severity_softly

Title: A Hundred Tiny Threads, Part 3/3
Pairings/Characters: Snape/Lupin, Minerva, Hermione, Bellatrix, minor omc
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Blinded in the final battle and stripped of his wand, Severus finds himself locked in a cell after the dust settles, feeling hopeless and no better than a Muggle. After a seemingly endless wait, he is finally allowed his "freedom" from Ministry incarceration only by, once again, binding his life to another's... but at least Lupin is better than the alternatives.
Warnings/kinks: Forced marriage, disability, H/C, first time, angst, romance
Word count: 20,000-ish (overall)
Authors notes: Snupin Santa gift for lysa1. Post-war, canon to HBP (AU). Title comes from a quote by Simone Signoret: "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years."

Part One, Part Two, Part Three (this part)

( Part Three )

Title: A Hundred Tiny Threads, Part 2/3
Pairings/Characters: Snape/Lupin, Minerva, Hermione, Bellatrix, minor omc
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Blinded in the final battle and stripped of his wand, Severus finds himself locked in a cell after the dust settles, feeling hopeless and no better than a Muggle. After a seemingly endless wait, he is finally allowed his "freedom" from Ministry incarceration only by, once again, binding his life to another's... but at least Lupin is better than the alternatives.
Warnings/kinks: Forced marriage, disability, H/C, first time, angst, romance
Word count: 20,000-ish (overall)
Authors notes: Snupin Santa gift for lysa1. Post-war, canon to HBP (AU). Title comes from a quote by Simone Signoret: "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years."

Part One, Part Two (this part), Part Three

( Part Two )

Title: A Hundred Tiny Threads, Part 1/3
Pairings/Characters: Snape/Lupin, Minerva, Hermione, Bellatrix, minor omc
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Blinded in the final battle and stripped of his wand, Severus finds himself locked in a cell after the dust settles, feeling hopeless and no better than a Muggle. After a seemingly endless wait, he is finally allowed his "freedom" from Ministry incarceration only by, once again, binding his life to another's... but at least Lupin is better than the alternatives.
Warnings/kinks: Forced marriage, disability, H/C, first time, angst, romance
Word count: 20,000-ish (overall)
Authors notes: Snupin Santa gift for lysa1. Post-war, canon to HBP (AU). Title comes from a quote by Simone Signoret: "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years."

Part One (this part), Part Two, Part Three

( In the wake of the final battle, the Ministry had gone off the deep end. )

Title: Old Times' Sake
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Snape/Lupin (Lupin/Tonks in the background)
Disclaimer: I don't own them, I just get them dirty.
Summary: When Remus turns to Severus for his potion even after everything Severus has done, Remus isn't sure what he trusts, or wants, Severus to do more - help him or kill him. He just never expected Severus would ask for the payment he does.
Warnings: adultery, dub-con, wall!sex, rimming, prostitution (in a sense), questionable lubrication ;), a little breathplay, suicidal thoughts (Merry Christmas! ;))
Author's notes: Written for snegurochka_lee for Merry_smutmas 2007. DH compliant.

( Wolfsbane, when brewed improperly, could kill. )

Title: Even Ground
Author: severity_softly
Pairing: Lupin/Snape
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Mwpp era (underage sex), blackmail!sex, dub-con (in the interest of full disclosure, it starts as non-con), first time, dark!Remus, pretty much pwp
Word Count: 2300
Notes: Originally written for Daliy Deviant's abandoned prompt month, October '07. Lots of thanks to enigmalea and florahart for that!

( Severus had already known, of course, before he'd headed down that darkened tunnel under the Whomping Willow, what he would find inside )

Title: Gratitude Bestows Reverence
Pairing: Snape/Lupin
Theme/kink: AU
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 3,400ish
Warnings/kinks: AU, mpreg, genderfuck, love!sex/reverent!sex, mild angst
Summary: Severus was not generally one to feel ashamed of the things he couldn't help, but they hadn't had sex since they had discovered Severus was pregnant, twenty one weeks ago. It had been like a marathon of abstinence, considering they normally couldn't keep their hands off each other.
Notes: Beta'd by enigmalea and kittehkat! Title from a quote by John Milton: "Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world." For hiddenfantasy, whose Remus I am beginning to believe I have a telepathic link to.


( It felt like ages ago that Remus had asked him, but Severus remembered it exactly - every hint of hesitation mixed with barely contained desire on Remus' face. )

Title: Checkmate (PART 1)
Rating: PG
Pairing/characters: Remus/Severus, Minerva
Words: 13,600ish
Summary: It has been many years since the downfall of the Dark Lord. Severus and Remus have settled down to live their peaceful lives of solitude, until Minerva decides that it is time for them both to make a change.
Warnings: a little cracked, and this is an earlier fic of mine, so I see a bit of wonky POV too. :)
Notes: Written for the lupin_snape May '06 fantasy fest, for krissybl who wanted "Severus and Remus set up on a blind date via a dating service. Humor." Beta'd by thesnapelyone and cho_sa and brit picked by cordeliadelayne. Thanks guys!

( 'I am not so desperate as to need to go to a dating service, let alone one that will film me having a terrible time on a bad date.' )

Title: Checkmate (PART 2)
Rating: PG
Pairing/characters: Remus/Severus, Minerva
Words: 13,600ish
A/N: Full header at part one.

( That had really not been smart. )

Title: Of Things Dead and Buried
Rating: R
Warnings: ***Click here to be spoiled for warnings***
Prompt: Epiphany (Gen) in the kinda_lush fest at LJ
Characters: Severus, Tobias and Eileen Snape, Alastor Moody
Word Count: 6,300ish
A/N: A million thanks to my wonderful BETAs, innerslytherin and lindy_grl123!
Summary: Severus returns home from Hogwarts over the summer between his sixth and seventh year to find his mother quickly becoming a shell of her former self. She might be willing to forget herself, but he won't.

( Severus stepped inside his parent's home, looking around at the familiar cramped sitting room. He felt ill, claustrophobic, to be returning. )

Title: Charming
Pairing: Remus Lupin/Filius Flitwick
Word Count: 2,350ish
Rating: PG-13 (for sexual suggestion)
Summary: Remus gets an invitation from Filius, but it's certainly not a date... Is it?
A/N: Pre-slash. Takes place the summer after POA. Thanks to Chelle and Linda for the beta, as well as Louise for the brit-pick.

( This is not a date. )

Title: Mum?
Rating: PG
WC: 659
Characters: Eileen and Severus Snape (Snape/Lupin discussed)
Summary: Eileen Snape is not dead. The Death Eaters and most of the Order only think she is. Severus visits her safe house over his winter break.
Warning: drugged!Snape
A/N: I don't know if the warm milk thing (supposedly it helps you sleep) is done in the UK. Just let me slide on it if it isn't, ok? *G*

( 'I don't sleep.' )

Title: Ickle Clay!Snape!
Characters: Snape, of course
Rating: G... So very G
Media: white earthenware
A/N: A bust. Um, this is more of a character study, I supose. I fudged his eyes because I made him far to small to do much detail there (my tools were too big!) Also, the frown line... it's not as shitty as it looks in the pic. XD

( Clay Snape goodness ahoy! )

Title: Look At Me
Author: severity_softly
Characters: Eileen and Severus Snape, w/Tobias in the background.
Challenge: forgotten memory at Snape100
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 100 x 3
Warning: implied domestic violence between adults, character death
Summary: Snape's childhood may have been worse than he remembers. (Severus is 5, 15, and 20 in these drabble respectively)

( He hadn't dreamt it; he knew that. )

Title: Printemps Imitation
Characters: Snape/Lupin
Rating: PG (for tinsy bit of chest/suggested nudity)
Media used: pencil
Challenge: imitation challenge at hp_fringeart
Warnings: partially bare chests? :)
Notes/comments: A Snupinized version of Tamara De Lempicka's 'Printemps'


( Printemps Imitation )

Title: Win Some, Lose Some
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 5,750-ish
Summary: Severus thinks having Remus as a colleague is unacceptable, especially when he can't seem to control his feelings toward him.
Warnings: Brief mentions of bondage/chains kink
A/N: '06 Snupin Santa gift for Hill who wanted "Working as professors, UST at Hogwarts. Comes to a head in front of a potions class. Major public displays of affection :D" and graciously allowed me to twist her request ever so slightly. Thanks to Mosaic and Innerslytherin for the beta!

( Flinging the door to the Headmaster's office open, Severus Snape stepped inside and promptly slammed it shut. He was livid; his sallow skin was blotched with color.  )

Title: Not Jealousy
Rating: PG-13 (maybe very, very light R)
Pairing/Character: Lily, Snape/James
Word Count: 100
Warning: hate sex
Challenge: snape100's random quotes challenge: There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. - George Bernard Shaw

( Severus hated her. )

Title: How could it get worse?
Rating: G
Pairing: Snape/Lupin
Word count: 100
Challenge: Laughter at lupin100
Summary: Severus and Remus read HBP.

( Severus was chuckling in a way that was disconcerting - a soft, insane little laugh. )

Title: But it made you look distinguished
Author: severity_softly
Word count: 100
Rating: G
Prompt: Oops @ snupin100

( oops )

Title: Trust
Rating: PG
Words: 100
Challenge: Snape and the unfinished letter at snape100
Characters: Snape, implied Minerva/Dumbledore

( Read more... )

Title: Get The Girl
Rating: PG-13 for implied torture
Word Count:100
Challenge: random character assignment (Bellatrix) at lupin100
Characters: Remus, Bellatrix, Moody, other canon characters (if I told you, I'd spoil you! :D)
Warning: implied torture
A/N: Bella was being stubborn about participating, but I got her to at least set things in motion for me. ;)

( Remus and Moody charged toward the Death Eaters circling two slumped figures. )

Title: Traitor
Rating: PG
Characters: Bellatrix, Severus, briefly implied Snape/Lupin if you squint (and I'm squinting ;))
Word count: 100

( She knew he was a traitor! XP )