#requiescatevent003

@littlemissmckinnon

The party was... Fine. So far anyway. Sybill had made small talk with a few people she knew and laughed about costumes but honestly it had all been people who’d grabbed her on her way to the drinks table. Spotting Marlene a little ways away Sybill finally had an excuse to extract herself from current dull conversation and pick up two drinks to take over to her friend. 

“At last.” Sybill greeted her with a smile “I thought I’d be forced to talk to people I only kind of liked all evening.” She handed Marlene one of the drinks “speaking of, is it just because I’m a total loner that I only know like a third of the crowd? I swear half of wizarding London is in this room.”

“That was the biggest dodge I have ever heard,” he said, not letting her off the hook just yet. There was a lot of things that he wondered about, most of which being things that went on in his brother’s life, but he never shared those things with Fabian. The only thing he knew is that he was still hung up on Marlene, and he’d heard the rumors. “Gid doesn’t tell me shit all about his love life. Kind of rude, actually. But, come on, you two were great together.”

Severus, famous for holding up walls, was holding up a wall right next to an immobile cartoonish witch that looked like she’d crashed into it broom first. He hated muggle decorations that weren’t accurate. Witches did not have green hands and faces, or giant moles. Some part of him wished he could throw a few muggles who came up with these ideas into the wizarding community to see the truth. However, the witch was not his concern at the moment. His concern was Peter, who he’d pulled off to the side after quite a few glasses of Cardi’s punch, and decided to spout the question that had been bothering him all along. Why do you think James and Sirius hated me so much?

Peter’s response had startled him. It also should have given him some kind of clue that the vial he’d been missing, veritserum, had been added to the punch bowls at the party they had found themselves at. He glanced down to the shirt Peter wore, shaking his head softly before focusing on his feet. “I should have known it was stupid,” he took another sip. The effects of truth serum were hard to decipher, sometimes, especially in the strain he’d created, it gave one the feeling of floating. Much like alcohol. So of course, he wouldn’t notice or connect the two until much later. “Sirius was such a fuckin prat. I really thought he only did it because of James, you know. I knew James wanted Lily, it was bloody obvious. He practically kissed the fuckin ground she walked on.” 

He set the drink on the table beside him, with only a few sips left in the cup, “And Sirius worships James. Worships him! I’m not mad at James anymore...It seemed stupid to hold it against him though. Does Remus know what Sirius did? I hope not. Don’t tell Remus. No one can tell him.” If inquired as to where all of that came from, he wouldn’t have had a straight answer. It was a jumbled floaty mess in his head that had to come out. He buried his face in his hands for a second before taking a deep breath. 

TELL THE TRUTH, LUCIUS.

TELL THE TRUTH, LUCIUS.

        Despite the urge to blurt out the first thing that comes to mind, its still a question that the wizard needs to ponder.  “Yes,” he says, initially thinking that he had been in love with her but it’s not quite true.  “Perhaps not in the same way you do but I cared for her and…” he hates the words coming from his mouth.  They mar the future he has with Narcissa and the past.  “I would have protected her, I would have made sure she had the world if she asked for it. That’s what I’ve always believed love was.”