Chapter One
iA golden snitch flapped its wings desperately, trying to escape the long fingers wrapped securely around it. It was released, then caught again, and released again. This time however, the ink stained fingers missed, and the snitch flew off, hovering over a group of teenagers, who were obviously harassing someone, a tall, painfully skinny youth, with long greasy hair that hung down to his rounded shoulders. Suddenly, the boy was hanging upside down in the air, his robes falling down around his waist, revealing a pair of graying underpants, and pale, bony legs. There were shrieks of laughter from the crowd, especially the two ring leaders. The crowd began calling things out at the humiliated boy, taunting him painfully until he thought that he could take it no longer.
"Good for nothing!"
"Worthless piece of crap!"
"Death Eater!"
"SNIVELLUS!"i
The last cry woke up a tall, greasy haired man, an older version of the boy in the dream. He was panting rapidly, and was ashamed to find tears streaming down his sallow face.
Severus Snape quickly wiped the moisture off his face, and got out of bed, pausing a moment to let the trembling in his legs subside. He then walked across a large, green bedroom, almost devoid of furnishing of any kind, his stride a mere shadow of his usual confident one. He paused in front of a chest of drawers, stained in a deep brown, and lifted a half-empty bottle of whisky off the top. Ignoring the glass that stood beside it, he took the lid off the bottle and took a large swig of the dark liquid, followed by another, slightly smaller one.
Breathing heavily, he flung himself down on a nearby arm chair which was covered in the finest rich green silk. He took another sip from the near empty bottle, his mind off in a far distant place that he didn't want to return to.
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I know that this is short, but I wanted to know what everyone thinks of it. This will be one of the first (hopefully) novel length fictions started after the release of The Order of the Phoenix, so I didn't have much to go by in regards to how Snape should act, now that we know more about his past, if that makes sense. Is he too OOC? PLEASE let me know, I hate writing things that aren't quite right. The rest of this chapter will be up as soon as it is written, which will be within the next few hours. I'm going to aim for 3000 words a chapter, which I probably haven't a hope in Hades of achieving. If you want to be emailed with updates, please leave your email address.