FICLET: Of Devils and Darwin (Severus/Barty, Jr.)

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Title: Of Devils and Darwin
Character Pairing: Severus Snape/Barty Crouch, Jr.
Prompt: "tar and feathers"
Rating: R
Word Count: 237
Summary: "Still, it’s transfixing what an Unforgivable Curse and a few murmurs of 'Incendio' can do."
Author's Notes: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.
Link to Prompt Table: Link!


Green light illuminates the night, far overshadowing the blazing fire beneath it. The screams from within, though, are more beautiful than Barty has words in him to describe. That poor woman almost looked like Mum. They could’ve been twins if she hadn’t been a Blood Traitor, and were her face not so easily replaced by that of Mudblood Bitch, Lily Evans. Even now, ages after she broke Severus’s tender heart, Barty finds her very much a convenient mental target for the Cruciatus. He still hates her and his Power still intends to see her suffer. It’s only barely satisfied by transforming victims into her.

Still, it’s transfixing what an Unforgivable Curse and a few murmurs of “Incendio” can do. Barty isn’t even aware of time, or danger, until Severus pulls him by his robes and Apparates him home.

The violence of the evening is still coursing fresh in his veins as he drags Severus back into the bedroom; it surges as he yanks off Severus’s clothes, and then his own, then throws him onto the bed. Without the fairness of a warning, Barty pounces and lays bestial claim to Severus’s mouth, taking in the taste of saliva and his pre-attack firewhisky, the beautiful, sick, addicting taste that’s so necessary for Barty’s very survival.

Then he draws first blood for tonight and, feeling it run, hot and slick, into his mouth, he knows at last that he’s alive.