that it was Sirius Black. He doesn’t know all the facts of the case, of course, but he heard Black bragging to Potter and Pettigrew that he’d “set up something good for Snivellus.” Damn the luck that Barty hadn’t found Severus and warned him sooner, and it wasn’t for lack of trying.

And damn Horace Slughorn for defending Black to Dumbledore, which is about the only sodding reason that pillock isn’t expelled yet. Damn Slughorn, and damn Dumbledore for being so soft on an attempted murderer, just because he ran away from home and proved incontrovertibly that he’s too weak to really be a Black. Damn Black the worst of all, for not only formulating something meant to kill Severus (whatever it had been), but also for laughing about it and daring to show his sodding face at Hogwarts.

And what a face it is, too. Haughty, handsome – the traditional good looks in his family (their family, as Bellatrix’s letters remind Barty constantly, though the looks passed Barty over in favor of his looking just like Mum). What Barty wouldn’t give to see that fucking face bloody, broken, and covered in filth, just as Black so often leaves those that he dislikes. Given half a chance, Barty would break the pillock’s Patrician nose with his bare hands. Beyond that, even, he’d shove the shattered bones back, and down, and hope to a god he doesn’t believe in that they’d obstruct that Blood Traitor’s airways.

While he choked, Barty’d knock him over, pin him down, and throttle him. Suffocate him by force of hands on throat until his eyes popped out. Though he knows he’s still in the Wing, Barty can see this happening before in the first dream to not occur at night. If Severus doesn’t wake up, there’s no telling what could happen. He has to wake up. He’s the only thing…

A groan comes from below. Barty looks down to see Severus’s eyes flitting open.

Thank Merlin someone can save him from what he wants to do.