A/N this chapter is not for everyone as it talks about blood and cutting and some of what abuse had happened to her. I also don't own any of the characters in this fan faction.

Tori Potter chapter 3:

The next day Snape returned to the infirmary with the rest of the required potions as Madam Pomfrey was helping Miss Potter sit up in bed. When she had Miss Potter sitting comfortably as possible, she crossed the room to greet him.

"I glad to see you," Madam Pomfrey said. "Let's get this finished so that she can go to classes tomorrow." Snape approached Miss Potter's bed quietly and told her that two of the potions were to be applied to her skin and three of them were to be swallowed.

Snape rolled up his sleeves and washed his hands with a quick charm. "We will do the ones that go on your body first." With that Snape hands Pomfrey the burn-healing paste as he takes the bruise removal ointment. Snape did the top half of her body, Pomfrey the lower half, and then they swapped the jars of medicine to finish the job.

While doing their healing work, Snape asked the young girl how she had gotten the bruises on her neck, and why she has burns on her hands. She replied that she gotten burned while making tea, and that she must have had a choker on to tight, so tight that it made bruises. She muttered also that she walked in to things.

Pomfrey nodded sadly, and asked how she had happened to be burnt on her legs. The tiny witch paused, thinking quickly and replied, "I was too close to a fire this year and the sparks hit my legs.

Next he gave her the oculus potion, explaining patiently "This will help your eyes so that you won't need glasses anymore." The injured girl swallowed it as she was told along with a sip of water. Then he puts up a silencing charm and told her "This is going to cause pain when it starts working, so be brave." He handed her the little bottle of skele-gro that he had made especially for her, to avoid her allergies. She sips it along with water, and then swallowed the weak pain potion her allergies allowed.

"It will take some of the pain away but not all. I am sorry. It might be best if you sleep through some of this." He poured a small cup of dreamless sleep draught. She nodded and obediently accepted the cup, soon falling fast asleep.

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Two days later:

Tori awoke from a dream and could only think of one thing to do and that is to cut the pain away. She got out of bed and opened her trunk to retrieve the knife and first aid kit that she purchased in Diagon Alley. She slipped on her robe and went to the bathroom.

She arranged the items on the sink. Then she took the knife in her right hand. She rested it against her skin and examined it carefully. When she was happy with where the knife was, she pulled it down her arm until she felt the blood run down her arm to her palm of her right hand. She looked at it for a good two minutes, to make sure that she was happy and that all the pain was gone from her heart into the cut she had just made.

She ran water over the cut and took gauze out of the first aid kit, along with a potion that the label said would make the blood stop. She ignored the potion bottle that would heal it completely because she wanted the scar. She put tape on the gauze, and recited a charm so that no one could see it unless looking directly at the bandage.

She knew that she still needed to get up early. She decided to wear a long sleeve shirt so that there was no way anyone could see it. She went back to sleep and woke up at 5:30 am. She quickly and quietly cleaned up the knife and put it all back in a concealed drawer in her trunk.

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The next night

When Tori went to sleep the next night she was so tired she fell right to sleep. Half way through the night, a dream began much worse than the ones that came before it.

In that dream Uncle Vernon was taking off all her clothes as Dudley and Aunt Petunia were bending her arms back. Then her uncle started to fuck her as the others began to light matches and lay them on her bare skin.

In her sleep, she began scratching at her skin and yelling "Stop, no! It hurts!" while tossing and turning. This set off a warding spell that Snape has on all his student's rooms. Snape awoke with a start, slipped on his teaching robes, and was quickly running to the Slytherin tower to find Miss Potter bleeding and crying and still trapped in a dream.

So that no other students would awaken, he cast a silencing charm and went to her bedside. He reached out, hoping to calm her. At his touch, she lashed out blindly, striking him awkwardly in the face.

He reached out to her again, touching her shoulder gently, saying her name softly. Shaking her shoulder softly caused her to awake, crying. Professor Snape carefully gathered her up, wrapping her in her blanket to keep her warm as he carried her back to his rooms, shushing her in a way that would have surprised his Potions classes.

Back in his quarters, he set her down gently on the sofa in front of his fireplace. With a glance, the logs caught fire, warming the room quickly. He knelt down to her level, looked her in the eye and said "Now. I want the truth of what really happen to you. I want to know why you cut your own arm."

She nodded, studying his face and seeing something there she could trust, settled back into the cushions. Hesitantly she says, "As long as it stays between us. And if I can get some more sleep and tell you tomorrow morning."

Snape nodded agreeably. "That is what we will do. Now sleep, dear child." With that she closed her eyes and Snape moved her into his guest bedroom.

He stayed up several hours sitting on his couch, watching the fireplace burn down to ashes as he thought about the situation. He felt badly for the Potter girl and wondered why he now cared so deeply. He wanted to help her no matter the cost.