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WARNING: This chapter contains a little ooc for Snape (only when it comes to emotion) ENJOY!
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CHAPTER 9: Apolgies and Answers
Anna woke up to blinding light. She squinted her eyes, and looked around the room to see herself in a white bed with a curtain around her.
She pulled back the curtain and, "AHHH! MY EYES!" Big mistake! All the light from the windows came pouring through.
Madam Pomfrey came out from her office and gave Anna a potion. " Your eyes are the last thing that should be in pain, Miss Snape." She huffed.
Anna was confused until all the pain came running back to her sensess. "OUCH!" She couldn't say what hurt, because it felt like her body was aching all over.
"The effects of the cruciatus curse, Miss Snape." Madam Pomfrey, said alot softer and in a sad voice.
Anna just nodded and drank the foul potion, she felt her body ease a little more but she still felt a shooting pain in her upper right abdomen. She looked down and could easily see a bandage over her ribs through her thin dressing gown.
Madam Pomfrey watched as Anna observed her injuries, " you broke a few ribs when one of your attackers fell on you." She said in a Pomfrey tone, " I mended them, but they are still very fragile." She finished.
Anna looked up at her, "anything else I should know about before more pain comes back?" She asked with a smirk. Madam Pomfrey just huffed but didn't wipe the smile off her face, " you have a pretty bad cut on your forehead, It was pretty deep. I did fix it with magic, but the cut was so deep, that it does reopen sometimes.
Anna put her hand to her head and felt a moist bandage, "that would explain the headache." She mumbled. Madam Pomfrey heard and nodded her head, "actually I was just here to change your bandages. " She said.
Madam Pomfrey first changed the forehead bandage, when she took it off Anna saw alot of blood. 'How deep is this cut?' She thought to herself but decided she was better off not knowing.
Then Madam Pomfrey had to rebandage her ribs, Anna had on shorts underneath her gown, so she lifted it up just bellow her chest, and painfully held it there till the nurse was done.
After all of her bandages were taken care of, and she took all of her potions, Anna looked to her right to see her night stand full of cards and candy. She read through them, there were some from, of course, Ron, Hermione and Harry. Although there were others too, some from Gryffindors in here year. Some from Gryffindor from younger years and some from different houses that thought she was 'brave' for fighting off the Deatheaters.
Anna scoffed to herself, 'brave?' She thought, ' I was scared out of my mind!' Her thoughts were interupted when there was a knock at the doors. Madam Pomfrey rushed from her office and opened the door to see professor Dumbledore, she let him in and he made his way to Anna.
"Ah! I see you are awake, Miss Snape." He said merrily, Anna smiled and nodded. He observed her surroundings, " I see you have fan mail." Dumbledore chuckled and sat in the chair next to her.
"Ya, I do." Anna replied sadly. Dumbledore looked at her, " and that's a bad thing Miss Snape?"
Anna shook her head, " first, please call me Anna, Miss Snape sounds...old." She said, Dumbledore smiled and nodded his head, signalling for her to continue.
"Second, most of these cards are from people who think of me as some brave heroine, who fought off the Deatheaters singal handedly." She sighed and shook her head. " I wasn't brave! It was the scariest thing of my life." She ended softly.
Dumbledore solemnly looked at her and said, "you fought back and survived, Anna. That's more than anybody hopes to do, when encountering something like that." He said softly.
Anna scoffed, " yes I did survive, but only because you and my dad showed up!" She snapped back.
Dumbledore put a hand on her shoulder, " It wasn't your fault." He said quietly. Anna looked at him confused.
"Of course it's my fault!" She said, " I got the letter, I followed it, I lead mysealf strait into a trap!" She said getting angrier with each word. " I GET IT ! I SCREWED UP!" She yelled.
Anna shook her head, " I screwed up everything." She whispered.
Dumbledore removed his hand and put a finger under her chin and made her look up at him. "Yes, you did make a mistake Anna." He started, " but Voldemort wanted you! He would try to get you sooner or later, you just didn't know."
Anna burrowed her eyebrows in concentration, " you mean that letter was from Voldemort?" She asked quietly. Dumbledore nodded his head.
"I wondered why the Deatheater's were there." She said quietly, " Wait!" She suddenly called out. " The person who sent the letter knows my father! He said he spoke to him about me!" She said out of breath.
Dumbledore sighed, she had to find out sooner or later. " Yes that is correct Miss Anna." He said quietly.
Anna's eyes grew wide. " How does my father know him?" She demanded more then asked. "He was once a Deatheater, Miss Anna." She shook her head, " ho-how could h-he-" Anna sputtered.
Dumbledore sat down and then proceed to tell her the story of how Severus Snape became a Deatheater, asked Dumbledore for help and how he is now a double agent. He also explaned about the Deatheater meeting concerning her.
Anna looked at him shocked. " Is there any way out of this professor? I don't want to be a Deatheater!" She panicked, Dumbledore reassured her that everything would work out.
" I am a very busy headmaster, and I'm sorry, but I do have to go." Dumbledore said as he got up out of his seat. Anna nodded her head understandingly. " That's alright, uh, thankyou professor, for taking the time to stop by. It means alot." She finished with her famous shy smile. Dumbledore chuckled and assured her it was nothing, then took his leave.
Just as Anna was getting tired, there was another visitor for her. She looked up to see her father at the foot of her bed.
"Er, hello, Anna." He said slowly. Anna could tell he was uncomfortable so she invited him to sit down. He nodded his head and mumbled a thankyou.
" Look, I, erm, am very s-sorry, about your, uh, misfortunate event." He said slowly. Anna just looked at him like he was crazy.
"Misfortunate event?" She asked, with her eyebrow raised.
Snape looked down and sighed exasperated. "Look I'm not all that great at this whole apologising thing so can you not be so critical?" It came out more of a command, but Anna could tell he's never done this before so she just sat there with her arms folded.
Snape thought for a minute but just sighed and looked up, " I know I'm not the greatest dad in the world, and I haven't been there for you. It's just, your here now, and I don't want you to hate me." He said softly.
Anna would be the only person to see him like this, and she understood that. Although upon the word hate, she frowned. " Dad," she said as she put a hand on his arm, " I don't hate you, I never will! It's just I didn't want you to be dissapointed in me! I'm in Gryffindor I can't change that."
Snape just nodded his head sadly. "Hey, I'm the teenager, I'm the one who's supposed to lash out in anger, not you!" She said smirking. Snape let out a small chuckle and nodded his head.
"It's just when I saw you bieng picked up by that Deatheater, " He said slowly," I thought you were gone. I haven't felt that scared since your mom left." He finished with a whisper.
Anna looked at her dad, she saw all the pain he's been through, all the loneliness and sadness, all right there in his eyes. All she could do was hug him, yes it was painfull, but it was worth it to feel his arms encircle her and hug back.
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Awww, I know this chapter was a little mushy gushy, but Anna and her dad needed to make up and this was the perfect chance! Thanks! REVIEW!