Chapter Four: Who Knew
I took your words
And I believed
In everything
You said to me
If someone said three years from now
You'd be long gone...
-Pink (Who Knew)
Jessica twisted in her sleep, moaning and crying out. Her body was drenched in sweat, she rolled off the couch and hit the floor, still groaning out in pain. Her hair stuck up at odd angles but in the mist of her sleeping nightmare, she didn't care. Her mind was acting like a video and it was projecting a horror movie.
"CRUCIO!!" a bitter voice cried, as the brunette screamed out in pain. Her parents were beside her, dead. Her father's brown eyes and her mother's blue eyes were motionless, staring wide and blank at the ceiling. She couldn't comprehend anything but pain. She swore thousands and thousands of knives were stabbing her, all over her body. Suddenly it stopped, except for the sharp echo of pain. A deep male voice chuckled madly. Her mouth was filled with blood, choking on it, causing the robed men to laugh even more. She spat it out on the living room floor, the crimson staining the cream colored carpet.
"CRUCIO!!" a high pitched female voice cried out. The victim screamed, she screamed till her throat ached, but she kept on screaming. 'Anyone…help me…please' she thought, as her body was flooded with pain so great she could barely speak. Then, just as suddenly as before, it stopped.
"What do you think Crabbe, you think she's still a virgin?" a harsh male voice asked. A huge mass walked towards her, leering at her.
"Please…no," she begged quietly.
"Crabbe, save it for your wife. Our instructions were to kill the parents, nothing about the girl" a silky voice scolded.
"Where's your sense of fun, Snape?" the female's voice asked.
"I'm just following orders, Bellatrix," Snape answered harshly.
"Fine, let's go find some Muggles" Crabbe mumbled, turning away. The victim knew better then to say anything. She simply kept quiet, trying to ignore the pain all over her body as sweat rolled down her forehead. Bellatrix cast the spell one last time before disappearing with a 'pop'. The rest of the robed and masked people followed, none of them bothering to take off the curse. When she was finally thought she was alone, she screamed again, tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Don't do that," a voice spoke as the pain disappeared for the fifth time that day.
"S…Snape?" she choked out. The masked figure nodded. "Th…Tha…Thank you" she stuttered, finding it hard to speak correctly.
"Don't speak" he said stiffly. "Good luck, Jessica Monroe" he said softly and for that moment, his eyes looked almost kind and sympatric through his mask. But it quickly disappeared. He muttered a curse and the Dark Mark appeared above the house. With that he disappeared. She sat there crying, laying on her back till the Ministry members came. They covered the body of her parents and arrested the three men her parents had stunned. A man with red hair scoped her up and carried her off to safety.
"Snape…"she croaked out, before passing out.
"Miss. Monroe" Snape cried out, shaking the young woman before him.
"Snape…" she mumbled, twisting in her sleep. "MISS. MONROE!" Snape cried again as Jessica shot up, panting.
"Oh my God," Jessica sobbed, covering her face with her hands.
Snape stared down at her, unsure of how to react. So, he decided to do what his mother always did as a child. He patted her softly on the back. "My…parents," Jessica choked out, taking a shaky breath. With that Snape understood; she had been re-living her parent's death.
Snape had come to the bookstore to buy a new Potions book, but when he entered, he heard someone screaming in the back of the store. He found Jessica having a nightmare. He guessed now it must have been of her parents. "Come on," he replied. Jessica stared at him in confusion, her eyes red and puffy. Snape rolled his eyes, flicking his wand at the 'open' sign as it flipped over to 'closed'. He took her arm and dragged her over to the fireplace. He threw in some Floo Powder and whispered, "Hogwarts".
Disclaimer: Snape and the wizarding world are the amazing creations or JKR, she owns just about everything, even a certain red haired wizard. -wink- I once again, do not own the song...it's Who Knew by Pink and since I'm not Pink, it's not mine.
Anyway. I hoped you guys enjoyed this chapter, I know the song choice is a little odd, but whatever.