Title: Dance of the Death Eater
Summary: I wrote this a while back around book 4 or 5. It's from Lucius' perspective and his view
of Severus Snape.
Characters: Lucius Malfoy and Severus Snape
Warnings: none
Disclaimers: JK Rowling owns Harry Potter and the characters involved.
I am not JK Rowling or I would be rolling around naked in a pile of
money giggling my butt off right now.
Dance of the Death Eater 12/18/03
The dawn is crisp and cold
Leaving only a shadow now
Dancers of last night's darkness
A few embers dying
A pool of red staining the purity of white
The fading scent of disease and filth
All that remains with me
A hollow mask within my clutches
My veins burn with icy fire
My eyes like pools of frozen water
My hair as white as fresh fallen snow
This power courses through me
When I look into your eyes, dear friend
I see only an empty void, so cavernous
Your true face is mask enough
So white, pale beyond the pale
Blank as a clear sheet of parchment
What lurks within you, Severus?
Is it fear, jealousy, loathing?
Or has apathy consumed you whole?
Do I dare to trust a snake in the grass?
I know of your sacred oath
To dutifully protect the boy
Keep him wrapped in your shadow
Does your word mean enough to you
To risk yourself so brazenly
Or will you stay in the gray shade of neutrality
As you always have, uninterfering?
The Dark Lord does not seek you out as fraud
But how long can I protect you
If you will not fight by my side?
Insolent coward! Were you not so slick
I would swat you down like the fly you've become
In this, our final hour, the eclipse
What is your path?
What of your other oath?
The brand which sears our flesh
This poison which binds our blood
Do you dare betray the only brotherhood
Which could ever accept you welcomingly?
You pathetic creature
As whispy as this campfire smoke
Ashen spectre of gothic symmetry
So fleeting are your footprints of late
When I see your true eyes
They flash as black as death
Accusing
Lucius as Lucifer
But I am far too cold now for Hell's hot coals