FICLET: Injurious (Severus/Barty, Jr.)
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rarepair_shortsTitle: Injurious
Character Pairing: Severus Snape/Barty Crouch, Jr.
Prompt: "obsequious"
Rating: PG
Word Count: 440
Summary: "'So you see, He is alive. And the Longbottoms know how to bring him back...'"
Author's Notes: Here we have part 13 of 13! :D Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.
Link to Prompt Table: Link!
The disgust clearly written on her face, Bellatrix pulls Barty into the Longbottoms’ kitchen by his hand, unceremoniously flings him into the wall. He winces. He hates wincing, and knows that he shouldn’t wince. Bellatrix doesn’t need to speak to show that she also knows this. Here it is, the darker side of beauty. Her sneer distorts her handsome features, and rage makes her skin paler, oddly enough. She hates what Barty’s presently showing her, this sudden inability to perform the Curse that she herself spent time teaching him. This just depresses him.
“It won’t come,” he explains faithlessly. “It just… won’t – and we’ve been at it with them for two hours. They still haven’t said anything – they might not know-”
“They know where our Master is,” Bellatrix snaps. “And you’re beginning to sound like Severus did just before he left – and like Regulus did before he disappeared. Having second doubts about your Master, to whom you swore eternal loyalty?”
“No!” She would have to bring up Severus, the discussion of who still fills Barty’s voice and eyes with manic, desperate urgency. Though he tries to subdue it, he knows that it comes out.
Bellatrix knows as well, and it softens her features into a smile. One of her hands and its spider-leg fingers make their way around his shoulder. She squeezes gently.
“Severus hurt you, didn’t he? That whelp – he injured you and betrayed Our Lord.”
“Yes,” Barty hisses. If anything, Severus’s betrayal was the worst thing he’d ever done. He hadn’t named names, but he’d still gone running for Albus Dumbledore when things had gotten the least bit dangerous.
“He deserves to suffer, does he not?”
“Of course. More than anyone else.” What he did was worse than what Father never did.
“And he’ll be yours for the breaking, once Our Lord returns.”
“But Harry Potter-”
“Impertinent! As though a child could fully destroy Our Lord! He is hardly defeated, Barty; as his most faithful, I can still feel His Presence. Can you feel It?”
Barty nods. Now that he stops to think, he can feel It. It’s not as strong as he remembers, but they can fix that, can’t they?
“So you see, He is alive. And the Longbottoms know how to bring him back; they just need persuading. You can do that can’t you?”
She squeezes his shoulder again, and, again, he nods, letting a devilish smile curl on his lips. As usual, she’s entirely right. They’ll bring their Lord back tonight, and return to instating His Rule in Wizarding Britain.
And, if he’s lucky, Severus will only get what the Longbottoms have coming to them.
Character Pairing: Severus Snape/Barty Crouch, Jr.
Prompt: "obsequious"
Rating: PG
Word Count: 440
Summary: "'So you see, He is alive. And the Longbottoms know how to bring him back...'"
Author's Notes: Here we have part 13 of 13! :D Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.
Link to Prompt Table: Link!
The disgust clearly written on her face, Bellatrix pulls Barty into the Longbottoms’ kitchen by his hand, unceremoniously flings him into the wall. He winces. He hates wincing, and knows that he shouldn’t wince. Bellatrix doesn’t need to speak to show that she also knows this. Here it is, the darker side of beauty. Her sneer distorts her handsome features, and rage makes her skin paler, oddly enough. She hates what Barty’s presently showing her, this sudden inability to perform the Curse that she herself spent time teaching him. This just depresses him.
“It won’t come,” he explains faithlessly. “It just… won’t – and we’ve been at it with them for two hours. They still haven’t said anything – they might not know-”
“They know where our Master is,” Bellatrix snaps. “And you’re beginning to sound like Severus did just before he left – and like Regulus did before he disappeared. Having second doubts about your Master, to whom you swore eternal loyalty?”
“No!” She would have to bring up Severus, the discussion of who still fills Barty’s voice and eyes with manic, desperate urgency. Though he tries to subdue it, he knows that it comes out.
Bellatrix knows as well, and it softens her features into a smile. One of her hands and its spider-leg fingers make their way around his shoulder. She squeezes gently.
“Severus hurt you, didn’t he? That whelp – he injured you and betrayed Our Lord.”
“Yes,” Barty hisses. If anything, Severus’s betrayal was the worst thing he’d ever done. He hadn’t named names, but he’d still gone running for Albus Dumbledore when things had gotten the least bit dangerous.
“He deserves to suffer, does he not?”
“Of course. More than anyone else.” What he did was worse than what Father never did.
“And he’ll be yours for the breaking, once Our Lord returns.”
“But Harry Potter-”
“Impertinent! As though a child could fully destroy Our Lord! He is hardly defeated, Barty; as his most faithful, I can still feel His Presence. Can you feel It?”
Barty nods. Now that he stops to think, he can feel It. It’s not as strong as he remembers, but they can fix that, can’t they?
“So you see, He is alive. And the Longbottoms know how to bring him back; they just need persuading. You can do that can’t you?”
She squeezes his shoulder again, and, again, he nods, letting a devilish smile curl on his lips. As usual, she’s entirely right. They’ll bring their Lord back tonight, and return to instating His Rule in Wizarding Britain.
And, if he’s lucky, Severus will only get what the Longbottoms have coming to them.
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