I don't know how I got the idea for this story, but I hope you enjoy it:)

Disclamer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter Characters, they belong to JK. However, I own Elisabeth (Els) Vinyal, she's my character, if you want to use her, send me a PM so I know;)

It seemed like hours that Harry sat there, his face buried in his hands and his body slightly shocking, before someone slowly walked to him.

"C'mere, Harry …", Hagrid said softly.

I placed my hand on his shoulder, "You can't stay here, Harry", I said, "Come on, now …"

"No."

Then I saw Ginny from the corners of my eyes, placing her hand on Harry's should, "Harry, come on."

Harry slowly stood up and Ginny and I led him trough the crowd towards the marble staircase, trough the mess on the floor, bits of stone and rubies that felt out of the shattered Gryffindor hourglass.

"Come one Harry, we're going to the hospital wing", Ginny said as ascend the stairs.

"I'm not hurt", Harry said weakly.

"It's McGonagall's orders", I said, "Everyone's up there, Ron and Hermione and Lupin and everyone -"

Harry seemed to freeze for a moment, before asking, "Ginny, who else is dead?"

"Don't worry, none of us."

"But the Dark Mark", Harry mumbled, "Malfoy said he stepped over a body."

"That was Bill, but it's all right, he's alive", Ginny said, "He was attacked by Greyback. Madame Pomfrey says he won't – won't look the same any more …"

I moved over to Ginny who started to tremble and hugged her, "He'll be fine Gin, it isn't full moon so he can't be transformed into a werewolf."

As we reached the hospital wing, I told Harry and Ginny to go in, "I will be back a bit later, I just want to be on my own now."

Harry and Ginny nodded to each other and while they entered the hospital wing I got a short glimpse of what was going on inside, Neville laid down on one of the beds, apparently sleeping, while Ron, Hermione, Luna, Tonks and Lupin sat around a bed at the end of the ward. The last think I saw was Hermione standing up and running towards Harry before he closed the door behind him.

I sighed and walked slowly towards the Astronomy Tower, as I walked onto the circle platform I couldn't believe how normal everything looked. Nothing indicated the fact that someone was killed here half an hour before, I sat down on one of the edges and stared at the school grounds, everything seemed so at peace and normal.

The Black Lake was unruffled and reflected the small moon, the trees in the Forbidden Forest looked the same as always, tall and silent. The only evidence of what happened was Hagrid's hut, which was burned down into ashes. I took a deep breath and screamed out all my frustration from the last year. An owl flew up from the forest while my scream echoed over the grounds, I listen to if getting softer and softer until it was gone before falling backwards, laying flat on the cold stones.

As I closed my eyes, everything that happened the last few hours flashed in front of me, watching the Marauders Map with Ron, Hermione and Ginny, heading out to Flitwick's office, getting stunned by Snape, following Snape and Harry to the school grounds. It was just to much, to get rid of the images I opened my eyes and stared at the stars that were visible, I could easily pick out the constellations of Taurus, Orion, Sirius and Pegasus. I watched them while they slowly moved along the sky until everything turned black.

"Severus, what are you doing?", I said while he dragged me behind him into an empty classroom, "I have my patrol to do!"

"Never mind that", Severus said, "No one will know if it took you a bit longer, besides, I'm the only teacher who's on patrol tonight."

As he turned around, I could see his eyes twinkle in mischief, the bloody basterd was annoying this. He looked at me for a second, before closing the gap between us, and attacking my mouth. I gasped in surprise, and he used this opportunity to slip his tongue in my mouth while his hands found their way to my hips and into my hair. He pulled on my hair slightly to angle my head so he had better access. My arms found their way around his neck and he moaned softly as I tangled my hands into his hair. I suddenly fell something hard hit my back, and realised he had pushed me towards the door, and pressed his body against mine. As I moved my head backwards to breath, he started placing feather light kisses over my face along my neck and placed a last one on my ear before whispering, "I really don't see you enough, you know."

I smiled, "You see me everyday Severus."

He squeezed my sides, "Just seeing is not enough, I want to be with you every day, you help me to forget the every day threats. I love you Elisabeth, and I promise, I will never let go of you."

I'm sorry Elisabeth, it's for the best", he whispered while pointing his wand at me again, then everything turned black.

Snape turned around to face me, "What do you want, Vinyal?", he sneered, "Don't you need to help your boyfriend?"

"He's not my boyfriend, you bastard, and you know that!" I walked to him, knowing it wouldn't help if I used curses against him, I would only end up as Harry, unconscious.

When I was about a feet away, I stopped, "How could you, I trusted you, and this is what you do to us?", I said, feeling tears starting well up in my eyes.

"This is who I am, not that it matters to you", he sneered.

"No, it's not, what was all that about with Draco then, trying to act nice to me, even told me he had to act nasty to us. He told me you said I was the only person trustworthy of telling this, so you won't fool me Snape!"

"That was all a lie, don't you get it, we set you up!", Snape sneered, "And you were to stupid to see trough it, you and your pathetic friends walked right into our plan, with open eyes!"

As if someone knocked all the air out of my lungs, I gasped for air while sitting up. Why, why did I dream about these things, it made the pain even worse.

I slowly stood up and made my way back to the Common Room, feeling maybe even worse then I did before.

As I approached the Fat Lady, I saw Harry just walking into the Common Room, leaving a wailing Lady behind him. I hurried towards the Fat Lady, and as soon as she saw me, she let me in without asking for the password.

The Common Room was packed, it seemed like every Gryffindor student was there, I noticed Harry weaving quickly trough the crowd towards his dormitory and went after them. As I walked on the spiral stair, I felt the eyes of the other students burning in my back, but I ignored them and slowly opened the door to the 6th years dormitory. I spotted Harry and Ron on their beds, and both of them looked up when they heard the door open.

"So", Ron said in a low voice, "Did you find one? Did you get it? A – a Horcrux?"

Harry shook his head slowly.

"You didn't get it?", Ron said, his face turning even paler then it already was after tonight's events, "It wasn't there?"

"No", Harry said, "Someone had already taken it and left a fake on in its place."

"Already taken –?"

As Ron failed to continue, Harry pulled a locked from his pocket and showed it to Ron and me. It was a beautiful golden locket, with an 'S' on in made from emeralds.

Harry opened it, and pulled out a small note that he gave to Ron, who read it.

"R.A.B.", he whispered softly, "But who was that?"

"Dunno", Harry said as Ron passed the note over to me, I hold it in the light and read the thin, cursive handwriting:

To the Dark Lord,

I know I will be dead long before you read this

but I wasn't you to know it was I who discovered your secret.

I have stolen the real Horcrux, and intend to destroy it as soon as I can.

I face death in the hope that when you meet your match,

You will be mortal once more.

R.A.B.

I looked at the handwriting, and for some reason it looked vaguely familiar, then I shook my head, there was no way I could've know who this person was.

I gave the note back to Harry, who folded it up and placed it back in the locket, before curling his hand tightly around it.

"What are you going to do now?", I asked Harry, who started blankly at the ceiling of his four-poster.

He remained quite for a moment before answering, "I don't know, I suppose I go and look for the other Horcruxes, there's nothing that really binds me to Hogwarts any more."

I saw down on his bed, and laid my hand over his, "Harry, that's not true, you have me, Ron, Hermione, Ginny. You have everyone here. Besides, where would you start looking for the other Horcruxes?"

Harry pulled his hand away from mine, "I don't know Elisabeth. Can you please leave?"

I nodded softly, but before I got up, I pressed a kiss on his forehead, "You have to do what you think is best Harry, but don't forget that we will be there when you need us, no matter what."

I stood up, and walked out of the room, casting one glance at Harry and Ron before closing the door behind me. I walked over the balcony to my own dormitory and saw Ginny sitting on her bed, her head in her hands. She looked up when I closed the door behind me, and walked over to my own bed.

"How is he?", she asked.

I shrugged, "I don't know, he doesn't know what to do at the moment."

As I laid down in my bed I heard Fawkes song fade away, he had left Hogwarts, in search for Dumbledore.

I'm sorry for the irregular updates, but college started again, and they just love giving us coursework, so free time is hard to find. Please bear with me!