"No, Merlin no. Not to others." No one would understand. "But you know." And that is what Severus wants. There's something just spectacularly wonderful about having most of those cuts be from him. He was always a bit sadistic though.

The other wounds -- and he touched one -- Severus frowned over. Sirius's family? Were they as cruel as his own father?

Severus took the final step closer, nose butting to Sirius's collarbone. He liked the way that he smelled, a bit like wet dirt. Something good and natural...and nothing at all like him.