Chapter 2: A Spy

Severus ran a hand through his hair. His hands were freezing cold and his hair was drenched in water. He stared at the door he was hesitating to knock on. He'd not seen her in nearly four years and their last parting wasn't exactly one of their happiest moments in life. To look back on it now, it seemed such a stupid mistake to make. Was he so devoted to the Dark Lord that he would pick him over the love of his life? Well whatever was the reason it had taken him many years to get to this point.

He lightly knocked on the door not daring to knock any louder and he hoped that through the thunder that the knock went by unnoticed. Unfortunately he heard the sound of someone unlocking the door. Severus ran a hand through the drenched locks of his hair. He wondered whether in the years since he'd finished Hogwarts if she'd changed at all.

The door swung open and there she stood. Viktoria was taken aback at the sight of Severus Snape standing in her doorway. She furrowed her brow. Despite the fact that she very well knew what he was, there was no fear in her eyes as she stared at him. He was surprised to see that he didn't see any hate in her eyes either. "What are you doing here?" She asked as she stared into his black eyes. Her voice was the most beautiful sound he'd ever heard. It would make any man fall dangerously in love with her and very literally.

"I know that it is perhaps very late, but I came to apologize for my stupidity when I left you," he said as he looked up at her. She stared into his eyes, she hadn't changed. If anything she'd only become more beautiful since last he saw her. She was as tall and thin as ever. Her hair was still long and very straight. Her amber eyes still shone as they always had and her face was more beautiful then he remembered. Something inside him ached at the thought that she didn't love him anymore.

"Very late is right. Why are you coming knocking on my door? I don't want your kind around here. I told Viktor a million times before and now I'm telling you, don't come around here," she said as she turned away and was about to close the door, but he put out his hand to stop the door.

"It's what I meant to speak to you about. I can't ... Go on like this anymore. I need you," he said as he stared at her. She stared at him like he was insane and said that the world was indeed flat.

"I think that the Dark Lord has performed the Cruciatus curse on you a few too many times if you even think that I want you back," she said as she stared down into his eyes. "Remus was right when he said that you were no good and that you would never be," she said as she tried to close the door once more, but as before he merely held his hand out to stop to her. He hated it when she brought Remus into it.

"Yes, well as lovely as Remus' opinion is, I beg to differ. For the past several months I've been spying on the Dark Lord for Professor Dumbledore," he said as he made his way into the house, using his six feet and two inches of height to his advantage by getting her to retreat back into her house. He closed the door behind himself as Viktoria stared at him through narrowed eyes. Despite the fact that she'd just allowed him to bully her into her own home, she was unwilling to let got of her pride and she stood up straight.

"A couple of months is supposed to make up for nearly four years of committing murder and terrorizing the whole wizarding world?" she asked as she stared at him. He flinched at the sound of her voice. It hurt. He stared down at his feet, part of him wondering whether it was worth it. Everything he was doing was just to win her back, but she was no longer the sweet girl that he'd fallen in love with. And whose fault is that? a cynical voice inside his head piped up. It was his; he knew it and it hurt. He'd killed the person he most loved.

"No, I'll be paying for that for many years to come, but I'll be paying for the rest of my life for what I've done to you," he said as he looked up at her. She stood there very still and speechless. It was then that he could see that through the years and what he'd done to her, that flame of love she had for him had never extinguished. "Everyone deserves a second chance Viktoria. That is all that I am asking for. I'm not asking for forgiveness, I'm merely asking for another chance."

"Dumbledore has given you your second chance," Viktoria said as she turned away and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. Severus walked over to her and grabbed her chin in his hand and forced her to look up into his eyes. There was a very hollow expression in her gaze as she stared up into his eyes. He pulled her close to him and stared deep into her amber gaze.

"You still love me as much as you have ever loved me. Do not push me away. I know how much you hate the thought of having to admit to Remus that he was right all along, well let me prove him wrong," he said as he stared down into her eyes, watching a little sparkle slowly creeping into her eyes. She stared up at him, a part of her wanted to believe in that he had changed, but the other part feared allowing herself to believe to only be let down again. "I will always be the man who loved you more then anything. I'll give you the world."

"All I want is you," she whispered as tears came to her eyes. He took her in his arms and held her tight.

TBC…