Thirty-First Stir || [Accidental Video]

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[The PCD is resting on the kitchen counter when it turns on to the sight of Snape standing in front of the stove, a plate of fish next to him and his wand in his hand. He's affected, he knows he's affected, can feel the very absence of his magic to the very tips of his fingers, but he can't help but try again. So there he is, prodding at the stove

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[ahandsomedevil]

I could be wrong, but I think you repay those favors with meat, Severus.

[Horst grins at him--never mind the slight bruising across the bridge of his nose]

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I'm not asking him for a favor. I am telling him to earn his keep.

[Have an eyebrow at that bruise.]

I take it that your brother is done with that plant.

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[ahandsomedevil]

[He sits heavily on the floor.]

Oh, yes. He's moved onto bigger prey. I hoped your powers were still in tact; I don't want Alice to know about...this. Ah well.

How are you handling all this?

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What did you do, exactly?

[And in answer to Horst's question, the man can just sit there and watch Snape cook without magic. As if he's done it millions of times before. And yes, Horst, some of it is for you.]

[ahandsomedevil]

Why do you assume it was me?

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[A look. You're Horst Cabal.]

[ahandsomedevil]

[HEY.]

He was looking at old network posts and realized that I died after he left.

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[Flipping the fish over, probably with unnecessary force.]

You mean when you killed yourself. In the vain hopes that the Animus would be obliging enough to take away something that I might have been able to had you only thought to ask?

[Yeah, someone's still pissed about that. Careful he doesn't pull a Rapunzel on you, Horst.]

[ahandsomedevil]

It wasn't--

[But he can't quite explain all the reasons. There were a lot of them.]

Yes, well, he tried to break my nose.

[snarkypotions]

He doesn't seem to have succeeded.

[Snape looks up from the pan.]

Perhaps I should finish the job for him.

[Obviously turning you into a salamander wasn't enough for him.]

[ahandsomedevil]

Severus.

[He knows Snape will do it, too, which is why he has such a sad face right now.]

I'm not going to do it again, you know that.

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And yet you still haven't told me the real reason as to why you did it.

[ahandsomedevil]

The real reason?

[He sighs.]

The real reason is I knew I would have to see the Animus. Even briefly. I had to know I could reach them.

You remember Rhode?

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[Snape's lips thin at that, something in his eyes glinting angrily before he manages to respond with a curt.]

Of course.

[There may or may not have been a hiss at the end of that. Bad blood between the two? Most definitely.]

[ahandsomedevil]

She told me the Animus could, possibly, be bargained with. That she had come close to doing so.

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And when was that?