Severus woke early and began to pack his things. He hadn't had much
time to the night before, he had a potion he wanted to prefect before he
left for school. He had just grown to like his new way of life. He could do
what ever he wanted without question, he always had everything he needed to
do his work, and his father wasn't around to tell him how horrible of a son
he was. He received nothing but praise and support from his new friends.
His mother had not spoken to him since he returned out of fear. All he had
to do was say the word and she would be killed just like his father. He
liked the power he had. He just wished it would follow him to school. As he
through the last few things into his trunk he heard the door open.
" Severus, you ready to go? The train leaves in two hours and your still packing. Here let me do that you just get dressed you cant go out in public looking like that. Well go on boy hurry up." Severus watched as Lucius's wife ordered a younger witch that she had to follower her began to re-pack his things a bit more neatly in to the trunk. He then walked slowly into the bathroom washed up, put on his robes and entered the room to find that Lucius had joined his wife in the room. He was followed by a small rather scared looking house elf named Dobby. He along with the girl were wedding presents to the Malfoy's from the Blacks.
" You come to make sure I go back to school?" He gave Lucius a dirty look and turned to look in the mirror as he pulled back his hair. " You don't trust me to go on my own."
" No, we just thought that you may need a hand with the trunk. Or there is always the chance that we are only here cause we were ordered to make sure that you are not late and have no trouble, Or maybe I just wanted to say good bye to my best friend who I an not going to get to see for a whole year, Or ....."
Severus interrupted before he had a chance to go any further " Okay, I think I get the point. God you talk too much. Can we leave now with out a speech?"
" No," a voice came from behind him. He turned to see The Dark Lord standing in front of the fire place he just came out of, " You cant leave just yet. I haven't had a chance to say good bye too you yet. I would accompany you to the train but I think that may a bit bad for my health."
"Thank you for coming sir." Severus was shocked. He couldn't believe that he had come to say good bye to him His father never even did that. He stopped him self from thinking before he began to smile like an idiot.
" Why don't you go down to the kitchen and get your self some thing to eat Severus, and Narcissia why don't you go with him to keep him company. Lucius and I will be down in a minute to join you." they left the room and headed right for the kitchen. Severus felt like he was walking on air. He had never felt so important in his life. Why couldn't he have been my dad, he thought as they made there way down to the stairs.
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Lucius looked at the Dark Lord puzzled as his wife and friend left the room. What is he up to? He is never this nice to any one? The door shut and Lucius shook al thoughts from his head. He decided he needed to give his full attention to what ever he was to be told to do.
" He like the attention doesn't he. His father never treated him like a father should treat a son. Which makes my job easier all I have to do is acknowledge his existence and stroke his ego just a bit and he is eating out of my hand." Voldemort laughed evilly and looked at Lucius who was frozen in thought trying to make sine of what he had just heard.
" You mean you are only doing this to get him to join you. He isn't the genius you keep saying he is." Lucius had never been more confused in his life he couldn't understand why he would go to such lengths to get some one who was just a normal kid to join. It just didn't make since.
" No he is every thing I told you he was and he will be a big help to me in the future.. He is so eagre to please me, even more so than my most loyal followers. He looks to me for the attention he never got from his father. He even thinks that he would have liked to have me as a father. If I can get what I want from him by changing into that person he wants to see than I will. I have a chance with him that I didn't have with the rest of you. He is still young. He hasn't had any one in his life to push him one way or the other. Lucius your only here because of your father. You are playing the part of the good son to keep your father happy. Your not the only one either most of my younger followers are just playing the part. Severus doesn't know what part to play or who to play it for. Do you see now Lucius. I can make him what I want him to be and he will always do what I want just to please the man he wishes he could call dad ."Lucius shook his head in agreement even thought he didn't fully understand what he was just told. " Now will you tell him that I had some urgent business to take care of and that I expect him to write me at least once a month and I will see him when he returns from school." Lucius once again shook his head to show that he under stood what he was to do and watched as his master disappeared into the fire. He stood there for a minute still tiring to make since out of what he was told. He decided to stop before he gave him self a headache and walked from th room down the stairs to the kitchen.
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Severus boarded the train quickly with his instructions from the Dark Lord that Lucius had given him. He didn't see why it mattered to him how he was doing, but he seemed to care about Severus and he had never had anyone care about him like he seemed to so he would play along. The train ride was long and for the most part quiet. There was the occasional loud explosion from somewhere on the train followed some girl screaming at the boys that made the noise. By his guess it was more than likely Potter, Black, Pettigrew, and Lupin. He hated each and every one of them equally. They had taken to playing pranks on him after his run in with the mudblood last year. But he couldn't prove it was them. Even if he could he knew that they wouldn't get in trouble. He just planned to stay as far from them as he could.
He started class like he did last year going and trying to hide in the corner and avoid attention at all costs. The other kids in his house had seemed to be trying to be friendly to him he had a feeling that he knew who was responsible for this change in attitude. The first half of school flew by. He had been busy studying and writing the Dark Lord like he was told to, and hiding from the pests in Gryffindor that he hadn't had time to do anything on his own experiments. He hadn't even been to the room he had in the tower. He had decided that he would stay at the school for the break and would later regret this decision. After everyone had went home from the break he went up to the tower and began working where he had left off over the summer. He didn't leave the room till about two or three days before class was to start again. He slept a total of that many hours the entire break. He emerged from the room tired and greasy haired from the work he had just wrapped up. He couldn't wait to jump into a hot shower and then crawl into bed. As he rounded the corner he noticed a group of boys standing around in the hall. Oh crap he thought to himself what are they up to. He turned to walk the other way to avoid what ever was about to happen to the next person that walked down that hall, but he was to late.
" Hey James look. Its Snivilus. Hey don't run away come back here." He heard Black screaming behind him. Why did I have to leave? Why didn't I just sleep in the room?
" Hey buddy, How's it going? You know I don't think that we have had a chance to talk since school started. I hope you don't think that we are horrible friends for not talking to our favorite Slytherin." They all laughed collectively at James. They did every thing on cue when James was involved.
" Potter, Get your filthy hands off me." Severus couldn't think of anything to say that was witty in reply to what Potter had just said all he could think of was his bed. " Look Potter I am not in the mood to do this right now. Cant you find some one else to torture."
" I don't want to torture any one but you," Severus felt something cold on his back then he began to feel like his legs ran away with out him the next thing he knew he was on the floor watching the hall fade into black. He could feel himself being moved from the floor and he could hear there voices but wasn't coherent enough to make since out of the words. Eventually he fell asleep and hoped it was all just a bad dream.
He woke from the best sleep he had ever had in his life to the whispers of students. He began to recall the events from the night before and was frightened to open his eyes. Please just make them all go away.
" What is going on here?" he heard a McGonagall's say loudly. " Oh my. Well I never. Mr Snape wake up. Wake up this instant. I cant believe... of all my years teaching I have never... Wake up." He opened his eyes slowly and saw that everyone that had stayed for break was looking at him all but his tormentors. They were all sitting on the stairs in the entry hall looking at him and smiling and waving. He looked down to see that he was in nothing but his underwear with his robes on the floor next to him. There was also a bottle of some kind of liquor on the floor empty next to him. He would have understood the first part of this, 'hey every one look Snape is almost naked and look at how scrawny he is ha ha ha' but the liquor were they trying to get him expelled from school. This passed the amount of teasing he was going to take. He stood up put on his robes.
" We are going to see the headmaster," she said as she picked up the bottle, " I think you need to explain this to him. Of all the students in this school I never would have guessed this from you."
Severus followed her up the stairs passed the snickering boys who caused all this and to the headmasters office. He followed her up the stairs that were hidden by the gargoyle into a room full of pictures and books with a desk at one end. Dumbledore the new headmaster of the school sat reading something at the desk.
" Professor," she said with a hint of annoyance in her voice, but he did not look up. "Albus!" The headmaster jumped out of his chair looked at the teacher then to Severus and sat back down.
" Can I help you two?"
She then preceded to tell him every thing that she had seen in the hall. Severus sat patiently to tell his side of the story. He couldn't wait to get them in trouble.
" Well I see he said when she finished. Mr. Snape do you have any thing to add to this story?"
" I was headed to my room last night when Remus, Peter, James, and Sirius saw me. They decided that they needed to play a joke on someone and I was the one how happened to be walking down the hall at the time. They have been picking on me in little ways since first year, like making my bag split open or something like that. I don't know what they did all I remember is them talking to me them I got really cold and everything went black and the next thing I knew I was almost completely naked in the hall."
" I see. So they just thought it would be funny to leave you in your underpants in the hall and what about the bottle of fire whiskey. You want me to believe that they planted that jsut to get you in trouble. Mr Snape......"
" But they did!" Severus felt his temperature rise and knew is face was red. How could he not believe him. They were always in trouble for things when they did them to other students but never when it came to him. It was always over looked when any one did anything to him.
" Mr. Snape I think a month of detention will be a good enough punishment for this. I don't expect to have anything happen like this again. Now you run along and I will have your head of house inform you of when your detention later." Severus stormed out of the slamming the door. How could he be in trouble for being the victim of one of there stupid pranks. Why do they always get treated differently than the rest of the students. He had to catch them breaking some kind of rule or something to get them back. Next time he would have proof that not even Dumbledore could deny.
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Dumbledore watched Severus as he angrily left his office and slammed the door. He sighed and went back to his book.
" Albus, you know it is possible that they did do that to him. Albus, are you listening to me?"
" I heard you Minerva. I also know that they did play the joke on the poor boy. I saw them placing him in the hall last night. I was on my way to see how he was coming on that potion he was working on. He is a very smart boy. I never would have thought that you could do some of the things he does with those potions." He realized that he was about to start babbling and sighed once again and returned to his book.
" But if you saw the boys then why did you give Severus detention? They should be the ones that get punished."
Albus looked up at the confused woman on the other side of his desk, " I did what I had to do. It is all for the best."
" I still don't understand."
" And you never will." He smiled slightly at her and looked back at his book.
A/N Okay I am not to sure about this chapter. But then again I am not to sure about any of the things that I write. And Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! To those of you who reviewed I do a little dance each time you do.
" Severus, you ready to go? The train leaves in two hours and your still packing. Here let me do that you just get dressed you cant go out in public looking like that. Well go on boy hurry up." Severus watched as Lucius's wife ordered a younger witch that she had to follower her began to re-pack his things a bit more neatly in to the trunk. He then walked slowly into the bathroom washed up, put on his robes and entered the room to find that Lucius had joined his wife in the room. He was followed by a small rather scared looking house elf named Dobby. He along with the girl were wedding presents to the Malfoy's from the Blacks.
" You come to make sure I go back to school?" He gave Lucius a dirty look and turned to look in the mirror as he pulled back his hair. " You don't trust me to go on my own."
" No, we just thought that you may need a hand with the trunk. Or there is always the chance that we are only here cause we were ordered to make sure that you are not late and have no trouble, Or maybe I just wanted to say good bye to my best friend who I an not going to get to see for a whole year, Or ....."
Severus interrupted before he had a chance to go any further " Okay, I think I get the point. God you talk too much. Can we leave now with out a speech?"
" No," a voice came from behind him. He turned to see The Dark Lord standing in front of the fire place he just came out of, " You cant leave just yet. I haven't had a chance to say good bye too you yet. I would accompany you to the train but I think that may a bit bad for my health."
"Thank you for coming sir." Severus was shocked. He couldn't believe that he had come to say good bye to him His father never even did that. He stopped him self from thinking before he began to smile like an idiot.
" Why don't you go down to the kitchen and get your self some thing to eat Severus, and Narcissia why don't you go with him to keep him company. Lucius and I will be down in a minute to join you." they left the room and headed right for the kitchen. Severus felt like he was walking on air. He had never felt so important in his life. Why couldn't he have been my dad, he thought as they made there way down to the stairs.
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Lucius looked at the Dark Lord puzzled as his wife and friend left the room. What is he up to? He is never this nice to any one? The door shut and Lucius shook al thoughts from his head. He decided he needed to give his full attention to what ever he was to be told to do.
" He like the attention doesn't he. His father never treated him like a father should treat a son. Which makes my job easier all I have to do is acknowledge his existence and stroke his ego just a bit and he is eating out of my hand." Voldemort laughed evilly and looked at Lucius who was frozen in thought trying to make sine of what he had just heard.
" You mean you are only doing this to get him to join you. He isn't the genius you keep saying he is." Lucius had never been more confused in his life he couldn't understand why he would go to such lengths to get some one who was just a normal kid to join. It just didn't make since.
" No he is every thing I told you he was and he will be a big help to me in the future.. He is so eagre to please me, even more so than my most loyal followers. He looks to me for the attention he never got from his father. He even thinks that he would have liked to have me as a father. If I can get what I want from him by changing into that person he wants to see than I will. I have a chance with him that I didn't have with the rest of you. He is still young. He hasn't had any one in his life to push him one way or the other. Lucius your only here because of your father. You are playing the part of the good son to keep your father happy. Your not the only one either most of my younger followers are just playing the part. Severus doesn't know what part to play or who to play it for. Do you see now Lucius. I can make him what I want him to be and he will always do what I want just to please the man he wishes he could call dad ."Lucius shook his head in agreement even thought he didn't fully understand what he was just told. " Now will you tell him that I had some urgent business to take care of and that I expect him to write me at least once a month and I will see him when he returns from school." Lucius once again shook his head to show that he under stood what he was to do and watched as his master disappeared into the fire. He stood there for a minute still tiring to make since out of what he was told. He decided to stop before he gave him self a headache and walked from th room down the stairs to the kitchen.
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Severus boarded the train quickly with his instructions from the Dark Lord that Lucius had given him. He didn't see why it mattered to him how he was doing, but he seemed to care about Severus and he had never had anyone care about him like he seemed to so he would play along. The train ride was long and for the most part quiet. There was the occasional loud explosion from somewhere on the train followed some girl screaming at the boys that made the noise. By his guess it was more than likely Potter, Black, Pettigrew, and Lupin. He hated each and every one of them equally. They had taken to playing pranks on him after his run in with the mudblood last year. But he couldn't prove it was them. Even if he could he knew that they wouldn't get in trouble. He just planned to stay as far from them as he could.
He started class like he did last year going and trying to hide in the corner and avoid attention at all costs. The other kids in his house had seemed to be trying to be friendly to him he had a feeling that he knew who was responsible for this change in attitude. The first half of school flew by. He had been busy studying and writing the Dark Lord like he was told to, and hiding from the pests in Gryffindor that he hadn't had time to do anything on his own experiments. He hadn't even been to the room he had in the tower. He had decided that he would stay at the school for the break and would later regret this decision. After everyone had went home from the break he went up to the tower and began working where he had left off over the summer. He didn't leave the room till about two or three days before class was to start again. He slept a total of that many hours the entire break. He emerged from the room tired and greasy haired from the work he had just wrapped up. He couldn't wait to jump into a hot shower and then crawl into bed. As he rounded the corner he noticed a group of boys standing around in the hall. Oh crap he thought to himself what are they up to. He turned to walk the other way to avoid what ever was about to happen to the next person that walked down that hall, but he was to late.
" Hey James look. Its Snivilus. Hey don't run away come back here." He heard Black screaming behind him. Why did I have to leave? Why didn't I just sleep in the room?
" Hey buddy, How's it going? You know I don't think that we have had a chance to talk since school started. I hope you don't think that we are horrible friends for not talking to our favorite Slytherin." They all laughed collectively at James. They did every thing on cue when James was involved.
" Potter, Get your filthy hands off me." Severus couldn't think of anything to say that was witty in reply to what Potter had just said all he could think of was his bed. " Look Potter I am not in the mood to do this right now. Cant you find some one else to torture."
" I don't want to torture any one but you," Severus felt something cold on his back then he began to feel like his legs ran away with out him the next thing he knew he was on the floor watching the hall fade into black. He could feel himself being moved from the floor and he could hear there voices but wasn't coherent enough to make since out of the words. Eventually he fell asleep and hoped it was all just a bad dream.
He woke from the best sleep he had ever had in his life to the whispers of students. He began to recall the events from the night before and was frightened to open his eyes. Please just make them all go away.
" What is going on here?" he heard a McGonagall's say loudly. " Oh my. Well I never. Mr Snape wake up. Wake up this instant. I cant believe... of all my years teaching I have never... Wake up." He opened his eyes slowly and saw that everyone that had stayed for break was looking at him all but his tormentors. They were all sitting on the stairs in the entry hall looking at him and smiling and waving. He looked down to see that he was in nothing but his underwear with his robes on the floor next to him. There was also a bottle of some kind of liquor on the floor empty next to him. He would have understood the first part of this, 'hey every one look Snape is almost naked and look at how scrawny he is ha ha ha' but the liquor were they trying to get him expelled from school. This passed the amount of teasing he was going to take. He stood up put on his robes.
" We are going to see the headmaster," she said as she picked up the bottle, " I think you need to explain this to him. Of all the students in this school I never would have guessed this from you."
Severus followed her up the stairs passed the snickering boys who caused all this and to the headmasters office. He followed her up the stairs that were hidden by the gargoyle into a room full of pictures and books with a desk at one end. Dumbledore the new headmaster of the school sat reading something at the desk.
" Professor," she said with a hint of annoyance in her voice, but he did not look up. "Albus!" The headmaster jumped out of his chair looked at the teacher then to Severus and sat back down.
" Can I help you two?"
She then preceded to tell him every thing that she had seen in the hall. Severus sat patiently to tell his side of the story. He couldn't wait to get them in trouble.
" Well I see he said when she finished. Mr. Snape do you have any thing to add to this story?"
" I was headed to my room last night when Remus, Peter, James, and Sirius saw me. They decided that they needed to play a joke on someone and I was the one how happened to be walking down the hall at the time. They have been picking on me in little ways since first year, like making my bag split open or something like that. I don't know what they did all I remember is them talking to me them I got really cold and everything went black and the next thing I knew I was almost completely naked in the hall."
" I see. So they just thought it would be funny to leave you in your underpants in the hall and what about the bottle of fire whiskey. You want me to believe that they planted that jsut to get you in trouble. Mr Snape......"
" But they did!" Severus felt his temperature rise and knew is face was red. How could he not believe him. They were always in trouble for things when they did them to other students but never when it came to him. It was always over looked when any one did anything to him.
" Mr. Snape I think a month of detention will be a good enough punishment for this. I don't expect to have anything happen like this again. Now you run along and I will have your head of house inform you of when your detention later." Severus stormed out of the slamming the door. How could he be in trouble for being the victim of one of there stupid pranks. Why do they always get treated differently than the rest of the students. He had to catch them breaking some kind of rule or something to get them back. Next time he would have proof that not even Dumbledore could deny.
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Dumbledore watched Severus as he angrily left his office and slammed the door. He sighed and went back to his book.
" Albus, you know it is possible that they did do that to him. Albus, are you listening to me?"
" I heard you Minerva. I also know that they did play the joke on the poor boy. I saw them placing him in the hall last night. I was on my way to see how he was coming on that potion he was working on. He is a very smart boy. I never would have thought that you could do some of the things he does with those potions." He realized that he was about to start babbling and sighed once again and returned to his book.
" But if you saw the boys then why did you give Severus detention? They should be the ones that get punished."
Albus looked up at the confused woman on the other side of his desk, " I did what I had to do. It is all for the best."
" I still don't understand."
" And you never will." He smiled slightly at her and looked back at his book.
A/N Okay I am not to sure about this chapter. But then again I am not to sure about any of the things that I write. And Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! To those of you who reviewed I do a little dance each time you do.