Hello and welcome to read my first published fanfic!

Author: TheShinigamiUchiha

Disclaimer: Characters and books which on I base this story belong to J.K. Rowling. I do not own anything (except a few OCs maybe).

For more info check the author note in the end. Enjoy!

"Oh look, it's Snivellus again!"

"Eww, would you please wash that hair? It looks like you slammed your head in the butter at breakfast!"

"Nice one, James!"

"Look, he's running away!"

"Pathetic!"

Severus Snape couldn't care less if they told him that he was pathetic. He just wanted to escape the situation when he still had a chance – more than often that chance was denied from him. He kept running, pushing other students out of his way while trying to hold back tears which had started to form in the corners of his eyes. He didn't slow down before he reached the boys' bathroom, running inside and slamming the door shut after him.

He walked to the sink, rising his gaze to look himself from the mirror. Sickly pale skin, abnormally black eyes and greasy hair were the first things he noticed. He knew himself that he hadn't won in the genetic lottery but did they really have to remind him about it in every break and lesson?

His breath hitched in his throat when the tears finally started to flow along his bony cheeks.

He knew that he was intelligent and smarter than most of the students in his age. He was wise, cynical and sarcastic. He may not have won in a physical fight but a couple of times he had made some younger students in Slytherin cry with his words, which were sharp as daggers. Yes, he would easily win a verbal fight. That still didn't change the fact that he looked like a starving vampire. He started to sob; he just wanted to live a normal life without hearing nasty remarks of his appearance almost non-stop.

The fact that there was nobody to tell him that everything would be okay also stung deeply. Of course he could have a civil conversation with other Slytherins of his age but it wasn't the same than having an actual friend. At one point he had one; a beautiful Gryffindor girl called Lily Evans. Sometimes Severus would still smile when he thought about her bright red hair, her clear laughter, her bloody gorgeous smile and her emerald green eyes which always had a hint of concern in them. He couldn't forget how she had been on his side when the Marauders -James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew and Remus Lupin- started to call him names and point out the obvious lack of looks.

Severus himself had ruined everything by calling Lily a mudblood when he had been once again cornered and annoyed. Lily wouldn't forgive him now or ever, he knew it already. It wasn't like he would have deserved to be forgiven; calling someone mudblood was one of the worst insults one would come up with.

He lifted his hand and let his fingertips touch his face slightly, caressing his not so attractive features. At least that was what they told him; he wasn't attractive in any way. Well, maybe the Giant Squid would pay attention to him, it was almost as slimy as Snape himself. The boy sobbed slightly when he touched his nose – they always told him that it was so big that it would have to have its own seat in the classroom.

What bad had he ever done to them? Of course he knew that Potter was after Lily but it wasn't likely that she would pay attention to the raven haired Quidditch star. The others didn't have any reasons to be mean to him. Well, Lupin wasn't that bad but he never did anything to stop them insulting him either.

Slowly he sank to his knees and buried his face to his arms which he had rested on his knees. The sobs and the cold floor made him shiver but it wasn't like he cared. The cold and loneliness were actually soothing – at least they didn't judge him in any way.

After a while he sighed and got up from the floor. Now he actually felt pathetic, like a teenage girl instead of being a teenage boy. He bit his lip and snickered weakly; pathetic, really. He wiped the last marks of the tears off his cheeks and started to make his way towards the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom. He knew that he was late (actually awfully late) but he couldn't bring himself to care. He was a good student and when situations like this happened every now and then he was usually forgiven.

The corridors were empty if one didn't count the students who had a break or the ghosts who passed Severus every now and then. At least nobody paid attention to him now since usually they only did it when the Marauders were present. They were like the kings of Hogwarts; at least majority of the students thought so. They were good-looking, smart (or at least people liked to see them in that way) and talented wizards – well, Pettigrew was an anomaly among them but he was still one of the Marauders so he was also respected. His thoughts were like a whirlwind when he finally arrived to the classroom and rose his hand to knock on the door.

Several seconds later he heard footsteps from the other side of the door and then the door was opened. Severus opened his mouth to apologize when he realised who he was looking at. The breath hitched in his throat. The long, platinum locks which cascaded over the man's shoulders like a waterfall. Grey, piercing eyes looked straight into his coal black ones. The man had a muscular body (his tight-fitting clothes showed it pretty well) and he truly was attractive, not to mention that he was only a few years older than him. The first one who had noticed him when he had arrived to the Slytherin table in his first year at Hogwarts.

Severus was snapped back to the reality when he heard a smooth voice talking to him. "Severus Snape... You are late" the man stated the obvious. "You must stay in my classroom after the lesson so we can discuss about this. Yes; I'm your new teacher in this subject. Mind coming to the classroom?" Lucius Malfoy asked while looking into his eyes, silently wondering in his mind what would be the reason that the always good and reliable student Severus Snape was late from his class – not to mention his red-rimmed and puffy eyes.

What had happened since he had left Hogwarts?

A/N: Hello! So, what do you think? As you have noticed the main pairing will be Lucius/Severus since I enjoy this pairing pretty much but there aren't too many fics about it. I know that Lucius is likely to be a Death Eater already but I have plans for this one... Buahahaha. This also takes place in the Marauder's Era. Review please! ^_^