The Moonlight Noon Chateau

The Moonlight Noon Chateau

By Hippy Gypsy

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters, but the Moonlight Noon characters are all mine! Wahoo! I love my Moonlight Noon people! [Sammy throws arms around me] Okay, maybe not that much. [Sammy frowns and walks away] Like I said before, the music isn't mine because I'm too lazy to write my own, but it fits just perfectly, so the music belongs to Moulin Rouge. I think I got the words right to "Nature Boy", but if I didn't, please let me know nicely in the reviews, and I will gladly change it. If ya didn't know, the lyrics are in italics and bold. Wee! Fonts are fun!

Chapter 2: Fiona

He was dreaming again of the life he knew. The memories and nightmares of his past drifted by through the mists with an echoing lament playing across his mind. If he never woke up from his sleep, he wouldn't care. He was nothing…

There was a boy

A very strange enchanted boy

Severus rolled over in his sleep, grasping his pillow, grinding his teeth, hoping the unimaginable pain of the Cruciatus curse would one day leave his thoughts and nerves, and that all that he had done, witnessed, and had let happen would be a long horrible dream. Through the mists he saw visions of what had been…

They say he wandered very far

The woman was staggering within the circle of Death Eaters. She desperately tried to escape, and she might have made it too, but she was far too weak from the Cruciatus curse, and she was easily pushed back into the circle. So when she finally saw there was no way out, she stood up definitely to the one and only, Lord Voldemort, formally Tom Riddle. She had asked him strongly what he wanted, and he simply answered her power within their force. She instantly refused, knowing what had happened and what had become of her father. Lucius Malfoy had killed him. No thought to it at all. Voldemort threatened her, but she swore at him instead. That's when it all started for Severus…

Very far over land and sea

"Severus!" Voldemort shouted. "Show this wench our power! Finish her!"

And without a second thought as to what he was doing, he pulled out his wand, pointed it at the woman's heart and said, "Avada Kedavra…"

A little child and sorrow bound

The woman was now in his arms, limp with death. Power had over taken him and he couldn't stop himself. Now he saw what he had done. He had killed an innocent woman, for no reason in the world other than someone told him to. She had been no threat to him. So why the hell had he done it? Because he was weak. He had let Voldemort overtake him and now, because he didn't think or say no, this woman was laying dead in his arms…

But very wise was he

Severus picked her up and carried her across his arms away from the group. For some odd reason, no one stopped him, not even Voldemort. He didn't know where the hell he was going or what he was going to do when he got there, but he couldn't leave this woman with the Death Eaters. So he let his feet take him away, and he apparated in Hogsmeade and walked through the front gates of Hogwarts.

The lights were ablaze inside the castle, and it seemed to be awake. Something had obviously happened.

Severus gulped as he saw a familiar face. Minerva McGonagall. She gasped at the sight of the dead woman in his arms. "Oh God no," she whispered, tears in her voice. "Fiona…" So that was her name. Fiona. He had just killed a woman named Fiona.

He looked up and Albus Dumbledore had appeared in the doorway of the school. "Oh shit…" he whispered when he saw her. He looked at Severus sternly. "Good evening Mr. Snape," he said stiffly. "Follow me." He led him to the hospital wing and he laid Fiona on one of the vacant beds. McGonagall had followed. She looked sickened by the whole ordeal.

"So what happened Snape?" Dumbledore asked with his strong tone.

And then one day

Severus couldn't take it. He was 19 years old, supposed to be the strong one, and now here he was crumbling, cowering before someone who he respected for years on end. "I…I…I…d-don't know…he told…me to kill…so I took my…my wand…and…and…" Tears streamed down his face. "I've never felt anything like this in my life."

"It's called sorrow, Severus. You get it when you've made the biggest mistake of your life."

One magic day he passed my way

He looked down at Fiona, dead on the bed, and he absolutely lost it. He cried into her open, soft hands. "Why did I do it?!" Severus shouted. "Why did I listen?! How come I didn't resist?!" He looked up at her and touched her face. "Oh God, Fiona. What have I done?" he whispered. "I swear, to the Lord himself, if I come from behind this, and if by some miracle, a woman should love this beast that is me, and I in return, I shall treat her like a princess and love her until the day I die…that's how I would've treated you Fiona, if I hadn't taken your life from you." He sobbed into her hair. "You were innocent…you're innocent…" he whispered. "I'm sorry…"

While we spoke of many things

Dumbledore and McGonagall stood watching behind them. McGonagall was sobbing softly into a handkerchief and Dumbledore looked determined. He put his hand on Snape's shoulder. "Severus? What are you doing here? Why did you bring Fiona back?"

Severus raised his head slightly. "I didn't know she was from here. I just brought her here. I had no where else to go."

"So what is it you want exactly Severus?"

"I want out."

"For good?"

"For good."

Dumbledore looked straight into his eyes. "I can never fully rescue you from the wrath of the

Death Eaters. And you know that. You made a choice to join them, to gain power, and your stuck with it, more ways than one." The dark mark tattooed on Severus's upper arm began to burn and he flinched. "But now's your choice. You can either answer that call, and go join Voldemort, and run scared from your old peers, or you can try to make up for what you did to Fiona, be brave, and fight the Dark Lord's power." Severus shivered and stared down at his and Fiona's joined hands. "Well, Severus? What's it going to be?"

Severus blacked out then and there next to Fiona…

Fools and kings, this he said to me

Severus Snape snapped awake at the knock on his door. He rubbed his face trying to speed up his recovery from his nightmare. "Who is it?" he asked groggily.

"It's Minerva. Are you descent?" the voice from behind the door said.

"Yes."

Minerva stuck her head in. "Hey. Albus wants you and me in his office in ten minutes. And if you see Trelawney or Hagrid, tell them to head there, too."

"Alright. What about?"

"I don't know, but it doesn't sound too good."

"Dammit," Severus whispered. Voldemort, he thought.

"Are you alright? You look horrible." Minerva had concern in her eyes.

"I'm fine. Nightmare." He scowled a bit as he rose from bed.

"What about?"

"None of your business. I'll meet you in Dumbledore's office," he snapped.

Minerva looked miffed and left him to his own thoughts. He buried his face in his hands. Not again, he thought. Please not again. The last thing in the world he wanted was for someone innocent to fall at the hands of Lord Voldemort again. He dressed and quickly headed for the meeting.

The greatest thing you'll never know

Is just to love and be loved in return!

Note from Hippy Gypsy: I know this chapter is sad and a bit weird, but it helps explain why Severus is such a complete and horrible bas- Okay. I'm just gonna stop right there 'cause I like Snape and every good story needs a good bad guy (although he isn't the bad guy in this story, and he's just plain misunderstood in the books…okay I'll stop now). I hope you're enjoying this. As for the last chapter, some people must not have read my disclaimer, because I distinctly told them that I purposely changed the lyrics to "Lady Marmalade"! And yes, I DO KNOW THE REAL LYRICS! I'm going to ask again nicely NOT TO FLAME BECAUSE IT'S JUST PLAIN NOT NICE!! PLEASE DON'T DO IT!! So chapter 2 should be up soon I hope. Anyways, give it to them like a dragon! Later!