AU: Harry learns Occlumency and Snape isn't a total bastard.
Also, Standard Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter etc etc.
A safe place? I could only think of one, my cupboard under the stairs at number four privet drive.
It was a place to hide not only from my relatives but from the rest of the world.
The cupboard was an absence of chores, and yelling and names.
My cupboard was the end of a beating and a time of healing.
A time when spiders crawled over my skin as I slept and I wasn't scared of anything.
It was a darkness that hid the evil of the world from my eyes.
It was never lonely, but instead cozy in that it cocooned me and held me close like a mother might.
In my cupboard nothing could hurt me.
There was no Duddley, no Vernon, no Petunia, no family.
Just me and safety.
No matter what turn my life took, I always found the most comfort hiding inside a cupboard to get away from the world, or some other small place in which to hide.
Since I seem incapable of ceasing thought and blanking my mind, Snape said think of a safe place to hide my mind in so no one could get me.
So I shut my mind away in the darkness of the cupboard under the stairs in the quaint innocent little house at Privet drive.
My mind scape became the street on which all the houses looked the same. In number four was a cupboard under the stairs that no one has ever once thought to look in. I could hide from the world in there.
When Severus pulled back a bewildered and confused look on his face, I knew my mind was safe. Just as I had always been when enclosed in the darkness of the cupboard, my cupboard.
I grinned up at him. He sneered,
"It would seem that you're not a total dunderhead after all Potter. Now again – Legilimens!"
This is just a small one shot that I thought up one day while board as all hell in Pre Calc. I decided to share it. And yes I know there are a million other Occlumency one shots out there, well now there is a million and one.