Celandine's Chronicle (celandineb) wrote in cels_fic_haven, @ 2011-11-18 15:37:00 |
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Entry tags: | hp ficlets harry/severus, hp quill-it 100.3 |
HP ficlet: Slow Heat [Harry/Severus, general]
Title: Slow Heat
Author: celandineb
Fandom: HP
Pairing: Harry/Severus
Rating: general
Length: 210 words
Summary: Severus repressed his yearnings for a very long time.
Note: For quill_it, 100.3, prompt 11, "slow". For alisanne who wanted Severus/Harry with this prompt.
Slow heat crept along his veins every time he looked at Harry. It had done for years, since Harry had been far too young. The eyes he had loved from his own boyhood, set in the face and body of one whom he had desired, would have been willing to do anything for, but who had spurned and mocked him until they became bitter enemies -- the combination was irresistible.
He managed to keep his yearning from Albus, he thought, and if the Dark Lord sensed some fragment of it? Well, lust and power and hate were things that he understood well.
Severus would never have acted on his desire. Repressing it took him to the opposite extreme, making him cold and harsh towards Harry from the first time he saw the boy. He resigned himself to Harry's dislike -- hatred might not have been too strong a word -- and later, to his own death. The miracle was not his survival, but rather that Harry had compassion enough for him to seek him when all hope should have been lost, and find him in time to be saved.
Now when Severus watched Harry and felt the familiar slow heat rising, he knew it to be matched by a like heat in return.