Author's notes: Alrighty then, it has been literally years since I've written fanfiction. When I first started writing, it was not that great and I got a lot of crap on this website for it. However, I feel confident enough in my writing to try again. This fanfiction is a Snape/OC so if you are not a fan of OC pairings please click away now. I've had another version of this story up from years ago, but this version I like better because I actually took time for it to actually make sense since the last book came out. I do have my own fandom with Snape so please do not chew me out for it. Without further ado, here is the newest version of
(P.S. The story is told from Snape's POV)
I sat by the wall as I waited for my charms class to start. As I looked around the room, I didn't see Lily or James, "This is good…." I thought, I was not too sure of myself though. As it got closer to class time more and more people came into the classroom, still no Lily or James. I stared at the cover of my charms book and just sighed, I hated charms, and it just seemed so pointless. From the corner of my eye, I saw someone walk up toward me. As I looked up there was a girl standing before me. I've never seen this girl before; she was wearing the Hufflepuff colors so that's probably why I never see her.
"Is anyone sitting here?" She asked me. Her voice sounded different, it's very hard to describe. I shook my head 'no'.
"Could I sit here then?" she asked.
"I won't stop you." I told her somewhat coldly. When she sat next to me, I got a good look at her. She had very thick curly light brown hair that reached her mid back; her skin was a very light tan. She looked at me her eyes were the first thing I noticed. They were big, round and an icy blue color; she had a few freckles too.
"My name is Natalie, what's yours?" she asked nicely.
"Severus." I told her.
"That's an interesting name." She smiled at me. I winced a little; girls don't talk to me this much, besides Lily, and with Lily disowning me, no girls talked to me. Luckily, before I could respond class started and Natalie didn't talk during the lesson.
When the class ended as I packed my things Natalie turned to me.
"It was really nice meeting you." She told me.
"Same to you." I didn't know what else to say to her. As I walked out of the classroom, Natalie walked slightly behind me. I stopped.
"What?" I asked her.
"Oh, I'm not following you; it's just a coincidence that the direction you're going is the same direction I'm going." She told me. I kept walked.
"Where are you going if I could ask?" She asked. I shrugged.
"Well I'm going to study outside since it's not too cold out. Would you want to come out with me?" She asked me.
"Well what else am I doing?" I thought to myself. I nodded yes to her and let her lead me outside.
Natalie led me to two other Hufflepuff girls. I have seen these girls before; they were Charity Burbage and Sybill Trelaweny.
"Hey Nat!" Charity smiled as she ran over to hug Natalie.
"Hey, have you two met Severus?" Natalie motioned over toward me.
"I've seen you around." Charity waved to me and smiled, Sybill just waved.
"Severus is going to be in our study group today guys. Any objections?" Natalie asked smirking.
"None at all." Charity said sitting down, Sybill just nodded.
I sat down in the circle of three girls and took out my defense against the dark arts book. We were all quiet for the most part. I looked at the girls books. Natalie was looking at a care for magical creatures' book, Charity was looking at a muggle studies book and Sybill was looking at some divination papers. Natalie looked up at me and I cowered back to my book.
"How are you doing with your homework?" She asked me.
"Fine." I told her.
"I'm in defense against the dark arts too but I'm having some trouble. Could you help me?" She asked me. I hesitated for a minute.
"Sure." Natalie slid closer to me with her book and turned to the page she was having trouble with. I did the best I could to help Natalie with her homework while I tried to finish mine. As the sun was setting Charity and Sybill went inside of the castle, I still sat outside with Natalie.
"Thank you for helping me with my dark arts homework. I'm horrible with it." Natalie said smiling.
"If you're horrible at it then why are you taking it?" I asked her.
"I feel that it's a useful subject." Natalie explained as she put her books into her bag. I nodded as I did the same.
"Want to walk to the great hall with me?" She asked me.
"Don't really like walking anywhere yourself do you?" I tried to make a joke. Natalie just let out a soft laugh and looked away.
"Well come on." I told her and the both of us walked toward the great hall.
As I sat in the great hall eating dinner, I could see Natalie across the room eating and talking with Charity and Sybill. It was weird, until today I have never even noticed her, now I can find her in a room without a problem.
"What are you staring at?" Lucius Malfoy shoved me.
"No one." I told him taking a bite of food.
"Looked like you were staring at the Hufflepuff table." He went on.
"Well I wasn't." I insisted.
"You know, I did see you in the courtyard today with three Hufflepuff girls. Getting any action?" Lucius asked.
"Shut up." I told him angrily.
"The three girls you were with aren't people Slytherins should be associating with." Lucius told me. "One of them is a psycho, the other is a muggle lover and the last one is half muggle! It's disgraceful to all pure-bloods."
'One of them is like me?' I thought to myself.
"Snape." Lucius brought me back from my thoughts. "I don't want to see you hanging around any muggle loving Hufflepuff's alright?" Without realizing what I was doing, I nodded my head to get him off my back.
I walked back to the Slytherin dorm alone as I normally do. During this walk, I have a lot of time to think about what had happened to me during the day. The most important thing being a girl actually talked to me and was nice to me. Natalie was the first girl that has been nice to me since Lily. Even the name Lily makes my chest ache. When I think of the name Lily the name James soon follows it now. Seeing the two of them together makes me so angry. I wonder if Natalie and Lily know each other. If they do are they friends? Do they not get along? Will Lily say bad things about me to Natalie? Will Natalie believe those bad things and not talk to me? Will Lily say anything at all? All of these questions filled my head as I got ready for bed and went to sleep.
It was a sunny Saturday morning as I looked out of the window of the great hall. I saw James and Lily walk by the window hand and hand with Sirius Black. I walked away from the window after that. I walked down the hallway not really going anywhere. I was just walking.
"Hey!" I heard Natalie's voice. I turned around to see her run up from behind me.
"Good morning." She smiled.
"Morning." I continued walked.
"Where are you going?" She asked me.
"Nowhere." I told her.
"Well then can I go nowhere with you?" She laughed a little.
"Why are you following me?" I asked her. She walked in front of me and we both stopped.
"Because I think you're nice and I also think its stupid how people are always picking on you." She told me.
"Then why are you just now talking to me? People in this school have been picking on me since day one." I told her sounding angry.
"I haven't said anything till now because I think it's weird if I just run up to some person at random and automatically be friends." Natalie told me, she was sounding a little mad also. I was not expecting that response. I just kept walking forward.
"You look a little mad. Want to talk about it?" She asked me. I shook my head no.
"Well, I know a nice secluded area. It's a good spot to think and clear your head. It's got a nice view too. Want to see?" She asked. I stopped and looked at her as she stood in front of me. She didn't seem to have any other motive than to show me this spot. I nodded my head yes.
I followed Natalie across the courtyard. We all the way across the courtyard, past the groundskeepers hut and up a hill, at the top of the hill was a patch of trees with a small opening.
"Here we are." Natalie said smiling at me. I looked around the area. It was very secluded.
"I come here when I want to be alone." Natalie told me as she sat down under the tree.
"Why?" I asked. Natalie just pointed forward. I turned around to see the beautiful scenery. The view looked like something out of a fairy tale; I could hardly believe it was real.
"Want to tell me what was bothering you earlier?" she asked. I sat down next to Natalie and told her everything. My home life, Lily, James, everything. Everything that was wrong just started to come out. Natalie never interrupted me once, she just sat and listened.
"Well…" Natalie started after I was finished my tale.
"I know." I told her.
"I really don't know what to say. I'm sorry that all of this happened to you. It's horrible." She told me. I nodded. She patted me on the back.
"If you ever need to talk, just let me know and I'll meet you here." She said.
"That'd be nice." I smiled, just a little.
"What about you?" I asked to be polite.
"Well, I'm a half-blood too. When my mom found out that, my dad was a wizard she left him. Shortly after that my dad passed. So, I live with my older brothers Luke and John, my grandmother and my Aunt." She told me.
"I'm sorry that happened to you." I told her, as she told me.
"I'm not sad about it." She went on. "My grandmother and Aunt are so amazing and my brothers both graduated here and are both starting internships at the Ministry of Magic."
"That's great." I told her smiling.
The both of us just sat side by side talking until the sun began to set.
"Look at the view now." She told me. It was even more beautiful that before.
"That's the signal to get back inside for dinner though." Natalie sighed as she stood up. I stood up and we walked to the great hall together.
When dinner was over Natalie waited for me at the entrance.
"I wanted to walk with you a little more before we had to go to our dorms." She told me. I smiled. She was nice. We walked together talking about meaningless things. Classes we did not like, food we didn't like, so on and so forth. As curfew approached, I walked Natalie to the Hufflepuff dorm entrance.
"Want to hang out with me tomorrow?" She asked.
"I'll meet you at the view." I told her. She laughed.
"See you tomorrow Sev." She went into her dorm.
"See you…" Sev, Sev was something I was not use too. I turned and walked toward the Slytherin dorm.