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Dumbledore was pretty firm with him
Chapter 1: Dumbledore
This can be read as a stand-alone fic, but if you read the prequels "Why Snape never eats here", "Malice in his voice" and "Threesome at Spinner's End" and the sequels "I taught him! I thought I knew him", "Well done, Draco, well done" and "Power the Dark Lord knows not" you will get a better feel for the particular version of the Potterverse in which this story is set.
He thinks, I know what Severus wants to talk about, and this is not a conversation I want to have in my study, the portraits will all be listening, and they'll talk. They are only sworn to serve and obey me while I live, when I'm dead they'll talk. Loose lips sink ships, as the Muggles used to say in their version of the war against Grindelwald, and it's probably a good thing the Muggles don't know how their world was nearly destroyed by the malevolence of one mad wizard and his followers, and the indifference of the rest … they wouldn't be happy about it at all. Yes, it's definitely better to meet Severus in the Forbidden Forest if he wants to discuss the Vow, when he fulfils the Vow I don't want to lose everything I'm gambling for because Phineas Nigellus is a boastful old gossip who can't keep his mouth shut.
He remembers when Severus first told him how Narcissa Malfoy had tricked him into the Unbreakable Vow, told him that he intended to break it, and he'd thought - I need to see how this affects the game, how this affects where the pieces are on the board. Draco will never do it, I hope and pray he'll never attempt it, he has been a rather unpleasant boy at times, but mostly in an attempt to please his father. He's still a child, for all his pretensions, still an innocent, and we may yet be able to save him. But if Draco fails in the task that Voldemort has given him, it falls to Severus, and Severus can do it, I know what's in his Ministry file, I know what's he capable of. He can do it, and he will do it if he has to, and there's even a little part of him that wants to do it. Severus lost his innocence so long ago, he'd stepped over a dozen bodies – and that's not counting the Muggles - before he came to me, and he would have cheerfully stepped over a dozen more, if Voldemort hadn't threatened someone he loved, if Voldemort had chosen Neville instead of Harry. He won't admit that he loved Lily - he won't admit that he loves me, either - but no man betrays the Dark Lord lightly, no man betrays the Dark Lord for anything less than love.
His mind drifts back to when Severus first came back to Hogwarts, when he applied for the Defence Against the Dark Arts position, and he thinks, as if I needed Legilimency to see that he belonged to Voldemort! He was dangerous enough when he left Hogwarts, but when he came back he had an aura of deadly power, and why would he have ever voluntarily returned to the place which held so many painful memories? I thought it best to keep Voldemort's young spy close at hand where I could keep an eye on him, so I gave him a job teaching Potions, he didn't want it but he dared not refuse it and disappoint his master, and who could have forseen what would come of it?
And now it comes to this – Severus' life or mine? Which does Harry need most? Should I sacrifice the bishop to move my knight and my queen into position … bad analogy, that, Harry is both king and queen, both the most powerful and the most vulnerable piece … Voldemort will never suspect the move - he can't imagine that the only wizard he's ever feared, the leader of his enemies, might be prepared to die for the cause - in his mind he is the cause, and there is no fate more terrible than death. If Severus fulfills the Vow his position will be secure, and only one piece – Bellatrix Lestrange – will stand in the way, and then Severus will be the most loyal, the most faithful servant, the only one with any chance of being entrusted with the secret of the Horcruxes, and he'll be Harry's last line of defence, the one that Voldemort will never suspect, Harry's last protector in dire need. No, I don't need Severus to trade his life for mine, I need him to trade his life for Harry's.
He remembers when they'd first discussed the Vow, strolling by the Lake in the summer sun, discussed how the game was shaping up. He'd told Severus what he suspected about the diary, that it was a Horcrux, and Severus had smirked triumphantly, he'd worked that out for himself, oh yes, Severus is a bright lad, a very bright lad indeed. He'd made his mind up then and he'd asked Severus to promise that he would do it, to promise to obey him, and he'd just stood there with his arms folded, curtains of greasy black hair hiding his face, hiding his thoughts, in the way that he does when he's sulking, and had said something bitter about preferring immediate death with honour to being hunted up and down the country like a mad dog and then blown apart by the entire Auror Corps. He frowns at the memory of how he'd tried to lighten the mood by reminding Severus of what Phineas Nigellus always says about Slytherins – they're brave but not stupid, and given the choice, will always choose to save themselves – in hindsight that had been cruelly insensitive.
Severus will keep his life if he fulfils the Vow, but he'll lose everything else, he'll have to flee from the place that has been his home for most of his life, and he'll have to bear the loathing and contempt of the whole wizarding world, the Daily Prophet will print every vile detail from his Ministry file, and - what the strange proud creature dreads most of all – it will rake over the old scandal involving his mother's family. And he'll need to deal with Bellatrix Lestrange, they hadn't discussed that in detail, it wasn't necessary, Severus knows he has to find a way to kill her without losing Voldemort's favour; and Voldemort will give him more tasks – breaking Lucius Malfoy and the other Death Eaters captured in the Department of Mysteries out of Azkaban, for a guess - Severus knows what he will have to do, commit crime after crime in the service of the Dark Lord until it's over, until the prophecy is fulfilled. He'd felt for Severus, but it was too important a matter to leave hanging, it's open warfare with Voldemort now, so he'd pushed him for the promise of obedience, and he'd agreed.
He thinks, it has been dreadfully hard on Severus this year, caught between me and the Dark Lord he hates and fears and adores, and with the Vow hanging over his head like the proverbial Sword of Damocles. He must be close to breaking point, and teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts hasn't been good for him, I would never have given him the job but I needed Horace Slughorn here, only Harry can get that memory from him, the memory I need to be absolutely sure of what I suspect, and heaven knows what memories having Horace back at Hogwarts teaching Potions again are dredging up for Severus. My poor dear Severus, all his compulsive, self-destructive behaviours have been getting steadily worse since the summer break … he's drinking too much, smoking too much – filthy Muggle habit, I wish he would give it up, doesn't he know what it does to his teeth? And there's the other thing, but that's not surprising, Severus has noticed how much Ginny Weasley resembles Lily – I'd wager a stack of galleons there is Weasley blood somewhere in the Evans family tree - and he can see it coming, history repeating itself, Potter catches the Snitch, Potter gets the girl. And that's just one more reason for Severus to keep on hurting himself, because his desire to be loved is only outweighed by his determination to be unlovable, as he has demonstrated to every good looking young female staff member who has ever made the mistake of being attracted to him, and most recently with that sad, sordid little incident last year involving Nymphadora Tonks. Yes, his behaviour deteriorated noticeably after that incident, and now it's completely out of hand, he slinks off to London, to those Muggle, ah, nightclubs, as they call them, every chance he gets. Of course I know what he does because he has to ask me for permission to leave Hogwarts, Minerva may be the Deputy Headmistress but I need to know that Severus will be here before I can leave the castle myself, if Voldemort changes his plans, if the Death Eaters somehow manage to break the wards, if they come for Harry and I'm away, if there's fighting in Hogwarts, if the students are in danger, I must have Severus here. I know where he goes and what he does, and I try not to let him see how much it saddens me.
He remembers something he read in a Muggle book about their war against Grindelwald, something an American admiral had said, "When the shit hits the fan, they send for the sons-of-bitches," and he thinks, crudely expressed but true, so true, I know all the Order think Severus is an absolute son-of-a-bitch, and they're right, but don't they ever stop to think, how long would he have lasted if he wasn't, Regulus Black was a nice boy and how long did he last after he turned against Voldemort?
He sighs, and thinks, if Severus is vicious and immature, that is also partly my fault … Severus could never admit to himself that that he loved Lily, that he loved James Potter's wife, because to do so would be gall and wormwood to him, would be to admit that James had defeated him in every possible way, and because he denies it, he has no hope of ever getting over it. But I didn't help, I let him stay at Hogwarts, wallowing in his misery and his memories and honing his cruel, sarcastic persona to a knife edge, for ten years, instead of sending him away, giving him a chance to make his own life. At first I kept him because he was so … fragile … after Voldemort fell, if someone hadn't been kind to him I think he might have killed himself, and he wasn't safe outside Hogwarts, two hundred witches and wizards heard me say in the Wizengamot that he'd been a Death Eater, and far too many people knew about the things in his Ministry file, the file that is supposed to be confidential, I won't forget that week he spent in St Mungo's in a hurry, he nearly died.
Damn it, he thinks, I never expected Severus to be awarded an Order of Merlin, First Class, for what he did in the first war against Voldemort, but he was treated cruelly. It was two days before I even heard that he'd been arrested, and when he wouldn't talk, when Alastor Moody found that he couldn't break the man, he broke his wand. Breaking an adult wizard's wand is a serious thing, a very serious thing, it is a shameful punishment, only meted out by the Wizengamot to criminals sentenced to Azkaban for life, oh why did Alastor have to give Severus yet another reason to hate the whole world? Yes, I kept him while the storm raged, and then I kept him because I knew Voldemort would return, and I would need him again, and I didn't realise the mistake I'd made until I saw that venomous look on his face at Harry's Sorting – dear god, why does Harry have to be the very image of James, with his mother's eyes? It's ironic really, neither Severus, who hates Harry, nor Sirius, who loves Harry - he corrects himself, Sirius has been dead for many months now - who loved Harry, are really able to distinguish the son from the father, they're both so mesmerised by the physical resemblance.
Harry! Severus' feelings for Harry are so complicated that they defy understanding but there's no doubt that he hates him, fears him, and envies him. And there is also no doubt that Severus will never hurt Harry, not seriously, anyway. To Severus, Harry is the weapon, the weapon against Voldemort … and he is Lily's son.
He considers for a moment – can I really trust Severus with Harry? I know what it says in his Ministry file, "I enjoy killing. I don't do it any more. I know it is wrong." … and what it should say, "I enjoy killing. I don't do it any more. Dumbledore says it's wrong." He thinks, unflinchingly, Severus has the moral development of a six year old and the emotional development of a sixteen year old – not that many people realize that, he defends himself so well with a sharp wit and a poisonous tongue - can I trust him to be loyal to a mere memory of me? But he knows the answer to that question – Severus' understanding of the difference between right and wrong may be a little shaky, but he is as loyal as a phoenix, he has been loyal to a dead woman's memory for fifteen years, bound to her by guilt and grief and the desire for vengeance. He sighs and thinks, it is horrible but true, Severus will be bound more strongly to the memory of me when I'm dead, dead by his hand, than he ever was to me while I lived, he'll be bound to my memory as powerfully as he is bound to Lily's memory.
He thinks, I know I can trust him with Harry, Severus doesn't like it but he understands that Voldemort doesn't win when I die, he wins when Harry dies, and he will do whatever he has to do to save Harry, he'll do it grudgingly, furiously, unwillingly, bitterly, but he will do it. What Severus doesn't understand is why Harry wasn't taught the Dark Arts from an early age, wasn't taught to use Voldemort's own methods. He remembers how Severus came to him, to offer to teach Harry the Unforgiveable Curses, how those black eyes had glittered with cruel anticipation, and he'd been disgusted and angry, and then saddened, when he saw how his anger frightened and confused Severus. He'd realised – he's trying to please me, bringing me a gift, like a cat bringing a bird or rat into the house, and he's so … childish … he brings me the gift he wants for himself – Harry, my sweet Harry, soiled and degraded, reduced to his level. Why hadn't he seen if before, the poor boy is jealous, so jealous of Harry, doesn't he understand, I can love them both, care for them both? Though if he were to be honest – more honest than he cares to be – he pities Severus, he cares for him, his heart aches for the poor damaged creature and the ruin he's made of his life – but Harry he loves, truly loves, how can he not love such a magnificent unspoiled person? And Harry will have power the Dark Lord knows not.
He remembers telling Harry about the prophecy, he'd said he'd tell him everything, but he hadn't told him everything, he hadn't told him about Severus, hadn't told him that Severus was the agent of Voldemort who overheard the first part of the prophecy, and that Severus is the reason why his mother had the choice to die for him, to make the sacrifice that saved him from Voldemort's curse. He thinks, Harry is not ready to hear that, maybe he will never be ready to hear it, but Severus is very deep in this story, and my heart tells me he will have some further part to play, for good or ill, before it is over.
And now Severus is standing in front of him, scowling and silent, uncertain how to begin, and he thinks, the boy must be the spitting image of the wretched Muggle who sired him, he's got nothing of his mother about him, except her black eyes, and that look on his face, both sullen and angry. Poor Eileen, she would have been a prefect, even Head Girl, if it wasn't for the scandal of a father serving a life sentence in Azkaban - a bitter thought given that he now has half a dozen students who are proud to have fathers in Azkaban, but things were different before the rise of Voldemort. When she graduated from Hogwarts she'd simply disappeared, he hadn't thought about her for years, not until he looked through the new students' files, and seen her name on Severus' file, and realised she'd married a Muggle.
He'd watched the boy closely at the Sorting, as he watched all the first years, and wondered how he'd manage in Slytherin. There have been half-bloods in Slytherin from time to time, but the Muggle parent has always been rich or beautiful, or both, and that makes sense to a Slytherin, look at Riddle's mother, at least she chose a man who could give her son the advantages of astounding good looks and tremendous natural charm. What did Eileen see in Tobias Snape? The man must at least have been intelligent, Eileen wouldn't have tolerated a fool, but clearly there was no money, going by the boy's general shabbiness, and by Merlin, he was an unprepossessing little thing to look at, scrawny, hook-nosed and greasy-haired. He'd concluded that Eileen must have married the first man who offered, desperate to get away from her family, and possibly the whole of the wizarding world.
The next time he'd seen Severus was in his office, facing expulsion, a very nasty incident in the corridor outside Minerva's Transfiguration class, and it was only the first week of term. Severus had disarmed Sirius Black, sent his wand flying into the air, and Sirius had lost his temper, had tried to punch him, Muggle-style, in those days Sirius was inches taller than Severus, he would always be taller than Severus … and Severus had cast a bone-breaking curse that most of the seventh years didn't know existed let alone knew how to use, and had shattered every bone in Sirius' right hand and arm, so badly that Poppy needed to remove the bones and regrow them with Skele-Gro. He'd had Horace and Minerva in his office while he questioned the boy, trying to find out where he'd learned the curse and what had possessed him to use it.
He'd talked to him gently, calming him down so he could see inside his mind without being rough or intrusive. As he expected the boy had been teased mercilessly at his Muggle school, that wasn't unusual in the case of half-blood children if they had to live in the Muggle world, it was often harder for them than the Muggle-borns because they knew they were magical, but that didn't seem enough to explain his aggressive behaviour. There was something else, something the boy was hiding, by Merlin's beard, the child is only eleven years old, but already he has raised formidable barriers around his mind, he's a natural Occlumens.
Minerva had been steaming away in the background like a kettle reaching the boil, and finally she'd burst out angrily about a cowardly and vicious attack on a student who'd been disarmed.
He'd raised his hand to signal her to be silent, and the boy had flinched, his eyes fixed on the raised hand, and then the barriers had gone down and he'd seen it, a hook-nosed man shouting at a cowering woman, something about "Black magic", "deceitful bitch" and "freakish brat", the man raising his hand … and he'd realised, horrified, the boy thinks I'm going to hit him! And not just a slap either, he's been really knocked about, but it's the indignity, the humiliation, that he hates more than the pain. And there's something really sad, the trouble only started when the boy's father found out his wife was a witch, he thinks that all magic is evil, wrong, freakish, and he's tried to beat it out of the child. The boy was only six years old when his world fell apart, divided between the father he loves and hates and fears and the mother he loves and hates and despises, and he can't deny his magic, it would kill him to do so, it's so strong in him.
DAMN, HELL AND DAMNATION, he'd thought, these situations are intractable, it's outside the jurisdiction of Magical Law Enforcement because the perpetrator is a Muggle, and if Eileen hasn't left him by now she never will. As usual, all we can do is wait and watch and hope the kid doesn't grow up too badly maimed. So he'd lowered his hand, watching the fear and hate subside in the black eyes opposite, and he'd asked, "Who taught you that curse?"
"My mother."
"Why did you use it?"
"Because wizards don't hit each other with their fists, only filthy Muggles do that. Wizards fight with spells."
He'd explained the situation to the Heads of all of the Houses, and it wasn't expulsion, just a week's worth of detentions, and he'd tried to get Severus to understand the concept of an appropriate and measured response to provocation and when he saw he wasn't getting through to him, listed the hexes that were, de facto, tolerated – stinging hexes, bat bogey hex, jelly-legs, that sort of thing - and told him that using anything else would result in instant expulsion. Severus had grasped that immediately.
Eileen probably thought teaching the boy every hex under the sun was the best way to prepare her son to survive Sorting into Slytherin, but that ugly incident with Sirius had only attracted the worst kind of attention, from Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Black, for example. Lucius and Bellatrix! He never cares to probe Severus too much about his relationships with that malevolent pair, Severus still thinks of Lucius as a friend, and he can guess at what must have occurred between Severus and bold, beautiful, sexy Bellatrix Black, she must have been one of Voldemort's most effective recruiting agents.
And naturally Sirius had hated Severus from the moment they'd clashed so violently in that first week of term, had hated him because Severus represented everything he didn't want to be and was afraid that he was, a nasty little Dark wizard in training. And because Sirius hated Severus, James had disliked him, Peter loved to see anyone except himself being singled out for cruelty, Remus had gone along with it for the sake of his fledgling friendships, he'd been so happy to be accepted and liked for the first time in his life, there had been only four Gryffindor boys in that year, and it was natural that they made a tight little group. So it was usually four to one, Severus didn't really have friends in his year, he'd hung out with the gang of older kids dominated by Lucius and Bellatrix, and while they looked out for him, they weren't in his classes where most of the petty harassments took place.
However, Severus usually gave back as good as he got, and thankfully he had a real gift for Potions, so Horace had warmed to him, and things had gone on, fairly smoothly - although somehow Severus picked up that cruel nick-name 'Snivellus' - until his fifth year. That incident during the OWLS, when James had threatened to take Severus' pants off down by the Lake, and Lily had become involved in that – the last straw for Severus, he'd been so provoked, he'd lashed out even at her, and then been too proud and embarrassed to apologise until it was too late – had done serious damage. There was worse to follow in the next year, that dreadful business in the Shrieking Shack, and by the time Severus came back to Hogwarts in his seventh year, he had become really savage, he didn't do anything that would get him into trouble, he had learnt self-control by then, but for those with the eyes to see it he'd become a seething black cloud of rage and hate and wounded pride in human form, and he'd matured in that last year at Hogwarts, he'd grown up physically and magically once he turned seventeen and came of age, and developed into a graceful, dangerous young man. James and Sirius became curiously wary of hexing Severus that year, and girls started to notice him, and thank god Severus had reciprocated the interest – perhaps a little too enthusiastically, given the unpleasant gossip Bertha Jorkins spread about him and that sweet little Hufflepuff, Florence ... Florence, damn, he can't remember her surname - otherwise he might have thought he had another Tom Riddle on his hands.
Riddle's complete lack of interest in sex had been one of the things that alerted him to the fact that there was something very, very wrong with young Tom, the best-looking boy in the school, girls hung around him like flies, even the normally aloof Minerva McGonagall, not that she'd thank him for reminding her of that, and if Riddle had been interested in boys there were quite a few who would have been willing. But Riddle had been completely obsessed, even as a teenager, with overcoming death, when a man is determined to achieve immortality he has no need for heirs, and the primeval urge to reproduce has an awful lot to do with all that excitement in bed. No, the boy Riddle wasn't interested in any form of human neediness or contact, not even of the basest kind, and Severus has confirmed that Voldemort has never been known to engage in sexual activities, though not in so many words, he's surprisingly prudish for a man who spends his Saturday nights picking up women in Muggle singles bars.
Severus is still glaring at him, at a loss as to where to begin, and he realises, this isn't just one of his tantrums, this is serious, Severus is really angry and he's frightened, too, he's struggling not to lose control, struggling to keep his barriers up. Sweet Merlin, how could I not see this coming, he's on the verge of tears, and Severus never cries, he didn't cry when Remus attacked him in the Shrieking Shack, he didn't cry when Lily died, he never cries … no, that's not true, he cried when he came to me, begged me to save Lily, and I made him show me the Dark Mark, the Mark of the master he swore to leave forever.
He plays for time, asks pleasantly, "How are you going with Draco?"
Severus somehow musters one of his legendary sneers. "Aunt Bellatrix has taught him both to distrust me, and the rudiments of Occlumency. I must say, Headmaster, that Draco seems to have quite an aptitude for Occlumency – unlike Potter."
Inwardly he groans, can't Severus ever leave it alone, must he always pick at his sores, even at a time like this?
Severus is speaking again, "I can't break into Draco's mind without using techniques of which you would not approve, and which in any event the Unbreakable Vow precludes me from applying."
But just speaking of the Vow aloud has rattled Severus, rattled him enough to tear down the barriers. He looks into the black eyes opposite, and he's shocked at what he sees, an incoherent stream of childish anger, pain and fear: Albus, why are you doing this to me? You're like my father, I try to please you and it isn't enough, it's never enough, are you hurting me like this because I'm just a filthy Slytherin, because I'm not one of your golden Gryffindors? You don't care what's going to happen to me, you're LEAVING me, Albus, you're leaving me all alone, leaving me to rot … to rot in an unmarked grave in Azkaban. Albus, I've been good, I've been good for you for fifteen years, but you're still making me do it, you're giving me back to HIM, and then I will do bad things, and you will be angry with me, and I don't want you to be angry with me, it hurts, I want it to stop hurting … .
It is as if a dam has been breached, Severus is completely out of control, he's shouting, "YOU TAKE TOO MUCH FOR GRANTED, DUMBLEDORE, AND I WON'T DO IT! I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANY MORE!"
He winces, remembering how Harry shouted the same words in his office after Sirius died, but this is a much more serious situation, Harry only smashed a few trinkets but Severus' wand is in his hand, green sparks are showering from the tip of his wand, he's nearly out of his mind and capable of doing serious damage. He feels the magic building around Severus, when it discharges there's going to be one hell of a blast, he's too close to Severus to throw up an effective shield, it could kill both of them, and he's got to stop it. There's no time to be gentle, he's got to get Severus' attention now.
He shouts, "PROFESSOR SNAPE, YOU WILL DO WHAT YOU HAVE AGREED TO DO, YOU WILL CONTINUE WITH YOUR INVESTIGATIONS INTO SLYTHERIN HOUSE, AND YOU WILL REMEMBER THAT I AM THE HEADMASTER OF THIS SCHOOL!"
Severus is swaying, blinking, looking hurt and confused, he can feel the magic swirling around them but there's no blast, just a minor shock wave as it spreads out and begins to dissipate. Dear god, it has worked but it's awful to see, Severus has lowered his wand and dropped to his knees, he's kissing his robes, trembling and whimpering, "Master, I am sorry, do not punish me …"
He thinks, what have I done to Severus? I have used him as cruelly as Voldemort does, and now he's cringing to me as he does to his Dark Lord, I have dragged him into the arena to face the battle, and he deserves better, he deserves the dignity of a choice. Carefully, slowly – best not to make any sudden movements while he's in this state - he kneels down, embraces the man cowering at his feet, and just holds him until the shaking stops, speaks to him soothingly, "Severus, it's me, it's Albus, I won't hurt you, I'm not angry, I'm not angry with you, Severus, I promise I won't be angry with you, whatever you do, whatever you do for him, I won't be angry with you, I promise I won't be angry, I'll never be angry with you …." And when he sees that Severus has come back to his senses, he tells him, "Severus, I release you from your promise of obedience. When the time comes, you must do what you think best. You must choose."
But a little voice at the back of his mind is saying, the poor boy doesn't really have a choice, when the time comes, I will ask him to do it, and for love of me he will do what I ask of him, though it tears him apart.


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Expensive Tea
"Hey, you! Brat!"
Layke awoke to the sound of a female voice yelling.
"Get up, brat!"
His eyes instantly darted to the door, which was shaking on its hinges. In an attempt to pacify whoever it was yelling at him, Layke got up and went to the door.
"It's alright. I'm up," he said in the most gentle voice possible. The yelling stopped. Layke opened the door to see his sister there, panting and with a red face. Not so beautiful now, hey? Layke thought to himself, but kept his expression blank.
"You stupid, lazy, slug! It is not alright." His sister was furious, hair flying in all directions. The scary thing was, she seemed to not care. Layke got nervous now, starting to fiddle with his button.
"What happened?"
"What happened? What happened?" his sister screeched. "I woke up this morning, in a good mood, hoping to warm myself by having a cup of nothing."
Layke went pale.
"You seem to now think that women don't need tea in the morning, do they?"
Gasping, Layke ran past his sister and into the kitchen. There was an empty cup resting on the counter beside a smashed teapot. Layke sucked his breath in. No wonder his sister was so angry. How could he have forgotten?
Layke felt like smashing his head into a wall to get some sense into him, but there was no time for that. Rushing outside to the well, he collected water and started boiling it. He willed the water to heat up quickly, and funnily enough, it did. He didn't pause to dwell on it, though. He could hear his sister banging about in his room, throwing things around at best. He grimaced when he thought of what the worst would be.
He poured the boiling water into a cup, putting a few tea leaves in. Then he blew on it to make it cool down faster. Maybe he could get it ready by the time his sister came in.
He remembered the look of pure delight on her face when she had drank her first cup of tea. When word of this new 'tea' product had arrived, his sister had instantly wanted to try some. She had gotten Layke's father working extra hard to get a bit of the tea. Unfortunately, she had liked it, and from then on Layke had had to work harder, too, just to afford a few tea leaves.
He sighed, thinking of the blissful days of his youth when he still had time to play in the meadows with his young friends. He wondered what his friends were doing now. Would they still be playing in the meadow, oblivious to the working-class world that their parents lived in? Probably not. They'd probably have been forced to work like Layke had, toiling away so that their sisters could afford fancy dresses and tea. They might even have been forced to marry. Layke shivered at the thought.
Layke's head snapped up, stopping his blowing for a moment. His mother had walked in, an imperious look upon her face. Layke nodded.
"Don't stand there like a fool! Get back to whatever you were doing!"
Layke hurriedly began blowing again.
"In fact, boy, what are you doing?"
"Cooling the tea for Sister," he said hurriedly.
"What did I tell you about not standing there like a fool?"
"Sorry Mother," he said, before resuming his blowing. And what did you tell me about answering your questions? he thought to himself. His mother stared at him for a moment, before shaking her head.
"Whatever is my son coming to," he caught her mutter as she swished away. "My only hope is to marry him off to a poor unsuspecting woman."
Layke stared after her, feeling unwanted, which he probably was. What I would do to be one of those poor unsuspecting women, he thought, feeling a lump in his throat at the unfairness of it all. He swallowed it down quickly, else how would he continue to blow the tea?

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For me, it's my Sig 226. It's worked when it had to, and never let me down. I shoot it as fast as it pretty well will lock up and can put the rounds on target without thinking about it, and I don't feel underarmed with it in the slightest.
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Forgive me if i st-st-stutter from all of the clutter in my head (Teddy Geiger fan fiction part 2)Mature
"You're kidding me. This is the girl?" Mr. Geiger asked. I made an irritated clicking noise with my tongue and i pushed a lock of hair out of my face. I gave Mr. Ramsey an Oh god, please no! look. He sighed as he walked over to Mr. Geiger.
"Mr. Geiger, you asked me to give you a reliable personale to help you and watch over you. Now, this is the most reliable person in my entire building. Mainly because i know you'd sleep with all other females and you would cry if any of the men in this building tried to babysit you." Mr. Ramsey stated
"Watch. Watch me. Not babysit" Mr. Geiger barked. I stepped up towards him and jabbed him in the chest.
"Don't bark like some wild beast at my boss, you spoiled ass musician. You think you're all that just because you have some fucking fan girls, dont you? Well I've got news for you. Life is tough. now get out of your little emo wanna-be corner and get a back bone." I snarled. Mr. Geiger's eyes were now wide as he stared down at me. Mr. Ramsey laughed as he seperated us.
"Excuse us Vancouver natives. We like to defend each other in this strange world called L.A." Mr. Ramsey explained.
Now before I continue, let me explain something.
I am originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
So is Josh.
We both randomly met in L.A. when i moved here from Vancouver.
He had been living there for about three years when we met.
I had just finished my training to be a lawyer, and he was a top lawyer in L.A.
He decided to open up a buisness.
I became one of the lawyers in this buisness.
We're pretty close, if you haven't figured out by now.
Mr.Geiger sighed and ran a hand through his hair. He looked in between us and sighed.
"Fine. I'll take her. But only because i can't really turn to anyone else right now." He said, giving in. My back straightened as i heard that. I was expecting him to run out crying. I turned around, shocked.
"You're kidding, right?" I asked. Mr. Geiger looked at me, confused, then grinned.
"No, miss. I'm not." He said calmly walking forward.
"There's no way. Please Mr. Ramsey, don't make me go wi- WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?" I snarled as Mr. Geiger lifted me up over his shoulder. I hit his shoulder, irritated. He didn't flinch.
"How much for the angry lady?" He asked. Mr. Ramsey shrugged.
"We'll talk money when we see how many months you can last." Mr. Ramsey said calmly, ignoring my yells and violent kicking. Mr. Geiger nodded and began walking out of the building as he too ignored my pounding on my back. I glared and pointed at Josh.
"JUST YOU WAIT, RAMSEY! WHEN I GET BACK, YOU ARE SO FUCKED!" I screamed. Josh waved, smiling calmly.
"Don't forget to write!" Josh called back. Mr. Geiger carried me outside, then placed me on the pavement. I crossed my arms and turned away from him, snarling. Mr. Geiger turned to me and turned me around, his hands firmly on my shoulders.
"Listen. I dont like this anymore than you do. But in order to pull this off i need you to be there. now. You're gonna suck it up like a good little girl and come with me, and tell the judge that i'm completely clean at the end of this. Got it?" He asked, snarling. I narrowed my eyes at him, brushing him off of me.
"I'm going to make your life hell, you realize?" I asked. Mr. Geiger sighed, raising an eyebrow.
"I dont think it can get much worse than this." He responded. I grinned at him darkly.
"Trust me. It can get much, much worse than this. Welcome to hell, Mr. Geiger." I stated.


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My two new college-aged friends -- at least I think we're friends, we just met -- love to hang out with their friends, shop and hit the beach when it's not too crowded. One of them loves horror movies, the other is really into action films. They've both gearing up for exams coming up in their studies of English and French literature
A stream of some 10 fourth-grade girls poured out of a metallic gold shipping container into the bright sunshine at Greenwich Academy. "Oh my gosh, that was so fun," several said, smiles on their faces. Inside, the students had been speaking with students in Honduras through a live stream, full-body video connection. They talked about their favorite parts of school and what they like to do for fun with the help of a translator.
The Sagamore is known as the Art Hotel because of its permanent and changing exhibitions. But this year's highlight, The Portal, is designed to foster understanding in ways far beyond the visual. For 20 minutes at a time, visitors can step inside a gold, internet-enabled shipping container and talk with an individual in Afghanistan, Cuba or Iran. The year-old project was founded by Amar Bakshi, a former journalist who wanted others to experience the kind of meaningful interactions with strangers he had while traveling. "We're creating a space where people encounter one another with no particular purpose" — a kind of global public square. Language won't be an issue; each portal is staffed with both a translator and a local curator.
San Francisco will soon be home to the latest gateway in the Portals Project, a public art project curated by Shared_Studios that uses design and technology to connect strangers and artists across the globe. So what exactly is a portal? A portal is a retrofitted shipping container painted gold and immersed with audio and visual technology inside.
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As my soul, the ocean blue
Every wave so cold
Dragging me further away from you
As cruel as it seems
Hopelessly forgotten
Eternally damned to walk alone in these endless dreams
The frost, it burns
Infinitely wandering
Damned to remain as the cruel world turns
To watch, knowing that time goes by
Denied the right
Never to parish and die
Immortality how cruel a fate
The blood of a lover
Painful thirst we must sate
Never to ascend to that world above
An angel with clipped wings
An angel stripped of all love
One given lives to take
To relieve pained souls
And devour hearts that we break
Who is at fault?
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The world's adult
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Let loose our secrets inside
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African Images: Racism and the End of Anthropology
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BeschreibungThis controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. It highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, particularly in reporting current events in Africa, and demonstrates how some of America's most revered intellectuals cloak racist ideologies in ostensibly egalitarian discourses. The author seeks to rewrite the image of 'race' in order to show the damage racism can cause serious scholarship.
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UFC GYM Westminister grand opening
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When u walk into the new UFC gym in Westminster, Colorado ( Grand opening Sat October 26th) you can smell the success not becuase of the gyms name, but from the hard work of the who come in to change there life. You will hear heavy bags being hit, Fighters in the ring sparing, and sound of personal trainers driveing there clients to succeed every thing you should hear in a world class gym. With amazeing new equipment and new look the UFC GYM has all the resources to iter become a elite fighter or get in the best shape of your life. With Class for all ages in BJJ/THAI/BOXING and CARDIO This is the place to train not not to metion you never know who might walk threw the door. And did I metion that its is the Official Bang Muay Thai Hotbox of Westminster a system that was created by UFC vetren Duane "bang" Ludwig and home to the Infomiss Serial Boxe Fight Team.
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Using wind to produce energy
Country: The project is located in Turkey, in Balikesir Province. Although Turkey has very good wind resources, substantial space and a reasonably good electrical infrastructure, Turkey uses negligible capacity (less than 2%).
PO: ENERJISA has been founded in 1996. Its target for 2020 is to reach 7.500 MW generation capacity and to serve over 9 million customers in the electricity distribution sector.
Key issue: Fossil fuel still comprised the great majority of the total gross electricity generation in Turkey. The share of non-hydro renewables (geothermal, wind, biomass, waste) makes less than 1% of total generation.
Lack of attractive incentives and tax advantages, limited grid access and restricted turbine supply constitutes the major barriers in front of the wind energy.
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Alexander O'Neal (born November 14, 1953, in Natchez, Mississippi), was a member of The Time when the group first formed in 1980. However, he was dropped immediately from the group, supposedly for seeming "too black". Three years later, he was able to get a record deal with Clearance Avant's Tabu Records As his vocals range in the same strength as Otis Redding's, O'Neal sings in the retro-style of soul when it comes to doing it in both the dance-pop numbers and modern, urban ballads.


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Applied your patches, thanks. Nicola wrote: > Minor changes : > - The interactive and project xtargets should be removed from > tools/targets > (as declared in build.xml), so that the tools dir remains > "clean" for easy > updates. In fact these targets are meant to be customized per > project basis; > if we need to modify something in ./tools, it's clear that a patch to > Centipede is needed (SOC ;-). I did so. > - In attatchment there is patch for the project.xml to > include information > from other files that could, in this way, get axed. It can be used to > automatically generated a README file in distribution among > other things. It > basically replaces the Jakarta STATUS file and serves as a central > repository for all basic project info. good idea, we should at least keep a README explaining non-XML enthusiasts how they can build etc > Will need a DTD will be needed for project-info.xml; haven't > supplied one > because we need to agree on it first. See what you think of > the structure > after applying supplied patch. seems like a nice round-up, we should go with that anyone strong feelings whether we keep all this info in one document? > BTW, ATM attributes and elements are interchangeable and > resolved as equal > Ant properties: > > <tag><hello>world</hello></tag> > <tag hello="world"/> > > both give Ant: > > xml.tag.hello=world I don't understand, can you explain? > What we should do now IMHO is work in the documentation dir > and make the > docs build use Forrest DTDs and styles. > Unfortunately I don't have time today to look at that today because my > girlfriend is having the discussion of her thesis :-) . thumbs up - did it all went well? > > Thanks to Nicola for providing us with Centipede! > > Thank you for giving me this opportunity of making Centipede > and Forrest > grow. :-) > And, of course, thank you to Stefano for making all this happen :-) > > Oh, and to make it clear, Centipede will use Forrest to make the docs. > We are basically using each other :-) > cross-pollination or inbreeding? ;-) </Steven>
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Caroll Spinney probably made your childhood significantly happier, or at least more spirited, despite this film or this review being one of the first times you've ever heard his name. Big Bird, even to this day, is an essential character in Sesame Street; an overgrown child of sorts, who's naivete and curiosity replicates that of a countless number of toddlers each and every day. Despite this, like most puppeteers, his name isn't recognized by the general public, even with all the joy and happiness he's provided children and their parents over the years. If Kevin Clash could get his own profile and career presented in Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey, a very solid documentary, it's time for Spinney to get the same treatment.
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Of the 54 comedy pilots that were actually produced, only a select few have been picked up.You might think that the shows that get thrown out are never seen again, but, of course, you'd be wrong. Rejected pilots have gone viral on sites like YouTube and BitTorrent and have amassed quite the audience. The rejected Nobody's Watching has had a combined total of 14.2 million views. [CLIP]: MAN:This is a message for all of you TV networks. Lately your sitcoms suck. MAN:They suck! MAN:I mean, come on! According to Jim? Awful. Good Morning, Miami? It ain't funny. [END OF CLIP] BOB GARFIELD:That's a little bit from Nobody's Watching. Hugh Hart wrote about the phenomenon in Wired, and he joins me now. Hugh, welcome to OTM. HUGH HART:Good to be here. BOB GARFIELD:So this life after death for sitcoms, when did this phenomenon begin? HUGH HART:It began cropping up, I think, about when a drama called Global Frequency got turned down from the WB Network, and somehow or another the drama wound up on BitTorrent and people started downloading it. And a campaign to have it released on DVD and all these other kinds of effects followed a little bit of subversive uploading onto the Web.So far, the networks have taken an adversarial stance towards unofficial postings of their copyrighted material on YouTube, MySpace and other sites, like BitTorrent. BOB GARFIELD:Now, one explanation for this hard-line legal approach could be that the production companies and the networks don't want to create a precedent of giving away content that they own. But you actually pose another possibility. HUGH HART:Absolutely. And this is something that each and every person that I spoke to for this story brought up, unsolicited. It's a question of network executive ego. 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BOB GARFIELD:Has anyone actually seriously discussed using the Internet to create the world's largest focus group? HUGH HART:That is exactly where I think things are likely to head in the next year or two. They came close to doing that with Nobody's Watching in the sense that NBC had picked up the show after it had been rejected by the WB.And NBC said, well, maybe we should give this a shot. And they asked the producers to start producing Webisodes to kind of take the temperature of the Internet fan base and see what kind of response the characters and the comedic sensibility might have online. [CLIP]: [MUSIC UP AND UNDER] MAN:We thank you, Father, for the American Broadcasting Company and the miracle of the electromagnetic wave so that Will and I may experience this unparalleled television event. MAN:Amen. MAN:We thank you for "The Others." MAN:Amen. MAN:We thank you for the hatch. MAN:We thank you for killing Michelle Rodriguez. MAN:Amen! MAN:For the rock n' roll hobbit. And we do not thank you for all the copycat TV shows that are on this season. MAN:Not Amen. [END OF CLIP] BOB GARFIELD:Now, the number, 14.2 million views so far for the rejected Nobody's Watching, would seem to impeach the network's judgment. But, you know, if you think about it, 14.2 million viewers is kind of like one episode of the sort of average-rated network primetime sitcom. So how impressed should we be that over a period of months, 14.2 million people around the world have watched this thing? HUGH HART:That's a fair question. And it's true that you need big, big numbers to qualify as a primetime hit. It might be a question, frankly, of television creative types thinking more in terms of using some of their talents towards Web-specific content that cost a heck of a lot less to produce.Maybe if they scaled down, produced something that was shorter but, one hopes, just as funny, [LAUGHING] if not funnier, that might be an entirely new model unto itself. 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No injuries were reported in the fire at the home of Thomas and Carol Benoit.
Jennifer Zingus and her husband, Chris, who live across the street, were about to leave for work around 9 a.m. when they saw thick, black smoke shooting from the Benoits' house.
"Chris was heading out first to work when he immediately ran back inside to tell me that the house was on fire, and that's when he darted back across the street to see if they were OK," Jennifer Zingus said. "Tom and Carol were trapped on the deck and Tom yelled the garage code to Chris so they could get out of the house that way."
Thomas Benoit walked back into the house and then was able to escape the house through the garage.
"When I saw him go inside, I didn't know what to think because the house was fully engulfed in flames," Jennifer Zingus said.
Jacob Johnson and Chris Newbury, who both work in maintenance for the Parks and Recreation department, helped get Carol Benoit down from the deck, which is above a first-floor section of the home.
Johnson said he and Newbury were going to the Mystic Market to get coffee when they noticed the fire. They quickly ran to the house and saw the couple standing on the deck.
Johnson said Carol Benoit was "just standing there in pure shock."
He said another man, whom they did not know, jumped over the 4-foot deck fence and carried Carol Benoit to them, at which point they carried her to safety.
"She was just 10 feet away from the fire," said Johnson. "Who knows what would have happened if we hadn't showed up."
The two-story colonial house is located near the Mystic Market and Grossman's Fish and Meat Market.
Jane Francis, who lives next door to the Benoits, said she was sitting at her kitchen table when she saw the back of her neighbors' house on fire.
"I saw some flames and then I saw that the entire back of the house was on fire," she said. "I called 911 immediately."
After being rescued, Thomas and Carol Benoit and their dog sat inside a car in Francis' driveway. Thomas Benoit, who was just in a T-shirt and boxers, put on a pair of flannel pants that Francis offered him. He was barefoot.
Neighbors said the couple were in shock and didn't want to talk to a reporter.
Mystic Fire Chief Frank "Fritz" Hilbert said when firefighters arrived at the scene, there was heavy smoke and flames coming from the rear of the house, behind the kitchen. He said that part of the home was destroyed by the fire while the second floor, also in the rear, sustained extensive heat and water damage.
Firefighters used chainsaws and axes to cut through the roof and ventilate the house. A small flame kept poking through the roof line; a firefighter ripped the shingles with his hands while another firefighter doused the flame.
In addition to Mystic, the Old Mystic department and the Naval Submarine Base Fast Team also responded to the scene. Groton Ambulance and Lawrence + Memorial paramedics were on standby.
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Coast Guard Academy graduation brings together families, Trump supporters and protestors
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