WRATH

Title: Anger

Rating: PG
Warnings: Violence and implied sex
Word Count: 398 (yay Open Office)

1979
Golborne, near Wigan, March 18
The pain. The never-ending ceaseless PAIN and the screaming in his head and he has to let the anger out and he needs to HURT and he needs to BURN, and there's an old pit and he goes there and he SCREAMS and the fire and sparks fly and there's an explosion and sirens and he melts off into the bushes and is gone before the ambulances arrive.

Middletown, PA, March 28
He can't stop brooding about the unfairness of it all and how he's been used and manipulated by his parents and the teachers and those damned snotty maurauders and now by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and so he's hiding out in the grotty industrial area where he feels at home but he's so ANGRY and he hides in his tent on the island but the pressure's building and he SCREAMS and lashes out and there's heat and fire and bright blue light and alarms and he apparates before the decon team find him.

Far South Indian Ocean, September 22
He's been sent to check a little island but the waterproofing fails on his cape and his fires won't stay alight for long enough to heat up food and he loses it again and he screams and there's a flash and another and a boom and a blast of heat and he's away before they send the satellites and the searcher planes and they almost catch him this time.

Columbia, December 12
He's making his way back up to the rendevous in Mexico when he hears the news. That she's pregnant. Which means that she and ... Potter... have been... This time the rage completely takes over, and the anger veil descends and he can feel wave after wave of brilliant red energy surging from him up and down and deep into the earth and he feels as if his entire soul is churning, until he comes to his senses and realises the ground is still rolling and people are screaming and buildings are collapsing. And the ground finally settles and the silence and the dust fall like mist around him and he knows that he must never lose control again.

1994
The Staffroom, Hogwarts.
"So Professor Snape, tell me your secret. You've taught some of the most clueless, uninspiring students I have ever seen. How is it that you never lose your temper?"