Tartarus’ Scourge
Challenge Twenty: The Wizards of Summer - Drabbles
Title: Tartarus’ Scourge
Author: somigliana
Wizard/Witch: Peter Pettigrew/Bellatrix Lestrange
Rating/Warnings: PG-13/R
Prompt: 1-Juicy Mango
Theme: A cruise on the Dead Sea.
The frying pan hisses and spits angrily. Steam roils around her glare.
“Traitor!” She pokes viciously at the sausages, and she raises the wooden spoon. “Avada Kedavra!”
Out in the dining room, caught in their own private bubble, Severus and Emmeline talk intently in an intimate murmur. Their heads are bowed close to each other, foreheads almost touching. The assassination attempt by wooden spoon goes unremarked.
Peter Pettigrew sidles up behind Bella, smelling of pineapples and sweat. He holds a large golden-green fruit right up under her nose. “Ahhhhh. Bella. Wanna taste my juicy-juicy mango?” he breathes suggestively.
Hell indeed.
Author's Notes: Continued from Lethe We Forget. Tartarus is a place in Hades, which is reserved for the most evil of souls.