[ If she were anyone else he might sass and say maybe he'll tell her how Black almost managed it the first time, but.
Lily was murdered. Instead he texts 'give me a moment' and goes to make himself tea and down the last bit of the potion he's taking for his face before he pings her again, this time using the audio function. ]
You know Lupin's from after the war, and Black isn't.
[ Lily waits, patiently: she's holed up in her room, Elladora curled up near her head, so she just. Pets her a while until Severus returns. It's soothing that her pet is here, even if now she serves as more a reminder than anything. ]
For a while, it was Black, Harry and I. [ So we're starting weird, because Severus has almost never spoken about Harry, except for a few cagey bits that were halfway defending him and halfway protecting Lily. ] Harry and I talked at length over the course of the months we were both here.
I came to accept that Black had been framed.
[ And that was hard as hell. ]
When Lupin arrived, he nearly beat him to death in the locker room.
[ He's gone over some of this with Lily before, though not the gritty details. It's building up to something, so it needs to be gone through. ]
[ Thankfully. Said cat is now laying on her hand, so good thing she isn't typing. She's very quiet as she listens to Severus, wiggling her fingers under the cat's weight to keep herself grounded. Thinking about Severus and Harry talking. At first the only noise she makes is an intake of breath, then:]
Okay. [ What else do you say to that. Remus had thought Sirius had been the one to betray them. Because they hadn't told anyone. How stupid they had been, etc. She dwells on it a little. ]
I remember hearing a bit about that. [ Just a bit. Because, well. ]
I had to talk Lupin down. Not before Black broke my nose again. [ Can someone be both deadpan and bitter? It's a gift. ] Before that we were at odds but it was always circumstantial. I think something about it set Black off - since then he's been more aggressive, so much more convinced I'm out to get him and everyone else here.
[ Which Severus doesn't understand at all, but he sounds weary. Of course he gets worse shit for doing good things than anything else. ]
You know, I'd saved him before. We stopped at a space colony, and the natives there turned on us. He was drunk, sitting in an alleyway and ignoring the small window we had to get out.
[ I should have left him is tangible in his voice, even if he doesn't say it. ]
Ugh. Leave it to him to break the nose of the person saved his life. [ Everything about this is tiring. Not because she doesn't care: she's listening carefully to everything Severus says, having slowly ceased moving at all and just laying there immersed in his voice. But it weighs on her, all of it, in the same manner that she was angry before.
Now she's both. ]
No bloody self-preservation at all. Never has had any, too used to being bailed out. [ She's not even attempting to excuse him: she's just. Annoyed. ]
That'll happen. [ --when you're an egomaniacal, wealthy Gryffindor pureblood. Severus gives absolutely no credit to Sirius for leaving his 'cruel' family. He left his own brother to be killed and jumped ship right to another wealthy family willing to support his continued terrible behavior. But of course they were: their own son was even worse. ]
Edgeworth exists to shield him from all consequences and feed his ego. I have no idea what he gets out of the arrangement; my best guess is that he's so intolerable that the only way he can pin down a 'friend' is by bartering his services for Black's attention.
[ So that is. Not a very nice assessment. At all. But Severus can't figure it out - Edgeworth is a stupid, stubborn liar whom more people dislike than even Snape, and he's a bigoted bastard about magic. Why would any wizard put up with someone like that? The answer he can best put together is that Black, shallow prick that he is, is getting something out of it. ]
[ If she had access to both hands she'd be rubbing her temples right now. As it is she uses her free one to pinch the bridge of her nose, eyes screwing shut for a moment.
Of course. ]
I had been trying to reserve judgement on him, originally. Knowing more about him though, I'm afraid that isn't going to be possible. Especially what you've told me considered.
[ She isn't actually remorseful about not being able to like him: sainted Lily Evans-Potter has learned, over the years, that maybe, just maybe, she doesn't have to like everyone in some capacity. It isn't just because of what Severus is telling her that accounts for the dislike: she already wouldn't, based off of his most recent network post, but Severus gives her a far more personal, invested reasoning. ]
He's always been a prick, as far as I can tell. Claims to be a lawyer, but watch any discussion he has about legality. [ No further comment necessary. Severus has only a limited awareness of muggle legal systems, but even he can tell there's something wrong with how he talks about it.
But-- on to something a bit more grave. ]
Something happened to him on the colony - that he didn't deserve. A dark wizard from some other world went after people. No one deserved it, even him. But Black new, and as far as I can tell, didn't help.
Instead whatever he said to him resulted in him cornering and attacking me. He's a telekinetic.
[ This though, stills her: her inhale is a little sharp, thinking about the capacities of a strange dark wizard that could and would do that to groups of people, and she sits up like Severus can see her and it means she's paying more attention. Elladora stares at her grumpily for the disturbance but doesn't meow; Lily doesn't speak for a moment. ]
He's a telekinetic and just attacked you out of the blue on someone else's word. [ Furious. Absolutely furious. ]
He cornered me to demand I stop running a campaign against Black. [ Who, for those of you following along at home, Severus had recently saved from death TWICE at the time. ] I tried to leave, he wouldn't let me. Threw me into a wall and gave me a concussion and cracked ribs.
[ Flatly. That happened. ]
He lost his mind after, I spent no less than an hour sitting there unable to leave while he had a panic attack.
[ Normally something like a panic attack would draw sympathy from her but now it just seems... Not pathetic but farcical, like an attempt to gain sympathy after attacking a man for nothing at all. ]
Let me guess, nothing has been done about him, since he's still around being useless and presumably dangerous as well.
Mm. [ Preaching to the choir, Lily. Not that Severus doesn't appreciate - on so many levels - that she's of the same mind. He's just been dealing with it for over half a year now
(hahahaha oh fuck has it been that long, yes it has)
Quite. [ And that's what worries Severus, despite his spiteful, dark humor at some of it. ] I was letting it go, there's no bloody way Black knew what he was doing that early into the incident. What else are they hiding?
Mm. No bloody idea. [ Unseen but perhaps slightly audible, Severus scrubs a hand over-- half his face. He gives up halfway through the movement. ] Maybe he's just a nutter. I hope so.
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Very distinctive. Memorable, even.
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Lily was murdered. Instead he texts 'give me a moment' and goes to make himself tea and down the last bit of the potion he's taking for his face before he pings her again, this time using the audio function. ]
You know Lupin's from after the war, and Black isn't.
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I do, yes. That was clarified for me early on.
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For a while, it was Black, Harry and I. [ So we're starting weird, because Severus has almost never spoken about Harry, except for a few cagey bits that were halfway defending him and halfway protecting Lily. ] Harry and I talked at length over the course of the months we were both here.
I came to accept that Black had been framed.
[ And that was hard as hell. ]
When Lupin arrived, he nearly beat him to death in the locker room.
[ He's gone over some of this with Lily before, though not the gritty details. It's building up to something, so it needs to be gone through. ]
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Okay. [ What else do you say to that. Remus had thought Sirius had been the one to betray them. Because they hadn't told anyone. How stupid they had been, etc. She dwells on it a little. ]
I remember hearing a bit about that. [ Just a bit. Because, well. ]
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[ Which Severus doesn't understand at all, but he sounds weary. Of course he gets worse shit for doing good things than anything else. ]
You know, I'd saved him before. We stopped at a space colony, and the natives there turned on us. He was drunk, sitting in an alleyway and ignoring the small window we had to get out.
[ I should have left him is tangible in his voice, even if he doesn't say it. ]
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Now she's both. ]
No bloody self-preservation at all. Never has had any, too used to being bailed out. [ She's not even attempting to excuse him: she's just. Annoyed. ]
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Edgeworth exists to shield him from all consequences and feed his ego. I have no idea what he gets out of the arrangement; my best guess is that he's so intolerable that the only way he can pin down a 'friend' is by bartering his services for Black's attention.
[ So that is. Not a very nice assessment. At all. But Severus can't figure it out - Edgeworth is a stupid, stubborn liar whom more people dislike than even Snape, and he's a bigoted bastard about magic. Why would any wizard put up with someone like that? The answer he can best put together is that Black, shallow prick that he is, is getting something out of it. ]
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Of course. ]
I had been trying to reserve judgement on him, originally. Knowing more about him though, I'm afraid that isn't going to be possible. Especially what you've told me considered.
[ She isn't actually remorseful about not being able to like him: sainted Lily Evans-Potter has learned, over the years, that maybe, just maybe, she doesn't have to like everyone in some capacity. It isn't just because of what Severus is telling her that accounts for the dislike: she already wouldn't, based off of his most recent network post, but Severus gives her a far more personal, invested reasoning. ]
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But-- on to something a bit more grave. ]
Something happened to him on the colony - that he didn't deserve. A dark wizard from some other world went after people. No one deserved it, even him. But Black new, and as far as I can tell, didn't help.
Instead whatever he said to him resulted in him cornering and attacking me. He's a telekinetic.
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[ This though, stills her: her inhale is a little sharp, thinking about the capacities of a strange dark wizard that could and would do that to groups of people, and she sits up like Severus can see her and it means she's paying more attention. Elladora stares at her grumpily for the disturbance but doesn't meow; Lily doesn't speak for a moment. ]
He's a telekinetic and just attacked you out of the blue on someone else's word. [ Furious. Absolutely furious. ]
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[ Flatly. That happened. ]
He lost his mind after, I spent no less than an hour sitting there unable to leave while he had a panic attack.
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[ Normally something like a panic attack would draw sympathy from her but now it just seems... Not pathetic but farcical, like an attempt to gain sympathy after attacking a man for nothing at all. ]
Let me guess, nothing has been done about him, since he's still around being useless and presumably dangerous as well.
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[ Sooooooo. He's skeptical of anything having been done. Tyke obviously likes him if he's still around, bleating that he's 'second in command'. ]
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(hahahaha oh fuck has it been that long, yes it has)
and he's just. Tired. ]
So. [ Exhale. ] He's probably covering for Black.
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[ A breath. Everyone is stupid, when did this happen. ]
He isn't even good at it, his damned announcement just made everything more suspicious than before.
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