HP Drabble: A Kiss

[kat_lair]

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Can't wait to see how many AO3 subscribers I'll lose after this one. I've already lost three since starting to post these drabbles 😂😂

Title: A Kiss
Author:kat_lair
Fandom: Harry Potter
Character: Bellatrix
Tags: Drabble, Dark, Sadism, Torture
Rating: M
Word count: 100

Summary: She likes them screaming, but she loves them silent.

Author notes: Prompt = the title. 

A Kiss on AO3

She likes them screaming, but she loves them silent, faces contorted, bodies locked, rictus of pain shining like lacquer on a butterfly. Bellatrix admires the fight, sucks on each sugar sweet surrender like boiled candy, but it’s the edge just between that makes her breath stutter, her heart quicken. There’s no beauty like a soul stripped bare, when the pretence of civilisation falls away, revealing the animal underneath. Animals don’t hope, they only exist. And Bellatrix, she loves to make them feel every eternal second, trap them in the present, the stinging kiss of her magic going on and on.

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Comments

[kitarella_imagines]

Oh, why are they unsubscribing? Well actually that's probably a silly question, but how strange!

[kat_lair]

My guess is that these are people who subscribed based on a particular fandom but didn't realise just how multifandom I am and that whilst I inevitably circle back to whatever my current obsession is, the in-between is littered with works form fandoms they probably won't care about and getting notifications about those is annoying so... It is a little funny

[kitarella_imagines]

Oh I expect that is it.

It's funny, my subscriptions are fairly constant so far, they just go up and not down. Now I've said that they'll probably drop!😅 I've only got 30 though, not loads.

[trialia]

Ooh, snap! xD Very nicely done, though I can imagine it might not have been the sweetest thing to be on the inside of Bella's head for a while!

[kat_lair]

Thank you hun. Occasionally it's fun to dip into a darker headspace...

[trialia]

Fun, indeed. (After all, you're talking to someone who wrote murder-suicide fic for one of their favourite pairs, remember! 😉) Just not particularly sweet, lol.