Ch-2:I Swear…

Snape took Johnny away from the Marauders to an empty classroom. Ushering Johnny in he closed and locked the door so as to not be disturbed. "Mother didn't say, …did…did that man, monster…" Snape just couldn't get the words to come out the way he wanted. But Johnny got the meaning of what he was trying to ask.

He looked at Snape, eyes turning bright, but didn't say anything. Snape walked over to him and supped him into strong embrace. "Is that why you won't speak?" the boy said nothing, causing Snape to hug him tighter.

That bastard will pay for what he did to you! I have no idea what he did to make you so distant…even to stop speaking…but I will find out what he did and make him pay. Even if it takes me the rest of my life…

He could feel Johnny trying to get free from his embrace, but when he let go Johnny immediately started looking him over with a worried look on his face. It was then that Severus realized that he was shaking with anger and frustration (do mainly to his thoughts).

Johnny then locked gaze with him," I'm al right. I was just thinking."

His worried expression did not fade but intensified. There was a nock on the door. Snape walked over and opened it. A pretty young lady awaited on the other side. Long shimmering blonde hair that reached mid waist, dazzling onyx eyes, a fair yet tanned complexion, and a kind but very sexy smile played on her face that reached from ear to ear. She was wearing a white spaghetti strap tang top with a baby blue, lacy braw, hip hugger jeans and steel toe boots, her midriff shown just enough to make any proper boy hard. He stared at her, mouth open wide looking like a fish out of water.

"Well it's good to see you too Sev," She giggled, Snape blinked.

"Hello Sonya-he gave her an up and down look, bobbing his head- …you look," he said the only thing that came to his mind. "Sexy."

She gave a little laugh, "Thanks. We don't have to dress like you, that is the Hogwarts uniforms, for a while so…" she trailed of shrugging her shoulders. "Decided to make myself known."

"Yes vell you shouldn't tease Severus like that Sonya, it's not nice, " the Transylvanian boy walked into the room shaking his head slightly at how she was teasing Sev.

"Toros!" Snapes' eyebrow shot up. "How are you?" he shook the boys hand.

"Kvite vell, and you?" he answered politely, his own eyebrows rising

"Surviving… are all of you here?" he sounded a little nervous, but curious too.

"No. There is me, Johnny, Sonya, me girl Kassy, Volf, Jen, and you," he smiled warmly at Snape.

"So there are only six of you?" he sounded a little disappointed. "Well not bad, but I'm just glad to see you guys again at least."

"Yes, vell…aren't you and Johnny going to eat something? You know that your breakfast time is almost over."

"Well we had better get the lot of you off to the Great Hall then," came a voice from the doorway, it was Lucias Malfoy.

"Lucias!" Snape half shouted, but didn't fully say it to that extent. "God you here, I was going to introduce you as soon as I found you," he strode over to Malfoy and clapped a hand on the fellow Slytherins shoulder. He then gestured at Toros, Sonya and Johnny. "This strapping Transylvanian is Toros Saghetiatrré. Yes I know his name sound somewhat like spaghetti but, please don't make fun of it or he'll be more than likely to drain you dry, he's a vampire," Snape added due to the questioningly horrified face of hid friend.

"And this sexy goddess- Malfoy looked shocked at his Snapes choice of words towards this girl- is Sonya Stripes. Don't worry mate, she wont bite you, maybe seduce you in the most pleasurable way you could ever imagine but she's a witch," he added again at the horrified expression on his friends face. He looked as though he thought that she might have been a vulture in disguise.

"And this- now addressed the smaller boy with the shoulder length blonde hair- is my little brother Johnny."

"But I thought…" Snape intruded on his sentence. "Well half brother, but still he's my brother, so… I would expect you to treat him right Lucias. Because if you don't it wont just be me to kick you arse. There will be four other people. Boys and girls," he gave Malfoy a meaningful look. Lucias nodded in compiance.

"Well then, lets get all of you to the Great Hall before all the foods gone, " Lucias motioned to the door. Everyone left the room behind him, every one except for Johnny. Snape realized he wasn't with the rest of the group as they walked down the corridor, so he doubled back to see what was keeping him.

"Sup John?" Snape asked as he poked his head into the room they had just left. Johnny, who's back was turned towards the door, started. He spun around on the desk he was sitting on; Snape saw that his eyes were red and puffy. Fresh tears were streaming down his face. He walked into the room, concern etched on his face. He raised a hand to clap his shoulder but hesitated when Johnny gave an almighty flinch that shook the desk and caused his book bag to slip from his grip to hit the floor with a light thump. Snape drew back, even taking a step back to give space between him and his little brother. He swallowed, "Johnny? …Johnny, it's me… Sev," he waited for a reaction from the trembling boy.

Johnny uncurled from his flinching position to look at Severus. His eyes were bright and filled with fear, but the look that was in those eyes gave off the distinctive message not to touch him unless he wanted to be. It broke his heart to see those eyes that had been filled with so much love for life, the touch of others like a hug or a clap on the shoulder, but know held nothing but fear and pain.

"Johnny…you know I wont hurt you. I would never hurt you or let anyone hurt you, not again. You know that… don't you?" he asked nervously, but he said it slowly and clearly so that Johnny could hear every word and understand everything he said. Johnny nodded sadly, then flung himself into his brothers' chest crying freely. Snape just held him, letting him cry. Even though it tore him up inside at the pitiful sounds that came from the small boy. He could be mean and a heartless bastard to everyone else in this whole God forsaken school, but not to this boy or even muster the energy to be mean or heartless in front of him. He brushed a kiss on the top of the blonde locks.

After the event in the empty class room, Snape took Johnny to the Great Hall. He reluctantly had to sit with the rest of the Slytherins while his fragile little brother had to sit the Gryffindors and those damn Marauders. Johnny sat with the rest of the boys and girls that had been sorted into Gryffindor at the far end of the table (which was closest to the door). He ate very little, his stomach not allowing more than a few bites of toast and some milk.

He didn't like how the rest of the table and the rest of the students in the room for that matter starring at him and the rest of the students from Blades; but especially at him. He kept feeling odd, as though all the Gryffindors thought him amusing for being a Snape. He didn't really know why he felt this so suddenly but it made him a little uneasy. He found that could sense the feeling of all the other students who felt that way very strongly, but the others either didn't care or didn't bare it as an important subject. But he became even more nervous at the thought that all the Gryffindors were going to gang up on him as he over heard the conversation between a red haired, emerald green-eyed girl who was talking to James Potter. She was sitting across from him at the table.

"…so that little blonde haired boy the bruise on his face is Sniviluses' little brother?" she sounded surprised, but Johnny didn't know who this Snivilus' character was. "So what are you going to do to him James…get back at him for these four, going on five years, of jinxes and hexes? Or are you just going to leave him alone," she emphasized the last three words.