A/N: I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER OR THE CHARACTERS… minus Erik… who you will see in the future…. Nor am I doing this for profit or anything else that comes to mind other than pure entertainment. If you are wondering how till will be a H/S mentor fic… you will just have to stay and wait won't you? Oh and it's going to be dark, or so I will try and make it… also I this is a cross of the books and the movies. And speaking of movies this inspiration comes from the recently released trailer with Snape in all his EPICNESS. Trying to remember what else I'm missing here….
"Let me find the boy. Let me bring you Potter. I know I can find him, my lord. Please." Severus Snape potions master and spy for Lord Voldemort, and Spy for the Order of the Phoenix walked by Nagini keeping an eye on the creature it's protective bubble. Turning back to Voldemort gazing at him he saw in the man's, no the creature's eyes and saw something that frightened him.
"I have a problem, Severus," said Voldemort softly.
"My Lord?" said Snape.
Voldemort raised the Elder Wand, holding it as delicately and precisely as possible as a conductor's baton.
"Why doesn't it work for me, Severus?"
Snape pales more then he thought possible and he suddenly realizes where this conversation is going.
"My – My Lord?" he tries to say looking blankly, his mind was working overtime to try and figure out a way to get himself out of the situation he was in. "I do not understand. You have performed extraordinary magic with that wand"
"No, I have performed my usual magic. I am extraordinary, but this wand… no. It has not revealed the wonders it has promised. I feel no difference between this wand and the one I procured from Ollivander all those years ago." Voldemort's tone was musing, calm, but Snape knew that this was quickly turning against him as he stayed his ground. Keeping his eyes at the man he watched as Voldemort started to move around him
"I have thought long and hard, Severus… do you know why I have called you back from the battle?"
"No, my lord, but I beg you let me return. Let me find Potter."
"You sound like Lucius. Neither of you understands Potter as I do. He does not need to finding. Potter will come to me. I know his weakness, you see, his one great flaw. He will hate watching the others struck down around him, knowing that it is for him that it happens. He will come."
"But my Lord, he might be killed accidentally by one other than yourself…" Snape was cut off by the hissing of either Voldemort or the snake at the man's heel.
"My instructions to my Death Eaters have been perfectly clear. Capture Potter. Kill his friends – but do not kill him."
"But it is of you that I wished to speak, Severus, not Harry Potter. You have been very valuable to me. Very valuable"
"My Lord knows I seek only to serve him. But – let me go and find the boy, my Lord. Let me bring him to you. I know I can…"
"I have told you, no!" Voldemort whipped around as his robe bellowed around him and the snake reared as Snape internally shuddered. "My concern at the moment Severus, is what will happen when I finally meet the boy!"
"My Lord, there can be no question, surely -?"
"-but there is a question, Severus. There is."
Snape struggled to keep an impassive look on his face as he struggled with himself to get out of the room he was in alive. With the high windows and the clean floor he was mentally calculating his best form of exit as he heard to the side leather wings and a rush of air go by the windows.
"Why did both the wands I have used failed when directed at Harry Potter?"
"I… I cannot answer that my, My Lord"
"Can't you?" the inhuman man walked away from Snape as the snake on the floor kept a clear eye on the man before it, it's tongue tasted the well controlled fear of Severus Snape and the creature was well impressed. The pale color of Snape did nothing to ease man that he was getting close to the subject at hand. "My wand of yew did everything of which I asked it, Severus, except to kill Harry Potter. Twice it failed. Ollivander told me under torture of the twin cores, told me to take another's wand. I did so, but Lucius's wand shattered upon meeting Potter's."
"I.. I have no explaintion, my Lord'" Keeping his gaze on the snake instead of the man before him, Snape now realized fully his situation and why he was called. I have to get out of here and to Potter, only he can solve this and kill this man. "My Lord – let me go to the boy…"
"All this long night, when I am on the brink of victory, I have sat here," said Voldemort, his voice barely louder than a whisper, "wondering, wondering, why the Elder Wand refuses to be what it ought to be, refuses to perform as legend says it must perform for it's rightful owner… and I think I have the answer"
Severus Snape did not speak, and off to the side he heard leather again before it was quiet, he was readying to defend himself because he knew this event would not end well.
"Perhaps you already know it? You are a cleaver man, after all, Severus. You have been a good and faithful servant, and I regret what must happen."
"My Lord…"
"The Elder Wand cannot serve me properly, Severus, because I am not it's true master. The Elder Wand belongs to the wizard who killed its last owner. You killed Albus Dumbledore. While you live, Severus, the Elder Wand cannot truly be mine."
"My Lord!" Snape raised his wand up as he knew this was his end.
"It cannot be any other way. I must master the wand, Severus. Master the wand, and I master Potter at last." Voldemort explained calmly as he took a step forwards slashing his wand as he spoke a spell. "Semtumsempra"
Severus Snape did the only thing he could think of and he raised his wand up and started to speak but wasn't fast enough to counter and he felt the spell cut his throat. He was on the ground and up against the glass window of the boat house with his hands at this throat trying to staunch the bleeding. With his focus on his throat rather than the counter curse to the spell he had created and was used against him, he looked up to see Voldemort speak to his snake before he gazed at the snake as it poised itself and struck him repeatedly his back hitting the frosted-glass wall. Moments later Voldemort touched the snake and apperated out of the building leaving behind a bleeding man. The rustling of several cloaks and a heavy set of foot falls followed by smaller ones entered his hearing as he turned his head gently to the side.
"Sev!... Severus!" Being flipped on his back he saw two pairs of eyes, a pair of bold blue under a hood and a pair of green; green like Lily's eyes.
"Take… Take it…" he managed to spit out as a pair of hands kept pressure on his throat and a tear started to fall down his face. A voice off to the side spoke some words as something was taken from him. Keeping his gaze to the face of Harry Potter he grabbed the boy's open jacket with a bloodied hand and pulled him closer.
"Lo.. look.. at me... You have... your mothers eyes..." Harry looked down watching as Snape's face softened before his eyes rolled back into his head and his hand thumped to the ground as the man in the hood black robe kept pressure on the man's neck.
A/N: Most of the conversation and the actions was taken directly out from the book from pages 524-527 with added bits that didn't include Harry. The ending is a bit skewed as I have written it differently from the book. And for those that don't know, I didn't bother using the Snake to attack Snape as from what I have been reading as a bit of spoiler. Snape has his own spell used against him and his throat get's slit. And so there you have the opening chapter to my HEAVILY revised story. A/N2: ok so I edited this chapter and I hope you all enjoy this. I had just come back from the movie and I plan on seeing it again as it was the most powerfully emotionally driven movie I've seen in a while.
