My Savior
By: AvidBookLover2001
Rating: T (For Violence)
Warning: Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, Graphic Description, Alcoholism
Summary: "I tried to lift my head to see my savior. He kneeled beside me and ran a hand through my hair, soothingly. "Shh, it's okay. You're safe now, Harry." I nodded but confusion overtook me as I stared at the dark figure next to me. Who was this man that saved me? Who was my savior?"
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I covered my ears with my hands, my fingers slightly twitching. I tried not to hear. I tried not to feel. I tried not to cry. I was unsuccessful.
I should have been used to it but no matter how many times it happened it still felt like the first. Like a hand forcing me down.
I closed my eyes, firmly pressing them shut. I tried to imagine a different life, a different reality, a different family. I came out- no, I was pulled out- of my reverie when I heard a scream.
"No! Not Harry! Please, no!"
I pushed myself from the floor and scurried over to the cupboard in my bedroom. I used my scrawny hands to keep the door closed. It didn't work.
The door was pulled open and the resounding crack of it hitting the wall echoed through the silent house.
I could smell the stale stench of liquor and cigarettes as I looked at the man in front of me. I knew him yet I didn't. I loved him yet I didn't. I stared into his frenzied eyes and hunched shoulders.
"Get up, Harry."
I shook my head while tears were streaming down.
"I said get up!"
I flinched at his booming voice. He grabbed onto my shoulder and bunched the fabric of my shirt as he pulled me up. I couldn't stand to look at his face any longer. When it reflected him. When he turned into this… this monster.
"Look at me when I speak to you!"
I refused to give in. To see what this man had become. I felt the sharp pain across my face and he slapped me. More tears streamed down.
I reluctantly brought my eyes up to look at him, hidden beneath alcohol and drugs, wearing a mask of deception; or maybe he finally had decided to reveal his true self and did away with false pretenses, leaving a damaged man with an even more damaged coping method.
"There. Now we can have a nice father-son conversation."
He slurred constantly and I knew he wasn't in his right mind.
"So let's see… Oh! Today was your first day of kindergarten, wasn't it?"
I nodded, weakly.
"Well, how was it?"
His carefree attitude disgusted me and my eyes filled with rage, begging to be let out. I refused to acknowledge him anymore, let alone respond.
"Come on, son."
The rage toppled over as my eyes saw red. How did he expect me to respond to him so warmly… so normally, when he is acting as if the devil himself possessed him.
"I will never talk to you! I hate you!"
I looked at him straight in the eye as I uttered these words of betrayal.
He backhanded me and I felt a warm trickle run down my nose. He didn't give me enough time to get up from the floor as he put a strong hand on my back, now bare, pressing me down.
I heard the belt slither out like a snake, hissing and ready to attack. It pounced on my back as I cried out.
"Stop!"
He didn't stop, not even after half an hour passed and blood was seeping from the sides.
"Please, daddy! Please stop!"
"No! You need to learn you lesson!"
I was sobbing uncontrollably, desperately yelling, begging for him to stop. Suddenly the door to the bedroom flew open and a loud and deep voice was heard.
"Stupefy"
I felt my father still then fall onto the floor in a heap. Exhausted, I tried to lift my head to see my savior. He kneeled beside me and ran a hand through my hair, soothingly.
"Shh, it's okay. You're safe now, Harry."
I nodded but confusion overtook me as I stared at the dark figure next to me. Who was this man that saved me?
"Who are you?"
I asked my voice, hitching and cracking, course from my pleas.
His dark eyes glittered as he smiled down at me.
"Severus Snape."