Okay, if anyone was counting on me, I know this wasa really long time for my rewrite! See, I had writer's block, and I wanted everything (most of it) planned out before I actually wrote it. So here it is, new plot, new storyline...new Ravyn revision...darker Ravyn...and it's not all about her this time.
Description - When his best friends are killed thinking he betrayed them, and his goddaughter kidnapped, Severus Snape fell into a deep and dark depression. Little does he know that he'll see her again soon enough. She's 15 now and starts Hogwarts...where it will never be the same...
Disclaimer - You thinkI own Harry Potter? scoffs I wish...anyway, you know I wouldn't be here, and I would so be dating Daniel Radcliffe.
A tall manor, rust-red brick and blue black tiles, towered above him. The black windows with the shutters pulled across gave the simple message of 'stay out'. A large ebony door stood in the middle, inviting and imposing at the same time. Two torches flanked the door, their flames dancing across the brick. It was the only house there, and soon to be the stage of a double homicide. He sighed and pulled his black hood over his eyes, not putting on his deathly white mask the others around him were wearing.
The other Death Eaters pulled out their wands and knocked on the door as he hung behind. His mission was to kill them and bring the child to him. But he had a different plan, swiftly forming in his mind. He couldn't just betray his best friend, a brother to him, like that. His fellow Death Eaters blew down the door, and entered the house.
You shouldn't have betrayed them, his mind had said; they're your best friends! Your only friends.
A tall man, slightly stocky man, with olive tanned skin, high cheekbones, and elegant ebony hair stood in front of the staircase, wand in his hand.
"Leave," he had said, "We have nothing your master needs." His piercing gray eyes showed no fear.
He noticed a woman just leaving the top of the staircase down the hallway of the second floor, thick auburn hair pooling over her slender shoulders, a baby in her arms. The other Death Eaters had noticed it as well.
"Give us the child." Lucius Malfoy had said.
"My daughter has nothing you need! Leave!" the man said again, and his eyes flickered to the one without the mask. His eyes widened in shock. Sadly in those few moments where he and the unmasked death eater locked gazes, one of sadness and apology, the other of shock and betrayal, one of his fellow Death Eaters said the curse.
"Too easy…" muttered Macnair.
"Come, Severus," said Lucius, motioning up the stairs.
Snape put on his mask, closing his eyes as he passed his friend's lifeless body. He knew Barak would've been able to avoid that, he was so agile. Why? Why didn't you even try? Had you already given it up? A tear slipped down Snape's face, hidden by the mask. He ascended the stairs and entered the room first, the others guarding it in case anyone else was in the house.
"You monster." The woman spat, clutching the child to her breast, "Leave. You may have killed my husband, but I won't go down so easily."
Snape could've smiled if the matter wasn't so serious. Faye Hawkins, acting like such a brave heart. She would stand less of a chance than his friend. He muttered a spell so the others couldn't hear their conversation.
"Faye, please, give me Kaida and I promise I will protect her," he said, removing his mask.
"Se-Severus" The woman stuttered, the breathed, "No…"
"I'm so sorry Faye, but please, trust me, I can protect her!"
"You're a death eater! You tricked Barak all these years!"
"I'm not Faye! I'm a double agent! I'm working for Dumbledore!"
"I don't trust you! You just let him get killed!"
"Faye believe me I didn't want that to happen! If I had stopped them it would've looked suspicious!"
Lucius knocked down the down and Snape hastily put his mask on again.
"What's taking you so long, Severus? Kill the bitch and take the child!" he yelled.
Snape turned back to Faye and whispered, "I'm so sorry." He raised his wand, but he just couldn't kill her. Lucius shoved him out of the way,
"Avada Kedavra!"
The green light burst from his wand again and the woman's legs gave out. Two murders were on his count tonight, and little did he know how powerful revenge would strike years later.
"Take the girl." Lucius said curtly, and walked out.
Slightly shaking, Snape walked over to her lifeless body and gently lifted the bundle out of her arms. He followed the Death Eaters out of the house.
Once out, he looked back, more tears falling, though the others couldn't see them. His hair blew in his face from the wind. Though he knew he hadn't killed them, it seemed as if he had; the guilt of their deaths weighing heavily upon him. He looked down at the child he was holding tightly against his chest.
"I promise I will protect you. Voldemort shall never use you as he wished, Kaida Eithne..." He whispered, and left.
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