Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Severus Snape/Regulus Black
Theme set: Delta
Rating: PG-13/soft R
Notes: Thanks to
lenta_85 for beta - all the remaining mistakes are mine.
#01 - Air
Just like you can't live without the air in your lungs or water on your lips, Severus thinks he can't live without Regulus inside him.
#02 - Apples
Eve couldn't resist the temptation of the forbidden apple, and neither can Severus resists Regulus's lips that curve into a tempting smile.
#03 - Beginning
Severus's eyes fly open when suddenly, out of the blue, Regulus Black kisses him on the lips.
#04 - Bugs
Regulus is resting his head on Severus's stomach and laughing merrily as he shoots down yet another bug from the ceiling.
#05 - Coffee
Regulus smirks at Severus over his cup of coffee and Severus feels a nervous fluttering of anticipation in his stomach.
#06 - Dark
Severus casts Sectumsempra, Regulus casts Crucio, and they smirk to each other, when the Muggles lie still in the ground.
#07 - Despair
"Have you lost your mind?" Severus whispers horrified when Regulus tells him his plan of betraying the Dark Lord.
#08 - Doors
Severus knows he can't let Regulus down, so he agrees to betray the Dark Lord; and when he nods his agreement he can hear a door bang shut - there's no going back.
#09 - Drink
Whenever Severus drinks scotch, he thinks of Regulus and how he always grinned so happily when he clinked glasses with Severus, like he couldn't believe his luck to be sharing a drink with him.
#10 - Duty
Severus has a duty to the Dark Lord and a duty to the Headmaster, but most important of all is his duty to Regulus - that's what decides where his loyalties lie.
#11 - Earth
Regulus is always so aristocratically proper, and Severus enjoys nothing more than stripping him of that dignified air and having him writhing on the dirty ground, earth sullying his expensive robes, begging to be touched.
#12 - End
Maybe their relationship ended in a flash of green light and a still body, but Severus doesn't think so, because how could it be ended when he thinks about it every day?
#13 - Fall
Regulus can pinpoint the moment he fell in love with Severus; when he stunned Seventh Years to silence with his witty sarcasm and scowl, and didn't even seem to realize just how cool that was.
#14 - Fire
Regulus is doing his homework by the fire, and Severus is pretending to do the same, but really he's just watching the play of light on Regulus's aristocratic face.
#15 - Flexible
Severus is surprised by how Regulus thinks he's flexible enough so that they could try all those positions in that book, but even more surprised when they actually perform them.
#16 - Flying
Regulus loves flying, and Severus hates it - unless he's sitting on the broom in front of Regulus and Regulus is laughing happily in his ear.
#17 - Food
Regulus cooks to Severus once, and the sheer domesticity of it is overwhelming, and so unlike them.
#18 - Foot
Regulus grabs Severus ankle and tickles his sole, and Severus looks so furious at the indignity of snorting a laughter that Regulus falls down giggling.
#19 - Grave
Severus can't visit Regulus's grave, because they never found the body.
#20 - Green
"You shouldn't always wear black," Regulus tells Severus and laughingly tries to make Severus wear his green jumper, but Severus grasps his wrists and tells him he happens to like black before kissing him on the mouth.
#21 - Head
The first time Regulus looks Severus in the eye is after they knocked their heads together, but it feels more like someone knocked him in the stomach, so difficult it is to breath for a second.
#22 - Hollow
The place inside Severus, the place that Regulus occupied for many years, is empty now, and Severus thinks that a tiny touch could shatter him to pieces.
#23 - Honor
They both agree that it's an honor to serve the Dark Lord, they convince each other so that there's no place for voicing the doubts until it's too late.
#24 - Hope
Regulus wonders what he thinks he is doing when he kisses Severus, but not kissing doesn't seem to be an option at all - he can only hope Severus will not shove him away.
#25 - Light
Regulus kisses Severus and hopes that he'd give in and submit to the feeling, so when he feels Severus's tongue trace his lips lightly he feels light-headed and happier than in a long time.
#26 - Lost
Severus is missing, and when Regulus finally finds him he's in the hospital wing refusing to tell why, and Regulus feels angry for being scared, and lost because he doesn't know what he'd do without Severus.
#27 - Metal
When Regulus kisses Severus, he notices the metal taste of blood again, and hates his brother a tiny bit more.
#28 - New
At first Severus doesn't think that he and Regulus can be friends, because of all the things Regulus is and Severus isn't, but then he realizes it doesn't matter, because there are even more things that they share.
#29 - Old
"When we're old, we'll tell stories about this to our children", Regulus says laughingly, and Severus thinks "what children?".
#30 - Peace
There's no place in the world that is peaceful anymore, and so Regulus must seek it from Severus's arms.
#31 - Poison
Severus doesn't know if Regulus died of poison, curse or torture, but he hopes it's the curse, because it's quicker and... it's not made by him.
#32 - Pretty
Regulus knows that their relationship is ugly, but love is never pretty - it's enough that it's powerful.
#33 - Rain
Regulus takes what Regulus wants, and so just like Severus had no say when he decided he wanted Severus, neither has he when Regulus decides it's over now, and the result is Severus standing alone in the rain, wondering how it's possible that he broke his heart in the process.
#34 - Regret
Regulus cast his first really dark curse on Severus of all people, when he insisted on being a stubborn idiot and calling him names; and he has never felt more sorry about anything.
#35 - Roses
Regulus gave Severus a rose on Valentine's Day 1977, and even now, twenty years later, he has it dried between his book Potions for Masters.
#36 - Secret
"I bet no one has ever loved professor Snape", Severus hears a student mutter, and feels a sharp stab of longing, remembering what it felt to be kissed by Regulus, to be loved by Regulus, but then he forces those goddamned thoughts away and does his best to look angry.
#37 - Snakes
Regulus is hiding behind the corner and listens to his brother and his friends torture Severus, and he can't understand why people say Slytherins are the evil ones - then he casts Sectumsempra on a girl Sirius was going to go on a date with, and enjoys the revenge.
#38 - Snow
Severus starts when Regulus hugs him from behind, and asks "how did you find me?" and Regulus murmurs into his ear: "followed your footsteps in the snow".
#39 - Solid
Severus is determined to resist Regulus, but Regulus is equally determined to break through that solid wall of mistrust of his.
#40 - Spring
Regulus pouts on the day Severus graduates, but between the lines he hears Severus promise that he'll write often and in one year, they'll be fighting for the Dark Lord together, and Regulus tries to be satisfied with that.
#41 - Stable
"And this potion is very unstable, so you'll do well to be careful when brewing it, and remember to..." Severus drones on, and Regulus closes his eyes and listens to his calm voice, sometimes getting more passionate when it's some interesting potion he's talking about, until Severus pokes his ribs sharply and sternly tells him to pay attention.
#42 - Strange
Regulus knows that if his parents found out about Severus they'd think worse of him than they do of Sirius now, and the strange thing is, he can't make himself care.
#43 - Summer
Regulus writes Severus a letter in which he tells that Sirius run away from home, and it stings because Severus can see the concealed pain, which means Regulus still loves Sirius despite all the things he has done to Severus.
#44 - Taboo
They never mention Sirius, because Regulus loves him like a brother and Severus hates him more than anything, and Severus doesn't want that to come between them.
#45 - Ugly
Severus knows he is ugly, but still he gets a warm feeling in his stomach when Regulus murmurs in his ear "you're so hot when you frown like that".
#46 - War
The Wizarding World is in a war, but Regulus is also fighting a war of his very own: to love or not to love.
#47 - Water
They once had sex on the kitchen table at number twelve Grimmauld Place in the middle of the night, when Severus went down for a glass of water and found Regulus there wearing only his underwear.
#48 - Welcome
Severus has never felt more welcome anywhere than when he first visits the Blacks - Regulus grins at him behind Mrs Black's back and Severus surprises himself by smiling back.
#49 - Winter
Everyone knows Severus hexes anyone who throws snowballs at him, and yet Regulus dares to do that, and laugh merrily at Severus's murderous glare until he's silenced by a fierce kiss.
#50 - Wood
Regulus carves S.S.S. on his wooden Potions desk, and next week, finds <3 R.A.B. carved under it.