Snape 100

ellid @ 07:17 am: Title: The Scent of a Rose
Challenges: cats snape100, damask rose lupin100
Rating: G
Word Count: 100


The Damask Rose Room was a legend. It was the last functioning example of a boudoir with wallpaper and furniture charmed to give off a favored scent. Lilac, lavender, sandalwood…all had been used, and all had been deactivated as fashions changed.

Now the Room was threatened. Draco Malfoy was engaged, and if Narcissa's frantic note was to be believed, his bride was insisting that the room be deactivated because it made her cat sneeze. Now Snape found himself charged with compounding an allergy pill for Pussyboots, while Lupin was supposed to communicate with the beast.

It would not be easy.

bluestocking79 @ 10:09 am: An Understanding
Challenge #292: Snape and Cats
Title: An Understanding
Author: bluestocking79
Pairing: Implied Severus/Minerva
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100 x 2
Notes: I'm so rusty at writing that I'm sure you can hear my creaking all over the interwebs, but the combination of Azkatraz and this week's prompt seems to have reinvigorated the muse.


She came to Severus first in the long, colourless nights after war's end and Lily's death—a glowing-eyed guardian, a warm weight on his bed, allowing him the privilege of stroking her fur as the rumble of her contented purr lulled him to the sleep that otherwise rarely came.

Always, in the morning, she was gone. Always, he searched her face at the breakfast table, looking for some acknowledgment in those pale, pitiless eyes. There was none—no trace of the mockery he feared, nor of any other unnamed things that might frighten him more than her laughter ever could.

( Yet she often returned... )