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Harry Potter › Slash - Male/Male
Rating:
Adult ++
Chapters:
18
Views:
18,710
Reviews:
68
Recommended:
1
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I do not own Harry Potter, nor any of the characters from the books or movies. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
The bet
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Chapter 03 – The Bet
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Snape shivered, he always hated to see people he knew be tortured and killed. Trelaway, although he never had much contact with the woman, was someone he knew. Snape cursed again for having to be at this meeting tonight.
Lord Voldemort released Trelaway’s face and she fell again, too weak to hold herself. Whatever spell the Dark Lord had cast on her seemed to have take a lot of her energy and strength way. Bellatrix came swiftly to her master’s side and tried to snatch his attention from the other witch.
“Snape” Called the Dark Lord and Snape hurried to bow in front of him.
“Apparently the old fool had her drugged for quite some time, her memories are a mess. I want you to find out what he gave to her and take the necessary counter measures to assure I have free access to everything she knows”
“Yes, my lord” “yes, that’s exactly the opportunity I need to find out what Dumbledore has been up to with her and perhaps even get her out of here depending on what I find”
Snape begun to work with haste, knowing that his findings would only remain safe for a short amount of time before the Dark Lord demanded a report. If he wanted to find out something that he could use, he better be fast.
Running a few tests on Trelaway, Snape soon discovered a trace of a hallucinogen substance.
“that’s odd” he though “why would Dumbledore keep her drugged?”
Approaching Trelaway to collect a new sample of blood Snape was surprised to hear her voice clear and calm.
“You never saw it coming”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Me, Dumbledore, the drug you just found in my blood... you never saw it coming. That’s why it bothers you so much, you are a spy, you see things coming a mile way but you missed this one and now you don’t know where you stand anymore, your shining leader has done something you wield as wrong and the side of the light doesn’t do ‘wrong’”. She said matter-of-factly.
Snapes looks around quickly, making sure no one heard her say Dumbledore was his ‘leader’.
“Blasted woman, keep quiet, you are going to get me... us killed”
Trelaway just laughed, making Snape wonder if she was any less crazy that he always though she was.
“Don’t worry, dear Severus, I see many years ahead of you. I see happiness too. Family, friends, recognition... all the things you never though you would get, they are all waiting for you.”
“One of your ‘visions’, I presume.” Said Snape, disdain dripping from his mouth. “Although I though death omens were you favourite”.
Trelaway just laughed again.
“No, not mine, his” her eyes began to shine with a barely controlled rage “he kept me as his faithful dog. A pet monkey trained to vomit faux prophecies and ridiculous warnings. It was actually quite a refreshing surprise to be out of his grip”.
“Listen to me very carefully, you are delusional. It’s only the side effect of the spells. You will fell better once we return...”
“No, Snape. I’m not, you are the one who is mistaken... and I can prove it to you” Said Trelaway holding his hand with a stronger grip than Snape had giving her credit for.
“Let go of me”
“Your password is ‘blood heritage’, your favourite potion is the sleeping draught, because of the faces that people do when they take it...”
“You could easily find out any of those things at Hogwarts...”
“... and you have loved and you have lost” she added as if he never had spoken.
“She left me” he said painfully.
“She was taken from you. You saw it happen, but he took the memory from you...” Snape could not believe Trelaway’s words “there is much more I can tell you on this matter. You see, legitimens is the spell that mimics, very poorly I might add, part of the seer’s gift. We can see the past and the future, yes, but we also can see peoples minds, I know your mind better than you, Severus, and I have a proposition to make. Care to hear me out?”
“Why should I not just kill you right know?”
“Because I can tell you everything Dumbledore has hidden from you... and believe when I say this, it’s quite a lot” Trelaway said rising to her feet and looking him strait in to his eyes.
“I have no reason to believe you, or trust you, for that matter... and even if you do know something, unlikely as it may be, why tell me? What is there for you to gain with this attitude?”
“Think, Severus, Think” Said Trelaway walking around Snape, she was starting to look like a predator, which was very out of character for her, who as always the clumsy thick glassed fraud of a teacher who pretended to be good at teaching divination to the children.
“I just woke up at the Dark Lord’s feet after a 20 year slumber. I was heavily drugged by a man a regarded with respect, he destroyed my life, my reputation, everything... and even worse, he messed with my prophecies. Those are sacred to me.”
“You claim he destroyed your life and yet say that messing with some...” Snape quickly chose a better word when he saw the look in her eyes. You don’t hang around Bellatrix for as long as he had without realising that is a suicide to go against a woman looking at you like that. “prophecy, was the worse thing he did?”
“A seer is connected to the flux of time and the destiny of men. To tamper with a prophecy is to tamper with the very meaning of a seer’s life. It is to degrade her. You change what was said and you mess with the destinies of all of those involved. You set their destinies stray. You disrupt magic itself.”
“Yes, I can see how that would be a problem” Snape said with a smirk.
“You still don’t believe me” it was not a question. “allow me to prove it to you”
“why?”
“Because I can, because I will take my revenge on Dumbledore though you and though others”
“Uh-oh, this does not sound good”
“Don’t be afraid” Trelaway sensed his fears and made sure to put him at easy “my revenge will be sweet, for you and the others, that is, I’m afraid Dumbledore will be quite mad, but he will never know it was me...” she added with a sweet smile on her face.
“And how is that?”
“Well, Dumbledore got in the way of a lot of people’s lives. He took away happiness not only from you but from many others, as well as he delivered happiness to those who were not meant to have it in the first place. He decided to play god and used my prophecies to do so. Well, that only makes it fair game for me to give destiny a push from the other side and, who knows, maybe it will flow back in to its natural course”.
“You are not convincing me”
“And how about this. I’ll tell you where the prove is. All you have to do is go to the school and get it.... if what you find there is not enough to convince you, I will follow you wherever you want me to, but if it is enough, than you will have to you bow before me in from of all the Dark Lord’s followers and publicly apologise for ever doubting my abilities”
“It’s a bet then?”
“Oh, yes. And just for good measure I’ll give you my word as a witch that I’ll not let anyone know your secrets”
“You give me your word as a witch? Just like that? No strings attached?”
“None what so ever”
Snape carefully weighed his options. She was not likely to come with him, even if he could get her out of there. Her word as a witch bounded her to his secrets, not that it would stop Voldemort, but it was insurance.
“Still... why?”
“You are one of those whose happiness has been stolen, by making you happy now I get to foil Dumbledore’s schemes and bring your destiny to a path closer of the one it should have taken. Everybody wins. Destiny is corrected, I get revenge and you get back something that was stolen from you”
“I see”
“No, you don’t. That will take some time. Right now all I ask are a few hours of your time, enough to go back to the school grounds, get the evidence and come back... and also, I need a promise.
“A promise?”
“Don’t take revenge in your hands just yet”
“Hum?”
“When you find what I’m sending you to get. When you see what it is and realise what I’m saying. Don’t take revenge in to your own hands. Came back and I promise you will not regret, It will only make your revenge even more complete. Do I have your word as a wizard?”
“She seems dead serious about this. Either she is very mad and I am doomed or she is the real thing and Merlin have mercy on those upon she exacts her revenge”
“You have my word. Now tell me where in Hogwarts do I have to go”
Chapter 03 – The Bet
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Snape shivered, he always hated to see people he knew be tortured and killed. Trelaway, although he never had much contact with the woman, was someone he knew. Snape cursed again for having to be at this meeting tonight.
Lord Voldemort released Trelaway’s face and she fell again, too weak to hold herself. Whatever spell the Dark Lord had cast on her seemed to have take a lot of her energy and strength way. Bellatrix came swiftly to her master’s side and tried to snatch his attention from the other witch.
“Snape” Called the Dark Lord and Snape hurried to bow in front of him.
“Apparently the old fool had her drugged for quite some time, her memories are a mess. I want you to find out what he gave to her and take the necessary counter measures to assure I have free access to everything she knows”
“Yes, my lord” “yes, that’s exactly the opportunity I need to find out what Dumbledore has been up to with her and perhaps even get her out of here depending on what I find”
Snape begun to work with haste, knowing that his findings would only remain safe for a short amount of time before the Dark Lord demanded a report. If he wanted to find out something that he could use, he better be fast.
Running a few tests on Trelaway, Snape soon discovered a trace of a hallucinogen substance.
“that’s odd” he though “why would Dumbledore keep her drugged?”
Approaching Trelaway to collect a new sample of blood Snape was surprised to hear her voice clear and calm.
“You never saw it coming”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Me, Dumbledore, the drug you just found in my blood... you never saw it coming. That’s why it bothers you so much, you are a spy, you see things coming a mile way but you missed this one and now you don’t know where you stand anymore, your shining leader has done something you wield as wrong and the side of the light doesn’t do ‘wrong’”. She said matter-of-factly.
Snapes looks around quickly, making sure no one heard her say Dumbledore was his ‘leader’.
“Blasted woman, keep quiet, you are going to get me... us killed”
Trelaway just laughed, making Snape wonder if she was any less crazy that he always though she was.
“Don’t worry, dear Severus, I see many years ahead of you. I see happiness too. Family, friends, recognition... all the things you never though you would get, they are all waiting for you.”
“One of your ‘visions’, I presume.” Said Snape, disdain dripping from his mouth. “Although I though death omens were you favourite”.
Trelaway just laughed again.
“No, not mine, his” her eyes began to shine with a barely controlled rage “he kept me as his faithful dog. A pet monkey trained to vomit faux prophecies and ridiculous warnings. It was actually quite a refreshing surprise to be out of his grip”.
“Listen to me very carefully, you are delusional. It’s only the side effect of the spells. You will fell better once we return...”
“No, Snape. I’m not, you are the one who is mistaken... and I can prove it to you” Said Trelaway holding his hand with a stronger grip than Snape had giving her credit for.
“Let go of me”
“Your password is ‘blood heritage’, your favourite potion is the sleeping draught, because of the faces that people do when they take it...”
“You could easily find out any of those things at Hogwarts...”
“... and you have loved and you have lost” she added as if he never had spoken.
“She left me” he said painfully.
“She was taken from you. You saw it happen, but he took the memory from you...” Snape could not believe Trelaway’s words “there is much more I can tell you on this matter. You see, legitimens is the spell that mimics, very poorly I might add, part of the seer’s gift. We can see the past and the future, yes, but we also can see peoples minds, I know your mind better than you, Severus, and I have a proposition to make. Care to hear me out?”
“Why should I not just kill you right know?”
“Because I can tell you everything Dumbledore has hidden from you... and believe when I say this, it’s quite a lot” Trelaway said rising to her feet and looking him strait in to his eyes.
“I have no reason to believe you, or trust you, for that matter... and even if you do know something, unlikely as it may be, why tell me? What is there for you to gain with this attitude?”
“Think, Severus, Think” Said Trelaway walking around Snape, she was starting to look like a predator, which was very out of character for her, who as always the clumsy thick glassed fraud of a teacher who pretended to be good at teaching divination to the children.
“I just woke up at the Dark Lord’s feet after a 20 year slumber. I was heavily drugged by a man a regarded with respect, he destroyed my life, my reputation, everything... and even worse, he messed with my prophecies. Those are sacred to me.”
“You claim he destroyed your life and yet say that messing with some...” Snape quickly chose a better word when he saw the look in her eyes. You don’t hang around Bellatrix for as long as he had without realising that is a suicide to go against a woman looking at you like that. “prophecy, was the worse thing he did?”
“A seer is connected to the flux of time and the destiny of men. To tamper with a prophecy is to tamper with the very meaning of a seer’s life. It is to degrade her. You change what was said and you mess with the destinies of all of those involved. You set their destinies stray. You disrupt magic itself.”
“Yes, I can see how that would be a problem” Snape said with a smirk.
“You still don’t believe me” it was not a question. “allow me to prove it to you”
“why?”
“Because I can, because I will take my revenge on Dumbledore though you and though others”
“Uh-oh, this does not sound good”
“Don’t be afraid” Trelaway sensed his fears and made sure to put him at easy “my revenge will be sweet, for you and the others, that is, I’m afraid Dumbledore will be quite mad, but he will never know it was me...” she added with a sweet smile on her face.
“And how is that?”
“Well, Dumbledore got in the way of a lot of people’s lives. He took away happiness not only from you but from many others, as well as he delivered happiness to those who were not meant to have it in the first place. He decided to play god and used my prophecies to do so. Well, that only makes it fair game for me to give destiny a push from the other side and, who knows, maybe it will flow back in to its natural course”.
“You are not convincing me”
“And how about this. I’ll tell you where the prove is. All you have to do is go to the school and get it.... if what you find there is not enough to convince you, I will follow you wherever you want me to, but if it is enough, than you will have to you bow before me in from of all the Dark Lord’s followers and publicly apologise for ever doubting my abilities”
“It’s a bet then?”
“Oh, yes. And just for good measure I’ll give you my word as a witch that I’ll not let anyone know your secrets”
“You give me your word as a witch? Just like that? No strings attached?”
“None what so ever”
Snape carefully weighed his options. She was not likely to come with him, even if he could get her out of there. Her word as a witch bounded her to his secrets, not that it would stop Voldemort, but it was insurance.
“Still... why?”
“You are one of those whose happiness has been stolen, by making you happy now I get to foil Dumbledore’s schemes and bring your destiny to a path closer of the one it should have taken. Everybody wins. Destiny is corrected, I get revenge and you get back something that was stolen from you”
“I see”
“No, you don’t. That will take some time. Right now all I ask are a few hours of your time, enough to go back to the school grounds, get the evidence and come back... and also, I need a promise.
“A promise?”
“Don’t take revenge in your hands just yet”
“Hum?”
“When you find what I’m sending you to get. When you see what it is and realise what I’m saying. Don’t take revenge in to your own hands. Came back and I promise you will not regret, It will only make your revenge even more complete. Do I have your word as a wizard?”
“She seems dead serious about this. Either she is very mad and I am doomed or she is the real thing and Merlin have mercy on those upon she exacts her revenge”
“You have my word. Now tell me where in Hogwarts do I have to go”