NOTES: I thought I would carry on the story of Bella in 'Its One Or The Other', Please review or message me about what you think because otherwise I don't know if its good or not. Thanks!

CHAPTER ONE

The alleyway is black as the night sky above me and it doesn't make following a traceless shadow any easier. The dark fur on my paws stands on end from the cold and for some odd reason I can't help but to think that dementors are causing all of the oppression around this abandoned town. I stop for a moment and look up between the tall buildings, the moon is full and bright streams of light escape from the surrounding stars, 'Remus must be having an interesting night in the woods.'
The shadow moves faster away from me and I sprint to get closer, to find out who it is and return to headquarters unharmed this time. The shadow turns left and I finally see some light ahead, a dim light covered by masked and cloaked surroundings - death eaters. Voldemort's symbol appears in the night sky covering the once bright moon I admired before, leaving only the small light for navigation on the pebble road. I figure in the form I am now I would be safe to go closer but I hang back in the shadows, already at a distance where I can watch and observe what happens.
"He has been called, Lucius." Bellatrix Lestrange walks unbalanced behind Lucius Malfoy dragging a finger along his shoulder blades and then turns to the newly arrived shadow I have been following all night.
"Beautiful night, isn't it, Severus?"
"Hush Sissy, we wouldn't want to be overheard." Narcissa Malfoy's wand is drawn and ready, she must have summoned the dark lord.
"He's coming, ready yourselves." A burst of darkness covers up Narcissa's wand and the lumos charm fades and dies out. It really is him, Voldemort himself stands before his followers at ease, his features pale and slim with the re-charmed light shining on his face.
"Greetings everyone. Ah, Severus you did come after all. I thought you would have been with your newly arrived family." His voice calm and some what soothing edges on the laughs that echo through the distance.
"No my lord, you said it was important that I come."
"Good, because it was very important that you come Severus. You see, we have recently discovered that you are of no use to us anymore." Severus stayed quiet, from the back of his head I could not see his expression but I imagine fear would be something to describe it. Bellatrix took a drunken step closer to him and whispered something in his ear, not hearable from where I stand.
"Bellatrix has told me that with your daughter being an influence to you would rather not join us in the fight but watch from a distance, and that is not how us death eaters do things, isn't that right Lucius?" Lucius' face was also stunned, Severus and him were best friends from the beginning of Hogwarts and to watch someone do this to him was terrifying.
"My Lord, Severus has done nothing wrong.."
"Silence Lucius!" He hovers closer to Severus, "you see Severus, I know your secret with Dumbledore.. Crucio!" Severus is suddenly on the floor, squirming and grunting with pain. 'Sirius, do something' The thought chases through my head now but I know if I run out than I won't be able to save him or return unharmed with information to the Order, or at all in this case. Severus' screams echoed the town and tears slid down my snout and dropped on the floor. He stops squirming, the curse has been stopped.
"I'm so sorry Severus.." A tear drips from Lucius' eyes and Bellatrix watches with excitement, "avada kedava!" Shock runs through my body, numb and shaking with fright I run around the cobble stone wall. But its too late, the death eaters disappear in thick black smoke and I howl. Unlike every other noise tonight it was loud and clear, strangely un-echoed by the emptiness. I run to him, his body pale and his face engraved with wisdom and courage, the body of Severus Snape lies in the floor motionless. I leave my anamagus form and put my hand Severus' cold chest to check for any sign of pulse, but none occurs.

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I sit on my bed reading a book I bought yesterday at Diagon Alley, 'Enchanted Creatures And Their Inhabitance'. Most chapters are written about Werewolves and other deadly creatures, at the moment the subheading 'Transfigurations' appears on the page, my interest suddenly re-enters from the last boring chapter about the eating habits of a centaur. I should probably be packing my things, its the weekend I'm supposed to go see Fred and Ginny, Snape wasn't so happy about it this morning, something about the burrow put him off I think.
I walk down the stairs, dinner is ready on the table but only one plate is visible and a single letter sits above the fireplace addressed to me. 'Bella' is inscribed on the front in a neatly written hand, Snape's writing. Odd. Maybe its something to do with my long awaited 18th birthday, now only three days away, I should wait to open it then. I walk over to the cramped kitchen stacked with pots and cauldrons full of revolting smells radiating from thick liquids, I then grab a small crystal bottle full with some sort of poison and wander around the hall with it, just admiring and inspecting the small dose of death.
'Bang! Bang! Bang!' Someone's knocks on the door, I walk over to the sound came from and stand patiently behind it.
"Who is it?"
"Bella its Sirius, let me in I need to talk to you."
"Sirius, i'm in my pajamas.." I look down at my red flannelette pajamas and black fluffy slippers, what good timing he came.
"Just open the door, now."
"Okay i'm coming, keep your pants on." Sirius, a man who is in no circumstances written in Severus' good books, what is he doing here? I know Severus doesn't really like him all that much but that can't change my opinion. He's nice, funny, smart, considerate, and good looking, how could it go wrong from there?
I open the door to find Sirius covered in only a fur coat, he must have been been running around in his anymagus form. Sirius walks in without invitation and stands awkwardly in the hallway, its not like him to barge in, something must be wrong. Noticing his shivering I walk to the closet next to him and pass him a pair of Snape's pants and an old teeshirt.
"Thank you." he slips the pants on under his coat and then removes it to put on the shirt. His flat and pale chest is inscribed with tattoos of all different sorts, most of them runes and symbols, I stand and admire them for a moment before I realise what i'm doing and look away.
"Would you like something to drink?" He notices that i'm holding a bottle of poison and shook his head from side to side violently, usually there would have been a silly smirk with that.
"Uh, Dad isn't here, but he'll probably be back soon." Sirius lowers his head, his long black hair hanging over his face and his lip quivering, "Sirius? Are you okay?" I take a step closer to him putting my hand on his shoulder, I think he might break down and cry but instead he lifts his head showing his blood shot eyes, he takes my hand from his shoulder to lead me into the living room next to us.
"Sit down Bella." I did just what he said, collapsing onto the black sofa while carefully trying to protecting the crystal in my hands, "S.. Sn." he stuttered and stopped to look at his feet again, "what is it?" I started to worry, my heart turned uneven and my breathing heavy.
"Snape, he's.. He's gone." My heart is pounding in my chest, trying to break free of my rib cage, and even though I knew what he meant I needed to ask "what, what do you mean?" I had expected something to go wrong all day with the way Snape was acting but it never did until now. Tears covering my face and my throat bundling up with fear he saw that I was struggling and now sits next to me with his hand on my knee, "i'm so sorry Bella.." The bundle of fear breaks through and I scream with sadness, the room is spinning and everything has become dull, the colours, the sound of the owls outside, the smells of the revolting potions and even feeling, my whole body is numb.
I continued to weep and sob on Sirius' shoulder for hours on end until it went a bit quieter, "you can come live at headquarters with me and Harry if you like. You'll be safe there." I cry louder and wipe my cheeks from the drying liquid on Sirius' coat, after another half hour of pure depression he lifted my head and I thought to break the silence, "safe, from what exactly?" I knew this lead to the answer of how it happened, how my father died, the only person I had left.
"Voldemort." Sirius' voice was hard and brutal, a flesh wound to the heart that made me scream again, my father being a death eater has lead to the end of him, "why?" The question echos through my head as a whisper and returns as a scream, "why!" I crush the bottle of poison in my hand, it burns and blood flows from the deep gashes filled with crystal. Sirius quickly grabs my hand and rips the shirt I gave him into long strips, he collects the crystal out of the gashes and bandages my hand reducing the pain and increasing the numbness. I suddenly stop crying and look him in the eyes, "why?"
"I think thats for another time." He wipes under my eyes and hugs me, "go get some of your things and we'll leave for headquarters." Six hours have passed, its 4:30 in the morning, my eyes are throbbing and i'm dizzy from dehydration but I have managed to go upstairs pack a pair of clothes and my toothbrush. I become deadly still by my desk while leaving the room, a photo of me and Snape at Hogwarts is hanging on the wall, I pull it down and stuff it into my rack sack while grabbing my broom stick in the other hand. To my surprise Sirius has been watching me from the doorway and he grabs my hand, pulls me down the stairs and outside onto the street where he locks the door and starts his motorbike.
"I don't think you should be using that at the moment," he points to my broomstick, "hop in." I climb into the side carriage with my belongings and we start to fly off into the night. An hour later and we reach headquarters, Sirius waves his wand and the apartments 12 and 13 move apart slowly, all the lights are on in the building, "looks like we have company, I understand if you want to just go upstairs, you can have the room on the third floor second to the left."
"Thanks." I smile at him half heartedly, "any time." He starts to walk off but I grab his arm and he turns around, "no really, thank you for everything. I mean it." He returns the gesture and we enter the large apartment. I look to my left where a mirror hangs, my eyes red, skin pale,my black hair tangled in knots and my pajamas are damp on the collar from crying. I look like i'm dead, another tear runs down my face as I notice that apart of me has died with Snape, I will never see him again, and our last conversation today seemed planed. His last words were 'I'll be back sooner or later, love you Bells,' I thought it was a bit strange at the time but never understood it properly until now.
Oh no the letter! I left the letter at home, was I meant to open it today anyway? Sirius taps me on the shoulder as Mrs Weasley rushes out of the kitchen with Remus. They nod at him and Mrs Weasley returns into the kitchen once more. I say goodnight to everyone and walk up two flights of stairs to my bedroom - temporary bedroom that is, hopefully I won't be trouble for everyone much longer. Inside is a large four-post bed and a cupboard in the corner, I drop my things on the floor and climb into bed.
I would cry myself to sleep but there seems to be no more tears left in me.