AN: and now, the moment you've all been waiting for….!!! drumroll
It is time.
"Harry. shakes Harry Harry, wake up."
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Snape repeated himself in his sternest voice. Harry shot up, 'Wha??"
"Dumbledore needs to see you… now."
"But it's the middle of the night."
"Harry, you know how busy he's been with the Order and with Umbridge. This is the only time he can meet with you; I suggest you don't lose your chance."
"Ok…"
Snape led Harry out of the house and into the Forbidden Forest.
'But why the Forbidden Forest, Professor?"
"Because even Albus Dumbledore's office is no longer safe."
And with that statement, Severus left Harry to his own musings. I can't do this. The boy looks so frightened. I can't. I just… But I must. I have been so lonely and so lost these long years. Lily. I need her once again.
The two came to a small clearing in the Forest. Snape turned, and stared Harry dead in the eyes: "What is it you want more than anything else. Not for the world, not for anyone else; what do you want for you."
Harry didn't even blink. "A home and a family, sir."
Feeling slightly justified in his actions, Snape muttered, "So be it."
Without warning Harry in the slightest, Snape bellowed, "Petrificus Totalis!" Harry stiffened, arms pressed to his sides, and fell to the not-so-soft earth. Severus, when seeing Harry like this, lost any love he had had for the boy. The Death Eater in him had not completely been killed, and it pleased him to be so in control over the life of a human being, especially one he had Severus bent over him, his long hooked nose grazing Harry's own nose, and whispered, "So, you want your family that badly, eh? Well guess what!!! You had them for what, a year, maybe two, of which you remember NOTHING of them except their deaths? I had your mother for seven years. Seven GLORIOUS years. You think you've gone through pain? Try being me for just one day and know that you lost the one person that ever meant anything to you to a idiotic, punch-drunk, Quidditch-crazed moron!!"
With that last phrase, spit had flown out of Snape's mouth, covering Harry's face. Snape swooped away from Harry, facing away from him. Harry's eyes were still as round-as-saucers from the shock of Snape hexing him.
Turning around and kneeling on Harry's chest, Snape screamed, "And you know what the worst part is?! I found myself beginning to love you too. You. You fiend! How DARE you look at me with those eyes, criticizing me with eyes that are not your own. How DARE you think that you know me, that you have the right to judge me. Me love you?! I, the horrible Snape ,love no one! And you know why? Because the only love I've ever had was ripped from me when THIS [thrusts sleeve up, revealing the Dark Mark] was ripped into my flesh. And then she went to POTTER. The one person in the world I wanted her with the least, and that's where she flew. And then you came along. If for nothing else, I had to protect you because of Lily. Then again she was ripped from me, in the most accursed of ways. Why should I have protected you then? James Potter's child, who looked so much like him it killed me to look at him. Even with all my love for Lily, it was only the Wizard's Debt that kept me from killing you every time I saw you in class. YOU, you smug, arrogant celebrity. You think that your every whim and want matters to people. You say or do anything, and Albus just smiles and does your bidding. They can't even see how blinded you have them. And I almost couldn't see how blind you had me. Thinking you liked me, respected me… LOVED me, as your mother had. No, you couldn't even do that. And now, you will pay. You WILL pay. And no one is here to rescue you this time, Mr. Potter."
Snape pulled out Neville's wand, and reaching down, yanked Harry's wand from the folds of his robe. Placing the tip of Neville's wand onto Harry's scar, he began muttering incantations in the tongue of Salazar Slytherin; the tongue of the Basilisk. He knew it was working. He could feel the connection between him and his former Master taking place. He could sense Voldemort's location without actually knowing where was. It did not matter though, all he needed was to FEEL where his master was. The connection was almost complete. Soon, if his research was correct, he would be holding Lily Evans once more. That though caused his entire body to burn with anticipation, longing, desire, and urgency.
The connection was complete. Severus Snape, tired of the long wait, the years of torture, screamed Accio Wand with every fiber of his being. Within seconds, he was holding the Dark Lord's wandin his hand. Removing the hex from Harry, he immediately put him under the Imperious Curse. Placing Voldemort's wand in Harry's hand, he urged him to attempt to disarm him. Harry began to yell "Expelliarmus" and as he did, Snape screamed "Expelliarmus." Just as Harry had told Dumbledore, the two spells met in midair. Urging his spell to move back into Voldemort's wand, he waited for what he knew would happen. He had to hurry, as he knew that Death Eaters could come at any time to claim their master's wand, as well as Snape himself. As he expected, Voldemort's latest kills, along with the screams of all put under the Cruciatus Curse, issued forth from the wand. And he was correct. First came Bertha Jorkins, then Frank Bryce, an aged Muggle, and then…. Lily. Lily as she had been the day she died: still young, still beautiful. Severus quickly removed the connection, thrust his hand into his robes, pulled out a vial. It was a potion that only he could have created. Unicorn's blood to bring Lily from the edge of death, and medicine of the Faerie Folk of Avalon to release the curse from the Unicorn's blood. He pulled the stopper from the vial with his teeth, and thrust the liquid down Lily's throat. The other two shades vanished, leaving Severus holding his living Lily. He crushed her to his body, sobbing like he hadn't done in years. Lily was barely breathing, and hung limp in his arms, but she was alive. And she would be with him till the end of their days.
What Severus had forgotten was that had ceased to keep Harry under the Imperious Curse during all of this. He had been aware of everything since the connection had been broken. And Harry knew unicorn blood when he saw it.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, YOU BASTARD! YOU'VE WORSED THAN KILLED HER!! SHE'S CURSED NOW! FOREVER!" Harry ran to his mother's side, pummeling Snape with his fists, "STOP, STOP IT! GET AWAY FROM HER! SHE'S DEAD. LET HER BE AT PEACE FOR GOD'S SAKE." Snape turned away from Harry, still holding Lily, angering Harry even more. "DON'T! STOP! IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!!! STOP!!!!!!!!!" And with that, the famed Boy-Who-Lived, knowing in his heart that his mother was cursed, and that it was his fault for trusting his "Godfather," wished for death for the millionth time in his short life, and slipped into unconsciousness.
AN: yeah, that took like too long to write. Sorry for the two month delay.