WARNING- This chapter contains abuse.
Sev vs. Tobias
Sev goes home.
Seconds upon walking through the door his father was on him. A new target had been locked onto and Severus was pushed into a corner. He could hear his mother screaming and crying from the drawing room.
"Well look who it is? The little shit finally came back to grace us with his presence." Tobias kept shoving him in the chest, backing him into the corner by the front door.
"I don't know-"
SLAM
Tobias' first came into hard contact with his jaw, his head snapping to the right and almost crashing into the small window by the front door. His hair had fallen out of the tie that he had haphazardly threw up in the scramble to pack camp.
"Don't start this same shit that whore in there tried."
"Don't call my mum a whore!" Severus lunged forward to tackle him but was pushed into another wall.
"I found all of the pictures and articles she tried to hide in the garage. Found your little toy out there too! Got a pretty penny for that piece of junk." He pointed a thumb over his shoulder towards the sounds of his mother sobbing.
"It was mine!" Severus bellowed and swung at his father. His left hook hitting the older man in the jaw, making him stumble a few feet back. Severus' rage built up higher by the second, his only means to see Juliet was gone. All for some coin to drink away.
Severus was tall, especially for his age, but his father was still able to tower over him. Tobias had his hair cut much shorter than Severus but was still long enough to get in his eyes. He caught himself on the doorframe leading into the kitchen, quickly running a hand through his sweaty, greasy hair and looking up in shock at his son.
It didn't last very long, Tobias was on him a few moments later. "You own nothing! You have nothing! YOU ARE NOTHING!"
He swiped his long arm at Severus, grabbing the front of his shirt and pulling him to the opposite wall. He slammed into it hard, barely putting his arms up in time to protect his face. His father pinning him to the wall with his weight and left arm. In his right hand, he held up the front page of the Prophet on Juliet's birthday.
The picture played in front of him, the black and white image showed Severus getting down on one knee and pulling out the impressive ring. "Where did you get the money to get that ring? Huh? You steal it? You holding out on your family, boy?"
"Leave him alone!" Eileen screeched.
Tobias looked over his shoulder and pointed a finger at her with the crumped newspaper still in his fist, "You knew he suckered himself a little rich girlfriend and said nothing! I read them all! This Unicorn Princess looks like she's loaded, her daddy at least. This little bastard tricked her into loving him, this half-blood Prince."
He shoved Severus' head against the wall, making his bite his cheek hard and taste copper. "A girlie like this would never love something like you."
Severus growled loudly and tried to push back against Tobias, trying to free himself from being pinned against the wall. "Shut up! I didn't trick her! She loves me!"
He let out a sarcastic laugh, "Love? You think I believe that, boy? I know you, you're just like your mother. With her little potions, slipping them into my drinks, trapping me in a marriage with a child. She poisoned me into loving her!"
Severus stopped struggling, it was so quiet that the only noise that was heard was Eileen sniffling from the other room.
"That's right, she tricked me at a pub one night. Bought me a pint, slipped it in. Then dragged me all over fucking England until she got knocked up with you. But I found out, I found her little jars and pots, then I threw them all out! You're just like your mother, no one could love you and no one will ever love you!"
Severus felt the fire within him burning. "That's. Not. True." He snarled through grit teeth and pushed off the wall as hard as he could. Both of them separated from each other to catch footing, then Severus rushed forward and tackled his father to the ground.
They were hitting each other with everything they had, Severus felt his nose break for the second time that year. His fist had come into contact with his father's ear several times, since he knew how bad that hurt for him, he felt the need to make it a target.
Eileen yelled and begged for them to stop, now standing in the doorway and watching her only family fight each other. "Stop! Please stop!"
Tobias used his height and longer arms to pin Severus on the grimy tiled floor of the entryway. Sitting on his lower back so he couldn't get up and using his left arm to pin him down in the middle of his back. He with his free right hand, he undid his belt and slid it from around his waist.
"You think you can stand up to me? You think you have what it takes to take out your old man? Nah, you're just a little cunt who got in a lucky shot. I'm gonna show you who is the boss around here!" he yelled down at Severus as he wrapped the belt around his hand tightly, leaving the buckled end hanging out by a foot.
"Tobias- no! Stop! He's just a boy, he doesn't know any better!" she begged through her tears and hands covering most of her face. "Take me instead! Give me the punishment- it's my fault he came out with magic!"
He looked up at her and shook a finger at her again, "You're next! Then I'm going to find that little tight girlfriend of his and talk to her and her daddy about compensation for dating my son!"
Compensation? Severus knew that Garrick would never give a knut to his father! He didn't want to see his father try though, it was embarrassing enough being a half-blood. Having his muggle father demand coin of a currency he couldn't even use was ridiculous, but of course Tobias didn't care.
"You leave her alone!" Severus tried to buck his father off of him and roll to the side.
The belt came down hard and fast, hitting him right between the shoulder blades. Severus threw his head back and howled in pain, clenching his eyes shut and arching his back.
"YOU."
The belt came down again, this time hitting his lower back.
"ARE."
Another hit to his rib.
"NOTHING."
This hit opened the skin, tearing right through his shirt and the white fabric tinting with pink then red. His swings were getting harder and faster, though his breathing labored. The belt was cutting skin each time it came down on him. He was screaming in pain, trying to claw himself away from the hard metal buckle and stinging leather. Eileen tried to pull Tobias off of Severus but he backhanded her into the coat rack, making her topple to the floor.
"I said I'd get to you next, whore." He turned his attention back to Severus. "You were in on it too, weren't you? That German bloke with the hair sniffing around my house, around my son and my wife! You lot didn't think I would find out?! And you knew she was fucking him!" Tobias was on a raging rant and didn't let up on his strikes to Severus.
His shirt was bloody and torn, he considered using his wand hundreds of times since he got home but couldn't. The age restriction was 17 in England and he would be damned if he got expelled for kissing his father. Then he wouldn't be allowed to see Juliet anymore. With every swing of his viscous lashes, Severus' blood flung around the room.
Tobias finally got winded enough that he needed to take a break. Knowing his son wasn't going to fight back anymore, he got up and looked down at him. "You're pathetic. If your mother was of decent stock, a well bred woman, you'd have been strong like me."
Severus used his hands and arms to crawl along the tiled floor, trying to put distance between him and his father. Tobias saw something on Severus' wrist as his sleeve went up and was on him again in an instant. He pressed his work boot down on Severus' hand hard, holding it still so he could take it off.
Severus felt the bones and tendons shift and pop in his hand when his foot came down on it. He grit his teeth and tried to pull his hand away but couldn't. He tried to pry his boot off with his other hand but the belt came down on his again and he pulled back.
"What's this? More shit that you're holding out on? I can get a decent amount for this near the pub."
Severus fought his with his free hand and arm, "No! It's mine! She gave it to me! Mine!" He was freaking out, the first gift that he'd ever gotten was being taken away by this son of a bitch!
"I gave you food, shelter, the clothes on your back and you're going to get greedy on me? After everything I have given you?!" He raised his foot up higher than normal and stomped his foot down hard on the watch.
It was still attached to Severus, breaking both the watch and his wrist in the process. He screamed, calling his father every name he could think of. Not caring much for his wrist but the priceless gift that had been destroyed.
The glass cracked, part of the band snapped and the hour hand was stuck in an odd direction. Severus' right hand was frantically trying to pry his father's foot off of his wrist. He cared not for his broken wrist, but the watch Juliet had given him. Could he fix it?
Tobias finally took his foot off if Severus' wrist and went after Eileen. She started to scream and try to back herself further away into a corner. Severus struggled to get up, pulling on the railing at the bottom of the stairwell for support. His body was failing him, unable to support his weight and keep fighting. He feel twice before finally giving up. He could hear his mother and father screaming from the other room.
"Please stop!"
"I told you what would happen if you stepped out of line again!" Tobias backhanded her.
"Severus run!"
"He ain't going anywhere! This is his home, not that school of sinners."
Home? This wasn't home. It was a house, with a roof and four walls but never a home. Home was safe, and he needed to get the fuck out of this house. Severus knew he couldn't apparate, because he didn't have a license and he didn't know how. The motorcycle was gone, so he couldn't even ride to London, and in his condition he wouldn't be able to walk their either.
"Severus, go!"
He didn't even know if Juliet's rune theory would work but he had to try. If he could get runes to apparate him, even if down the block, he could try and get help for his mum. He dipped two fingers on the bloody floor and began to draw the runes. Severus growled in pain and frustration because he never took ancient runes past 5th year.
He had Juliet's rune formula smeared across his blood puddle, be remember that part since he helped her with the project. What it needed was a destination, without one he wasn't going anywhere.
"Come here, boy. I'm not through with you yet! You just got home!" Tobias barked in an amused tone.
Home.
Home.
Home.
Juliet.
Severus knew the rune for home, that was third year material! Even if the damn thing dropped him outside on the front door step, fifteen feet behind him, it might give him enough time to yell for help.
He felt the belt come down on his back again, causing him to scream out in pain. Hot tears were flowing down his cheeks, he threw his hand out and slammed it down on the rune formula and prayed that it would take him somewhere safe.
