I just to say thanks to all you guys who still read this and have to deal with my load of spelling mistakes and I apologise. But I'm in Uni! Been here for a week and decided I need to give you guys a present.

CHAPTER 6

Rabastan cradled the bleeding man in his arms and wondered what had happened in that room earlier with Sirius and Remus that had resulted in this. He had seen their guilty looks and he had a pretty good idea of what had happened. Rabastan shook his head and lifted to injured man into his arms and ran his towards the couch in the front room, he laid the man down and ripped open Severus' shirt, desperately trying to heal his injuries with the little healing ability that he did have. Severus' injuries began to nit themselves together but Rabastan knew that with the small ability that he did have that they would scar. He ran desperately down into the basement collected all of the healing potions that he found. Rushing back to Severus' side, he discovered him becoming restless, "Remy…Siri….Please…" Severus cried in his sleep, tears pouring down his face.

"Fuckers" Rabastan muttered to himself, he leaned down and wiped up Severus' tears his slender tanned fingers, "Sev… I… I love you"

Severus' eyes flutter heavily and he looked up at Rabastan through his dark lashes, "Lestrange" Severus croaked, Rabastan's face instantly became hard, "…Rabastan" Severus coughed. Rabastan looked away and a tear slid down his cheek, Severus reached up a shaky hand and grabbed Rabastan's chiselled chin and turned him to look at him. Severus tried to wipe the tear from Rabastan's cheek, but he reached too far and he flinched, crying out in pain.

"Sev…" Rabastan worried, as he stroked the injured man's face, "What happened?"

"They left me…" Severus sobbed.

"Sev…" Rabastan sighed.

"I heard you" Severus said quietly. Rabastan turned away from him, "It's okay… I like you too, I have for a while"

"…" Rabastan turned to look at him.

"But I love them" both of them sighed and Rabastan leaned in gently and kissed Severus on the forehead. Then behind them the doors knocked loudly and Rabastan growled loudly towards the noise and kissing Severus on the forehead again, he laid Severus against the sofa and covered him with the blanket careful of his now permanently scarred arm, side and face.

Severus smiled sleepily and Rabastan turned and stormed towards the door, he knew who it was, it just had to be them, the people that left the man he loved scarred. The dark hallways of Spinners End were long and imposing, one could only imagine what it would look like to someone on the outside who was disliked by the dark man. Rabastan through open the humungous doors and glared at the two people on the outside. "What are you two doing here?" He growled viciously at the werewolf and the Animagus.

"We're here to see Severus" the Black Animagus said.

"Well, he doesn't want to see you" Rabastan snarled.

"We need to explain" the wolf begged, becoming more and more desperate.

"Explain what? That you ruined him ripped out his heart and left him in the gutter once you were done having your fun!" The taller man spat at the two men standing on the doorstep."

"We…" the men started.

"…Are no longer welcome here" Rabastan finished as he slammed the large doors in their faces, leaving them looking shocked standing on the doorstep of the imposing house.

"What have we done" Remus sobbed.

Rabastan knelt down next to the sleep form of Severus, took one look at his face and knew that he could never leave the man even if he tried, "They won't hurt you anymore, love" Rabastan muttered and smiled to himself as Severus leaned into his touch.

…

A few weeks past and Severus' scars had healed, he hated how he now had a permanent reminder of that day, the day his heart was broken. He hadn't left the house since that day, and neither had Rabastan who had taken care of him for weeks. Severus could understand why the taller man could love someone so ugly as him, but every time he questioned him Rabastan replied, "To me they make you more beautiful" Severus had never felt some much love, even with the two former Gryffindor's he always felt as if he was the odd one out.

Rabastan had gone out for the day to get supplies to keep them holed up in Spinners End, to keep them together, but Severus decided he wanted to go out. He waited for Rabastan to leave and then he took the floo to a back alley of Diagon Alley, he wasn't the same man any more, sure his black robes still flowed behind him, but now he relied heavily on a cane due to his scars. The cane wasn't so bad though, Severus smiled at the thought of how he got it, when he discovered the fact he couldn't walk unaided anymore Rabastan created him this beautiful cane. It was black and had a silver panthers head on the top with onyx eyes, Rabastan said it was only fitting sue to his Animagus form which was hardly any good to him anymore.

Severus strolled down Diagon Alley trying to ignore the whispers and the strange looks from the pointing people, he knew that they were staring, he had pulled his hair back away from his scars and so they were clearly visible. He knew this was bound to happen when he went out for the first time after the accident but he never expected what was to come. Severus had been strolled through the Alley for around half an hour when he spotted the two former Gryffindor's strolling down the street, holding hands and laughing with each other.

Severus turned around, desperate to hide from the two man but they spotted his retreating figure and called out to him, "Severus!" they ran up behind him, looking at him confused when he didn't turn around.

"Sev… what's with the cane" Sirius asked.

"You don't have the right to ask me that" Severus said darkly, still refusing to face them.

"Sev… please" Remus reached out to touch the man's shoulder.

Severus turned and bared his scars to two men, leaving them shocked and flinching when they gasped, "Sev, what happened?"

"You happened!" he growled at the men, "I can't fight anymore, I can't shift, I can't even walk without this stupid cane, all because of you!" The two men looked confused at Severus' angry outburst, "I guess my appearance matches the state of my soul now, a hideous monster, who would ever want to be with a monster" Severus threw the memory at the two men, then apparating out of the alley. He landed collapsed in the doorway of Spinners End, crying in pain and clutching the cane to his chest where he was gathered into the warm arms of the man who loved him.

…

The two men looked at each other and apparated back their room, where they through the memory into the pensive and watched as the memory played out.

*Severus landed on his knees in the front room of his house at Spinners End, screaming heartbrokenly, he tried to get up and then began to struggle and became faint. He reached up and placed his hand on his forehead and noticed that his right arm was horribly shredded beyond recognition. Pulling up self towards the mirror he noticed that the right side of his face had suffered the same. He tried to make his way to the stairs but he had lost too much blood and he collapsed and just as he passed out he sobbed "they don't want me…"*

When the two men came out of the pensive they had tears running down their faces, and they realised what Rabastan had said was right, they had ripped out his heart and left him in the gutter when they were done with him.

"What have we done" they sobbed.