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Note: English is not my first language so I would appreciate you tried to review my grammar also and not only the story.
This is the first chapter, which is a short one, of a What If story that I have written. The What If in question is What if Lord Voldemort never existed.
It is a Lupin/Snape Slash.
Remus John Lupin stared up at the rising sun. He was curled up, shielding his naked form against the damp of the morning. The sky was beautifully rose tinted but he couldn't appreciate it. His body was badly hurt and he was covered in blood, not all his own. He had smelled it and he could smell the distinct smell of Padfoot, it was a slightly different scent from Sirius so he hoped that he hadn't killed the dog. Moony never killed animals, he was a human killer after all, but he couldn't know for sure. Why hadn't he taken the potion last night? What could've happened, what did happen? He remember that they had taken Peter Pettigrew and he had finally found out that Sirius never had betrayed them. Dear old Sirius, if they just had talked back then, trusted each other, then maybe nothing had happened. Maybe Sirius didn't have to spend all those years in azkaban slowly slipping into insanity. If they had realised that Peter was the traitor before it happened then James and Lily would still be alive. Remus started to cry, his sobs hurt his body but he wasn't able to stop. He tighten his grip around his legs and cried even harder. It felt like it was all Remus' fault. If he had supported Peter, helped him become a better man, a braver man, than he never would have lost his will to protect them. They shouldn't have pushed him away, they should have included him more, not acting like it was James, Sirius and Remus and then Peter that just tagged along because they shared dorm room.
Remus was also sure that it was his fault that Severus Snape had turned out the way he did. Remus should have stopped his friends from doing what they did, he should have seen that the pranks had turn into bullying. If James hadn't done what he did that day, Lily and Severus wouldn't have fallen apart, they still would be best friends and maybe that would have stopped Severus from becoming a Death Eater, becoming a shell of the man he once been, always hunted by the memories. Remus knew he should have told his best friends what he really felt. If he had done it they would have been nicer to Severus because they would always support one of their own. After all being in love with a greasy git was nothing compared to being a werewolf.
Remus stared up at the sun again, his tears trailing paths down his dirty and bloody face. It wasn't Remus fault. It was his fault.
If he never had existed Sirius never would have been sent to prison and all those people that died in the war would still be alive.
If he never had existed Severus never had to watch his best friend die because of his own actions.
Then Peter never had to betrayed them, killing both Lily and James.
Remus saw the sun slowly rise and the last thought before he fell into the darkness of his mind was.
"I wish Tom Riddle never had existed"