fic: No Regrets (Severus/Lucius, angst, PG-13)

[arcanetrivia]

Title: No Regrets
Rating: PG-13 (mature theme; sex is only hinted at)
Genre: Angst; vaguely slashy
Characters: Severus is the subject, but someone else is the narrator (Lucius?).
Word count: 106
Notes: 94% dark irony by volume. Edited since jillypooh's post.


He has done something terrible to his soul, and embraces it. He reaches out for no one's redemption, no one's succour. He does not plead the slightest thing with his black gaze piercing mine so silver-grey. He does not once again latch on with those long fingers to my flesh already bruised, for he is wholly a stranger to deeds of desperation. His voice never falters, not a whit, for there is nothing he could say he needs from anyone, nor even me. He feels no sense of loss, has no regrets. He does not, he says again and again. He does not... he does not...

Comments

[jillypooh.livejournal.com]

This has a lovely brooding quality about it. As though Lucius is unsure of why Severus fascinates him so.

[elethian.livejournal.com]

Hm, I was going more for sarcasm, "nooo, he doesn't do any of this at all, not one bit", except that a sneer that loud is usually Severus' specialty and so I toned it down.