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A/N: This is a series of drabbles focused on the Black family.
The first one: The wrongly convicted Sirius Black spots his cousin as she is brought into Azkaban.
ODI ET AMO
"Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior."
I hate and I love. Why do I do this, perhaps you ask.
I do not know, but I feel it happening and I am tortured.
- Catullus 85
I. Silence
It is too dark to see much outside of his cell, and one of his eyes has swelled shut from a guard's fist. But he does not need his sight to see her.
There is a glint of madness in her eyes that fades when their gazes meet. For a moment, he sees them soften in a way they haven't for years.
But in the next moment, they harden and burn with wrath, magma into obsidian. With vindictive glee, she presses a finger to her lips, showing him her final revenge, punishment for his part in her master's demise.
Silence.