Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Harry Potter.
Written for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry Potions Assignment 2.
Warnings brief mention of domestic violence and murder.
He can feel their eyes on him even though he's staring down at his plate of the barely touched food. Everyone knows what happened over the summer, they know what he did.
Severus had been back at Hogwarts two months and had believed that what had happened would remain secret, but someone had found out and now everyone knew.
He wanted to scream "I did it to save my mother's life" until his throat felt like it was on fire, but of course he wouldn't.
It was bad enough people knew the minimum of details, he'd killed his father the first week of the summer holidays and had gotten away with it that's what everyone thought.
But It wasn't like that, he had only meant to stop his father from hurting his mother he didn't mean to kill him.
The ministry saw it was an accident; Dumbledore saw it was an accident and yes maybe he avoided any punishment because of Abraxas Malfoy putting pressure on certain people to make he sure he avoided any punishment.
He was grateful for the help he'd received from Lucius's father, but a part of him knew that Abraxas' help would come at price later in life.
He wished that his fellow students didn't know he was a murder, that their eyes weren't on him and whispers "Did you hear what he did?," didn't exist.
He wished he didn't owe anyone any favors because they helped him, but most of all he wished his father had been different then none of it would have ever happened.
But Severus had learnt long ago wishes meant nothing and until he breathed his last breath, he would be branded a murder in people's eyes no matter what he did in life.
