Challenge: A Christmas Carol
Word Count: 100
Note: this is yet another Motherless Child story, where Snape and Lupin marry and adopt a young werewolf. This is set about two years after they move in together but a few months before they adopt their son.
“Well, well. You seem to have prospered in spite of it all.” Lucius Malfoy gestured at the modest little lounge, the crackling flames, the simple dinner laid out for two. “Of course, you could have had this.”
They stood in the dining room of Malfoy Manor. The guests were elegant purebloods, the table groaning with delicacies, and blood from the Dark Lord's wand spattered all -
“Severus!” Severus was barely aware of Remus holding him down before he could lunge out the window. “You're safe, you're safe, hold on, I've got you.”
Severus clutched at him. “Thank God.”