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Chapter 12 "Torture"

Severus flew down the street, scanning the area as he went for Lily. She couldn't have gone too far without her wand. Severus felt his muscles burning and he panted as he jogged along. He felt a pinch of fear at the thought of confronting Potter. Potter always used to abuse him at school, but then of course, this wasn't school and Potter wouldn't have his cronies to back him up. Well, maybe Black, but two against one was better then four against one, like it used to be in school. Well, really more like three to one, because Lupin tried not to get involved with the other Marauders foolish antics.

Severus shook his head, trying to remove the uneasy feelings that had planted themselves there. He would destroy Potter when he found him, no doubt about that.

He suddenly glimpsed a flash of red going around a corner.

"Lily!" Severus called, hoping it was her. He turned the corner, entering an alley, and was knocked to the ground by a spell. He suddenly felt very weak, and his eyesight grew blurry.

"No! Please." Severus heard Lily cry.

"Shut up," a male voice snarled, and there was a sharp slap. "I told you not to tell anyone."

Severus tried to rise, but stumbled, feeling dizzy.

"And you," Severus suddenly received a sharp kick to the ribs, and he gasped, trying to get his breath back. He was pulled up by his collar, and his vision slowly cleared, revealing James Potter. "You're from the Potion's shop. You look so familiar...what's your name?"

Severus didn't reply; instead he went to slash his wand through the air and curse Potter to hell, but his arm was grabbed from behind.

"Tut-tut." Sirius Black grabbed his wand and threw it down on the ground where it rolled under a dumpster.

"Were you going to curse me?" James smiled in a psychotic way, tilting his head a bit.

"James, PLEASE," Lily was beside James, tugging on his sleeve, and Severus looked at her. Their eyes met for a minute, and Severus felt a surge of hate for Potter. He could see in her eyes how terrified, and worried, and guilty she was.

James shook Lily off."Why? Who is this man to you? I know he's not part of your family, Lily, so who is he?"

When Lily didn't reply, James nodded at her, and she heard herself talking, the words being pulled out of her."His name is Severus Snape."

James eyes lit up and Sirius chuckled. "Old Snivellus, huh? This day is just getting better."

Severus tried to pull his wand toward him with his mind, but Sirius noticed it rolling on the ground toward him, and stomped on it, breaking it in half before it flew into his hand. Seeing he couldn't use magic to get out of this then, he struggled in James grip, and to his surprise James let him go.

He was looking at Severus with an odd expression on his face. "Why are you here, Snivellus?" he asked, twirling his wand in his hands.

Severus stood, and didn't reply.

James sighed. "You know I'm going to get the answer eventually." He turned to Lily. "Lily, why is he here?"

Lily felt the words being wrenched from her again. "Because he loves me."

James began laughing. "Oh, well, Snivellus, if you haven't figured it out by now, Lily is MINE." James willed Lily to come closer to him, and grabbed her chin roughly, and brought his lips to hers.

Severus watched, sickened. He could see tears in Lily's eyes.

"Leave her alone," Severus yelled. He started forward, to do what he didn't know, but Sirius flicked his wand at him, yelling, "Petrificus Totalus!" and Severus fell like a block of cement to the ground.

"Not enjoying this?" James whispered to Lily, for a moment unconscious of everything that was going on around them. He latched his lips onto hers again, feeling her revulsion in her mind, and slipped his hand under her blouse, running it over the smooth landscape of her stomach.

James heard Lily's voice in her mind screaming, saying no, and then she cried for Sev to help her. He was jolted back to reality by the sound of his enemy's name.

"Sev? Is that what you call him?" James looked around at Severus lying on the ground. Sirius had his wand on him, but was watching James and Lily with a satisfied smile on his face.

Severus was watching, unable to do anything, but he could see Lily shuddering, FEEL her revulsion, as Potter stuck his filthy paw under her shirt. He screamed silently in his mind, much like Lily was doing, willing his body to move, to get up, but he couldn't even twitch an eyelid. And of course, Sirius had his wand on him.

"Wait, Lily," James looked surprised at her. He ran his finger down her face. "Do you..do you love him?"

Severus listened closely, knowing that Lily couldn't lie under whatever incantation Potter had her under.

"Yes." Lily said.

James stared hard at her, not believing his ears.. "You'd rater have THAT,"he gestured to Severus. "Then me?"

Lily nodded, still inclined to tell the truth.

"Why?" James asked simply, calmly, but Lily could feel his temper rising like lava in a volcano. He could not believe that she would rather take that poor excuse for a wizard then him.

"Because you are a no-good, lying, disrespectful, pig-headed drunken bastard who only cares about sex, booze and power and doesn't care how many people you hurt to get what you want." Lily said quietly. "And Severus is just the opposite of everything you are."

James' grabbed Lily by the hair and threw her to the ground. "Well, if you'd prefer him, then me, we'll have to take him out of the picture, won't we?"

"No, don't do anything to him, James." Lily pleaded. Her worst nightmare was coming true. Here, she had tried to protect her loved ones, and instead she might have jump-started James hurting Severus.

"Oh, I'm not going to do anything to him, Lily. YOU are." Sirius chuckled in the background, knowing what James was going to do; their minds were SO alike, Sirius always knew what James was going to do.

James pulled Lily up and handed his wand to her. He made her walk over and stand above Severus.

"Sirius, you may let him go," James said quietly.

Severus stared at Lily, standing above him, and he was suddenly able to move again. He jumped up, and made to grab Lily, to hold her, to take her away, but before he could, she pointed James' wand, and shouted, "Crucio!"

Severus screamed, every muscle on fire, his bones were being ripped from his body, his skin was being sliced open, hanging from his body in thick flaps, blood running from him onto the pavement...Then he was on the ground, face to the pavement, feeling the rough black stones pressing into his face.

"Do it again, Lily." James commanded. It gave him pleasure to see this man, who had tried to steal his possession, his Lily-Flower, in pain. "And turn up the pain."

Lily raised the wand, and Severus rolled over to face her. "Lily, no. Don't do it." Severus could see Lily's terrified eyes, betraying her, telling that she didn't want to commit this action, but she had no choice.

Lily screamed inside, trying to throw the wand to the ground, to run and haul Severus up, and run from James, but she couldn't. "Crucio!"

Severus was screaming again, and it pierced her brain and her heart and made her think of all the terrible things she had ever seen.

When Severus was limp again, panting on the ground, James ordered Lily to continue torturing Severus until he was dead. "Then I won't have any competition, then, will I, honey?" James smiled sweetly, and gave her another kiss before stepping back to enjoy the show with Sirius.

Sirius would have rather been the one doing the crucio-ing, but he supposed it was more painful to Snape this way, his long-lost love torturing him to death for her master. Oh, the drama!

Severus was crawling to Lily when she hit him with another "Crucio!" He fell to his knees in front of her, screaming. His brain was hazy with pain, and he couldn't do much except scream. But he slowly raised his hand and touched Lily's wand-free hand, which was hanging limply at her side.

Lily was still fighting with herself, her insides being torn apart by her desperation to stop herself from torturing Severus. She watched him reach his hand up and touch hers, and she felt a spark run through her body. She suddenly was able to move by herself, and she kneeled besides Severus, and embraced his convulsing body. He fell into her, weakened from the cruciartus curse.

"What are you doing?" James screamed. "Kill him! Just KILL him!"

Lily felt herself being taken again, her mind being seized by James. No! she thought silently. She could feel Severus against her, breathing, and it gave her strength. She forced James out of her mind, out of her body. But the effort to do that was too much, and she passed out next to Severus, their bodies still entwined.

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