#sniddle

Just, Tom being used to getting his way twisting words and smiling and Severus knowing that the man is objectively handsome but being disgusted by the blatant attempts at "charming" him to gain something.

Severus just wants to brew and experiment with his potions while working on a little apothecary that this rich dude keeps coming to for one reason or another.

I've seen this in others fics (the part with Severus not being a DE, and working somewhere else, with Tom finding him there), but in them Severus falls for Tom's act. And I get that Severus is vulnerable and Tom is good at lying, but really, are you truly going to tell me that the boy who grew up poor, in a place that had definitely a good number of criminals, who throughout his school career was surely lied to in order to get him to do some work, or pranked; wouldn't be hypervigilant of any potential threat? Any possible deceit?

He became a DE because he had nowhere else to go (at least that's what I think), so I believe that, if he had something more stable, he would think things through when a strange opportunity and specially strange people, entered the picture.

Severus:...Tom.

Tom: Hmm?

we all know the love of shipping serverus snape with people to have the sn- (snupin/snilly/sniruis/snarry/etc)

I bring to the table sniddle