Halloween gift for Azure_Rosa
Gift for: Azure_Rosa
From: verus_janus
Title: Vindication
Characters: Voldemort
Rating: G
Summary: The Dark Lord casts a new (and therefor Dark) spell on Halloween
The trees rose around him at the edge of the field, the branches dark curving lattice-work against the slightly darker sky. Handfuls of leaves clung to them, twisting and rattling in the winds. The moon was a huge pale circle floating behind them. He sat all alone on the log, concentrating and collecting his will and ingenuity, pushing his feet into the damp decomposing ground cover. His goal was invisible but it beat within his chest, superimposing itself over everything he felt. He became it. That was the way to evolve idea into experience. He stood; it was time.
It was Halloween. Every anniversary of his inexplicable, horrifyingly shameful... failure, he insisted on creating wonders that would make them all sorry and yes, jealous. His wand rose and his head. The wind caressed his skull as he bounced on his toes in preparation. He inscribed the evocative, symbolic potent arcs in the air and opened his mouth, swallowing the wind as he lifted, ascending! He steered with small exercises of active desire, laced with pure magic. It worked. He flew! Glee filled him; he laughed coldly and triumphantly.
"Good work... Tom." The Bloody Baron drifted ectoplasmicly next to him.