By: Lynn Metallium
Disclaimer: I am but a poor little American girl and I do not own Harry Potter and co., that privilege goes to the wonderful J.K. Rowling, (my hero! XD) so please don't sue me and all that stuff because I would be sad and cry and you wouldn't get any money because I had to use it all for college XD
Author's Notes:
Actually...its been a long time since I've written anything, as some people may notice O.o;; Damn college... you take up too much of my time! Obviously I abandoned my anime fics (which is sad...) and I have to admit this is why O.o;;
After months of reading HP fics, I've finally given into temptation to write my own. Please forgive me for mistakes and horrible OOC or whatever because I've really only read to book three, not that I don't have a pretty damn good idea what happens anyway... but yeah, so mistakes will probably happen, as shit tends to do, please love me anyway -;;
My idea for this story actually came from one of the books from the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, so I have to give him credit for his wonderful series as well. After reading one too many fics with Harry fudging up a potion or a portkey gone wrong, I decided I needed to get original, and original didn't mean pulling a hated Mary Sue out of my arse and sicking her on Snape, although that though did entertain me for some time.... No, no Mary Sues for me... and none for you either. No, it really is a Snarry, I swear XD. But anyway... without further ramble from me, (as I have already taken up half your page XD) I give you my little baby, (love her please,)Mind Games of Water.
Lynn
Prologue
No one understood the comfort that the dungeons brought to the potion's master, maybe that's why no one ever attempted to stay with him down there. They were cold, damp and rather uncomfortable, but then again, that described the dark haired man sitting behind the worn desk as well. So perhaps it was easy to say they were destine for one another, like lovers in a perverse sense.
The air was heavy and silent save for the sound of Severus's pen scratching furiously over the fourth year homework that had been assigned. The said professor was playing some sadistic game to see which paper he could put the most little red marks on. So far this little Hufflepuff was winning by miles. Her paper might as well have been drenched in the red ink.
A smirk slipped across the man's lips as he scrawled in his flowing handwriting,
'Completely Unacceptable. Re-Do, an extra five feet by next Tuesday.'
Somewhere deep inside him, he felt a sense of satisfaction rise up that kept the smirk on his face. Foolish students. If it weren't for Albus, he would never wasted his time attempting to drill such things into their skulls. He would have sent some of these pathetic so called wizards packing months ago. They learned nothing, and so therefor were nothing. Especially to a man like himself. They were worthless.
The enjoyed silence was broken as a small voice in his right ear made the dark haired wizard jump and nearly fall out of his seat.
"It seemed acceptable to me-"
His wand was out and the hex out of his mouth before he could even see his visitor. By the time his black eyes met with the form, his little curse has smacked into them, and completely dissolved. Severus stared at the form, trying to keep his mouth from gaping. What the hell had just happened? That hex should have had the person on the floor writhing in pain. Instead it had hit an invisible barrier and simply melted away. His heart beat quickened in his chest, but he forced himself to look calm.
Golden eyes stared back and glittered with an amusement similar to the headmasters when he knew something Severus did not. He hated that. More than anything, more then the excessive tea, more then the annoying candies, he hated that knowing smile and twinkling in the eyes. His mouth opened and he forced the words to come.
"Who are you?! What are you doing in my classroom? Fifty points from your house!" Severus roared as he rushed to his feet, attempting to push the person he had associated with being a female now out of his way. The moment his hand touched her though he yanked back as if being burnt. She hadn't physically, but mentally he was reeling at her nudity.
Severus had seen a lot of strange things in his time, but he had to admit never something like this. The so called girl standing, or rather floating in front of him as he had come to notice, didn't seem to have any qualms about her nudity, which Severus found so disturbing. Her skin was pale blue in color with a slight sheen that rippled in what little light that found its way into the dungeon struck her. Her limbs were abnormally skinny and lanky, like an adolescence that had never really found balance after reaching adulthood. Her ears were pointed and for a moment, he entertained the notion that she was an elf. Quickly he shoved the thought away, telling himself not to be stupid. Elves were as nonexistent as...well...elves for Merlin sakes!
His eyes took her in with the ever present frown on his face that only deepened to hide his sharp shock of her neither regions. Sure her chest was full and round like any normal female of the human species, but from the waist down, that was another story all together. A hermaphrodite. Severus's jaw fell open of its own accordance, and he was momentarily furious with himself for showing any such reaction.
The girl, as the potions master had classified it, he had to call it one or the other, it just sounded insolent, only let out a low laugh that sounded more like a hiss to his ears, like the water of a large ocean dragging against the shore.
"That line may have worked 90 odd years ago Severus, when I was actually a student-" Amusement leaked from her low voice. "But I can assure you, it does not work now-"
"I will ask you one more time before I hex you into oblivion demon, who are you and what are you doing in my dungeons! And you will not call me by my name, Merlin knows how you knew it anyway, but that is not even the point! You will address me with my full title-"
"Ever so wordy....Snivillus..." The malice wasn't missed by the horrified potion's master as he momentarily attempted to collect the pieces of his scattered thoughts from her scathing remark with that ever hated nickname. Quickly he reared himself up to his full height, not that it mattered she only curled her legs up under her to stare him in the eyes.
"Do not, young lady, make me do something you will regret-" Severus quickly gave himself a mental pat on the back for keeping his voice from quivering with odd emotions that were floating on end. "Get...out-"
Her roar of laughter only sent him into another fit of anger and his hand clenched around his wand so tightly his knuckles were turning white and his nails biting into his pale skin.
"Young lady? Ah...its been a while since someone had the nerve to call me that- But sadly, as you may have noticed, young lady I am certainly not, but if that makes you feel more at ease Severus, then by all means-"
He only twitched to acknowledge that she refused to call him by his correct title, which irked him more then a little bit, it irked him a whole damn lot. His lips pressed close together and he shot her a piercing glare that would have sent any normal human being running away shrieking. But she was no normal human, probably not even human, that had already been decided.
"What do you want-" Severus barked out with annoyance. "Speak up! Quickly, or get out!"
"I always liked you Sev...You were always the nice one- Black and Potter always threw rocks at me..." She seemed to be musing. Severus only stared at her. What was she talking about? She had lost her bloody bleeding mind! Yet before he could tell her to get the hell out again, she continued rambling.
"Yes...You always were the nice one...." She drifted closer and quickly Severus took a step back and another and another until his shoulder rammed into a bookshelf quite suddenly and painfully. The being only smirked and slowly cupped his cheek. Severus flinched. Oh dear Merlin get it away, get it away, get it away! "I've been watching you Severus-"
He tried to pull his head back from her whisper but only succeeded in slamming his head into the back of the bookcase none to gently.
"Get..away from me...now-" His voice did waver this time and the dark haired man kicked himself for it. It made him shutter to think he had a stalker, especially one like this girl.
"You've been a bad boy Severus. I've been watching. Why do you play such games with them Severus? They are only children, they know no better-" Her voice sounded wistful.
"What games? Woman are you out of your bleeding mind?! Get the hell away from me!" He gave her a shove and she stumbled back in midair just enough to let him slip by. Quickly he started to rub his hands on his robes. When he had touched her...when he touched her it felt like he had just shoved his hands inside a dirty puddle of water.
"Mind games Severus, mind games. I've watched you play. You make them think you're mean and hateful. You toy with them until they want to cry. You push them over the edge and they do cry and run away from you- You purposely terrify them, and somewhere inside you, it makes you feel good. You're not that much of a sadist Severus..."
"That is none of your business!" Severus hissed, although he wanted to add that he was so that bloody much of a sadist and he liked it, but that was none of her business either.
"A little fun is ok Severus, a little terror from a teacher is ok...But you're their worst nightmare-"
"Good, someone needs to get those little brats to behave-" He snarled staring at her. She only stared back with sad golden eyes that made him want to grab a spoon and gouge them out of her head.
"Behaving is one thing, purposely frightening them is another Severus. I know you enjoy your little mind games Severus. You like to see the cringe. Yet...I too, enjoy a few mind games Severus. Somewhere inside me, there's a bit of a sadist waiting to come out," She gave him a sideways smirk that made Severus want to squirm.
"And you draw him out Severus, with your malicious ways. You were never so cruel. I remember-....I haven't lived in the lake all these years for nothing. I hear what the students say, when they think there is no one else around. Severus Snape, that bastard, that greasy git- Snarky potion's master, and I remember...what you use to be, and I can assure you they are nothing alike."
Severus snorted, he could have told her that had she only asked. Of course he was nothing like his younger self. Too many things had happened for him to ever be what he once was.
"I'm sure you haven't come in here just to give me a verbal lashing about my treatment of students, so what is it you really want, and make it quick, you've made me late to lunch-" He tried to sound indifferent about it, but he couldn't decide if her presence made him uneasy, or so angry he wanted to tear her apart and use her pieces in his potions.
"I want to play a game Severus-" Her eyes shone with that light that made him nervous once again and he stared at her, face deadpan.
"Well that's nice, why don't you go find some other fool around here to play a game with. The headmaster is in his office, I'm sure he would like nothing more then to play a game with you-" Severus gave her one of his infamous sneers as he spoke.
"Oh no Severus...Albus cannot play this game, he has already played. This game is for you and I to play. Come along Severus, Juiidai is waiting-"
"Wha-" The question never made it out of his mouth before he felt himself falling, falling yet never hitting the ground as darkness took hold of him and he felt nothing more.
"Juiidai teaches everyone their lesson...Professor-" The girl's mouth twitched upward. "Such a happy place...You will have a good time Sev....I promise-" And she laughed. The sadist inside her twisted happily and let out a content purr as she took a seat on the top of Severus's desk. Only to wait now for someone to find his body. Severus was safe...Or...As safe perhaps as one could be...in Juiidai. She laughed.
Um...well...It feels like a lot for a prologue...and its still not a mary sue damn it Xx... R&R Please...something? So I can find it in me to continue my sad drabble...