Word Count: exactly 100

Challenge: Lupin Saw It All Challenge

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Title: Waiting for Control

"I would rather be dead!" she pronounced, her eyes flashing.

Snape crossed his arms in thought. "You will be bitter and dead in spirit years from now if we win, just as I am now."

"I will be informing Dumbledore of all of this," he asserted with sneering finality in his rich voice.

She crossed her arms across her chest, mimicking his stance. "No you will not!" Hermione demanded using firmest control voice, "You will take that money, and you will follow orders Mister Snape."

Lupin refused to accept what his ears heard; no one spoke that way to Snape.