"My lord" he gasped
"What do you know of this Emyrs"
"he has currently donated potions to the infirmary and sent a tea service to my room, my lord other than this I have no clues as to who he may be"
"seeing as you did not know I would be visiting I assume you wanted to see Lucius, what did you want?"
"There is to be an Order meeting and Dumbledore wants all information on a so-called Shadow Assassin, I am to bring info as well and I thought Lucius might have ideas on what to tell the old fool."
"good, my slippery spy. He has great standing friends of all creatures, and I mean all from the goblins to dementors they will all swear loyalty to him, we are currently trying to sway him but as far as I can tell he wants nothing and is leaning more to the light than anything, I would frankly offer him something just to sway neutral but I can't find any of his delegates, they are of such high standing they wouldn't even bother with me, and I am the Dark Lord! AGRHH CRUCIO!"
WHOSHSHO
In a swirl of red white and black there was suddenly someone standing in front to Severus and had seemingly blocked the torture curse. "I have received word that the Dark Lord Voldemort wished to speak with one of the Shadow's Assassins delegates, I am a Vampire of the Prince Line"
/Prince Line? my mother was a prince, I'm a prince, am I part vampire? It should explain my sallow skin and liking of darkness hmm./
"Yes… I have been trying to speak with someone of an alliance between the Shadow Assassin"
"He does not want to ally with you"
"I have heard he is more toward the light side, could he not be persuaded to be a neutral?"
"As his delegate I make the negotiations he will accept one thing and one thing only in return for him not storming your forces, I cannot say for sure that your men will not turn up dead in alleys, but there will be no strong assault unless things change, what say you?"
"And what does he want?"
"Mhmm who is this standing behind me that you were about to crucio?"
"Severus Snape he is but a potions master, get out, I am making negotiations I will deal with you later"
"Wait" starting to circle around the man he stopped directly in front of him and leered
"I have just received word through my amulet, this is what my lord wants."
"excuse me?"
"He wants this.. Severus Snape,"
"I- please, don't kill him, he is a very valuable asset to ou-"
"This is what he wants, you are to remove the dark mark from him, call your forces and inform them that Severus is not to be belittled hurt or otherwise harmed behind your back or in front. these are the terms for my lord. I have no clue whatsoever what interest he has in this wizard other than the fact that he is being courted, do you agree to the terms or shall a certain cup be taken out of Gringotts?" at this Voldemort paled, death eaters started apparating in, following the call that the dark lord had sent out
by now Severus was very pale and shaking no matter how much he put up his Occlumency shields /great now it seems I have four extremely powerful wizards pulling on me from all sides it does seem that everyone wants a piece, a dark lord, a light lord, and two which are neither and whom I know next to nothing about, at least it seems 3 do not want me harmed and the other I shall soon be away from/
"Step Forward Severus" reaching out to grab his potion master's arm he saw the slight flinch but with the vampire standing with them in the middle of the ring of his followers he decided not to comment "Morsmorde"
"I, do you not feel pain Severus?"
"No, My lo-"
"NO! he is no longer your lord you shall not call him such, perhaps…. Mr. Voldemort?" he said with a slight smirk on his face
The Dark Lord ignoring this turned to face his followers all very pale wondering what would happen to the vampire for saying such.
"Severus Snape is no longer under my order and shall not be harmed in any way at all, those who do will face torture if not at my hands then surely at the mysterious lord Emyrs or shadow assassin who's delegate is here and has agreed neutrality in return for Severus's safety. Dismissed"
"Very well, the cup stays where it is, I trust you will find your way home fine enough Mr. Snape?"
"I- yes…"
And then just as he had suddenly as he had appeared he was gone
"My lord?"
"No Severus, the shadow assassin is very important and I will abide by his wishes though I must say I do prefer Mr. Riddle, you may go, or stay, whatever, I do believe Narcissa invited me to stay for dinner however"
"I shall take my leave then, Mr. Riddle"
Apparating back to Hogsmead he prepared himself for a long walk back to the castle, looking down at the pathway he realized there was a medallion with a black and white phoenix on it. "Let's see what you have for me now Mr. Emyrs, Incenereo" With a soft pop he found himself directly in front of the Headmasters office and a piece of paper saying 'Snickers' which he took to be the password to the gargoyle he had just taken a breath to say the obscure Muggle sweet when the headmaster practically flew down the stairs looking very worried.
"Severus! The wards were just breached, a single transport, I didn't even know it was possible, frankly, it isn't!"
"It was me" the headmaster pause from where he had been preparing to warn everyone.
"I beg your pardon my dear boy, if you could have apparated inside the wards you would have done so many a staff meeting ago."
"It was a courting gift from Lord Emyrs so I would not have to walk from the gates and back."
"oh. You look dazed Severus, and I assume it is not just from the ward apparating, I assume your information search went well?"
"You shall know soon enough, just bring your pensive and a memory projector with you to the meeting, you shall want it. I assure you"
"Well then, I just love surprises, while you're here, would you perhaps like a lemon drop?"
Without answering the resident head of house for Slytherin did the wise thing and just left.
