Snape Fics by Bohemian Spirit

Title: Pedagogically Effective
Author: bohemianspirit
Genre: Gen, Drabble
Characters: Charity Burbage, Neville Longbottom; subtextual Severus/Charity
Rating: PG (for description of toady violence)
Word Count: 100
Challenge: snape100 #281: Cauldrons and Snitches
Notes: Companion drabble to "Lessons in Safety," also posted for Challenge #281.

Title: Silent Sentences
Author: bohemianspirit
Genre: Gen, Drabble
Characters: Miscellaneous students, Charity Burbage (implied Severus/Charity)
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100
Challenge: snape100 #279: Random Quotes 2009


This is the bitterest pain among people, to have much knowledge but no power. -Herodotus

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.

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: The Disillusioning of a Death Eater
Author: bohemianspirit
Genre: Humor
Characters: Severus, Lucius
Pairings: None... much to Severus' dismay.
Rating: PG-13
Originally posted: 11-30-07, on my LJ

Summary: Neophyte Death Eater Severus Snape discovers that being a Death Eater isn't all he thought it would be. Poor Severus!



( The Disillusioning of a Death Eater )

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.

Title: Still, Life, with Modifications
Author: bohemianspirit
Genre: Gen, Het (Gen story, Het relationship)
Pairings/Characters: Severus/Dora (OFC), Edie, Harry
Series: Sequel to Light Between the Cracks and Knowing Jack. This story is best read in the context of those two stories.
Rating: PG-13
Originally posted: 6-5-08, on snape_after_dh.

Summary: Severus comes to terms with life as a portrait.

Notes: Song lyrics from "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues," "Your Song," "Rocket Man," "Someone Saved My Life Tonight," and "Skyline Pigeon" by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. Parody lyrics based on Elton's "I'm Still Standing." "Hello, Goodbye," is, of course, by the Beatles.

( Still, Life, with Modifications )

Title: Knowing Jack
Author: bohemianspirit
Genre: Gen, Het (Gen story, Het relationship)
Pairings/Characters: Severus/Dora (OFC), Harry, Edie
Series: Sequel to Light Between the Cracks.
Rating: PG-13
Originally posted: 11-5-07, for snape_after_dh. This sequel was not planned, it just sort of emerged.

Summary: A little over a year after Severus' death, his widow has his remains moved to their hometown. Harry attends the funeral and gets a glimpse of the life Severus had kept hidden from the wizarding world.

Notes: Song lyrics quoted are from "The Water is Wide," a traditional folk song, and from "At My Funeral," by the Crash Test Dummies (on their 1991 album titled, appropriately enough, The Ghosts That Haunt Me). Also in this story: Spot the Hemingway allusion!



( Knowing Jack )

Title: Not Yet FUBAR
Author: bohemianspirit
Genre: Gen, Humor, and a bit of Love
Characters: Severus, Goddess, and an Angel
Rating: PG-13, for language
Originally posted: 11-2-07, for snape_after_dh

Summary: After giving Severus a chance to get settled into his heavenly home, Goddess confers with him about the work She would like him to do in the afterlife.

Warnings: Unconventional and mildly irreverent handling of religious concepts may possibly offend some people. The Deity treating Severus Snape with respect and love may possibly offend others.

Note: Thanks to the moderators of snape_after_dh for extending the deadline for posting, I offer you the following bonus story, not originally planned... unless, perhaps, it was Ordained On High... ;-)


( Not Yet FUBAR )

Title: I Might Have Known
Author: bohemianspirit
Genre: Gen
Characters: Severus, Harry
Rating: PG
Originally posted: 10-20-07, for snape_after_dh

Summary: At the end of Harry's life, Severus arrives to accompany him beyond the veil, but first they have a bit of talking to do.


( I Might Have Known )