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batsutousaiTitle: "Battlefield"
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Rating: R-ish
Warnings: Blood, guts, grossness. Not for weak stomachs.
Disclaim Her: You know the drill.
A/N: Hn. Readmortalus' latest chapter of Harry Potter and the Simulacrum Seal(8) and this came from it. O.o
I seem to be in a rather gruesome mood of late, don't I?
The first thing you see upon approaching is blood-stained grass. There are probably other bodies around you, but you don't really care about them - they're the nameless dead anyway.
His black robes hide the body fluids and since he's turned on his back you can't see his face. His back looks unharmed. No rips in those too-dark robes. If you didn't know any better, you might think he were sleeping. Except that his back isn't rising with steady breaths - but a quick glance could ignore that.
You use your foot to turn him over - better your boots get dirty than your hands. The boots can be thrown away if they get too nasty, but your hands can't and you've already lost your gloves. You'd have used magic, maybe, but you're too tired. Everyone's tired.
He stares, unblinkingly, up at the sky. If you stand directly over him, meet his eyes, he seems to be looking through you. Is he seeing your soul? Or does he see the sky beyond?
You ask him because you want to know, but he doesn't answer.
His skin is pale. Bloodless - it's all over the grass around him and in his robe. There's a streak on his face, near his forehead. Did it hurt before he died?
You ask him if he's in pain. You take his lack of response as a 'no'.
There's a large tear in the front of his robes - you see where the skin has parted beneath it, freeing blood and intestines. Fat puffs out on either side of the slash, padding the freed innards. 'Gruesome' comes to mind.
You realize his wand arm is at an odd angle. Closer inspection shows that it's severely broken - the bone is jutting through at the elbow. Perhaps not all the blood is from his stomach.
You turn away. The set of his mouth - firm and unafraid - scares you. You fear that you'll never be unafraid when facing death. You're afraid of what he has become, to where he may have or may not have gone. Did he become a ghost - to haunt his murderers for the rest of their unfortunate lives - or has he gone on - sure that his murderers will find hauntings that he needn't help along and knowing that he has people waiting for him?
As you walk away, you silently ask the dead what they feel. Are they in pain? Do they hate? Will they haunt you? Would they jump up and attack you, stab you in the back if they could?
No answer comes.
You walk on through a field of swaying blood.
Author:
batsutousaiRating: R-ish
Warnings: Blood, guts, grossness. Not for weak stomachs.
Disclaim Her: You know the drill.
A/N: Hn. Read
mortalus' latest chapter of Harry Potter and the Simulacrum Seal(8) and this came from it. O.oI seem to be in a rather gruesome mood of late, don't I?
The first thing you see upon approaching is blood-stained grass. There are probably other bodies around you, but you don't really care about them - they're the nameless dead anyway.
His black robes hide the body fluids and since he's turned on his back you can't see his face. His back looks unharmed. No rips in those too-dark robes. If you didn't know any better, you might think he were sleeping. Except that his back isn't rising with steady breaths - but a quick glance could ignore that.
You use your foot to turn him over - better your boots get dirty than your hands. The boots can be thrown away if they get too nasty, but your hands can't and you've already lost your gloves. You'd have used magic, maybe, but you're too tired. Everyone's tired.
He stares, unblinkingly, up at the sky. If you stand directly over him, meet his eyes, he seems to be looking through you. Is he seeing your soul? Or does he see the sky beyond?
You ask him because you want to know, but he doesn't answer.
His skin is pale. Bloodless - it's all over the grass around him and in his robe. There's a streak on his face, near his forehead. Did it hurt before he died?
You ask him if he's in pain. You take his lack of response as a 'no'.
There's a large tear in the front of his robes - you see where the skin has parted beneath it, freeing blood and intestines. Fat puffs out on either side of the slash, padding the freed innards. 'Gruesome' comes to mind.
You realize his wand arm is at an odd angle. Closer inspection shows that it's severely broken - the bone is jutting through at the elbow. Perhaps not all the blood is from his stomach.
You turn away. The set of his mouth - firm and unafraid - scares you. You fear that you'll never be unafraid when facing death. You're afraid of what he has become, to where he may have or may not have gone. Did he become a ghost - to haunt his murderers for the rest of their unfortunate lives - or has he gone on - sure that his murderers will find hauntings that he needn't help along and knowing that he has people waiting for him?
As you walk away, you silently ask the dead what they feel. Are they in pain? Do they hate? Will they haunt you? Would they jump up and attack you, stab you in the back if they could?
No answer comes.
You walk on through a field of swaying blood.
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Date: 3/4/06 23:25 (UTC)but so true.
This is so disturbing for me, because I think I would react exactly like that - cool and indifferent -, without understanding for a while, and the second person writing give me so the impression that it was me discovering Severus dead.
I don't know what is worse : discovering an important person of us, unharmed but dead, or bloody and without all his whole body and dead.
For the first, he still seems so alive that you can't accept he's dead, and on the other hand, you KNOW he's dead, but he seems to have suffer a lot... T_T
Anyway, that way to explain things so cooly and with detachment made it really real, and in the same time, it's like we are in a dream. a very very bad dream, one that you don't know in how many time you will get eventually out. one who made you craved to cuddle the other one immediately after awaking, to not let him escape, to not let him get out of sight another time, never, never again...
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Date: 4/4/06 03:20 (UTC)Interestingly enough, one of my friends and I had been discussing nightmares while I was writing this because she wanted a distraction and I was too tired to ignore her... ^.^" Weird, how life fits around writing...
No, what interested me the most about your review was actually the fact that I wrote this to have the dead person be Harry, but I wanted to keep it unspecific enough so people could make it whomever they wanted. I'm glad that worked out. ^.^"
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Date: 4/4/06 02:52 (UTC)no subject
Date: 4/4/06 03:20 (UTC)no subject
Date: 4/4/06 05:25 (UTC)*smiles gently*
Very nice drabble though :)
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Date: 4/4/06 15:02 (UTC)On the other hand, glad you liked it. ^.~
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Date: 4/4/06 08:01 (UTC)I thought it was Severus at first, because for some reason I always relate black robes to him ^.^" Then I read There's a streak on his face, near his forehead. and I changed my mind to Harry. Was that supposed to refer to his scar?
By the way, well done :)
~Shadow Nashira~
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Date: 4/4/06 15:05 (UTC)And, actually, the streak of blood was from the now deceased character touching his head with a bloody hand. Technically. ^.^"
Am glad you liked it.
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Date: 4/4/06 12:18 (UTC)But yes, I liked it! Wonderfully conveyed feelings, as always :)
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Date: 4/4/06 15:07 (UTC)*bows* Glad you liked it. ^.^
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Date: 4/4/06 15:24 (UTC)This was... well, it almost felt like I was walking there you know? Everything was so vivid, and scarily Casualty-esque (don't ask)
It feels, very dream-like, it's obvious that whoever it is has been left in a total state of shock and then they find Severus. Really, really not complaining about the recent stuff honey ^.^
♥
Floss
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Date: 4/4/06 20:35 (UTC)I am highly amused with the number of people who have decided this is Severus. 'Cause it could be, and I'm glad it worked. ^.^
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Date: 5/4/06 03:24 (UTC)I was thinking it was Voldemort, as in Voldemort was the one walking through the field. I didn't connect the body with anyone. :x Haha. I think I had a feeling that it was Harry, but it didn't really connect with me. I think it felt more like Voldemort walking through a battlefield, after the war and just .. looking at the results of the war caused by both sides.
I really like this. :D
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Date: 9/4/06 01:38 (UTC)*rubs chin* Interesting. I didn't really have a person for the one who's walking through the battleground... ^.^" Voldie certainly works, however...