Bring Back the Bastard

As you had guessed, our last piece of fic and art did go up and technically we ended the fest. However, because I failed to gracefully close the fest before the end of the academic year caught me up and spirited me away, I shall contribute this one last fic as penance for my sins... and then formally close the fest. :)


Title: Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before
Author: dueltastic
Pairing: Snape/McGonagall
Rating: R
Prompt: #5 Severus and Minerva both survive the war and think they have another chance together, but the war leaves scars that neither expected.
Content Information/Warnings: None
Length: 6000 words

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Title: Broken Toys
Author: pretty_panther
Pairing: Severus Snape/Sirius Black
Rating: R
Prompt: Prompt: They come to an arrangement during the war -- Sirius wants information on his brother, Snape wants Sirius to keep Lily safe.
Content Information/Warnings: 1090, no warnings really apply.
Summary: Severus has information and Sirius needs it and it is as simple as that. At least it is to begin with.
Author's Notes: The fic is more from the point of view of Sirius because I felt Severus' behaviour could be understood better when it was seen by another and his words came across better without his thoughts to explain them.


( Broken Toys )

Title: "The Most Effective Means of Persuasion"
Author: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Reader(s): [temporarily disillusioned]
Word Count: ~6100
Pairing(s): Severus Snape/Lily Evans, James Potter/Lily Evans Potter, Kingsley Shacklebolt/Alastor Moody
Rating: R (for themes, not sex)
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): Canon Character Death.
Prompt Author: andinocara
Prompt: 107: Dumbledore always said he was certain of Snape's loyalty. And he was. After all he paid a high price for it. What was it? What did Dumbledore do to ensure Snape's fealty?
Notes: Beta'd by the awesome D, on short notice and with great patience and great ideas – all mistakes my very own.

(The Most Effective Means of Persuasion) @ DW
(The Most Effective Means of Persuasion) @ LJ

Title: The Headmaster
Author: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Reader(s): [temporarily disillusioned]
Word Count: 5250
Characters: Severus Snape, Minerva McGonagall, Poppy Pomfrey, portrait!Albus
Rating: R
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): torture (mostly offstage)*
Prompt Author: starcrossedgirl
Prompt: 49: "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the burden of being a man" (Samuel Johnson).
Summary: Decent human beings couldn't or wouldn't do the things the Headmaster was required to do -- ergo, he couldn't be decent.
Notes: I'm extremely grateful to my beta-readers/handholders/therapists and to our excellent mod for her extraordinary patience.

(The Headmaster) @ DW
(The Headmaster) @ LJ

Title: Look at me
Artist: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Viewer: [temporarily disillusioned]
Pairing: Severus Snape/Lily Evans
Rating: R
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): OOC, nudity, violence, blood, character death.
Prompt Author: pale_moonlite
Prompt/Summary: 73: Snape has created a Lily automaton. To animate it, he has to sacrifice a part of his soul (think along the lines of Horcrux production).
Also took inspiration in prompts 41 (Lily dies, and that last shred of humanity in him dies with her) and 24 (While seeking a teaching position at Hogwarts, Voldemort boasts to Dumbledore that he has "experimented" and "pushed the boundaries of magic" (HBP). Severus is also obsessed with pushing the boundaries of knowledge. Show us some of his own (morally reprehensible) experiments, his blinding ambition, his glee at creating the new, no matter the consequences, even his sense of belonging with the Death Eaters for providing him this opportunity).
Notes: I realize canon Snape would never murder Lily's son on any grounds, so please take it not as committed act but only as a vision of midnight temptation.

(Look at me) @ DW
(Look at me) @ LJ

Title: Bitter Going Down
Author: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Reader(s): [permanently disillusioned]
Word Count: 1200
Pairing(s): Aberforth Dumbledore/Severus Snape
Rating: R
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): none.
Prompt Author: delphi
Prompt: 13: Severus and a prospective friend or lover bond over shared misanthropy.

(Bitter Going Down) @ DW
(Bitter Going Down) @ LJ

Title: Not if you don't get caught
Artist: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Viewer: [temporarily disillusioned]
Pairing: Harry Potter(+Severus Snape)/Ginny Weasley
Rating: R
(Highlight to View) Warnings: oblique mention of non-consensual but unforced sex and of sex under false pretenses; past use of a glamourie potion; mentioned mind potion shenanigans.
Prompt Author: delphi
Prompt: 10: Severus tells an (almost?) unforgivable lie in order to get laid.
Summary: "PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard."
Notes: This is my best attempt to convey the image that struck me as soon as I read this prompt. I only wish I could draw better. The actual image is courtesy of lots of pulp novel covers and googling for 'mirrors'.

(Not if you don't get caught) @ DW
(Not if you don't get caught) @ LJ

Title: The Gentleman Bettor
Author: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Reader(s): [temporarily disillusioned]
Word Count: 20,742
Pairing(s): Severus Snape/Hermione Granger; Lucius Malfoy/Narcissa Malfoy
Rating: R
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): [Language, Mild Sexual Content].
Prompt Author: laralee88
Prompt: 56: Severus Snape loses a bet with Lucius Malfoy. Having made an Unbreakable Vow, Severus has no choice other than going along with Lucius’s demands. Lucius’s prize: Setting Severus up on a blind date. He picks Snape’s colleague, Hermione Granger. Lucius and Narcissa invite the two of them on a much needed summer holiday, sit back, and watch the show.
Summary: Bound by the rules of magical society into performing a forfeit, despite the fact the Lucius clearly cheated in order to win the bet, Severus learns that sometimes it can pay to lose. However, that doesn't mean that revenge is off the table.
Notes: What can I say... L, thanks for the hours upon hours of time you spent chatting about this fic. Your advice and insight kept me going and laughing all along the way! And to all the ladies in TPP chat, thank you for the side-splitting ideas for revenge tactics. You had me in stitches within seconds of my asking. I hope you all enjoy what I did with your little gems!

Single-post version on DW:
(The Gentleman Bettor)

Chaptered version on LJ:

Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six

Title: Intention of the Spell
Artist: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Viewer(s): [temporarily disillusioned]
Rating: R
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): Blood, implied violence..
Prompt Author: caecelia_
Prompt: 79. Take us into Snape's mind as he created Sectumsempra. Did he test it on anyone? on himself? on animals? Did he kill?
Notes: I hope my interpretation will works for this prompts...I was going for making it into comics/panels, but they didn't work out at all, so I just show what was on his mind when he created the spell.
Summary: We don't know if Snape did test on anything while created Sectumsempra, but one thing for sure that he is created it with the intention for use on his enemies.

(Intention of the Spell) @ DW
(Intention of the Spell) @ LJ

Title: Like a man starved
Author: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Reader(s): [temporarily disillusioned]
Word Count: 1400
Rating: R
Pairing(s): Snape/Hermione
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): Possibly underage..
Prompt Author: of_anoesis
Prompt: 34: He had always tended to obsess over beauty where he saw it.
Summary: He watched her beauty like a man starved, even though her eyes were cold steel as she unblinkingly stared at him.
Notes: Can you spot the spell I made up? Also, to prevent confusion, Hermione's canon birthday is 19 September.

(Like a man starved) @ DW
(Like a man starved) @ LJ

Title: The Toil of the Just
Author: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Reader(s): [temporarily disillusioned]
Word Count: 15,500
Pairing(s): Snape/Hermione
Rating: R
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): Dub-con, rape, fatal violence, character death(s).
Prompt Author: meladara
Prompt: 105: He may have been the biggest bastard they knew but in the end they realized that he was the glue holding them all together.
Summary: Hidden in a cave, the remnants of Dumbledore's Army are fighting Voldemort and themselves, and losing on both fronts. Hermione's lost the key to her parents' memories to Bellatrix.
Notes: 1. Huge thanks to L. for her patience and input.
2. I have made it a personal challenge not to use any of the words dhorrible_mod used to define "bastard" when talking about Snape.

Single-post version on DW:

(The Toil of the Just)

Chaptered version on LJ:

Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Epilogue

Title: Reflections from the Mirror
Author: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Reader: [temporarily disillusioned]
Word Count: 4631
Pairing(s): Severus/Albus, Severus/Aberforth, Shacklebolt/Moody
Rating : R
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): allusions to violence, suffering, pain, canon deaths.
Prompt Author: delphi
Prompt: 154: Severus and Aberforth have one thing in common: hating and reluctantly loving Albus Dumbledore.
Summary: After the war, old animosities still remain, and even in death, Albus seems to still be in charge. Written for BbtB, 2012.

(Reflections from the Mirror) @ DW
(Reflections from the Mirror) @ LJ

Title: Evan Ames Rises Up
Author: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Reader(s): [temporarily disillusioned]
Word Count: ~7000
Pairing(s): Kingsley/Andromeda
Rating: R
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): Implication of extremely problematic consent; reference to violence/assault; probably this qualifies as horror even though it's not particularly gory.
Prompt Author: kerravonsen
Prompt/Summary: 59: Post-DH. Snape's ghost possesses someone. He does it much more slowly, subtly and successfully than Voldemort did. No unicorn-blood required; Snape was MUCH better at potions than Voldemort was.

(Evan Ames Rises Up) @ DW
(Evan Ames Rises Up) @ LJ

Title: The Tie that Binds
Author: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Reader(s): [temporarily disillusioned]
Word Count: 43,648
Pairing(s): Severus Snape, Hermione Granger
Rating: R
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): Character Death, Extreme Angst, Language, Mature Themes.
Prompt Author: kerravonsen
Prompt: 33: Post-war, EWE. Hermione Granger is investigating something. And then she bumps into Severus Snape, who offers his help. But is he really helping her, or is he making sure that she *doesn't* find the answers she is looking for? Ambiguous, sneaky, slippery Snape. Optional Trappings: Bonus points if Snape remains ambigious to the end. Even so, I would prefer a happy/hopeful ending for some value of happy/hopeful.
Summary: In the end, it is up to you to decide who is worth the suffering. 
Notes: A very special thanks to kerravonsen for suggesting a prompt that drove my Muse wild. I may have played with the prompt a bit, but I hope it still exceeds your expectations!

Single-post verison on DW:
(The Tie That Binds)

Chaptered version on LJ:

Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven

Title: Romance of the Age
Author: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Reader(s): [temporarily disillusioned]
Word Count: approximately 23K
Pairing(s): one-sided Regulus/Snape, one-sided everyone/Lily, Lucius/Narcissa
Rating: R
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): Canonical character deaths. This has a very high body count. Also, racism and references to abortion..
Prompt Author: o_mayari
Prompt: 113: Sirius describes Voldemort’s rise as “Terror everywhere… panic… confusion...” Write a Snape who is not at all terrified, and who in fact thoroughly enjoys these interesting times.
Summary: The rise of Severus Snape, who was born miserable and low, and had nowhere to go, really, but up.
Notes: This owes themes, motifs, and entire lines to Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies. The "hostage" line is straight from Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate. "The male" is taken from the real-life Mitfords, as is the notion of all the Blacks having ridiculous nicknames. Granfalloon is from Vonnegut.

Single-post version on DW:

(Romance of the Age)

Chaptered version on LJ:

Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three

Title: Fifty Shades of Truth
Author: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Reader(s): [temporarily disillusioned]
Word Count: ~13.5k
Pairing(s): Snape/Harry, background Ron/Hermione
Rating: R
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): mindfuck, implied BDSM, abusive relationship, gaslighting, disturbing themes.
Prompt Author: starcrossedgirl
Prompt: 48: Harry has been with Snape since the end of the war. All would be beautiful and perfect, were it not for the fact that Hermione and Ron insist on trying to tell him that Snape is not what he appears to be.
Summary: What’s white is black, what’s black is white. All shadows are a trick of the light. Right?
Notes: Despite the title, this fic bears no resemblance whatsoever to the fanfiction books of E.L. James. Huge thanks as always to A for a stellar beta and incredibly useful feedback!

Single-post version on DW: (Fifty Shades of Truth)

Chaptered version on LJ:

Chapter One
Chapter Two

Title: A Turning Towards
Author: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Reader(s): [temporarily disillusioned]
Word Count: ~1500
Pairing(s): Argus Filch/Severus Snape
Rating: R
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): Verbal Abuse, Violence, Unsafe BDSM Practices, Dubious Consent.
Prompt Author: margi_lynn
Prompt: 71: "Snape's partner is a service top. He loves berating them for the miserable job they do best of all. Optional: His partner isn't getting off on the humiliation."
Summary: The only thing more dangerous than a bastard like Snape is the man who just wants to make him happy.

(A Turning Towards) @ DW
(A Turning Towards) @ LJ

Title: The Little Prince
Artist: [temporarily disillusioned]
Beta Viewer(s): [temporarily disillusioned]
Pairing(s):
Rating: R (NWS)
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): Death of a secondary character.
Prompt Author: cabepfir (LJ)
Prompt: 16: What did Snape do as a Death Eater, before going back to Dumbledore? Did he torture/kill/whatever someone? Did he enjoy it?

(The Little Prince) @ DW
(The Little Prince) @ LJ