Severus Snape crosses the balcony of his high tower, alone with his thoughts. Approaching the balustrade, the ancient, weathered stone is cold beneath his fingers. The Northwestern winds rustle his robes like curtains of smoke and midnight. His long, raven-black hair thrashes about, stinging his cheeks like the claws of a cat. He welcomes the cold—the pain—a small price to pay for the suffering he inflicted.
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A crusty-eyed James blinks away sleep and groans. The unforgiving Hawaiian sun spills into the room and across the bed, triggering blinding pain through his skull. He'd ended up drinking far more than he should have, but he was on bloody vacation. There's nowhere he has to be. No more Hogwarts, and his Auror internship doesn't start for another month. It's the perfect opportunity to help one's now-of-age best mate to piss away his shitty family's fortune on an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii.
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