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Severus Snape (severelyseverus) wrote in labyrinth_rpg,
@ 2009-04-26 21:04:00

Entry tags:

complete, day seven, faith lehane, severus snape

WHO: Snape and Faith
WHAT: A day at the amusement park
WHEN: Day 7
WHERE: The rides
STATUS: Incomplete
RATING: PG-13?

Snape looked out his window, rolled his eyes at the sight of great, noisy, muggle machineries, and turned back to his workbench. The skele-gro potion he was busy concocting was at a crucial juncture. In a couple of minutes, the two-hour boiling would be done; Snape would have to add just the right amount of powdered lizard bone, then take the cauldron off the heat.

As he watched the potion burble away, he shook his head at the realization that his place was going to be changing its appearance every now and then, just like Mirage had. Why was he surprised? He only hoped more of the settings would be more like the last one and less like this new one. What in Merlin's name had even been going on out there? Over the flashing lights and various whirs and clanks, the dominant sound had been one of people screaming? Surely it was too festive an environment to be a torture zone? Whatever it was, Snape did not intend to find out. He had spent the last few days stocking his pantry well. That lizard bone had not been easy to procure.

As the allotted boiling time came to an end, Snape removed the cauldron from its hook over the fire, and reached for the jar of powdered bone. Only once he had poured the remaining powder into his measuring spoon did he realize that he had used the last of it. The wizard closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He had three other batches on the go. He was going to need more bone. Today. He was going to have to go out into that maelstrom of muggle nonsense. This was not turning into a good day.

Grabbing his black cloak, Snape strode angrily from his chambers.

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severelyseverus
2009-05-14 10:18 pm UTC (link)

"Don't I know you have a reputation. I find it difficult to believe, however, that you consider it something to be proud of.--Did you just steal that person's dinner?--"

Snape shook his head. Faith's behaviour was really quite atrocious sometimes. He refused to apologize for it, however, and said nothing more about the hot dog. Had coin been currency in that place, he would have magically lifted sufficient payment from the young woman's pocket without giving her a chance to protest; however, as it was, she had merely inconvenienced others, and only her apology would fix that.

"Great Merlin! Where does it begin?"

Snape watched the coaster for a short minute, trying to understand the purpose of all of its twists. His eyes widened when the train rushed past, full of screaming riders.

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dark_slayer
2009-05-15 12:39 am UTC (link)

"Well, shit, if you got it, you gotta flaunt it, you know?" She smirked at him, apparently quite easy with herself, as she finished the hotdog. "Man, stolen food is the best! You should seriously try it sometime, it totally beats normal food, you know?"

When the person from whom she'd stolen the hotdog gave her a dirty look, she gave them one right back, and a rude gesture, for good measure. With that done, she linked her arm though Snape's and brought him with her to the entrance to the roller coaster. His expression amused her, and she laughed at him.

"Shit, Skeletor, you've never been on a damn roller coaster? We gotta change this. You are in serious need of some fun."

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severelyseverus
2009-05-18 01:04 am UTC (link)

"In need of fun, am I? I hardly believe that's the case. However, I didn't come here for nothing. Where do we go to mount this infernal contraption?"

Now that the hot dog was gone, he felt less uncomfortable. To be sure, in any altercation that might arise from the incident, Faith was on her own, but with the way she was hanging onto his arm, there was a good chance that he could be assumed guilty by association.

Looking about, he noticed the platform where riders got on and off the train, and headed in that direction. He was reassured by the presence of his wand in his pocket, as well as his years of experience with quick and silent casting. He did not trust this 'roller coaster' and he could imagine innumerable gruesome ways it might cause his death.

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dark_slayer
2009-05-19 12:08 am UTC (link)

Shaking her head in mock disbelief, though, of course, she had been around him too much to really feel such a thing, she followed him up to the line up for the roller coaster. "Yeah, like, you got to find the fun even more than G man, you know?" And that was saying something. Giles was cute, but way too stuffy. Except as Ripper.

"Could you make it sound more lame?" She rolled her eyes at him, but flashed him a brilliant grin and got into the very front car of the roller coaster. She settled down quickly, and then waited for him to come and sit in the place beside her.

Ignoring the restraint, for now, she lounged against the back of the seat, her legs propped up on the front of the car as if she didn't have a care in the world. "So, what do you do for fun, if not roller coasters?" She was a bit curious, really. She barely knew him, and he actually seemed to know her pretty well.

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severelyseverus
2009-05-19 10:56 pm UTC (link)

Snape fit himself into the seat of the roller coaster car, gathering his cloak and robes about him. Concerned first for his own safety, he examined the restraining mechanism intently, wanting there to be no error in its use. Only after he had been assured through observation that the coaster attendants would see to his safety did he turn and answer Faith's question.

"For 'fun'? I'm not certain I would use that word, implying, as it does, an air of useless frivolity, but I suppose I find my fun in soaking up arcane lore from ancient tomes, brewing novel or forgotten magical potions, and gathering rare ingredients in lonely and life-threatening adventures. It was formerly my hobby to devise the cruelest and most mind-rendingly horrific of curses, but I gave that up some time ago."

He watched her expression, not really expecting her to be fazed by his statements. It was, for Snape, a rather frank admission, which spoke, he supposed, to his desire to be known by this girl. Why that should be, he did not know, unless it was because he sensed that she, among all the others in this place, would not think his hobbies so far beyond the bounds of normalcy.

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dark_slayer
2009-05-19 11:50 pm UTC (link)

Once Snape was in, Faith lowered her feet and set them on the floor. Reckless she might be, but that didn't extend to riding a roller coaster without a restraint. So she sat back, more or less properly, for once. Not lounging, just sitting. It was rare, and a concession to the ride, nothing more.

"Yeah?" She turned to look at him, surprise shining for a moment in her dark eyes. The goblin ride attendants came by and checked that they were properly belted in, and she didn't stop looking at him the whole time. "Life-threatening, huh? Well, shit, I know something about that." She bit her lower lip, realized what she was doing, and stopped herself. "Curses... yeah. Just... you know. I know about that, too."

Instantly, as happened whenever she let something like that slip, her defenses were up. "Not that I wanna hug and share and grow or anything. Just saying. You don't got the monopoly on curses, you know." Maybe it had been a reaction to his honesty, what had come out of her lips. But she felt strange about it, and it was a relief when the roller coaster started.

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severelyseverus
2009-05-21 10:38 pm UTC (link)

Snape observed the slightly-increased care with which Faith secured herself in the coaster car, and wasn't sure whether to feel impressed that she had done something with a bit of propriety for once or frightened that this ride should intimidate her into sober submission to its safety requirements. In truth he felt a bit of both and was quickly distracted by her not-quite-revealing comments. He already knew she lived a life of danger, but what was her connection with curses? Was it worth it to push her on it? It would hardly be polite...

"I'm sorry. Are you saying you are also familiar with devising and casting curses, or that you have yourself been cursed or are, in fact, cursed at this moment. Because I am much practiced in the removal of magical impediments, and if you are cursed, I could help you become free."

The wizard found himself forgetting about his potions as he dangled the invitation to a subsequent meeting with this exasperatingly intriguing young woman in front of her. He had to admit, as the train began its long, slow climb to the top of the highest hill, that removing a curse from her sounded more fun than this roller coaster business.

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dark_slayer
2009-05-22 08:40 pm UTC (link)

Faith glanced over at Snape as the roller coaster moved slowly to the top of the largest hill. "Shit, man, what the fuck did I just say? I don't wanna talk about it." There was a moment of silence as the car hung on the very top of the structure, about to plummet over, but not quite gone over the edge yet.

In that instant, Faith, despite her earlier words, began to talk. "No, I can't do your mojo thing, but I'm cursed. Shit, there's nothing you can do about it, except kill me." She spoke softly, looking away, refusing to meet his eyes. "Sometimes I wish someone..."

But then, whatever she was going to say was cut off by a delighted shriek as the cart went over the edge, and hurtling down the steep hill. Being who she was, she flung her hands high into the air, let gravity jerk her around as much as it wanted to. Never once, in the course of the entire ride, did she let her hands grab onto anything, and as always on a rollercoaster, she felt delightfully out of control, like she was going to fly from the seat any second.

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severelyseverus
2009-05-25 09:53 pm UTC (link)

Snape was not surprised at first by Faith's repeated insistence that he not probe her secrets. He had expected just such a reaction after she had made her boundaries clear the first time. Nevertheless, this new Faith had never liked him much, so he felt there wasn't much for him to lose by persisting.

He was surprised, however, by the subsequent confession she offered. His rapt attention was shockingly broken as the train began its frighteningly rapid descent. What had she been about to say? That she wanted someone to kill her? But surely there was a real possibility he could help her. That was as far as he got, however, before the chaos and terror of the coaster ride destroyed his ability to form coherent thoughts.

Never had he endured so disturbing a journey. To be flung about by the mechanical contraption with no way to predict where he would end up or which way he would be jerked next. It was worse than the carts in the vaults at Gringotts. He would take floo powder and portkeys over this mode of transport any day. Why on Earth would anyone do this for fun. Muggles truly must be mad.

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dark_slayer
2009-05-26 02:59 pm UTC (link)

The momentary weakness was over, so far as she was concerned. She was relieved, really, that she'd been interupted before she'd gone any further with it. As far as she was concerned, this was over. So she just threw herself into the ride, and by the end, she felt much better about everything.

At the end of the ride, she turned to Snape and arched an eyebrow at him. "Fun, right, Skeletor?" The previous conversation was completely pushed aside, as Faith had less than no interest in continuing with what had been nothing more than a momentary weakness.

"I wanna go again." Her dark eyes were sparkling, her skin was slightly flushed, and she was almost bouncing in her seat. "Can we?" The look she gave him was really almost imploring.

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severelyseverus
2009-06-02 10:53 pm UTC (link)

Snape slowly released the white-knuckled grip he had on the coaster car's rim, and turned to face the bouncing young woman next to him. Fighting to keep his deep reluctance to ever undergo that experience again from his face (and succeeding fairly well, from years of practice), Snape struggled to find the best answer to Faith's question. As much as he did not want to ride the coaster once more, he had to admit, at least to himself, that he found Faith's eagerness almost irresistable. More than that, he found the way it tickled his memories somewhat arousing, but he wasn't sure if he was ready to admit that to himself.

"Yes. We can."

Snape took a deep breath and sat back in the seat. One more time, and that was it. At least this time he would know what to expect.

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dark_slayer
2009-06-10 10:41 pm UTC (link)

The pretty brunette looked at him in disbelief. She had fully expected him to say no to that, once it became obvious he was seriously freaked out. But he was willing to go again. In a rare moment of compassion, she shook her head and shrugged. "Nah, it's cool. It's totally boring the second time, anyhow."

She crawled out of the car, and then turned to Snape. Now was the time when it could get awkward, considering what she'd said. She bit her lower lip and looked at him seeming almost vulnerable.

"Hey, look, about that stuff I said, I was just fucking around, alright?" She punched him lightly, well, lightly for her, anyway, on the shoulder. "You're alright, Skeletor. I gotta jet, later."

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