Chapter 8: Back in Black

Voldemort sat up and balled his legs up against his chest, his lips touching his jean-covered knees. He stared out into the Black lake, his mind a wondering mess.

He hated this. Hated these feelings. Pain, betrayal, rejection. These emotions were the reason that he had become so completely heartless.

The feelings hurt too much is he just shut them out. If he didn't pay attention to them, then it didn't feel as bad. He needed to stop this.

He had gotten along for so many years without feelings and he had done just fine, but now when he finally let feelings break through his barrier, he had gotten ambushed with grief.

He made a decision. One he swore to himself that he would never take back. He was going back to the way he was, cold and heartless.

Feelings were no longer going to be a problem. There was nothing to stab him with a knife and twist it around until he died from blood loss.

Of course, Severus, with his bad timing, decided to show up just as he made this revelation. The brown-haired teenager didn't even look up.

He knew who it was. The black-haired man walked slowly towards him but stopped to his left without sitting himself down.

"I've been looking for you for hours. Are you okay?"

Voldemort looked at Snape and the potion's master saw the evil glint in his eyes. The glint that he had just happened to have "misplaced" for a little while now, but it was back now and more terrifying than ever.

The teenager cleared his throat and spoke in a voice that trembled slightly despite his best efforts to stable it.

"I have been thinking and the best thing to do for our next move is to kill Rufus Scrimgeour."

Severus was taken back by the fact that his Master had completely avoided and ignored the subject of what had just happened back at the house, but he decided not to bring it up.

Voldemort didn't seem to be in a good mood and when he wasn't in a good mood, you didn't dare mess with him. So, instead he just went with the flow.

"The new Minister of Magic, yes, he does seem like a good target."

Voldemort nodded absent-mindedly and added, "Kill him and his family."

Snape gaped. He may be a Death Eater, but killing the entire family wasn't his forte. That was more of Bellatrix Lestrange's area of expertise.

Whenever an entire family had to be killed, his Master would either send Lucius, Bellatrix, or Barty Jr. to do the job. Never him.

He did not believe that people should be punished for their family's mistakes, that is, except for Potter.

When he finally recovered from the shock, he said, "Well, I know that he deserves to die, but isn't killing his whole family a little, well, extreme?"

Voldemort gave him the meanest glare he had ever seen and he couldn't help but flinch and back up a bit.

"It doesn't matter whether or not it is, I ordered you to do it, so you WILL do it! Understood?"

Severus gulped but nodded, all the same. This was strange. Yes, this was the normal Dark Lord but just earlier that night he had been utterly different. What the hell happened?

Maybe he just wasn't feeling good then,Snape mused. Whatever, he didn't want to risk feeling his master's wrath so he would obey his orders, no matter how much he didn't want to.

He'd rather talk about what had happened earlier and how sorry he was and just make-up with the dark-haired teenager, but he had a feeling that that wasn't going to happen. He rarely ever got what he wanted anyways.

The teenager Voldemort stood up and stalked back to the house, but not before casting a backward glance to make sure that Severus was following.

He couldn't decide whether he wanted to grab the former potion's master and pull him into a kiss or curse him into insanity.

He shook his head to clear his mind. He wanted this to get better, and soon! Because this, sucked…

A/N: Sorry the update took so long. Like I said in my other story, my family has been going through a lot of stuff and that is why I haven't updated in a while. : ( But, hopefully, I will update a lot sooner next time! So, what do you think? Stupidest thing you've ever read or is it okay? Well, either way, just please review! I happen to be a review whore and the thing that makes review whores the happiest is getting reviews! Lol. So, please give me something to be happy about, I haven't had anything like that for quite a while now: P Anyway, I hope you liked it, and I'll update again as soon as I can!