Title: I Wager (Epilogue)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: Every story has an ending.

Author's Notes: Writing this has been a frustrating, amusing, enlightening, and exhausting experience. I want to thank everyone who's stayed with this story for the last year. Thank you for your patience, your feedback, and for helping me turn what was meant to be a five chapter PWP into something more.

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Title: I Wager (17/17)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: Surely the human heart was never meant to love this much.

Author's Notes: The final chapter.

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Title: I Wager (16/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: It’s in that moment, that breathless span between three heartbeats, when the world feels as if it’s crashing down around us and my blood sears my veins, that I know more certainly than I have ever known anything, that I would die for them.

Author's Notes: I'm not sure if this is enough to make up for the long (and patient) wait you all have endured, but I hope it helps to make amends.

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Title: I Wager (15/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: “That I consider myself fortunate that I will have two capable, strong, intelligent men beside me when I face the Dark Lord for the last time,” I say quietly, glancing at each of them in turn- and Merlin help me, I mean every word.

Author's Notes: No smut this time. This is more of a transition chapter, to move the story toward completion. Yes, that's right, I Wager is almost finished; I'd say we have about three or four more chapters left. If there are any questions you feel haven't been answered or any plot strands that you feel haven't been followed to your satisfaction, now's the time to tell me. In the meantime, enjoy the short but sweet Part 15.

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Title: I Wager (14/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: I know what Draco’s voice sounds like when he calls me ‘Harry’, and that the muscle in Snape’s jaw twitches when he’s trying to hold back a smile.

Author's Notes: Yes, this is the real Part 14. As a thank you for your fantastic sense of humor regarding my April Fool's Day cruelty, this chapter is 5,000 words and contains a quadruple shot of smut (as well as some angst). One of Severus' self-descriptions is inspired by this story.

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Title: I Wager (14/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: I’m on my feet in an instant, my heart now beating a staccato rhythm against my ribcage as we stare at one another- and suddenly, my universe is reduced to this, green eyes locked with red and the crackle of magic in the air as our auras meet in the center of the room. Without my wand, I feel naked and exposed, and I know I can do wandless magic, but I can’t think under the weight of that oppressive gaze, and there’s just not enough time, not enough time for me to summon my wand as he raises his own and...

Author's Notes: Truthfully, I never imagined that I would be capable of doing something like this to these characters. They have all endured so much misery in canon that I've always felt compelled to give them a reprieve from the torture they suffer at Rowling's hands. There were a few times where I was tempted to delete everything and start over- but I didn't, and for what it's worth, I'm sorry. I just hope you'll all forgive me.

April 3rd: Happy April Fool's Day, everyone.

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Title: I Wager (13c/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: However, for all of my intimate understanding of how the human mind operates, and my familiarity with Potter’s in particular, I am not at all prepared for his answer.

Author's Notes: Severus.

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Title: I Wager (13b/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: I remember being fascinated by all of these tiny black buttons when I was a child, staring at them from other side of Snape’s desk as he spoke in quiet tones of things like honor and trust- things that I never understood until I saw the flicker of pride in Dumbledore’s eyes just before the curse engulfed him.

Author's Notes: Draco.

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Title: I Wager (13a/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: Draco’s grinning like a madman by the time the door to Snape’s laboratory opens, and all it takes is one look at the scowl on our former professor’s face as he stalks across the kitchen toward me to know that the game has begun.

Author's Notes: Harry.

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Title: I Wager (12/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: “Just trust me, Potter,” I say with a dismissive wave of my hand, “Go put those away while I get dressed, and then come back here so we can go over the plan.”

Author's Notes: A little bit of plot development, a little bit of teasing, and a whole lot of build-up for the next chapter. If there were such a thing as a prologue to a chapter, this would be it.

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Title: I Wager (11/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: “I need to think,” he whispers, and then he is gone, the door swinging closed behind him with a bang like a magistrate’s gavel, sentencing me to a lifetime of abject misery.

Author's Notes: No smut this time, but plenty of emotional development. The next chapter will include more plot development and, of course, plenty of deviant debauchery, not to mention an unexpected resurrection of The Game that started it all. Thanks to jlasher for letting me use one of his computers while my laptop is out of commission, and thanks to ladybahiya for the opening line of this chapter.

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Title: I Wager (10/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: Six feet of purely debauched sexuality stares down at us with black eyes that glitter behind the dim glow emanating from the tip of his wand. Snape’s hair is tousled, tendrils curling about his pale neck and falling across his eyes like silken shadows. “Lick it up,” he commands in a soft, honeyed voice.

Author's Notes: I apologize for making everyone wait for so long, but I hope it will be worth it by the time you're finished reading this part. This chapter is almost 5,000 words; the first 3/4 is smut (as if anyone would expect any less from I Wager), and the last 1/4 is plot like I never expected from this series. Enjoy.

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Title: I Wager (9/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: It hurts, it burns and aches and I swear I’m being ripped into a million tiny pieces, but Snape’s cock brushes that place deep inside of me with each thrust and if dying feels this fucking good then I have nothing to live for.

Author's Notes: Smut, plot, and more smut. This chapter has quite a bit of Draco because writing him always makes me feel better. On a related note, please excuse any poorly constructed sentences or other errors as I don't do very good revisions when I don't feel well.

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Title: I Wager (8/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: Snape’s ‘Imperious’ hits me before my lust-addled brain realizes what’s happening

Author's Notes: I would like to apologize for this chapter. It is quite long, quite angsty, and not at all what I had intended. I know that some of you will appreciate it, but for those of you who don't: Please just bear with me, and I promise that the next part will make up for it with plenty of smut.

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Title: I Wager (7/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: I’m awake for all of ten seconds before memories from last night have me blushing furiously and rolling over to hide my mortification in the pillows.

Author's Notes: I really didn't anticipate that this chapter would be as long as it is. However, I'd rather it be a bit too long than too short. Also, the next chapter will be more plot than smut, so be prepared.

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Title: I Wager (6/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: “Gentlemen, I believe we have a game to play.”

Author's Note: This chapter is dedicated to mugglerock, whose birthday was yesterday.

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Title: I Wager (5/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: A muggle psychiatrist named Elisabeth Kübler-Ross once wrote that people, specifically the terminally ill, deal with grief in a process that consists of five stages...

Author's Note: I intentionally omitted Severus for this chapter, as Part 6 will be written entirely from his point of view. Each member of the trio is beginning to settle into their respective roles, particularly in Part 6, and I felt it was important to write as much of it as possible from the point of view with which I feel the most comfortable: Severus'. After Part 5 and Part 6, the story will return to the style of three points of view per chapter.

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Title: I Wager (4/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary: When I open my eyes the next morning, the first thing I see is Malfoy.

Author's Note: This chapter has a double shot of Harry.

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Title: I Wager (3/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary:
“I wager two shots of firerum that neither of you will have the courage to continue now that I've joined the game.”

Author's Note: I'm finally back online! In celebration, I am posting parts 2 and 3. Let the games continue...

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Title: I Wager (2/?)
Author: nishizono
Pairing: Severus/Draco/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't mine

Summary:
That's how I find myself sitting across the kitchen table from him later that night with a bottle of firewhiskey between us.

Author's Note: I'm finally back online! In celebration, I am posting parts 2 and 3. Let the games continue...

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