Walking the Past
Lucius stayed at Severus' that night ringing Draco to tell him that and what they were doing.
As the sun filtered into the tiny bedroom Lucius' eyes fluttered open and rested on Severus who lay curled up in his arms with a small smile on his face.
He grinned at him and brushed a strand hair out of his face and ran a hand through his dark locks.
Ten minutes later Severus awakes and looks up at Lucius smiling.
"Good morning Severus, did you sleep well?" Lucius asked.
"Yes better then most nights and only because I knew you were here protecting me" he said softly.
Lucius nodded and got up pulling Severus with him.
"Why don't you go have a bath while I make breakfast" Lucius said pushing him towards the bathroom. Severus chuckled and went in and started the bath.
Lucius walked down and sighed at the state of the kitchen.
It was ever so dark and had only one light bulb hanging from the ceiling that barley worked.
He rummaged through the practically empty cupboards and found some bread, eggs and pepper and cinnamon.
He threw some eggs pepper and cinnamon into a bowel and beat it.
Then he dipped some bread in and put it into a pan and cooked it making eggy bread.
When Severus came down breakfast was laid out.
There was a cloth that should have been white but was more grey covering the table and two plates with the food on and next to each a glass of water. In the middle of them were some flowers in a glass of water.
Severus stood stunned.
"Lucius, how did you do all this?" he asked.
Lucius smiled and took his hand leading him to a seat.
"I found the cloth in a cupboard and the flowers I conjured. I wanted to treat you right cos by god you deserve it." Lucius said then sat himself.
Severus blushed and started to eat enjoying it very much.
After this they set to work and getting rubbish and unwanted things out the house and cleaning and scrubbing the place down ready to be painted.
The kitchen was to be pastel blue with white tiles above.
As they were painting the lower part of the wall pastel blue Severus started to talk about his past.
"I could never satisfy them, never make them proud" Severus said when they sat on the floor in the lounge against the wall.
"but you are a wonderful person, whatever could they say you did wrong" Lucuis asked an am round him.
"I couldn't satisfy fathers needs, he … he would treat me as his slave and beat me. He … he raped me!" Severus said stammering the last part.
Lucius gasped and pulled him into a fierce hug and ran a hand through his hair as Severus sobbed into his chest.
"it's ok Sev im here, you are safe. They are both gone, they can't have you" Lucius soothed.
Severus nodded tightening his grip around Lucius.
They sat there hugging each other until the paint dried. They then tiled the top half and set to work on the cupboards and such.
