Author Note: I never did get to that damn holiday. It'll have to pass. I'll
make a summary of it though . . .
During the whole breaking-it-to-Ron-and-dealing-with-his-wrath everybody managed to forget about Merlin's Birthday except for Severus and Hermione. They exchanged gifts and officially got back together.
**Fade into the holiday**
Hermione got Severus and wonderful new quill that if you moved it a certain direction it disappeared from sight.
Severus got Hermione a bracelet. It was sterling silver with small-embossed snakes with emerald eyes circling it.
It seemed though, that another person remembered as a large black owl swooped in to deliver a letter to Severus.
"Who's it from Sev?" Hermione had asked.
"Draco Malfoy." He had responded.
He opened it, and a puff of black smoke arose form the envelope in the hideous figure of the Dark Mark, and evaporated into the closest living being it could find. Which happened to be Hermione.
**Fade back to present**
Severus remembered, and he moaned in despair.
"Hermione . . ." He groaned, sinking to his knees at the edge of the lake, head in hands.
He had gone to Dumbledore almost immediately. Albus had told him to analyze the poison, and he had. Voldemort's own invention, Darke Vapour is what he had called it. Malfoy had laid a tricky spell on the note to go with it. He had had to work out who had made the powder, what its purposes were, and pretty much everything about it before the parchment had supplied the name.
There was only one cure. A Poultice, made from a plant that only grew in the Forbidden Forest, so that was where he was headed.
He knew he would have to concentrate, but he couldn't get something out of his head.
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**Snapes POV**
You endangered her by getting involved with her, by opening that letter in front of her, its all your fault Severus. All your fault!
Shut up!
Well, it is.
The voice said sulkily before it drifted of to some other territory in my brain.
I walked away from the lake, towards the Forbidden Forest.
I had only my wand a small pair of leaf trimmers. I was looking for a particular type of leaf. Seven leafed, and red. A deep blood red. All I have to do is get in, get it, and get out. Pretty simple, right?
Yeah, that's what I thought too.
I heard the slithering, and dismissed it for a falling leaf.
I kept on walking, searching the ground for a deep red leaf. I found it, and bent over and cut a few clovers from the bunch. I, unfortunately, did not look up till it was too late.
The snake was on top of my back. Before I knew what was happening, it had bitten me, and I screamed. As it slithered away, I could see that this snake was something akin to the basilisk, without the eye power. I could feel the venom oozing its way through my veins and I began to loose consciousness. I was only just coherent enough to send sparks into the air. The green and silver sparkles were the last thing I saw before blackness was upon me.
**Dumbledore's POV**
I was pondering the mysterious "Darke Vapour" as I looked out my window. I thought I vaguely heard screaming, before it stopped, and green and silver sparks flew into the air deep in the Forbidden Forest. There was only one person in Hogwarts whose wand sent silver and green sparks. Severus.
I ran out of my office calling Sirius and Harry to me, as the three of us were all legal animagus'.
We ran into the Forest, changing as we went. Sirius turned immediately into Padfoot, Harry, so much like his father, turned into a marvelous white stag, a bit smaller than James had been though. I myself, turned into a Phoenix, remarkably like Fawkes.
We ran, or flew, in my case, to the source of the sparks, and found Severus Snape sprawled unconscious under them.
I transformed back and signaled for Sirius and Harry to do so also. I took his measurements and performed the spell to see if there was anything deathly serious with him. Unluckily for us, there was.
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AUTHORS NOTE: Okay guys, I'm gonna leave you hanging for today. Sorry. I'll get this up as soon as I can, but I'll have to do it from school. Oh well. If I get caught, I'm screwed, but I haven't gotten caught yet, so its okay. Anyway, bye bye!
During the whole breaking-it-to-Ron-and-dealing-with-his-wrath everybody managed to forget about Merlin's Birthday except for Severus and Hermione. They exchanged gifts and officially got back together.
**Fade into the holiday**
Hermione got Severus and wonderful new quill that if you moved it a certain direction it disappeared from sight.
Severus got Hermione a bracelet. It was sterling silver with small-embossed snakes with emerald eyes circling it.
It seemed though, that another person remembered as a large black owl swooped in to deliver a letter to Severus.
"Who's it from Sev?" Hermione had asked.
"Draco Malfoy." He had responded.
He opened it, and a puff of black smoke arose form the envelope in the hideous figure of the Dark Mark, and evaporated into the closest living being it could find. Which happened to be Hermione.
**Fade back to present**
Severus remembered, and he moaned in despair.
"Hermione . . ." He groaned, sinking to his knees at the edge of the lake, head in hands.
He had gone to Dumbledore almost immediately. Albus had told him to analyze the poison, and he had. Voldemort's own invention, Darke Vapour is what he had called it. Malfoy had laid a tricky spell on the note to go with it. He had had to work out who had made the powder, what its purposes were, and pretty much everything about it before the parchment had supplied the name.
There was only one cure. A Poultice, made from a plant that only grew in the Forbidden Forest, so that was where he was headed.
He knew he would have to concentrate, but he couldn't get something out of his head.
~ ! * ! ~
**Snapes POV**
You endangered her by getting involved with her, by opening that letter in front of her, its all your fault Severus. All your fault!
Shut up!
Well, it is.
The voice said sulkily before it drifted of to some other territory in my brain.
I walked away from the lake, towards the Forbidden Forest.
I had only my wand a small pair of leaf trimmers. I was looking for a particular type of leaf. Seven leafed, and red. A deep blood red. All I have to do is get in, get it, and get out. Pretty simple, right?
Yeah, that's what I thought too.
I heard the slithering, and dismissed it for a falling leaf.
I kept on walking, searching the ground for a deep red leaf. I found it, and bent over and cut a few clovers from the bunch. I, unfortunately, did not look up till it was too late.
The snake was on top of my back. Before I knew what was happening, it had bitten me, and I screamed. As it slithered away, I could see that this snake was something akin to the basilisk, without the eye power. I could feel the venom oozing its way through my veins and I began to loose consciousness. I was only just coherent enough to send sparks into the air. The green and silver sparkles were the last thing I saw before blackness was upon me.
**Dumbledore's POV**
I was pondering the mysterious "Darke Vapour" as I looked out my window. I thought I vaguely heard screaming, before it stopped, and green and silver sparks flew into the air deep in the Forbidden Forest. There was only one person in Hogwarts whose wand sent silver and green sparks. Severus.
I ran out of my office calling Sirius and Harry to me, as the three of us were all legal animagus'.
We ran into the Forest, changing as we went. Sirius turned immediately into Padfoot, Harry, so much like his father, turned into a marvelous white stag, a bit smaller than James had been though. I myself, turned into a Phoenix, remarkably like Fawkes.
We ran, or flew, in my case, to the source of the sparks, and found Severus Snape sprawled unconscious under them.
I transformed back and signaled for Sirius and Harry to do so also. I took his measurements and performed the spell to see if there was anything deathly serious with him. Unluckily for us, there was.
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AUTHORS NOTE: Okay guys, I'm gonna leave you hanging for today. Sorry. I'll get this up as soon as I can, but I'll have to do it from school. Oh well. If I get caught, I'm screwed, but I haven't gotten caught yet, so its okay. Anyway, bye bye!