tetsubinatu (tetsubinatu) wrote in lupin_snape, @ 2008-08-30 21:57:00 |
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Entry tags: | prompt: fantasy fest 08 |
That boy - Part 4 of 5 - fantasy fest '08 - REVISED
Title: That Boy - Part 4 of 5, probably
Author: Tetsubinatu
Rating: M because of the F-word
Wordcount (this part): about 900
Pairing(s)/character(s): Snape/Lupin
Challenge: Fantasy Fest 2008
Summary: Long-fic Challenge 25 -- Post-war, plausible survival scenario, established relationship (either new or long-standing). Somehow R finds out that Sirius left a child, and wants to adopt it. I like my S snarky, but not cruel. Any rating. Happy endings are best! :)
Disclaimer: Not mine. Just for fun.
Warnings: written in haste
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
As soon as he awoke, Severus embarked upon the first part of his plan: disproving the boy’s supposed parentage. The matter should be easy enough to settle, with only the slightest touch of illegality. Severus knew for a fact that there was a trunk full of Black’s possessions in the attic hidden under Remus’ mother’s things. Remus should never have been so careless as to assume that Severus would leave those boxes untouched just because they were out of sight and their existence had never been mentioned. Naturally Severus had checked the boxes thoroughly within the first week in which they had been stacked in the attic. Inside Black’s trunk was a tarnished silver-backed hairbrush set marked with the Heir’s Coat of Arms for the Black family and holding quite a quantity of dark wavy hair.
By mid-morning Severus had created the simplest of all geneticist’s tools, the Consanguinuity Potion. One drop of the child’s blood in it should clarify his relationship to Black once and for all. If the clear blue potion turned pearl grey then there was a relationship near enough to qualify as ‘of the same blood’ - first cousin, nephew or the like. A darker smoky grey meant a closer relationship, such as sibling, parent or son. Black would mean that the blood matched the original sample perfectly.
There were more complex potions which would provide more detailed data, but this was the easiest to create without specialised ingredients and the quickest by far. Now all he needed was a drop of the child’s blood.