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[birdwotcher]

Funny how things go from brilliant to shite so quickly. Does it happen this way for most, or am I just especially lucky?

I'm beginning to miss the days where I threw myself into my work and stayed there. Having a so-called 'social life' isn't at all what it's cracked up to be. Perhaps a holiday isn't completely out of order.

I'm a teensy bit

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Private to Snape

[birdwotcher]

Let's make one thing clear, Snape. If Remus is 'outted', it's because of his own doing or yours, not mine. I've seen a dozen men in the past few months, many of which I'm still friends with. If Remus feels there's anything to be wary of after I mentioned having seen a gay man lately, then he is more than welcome to have a friendly night out with me to blow off any suspicion. You seem to think I had every intention of getting back together with him when I wanted nothing but a chance to catch up. I've no intention of ever going back to that wreck of a relationship, so you can sleep a little easier knowing some two-bit whore isn't after your security blanket.

Your paranoia is getting the better of you in your old age. If Bellatrix makes that gigantic intelluctual leap, then there was no hiding it from her in the first place.

But Severus, how on earth can you love someone when you haven't got any to give? Everyone knows exactly how heartless you really are. There's no fooling them even when your so-called 'relationship' becomes public. They'll snigger behind your back and whisper under their breath about how clever Remus Lupin was to trick Severus Snape into providing refuge for his pack, Wolfsbane for all, and care and attention when they need it. So what if he had to use false pretenses to get it, or use sex as a tool of his manipulation? It's the oldest trick in the book, and how funny that Severus Snape, the most paranoid and selfish wizard England has seen in ages, fell for it so drastically.

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Private to Nymphadora

[subtle_simmer]

No, girl, if he is 'outed', it is because of your doing, here in this entry, and any attempt to try to argue otherwise is just your own effort at self-deception so you do not have to feel guilty for what you have done.

Clearly Bellatrix inherited most of the familial intelligence. For your sake, you might hope she also inherited most of the family propensity for mental-illness.

Truly, you are the most pathetic creature I have ever encountered. Do you really think I would believe a word of any of that? You do not know me, you have no idea what I am capable of. Nor do you have any idea how Remus and I came to be together. This paltry device simply shows the depth of your own desperation.

You have my pity, child.

~Severus Snape
Still Remus' Man

Private to Snape

[birdwotcher]

That's the pot calling the kettle black, isn't it?

I don't want your pity. What I want is for you to leave me alone, you rotten bastard.

Private to Nymphadora

[subtle_simmer]

Then leave Remus alone, and I will gladly comply.

Private to Snape

[birdwotcher]

When, why, and how often I speak with Remus is none of your concern.

Private to Nymphadora

[subtle_simmer]

Oh, really?

After all this discussion, you still wish to make that assertion?

Let us consider logically, for a moment, shall we? I will assist you, since logic is clearly not your forte.

If you were so fortunate as to find the one person with whom you wished to spend your life, how inclined would you be, to voluntarily spend time with anyone who was going to deride your choice or be insulting to the person whom you have chosen?

Switch perspective - how hurt might you feel if your chosen partner continued to maintain a friendship with someone whom you knew was actively opposed, not only to your relationship, but to you, personally?

Why do you suppose Remus would still consider you a 'friend' with whom he would wish to associate, at all, after how you have behaved?

Have you been a 'friend' to him?

However, Remus has lost too many people he has cared about during the war. I will not willingly be the one to make him choose a path which would rob him of another.

Besides, I can afford to be magnanimous - in every way that matters, Remus has already chosen ME.

Allow me to offer you this bit of advice, gratis: I would not push the issue, were I in your very precarious situation. Even Harry Sodding Potter has made the effort to be tolerably civil with me, for Remus' sake. I am part of his life now, he is part of mine.

Get used to it, or go AWAY.