Skuld: making your mind up

A dark shadow slipped across the moonlit grounds of
Hogwarts, gliding up to the walls it momentarily paused then with a slight fizz
slipped though the stone.

 Drifting down the
empty halls the shape reached the dungeon doors to Professor Severus Snape’s private
rooms. Inside it was 3am and Snape was sleeping
fitfully as ever. Curled tightly into the foetus position beneath the covers he
was unaware of the shadow creeping slowly towards the bed, and settling over
his pale form.

Suddenly he turned and the darkness covered him, invading
his so far dreamless sleep.

He was standing in a
forest clearing, the light was an evening grey, early mist hugging the lower
trunks of the twisted old trees, and fallen leaves carpeted the floor.

He looked around, what
was this place? What was the purpose of this dream?

A breeze then began to
stir up the leaves, whipping them around his legs,

“Severus....Severus....”
The air seemed to be whispering playfully style='mso-spacerun:yes'> into his ear.

“Who is there?”

“Sit with me Severus…”
again a teasing airy voice came at his ear.

“I will ask again, who
is there?”

“I will not tell… sit
with me a while, no harm can come to you here, I promise…..”

“Very well, as you
wish” he said sitting against the roots of a particularly large oak.

The leaves continued
to eddy around and the breeze seemed to laugh softly. As the cool air swept
around him it began to feel like many pairs of hands were lightly stroking
across his shoulders, smoothing down his arms then again up and lightly at his
temples.

“What is going on here,
what do you want?”

“Why should I want
anything? Is this unpleasant?” the airy voice whispered now sounding closer as
if someone were kneeling behind him.

There zephyrs’
invisible hands began to stroke up now from his boots, slowly trailing up his
long legs,  firmly caressing his thighs.
As this invisible touch continued its journey upwards to reach is groin Severus
found that he was already becoming aroused, the growing bulge in his trousers
causing him to become flushed.

He quickly stood and moved
quickly away from the tree.

“Really, whatever you
are, I am not a boy you will not get round me with such tactics”

The breeze whipped
around faster stirring the leaves higher in the clearing,

“Really…that is a
shame” the voice laughed softly, “it will not be long and we shall see”

With that a huge stir
of leaves was blown up into the air in front of his face, and he fell back.

Jerking awake he quickly jolted upright in bed, looking
around the room, too slowly to see the shadow disappear under the door and away
into the early morning light.