snupin100 – challenge #137 – new beginnings
Title: New Beginnings
Word Count: 110
Rating: Gen
Challenge: #137 new beginnings
Characters: Remus/Severus
Author: red_day_dawning (NOT BETA READ)
New Beginnings.
Remus hates the taste of wolfsbane. When he sees Snape, stalking around the corridors or glaring in the Great Hall, Remus is reminded of the bitter-sour-bile-aftertaste, a foulness on the tongue seemingly resistant to all attempts to sweeten the flavor.
“I’ve made changes”, Snape tells him one full moon. “It will be as efficacious as the original formula”.
Already grimacing in anticipation of that taste, Remus cautiously sips, swallows and then gulps the entire dose. “Why, Severus, that’s marvelous”, he enthused, “Like chocolate and firewhiskey.”
An almost-smile crossed the potion-master’s face as he softly said, “I’ve been working on it for some time, Remus; for years, in fact.”