This was an idea which was on my mind for some time, so I decided to pen it down.
Hope you all like it and beware the story is M rated for a reason. People with the highest morals, this is not for you.
'So it ends like this' Leo thought as he smiled bitterly while he laid in a pool of his own blood, his life playing before his eyes. The bullets ached very badly as he thought about the bullets shot at his legs, torso and finally on his ribs.
It seems there was a mole amongst us, he thought bitterly as he breathed his last.
He suddenly felt a little different, he felt like he could open his eyeswhich itself was odd considering that he remembered the complete darkness overwhelming him as he had succumbed to death.
Frowning he opened his eyes and looked around. Suddenly he felt a terrible headache that nearly felt like if his head was being split apart.
He looked at the surroundings half an hour later as he finished processing the memories. He remembered the memories of a man in whose body he was now, a man hated and loved at the same time.
He was in the body of an eighteen year old spy extraordinarae Severus Snape who had just took his dark mark yesterday after Voldemort had recruited him into Death Eaters. Apparently Hogwarts had ended three days ago and just yesterday had Severus took the dark mark with his friends as they were recruited into the ranks of Death Eaters after they finished their schooling.
Thankfully he was just a lowly member at the moment only assigned to answer when the call was made. It certainly reduced a headache for him.
But he was in a bigger problem, if he turned traitor then he will be made an example for the other Death Eaters. While the Ministry of Magic will be too glad to put him in Azkaban for being a Death Eater if he went to them or was caught accidentally by them.
He couldn't go to Dumbledore as he didn't believe that the man would risk his neck for him, the other Severus would have been included in the inner circle or in Voldemort's extremely good graces after delivering the prophecy. There was no way Dumbledore would do anything for a Death Eater at the most lowly level who was nothing infront of the Dark Lord's eyes at the moment. He will be lying if he dearly wanted to join Dumbledorr's side. Besides what valuable intel could he provide to the old man.
Leo was many things but a man who viewed the world in black and white, he certainly wasn't. Besides he doubted many things, his own death was planned carefully afterall it would hardly be a coincidence that after a week of inventing a virus able to cause mass genocide with the help of respiratory and digestive problems, he was suddenly killed by men or sleeper agents of other countries.
No, clearly there was a corrupt higher officer who had leaked details. It was a good thing that the only data of virus was in soft copy in his personal desktop at the secret government lab with the password known to only him, atleast his creation wasn't going to wreak havoc. The software would instantly erase every data after the wrong password two times. The only backup was in the most unexpected place which would be destroyed too if he didn't check on it in 2 days everytime.
Well now he was a magical terrorist according to the government of this world, so he had to basically get rich if he wanted to pull the Imperious Curse defence incase something shit happens. Perhaps a visit to Gringotts for checking the status for Prince Family was needed. Money was the gate for many things in Wizarding Britain and he needed it, old Severus may have not visited Gringotts due to his pride of not doing anything with Prince Family but he certainly was not going to do the same.
He was already an orphan now which hardly didn't mattered for him. He just hoped that his mother's family left something for him otherwise it would be a waste.
For now, he had to mainly keep himself safe and not get caught himself as a casualty of the war. He had seen the Dark Lord's gaze upon him, there was no way he was not notified of his skills in potions or the very much coveted art of spellcreation. The Dark Lord had not mentioned anything but it didn't meant that he had discarded him, there was something else he was planning and Leo just needed to be prepared. Besides it would hurt his members pride that he will just suddenly pick a halfblood boy to his good graces instead of the scions of influential families. No the Dark Lord wanted him to prove first to other people of his ranks otherwise he would only be targeted if was preferred by the Dark Lord. Clever, he thought with a inward frown.
It still left him in a dilemma about what to do though. He looked around the house and walked to the table and brought out a bag of galleons given to him after he had successfully been included into his ranks.
"It's heavy" was his first thought as he looked at the bag filled with mostly gold and some silvers.
There were some potions ingredients filled in jars or wrapped placed on table and he smiled thinking of that.
He needed more money and best way was to get it was already on his mind. He had felt like that the knowledge and memories of Severus were of his own which meant that he was probably in conjunction with his muscle memories and knowledge.
The timeline could no longer be followed, he had been a researcher and scientist and he knew that there was no way that it would have been the same after his arrival.
He looked at the state of house and grimaced, it was gloomy for his tastes. "It seems I have much work cut out for me" he muttered as he took the wand on the table.
There was a warmth but it was no longer like the usual according to Severus memories. 'Just like I expected' he thought as he looked at the wand.
There couldn't be just only Ollivanders as the only wand shop, he thought with a frown. There must be some completion for him and didn't Hagrid told Harry that Ollivanders wands work best which meant that there were similar wand makers like him in the Diagon Alley but they couldn't reach the quality of Ollivanders.
He looked at the clock and saw that it was around seven in the morning. Well it meant that he would have to bid his time and plan his movements carefully. During the Death Eater meeting in which Severus had participated, it was said that they will not be summoned for the next ten days which meant that he had enough time to go and act on his plan.
Since he was an adult there was no need for trace and Severus had already warded his house against intruders with some dark spells. He looked at the books from the Prince Family library some of which were brought with Eileen Prince from which Severus learnt everything.
"Now off to survive" he muttered slowly as he walked to the kitchen and prepared something from him. While he went over in his mind about his plan to gain money. If all went well he could have 500 galleons if he played his part well.