FIC: A Slice of Lemon

[featherxquill]

Title: A Slice of Lemon
Author: cabepfir
Pairing: Minerva/Albus
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: #79. Minerva/Dumbledore. Unrequited love. Minerva is broken when she discovers that Dumbledore is gay.
Content Information/Warnings: Violent imagery.
Summary: One love I had in my life, and it was denied me.
Author's Notes: Whopping thanks to my beta for her enthusiasm

Comments

[squibstress]

What a wonderful and terrifying portrait of unrequited love.

I love how you take us from a girlish, hopeful Minerva, resolutely refusing to believe what she hears, to embittered, adult Minerva, made vicious by years of longing. One can only imagine spending years so very close the the object of one's unrequited love and how it could damage one's psyche.

I can just see him climbing the steps up to the front door, with his crooked teeth and awful proboscis, and I pray that Hogwarts’ stairs will sway beneath his every step and make him fall. I pray that the Slytherin dungeons will open and swallow him alive, horns and tail, and that the Giant Squid will crush each of his bones until they’re reduced to dust. This I pray and this I ask of Hogwarts. I love the viciousness you've given her here. I can easily imagine her feeling that way, and it's something she'd never say out loud.

You will pay for his murder and for the things I never had, Snape. You are guilty of everything you took from me, of all the time you stood with him when I didn’t, of all the secrets you shared, and of all the trust you didn’t earn. You shall repay me, and dearly. Every night you spent with Albus, every time you touched his body, every time he smiled at you, shall be returned in pain. Hell hath no fury, indeed!

[cabepfir]

Thank you so very much! Bitterness, viciousness and, at the same time, secrecy were exactly what I was aiming at here.