Characters
Summary
The horrors of family gatherings, melodramatic fireplace reflections, and maybe more-- a collection of old drabbles I unearthed from my long-since forgotten dreamwidth account.
Note
For a 2011 muse_prompt on dreamwidth: bershon: A word describing the irritated look of young people in photographs that they have been forced to take for their relatives (definition from Urban Dictionary).
In Your Darkest Hour
April 20, 2025 at 09:30 AM
Severus thought that he must have lived through one crisis too many, because this scene was all too familiar for him to find comfortable. A glass of Ogden's rested in his palm, his feet upon a dingy footrest, and the dying embers of a fire sparked in the hearth. In his eyes were the reflection of the red whiskey bottle, that same red he remembered dancing in her hair.
Tonight he should have been free of her. But he was no fool--
She had died from him years before.