Disclaimer-wish I did own it, but I don't. Won't be making any money. All I'm doing is playing around with some of my favorite characters.
This will get pretty dark - torture and rape will be written about plus mean Ron. Don't read it if that's not for you.
It had been three months since the battle. The battle that finally saw the light win. Three months and yet at times he felt as though it was just yesterday he lay dying. He wasn't sure he had the right to live, but someone saved him and for that reason alone he refused to give up. Someone out there cared enough to save him.
He owed his redemption in the wizarding world to the boy who lived. Harry as Severus now called him testified on his behalf using the memories he was given and by his words of trust. Harry could do no wrong in the eyes of most of Britain's wizarding world and his word and trust in Severus Snape was more then enough for them. Harry made no demands he simply told Severus - "You're free now"
He was smart enough to realize he would never be fully trusted by everyone, but he didn't care the people who did trust him were the only people who mattered to him. For the first time in over twenty years he felt free. He knew there were a few death eaters still on the loose who might want to do him harm, but he refused to let them ruin his new found freedom. Severus Snape wanted to live and this was possibly the first time he ever felt this way.
He watched her as she walked down the hall she was no longer the student he had known. Everything about her seemed to change. Her love of life, her confidence, the spark in her eyes when surrounded by books had all been stripped away. He didn't understand this. He knew she had been the reason Harry had been able to defeat Voldermort, but he didn't know the details.
Maybe it was time to find out ... Maybe it was time for him to help someone because he wanted to ... Maybe it was time to admit he loved her ...