Pairing Challenge - Severus/Regulus
Hogwarts Assignments - Holiday Films - Write about a cynic EP:(character) Severus Snape
Word Count: 454
Don't
Regulus hissed as Severus seized his arm, stopping the younger man in his tracks. He snapped his head round, glaring into the pale face and dark eyes. Severus's face was twisted in frustration and concern, his lips peeled back in a snarl as he spoke.
"Don't."
Regulus pulled his arm sharply out of the tight grip, whirling to face him fully. "Don't what, Severus? Don't do what is right? Don't go out on a limb to save the world? Don't show everyone what little Regulus can really do? I'm going to bring this crashing down around them all, because Sirius was right!"
He was almost shouting by the end, chest heaving and eyes wild.
Severus was silent for a long moment, his eyes flickering wildly between Regulus' own. "Don't leave," he said quietly after a moment. "I can't lose you."
With a great release of breath, Regulus deflated. He slumped against the nearest wall. "If I don't do this, Sev, if we don't do something, what will there be to live for?"
"Eachother!" He insisted, stepping forward. Regulus shook his head sadly. "Do you honestly think the do-gooder Gryffindor's will welcome you with open arms? After the years of hatred and hostility, after everything your brother and his friends did?"
"I'm not doing it for them, you should know that. I owe my brother and his ilk very little."
"Then why, why are you doing this? Why are you risking everything we have?"
Regulus moved away from the wall and raised a hand. He pushed the fallen strands of hair from Severus's eyes and let his thumb trail over the other man's cheek. "I'm doing it for us, for you. This is our chance for a world where we will be accepted. Neither of us has the stomach for this blatant violence and hatred. We only got tangled up in this crazy cult because some hat decided we belonged with fanatics! I don't think the same way I did when I was eleven, do you?"
Severus hesitated, wavering on the border between softening and accepting this new path, but in the next second something had hardened his resolve. He withdrew from the tender embrace, a wall shuttering his face.
"No. It doesn't matter what we thought then and now. We are accepted here, we would never be accepted there. I've made my bed and I will lie in it. You will simply fail, and I am not hanging round to lose you on your terms."
"You could come with me Sev, we could do this together?"
"No. You do it alone."
With a long look, Severus turned and walked down the corridor, leaving Regulus to contemplate his choices, his future, alone.
"Goodbye Regulus."
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