Hi everyone, I'm back with an out-take! I still am obsessed with Severus Snape, so I'm continuing my story with out-takes of what happened during the year and seven months I skipped over in Four Black Eyes. I don't know how many out-takes I'll do and I make no guarantee that I'll update on a regular basis, especially with school starting again in a few weeks. Hope you like it and let me know if you've got any ideas of an out-take. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. Harry Potter and everything affiliated with it belongs to J.K. Rowling. I only own any OCs that appear and the plot.
This out-take took place during Sera's eighth year at Hogwarts. There is an overview of things that happened and the actual story takes place about two months after Four Black Eyes. This shows Sera and Snape's first father-daughter fight and their first Christmas together.
To Sera, the last two months had flown by in a blur. The first few weeks had been somewhat hard, with the news of Sera's parentage released to the public, the student body suddenly cautious of her, trying to connect with her father, and the cauldron-full of schoolwork. She had been stared at whenever she left Hogwarts (and a good amount of the time inside of the school). Students spoke to her even less than they had before her identity had been known. Severus called for her after supper four times a week to talk to her, so that they could learn about each other (and many weeks Sera visited him more than just those four times), and many nights she needed to stay up past midnight to finish her schoolwork (only going to bed when Severus came in and took away her schoolbooks and turned out the lights.) But by the time November came, students were talking to her again and the workload had shrunk enough that Sera didn't feel overwhelmed. Severus and Sera were somewhat close, occasionally arguing, but Severus was becoming fiercely protective of her. Now, with Christmas approaching, Severus has questions he wants answered, questions that will lead to their first big fight.
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"Sera, can I ask you a question?" Severus asked on Christmas Eve as they sat in front of the fireplace in their chambers.
Sera picked up a fallen ornament. "Sure, Papa." She said.
Severus took a deep breath before he broached the forbidden subject. "What caused Selene's death and what did you do after she died?" He asked.
Sera set the ornament down on the mantle, pointedly facing away from him.
"Sera?" He asked when she didn't respond.
Slowly, Sera turned to face him, her face blank. "It doesn't matter." She whispered in an empty voice.
Severus rose from the sofa and stood next to her. It matters to me Sera. I'd like you to tell me what happened." He said firmly, obviously an order, not a request.
Sera looked up at him pleadingly. "It's not the best time to talk of it." She said quietly, looking resigned.
When his scrutinizing gaze didn't falter, she sighed. "Fine," Sera said. "Sit down before I start."
Once he had retaken his seat, Sera began.
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"It was December 21st, the Winter Solstice, the longest night. We lived in a small town called New Haven, in a little two story house with lots of land behind it, with fields and walled gardens. Mama and I were decorating our Christmas tree when Mama noticed something. When I asked her, she told me she sensed dark magic. She was really worried, far more than I had ever seen her. We kept decorating for a while, with Mama looking out the windows every few minutes.
All of a sudden, Mama grabbed my arm and we ran out the back door. When I looked back, I saw flames on the roof of our house and heard laughter from the front courtyard. We ran across the field to where the rows of walled gardens started. Then Mama stopped and placed her necklace around my neck. It had a powerful protection charm cast on it and was a family heirloom. Then she gave me an old rusted brass key and told me to go to the locked garden in the last row. That garden had been supposedly locked for over a hundred years and had a thick wall of ivy grown over the door and the key was supposed to have been lost. She kissed my forehead, told me she loved me, and ran back towards the house.
I ran after her, hiding when I saw people in black cloaks; Death Eaters. They attacked her and she fought them off. I wanted to help fight, but I was so young and had absolutely no control over my magic and would've just been a burden for her to protect. Even without my help, Mama took them all down, except for one. Bellatrix LeStrange. Mama was weak from fighting, she didn't stand a chance. Bellatrix cast the Avada Kedavra and Mama couldn't shield against it. After she fell, I ran back to the locked garden. It was walled on three sides and on one side there was another door. That door led to a passage to the nearby town.
When the Ministry learned what happened, I was placed in a London orphanage. I hated it there; everyone was cruel to me for being different."
Sera stopped as tears ran down her face from reliving the moment she lost her mother, while Severus sat there, staring straight ahead with no emotion.
Sera snapped. "React!" She screamed "Don't you care? She was your wife! Didn't you love her?"
Snape still didn't react.
"Or was it just a cover?" Sera asked bitterly.
That got Snape's attention.
"How dare you question my love for her! She was my world! I lost everything I loved when Selene disappeared! How dare you, who didn't try to fight, who didn't try to protect her, question my love for her! You don't even know me!" He shouted, completely enraged.
Sera looked at him with tears streaming down her face. "Fine!" She shouted back at him. "I won't bother you ever again! Have a Merry Christmas Professor. I'll see you when classes start!" Sera slammed the door before she ran to the Gryffindor common room.
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It was seven in the morning on Christmas Day when Sera awoke, on the sofa of the Gryffindor common room. She looked to the door, whose opening had awoken her. In the doorway stood Professor Minerva McGonagall, who had just awoken and had come to wake the few students who had remained during the holiday. Seeing Sera, she stopped.
"What are you doing here, my dear? Shouldn't you be with your father, celebrating the holiday?" She asked.
Thoughts of her father and his words from the previous night brought the tears she had banished flooding back.
Seeing her tears, Minerva realized something was wrong. "What's wrong?" She asked, leading Sera inside her chambers where they wouldn't be overheard.
As soon as the door closed, Sera told her everything that had happened the previous night, crying as she spoke; from her father asking her to tell him what happened nine years ago to when she stormed out of their rooms at ten at night.
While Sera was crying, a knock came at Minerva's door. Casting a silencing spell, Minerva answered it, careful to keep Sera out of sight. It was Snape. Minerva stepped out of her rooms and pulled the door closed before Snape could see Sera.
"What do you need Headmaster?" She asked, careful to keep her anger at him for his treatment of his daughter from her voice.
"Sera had disappeared. She was not in her room or in her dorm. No one has seen her." He answered coldly.
Minerva's eyes narrowed. "Did something happen between the two of you Severus? Perhaps a fight, and on Christmas Eve too." She replied sarcastically.
Snape's eyes narrowed, instantly realizing that she knew what had happened between him and Sera. "Where is she Minerva?" He demanded.
"Hiding from you. You hurt her deeply. Her mother's death is obviously a very hard subject for her and for you to act like you didn't care when it was your wife who died. She has every right to be upset!" Minerva snapped at him.
"Tell me where she is, Minerva, or so help me you'll be out of a job!" Severus shouted, finally snapping himself.
Before she could answer, the door opened and Sera walked out, impossibly pale and with blood-shot eyes, still dressed in the clothes from the previous day. She glared at him, utter despair in her eyes. Pushing past him, she exited the tower and, with a glare that could shake even the greatest soul to its core, Severus took off after her.
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After two hours of looking for Sera, Severus was getting extremely frustrated when an eighth year Ravenclaw named Adiria Craven came up to him. She looked both frustrated and worried.
"Professor Snape," She asked. "Are you looking for Sera?"
He jerked a nod.
"I know where she is. She charmed the door to the Room of Requirement to take her to the gardens that are on the land her home used to be on."
"How do you know about that?" He asked angrily.
"About what, her charming the door, or about where her home used to be?" Adiria asked.
"Both." He snarled.
"We're friends. She told me about the charm in our third year. As for knowing about her home, Sera and I lived in the same village, were orphaned by the same Death Eater attack, and were sent to the same orphanage in London. I used to go to her house and we played in the walled gardens." She said, seeming completely oblivious to the harsh aura around Snape.
Severus spun on his heel and started walking off to the Room of Requirement when he heard Adiria call out to him.
"Wait!" She hollered. "You don't know the charm she cast. You won't be able to find her. I know the charm and she trusts me. Let me help you."
With a jerk of his head, he gestured for her to follow. When they reached the doorway to the Room of Requirement, Adiria stepped in front of Snape, pointed her wand at the door, and said 'Adeos.' The doorway glowed and shrunk until it was slightly taller than Snape. Adiria pulled a key from her pocket and placed it in the lock. With a little pressure, it turned and unlocked the door. Adiria threw herself against the door in an attempt to open it. After three tries and help from Snape, the door was opened.
Stepping through, Severus found himself surrounded by roses, irises, lilies, and every type of flower in existence. The garden was huge, stretching as far as he could see. Adiria started walking down the cobbled path and gestured for Snape to follow her.
" I thought Sera said this garden hadn't been opened in over a century." Severus mused to himself.
"It hasn't." Said Adiria airily.
"Then how do you know where you're going?" Snape said, quite irritated.
"I know Sera's aura. I'm following the trail of it to her." Adiria said. "By the way, your aura is quite gloomy and angry, you might want to think happy thoughts or you'll scare people away."
Snape just rolled his eyes and promptly ignored her. Soon they came to a old wooden swing where two shoes rested on the seat. Adiria looked at them and continued to walk down the path.
She stopped in front of a rose archway. "Through here is the grave of Sera's mother. She's in there, visiting the grave. I'll wait here. I'm guessing you have some important things to deal with." She whispered to him, staying as quiet as possible so that Sera wouldn't hear them.
Severus simply nodded and walked through the archway.
At the end of the cobbled path was a large gravestone. An angel carved from white marble. On it was carved:
Selene Lilia Snape, Beloved Daughter, Wife, and Mother. June 21, 1960 - December 21,1989; May she find peace above knowing that she is in the hearts of those she loved.
Sitting at the base was Sera, eyes closed and tears running down her face. Severus felt his heart ache for his daughter, hating himself for his words from the night before. They should be back at Hogwarts, celebrating Christmas, not in a garden, visiting a grave and being upset with the other.
He silently walk up behind her and knelt down, wrapping his arms around her. She gasped and turned, nearly smacking him in the face. When Sera saw him, she tried to pull away, but his strong arms didn't budge.
"Let me go!" She cried. "You didn't care about me or Mama yesterday and I doubt that's changed. Let me go! Leave!"
"No, Severa." He said firmly, using her full name to get her attention. "I made a mistake last night and I'm not leaving until I correct it. I didn't mean to come across as uncaring or insensitive. I was just trying to process what you had said and trying not to let my emotions show how upset Selene's death made me feel. Your words about me not loving her and about your mother just being a cover was a low blow. I loved her with all my heart. She was my only true love. Forgive me for hurting you my Sera, please." He pleaded.
"I'm sorry for my words. I was upset and your countenance was so cold, it seemed like you didn't care and I was already upset. I lost it and your words just twisted the knife in deeper. Forgive me for what I said, Papa." Sera begged.
Severus touched Sera's face. "I'll forgive you if you forgive me. We both made mistakes in anger and sorrow that we would not have normally made. I love you my Sera and I loved Selene. Never doubt my love."
Sera nodded, wiped the tears from her eyes, and kissed Severus on the cheek. "I love you Papa." She said as she wrapped her arms around him.
"I love you too. We best go before Miss Craven becomes too bored with waiting." He said, a slight smile on his face.
Sera's eyes widened. "You brought Adiria? How did you know we were friends?" She asked.
Severus' smile widened slightly. "Miss Craven found me. It appears she knew that I needed to find you." He said quietly.
Sera smiled, a hint of sadness in it. "Adiria's always has watched over me. She's been like a sister ever since I was a child."
Severus pulled Sera to her feet, which were bare, and the two walked back to Adiria. As Sera hugged her friend, Severus turned back to Selene's grave and when he turned back, a single white rose rested against the white marble of the tombstone.
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Back at Hogwarts
The trio had returned to Hogwarts just in time for the Christmas feast. After the feast Adiria departed their company to talk to another Ravenclaw, Luna Lovegood.
Back in their chambers, Severus and Sera opened their gifts. Sera received a new deep violet cloak with black trim, a violet and black gown for the next school dance, black heeled snow boots, a bracelet with different colored rose charms, all from her father, painting supplies from Adiria, and candy from other students.
Severus received some spell books and potion books from other staff members, candy from some students, and from Sera, he received a vial with a serpent curled around it, filled with a powerful healing potion she had brewed and a black picture frame with white vines etched into it with a picture of the two of them from the Halloween ball.
Sera hugged her father before she headed up the stairs for bed. She turned before she entered her room.
"Best Christmas ever, Papa. I love you."
That's the end of this out-take. Sorry for any OOCness, I tried my best to keep them in character. Let me know if you have any ideas for an out-take. Thanks for reading and REVIEW!
