Hey y'all, I know it's been over a month and I'm sorry for the delay. I've been busy with school work. This chapter is pretty small, but it's all I had time to write. The next time I can probably write is in April. Hopefully I can find some time between then to write at least one more chapter, but I am not making promises. Anyway, hope you enjoy the little bit I have written.

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"Severus?" He heard his mother ask hesitantly. He looked away from her and hid his face behind his hair. He took a shaky breath to compose himself.

"Are you alright, Severus?" Severus looked up at her. He was glaring.

"I did say it was best that-"

"Mother, I do not need I-told-you-so's." He said in a cool voice.

"I just thought it was best-"

"I do not regret it." He told her with conviction.

"Severus, I know how you are. You will torture yourself with the memories of what could have been." He glared at her, but knew she was right.

"What about you? Did you get to view what could have been?" He asked angrily.

"No. I was not rewarded like you have been. But if they had given me the option I would have refused. There is no point in dwelling on what could never be." Severus paused and debated with himself whether he should ask his next question.

"Is Tobias here, in this realm?" He hoped she would say no.

"No. Tobias is still alive." Severus looked at her in shock.

"They told me he died."

"They?"

"The police, they called me at Spinner's End when I was eighteen. He had been gone for a week. I had assumed he had died from an overdose."

"Did they let you view his body?"

"No." He said, looking baffled.

"Then I would assume that he asked one of his pub mates to ring you, pretending to be a police officer." She said matter-of-factly, without a single note of emotion in her voice.

"That son-of-a-bitch." Severus cursed angrily.

"I have been assured from the-powers-that-be that he will not end up in this realm once he passes." She told him.

"I'd kill him with my own hands, if I could. He does not deserve to live after what he did to you." Severus said between clenched teeth.

"I have the same sentiment, Severus... except I would kill him for ever having laid a hand on you." Severus looked up at her and nodded solemnly.

"Our time together is running short." She said with a sigh.

"This is Heaven. How could our time be running short?"

"My punishment for having let Tobias beat you is a hundred Earth years of doing what I have just done for you."

"You council the dead?" He snorted. She sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Yes and I do a very fine job at it, thank you." Severus smiled.

"Now then, son, I believe there is a young lady waiting to speak with you." Severus got up from his seat.

"Thank you, mother."

"You are very welcome, my son. I hope your eternity here will be better than your life on Earth." He gave her a small smile.

"Oh, and Severus? I think you should apologize to that young lady for walking away from her. It took a lot of courage for her to tell you the truth." Eileen started to walk away.

"Wait. When Lily came to you, what did she see?" Eileen smiled.

"It is not for me to tell. Good luck Severus." She disappeared.

Snape POV

I woke up with a gasp and groaned. My head was pounding. I opened my eyes and yelled out in surprise. In front of my face was a young boy peering down at me; Albus.

"You're up! You know it's 2 o'clock in the afternoon, right? I've been waiting here for an hour for you to get up. You snore, by the way. Anyway, I found this book at the library and I think it's the one we've been looking for. I just need you to read it to make sure." He said in what I thought was an overly loud voice. My head was in too much pain to process all his words.

"You talk too much." I rasped.

"Hmm, I heard that sounds actually make hangovers worse." He said with a glare. I sighed.

"Yeah, I know. So you better get your sorry arse up because the potion in this book takes a week to make. Oh, and mum sent me over with a hangover potion. I'll be expecting you in the library in an hour." He was gone.

I'd wondered these past few days how he could have gotten into Slytherin. He seemed like too much of a Gryffindor, but now I can see what the hat saw in him.

I took the potion and showered. When I got out of the shower I realised that I hadn't shaved in 3 days and must look like a caveman. I swiped the mirror with my hand and gasped. It took me a moment to realise that I was not in my own body. My heart rate slowly got back to normal as I shaved this face. I finished shaving and rinsed off my face but there was still something on it. I grabbed some soap and scrubbed at my face. When I looked up the dirt was still there. I put my face right up the mirror and realised that I didn't have dirt on my face, it was freckles. There were freckles on my cheeks and nose. As I continued to study my face I realised that my nose was also larger then I remembered it to be from looking at it 3 days ago when I shaved my face. It was nowhere near as large as my nose and it was not hooked like mine, but it was a little crooked. I remembered the nose being crooked but not this large. Was I imagining these changes? No, the freckles were definitely not there before. What was happening to me? First it was the eye glasses and now this. Could it be part of the spell? I would need to read that book Albus had talked about to find out. I quickly dressed and rushed to the library.

So a few interesting things happened. I have a few more things planned before this story ends. Oh, and please review! :D