Disclaimer Okay folks, this here is yet another Snape fanfic. Just so there is no confusion, I am not JK Rowling, thus I do not own anything. Anyone who is actually interested in this story should go to my website to check out the songfic I wrote that inspired it.

"Forgive me."

"What?"

"Forgive me." repeated Snape.

"For what? What are you talking about, Severus?"

Snape sighed deeply; he recalled the time they had first spoken to each other. "Sera, when we were sixteen you were taken from me after only a few days, and now I must leave you." He paused, thinking back over the few short months since Seraphina's return to the castle. "I have to...I have to go."

She watched as Snape strode away, his black robes billowing out behind him. 'What the hell?' she thought to herself.

The following morning she received an owl from the Order, 'Dumbledore is dead. We are calling an urgent meeting for all members of the Order at Hogwarts.' Sera read the letter over and over again, she could not believe it. She quickly dressed and disaparated.

She arrived outside the school grounds seconds later and rushed into the castle. "Molly, what's happened?"

"Oh, it's horrible! Dumbledore's dead, Bill's been terribly injured, dozens of others are hurt."

"And Severus?"

Molly's expression hardened, "He's the cause of all this, he betrayed us."

"No, he couldn't, he wouldn't..."

"He did, Harry saw it for himself."

She felt her head swim. "Where is he now?"

"Run off, like the coward that he is." said Harry. "And so help me, if I ever catch him, he'll wish he were dead."

Sera started down the hall, her pace quickening as she went. "Where are you going?" called Molly, "What about the meeting?"

"I have to find him." she answered without turning back. Rounding a corner, she ran into Remus Lupin.

"Find who?"

"Severus."

Lupin grabbed her shoulders, "Do you know where he is?"

"No. But I have to see him."

"Listen to me, Sera, Snape is extremely dangerous. He betrayed us, he killed Dumbledore."

"No! Severus would never-"

"He did. I know you cared for him, but-"

"You know nothing!" She roared, struggling against Lupin. Her voice took on a quite, deadly tone "Let go of me."

Lupin looked into her eyes, they were burning with rage. "You must understand,"

"I said," she grabbed her wand and pointed it at Lupin's chest, "let...go." Lupin loosened his grip on her shoulders and Sera pulled away from him. "You must understand, Remus, I know him." She started running down the hall again, this time no one stopped her.

When she got to the doors, she flicked her wand and they burst open. She was hardly out the door before transfiguring into her animagus form.

"Did you see her eyes?" Lupin asked.

"No, why?"

He scratched his head, "Well, I could have sworn they were red."

"Red?" repeated Molly.

"Like a deep maroon, normally they're blue. I've never seen anything like it, she's usually such a sweet person, but she looked like she was going to kill me. There was pure hatred in her eyes."

"What are we going to do?"

Remus shook his head, "I have no idea."