Strange Charade
Original poster: lesyeuxverts00
Title: Strange Charade
Author: lesyeuxverts00
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG-13
Challenge: 38 - New beginnings
Warnings: Self-indulgent prose ... sorry.
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Fingers pressed to breastbone and lips to fingertips – it's a shadow show, a strange charade, and silent Severus uses it. Heart against heart, a touch imparts his history of shame.
His heartbeat stutters, his breathing falters. Skin on skin, their different lusts collide. These are the final ways, his penance paid in a parody of love.
No dream is forever, his duplicity discovered, the sacrament denied.
These touches, kisses, more lovelorn collisions – no shadow show, no penance plied, this melody unwound.
A deliberate defiling, Harry's innocence uncrowned. Their strange charade converted, they begin in forgiven sin, mere pretense at love.