Title: Escaping Fate (Chapter One)
Pairing: Lily x Severus
Summary: Snilly. Kidnapped or Saved? Who is this mysterious man? (James-bashing) AU...kind of OOC.
Warnings: Don't like it, don't read it.
Rating: T, just to be safe.
'Where am I, ugh, and why do I have such a terrible headache?' Lily thought to herself as she sat up slowly from, what she assumed to be, her bed. She opened her eyes to see that she was clearly not in her bedroom, and that there was one other person, sitting on a chair while looking out a window, in the room with her. The man stood abruptly so he could lean against the window sill, but it was obvious to Lily that he didn't know she was awake. Lily decided to use this to her advantage, she looked over his form to find out that the mystery man was tall, not overly so, and lanky. He also had long black raven hair, which reached to about his shoulders.
Suddenly he turned around, Lily was too shocked to attempt to fake sleep. So she sat in place completely motionless, except for the subtle rise and fall of her chest as she breathed. During her intense stare-down with the mystery man, Lily realized that he had some quite distinctive features. Such as his long straight nose and narrow face, but the one thing that interested Lily most were his eyes, such a deep colour that they looked black, but they were full of emotion.
Then much to Lily's surprise, he smiled a charmingly shy, crooked smile that took her breath away. So, Lily decided to smile back, still wondering where she was, why she was there, who the mystery man was, and what he wanted from her.
"You seem kind of, well, scared and confused. Which I guess is normal for someone in your situation, so I'll introduce myself. I am Severus Snape."
"Ahh, the mystery man has a name. Alright, Severus I'm feeling oddly comfortable so I'm going to get straight to the point. Where am I?" Lily had many more unanswered questions but decided to start with a simple, yet mandatory question.
"Well, you are currently in my house, in my room, and in my bed." Severus said with a laugh.
"I'm not trying to be rude but, why?" asked Lily quietly. She couldn't help but to think of reasons, maybe he kidnapped her or saved her from something or she got hurt so he helped her or...her train of thought was interrupted by Severus speaking.
"Before you jump to any crazy conclusions, I found you being pulled along by James Potter into the forest behind my house, and then I heard you scream and I knew I needed to do something, so..." he unconsciously rubbed his knuckles, which Lily just now realized were covered in bandages, "I managed to stop him and made sure you were alright. I put you here because it was the only bed in the house and it was obvious that your left ankle is badly sprained." Once he said that Lily noticed the dull throbbing pain in her left ankle, she then tried to move it but couldn't because of the hot, searing pain that shot up her leg.
"Yeah, I can agree to the fact that my ankle is sprained. Well, this sucks." Lily said with an annoyed huff.
"Hey, I've been tending to that for the past day and a half. If you keep putting it under stress, the sprain will take even longer to heal." Severus spoke in a soothing voice as he gently pushed her shoulders back to force her to lie down.
"You're probably quite hungry, aren't you? Is there anything specific that you would like?"
"I don't want to be a bother and this is a bit off topic but, what is today's date and what time is it?" Lily began biting her lip, as what seemed to be a nervous habit. He chuckled, and then answered her questions.
"It's the 31st of July and 5:30PM." Lily sat in shock for a moment before a single tear fell down her cheek. Severus rushed to her side then knelt next to her on the floor. He gently took her face in his hands and brushed the tear away with his thumb, but when he did this many more started to follow the first. Lily sat up quickly and wrapped her arms around him and quietly cried into his chest.
"Lily please, tell me what's wrong." Severus pleaded with a worried voice.
"Wait, h-how do you know my name?" Lily asked, now wondering when he would have been able to learn her name, considering the fact that she couldn't remember saying it at all in the time she had been awake for.
"James kept saying it, like he was disappointed in you. It was a constant chorus of 'Lily Evans, Lily Evans, Lily Evans' while shaking his head." Severus explained in a hurry.
"O-oh god, I can't...James? I haven't seen him in months, we broke up exactly one year ago and except in passing I haven't seen him since. Well, except for the other night, I guess." Lily looked absolutely baffled by now, but Severus was still wondering what caused her earlier break down.
"So umm, what caused that just a few minutes ago...?"
"I'm very sorry about that, umm...today is the anniversary of the death of my parents, and like I said before the day James and I broke up. It just all kind of caught up to me at once." Lily looked sheepish.
"Ah it finally makes sense now, back to the earlier subject of food. What would you like to eat?" Severus chuckled kind-heartedly while saying this, which made Lily blush crimson and look towards her lap. Lily's stomach growled then and made her blush even more with an extremely embarrassed look on her face. Severus outright laughed at this, which made Lily giggle along.
"See, your stomach agrees with me. So could you please answer my question." He asked with a kind smile.
"I...uh...don't really know what I want to eat..." Lily chuckled nervously while biting her lip. Severus gently brushed his thumb over her lip to make her let go.
"You'll make it bleed if you keep doing that." Lily gasped at the strange, tingling feeling she got when he touched her.
"H-how about I come with you to get the food."
"Alright, but what are you going to do about your ankle? Can you even move it or stand on it? Let alone walk on it."
"I don't know yet, here help me up." Lily swung her legs over the edge of the bed, pushed the blankets off her body and then rested her right foot on the ground and began to stand. As she put her left foot on the floor a searing pain from a very slight amount on pressure caused Lily to fall, but Severus was next to her because she had been holding onto his arm, so he managed to catch her before she actually hit the floor.
"I'm so sorry. I guess I underestimated the extent of the injury..." Lily said quietly with an embarrassed and slightly guilty look on her face. Severus gave Lily a warm smile then picked her up in his arms. Lily screamed slightly at being picked up so suddenly then laughed and wove her arms around his neck as he began to walk.
"Severus, why are you doing this?" asked Lily suddenly.
"Doing what? Carrying you?" Severus looked very confused by her question.
"Well, that too, but what I meant was all the hospitality and kindness and..." Lily was unable to finish her sentence because she began to get chocked up with all her emotions.
"I am doing this because, first of all I knew it was the right thing to do and secondly, I know it's way too soon but I got this strange and amazing feeling when I touched you for the first time and I just knew that – "Lily stopped Severus from rambling by gently kissing his lips for only a second that ended up making him stop walking in stunned silence. By now Lily was hiding her face in the crook between his neck and his shoulder. So Severus lifted Lily's blushing face, gave her a gentle smile, and with just a look asked her permission to kiss her. Lily nodded just once slowly which made Severus burst out with a smile. He kissed her softly while holding her in his arms, the proceeded to run down the staircase and into the kitchen where he sat Lily on the counter. Severus put his hands on either side of her, effectively trapping her between him and the counter. He laughed quietly, which ended up making Lily laugh as well. She took this moment as an opportunity to quickly kiss Severus once more; then Lily started to tickle him. This made Severus laugh, squirm and jump until he managed to get away from Lily who smiled innocently at him.
"Can I have a PB & J sandwich?"