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Lucius is annoyed
Title: Path of the serpent
Author: ejab
Pairing: SS/LM with a little SS/RL and SS/DM on the side
Rating: story is slash and NC-17
Feedback: a true gift and highly appreciated
Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling still owns them
WARNINGS: to get the nitpickers off my back – some painful teasing with blood involved
Category: all over the place
Summary: Lucius convinces Severus of his point of view. Lucius-style.
A/N: this chapter is for Caput Draconis. My way of saying ‘thank you!’for the wonderful (and delicious) fanART she sent me. Betas are underlucius and silentpawz.
33/?
After receiving Lupin’s journal, the potions master made some last changes to the revolutionary new potion. Although it would take another month before they could test it, he was invited by The High Council of The International Confederation of Herbologists and Potions Masters to send them all his notes and findings as well as a bottled sample.
Snape immediately did just that, knowing that this was the first step of obtaining the desired title of Grandmaster of Potions. The best Potions masters in the wizarding world would now study his work relentlessly and if they approved of it, they would invite him to a hearing.
The research of The High Council would take some time so he was not prepared for the special delivery that a house-elf brought to his quarters one Saturday evening.
“A hearing... “Severus completely baffled stared at the parchment he’d just opened.
Then he straightened his back and looked up at the guest sitting opposite the dining table. “Lucius! I’ve got a hearing! Next week!”
“Is this about your cure for lycanthropy?” Lucius didn’t take his eyes of his dessert.
“For the effects of lycanthropy, yes,” Severus corrected him and shook his head in disbelief.
“Who nominated you? Dumbledore?” It was asked casually.
“Dumbledore and Lupin.” The potions master stared at the letter and grinned, still not fully able to belief he’d been granted a hearing. titltitle of Grandmaster hadn’t been awarded for over a century but a hearing also hardly ever took place, simply due to the fact that the standards for getting one were so exceptionally high that it was nearly impossible to even get that far. And HE had managed to get himself just that – it was almost as gratifying as getting the title itself!
Lucius put down his spoon in such a disturbed fashion that it caught Severus’ attention.
“What?!”
“Are you having an affair with that rug?” Cold grey eyes pierced him suspiciously.
“Certainly not! Whatever gave you that ridiculous idea?”
“Let’s just say your voice lacked its usual venom while pronouncing his name.” Lucius
leaned back in his chair, his eyes slowly looking his lover up and down like he was some foreign study object. “Did you two have sex?”
“For Merlin’s sake, Lucius, you so-“ Snape was silenced by an extremely threatening glare and a hard slap in the face. The fact that his husband-to-be next got out his wand was enough reason for the potions master to stay quiet.
“I lifted the curse in order to give you your change at fame by creating this new potion. I also knew it meant you two had to work together for some time. A matter of trust.”
Lucius stared at his wand in a deceivingly bored way. He then looked up slowly. “I think I may have said this before but, contrary to popular belief, I am absolutely monogamous and have been faithful to you.” Lucius rose. “And you, Severus? Have you been faithful to me? Did that nauseating Gryffindor ever fuck you?”
“I also have been faithful to you, Lucius.” Because he was thinking how it was the werewolf that had fucked him and not Lupin himself, the potions master heard the alarmbells go of inside off his head just a fraction too late. He understood the moment he noticed the dangerous cold smile starting to appear on his lover’s face. He was in trouble.
“Interesting... I couldn’t help but notice your lack of the word ‘monogamous’ and what it represents. Let’s try again, shall we? On your knees in front of me, Severus.”
Snape was clearly startled for a moment but not foolish enough to disobey. Not now. Everything radiating from the man in front of him warned him not to. He kneeled down.
There was a hissed “Incarcerous!” and immediately the potions master felt several ropes
bind his body, pressing his arms against his sides and forcing his legs to stay together. He almost lost his balance but stubbornly refused to fall and succeeded in staying on his already aching knees.
Lucius mumbled another spell, too soft for Snape to hear. The result however followed immediately as the ropes got tighter and tighter with every breath he took – it had to resemble the feeling of being strangled by a huge python. The pressure kept building and building and soon he felt his body ache and scream while every cell appeared to get crushed. It got frighteningly hard to breathe and he could feel the pounding in his head. What...?
“Don’t look at me like, that, Severus - you really have nothing to complain about,” Lucius snarled, his voice dripping with utter contempt. “You have so many people that look after you. Remember that little party you threw on your home estate? Remember how you tried to take your own life? While you were selfishly turning your back on me, I had the ‘pleasure’ of entertaining the Dark Lord in his bed... I learned this spell from him that night... never forgot it, no matter how hard I tried. And Merlin knows I tried.” He mumbled something else and suddenly the ropes felt like countless tiny razor-sharp blades, painstakingly slowly crawling into the breaking skin of the potions master. Snape roared in pain and fell sideways to the ground, still desperately gasping for air. Any air.
“Yes, it did have the same effect on me,” Lucius sighed. “And then he fucked merst rst with his wand – which he transformed into countless items, again and again. Any idea how it feels to be fucked by a knife, Severus? An extremely sharp k? Yo? You know – the kind that cuts your rectum open and then, when it turns and turns, slices your intestines into all those little pieces of bloody pulp? Mmm? Any idea?” One look down at the form in front of his feet made Lucius loosen the ropes somewhat. He wanted his dark angel to suffer – not dead. Sounds of coughing and ragged gulps of air confirmed he’d taken the right decision.
“Are you paying attention to what I am saying, Severus?” Lucius grabbed a lock of black hair and pulled it back roughly. Two black eyes filled with pain and tears stared back at him.
“Those tears had better be for me, Severus... for what I had to endure for you. Because he really wanted YOU, you know. I knew. I knew and I never held it against you but when you go around start fucking others while I had to bleed for you... “ Lucius grabbed the potions master’s wand , made very sure the rightful owner saw it and moved it towards Snape’s arse. The reaction was quite gratifying when the k hak haired wizard screamed in absolute horror and tried to move away. Which only embedded his blade-like ropes deeper into his skin and made him scream even harder. In pain this time.
“Yes, it is rather uncomfortable, isn’t it?” Seemingly bored with the whole display in front of him Lucius transformed the wand into a knife and traced the outlines of the trembling body in front of him with it. Big scared eyes followed every movement. “And after the knife...”
“I’ll be monogamous,” a whisper drifted up from the floor.
“You were saying?” Lucius looked at his lover as if he’d just interrupted something of great importance.
“I’ll be monogamous. I give you my word.” Snape kept his eyes on the knife.
“Really? Oh Sev, that’s wonderful! I couldn’t ask for more.” Within a split second the deadly cold Death Eater changed into a cheerful and concerned Lucius. He smiled warmly while stroking a few strands of hair out of the potions master’s face. “You DO realise I had to do this, don’t you?” His voice now sounded soothing and loving. “You see, it just isn’t fair otherwise. Not when we’re getting married. I don’t want a husband who sleeps around and I am certain you wouldn’t want me to do the same. Am I right?” It was a simple innocent questbut but Severus was no fool. The wrong answer could cost him his life still. He’d seen those rapid changes of behaviour before and knew it was at those times that Lucius was the most deadly.
“Yes, you are... “ he whispered, making very sure to express submissiveness in any way possible.
“Good, I’m glad that is straightened out. Still want to marry me?” There was the happily grinning Lucius again.
“Maybe I should be the one asking that question...”
“You gave me your word, Sev. I’ve never known you to break your word, regardless who you gave it to, so that is good enough for me.” Lucius transformed the knife back into a wand and threw it on the table. Then he laughed and pointed at the ropes that still were cutting the potions master flesh. “Nice touch, isn’t it?”
“Not when you’re on the receiving end of it,” Snape grumbled with a careful glance upward.
“You like pain!” Mock-innocence.
“Under the right conditions, yes... “
“Fair enough. Shall I relieve you of your temporary confinement then?”
“Please do.” Gods, as if they were talking about the weather! When was that bastard going to end this game of his?
Lucius spelled away the ropes one by one. And more slowly, and therefore more painful, than could be possible – Severus was absolutely convinced of that.
“Oops... tears away more flesh than one would expect... “ With an apologetic grin towards his lover, Lucius spelled away the last rope and looked at the damage done – his lover was bleeding profusely now from all the cuts where the ropes had broken the skin; they obviously had penetrated about an inch deep into the flesh at most places. He stopped the bleeding with a healing spell and pointed his wand at one of the cuts again.
“I hate cleaning up,”he muttered under his breath before using his magic and disinfecting and closing the cuts. “I am not a Healer, you know...”
The potions master looked at the angry and swollen red lines. “Come oou cou can do better than that.”
“Maybe I want to leave you with a little reminder for a while?” Lucius smiled his most innocent smile
“Merlin, you can be such a-“
“Don’t patronise me, Sev, I could have done a lot worse. As if you would have been kind to
me when the tables were tu-“
“You wouldn’t know until it was too late for you to do anything about it,” Snape snorted, no longer willing to play the submissive. “You wouldn’t taste, smell or see it until it was too late. I might not even be around.”
There was a long silence, during which the two lovers glared at each other with a defiant but also a searching look.
“Yes, you would. You would want to see me suffer.” Lucius laughed, ending the silence after a few minutes. “Ah, it’s good to have such an equal match – makes you feel vibrating with life. Let’s have a brandy.” He helped the potions master to stand up again.
Severus walked towards his drinking cabinet and then turwithwith a thoughtful look on his face. “Did he... what else did he do to you?”
“Things I definitely don’t want to remember, let alone talk about. Let it be.” Lucius gave him an irritated stare before sitting down in a chair by the fire and ignoring him.
“Lucius, I-“
“Let it be, Sev!” his lover snapped.
“No. You seem to blame me for it and I don’t want to have that thrown in my face every time we have an argument..” Determination. Snape-style. There was no way Lucius could avoid that and he knew it.
“I don’t hold it against you, not really...” He got a look of great disbelief. “We will talk about it, but not now. Some other time. Please?”
It was that last word. The tone it was said in clearly expressed the fear Lucius had. Talking about it meant reliving it and he wasn’t ready yet. Didn’t dare to yet. Could not cope with it.
“Fine. Have it your way,” Severus grunted. Someone else would get the impression that he was insulted by the ral bal but he wasn’t. It was just his typical way to let his lover know he understood and would give him the time he needed. Lucius knew and smiled faintly, looking rather tired all of a sudden.
“Are they coming to your hearing too, your nominators?” he asked, the moment the potions master joined him by the fireplace and handed him his brandy.
“Dumbledore? Probably. Lupin is obliged to be there since he was the guinea-pigey wey will want to question him as well.”
“I will accompany you,” Lucius said, matter-of-factly.
“Of course you will,” Severus snarled. “This is of great importance. What impression would we make if my husband-to-be stays at home?”
Lucius sighed and gave him a look as if to say ‘you know what I mean’ and took a sip.
“Stay the night?”
“You have to ask? I’m not through punishing you, you know,”
“Good.” The potions master sighed contentedly.
Phobos – t you you, thank you, thank you! I do try to keep them in character as much as I can. And when I don’t, there’s always a beta to slap me in the face.
The new teacher? Patience, my dear, patience.
And you dare to threaten me with dark curses???!!!! Be careful! Be VERY careful! ;)
Author: ejab
Pairing: SS/LM with a little SS/RL and SS/DM on the side
Rating: story is slash and NC-17
Feedback: a true gift and highly appreciated
Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling still owns them
WARNINGS: to get the nitpickers off my back – some painful teasing with blood involved
Category: all over the place
Summary: Lucius convinces Severus of his point of view. Lucius-style.
A/N: this chapter is for Caput Draconis. My way of saying ‘thank you!’for the wonderful (and delicious) fanART she sent me. Betas are underlucius and silentpawz.
33/?
After receiving Lupin’s journal, the potions master made some last changes to the revolutionary new potion. Although it would take another month before they could test it, he was invited by The High Council of The International Confederation of Herbologists and Potions Masters to send them all his notes and findings as well as a bottled sample.
Snape immediately did just that, knowing that this was the first step of obtaining the desired title of Grandmaster of Potions. The best Potions masters in the wizarding world would now study his work relentlessly and if they approved of it, they would invite him to a hearing.
The research of The High Council would take some time so he was not prepared for the special delivery that a house-elf brought to his quarters one Saturday evening.
“A hearing... “Severus completely baffled stared at the parchment he’d just opened.
Then he straightened his back and looked up at the guest sitting opposite the dining table. “Lucius! I’ve got a hearing! Next week!”
“Is this about your cure for lycanthropy?” Lucius didn’t take his eyes of his dessert.
“For the effects of lycanthropy, yes,” Severus corrected him and shook his head in disbelief.
“Who nominated you? Dumbledore?” It was asked casually.
“Dumbledore and Lupin.” The potions master stared at the letter and grinned, still not fully able to belief he’d been granted a hearing. titltitle of Grandmaster hadn’t been awarded for over a century but a hearing also hardly ever took place, simply due to the fact that the standards for getting one were so exceptionally high that it was nearly impossible to even get that far. And HE had managed to get himself just that – it was almost as gratifying as getting the title itself!
Lucius put down his spoon in such a disturbed fashion that it caught Severus’ attention.
“What?!”
“Are you having an affair with that rug?” Cold grey eyes pierced him suspiciously.
“Certainly not! Whatever gave you that ridiculous idea?”
“Let’s just say your voice lacked its usual venom while pronouncing his name.” Lucius
leaned back in his chair, his eyes slowly looking his lover up and down like he was some foreign study object. “Did you two have sex?”
“For Merlin’s sake, Lucius, you so-“ Snape was silenced by an extremely threatening glare and a hard slap in the face. The fact that his husband-to-be next got out his wand was enough reason for the potions master to stay quiet.
“I lifted the curse in order to give you your change at fame by creating this new potion. I also knew it meant you two had to work together for some time. A matter of trust.”
Lucius stared at his wand in a deceivingly bored way. He then looked up slowly. “I think I may have said this before but, contrary to popular belief, I am absolutely monogamous and have been faithful to you.” Lucius rose. “And you, Severus? Have you been faithful to me? Did that nauseating Gryffindor ever fuck you?”
“I also have been faithful to you, Lucius.” Because he was thinking how it was the werewolf that had fucked him and not Lupin himself, the potions master heard the alarmbells go of inside off his head just a fraction too late. He understood the moment he noticed the dangerous cold smile starting to appear on his lover’s face. He was in trouble.
“Interesting... I couldn’t help but notice your lack of the word ‘monogamous’ and what it represents. Let’s try again, shall we? On your knees in front of me, Severus.”
Snape was clearly startled for a moment but not foolish enough to disobey. Not now. Everything radiating from the man in front of him warned him not to. He kneeled down.
There was a hissed “Incarcerous!” and immediately the potions master felt several ropes
bind his body, pressing his arms against his sides and forcing his legs to stay together. He almost lost his balance but stubbornly refused to fall and succeeded in staying on his already aching knees.
Lucius mumbled another spell, too soft for Snape to hear. The result however followed immediately as the ropes got tighter and tighter with every breath he took – it had to resemble the feeling of being strangled by a huge python. The pressure kept building and building and soon he felt his body ache and scream while every cell appeared to get crushed. It got frighteningly hard to breathe and he could feel the pounding in his head. What...?
“Don’t look at me like, that, Severus - you really have nothing to complain about,” Lucius snarled, his voice dripping with utter contempt. “You have so many people that look after you. Remember that little party you threw on your home estate? Remember how you tried to take your own life? While you were selfishly turning your back on me, I had the ‘pleasure’ of entertaining the Dark Lord in his bed... I learned this spell from him that night... never forgot it, no matter how hard I tried. And Merlin knows I tried.” He mumbled something else and suddenly the ropes felt like countless tiny razor-sharp blades, painstakingly slowly crawling into the breaking skin of the potions master. Snape roared in pain and fell sideways to the ground, still desperately gasping for air. Any air.
“Yes, it did have the same effect on me,” Lucius sighed. “And then he fucked merst rst with his wand – which he transformed into countless items, again and again. Any idea how it feels to be fucked by a knife, Severus? An extremely sharp k? Yo? You know – the kind that cuts your rectum open and then, when it turns and turns, slices your intestines into all those little pieces of bloody pulp? Mmm? Any idea?” One look down at the form in front of his feet made Lucius loosen the ropes somewhat. He wanted his dark angel to suffer – not dead. Sounds of coughing and ragged gulps of air confirmed he’d taken the right decision.
“Are you paying attention to what I am saying, Severus?” Lucius grabbed a lock of black hair and pulled it back roughly. Two black eyes filled with pain and tears stared back at him.
“Those tears had better be for me, Severus... for what I had to endure for you. Because he really wanted YOU, you know. I knew. I knew and I never held it against you but when you go around start fucking others while I had to bleed for you... “ Lucius grabbed the potions master’s wand , made very sure the rightful owner saw it and moved it towards Snape’s arse. The reaction was quite gratifying when the k hak haired wizard screamed in absolute horror and tried to move away. Which only embedded his blade-like ropes deeper into his skin and made him scream even harder. In pain this time.
“Yes, it is rather uncomfortable, isn’t it?” Seemingly bored with the whole display in front of him Lucius transformed the wand into a knife and traced the outlines of the trembling body in front of him with it. Big scared eyes followed every movement. “And after the knife...”
“I’ll be monogamous,” a whisper drifted up from the floor.
“You were saying?” Lucius looked at his lover as if he’d just interrupted something of great importance.
“I’ll be monogamous. I give you my word.” Snape kept his eyes on the knife.
“Really? Oh Sev, that’s wonderful! I couldn’t ask for more.” Within a split second the deadly cold Death Eater changed into a cheerful and concerned Lucius. He smiled warmly while stroking a few strands of hair out of the potions master’s face. “You DO realise I had to do this, don’t you?” His voice now sounded soothing and loving. “You see, it just isn’t fair otherwise. Not when we’re getting married. I don’t want a husband who sleeps around and I am certain you wouldn’t want me to do the same. Am I right?” It was a simple innocent questbut but Severus was no fool. The wrong answer could cost him his life still. He’d seen those rapid changes of behaviour before and knew it was at those times that Lucius was the most deadly.
“Yes, you are... “ he whispered, making very sure to express submissiveness in any way possible.
“Good, I’m glad that is straightened out. Still want to marry me?” There was the happily grinning Lucius again.
“Maybe I should be the one asking that question...”
“You gave me your word, Sev. I’ve never known you to break your word, regardless who you gave it to, so that is good enough for me.” Lucius transformed the knife back into a wand and threw it on the table. Then he laughed and pointed at the ropes that still were cutting the potions master flesh. “Nice touch, isn’t it?”
“Not when you’re on the receiving end of it,” Snape grumbled with a careful glance upward.
“You like pain!” Mock-innocence.
“Under the right conditions, yes... “
“Fair enough. Shall I relieve you of your temporary confinement then?”
“Please do.” Gods, as if they were talking about the weather! When was that bastard going to end this game of his?
Lucius spelled away the ropes one by one. And more slowly, and therefore more painful, than could be possible – Severus was absolutely convinced of that.
“Oops... tears away more flesh than one would expect... “ With an apologetic grin towards his lover, Lucius spelled away the last rope and looked at the damage done – his lover was bleeding profusely now from all the cuts where the ropes had broken the skin; they obviously had penetrated about an inch deep into the flesh at most places. He stopped the bleeding with a healing spell and pointed his wand at one of the cuts again.
“I hate cleaning up,”he muttered under his breath before using his magic and disinfecting and closing the cuts. “I am not a Healer, you know...”
The potions master looked at the angry and swollen red lines. “Come oou cou can do better than that.”
“Maybe I want to leave you with a little reminder for a while?” Lucius smiled his most innocent smile
“Merlin, you can be such a-“
“Don’t patronise me, Sev, I could have done a lot worse. As if you would have been kind to
me when the tables were tu-“
“You wouldn’t know until it was too late for you to do anything about it,” Snape snorted, no longer willing to play the submissive. “You wouldn’t taste, smell or see it until it was too late. I might not even be around.”
There was a long silence, during which the two lovers glared at each other with a defiant but also a searching look.
“Yes, you would. You would want to see me suffer.” Lucius laughed, ending the silence after a few minutes. “Ah, it’s good to have such an equal match – makes you feel vibrating with life. Let’s have a brandy.” He helped the potions master to stand up again.
Severus walked towards his drinking cabinet and then turwithwith a thoughtful look on his face. “Did he... what else did he do to you?”
“Things I definitely don’t want to remember, let alone talk about. Let it be.” Lucius gave him an irritated stare before sitting down in a chair by the fire and ignoring him.
“Lucius, I-“
“Let it be, Sev!” his lover snapped.
“No. You seem to blame me for it and I don’t want to have that thrown in my face every time we have an argument..” Determination. Snape-style. There was no way Lucius could avoid that and he knew it.
“I don’t hold it against you, not really...” He got a look of great disbelief. “We will talk about it, but not now. Some other time. Please?”
It was that last word. The tone it was said in clearly expressed the fear Lucius had. Talking about it meant reliving it and he wasn’t ready yet. Didn’t dare to yet. Could not cope with it.
“Fine. Have it your way,” Severus grunted. Someone else would get the impression that he was insulted by the ral bal but he wasn’t. It was just his typical way to let his lover know he understood and would give him the time he needed. Lucius knew and smiled faintly, looking rather tired all of a sudden.
“Are they coming to your hearing too, your nominators?” he asked, the moment the potions master joined him by the fireplace and handed him his brandy.
“Dumbledore? Probably. Lupin is obliged to be there since he was the guinea-pigey wey will want to question him as well.”
“I will accompany you,” Lucius said, matter-of-factly.
“Of course you will,” Severus snarled. “This is of great importance. What impression would we make if my husband-to-be stays at home?”
Lucius sighed and gave him a look as if to say ‘you know what I mean’ and took a sip.
“Stay the night?”
“You have to ask? I’m not through punishing you, you know,”
“Good.” The potions master sighed contentedly.
Phobos – t you you, thank you, thank you! I do try to keep them in character as much as I can. And when I don’t, there’s always a beta to slap me in the face.
The new teacher? Patience, my dear, patience.
And you dare to threaten me with dark curses???!!!! Be careful! Be VERY careful! ;)