Sinking into the leather material of his armchair, Professor Snape sat in his private quarter's living room, the fire crackled in one corner of the room, and the loud chattering belonging to the potions lesson he had just taught to the fourth years rung in his ears. After dismissing his Slytherin's to bed and having yet another word to Malfoy about his issue with Potter, Snape could finally sit and think without the old voice of Professor Dumbledore telling him of how he and Harry should get along for once. He had lost track of the times Albus had said "He has his mother's eyes", every time he heard it, Severus was reminded of her, Lily, and every time he thought of Lily, he thought of the only one that he had ever loved. He was sure that if he had actually spent his childhood with Lily and fallen in love with her, he would have been saddened by her death thoroughly, but he hadn't grown up with Lily, and she wasn't the girl he loved. Harry Potter was in fourth year now, that meant that it had been almost fifteen years since he had seen her; Rey.
Severus brought out his wand from his sleeve and flicked it, muttering a spell, his face seemed to crumble away in sparkles, leaving a younger version of himself; Kylo Ren, or Ben Solo, as he had to keep reminding himself. Still, not Albus nor no one, knew of his true self. When Palpatine had been defeated by Rey all these years ago, Kylo had turned back to Ben Solo, Leia was dead, so was Luke and Han, then Ben had died, leaving one first and last kiss on Rey's lips. Severus remembered how he had woken the moment he had died, woken here, in the very same chambers, Luke had come as a force ghost to telling him that he had been transported to a new galaxy, the wizarding world, and that he name was now Severus Snape. Severus had studied his character, even put on a glamour spell, hidden his lightsaber away. His uncle still visited, sometimes with his mother, but Ben had changed into Severus, nothing was the same, he remembered his life in the galaxy far far away, but all he wanted to do was see Rey again, join the resistance, be in peace, not come to another world were there was a war happing again. Of course, Severus knew that Voldemort was nothing of a threat, to him the Dark Lord could have been vanquished with one swing of his lightsaber, but Ben knew that this was not his fight, it was Harry's.
Everything had gotten worse lately, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, allowed to see Harry Potter. The two men often visited Snape just to tease him, Severus concealed his anger in a desperate attempt not to murder them. When he was angry, Severus just used the force and his saber came straight to him, he destroyed everything in sight, he knew he was far too powerful with a wand, the force, and a saber, but it didn't matter, all Snape had been doing for the past fourteen years was finding ways to get back to Rey, none had worked. When he had died, Ben had been twenty-nine, that should have made him forty-three by now, but it didn't Severus didn't seem to age under his glamour spell that hid his true identity from the people of Hogwarts. Through the force he could feel Rey alive and well, she had only aged a few years, like Ben had, Dumbledore, Black, Lupin, and McGonagall, thought he was thirty-five, there was so much to be hidden. And as for Harry, Severus knew his mission to keep him safe secretly, and after a year of pretending that the boy was irritating and spoilt, Ben actually believed it. He still waited for the day that someone from the galaxy would come and deliver him back home, the only thing that kept him in understanding of his whole thing was the person who has also been transported into this life like Ben had, but oh how he wished it was another person, and how he wished their ages were different.
Hux, or Bill Weasley as he was now. He and his ginger mop of hair had been killed before even Kylo turned into Bee, the force ghosts seemed to have his brilliant idea of transporting both Ben and Hux to the wizarding world, then making Hux the older brother of Harry Potter's best friend and making Ben older than Hux. Hux didn't wear glamour like Ben did, they still despised each other, Severus knew that technically they were both on the side of the resistance now, but they still argued the same as they always had, but luckily, they saw each other less. The ex-general seemed to enjoy his life with his new mother, father, brothers, and sisters, unlike Ben did, Severus knew Molly and Arthur from when he was a child, but it didn't mean that Bill and Snape every saw each other. Sometimes they would send insulting owl messages to each other, but other than that they avoided the other.
Snape in silence, pondering over these memories, her beautiful face, when there was knock at the door. It came in a rhythm that sounded a lot like an old wizarding nursery rhyme.
"Albus" Snape muttered before waving his wand to reset the glamour spell so he would look like the greasy haired potions master again. He went to the door and opened it to find the headmaster happily playing the nursery tune on his door.
"Good evening Severus" Dumbledore smiled.
"Evening Albus, do you wish to come in?" asked Snape.
"That would be lovely, I'll put the kettle on" Dumbledore came in and walked straight to the kitchen. The headmaster would often visit Severus, it had become quite a habit of his to go and put the kettle on without Snape's permission, just like it was for him handling out lemon drops to all of his students, especially the golden boy Potter.
"Now my boy" said Albus, coming to sit on Severus's sofa, Snape taking his armchair.
"The lovely Bill Weasley, son of Molly and Arthur, has asked me to give you this message. I'm not exactly sure what it means but here it is" Dumbledore waved his wand and a recording and video of the familiar face of General Hux, or Bill Weasley came up, he looked serious. Snape rolled his eyes at the posture in which he stood in, just like when he was general.
"Ren!" the message said. Severus leaned forward. That name. It could only mean something strange was happening. "Hogwarts lake, tomorrow morning, I don't know how you didn't feel it with the force, but they're coming, it's all about to change... again!"
The message disappeared, Severus was on his feet, breathing heavily.
"Finally."
Albus just looked utterly confused.
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