Socializing At The Castle

[behindredeyes]

Voldemort set his crystal wine glass down and glanced lazily around the room. He sighed and flipped his bangs so they were out of his eyes, he knew he should have used a hair spell tonight. A smirk came to his face at the thought, he was finally able to use those kinds of spells again. Soon after the end of the war, he had forced all the Healers at

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[cold_as_snape]

After making sure, in no uncertain terms, that if the guard so much as lifted a finger against 'Nathaniel' that they would meet a very painful, sticky end for daring to touch property that wasn't theirs, Severus moved towards the main room where everyone was gathered. Spotting Lucius talking to Tonks -- he'd never seen that one coming and that was saying something -- his eyes passed over the collective idiots that couldn't count their toes without having to start over a half dozen times.

Severus sometimes thought it was a miracle that they even managed to piss by themselves. Seeing Bellatrix amongst them though -- that gave him a moments pause. While crazy, and he certainly believed her that way, she wasn't stupid. Perhaps a bit short sighted when it came to the Dark Lord, but that was neither here nor there with him. He didn't even care that she didn't trust him as the opinion of others regarding him barely fazed him at all.

Still. He meandered across the room, taking his sweet time to see if she would extract herself before getting close enough to utter, "Really, Bellatrix. Slumming tonight?"

[mugglehate]

While Severus Snape may not have been high on Bella's list of those she wished to speak to that night, she surely wasn't going to shoo him away at the moment. She'd been bored out of her mind for the time she'd been at the event so far. With the options she had, Snape looked like prime entertainment.

She took the opportunity to get away from the simpletons who surrounded her, and turned just in time to hear Snape speaking to her. She threw her hand up in disgust as if that were answer enough to his question, yet still proceeded to reply. "I will have you, know, Severus, that I was in no way intending to mingle with such feeble-minded drones." Her tone was indignant, and some of the surrounding wizards/witches gave her annoyed looks. She paid them no mind.

"And what about you? I didn't take you for the...party type."

[cold_as_snape]

"Mmm, appearances can be deceiving then because it certainly did look that that," he smirked at her and ignored the baleful glares. If he had a sickle for every time he was glared at...

"That's because I'm not, but as Lucius is wont to remind me, one must get out of the lab every so often or grow cobwebs and dust." He rolled his shoulders in a movement very much like a shrug. "Better that my evening out is spent with people of like minds than those who have less brains than the dog dung on the bottom of their shoes."

[mugglehate]

"Well, things aren't always as they appear, Severus," she replied, exaggerating the 's' sounds in his name. "You, of all people, should know that."

She shot some wild looks at those around them, as if to scare them away. She turned back facing him, and laughed a bit. "Lucius is right. Wouldn't want you turning to dust now would we?" she said in her outlandish manner.

An eyebrow raised at his last comment, and she tilted her head. "So then, if you're conversing with me, then I must certainly be worthy, in your mind," she concluded. That's the way her logic worked, anyhow. Sure, she may not completely trust Severus, or like him very much, but the Dark Lord sure thought highly of him, and so she made a point to stay on friendly terms.