A Day In The Life Of a Young Severus Snape
rated MA for mature adults
Ch.4
Severus was so wrapped up in his escape plan that he did not have that horrible dream again. He began to make a mental list of everything he would need to carry with him. Food, clothing, my wand, my potions book, defense against the dark arts book, and... A BROOM! At that moment he realized that he would need a good, fast, mode of transportation. A broom being the obvious choice. But he did not own a broom and certainly did not have the money to buy one; a good one anyway. He tried to think of who to borrow-with-no-intention-of-return from. James Potter was the seeker for the Gryfindor quidditch team. He was a Slytherin him self, so he would be doing his team a favor by taking Potter's Firebolt. And Potter did have the latest model. But, how could he possibly get into the Gryfindor Common Room? He could threaten a Gryfindor first year and then do a memory wipe. Ingenues, hethought. When and who? Well, I'll deal with who later but I think tonight will be a good time. A jolly good time to a have a little "party" with Potter. He gave a evil smirk when his plan was all ready to be set into motion.
That night around one in the morning, he hid himself behind a beam next to the Gryfindor portrait door. After several people walked past one little girl came by who was alone. Very quickly he took out his wand a held it to her neck and asked the terrified girl for the password. Once he obtained the it, "Bubbling, babbling, baboons," he preformed the memory wipe and then knocked her out, hid her, and preceded to the door. It swung open just as he had planned. This is going too well, he thought. When he walked in luckily no one was around. They were all in their dorms asleep. Asleep so he hoped. He swiftly, yet silently, preceded to boy's dorm. No lights were on, a good sign. But he couldn't let his guard down. Not yet. No until he was well out side of Hogwarts' boundaries. He crept to each of the boys until he found Potter on the fourth bunk from the entrance. First Snape just look around the bed but found nothing. So he looked under the bed. He saw what he came for, the Firebolt. All he had to do now was grab it and leave. He had his bag waiting for him outside so he would just grab that too and fly. He slipped his hand around the neck of it. It was a great feeling. As if he could now do anything. With this false feeling of accomplishment he hurriedly pulled it towards him. When this occurred, it triggered two things. One was that it made a horrible, loud scratching noise against the hardwood floor. And two, James Potter awoke with a start.
"What the bloody hell are you doing!" asked James.
"EXPELLIARMUS!"cried Severus out of panic. Potter was hit with the close range blast and was knocked out. Damn, that's two people already, thought Snape. The problem now was that knocking out Potter involved waking two more boys up. Before the other two Gryfindors could see him he took the broom and bolted out of there as fast as he could. He escaped the common room and grabbed his pack then started to head up to one of the many towers that made up Hogwarts. About half way up he started to run out of breath so he decided to take his new broom for a test run. He was amazed at how fast it could go. But, since he never had flown on a broom before, quite frankly, he sucked. He soared out of the tower and into the night sky.
Only one question...Which way was home?