A/N: Hello fellow reader! This is a new story that I have promised you. It is a SnapexOC story. Hope you'll enjoy this one! Please review!
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Chapter 1: Four Lasses and A Man.
"BE careful!" A young lass' soft voice could be heard whispering lowly throughout the empty corridor of the Residence Hall that she and her friends were accommodating.
"He's so heavy, Jordy!" Another feminine voice, hissed.
"I know, Lil. But you just gotta suck it in for now, all right?" Jordan Smith, also known as 'Jordy' by her friends, smiled wearily at her best friend and fellow room-mate.
Seriously, how could a late-night study session ended up with two young women carrying a huge wounded and unconscious man they'd found at the porch all the way to their room? Jordan had to wander about that.
"We're almost there. Come on! Before he wakes up."
Her friend groaned loudly, obviously not too keen to carry a forty-something pounds of meat all the way up the staircases.
The two finally reached the front door their room. Jordan carefully put the the still heavy and unconscious man on the floor, before turning to her friend.
"Do you have the swipe card? I forgot mine."
"Here." Lily Antolia handed her swipe card, which Jordan easily swapped the door. The card beeped as she put it through and the door opened. Jordan placed her back against the door to stop it from shutting, and got onto her knees. Once again, she lifted the heavily unconscious man by his legs while her friend lifted him by the arms. Together, they entered before shutting the door.
Jordan seated on the floor, with her back against the door the moment she shut the door and none too roughly dropped the mysterious man on the floor.
She panted while wiping her sticky forehead now covered with sweats using the back of her hand. Sitting on the floor on her opposite side was Lily. She too was panting heavily.
Jordan felt sorry for her friend, she had been forced to carry the man and climbed up the stairs all the while wearing thin heels and a short dress. At least she was wearing something somewhat suitable for the occasion; shirt and jeans and a pair of sneakers.
Lily looked at her after catching a bit of her breath, before her eyes reverted to the unconscious man. "What are we to do with him now?"
"Beats me. You're the one who wanted to bring him up."
"We can't just leave a wounded and not to mention, unconscious man at the porch, Jordy! He'll die!"
"Or, we could just call Mr. Hammerson, the Dean, and let him take care of this matter."
"Have you forgotten what happened the last time he caught a man in our room? Do you want us to lost points again?"
"That's Heather's fault!" Jordan fiercely countered. "She had carelessly sneaked Peter in and begged us to hide him in the room when Mr. Hammerson came in knocking on her door!"
"He wouldn't get caught hiding under the bed if you hadn't stomped over his hand like a bloody hulk!"
"The man had his hands roaming all over my legs, Lil. He's a perverted leech. I'm glad he got caught and Heather finally broke up with the son of-"
Her words were being cut by the weak groaned sound came from the man. For a moment, they seemed to have forgotten all about him.
"Shit! He's awake!" Jordan quickly went over to Lily's side, before grabbing an iron baseball bat from her bed and pointed at the man.
SEVERUS Snape felt far worse than during his time as Lord Voldermort's Right Hand Man and Dumbledore's spy. The was a deep hole in his neck where the giant snake Nagiri had bitten him off and left him bleeding to death... Wait, death?
If this is death, then, shouldn't he be in Hell where all the poor unfortunate souls were being kept and tortured far more worse than the Dementor's Kiss? Instead, he could hear sounds－more specifically, voices. One particularly very irritating loud voice that rang soundly in his ears.
"What are you doing? Lily, get back here!"
Lily?
Severus' eyes opened immediately, caused the two ladies to shriek in shock and horror when a pair of black eyes suddenly stared back at them.
The first thing that caught Severus' eyes were the one on his left; dark red hair that fell on her shoulders and bright green almond-shaped eyes. Her beautiful and shockingly familiar face instantly caught his eyes, so much that Severus forced himself to blink his eyes a couple of times to take a good look at her.
"Lily...?" His voice croaked before his head hit the floor and passed out once again.
"OH MY GOD! He knows your name!" Jordan gawked.
She had been ready to take him on with the iron bat should he dared to do anything, thought she doubt he would tried anything with the big hole on his neck.
In fact, Jordan was surprised he was still breathing.
"We have to tend him." Lily checked on his pulse. "His pulse is weakened. We have to take him to the hospital!"
"How exactly do you suggest we do that without getting caught?"
"I-I don't know! But we have to do something, Jordy! The man is dying. Can't you see?"
Of course she could very well see the man was dying.
Jordan sighed and rubbed her throbbing temple. A quick first aid procedure should be able to keep him alive long enough for them to come up with a plan. Rubbing her hands together, Jordan went to her desk and took out a First Aid Kit from the bottom shelf.
"Lil, call Heather and Victoria. Tell them to come here asap and bring over some their kits as well. Also, tell them try not to freak out."
"On it!" Lily took her swipe card and swapped on the door before shutting it.
"It's just me and you then." Jordan put on the disposable gloves and mask. Carefully, she made her way closer to the man and winched at the horrifying sight of the wound on his throat.
His neck literally looked as if it had been ripped away, as if something big had bitten him.
Bitten by what? Dog? Wolf?
Jordan shook her head. She would not think about that now. Now, she needed to focus to do whatever she could to save this poor man.
Taking a deep breath, Jordan gently began by cleaning the area around the wound. All the while, keeping an eye on the man.
Knock knock.
The soft knocking sound of the door, before the door opened, revealed three young women.
"Oh my God. What have you done to him?" Heather Lumous, tall, blonde, beautiful, and the only cheerleader out of the whole squad who understood the true importance of education in one's life and strived to be the best that she could in Medical Field. Funny how someone intelligent like her ended up in the Cheer-leading Squad.
Jordan rolled her eyes. "Get your big butt over here. This is your department."
Heather put on a mask and the disposable gloves. Jordan handed her the Medical kit tools.
"You've cleaned the surrounding area?" Heather spoke, in Doctor-mode tone.
"Yes. I dared not to touch the wound, though. I did just like you'd taught me."
"Excellent work, Doctor Smith."
"This is insane!" Victoria Moore whispered lowly. "I can't believe ,like, we are doing this! Like, performing a surgery on unknown wounded man! Like, this is total madness!"
"Vicky, if you wanna rant, kindly go outside!" Jordan hissed. As much as she loved her fashionista friend, she could be incredibly annoying especially with her constant favourite word 'like' added to each sentences.
Lily placed a hand on Victoria's shoulder with a sympathy smile when her friend pouted after being scolded.
"She didn't mean it. You know Jordy, she had a long day at work and now this happened right after study session, nonetheless."
"I'm still amazed of how you could always see the positive side in people, Lily dearest. But seriously, like, what drove you to take this man up to your room anyway?"
Lily looked at the mysterious man before shaking her head. "I don't know. I just want to help him. That's all. Helping people isn't a bad thing, right?"
"It's not." Vicky shook her head. "But be more alert to whom you give your help to, next time will you, dearie? Better be safe than sorry, as they always say!" She winked at her.
Soon, Heather and Jordan got on their feet.
"We need to get him to the Hospital asap. I've did the best as I could. But he obviously needs a professional. Lily love, do you mind helping us contacting your father? Tell him it's an emergency. I'm sure old man Alfred would understand."
"I'll try. Give me a minute."
"Vicky, you come with me. I need you to soften the blow with Mr. Hammerson when the Ambulance shows up. We'll think of something for the background story on the way. Come on, Vic!"
"What about me?" Jordan pointed at herself.
"Stay with the man. Make sure he's still breathing."
Lily returned with a phone on hand. "My father is currently out, but my uncle is on the way. Speaking of which, Jordy, Thomas wants to speak with you.."
Jordan groaned but took the call. "Hi, Thomas. How are you doing?"
"Jordy," A familiar seductive thick voice that she had heard countless of times rang into her ear. "Just what on Earth did you do this time?"
"I swear this is entirely your niece's fault."
"Hey!" Lily's voice could be heard at the background.
"Right, right. Listen, I'll be there in ten minutes top. Damn, just when I'd thought I could finally get my holiday breaks you have to drag me into one of your schemes."
"Like I'd said, Thomas, it's all your niece's fault. Anyway, get here as fast as you can, will you?"
"Sure thing, doll."
THOMAS Antolia arrived shortly with his bronze Mercedes Benz. He was a tall, confidence, and extremely good looking man in his late twenties. He was also the Family's Attorney and the youngest uncle of Lily.
Upon arriving, he was immediately greeted by the unhappy faces of the University's Headmaster, Mr. Shawn, and also, the Dean of his niece's Residence Hall, Mr. Hammerson.
"Mr. Shawn, Mr. Hammerson. Very sorry to interrupt your rest this late at night. I believe my niece and her friends have told you everything?"
"Yes. Though it is extremely appropriate to have a man, let alone a stranger to be brought into their room, Mr. Antolia. What would the School Boards think?"
"They would think of nothing, Mr. Shawn. Unless, of course, you want the charities from the Antolia to be forcefully taken away? We all don't want that now, do we?"
"Is that a threat, Mr. Antolia?" Mr. Hammerson sneered.
"Not at all. Just ah, a slight warning." Antolia smiled before he entered the building and made his way to his niece's room.
As soon as he'd left, Hammerson swore under his breath.
"Damn the Antolia! Think they could conquer the University just because they could!"
"Patience, Hammerson. You do not want to get involve or be involved with the Antonia. They may have their own Code of Honour. But that does not necessarily means they would obey them. Soon. Soon, they would get what's coming at them. Judging by the way things are right now... It might be coming sooner than we expected."
"I don't believe this!"
Thomas had pulled Jordan out of the girls aside once they had reached the hospital and left the stranger to get treated.
Jordan rolled her eyes and sighed. She had told Thomas everything that had happened from the start until now. Tired from the work she had to do earlier and from the studies, all she wanted now was to lay on her head on a pillow and sleep.
"Jordy, have you been listening to me?"
"Yes."
"My brother will no doubt have a heart attack should he hears about this. Thank God he has business oversea." Thomas sighed and roamed his fingers through his hair. "Was Lily okay? Did the man said anything else? Anything at all?"
Jordan shook her head. "No. Just her name. Thomas, this is ridiculous! Are you sure the man's," she looked to her left and right, before she whispered lowly. "A Wizard?"
Thomas took out something from the inside of his jacket: a piece of an article.
Jordan's eyes widened as she read the headlines:
'NEW HEADMASTER FOR HOGWARTS: SEVERUS SNAPE CONFIRMED.'
"No way."
"Yes way." Thomas grabbed the article from her and folded it carefully before he put it back inside his jacket.
"Why does a Wizard Headmaster be doing here in the first place? Shouldn't he be, I don't know governing a school or something?"
"That's what I'd like to know. Look Jordy, I know you don't believe in magic, but you ought to acknowledge by now how special Lily is, right? You've seen it with your own eyes before. She could be a witch. Even Victoria seems to have displayed some magical ability. The Antolia family who's ancestor was said to have come from the Wizarding world and had been cursed for generations not to display any magical ability for unknown time, then, it is possible the curse has broken. If it does, we need someone to be able to train them so that their magical ability will not run out of control. Who else is perfect than Hogwart's own Headmaster?"
Jordan looked away uneasily. She massaged her throbbing forehead.
"Let's say I do believe you. If the curse is broken and the man is the same man on the paper that you've shown me, can you really trust a stranger to teach Lily and Victoria? What if he's a bad wizard? We know nothing about their world, Thomas. Say what you will, but it's my job to protect Lily ever since I came to this family. I'll do it sink or swim."
Thomas sighed heavily at the younger woman's firm brown eyes and recalled how it had been him who found her when she was at the age of six, a runaway, and had been digging up the leftover food from the Antolia's family garbage. He had been the one who taken her into the family and introduced her to Lily and Victoria. Both They had instantly took great liking to her and had encouraged her to be adopted into the family.
From there on, Jordan was raised into the family as Lily's foster sister and was trained as her protector, due to her wealth and family's business.
"Fine. For now, we'll keep him locked up in here until he wakes up, if he wakes up. And then, we'll talk more about it. You look like shit, Smith. When did you last get some rest?"
Jordan shrugged. "Examination is coming up soon. Between reading books and working, I say, I'm handling them very well."
Thomas snorted. "You have panda eyes, if you still haven't noticed it yet. Besides, no one has ever asked you to repay us, Jordy. You want to do it yourself. Now, before I'm ending my lecture and be my usual cool 'uncle' persona, I want you to get some well-earned rest. Is that understood?"
"...Yes, Sir."
"Good! I'll send you girls back home then." He walked her out to where the others were waiting and send them back home.