Snape Fics by Bohemian Spirit

Title: Not Going That Way
Author: bohemianspirit
Genre: Het, Humor, AU and/or Crack, Drabble
Characters: Severus/Charity and a few Special Surprise Cameo Appearances
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Challenge: snape100 #282: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Notes: I'm not sure if this is the same summer holiday as "High Flying Lover" and "Letting Off Steam." It appears that Severus and Charity temporarily slipped through a warp in the space-time continuum. Inspired by this comment exchange in alisanne's story "Temptation." What a long, strange trip it's been...

Title: Sev's Twin
Author: bohemianspirit
Genre: Gen, AU, Crackfic, Drabble
Character: Severus Snape
Rating: PG
Prompt: Twin
Originally posted: 4-19-09, for Writercon100 on LJ

Notes: Post-Deathly Hallows AU, rather cracky.



"Oh, hey, whaddaya know." A man passing on Nicollet Mall stopped and grinned at Severus. "Twins."

His face. His voice.

That accent.

That horrible, horrible accent.

"Only if you were born ninth of January, nineteen-sixty, and adopted out of Manchester, England," snapped Severus.

"Hey! Whaddaya know? We are twins!"

He hadn't survived Nagini's bite, after all. He had died, and gone to hell, and this was his eternal torment, in penalty for the never-to-be-expiated sins of his youth.

"Welcome to the Twin Cities, twin brother!"

Severus blinked. "I'm not dead. Am I?" he added hopefully.

His twin frowned. "No."

Damn.

Seems I just can't leave the good Professors alone. Another crack at crossover crack in the land of Gilligan's Isle, featuring the One True Pairing of Severus Snape (HP Professor) and Roy Hinkley (GI Professor).

Author: bohemianspirit
Series: Harry Potter/Gilligan's Island crossover
Pairing: Severus Snape/Roy Hinkley (The Professor)
Prompt: Redemption
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Humor, Slash, AU, Crossover, Crackfic, Drabble
Timeline: post-Deathly Hallows AU + time warp to early 1960s Gilligan's Island (Don't try to make sense of it. Really.)
Originally posted: April 13 and 14, 2009, on Writercon100 on LJ.

Summary: Two drabbles on the theme of "redemption," one from each character's point of view. Sequel to the first set of drabbles, The Professor and The Professor.


( Professor Hinkley's Second Chance )

( Professor Snape's Second Chance )

Title: Professor Grunge
Author: bohemianspirit
Genre: AU, Humor, Satire, Gen
Main Character: Severus
Rating: PG-13, for language
Originally posted: 7-15-08

Summary: Upon graduating from Hogwarts, Severus pursues an employment opportunity in the northwestern United States, with somewhat unexpected results.

Notes: Yet another variation on the Infinite Possibilities of the Life of Schroedinger's Snape. ;-) Crack, maybe. Definitely cracked. And cracking. Written for the Snapedom Summer Fest 2008 and dedicated to Sev's Underground. Rock on!

WARNING!!! WARNING!!! Severus Snape gets to have a HAPPY LIFE!!!

Don't say I didn't warn you.

( Professor Grunge )

Title: Ask Someone Who Cares
Author: bohemianspirit
Genre: Gen, Post-war AU, Coming-of-Age, Humor
Characters: Severus, Draco
Rating: PG-13
Originally posted: 12-30-08

Summary: Severus helps Draco build a new life for himself after the war, and in the process finds his own way towards healing.

Notes: Written for Dollar-chan, for the snapedom Summer Fest 2008. This story was inspired by these pictures of Severus and Draco: On the Run (gen), Childhood (gen), and Study Session (slash, work safe).

Writing Draco sympathetically was a challenge for me. Unlike Severus in this story, I've never been particularly fond of Draco. However, I do think that in the last couple of books he showed (along with his more negative traits) signs of change for the better, glimpses of a potential, eventual maturing in perspective and behavior, so I built on that side of him in developing this story.

I took the idea of Severus fleeing Hogwarts with Draco at the end of HBP, combined with the idea that Severus had been a friend of the Malfoy family since Draco was a child, and came up with Draco accompanying Severus on a post-DH exodus from Britain's wizarding world. The relationship of Severus to Draco in this story is that of a mentor or father figure, but the Severus/Draco picture gave me the idea to write them as gay men; not, however, in relationship to each other.

Gen story about gay characters. Nothing explicit. DH Epilogue cheerfully ignored, of course. ;-) Severus lives!

Title: Washed Away
Author: bohemianspirit
Genre: Gen, Drabble
Character: Severus Snape
Rating: PG-13
Challenge: snape100 #277 - His First Time
Originally posted: 4-13-09

Notes: AU fate of Severus Snape. Of course. ;-)



He remembered, always, the first time he had realized that Lily was dead.

As in, truly, madly, deeply realized.

She wasn't coming back. To him. To life. Ever.

And Severus had decided that he wanted more in his life than a memory.

He had celebrated his illumination by heading out to a Muggle bar and getting laid.

With every act of making love, always to a Muggle, he erased another layer of damnation for having ever uttered the unpardonable word.

And now, baptized in the tears of Fawkes, Severus was finally set free.

He went forth, and sinned no more.

Title: You Could Use a Good Caretaker
Author: bohemianspirit
Genre: Humor, AU, Slash (unrequited), Crackfic
Characters: Severus Snape, Dwayne Schneider
Crossover: Harry Potter/One Day at a Time
Rating: PG
Originally posted: 12-12-07, on my LJ

Summary: Dwayne Schneider thinks Severus Snape is in need of a good caretaker.

Notes: Bit of a time warp going on here, bringing late 1970s Schneider into the late 1990s to meet AU postwar Snape. I haven't seen the show in at least twenty years, so my characterization of Schneider might be a bit off, but if you're reading a story like this in search of literary quality, you're even more far gone than I am.


( You Could Use a Good Caretaker )

Ten drabbles featuring The Professor and Professor Snape!

I wrote these for Writercon100 on LJ, inspired by the fact that Gilligan's Island was on their list of small fandoms to write for. Of course I had to make them crossover fics, because, well, what's fanfic without Severus Snape? ;-) I had fun writing these; have fun reading them!

Author: bohemianspirit
Series: Harry Potter/Gilligan's Island crossover
Pairing/Characters: Severus Snape/Roy Hinkley (The Professor), Gilligan
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Humor, Slash, AU, Crossover, Crackfic, Drabble
Timeline: post-Deathly Hallows AU + time warp to early 1960s Gilligan's Island (Don't try to make sense of it. Really.)
Originally posted: April 8-10, 2009, on Writercon100 on LJ

Summary: Ten drabbles, each complete in itself but all of them related in plot, setting, and *ahem* characterization.



( #1: The Professor and The Professor )

( #2: Essential Experimentations in Frivolity )

( #3: The Fly in the Denouement )

( #4: Concerning the Matter of Gilligan )

( #5: Shipshape )

( #6: The Professor to the Rescue )

( #7: Getting Naked )

( #8: Such Sweet Sorrow )

( #9: Professors in Paradise )

And the Epilogue:

( #10: The Pleasurable Secrets of Professor Hinkley )

Title: So Dark the Con of Man
Author: bohemianspirit
Genre: Gen, Drabble
Character: Severus Snape
Rating: PG
Prompt: Con
Originally posted: 4-8-09, for Writercon100 on LJ

Summary: Severus lives.



He had thought the infernal trio would never leave.

Slowly, slowly, he allowed his eyelids to relax. Tears welled, relieving the arid burn of seemingly endless minutes of wide-eyed Occlumency. The vial of phoenix tears would soon complete what the Blood Replenisher and Antivenin had begun. The memories, relinquished, would not be missed. It was time to let them go.

He had known it might come, someday, to faking his own death. He had not expected an audience.

Slowly, slowly, Severus Snape rose. He bowed, exited, and drew the final curtain on a dark and miserable chapter of his life.

Realistically, all romantic fantasy aside, I think Severus and Lily had a circumstantial, superficially-founded childhood friendship that both of them would have outgrown, even if Severus had never become a Death Eater. Based on what we see in the texts, it appears that Lily had started to pull away from Severus once they got to Hogwarts and she discovered other friends who could also do magic. Lily and Severus really don't seem to have been all that comparable, or compatible, in terms of intellectual capacity and personality, and Severus seems to have read far more into the friendship than Lily ever did.

I think the forces of survivor guilt and idealizing the memory of the dead had more to do with Severus' devotion in later years than a True Love based upon a solid and genuine soulmate-level friendship. A good counselor would have pointed this out to him within the first few years of Lily's death, but, alas, poor Severus had no good counselors available to him, only Albus Dumbledore.

So here's how I think it would have played out, had Severus given up his Death Eater associations and had he ended up marrying Lily. And now that I think about it, it kind of says a few things about his devotion to her in canon, too... ;-)


Title: Childhood's End
Author: bohemianspirit
Genre: AU, Het
Pairing: Severus/Lily
Rating: PG

Summary: Severus had known for a long time that he and Lily were growing apart, but an early morning conversation about their marriage still leaves him in shock.

Notes: Originally written as a bit of Creative Meta for the Underground at snapedom. ;-) Story title shamelessly lifted from Arthur C. Clarke, because it fits.


"The only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting what you want." - Oscar Wilde

( Childhood's End )