A/N: I've had this idea in the works for a while and I finally got around to writing it. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters, J.K. Rowling does.
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He didn't want to believe it. He couldn't allow himself to believe it.
The man stood across from him, hiding his face behind his curtain of black hair, unable to meet the older man's gaze.
"Severus," Lucius Malfoy's voice was cold as ice. "I will ask you again, is it true?"
Severus Snape was physically pained by the harshness of his old friends' tone. How could he possibly answer now?
Finally he found his voice.
"Yes..." he croaked, unable to look into Lucius's gray eyes as he admitted the awful truth.
"You alerted the Aurors," Lucius eyes flashed with a spark that they hadn't had since before he'd been sent to Azkaban, something he now knew to be thanks to the work of his once trusted ally, Severus Snape. The latter could see that the once proud Malfoy patriarch was angry, no...absolutely livid.
"Severus..." the pain in Narcissa's voice was even worse than the subtle in her husband's. "It was you?"
The Potions Master couldn't even look at Draco, but he didn't need to in order to know that it crushed the still very young boy to learn that his godfather had unwittingly betrayed his family.
"You're lying," Draco spoke after a few minutes, his voice conveying the anger of his father's and the anguish of his mother's.
"No," Severus sighed heavily. "I am not. Your father speaks the truth, it was I who alerted the Aurors that there was a skirmish at the Ministry."
Draco tried to walk to his godfather and his father's old friend, only to be gently halted by his mother, who shook her head at him, her blue eyes now mournful as her thin fingers rested upon his shoulder, now entirely ignoring Severus, the man she had once pleaded to protect her precious only son.
Lucius growled softly and stood in front of his wife and son and Severus finally made eye-contact with the one person, besides Lily Evans, that he had ever truly considered a friend.
"Stay away from me," Lucius hissed, his voice devoid of all emotion but his eyes filled with overwhelming hatred. "You stay away from my family. Unless the Dark Lord requires our services together, I never want to see you again for as long as you live. Traitor."
In that moment, Severus found himself certain that he would have preferred to be hexed or even force-fed poison. Even the Cruciatus Curse inflicted on him by the Dark Lord himself would have surely been much less painful.
First Lily, now Lucius, Narcissa, and Draco. Why was it that anytime Severus came even remotely close to having a kind of positive connection to someone, fate seemed to step in and snatch it away from him? What else could he possibly lose now that there was nothing left to take?
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Truth be told, I was always wondered what would have happened if the Malfoys ever learned that Severus was behind the Death Eaters being captured after the fiasco with the Ministry. So, this was my take on it, hope you all liked it.