DRABBLE: Drunk (Severus/Barty, Jr.)

[amor-remanet.livejournal.com]

Title: Drunk
Character Pairing: Severus Snape/Barty Crouch, Jr.
Prompt: "sepulcher"
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 204
Summary: "Bella’s been right all along: fully using the Curse, immersing himself in it and tapping into his Power – it’s intoxicating."
Author's Notes: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
Link to Prompt Table: Link!


After the ceremony, Barty forces Severus to stay in the graveyard. “Just for a little air,” he explains. Naturally, Severus acquiesces. How can he not? Barty just withstood hexes, curses, jinxes, and even Bellatrix’s Cruciatus to prove himself worthy and earn the Dark Mark.

He stayed conscious through ten rounds of Bella’s specialty, beating Regulus out by eight. He knocked Rodolphus out in three. It was easy when he remembered Bella’s lessons: you have to feel the Curse to use it properly. Mentally transform the victim, any victim into Father – focus on and know how much pain that man deserves to feel for all he’s ever failed to do, and torturing someone becomes so easy. The Black Family Power.

Bella’s been right all along: fully using the Curse, immersing himself in it and tapping into his Power – it’s intoxicating. It hits harder and faster than any drug, including sex. It’s easily the best that Barty’s ever felt.

“Barty?” Severus inquires at his silence.

In five minutes flat, Barty has him naked, sweating to spite the cold, and screaming for mercy in the holy tones of ecstasy. And the only ones, save the two of them, who hear are, the lot of them, long-since dead.

Comments

[peskywhistpaw.livejournal.com]

I like how you've shown Barty's descent into... darkness, I suppose you could say. It was so gradual, and thus very believable.

[amor-remanet.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! ♥ That, and the initial maneuvering around DH-canon, particularly worried me about writing everything, so it means a lot that you pointed one of them out.