As you avenge this wicked deed

[wetandbothered5.livejournal.com]

~ In some ways, their motley foursome of travelers have a lot in common - three out of the four, in fact, have the same Mark on their forearms. If being apart of the same criminal organisation and working together for genocide isn't a uniting factor, nothing is. However, their former membership to the Death Eater party most certainly does not guarantee the same motivations for being there in the first place, nor does it guarantee they all left for the same reasons. Not at all.
Tension is high as the terror of being a bamboo planter fades into the past. The three ex-Hogwarts students might share the same brand on their flesh, might come from the same school and the same House no less, but apparently much between Barty and Snape has happened from the time Regulus was alive and now, and he isn't entirely sure how to act because of this.

Snape, Wesley, Barty, and Regulus have all remained camped out in the many twisting tunnels of Four to prune their shoots together in the dim until they stopped growing back. Now, with the threat of new plantlife subsiding, Regulus sits on the least pointed rock he can find and worries that Snape and Wesley's generous aid will not do anything to dissuade Barty's notorious need for revenge. ~

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[severus-snape1.livejournal.com]

*Snape hears Barty coming and says flatly to Wesley*

Incoming.

*He turns to face Crouch, ready to either get out of his way or fight if need be.*

[deadwesley1.livejournal.com]

*Unbeknownst to poor Barty and Reg, Wes, by the time of his death, was rather ruthless and extremely deadlly. And also unbeknownst to poor Barty, Wes is not at all consciously aware of his brutish and bullying behaviour. Wesley has a lot of issues with bullying and this slow release of "proper" inhibitions is releasing all that "little scrawny wimpy picked on kid" angst. Wes hears Barty and easily sidesteps his advance, then lightening quick whips the pickaxe inches from Barty's face.*

Do you have something to say, you little twit? *to Reg* I suggest, boy *said with nasty derision* that you keep your cur on a leash, or he may find my pickaxe inserted into the orifice of my choice.

*to Barty, pick hovering in front of his face* Make yourself useful. Get out of my way.

[madlymirthful9.livejournal.com]

*Barty may be a frail thing with daddy issues but one trait he has never possessed is angst from his school days - it's not that he was particularly popular or even that he tired to keep his head down - rather he was avoided - avoided because even the most nubile of children can recognize batshit insanity in their own way, and batshit insanity is something Barty has a great abundance of, it's this very abundance that causes him to be deathly afraid of removing a bamboo stick and yet perfectly content in grasping the offending pick axe, meaning to wrestle it away, confident he faces imminent success*

[severus-snape1.livejournal.com]

*Snape moves away from the imminent, most likely short-lived fight, closer to Regulus though not so close as to be within Reg's easy grasp. He shakes his head at Barty's folly.*

Pryce was a Watcher in life. He's killed vampires, demons....Crouch must be more stupid than troll shit pie to take him on.

*He has no idea why he just compared Barty to a food product he just invented. And Wesley's loss of temper and crude behavior is so different from what Snape knows of him. Perhaps Barty just pushes his buttons, or...he knows he's missing something, but for a moment, he's not sure what. Then he turns to Regulus.*

Are you feeling peculiar? Any aches, pains, sickness?

*He starts to study his hand for a moment, as if it holds the key, then sticks it down the back of his trousers to scratch his left buttock.*

[deadwesley1.livejournal.com]

*As Barty reaches for the axe handle, Wes allows him to grasp it just long enough to shove it into him, forcing him back then jerking the thing back out of Barty's hands, jarring him gracelessly to the ground and laughing uproariously, observing that he bounces very nicely on his ass.

He turns abruptly and resumes his leadership role, his long legs carrying him ahead, though he does glance over his shoulder to coyly mock them:* Snape, stop scratching your ass and get moving. You, boys, show some initiative, will you? Crouch, stop flogging and move it!

[severus-snape1.livejournal.com]

Are you finished playing with the boys, then? _I've_ merely been waiting on _you_.

*Snape follows Wesley without another word or glance at Regulus, as if he's forgotten he'd ever asked Reg a question.*

[wetandbothered5.livejournal.com]

*Unfortunately for Regulus there are so few times in life when the silent treatment can be used to it's full potential, because he would be incredibly good at it. He ignores Snape's question and doesn't say a word at the scratching, he may be something of a drowned rat but the need to respond semi-politely or even at all no longer seems important like it used to.*


Barty?

[madlymirthful9.livejournal.com]

*Barty is at a fantastical disadvantage without his wand, having been a power to be reckoned with magically in life, he has yet to accept the fact that here he has only his physical prowess to fall back on, and really, being half-way frozen doesn't aide his already brittle form one bit - still, he's not one to give up - fumbling around in the dirt he finds a good sized rock and heaves it up, meaning to bring it down over whoever's skull happens to be the closest, unwilling to lose*

[wetandbothered5.livejournal.com]

*Regulus, as it happens, is closest, and he loses his cool exterior very quickly in the face of a rock*

[madlymirthful9.livejournal.com]

*rather then cracking open Reg's delicate skull, Barty thrusts the rock into his arms instead, going to find himself another rock as he speaks*

YOU WILL DEFEND MY HONOUR.

[wetandbothered5.livejournal.com]

*strangely, Regulus raises the rock to throw it at the retreating backs of Snape and Wesley without batting an eye, it's only when his arm goes slightly too far back in preparation and the rock practically throws him off balance does he realise something*

But wait - this is heavy.

[madlymirthful9.livejournal.com]

YOUR RIGHTFUL BURDEN. GO FORTH! AVENGE ME - WITH ME! *Barty attempts to pick up a significantly larger rock - the ensuing hernia is almost audible*

[wetandbothered5.livejournal.com]

*takes a step forward but the rock has won the battle between his arm and itself, it's too heavy and when Regulus can't bring it back forward enough it just rolls off his fingertips and lands on the stone floor behind him*