Suicide Solution.
Notes: this is a Severitus Challenge; go to his bio to find out the 'rules'
for a Severitus Challenge piece.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything that is recognisably Harry potter-ish,
and the Severitus challenge-ness belongs to the writer Severitus
(userid=123967), any spells, curses hexes etc, unless stated otherwise, will
belong to the wondrous Saerry Snape (userid=74156) and her characters Lord and
Lady Hex.
Summary: A Severitus challenge, [Snape is Harry's father] Story begins
at 11.59pm on July 30th. It's the
summer before Harry's 6th year, and Harry's changing . . . (A Dark Harry fic)
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Also anything in Parseltongue will be in speech marks and italics.
Chapter 34
The Dark Lord smiled cruelly at Cercis' slip up.
"Well, well, well. It seems that our guest let his emotions get the better of him." The Dark Lord moved towards Cercis slowly.
"Mr Potter you are not someone I expected to be standing here claiming that you are loyal to me. This is very interesting. Severus come here!" he commanded.
The crouching figure stood and moved towards his son and his master.
"Severus" he began in a silky voice "When did you plan on telling me?"
Severus did not need to be told what his master was talking about, he knew that the Dark Lord now knew that Harry Potter was the son of his most faithful follower.
"After you had marked him my lord" Severus replied bowing slightly to him. The Dark Lord stepped back away from the Snape's and looked at the both of them.
"Is this true Cercis? Do you wish to bear my mark also?" he asked Cercis who was watching the scene with interest.
"Yes sir, however, I will not follow you as these fools do. I will not worship and kiss the ground you walk on. But I will follow your orders. I will not scrape the bottom of the barrel for you but I shall do as you command. Is that fair? You will have a follower who is not completely in adept to making a stand and figuring things out for himself and I shall have someone to look up to as well as my father. The both of you I respect more than anyone else I have ever met or heard of."
Cercis folded his arms across his chest and stared at the most feared wizard of all time.
The Dark Lord was silent for a long time but then he answered the boy who stood proudly before him.
"Accepted. Severus congratulations, you son has turned out beautifully. He will make a perfect Death Eater. However you cannot receive any gift with out working for it first." Here he looked at Cercis directly. "Lucius go and find us a family of muggles. I want them back here in no more than half an hour clear!"
He shouted his order and Lucius bowed just before he apperated Cercis muttered the counter spell so that the Death Eaters could speak again.
"Wandless magics? Very interesting" The Dark Lord murmured to Cercis, who nodded in reply.
"Cercis why don't you and your father have a little chat, you said that you did no longer trust him with your secrets. Now we can't have that, so lets sort this out shall we?" he finished with a pure evil look upon his face and went and sat down in one of the high backed chairs that remained in the room.
The surrounding Death Eaters back out and made the circle wider. Cercis turned to look at his father.
"Accio chair." Another chair in the room flew towards him and he sat on it facing his father.
"Well father why don't you explain to me how I managed to get expelled this afternoon?"
Severus looked at his son before answering.
"I received a message from Blaise saying that neither he nor Draco could stop your attack on Weasley and could I come and help." He took a breath before continuing.
"I left my office and made my way up to the ROR, and ran into Dumbledore on the way, literally." Here a few Death eaters sniggered both Cercis and Severus ignored them. Severus continued his explanation.
"Dumbledore demanded I tell him why I was running and so I said that there were a few students in a fight on the 7th floor. He said to go and tell poppy and that he would sort this out. I agreed and Dumbledore went up to the ROR and I headed off to the infirmary. After I had told poppy of the problem I headed up to the ROR only to find it empty. I headed back down to my office thinking that that would be where Blaise and Draco would have taken you. However when I got there I saw Dumbledore advancing on you and you flooing to Lucius' Cleveland manor. Dumbledore does not know of that manor and so he was confused but let it slide he left my office after telling me what had happened and went off to inform the Auror's that 'Harry Potter' was to be arrested as soon as he was spotted. I then saw to Blaise and Draco briefly before being summoned here." Severus finished his tale and looked directly into the eyes of his on.
The emerald green eyes were filled with such a fierce hatred that Severus had to look away.
"Dumbledore shall die." He hissed before standing and walking over to the Dark Lord.
"Is there any way to obtain Dumbledore?" he asked.
"We're working on it. Make no mistake he will die."
Cercis nodded then made his way back over to his father.
"If this is the truth then I forgive you, but if it is not then I will kill you. Understood?"
Severus looked up at his son again who was now standing over him.
"Understood" he replied. Cercis smiled and held out his right hand to help him stand, Severus took it and as soon as he was standing Cercis pulled him into a hug.
"I'm glad that you haven't betrayed me father." He whispered into his father's ear "However if you do, I will kill you."
"I know" Severus whispered back "I know."
Cercis released Severus and they turn to face the Dark Lord. Both stood tall and proud and the Dark Lord approached them slowly.
"Take his warning to heart Severus." He advised his most loyal Death Eater "I do not think that he will go against what he has promised you, however" he turned to Cercis "I am curious to know. You said that you knew of my skill to know when people are lying to me and that you too practice it."
"That is so my lord. If you wish to see into my mind with Occulmency then just ask and you can I have nothing to hide from you, my lord." Being able to converse in parseltongue was turning out to be very handy, none of the other Death Eaters could understand what was being said and so if there were any spies within the ranks they would have nothing to report.
"That is what I ask" the Dark Lord replied.
Cercis smirked, "then it shall be done."
And with that Cercis took down the walls of Occulmency and all his thoughts, feelings and experiences flooded out of his mind and they were absorbed by the Dark Lord.
The process took a very long time, Cercis was sending every moment of his life to Lord Voldemort. Everything from when he was just a child living under the stairs at the Dursley's up to the conversation he had had with Lucius before being called to the meeting.
After the last memory was released Cercis collapsed backwards and his father caught him. The Dark Lord too staggered backwards slightly but he kept his footing.
Severus helped Cercis stand and both looked over towards the Dark Lord and found him staring at Cercis with an odd look in his eyes.
At that moment Lucius reappeared with a family of stunned muggles. The mother was holding onto a small child that couldn't have been older than 2 or 3 and the father was holding hands with a small boy who looked to be about 10.
Lucius knelt before his master and Cercis heard him say.
"Here you are my lord, I found them and stunned then as quickly as I could."
The Dark Lord looked away from the two Snape's and looked the family over.
"Wonderful Lucius, I may re think my questions about your usefulness."
"Thank you my Lord."
"Return to your place." He commanded in a harsh voice and Lucius re took his place in the inner circle.
The Dark Lord turned to Cercis and beckoned him forward. Cercis did so wondering what was expected of him.
"You wish to join me" The Dark Lord asked of him when Cercis was standing only a few feet away with Occulmency back in place.
'My scar doesn't sting so much any more; I guess when he's not directing his anger at me it doesn't pick anything up. Oh well the less pain the better.'
"Yes my lord."
Cercis answered him in a cold voice.
The Dark Lord smiled cruelly at him and motioned to the family of four lying unconscious on the stone floor.
"I want you to kill the children and torture the parents."
Cercis looked at the family
'Stupid muggles, they deserve everything that I shall unleash upon them'
He smirked
"Of course my Lord." He turned to the family.
"Enervate!" they woke up and immediately the baby started crying.
"Oh shut up you pathetic creature! Avada Kedavra!" the green light shot out from the palm of his hand and hit the child which was silenced instantly. Seeing that her child had been killed the woman started screaming.
"Silence! That's better" he turned to the other child who was clinging to his father frantically. Cercis smirked.
'This is going to be fun.'
"Come here." He said to the boy. He shook his head and grabbed a tighter hold of his fathers clothes. "Come here" Cercis said in a sterner voice. Once again the boy shook his head.
"Fine, fine, fine." He muttered.
"Imperio." He said almost lazily. "Come here." He repeated and this time the boy did so. Cercis grabbed hold of his arm and turned him to face his mother and father.
"Do you love your parents?" he asked the little boy in a soft voice.
"Yes." Was the instantaneous reply. "Do you want to see them die slowly and painfully?" Cercis asked in an evil voice.
The boy shook his head "n . . . n . . . no."
Cercis shrugged.
"Too bad."
He looked at the father
"Imperio. Come here." The father stood up and the woman tried to scream for him but she was still being silenced by his earlier spell.
Cercis handed him Draconis, his dagger, and handed it to the father.
"Stab you wife to death" he told him in a calm voice. The father took the dagger and turned to face his wife with out a question. She started to scramble away from her husband who was advancing on her slowly. Cercis grinned and held onto the boy tightly.
"Finite" he muttered so that the imperious was lifted from the child.
"Lets hear her scream shall we" the woman started to scream as soon as the spell was lifted.
Her husband had reached her and she tried frantically to push him away, but she failed miserably. She began to scream louder as her husband started his attack on her.
The Death Eaters laughed and Cercis held on tighter to the boy who was crying and trying to reach his parents. The mother was crying too and her screams filled the room, Cercis heard her mutter her dieing words and he sneered at them.
"I will love you forever Robert."
The boy was still trying to reach his parents and Cercis let him go.
"Kill your son quickly" he commanded to the father; Robert.
As soon as the boy came within reach the father slit his son's throat and the boy quickly bled to his young death.
"Finite" the imperious was lifted from the father who dropped to his knee's and cradled his wife's bloodied figure.
"Avada Kedavra!" once again the green light left Cercis' hand and killed the sobbing man instantly.
His task done, Cercis turned to face the smiling Dark Lord.
"Task completed master." He said to him.
The Dark Lord smiled "And done so wonderfully too. You are worthy of bearing my Mark. Come here."
Cercis moved past his father who was staring at him with pride. Cercis knelt before the Dark Lord and held out his Left arm. The Dark Lord pointed his wand at his arm and recited the incantation.
"Mosremaqe!" a pain worse than that of the cructius curse was inflicted on his arm and Cercis fought not to scream out loud. The pain seemed to last for hours but was instead only two minutes.
"Welcome Cercis Snape to my Death Eater ranks."
Cercis stood up cradling his left arm and locked eyes once again with his master.
"Thank you my lord, but I still stick to what I said earlier. I will not do as your other Death Eaters do and grovel like a dog when we mess up, I will not act as your slave but I shall do as you command.
"Good. The rest of you continue with your missions I want a full feedback in 5 days! Dismissed!"
The ranks of Death Eaters all disaperated except for Lucius, Cercis and Severus.
Severus approached his son and spoke to him quietly.
"I cannot go back with you to Lucius' manor but I shall find you there. Good bye son, I am very proud of what you have done this evening. I shall see you soon."
"Good bye father." Cercis replied as Severus disaperated away back to Hogwarts.
He walked over to where Lucius stood and the blonde man placed a hand on his shoulder again.
"Come, you need to write a letter to Draco and Blaise and Narcissa wants to talk to you. The talk we can leave until tomorrow. You must be tired."
Cercis looked up at the 41 year old.
"Thanks. Let's go."
And with that they both disaperated away from the Dark Lord and back to the Cleveland Manor.
~S~
AN: yay go me over 2,400 words! I hope you liked it. Cercis has turned evil because of his frequent use of the dark arts and his hatred of all those on the side of 'good'.
Spells
All were apart of JKR mind in this chapter.
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Gizchic: Cercis couldn't be Sirius (okay bad joke). His life is more a kinda death/life/azkaban thing now. Just the opposition has switched round.
Results from mini-survey
Cercis/Draco = 6/24 = 25%
Cercis/Blaise = 1/24 = 4%
Cercis/Granger = 1/24 = 4%
Cercis/Anyone else = 7/24 = 29%
I think I will just have him fuck around and have fun – hey you only live once. *grins*
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