Halloween Gift For Severed Lies
Gift For: Severed_Lies
From: Westernredcedar
Title: Comfort in Darkness
Characters: Snape, Voldemort, Mulciber
Rated: Gen
Severus had been fool enough to think joining the Death Eaters meant an end to nights alone in his room. Wrong. Now he was lucky to see Tom Mulciber once a week, collecting the potions Severus had been ordered to brew.
It was a shock, then, when Mulciber arrived one evening accompanied by the Dark Lord. Severus was caught eating leftover take-away in his shirt sleeves, a few sputtering candles lighting the stale air.
"It smells like shit in here, Snape," Mulciber complained, but the Dark Lord peered around the room with approval, as if he understood what he saw. He ran a white finger along Severus's desk.
"I require a new potion, Severus, that will force its victim to re-live their darkest memories as it slowly kills them."
Severus met his gaze. They had never spoken before. "That will not be difficult."
"Oh, it will be, Severus, but I am not concerned. Like me, I believe you take comfort in darkness." Severus swallowed hard. Success might mean escape from this solitary hell into the Dark Lord's inner circle. Dark comfort, indeed.
Severus had a momentary hallucination that eyes were actually peering inside his head, but it passed quickly.