A/N Here is chapter 2, this time it's all my own work, no help from Deathly Hallows – a hope you like it as much as chapter 1… It picks up right after the end of chapter 1…
"Ouch! What on Earth are you doing!" cried Severus, jumping to his feet immediately.
"Out of bed past curfew? Why I ought to give you detention young man!" It was Professor McGonagall, the head of Lily's house and not somebody you'd like to be caught breaking school rules by.
"I was sleeping – obviously, can't you see?" he knew he shouldn't have said it, but at that moment in time he didn't care – nothing could be worse than what had already happened.
"That's it Mr Snape, come with me at once!" Severus had never seen her so angry. He wondered where he being taken – since they were not heading to her office.
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"I'm sorry to wake you Horace, but I just found Mr Snape here, outside of the Gryffindor Common Room. As you know, curfew was over four hours ago!" Professor McGonagall had marched him all the way to Slughorn's office, without saying a word, just throwing looks of displeasure at him every so often – probably because of his attitude, more than actually being out of bounds.
"Mr Snape, can you explain yourself?" he replied, somewhat surprised as Snape wasn't one to be caught breaking school rules. "What were you doing on the seventh floor, at this time of night?" McGonagall left the office and closed the door behind her.
"I was – was sleeping…" he muttered somewhat pathetically – he wasn't going to tell them why he had really been outside of Gryffindor Tower.
"Be that as it may, why were you sleeping up there?" he persisted.
"I was trying to talk to somebody, but they wouldn't listen –" he started, but was immediately cut off.
"Was it Miss Evans that you were trying to talk to?" he asked, with a knowing look in his eyes.
"I'm not telling you who – that is none of your business!" Snape knew it was doing him no good to argue, but it made him feel – somewhat empowered – to be able to do something, anything to take away the pain of Lily's rejection.
"In that case Mr Snape, I will have to deduct Slytherin house 25 House Points and give you detention every night for two weeks."
Snape bit his tongue, there were many things he wanted to say to the stupid man, but even he realised that there was just no point in getting into more trouble. "Whatever you say Professor," he answered, somewhat awkwardly.
It seemed like Slughorn wanted to say more but he changed his mind and sent Severus to bed. "He probably can't wait to go back and get into bed; it is gone past one in the morning!" Severus walked all the way back to the Slytherin Common Room and climbed straight up the spiralling staircase.
"Where've you been, Snape?" said a rough voice.
"Yeah, we've been meaning to congratulate you – you've done us proud!" said another person.
"I don't want to talk about it now, I'm going to bed –" he began but once again he was cut off.
"I'm telling you to speak – or I'll do that same curse on you as I did last week – remember that, Snape?" Severus most certainly did remember that – Mulciber had used one of the three unforgivable's on him – the Cruciatus curse.
(Cue Flashback)
"Oi Snape, get over here!" yelled Mulciber. He was standing outside, near the Forbidden Forest, clutching his wand tightly.
"What do you want Mulciber?" said Snape, as quietly as possible – Lily was nearby and he didn't want her to see him with Mulciber – especially after what happened to Mary a few days ago.
"I just got taught a new spell by me dad, I want to see how good it is."
"So? Why do you need me? Can't you do it on your own?" he asked, annoyance etched all over his face. He knew what Mulciber's dad was up to – he was a fully fledged Death Eater, it was one of the least guarded secrets of the Slytherin Common Room.
"I need someone to test it on – I was thinking of using one of those girls –"
"What girls…" indifference apparent on his face, although inside he was praying that it wasn't the group containing Lily. He glanced over at her, Mulciber noticed and an evil grin spread across his face.
"That one over there – with the red hair –" he pointed his wand at her and started to wave it.
"NOOOO!! I WON'T LET YOU!!" he bellowed, catching everybody's attention. Mulciber lowered his wand. Lily looked at him, puzzled.
"I'll get you for that, Snape." He whispered. Boy did he mean it.
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Snape climbed through the hole in the wall, thinking about the latest spell he was trying to create, when somebody shouted, "CRUCIO!" Snape fell to the ground in agony, this was pain he had never felt before.
"Ha, I've done it – it really does work! This is going to be so useful when we get out of this dump!" Mulciber was practically dancing at his achievement in cursing Snape.
Severus gingerly got to his feet and tried to go upstairs.
"Not so fast Snape, I'm not done with you yet!" he took a deep breath and muttered something. Small cuts appeared all over Sev's body, blood gushed from a particularly deep gash on his left arm.
"Leave me alone, Mulciber! I'll get you for this!" Mulciber just laughed as he stepped on Sev's fallen body and proceeded up the stairs. "Lily's right, these animals don't care about anyone, they're fricking out of their minds!" he thought as he set about tending his wounds.
(End of Flashback)
"I hope you know where your loyalties lie Snape – there can only be one winner, after this war's over and we all know who that's going to be!" Mulciber said maliciously.
"Hmmm… Whatever, I'm going to bed –" replied Severus, wishing Mulciber would just leave him be.
"I'll be watching you, Snape – Malfoy thinks that you would be a useful asset to the Dark Lord – let's hope you don't throw all that away, for a Mudblood –"
"SHUT UP!" he had enough, "SECTUMSEMPRA!" he bellowed, not knowing the full extent of what the spell could do. To his horror, blood gushed from Mulciber's chest, arms and face – he had cut him up, like a piece of carcass from the butchers. "What have I done?" was the last coherent thought before he rushed out of the common room to get Slughorn…
A/N There you have it, chapter 2 of my 'Making of Severus Snape' Fic. Please tell me where I could improve, I need your feedback, it really does help me to decide where I'm going to go with the storyline and also the way I write the actual FanFic.
Thanks to everyone who reviewed before, it really does inspire me to keep going. I am one of those people who lose interest VERY quick. If I don't update within a couple of weeks, bombard me with PM's, TELLING me to write more – seriously, that is the way to get me to do it :)
Saying that, I am going on holiday soon, so I don't expect to write more until August – sorry! I promise I'll pick it back up then. In the mean time, I'll keep trying to convert my notes into something worthy of posting.
Bye!
- keaneplay - (Matt)