Chapter 2 Awakening

Severus felt the soft blanket covering his head. He was curled up around a book. Opening his eyes he saw the green and silver bed hangings around his bed and the small book he had fallen asleep reading.

'This can't be real.' Severus thought. 'I must be dreaming! I'm mortally wounded and having a highly realistic hallucination.'

Sone of the others people in the room stirred, rustling the covers. Severus sat up. The dream he had just awakened from, or fallen into, was crystal clear. Like living in real life.

He pulled the curtains away from the bed, revealing the dormitory that was so familiar, and yet so new. Jumping out of bed he pulled his school robes on before hurrying to the Great Hall for breakfast.

'Lily, I have to tell Lily.' He thought. Hardly anyone was up yet but breakfast was already lain out for those who were.

Severus grabbed a plate and loaded it with toast and fruit, a luxury he had never stopped appreciating after he had begun Hogwarts. Confused by memories of the dream (or was this the dream?) he started eating.

He closed his eyes. Enjoying the taste of fresh berries. A taste that, before Hogwarts, he had only had once. His mother had gotten him some for Easter when he was 6.

"Severus!" Lily had entered the Hall. She smiled and waved at him. As always his heart leapt, but this time his mind thought that she was the prettiest girl he'd ever meet, or have as a friend

He waved back, ignoring the glares from other Gryffindors and Slytherins.
After he was done eating he approached the table where Lily was sitting. "I need to tell you something." He said. "Do you think you could get those people we met on the train to meet you after classes? I need to tell to them it too."

"Those two? Why would you need to tell them?"

"It's complicated. Can you? Please?" 'I'm begging Lily to get James Potter so I can talk to him, I thought I'd never do such a thing.'

"Sure. I can ask..." She rolled her eyes. "They might not come though. Not that it matters to me. They're menaces."

"Thank you Lily."

"See you in class Sev."

A/N
I changed this chapter because Eileen Snape can't have been dead otherwise Lily wouldn't have asked before they came to Hogwarts if his mother and father were fighting. And this is supposed to be cannon up to the point of Lily, the Marauders, and Sev's first day at Hogwarts. Eileen died when Severus was 16, not 7. Eileen Snape died in a car crash. The car was 'wrapped around a tree, with my mother, Eileen, and Tiberius, my younger brother, inside.' Eileen had been sleep deprived for two weeks before the accident. She fell asleep at the wheel. Severus has hated all cars ever sense.

This isn't a back-in-time or Severus survives fiction. This is a Sev-sees-the-future-and-the-marauders-are-convinced-to-be-nice fiction.