I woke up suddenly, looking around; all I could see was the familiar Hogwarts. The stone walls, the red curtains, oh how I hated them. I hated them so much. I got up, and walked over to the thin slit of the window. I notice something; a slight light coming from the forbidden forest- he was going to investigate when a firm grip descended on his shoulder. "Going somewhere? It was James.
"How did you get in here, you don't know the password..." I looked to either side, there was nothing. Just white. Suddenly my mother appeared in front of me, she was feuding with someone, then my father appeared out of nowhere. I was sent spiralling, out of the room, towards the forbidden forest. "NO!" I screamed and I woke. Sweat was pouring off me. The boys in my room were cautiously creeping up to where I lay: "Severus" Then a pause and one of them inhaled deeply. That was all I remembered until I woke again.
"Oh thank god! He lives!" It was the over-the-top nurse. I groaned. Why me? why here? I thought. It was the first day; I was going to miss dark arts. "Please nurse, I feel better, it must have just been a little fever and I'm fine now, really." She gave me the eyebrow; she knew I was lying. And I was. I felt like the inside of me was tearing itself apart, like each and every cell was set out to destroy me. "I don't think so somehow" was her a way I was sort of pleased. No seeing James and his gang.
"Severus, Sev?" It was Lily, I must have fallen asleep for the whole day, visitors weren't allowed to visit until after all lessons. "Severus, listen, I've got to go in a minute, you know what my friends are like, they don't understand why I speak to you, they'll never understand who you are Sev. So wake up. Please?" I lifted my head to see her more clearly and propped myself up by my elbows. "Thank you for visiting Lily, I appreciate it, I really do." I looked up at her. "What's wrong lily? Lily?" Then she was gone and my mother replaced her: "You'll never become a wizard! I'm not having you as a wizard living in my house!" Then her thin body collapsed, her sunken in eyes stared at me for help I turned away and woke up. I gasped and inhaled a gulp of oxygen.
The nurse was there again, shoving the thermometer in my mouth. I tried to resist but the fever gave in for me: "40 degrees! Good god Severus, you are Ill! No school for you for a couple of days I think!" She patted my pillow "There there" I wasn't used to this treatment when I was ill, I wasn't used to this treatment ever. It felt awkward. Unnatural. Weird...
The next visitor was unexpected; from out of the curtain appeared Lucius, the one who had bullied him "Listen snape. I'm sorry. Truthfully. I'm sorry for everything. The bullying, the name calling. From now on it stops, anyone caught saying anything to you WILL be punished, you can count on my word." I didn't know what to say to him. "You're a fellow slytherin snape; you're one of us really, at heart. You're dark arts show that, you know more curses and spells than any other person in you're year and many in the year above you. You're special snape, real special." I stared at him, dumbfounded. "Lucius... is this some joke? Something to wind me up, with you prefects, a little joke?" I managed to stutter out. "Oh no Severus, no joke..."