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Severus Snape's Second Life

Chapter 2: Teatime with Dumbledore

Afterlife

"Good afternoon Severus," said Dumbledore.

"Headmaster" I acknowledged.

"It is a bit windy to be walking around without any robes," Dumbledore said, looking at me, with laughter in his blue eyes, trying not to laugh, the old bat.

My face flushed Gryffindor red, as I turned around, and grabbed the robes, putting them on as fast as I could trying not to look embarrassed.

The robes were a dark green with silver pockets. My face must still have been red because, as I turned around to face him he said,

"You need not be embarrassed, Severus. It is what we all were wearing when we were born."

I suddenly felt the urge to vomit, despite not eating anything within the last 24 hours. Dumbledore looked at a watch on his wrist which had not been there, until now. To my horror, right beside Dumbledore, a table with a red and gold coloured tablecloth and chairs appeared. The table had every kind of tea imaginable, as well as fairy cakes, iced buns, pumpkin pastries, and of course, lemon drops.

"Tea, Severus"? The old man said.

"No thank you". I politely declined.

Then I heard a new voice. One that I thought I would never hear again.

"Severus?"

I turned around. There stood Lily in dark green robes that brought out her eyes wonderfully.

"Lily!" I said.

"How did you die?" she asked softly.

"The d-, Voldemort thought I had a special wand. One that to get it, you had to defeat the last owner. A year before that Voldemort had ordered a Death Eater student at Hogwarts to kill Dumbledore. His mother came to me begging to help him. Long story short, I made an unbreakable vow with his mother. I discussed this with Dumbledore, who I was working for. He was going to die at the end of the year anyway, so he wanted me to kill him when the time came." I blinked back guilt. I killed him. I killed him, Lily."

"I'm sorry, but I don't believe your story. What does this have to do with your death?"

"Dumbledore was in the possession of the wand at that time. Voldemort knew this, so he thought that he had to kill me to get the wand."

"So you're saying that Voldemort has the wand?" Lily said sounded worried.

"No, because I did not defeat him. The boy disarmed him before I got there. He has the wand."

Lily turned to Dumbledore. "Is this true?"

"I can verify that this is all true. He said smiling. And Severus also helped with Voldemort's downfall."

"But wasn't he a Death Eater sir?" Lily asked her brows furrowed in disbelief and confusion.

"Was a Death Eater. As soon as I found out Voldemort was targeting you, I went to the Order. You were right all along Lily. But my "friends" kept telling me things about the dark side, that made it seem right. I looked down in disgust. What a bunch of liars."

"It's okay, Sev. You switched over. You earned your redemption." She smiled.

"Speaking of redemption. Dumbledore was talking now. I have something to discuss with you before I leave."

"What do you have to tell me, sir?" I said trying not to sound like I hate him, the great manipulator.

"You have been given another chance at life, Severus."

I looked at him, puzzled and a little shocked. "I have been what?"

"Severus, Dumbledore said as if I had not gotten what he was trying to say. If someone gave you a chance to go back to a point in your life and fix things, would you?"

I thought back to all my mistakes, my regrets, many of them of Lily.

"Of course, I said. "How do I go back?"

" I would suggest jumping into the river, Severus," Dumbledore said.

" But sir, what about Lily? If I go back-"

"I will be fine Sev. Go while you still have the chance," Lily said reassuringly.

"Okay, Goodbye Lily, Dumbledore."

Lily threw her arms around me. "By Sev, See you soon." She let go and smiled, blushing slightly.

"And Severus, don-"

Before Dumbledore could finish one of his absurd quotes, I had jumped into the river already heading back to the past.

"Don't let the past haunt you," Dumbledore said but it was too late now. He shook his head.

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