"Blue

The deepest of all blues.

Darker than the bottom of the ocean.

Lighter than the sunniest sky.

I'm drowning in your eyes."

/.../ thoughts "..." words, things people think are words 'mind speech'

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/Darkness all around. Nothing but darkness. So alone./

"Wake up."

/There's someone else here now? How horrible for them./

"Come on Severus. It's time to wake up. You've been asleep for far too long."

/How do they know my name? I never even heard that voice before. How odd./

"Professor Snape. One of your students needs you. If you don't wake up immediately, she and the werewolf will die!"

/Lupin will die? I don't really like him but I don't want him dead...and one of my students needs me! It's nice to be needed. Alright, voice. I'm coming./

'Hurry!!'

"...hold your...horses?!"

When Snape opened his eyes for the first time in so very long, he found himself staring into a pair of huge blue eyes. It was almost as if he were being drawn in and cradled in pure love. Love, for him! Snape simply couldn't believe it. Something so pure treating him as if it really cared...

"I..."

'I Choose you, Severus Salazar Snape. My name is Lavyn, and I do love you with all my heart! Now, the red-headed girl over there is missing her hand due to the mage circle you were caught in. Without the hand itself, you cannot reattach it, but you _must_ stop the bleeding!'

Snape blinked and stood up, compelled by something he'd never felt before, something he didn't understand, to go over and save Ginny Weasley's life. "Tell me what to do, Lavyn. I will not _let_ her die." He completely missed the shocked looks on Sirius', Draco's, and Harry's faces. Neville, Ron, and Hermione were trying to stop Ginny's arm from bleeding. She looked as if she had gone into shock. Lupin, of course, was still unconscious.

'Go over to here, and take her arm in your hands. Then you must go into a trance. Imagine...that you are stirring a potion. You just have to _want_ her arm to stop bleeding.'

"I...ok..."

Ron and Hermione backed off, wide eyed, as Snape sat in front of Ginny. Neville refused silently to go any distance back from her. He did, though, get out of his feared potions masters' way. They watched as he took her handless arm into his hold, and seemed to go into a daze. Then, to Neville's eyes only, it seemed as if Snape started to glow a slight green. Not as if he was sick, but as if he had a green aura all of a sudden.

They all watched as the blood coming from Ginny's arm stopped, and new pink skin started to seal itself over the wound. The moment it seemed as if the healing was done, however, Severus' eyes rolled back into his head. He would have fallen backwards in a dead faint if it weren't for Lavyn coming up behind him and catching Snape with his bulk. The *horse* then flipped his head around to stare at Harry, plainly saying to get over here and help out his Chosen!

"Snape! Please, Lavyn was it?" A nod from the horse confirmed that was his name. "What just happened here?? Will Severus be all right?!" Everyone turned their heads from staring at Snape to staring at Harry at this. The- Boy-Who-Lived calling the dreaded potions master by his first name?! What has the world come to?

Lavyn simply made a few gestures, implying that he want Snape in the bed next to Lupin. At this point, Sirius got up and helped out Harry with getting the Slytherin man into the bed. Ginny looked up sharply and stared out into the forest.

"There's something out there, and I don't think it's very friendly..."

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and to may fav. peeps- Lorid, thanks!! No new left hand for Ginny, I'm afraid... Hana-chan could you send me a link to those rules...?? I'd really appreciate it... Dawnfire a shrine, eh? Isn't that going a bit far?? Viscountess Babbles-On isn't that great? Random rooms all over the place! *snickers* I haven't decided how much we'll see Firesong and Silverfox, but we will at least in passing. Oh, the Tayledras are going to play a huge part a bit later on...hehehe... We probably won't see Moondance/ Starwind, but the rest...definitely! Silver Angel would have been sooner...but I couldn't decide what to do!! Katy999 I'm glad you came back to read it! And no, no more hand for Ginny...she can't handle the hand!! (sorry...bad pun, I know ) :P

I don't know what to do next chapter...please throw some ideas at my head!! And you get a cameo appearance if you guess who Lavyn is! Slightly larger part, if you can guess who else is going to be Chosen, and by whom!