[ For a while Severus just looks at her. Maybe he does need to hear it.
Death is-- seductive and plain and final, and Severus wants everything to be over, and he knows he has no future or potential for a life outside the role he's been given. That leaves one exit and one exit only, his reward for doing his time; it's only fitting that the reward for someone horrible is something horrible. Severus won't hide from his duties and he'll complete everything if he has to claw his way there. But Merlin, sometimes he craves it.
He thinks about the skull on his arm. And for a moment, of Lucius's boy.
Severus reaches out and touches Claire's hand. ]
It hasn't been so bad. [ Ha, ha. But really. He has shit to do. He has.. this. Whatever it is, even if they'll never remember it. ] I still think what you are is beautiful. Your ferocity about applying what you can do, and your kindness.
[ Severus has never seen Claire heal anyone else, but he's seen her rip her arm out of a monster's jaws and beat its face in as punishment. He's watch her journey into the depths of hell on this ship without hesitating. ]
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Death is-- seductive and plain and final, and Severus wants everything to be over, and he knows he has no future or potential for a life outside the role he's been given. That leaves one exit and one exit only, his reward for doing his time; it's only fitting that the reward for someone horrible is something horrible. Severus won't hide from his duties and he'll complete everything if he has to claw his way there. But Merlin, sometimes he craves it.
He thinks about the skull on his arm. And for a moment, of Lucius's boy.
Severus reaches out and touches Claire's hand. ]
It hasn't been so bad. [ Ha, ha. But really. He has shit to do. He has.. this. Whatever it is, even if they'll never remember it. ] I still think what you are is beautiful. Your ferocity about applying what you can do, and your kindness.
[ Severus has never seen Claire heal anyone else, but he's seen her rip her arm out of a monster's jaws and beat its face in as punishment. He's watch her journey into the depths of hell on this ship without hesitating. ]