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Okay so this is a Snarry slash story about the fact that Severus Snape never died and that Harry had always had feelings for him. Everything that has happened in Harry Potter has happened in this story except for some of the deaths. Such as Tonks, Lupin, Fred (or was it George?) and of course Snape. Sorry but I just didn't have the heart to keep them killed off. What's one twin without the other twin? It's just not fair.

Hope you enjoy!

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Snape was in his potions lab in his home in Ireland. After the war when everyone had thought he was dead, Snape had decided not to correct them.

-Flashback-

Nagini bit him and he felt the poison seeping into his body. He quickly reached his hand into his pocket and pulled out a bezoar, popping it into his mouth. He could feel the poison being pushed out of his system but the wound to his neck needed emergency care. But before he could move to stand up blasted Potter had shown up, which he guessed was in some ways a good thing because he needed to give the boy his memories but still he wished it had been after he got his neck taken care of.

Potter had crept into the room kneeling down beside his potions master, he seemed awestruck and sad. It would seem though that the boy had not seen him take the bezoar because the look on his face was like he pitied that the man was going to die soon.

He grabbed the boy's robes with his one free hand and pulled him down shocking Potter in the process. He looked into his eyes and said "Take it." Then he pushed the memories out of his mind and they came out through his mouth. Granger who was always prepared shoved a flask into Potter's hands so he could collect the substance.

Then Weasley grabbed Potter by his robes and began pulling him out of the shack, Potter glanced back once, sadness apparent in his eyes.

Snape hauled himself up, once he was sure the trio was gone, he pointed his wand at his neck and did as many healing charms as he could at the moment, though he would still need to be treated. For now it was just to stop the bleeding and make sure he didn't get any sort of infection.

Snape started walking towards the fireplace that was in the shrieking shack. Few people knew that the fireplace was connected to the Floo Network but Dumbledore had made it so after he first because Headmaster. He had told only his most trusted faculty, such as Severus and Minerva. He had said it was to be used in emergencies.

Before he was able to floo away though he heard a high pitched voice that he knew to be the Dark Lord's. For a moment he feared that the man had returned but soon realized that the voice had an echo and Voldemort was simply just amplifying his voice so all areas around Hogwarts could hear it.

The high voice sarcastically praised them for the fight they had put up but called to them to take a moment and collect their dead. He then continued to tell Harry Potter that he would give Harry an hour to come to him in the dark forest.

Severus looked at the floor, he was sure the moment the words had been spoken everyone fighting for the light would have thought to themselves that Harry would never do such a thing like that, not after everything they had gone through for him and themselves. But Severus knew that as soon as Harry watched Snape's memories he would be making his way into the dark forest, walking to his death. He hated that it had to go that way but Dumbledore had made it clear, there was nothing they could do.

Snape sighed to himself as he found the floo powder hidden beneath a loose floorboard. This was going to be a blow to the wizarding world; he just hoped someone would step up with courage to defeat the Dark Lord after Potter was gone.

He flooed to his chambers and began packing everything he would need for he would not be coming back to Hogwarts. He felt bad that he could not stay and continue to fight but with the wound on his neck he was weakened and with everyone thinking that he was a traitor he was likely to end up dead at the hands of the light rather than the dark.

He walked into his bedroom and pulled a vial of pain relief potion out of the drawer beside his bed and gulped it down. Relief washed over him and he wondered how he could have left the castle without bringing some with him. Then he remembered that he had left the castle by jumping out a window.

He took all of his potions ingredients and anything from his potions lab that was valuable to him. He also took his collection of books. He did a clean sweep of his living quarters, everything that he needed he shrunk and put into a trunk he had. When he was finished he shrunk the trunk and put it into his pocket. He looked once more at his chambers, the place he had lived for seventeen years, then he grabbed some floo powder off the mantle, but before he could floo away he heard the cold high voice again "Harry Potter is dead. He was killed running away..." Snape did not listen to the rest of the crap Voldemort said, he knew how Harry must have died and why he died. He died to protect those he loved just like how his mother had died protecting him. He really was a true hero, Snape thought and with a heavy heart flooed away.

He had gone to Spinner's end. His mother, though he doubt anyone else knew, still lived there. She had stayed when Snape had taken over the house after his father had died ten years ago. His mother used to be an amazing medi witch and he knew she would be able to treat his wound.

He spent 3 days resting and regaining his strength. Once he was fully rested he took notice of what was going on in the papers. He was in shock when he looked at the front of the Daily Prophet and read the headline. 'Harry Potter defeats Lord Voldemort, Wizarding World rejoices.' He sat in total and utter shock just staring at the paper. 'But Potter is dead' he thought reading the article. It told a tale of how Harry had sought out Voldemort and Voldemort had only thought that he had killed Potter. He read how the boy had amazingly defeated Voldemort with an 'Expelliarmus.' Snape shook his head after reading the article, the boy truly was extraordinary.

He looked through the rest of the paper and was surprised to his name. This article went on to explain that Potter had told the Ministry to clear Severus Snape of all charges because he had been on the side of the light the whole time. It also had said that Snape's body had mysteriously disappeared and the Ministry, prompted by Harry Potter, had declared that they would get to the bottom of it.

With what he read Snape had decided that he didn't want people to know that he was actually alive and that he would have to move and go into hiding. So he had put the house under his mother's name, which would have happened anyway after he had died and he moved to Ireland. He didn't think it was a good idea to stay in England but he wanted to still be in the UK so he decided Ireland was his best choice."

-End Flashback-

He had been peacefully living there ever since.

Snape had just finished brewing a potion when an alarm went off "Bloody Hell" he sighed "That's the third time this month." He placed a protective spell on his potion, which he had been working on for hours, and went to turn off the alarm.

The alarm indicated that someone was visiting his supposed grave site. After the Ministry had not been able to find his missing body, Potter had had his name honored and they had held a funeral, without a body, for him. The site was just out of central England moving into the country. The graveyard held many important persons in it and Potter had named him as an important person after he had 'died.'

Snape had gone there a week after the funeral, disguised of course, and put a charm around his gravesite so that it would notify him if anyone showed up there.

He had done it out of curiosity mostly; he wanted to know who would come to visit him when he was gone.

In the years he had gotten a few visits from the Malfoys, Lucius mostly. He had also got a couple visits from his mother, which he thought was strange because she was the one person who knew he wasn't dead. He had gotten visits from a few other people, he guessed some of them were just curious or visiting him out of respect. But mostly he got visits from Potter. Potter would visit him once a year of the day he 'died.' But for some reason in the last few months Potter had been frequently visiting him, which left Snape confused.

He had heard that Potter had settled down with Ginny Weasley after the final battle and that they had three kids. The middle child which was named Albus Severus! He shivered at the thought; the poor boy was probably teased mercilessly. But as far as he knew everything was right in Potter's life, maybe things weren't as they seemed.

Snape went to the mantle where a small stone sat, he picked it up which stopped the alarm and looked down at it, he wasn't surprised to see the name Harry Potter on the surface of the rock. Snape sighed, what could Potter possibly be doing at his gravesite? He had been wondering that for months and he was determined to find out why.

He walked into his bedroom putting on an outdoor cloak, he walked to the mirror and put on a glamour, so that his face was unrecognizable and his hair was now short and a brown color.

Then he turned walked outside his house and Apparated to the graveyard.