To Eat Death or Not To Eat Death?

To Eat Death or Not to Eat Death? That is the Question.

(A tale of three boys' Rite of Passage)

Chapter 3: Lucius and Sevvy's Cat fight

Lucius was miserable. It was two months now and Severus wasn't talking to him. At least not until he apologized and took everything he had said about Emma Flint back, and like that was going to happen. He knew he was right about the whore.

"His GIRLFRIEND!" Lucius spat as he paced the room. Guy Parkinson watched quietly from his bed where he had been reading.

"Sev's dating that Ravenclaw whore Emma Flint." The white-haired boy stopped to look right at Guy. "Thing is, I don't even think he realizes what she's like. This is all Sevvy sees is a smart pretty girl. Sevvy de-"

"Severus hates when you call him Sevvy." Lucius rolled his eyes at Guy.

"Listen to me. Who cares if Sevvy doesn't like it, it suits him. Anyway as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, Sevvy deserves better. Sevvy, though he doesn't seem it, would be crushed if his heart was broken. He's just a big ole softy.

"Am I now," said Severus said coolly as he walked into the dormitory. Lucius ran a nervous hand through his platinum waist-length hair.

"Well, um... Yes, you are," Lucius stammered.

"You know Lucius, the way you've been acting one would think you were jealous." Severus stated as he lounged on his bed shooting daggers with his eyes at Lucius.

"I AM NOT JEALOUS," Lucius shouted. Severus sat up abruptly.

"Then what is your problem, huh Lucius? I get a girlfriend and you call her a whore and a slut. You bad mouth her to everyone. You are acting JEALOUS!"

Guy shifted uncomfortable before standing up. "Uh... I think I'll leave you two alone. Good to see you talking again. Whoa, look at the time, I've got a Gryffindor to go curse. Yeah... Bye." Guy picked up his book and wand and dashed out the doorway.

"Look Severus, you scared him off. I was having a conversation with him."

"One about me, you whiny, jealous, beggar."

Lucius stalked towards Severus a pushed him. Hard, Severus fell right off the other side of the bed. Lucius crossed his arms over his chest huffily .

"I am not jealous."

"You fucking prat. You fucking whiny, spoiled, babied, prat." Severus got up crawled over the bed and pushed Lucius, who fell back on to his bed. He grunted and threw his thin short body with all his might at Severus tackling him on the bed.

"I am not jealous!"

Severus rolled them off the bed and on to the stone floor. Lucius hit the ground with a thud, Severus landing on top of him.

"Why would you tackle me if you weren't jealous?!"

Lucius scrambled out from underneath Severus and pushed the larger boy down straddling him and grabbed a fist full of Severus's black hair in each hand and yanked screaming. "Look I am not jealous of anything you do with that bitch! I just think you could do better!"

Severus grabbed Lucius by the hair. "You're jealous because I spend more time with her."

"Ow, ow, ow, ow. Owww. Ouch! Fucker," Lucius whined face twisted in pain. "My hair! Look! I am not jealous! I do not want to be your boyfriend," Lucius shouted.

Severus let go of Lucius's hair, eyes wide. Lucius rubbed his head. "Ow," he whined. "That really hurt, Sevvy."

Severus cleared his throat. "Lucius. I never said you wanted to be my boyfriend. I said you were jealous. I meant you were jealous that I was spending time with her and spending less time hanging out with you. I didn't mean you wanted to date me."

Lucius's face turned a nice shade of rouge. "Oh, yeah, um well." Lucius shifted a top of Severus and fixed his hair. "Well, I'm not jealous all the same. I just think you could do better. I wasn't saying things about her to offend you. I just wanted to warn you, Sev. You're, um, my best friend and I don't want to see you get hurt. I didn't want her to fuck some guy and you get hurt. I really hate cursing Ravenclaws you know. Those buggers are so smart it's hard to do." Lucius laughed nervously.

Severus's eyes darted to his hands. "Yeah, well you were right. She cheated on me."

Lucius leaned down a hugged the other boy. "I'm so sorry, Sev."

"Me too, I really liked her. I didn't think she was like that. I mean after dating for two months you'd think you knew someone a little better. I really liked her."

"I'm sorry. I know you did," Lucius gently said into black hair as he hugged Severus a little tighter. They stayed that way for a minute until Lucius slowly sat back on to Severus's stomach. Severus cleared his throat and looked away as Lucius fixed his hair and brushed off his shirt, both painfully aware of the male hug.

"Right, so...," Severus started. Suddenly the door opened Guy and Phoenix Zambini standing in the doorway staring at the two boys on the floor and the messy bed, Lucius straddling Severus.

"Whoa...sorry there. Didn't know action was going on," Zambini whistled.

"So that's where jealously gets ya. We'll be leaving now," Guy chimed.

Lucius and Severus quickly extracted themselves from one another both trying to explain.

"We weren't-"

"It's not what-"

Zambini walked into the room. "Its okay guys. Really we don't have a problem with this kind of thing. Actually, we expected this a long time ago, but then Snape here got a girlfriend. Really, it's okay."

"We were not shagging! Merlin! It's Lucius, for the dark arts sake. That's disgusting. I'd never think of him like that. We were fighting but we worked it all out during it. Geez. You two are sick. I don't support that kind of thing."

"Oh sorry then," Guy offered.

"It's okay," Lucius said softly and walked out of the room. Talk to you later guys, my head hurts from my hair being pulled I'm going to see Pommy about a fix for it." He turned to Severus. "Talk to you later, okay." Then he left the room head hanging slightly.

"Okay," Severus replied and returned to his bed fixing the mess of the covers. Guy and Phoenix watched Lucius and then looked at each other. Severus was oblivious to Lucius's broken heart.

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