Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Alastor Moody/Severus Snape
Length: ~3000
Author on LJ:
leela_catAuthor Website: Leela's fic on InsaneJournalWhy this must be read:This is written in the first-person from Moody's POV, and the voice is fantastic: colloquial, sharp and rude, gruffly amusing, and, of course, vigilant. It's set during the Death Eater trials, for which Snape has essentially turned state's witness, thus requiring that he be guarded until he can give evidence. Moody is assigned bodyguard duty, the only Auror Snape can't provoke to rashness with his flaunted Darkness and his acid tongue. Moody's got this desperate, death-haunted young man's number; he's aware of how brittlely Snape's held together and how delicately Snape prickles at his touch. Tempted, he takes it from there.
On the one hand, it's a tale of seduction; on the other, a brilliant character piece, tense and crisp and fiercely erotic, twisted with addictive passions and pierced, for one echoing moment, with grief.
The sex is blistering; the voice is irresistible; the depictions of Snape and Moody are spot-on. With almost poetic spareness this fic illuminates a hidden truth in the collision between good and evil, forging from their impact a brief ode to perversity and salvation.
( Here's how it starts )Touch My Skin to Keep Me Whole