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TITLE: Cold Flames
AUTHOR: Relala
BETA: lady of scarlet
FANDOM STATUS: Fanon
There is absolutely nothing in the whole entire world which Lucius Malfoy cannot claim for his own. He is the heir of the ancient Malfoy family, molded into the picture of perfection and elegance by great Pure-blood witches and wizards with haughty ignorance. He is, in this magical prejudice world, a prince of princes and at times it seems that the world itself revolves around the gentleman's whims and fancies - the girls smile adoringly with sparkles in their eyes and men cower in terror beneath his gaze.
Narcissia Black adores him, Slughorn is proud of him, Bellatrix indulges him and Albus Dumbledore sees a horrid greatness in the teenager. Regulus even admires him despite their competitive nature. Even the Half-blood Prince himself has become nothing but a speck of dirt in his own life, existing because Lucius Malfoy does not wipe him off the table. A background object to be looked at only when Lucius wishes him to be seen.
For the most part Severus can accept that.
For the most part the Half-blood Prince enjoys the company of the other Slytherin boy with the natural hero-worship which someone so young places on someone who seems so much older. Lucius is so much greater, so much more sophisticated, than anyone young Severus Snape has ever had the actual pleasure of knowing. He has been charmed by this Hogwarts graduate like he has never been charmed before.
For the most part it's all normal behaviour between them, the usual stuff that goes on between two young men. The casual roughhousing and teasing in the company of girls and women. The hexes they lazily cast on each other after late nights of drinking in the dirty little rooms of the Hogs Head.
But only for the most part.
Because everything is not always so casual between the two boys, nor is it what is dictated by the public as what is normal between two males. Sometimes Lucius's whims and fancies scare Severus more than all the back alley whispers of the Dark Lord. He is like most any other teenage boy, discovering himself in a world which foundations start to shiver and shake. In the middle of the freezing cold Hogwarts winter it is Lucius that keeps Severus warm and semi-content inside, keeping the morose nagging in the back of his mind at bay.
The Pure-blood's cloudy eyes lock with his and the man wraps his arms around the teenage boy, holding him steady as the young wizard's vision of the world becomes grey around the edges. He is drifting farther and farther into a world of monochrome and it is Lucius who keeps him chained to reality, stuck in a world which consists of forbidden spells and arrogant boasts, hidden desires within silk sheets.
It's odd how such cold eyes can hold such passion.
THE END
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