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prayer_at_night (prayer_at_night) wrote,
@ 2009-08-13 22:51:00

Current location:	my bedroom
Current mood:	cheerful
Current music:	Conversations with my 13 year old self - P!nk
Entry tags:	drabble, gen, snape100

An Entertaining Pastime - Dark!Snape drabble
Title: An Entertaining Pastime
Word Count: 100
Characters: Severus, Lucius, Bella, random muggles (Gen)
Warnings: Dark!Snape (debatable whether he's younger than 20 or so, what'd make it Canon, or older (second Voldemort war), which would make it kinda AU... or he's just acting, you decide.^^), mentioning of a corpse, implied torture and murder, general creepiness^.~
Challenge: #294 Snape and Games of Chance
A/N: Many thanks to my dear red_day_dawning for beta reading and first feedback.
I really tried to write happy Drapery smex for this challenge, but... this just wanted to be written, ya know?^.~

“What do you think, Severus?” Lucius breathed with amusement. “Who will break first?”

Severus ripped his eyes from the red-haired woman’s lifeless body to study the terrified children at Bella’s feet.

“The boy,” he whispered back.

Lucius snorted. “The girl is only five, surely she will-”

“She’s a fighter,” Severus interrupted, looking into her huge green eyes. “She won’t lose hope until her brother is destroyed.”

Lucius’ chuckled disbelievingly. “The usual wager?”

Severus smirked. “You’ll lose.”

~

Indignant, Lucius stalked past Severus, tossing a Sickle over his shoulder.

Severus caught it and slid it into his pocket, smiling darkly.

He’d been right.

This is pretty random, but could someone tell me the code thingy to write something that's scratched out, please? Like < i > (without the space characters) makes things appear in italics, you know?
That would be really nice! Thank you!
Thank you, Red! *smooches*

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	red_day_dawning 2009-08-13 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	Oooh, so creepy. And is he acting out a role, or has he become that role? P.S. What you want is the ~~strike~~ coding. To do it, place [strike] in front of the word, and [/strike] after the word, but with pointy angle brackets not square ones. (Reply to this) (Thread)

prayer_at_night
2009-08-14 05:45 pm UTC (link)

And is he acting out a role, or has he become that role? *shudders* Now that's a good question, and one that's keeps reappearing when you deal with Snape, doesn't it? Be it his role as evil Potions Master who hates every Gryffindor and Potter most of all, or his role as loyal Death Eater who spies on Dumbledore... does he even remembers "himself" under all the roles he plays (and he plays them well; has to, actually. Had he given Voldemort reason to seriously doubt him he would have died much sooner.)
Oh hell, that's something I could muse about for ever.^^°

Anyway: Thank you!:-* Both for the comment and the ~~code thingy~~.^^

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	torino10154 2009-08-13 11:57 pm UTC (link)
	Bloody hell. shudders You should cross-post this to darkprincesnape. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	prayer_at_night 2009-08-14 05:47 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, good idea! I'll do that.^^ And thank you!:-* (Yay! I made you shudder!^___^) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	obnoxiousbrat 2009-08-14 05:12 am UTC (link)
	I read this a couple of times over. It is so good, dark and terrible but a wonderful read. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	prayer_at_night 2009-08-14 05:48 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you very much! I'm glad you like it so well.^^ (Reply to this) (Parent)