Hermione's POV:
When I hit the ground I think I bounced a little, but when I finally got myself together I looked around and saw I was somewhere on Hogwarts grounds but I didn't know. My back hurt like hell because of the giant coffee table I skimmed. This wasn't any room I recognized but then I remembered the Room of Requirement from last year, where Dumbledore's Army was born. It looked like a cozy old house when it had furniture and no Death Eater mannequins for target practice.
"Severus...?" someone called out, I whipped my head around so fast I got a little dizzy. A girl who didn't look any older than I did showed up behind a long black couch. "Sev are you in here?" she whispered. She had long, curly, brown hair that looked totally manageable and she had dark cocoa colored eyes, exactly like I did. She must be my mother...
"Yes. I'm here..." a man said, he popped out from the other entrance. It was Snape—er my dad when he was my age. They both smiled and kissed each other.
"I hate having to stay in these secret rooms all the time Sev..." my mother said, they kissed again "I just wish everyone could accept the fact that we can be happy together..." They sat on the couch and played some music on an old record player, they had good taste in piano music.
"May I have this dance?" my dad stood and held his hand out. My mum laughed and they danced for a couple hours... I smiled and leaned against the solid entrance. I could hear faint pounds on the wall but ignored them. Just then BOOM! The wall was blown to bits. Someone stepped out of the rubble but I couldn't see who it was.
"Enjoying your little Mudblood Severus?" a woman hissed, my dad stepped in front of my mum. Wire-haired Bellatrix Lestrange—er Black stepped out of the smoke and rubble, her wand pointed at my mother. "I told you, you wouldn't be able to hide her." Three other Slytherin's came out also.
A man stepped behind her "How could you Severus?" Rodolphus Lestrange pointed his wand at my dad. "We thought you were better than this!" Rodolphus walked over to my mother but my dad stopped him.
My dad put his wand at Rodolphus' throat "Touch her and you'll pay..." my dad hissed.
"Calm down now. Everyone calm down..." some Slytherin guy stepped between them. They didn't move but the man shoved my dad's wand away from Rodolphus' throat, the other tried to hold my dad and Lestrange back from attacking each other.
"You're just as filthy as she is." Spat Bellatrix "You always were and always will be..." someone hit my mother with a nonverbal spell but none of them responded and walked away. I distinctly heard someone say "Filthy Mudblood runt...": probably Bellatrix.
I turned back to my parents but my mum was unconscious. "Evelyn?" my dad knelt by her "Evelyn!?" no response. He swept her up and carried her all across the school, and into the hospital wing. "Madam Pomfrey! Madam Pomfrey!" he cried. The salt and pepper hair of the old healer came running out of her office.
"Snape? What are you doing—Oh my word!!" she gasped at my unconscious mother "Set her over here." She popped in some blankets and a pillow. "What happened to her?"
"She—Bellatrix—Rodolphus—and—and—" he stammered.
"Mr. Snape please calm down. Just try to explain everything..." she waved her wand a few times and a bright yellow spark came out of her wand. "Well, she was hit by a Jelly-Legs jinx and she might've hit her head on something. Where were you two? This is a nasty bump..."
"We... we-we were... uh..." mum groaned when Madam Pomfrey touched the back of her head.
"Ms. Grealds are you alright?" she whispered. Slowly mum's eyes opened.
"Sev? M-Madam? Where am I?" she groaned and grabbed her head.
"You're in the hospital wing Ms. Grealds. This young man brought you here. Do you have any recollection of what happened?" mum looked at dad then back at Madam Pomfrey.
"I was walking back to Gryffindor Tower and Bellatrix, Rodolphus, and a couple others came in and jinxed me. I guess Severus just came and found me somewhere..." she lied. I could see Madam Pomfrey could tell that wasn't the truth but she didn't argue. She just performed a few healing spells, forced her to stay until tomorrow, and left. Se didn't even ask when dad said he wanted to stay.
When Madam Pomfrey was back in her office they started talking again. "This is just proof that it isn't safe for you to stay with me Evelyn." Dad said sternly "The next time they do a spell on you... I don't think it'll be a simple jinx..."
She looked stunned "I'm not breaking up with you Severus. If I—"
"Eve you're just going to end up here. Every time they get the chance to do something to you, you will end up seriously injured." He held her hands "I don't want to see you hurt..."
"Sev..." she cried. "Why did you decide to become one of them?"
"Because I thought it was somewhere I could fit in...it was a stupid, stupid mistake, and I regret it everyday since I met you..." he paused "I'm sorry... but... we can't stay together..." he stood up to leave.
"I don't want this to end Sev..." she said tearfully.
"Evelyn don't you get it. The more we're together, the higher the chances are you end up getting hurt—"
"But you'll be giving in to their plan. They want us to break up. That's why they're doing this." Dad sat back down
"I can't stand to see you hurt Eve. It kills me to know that this is all my fault..."
"It's just a little head bump!" she laughed.
"But it might not be just a bump next time..." he paused "It could be your life. Evelyn these guys don't play around okay. I've seen what they do. They'd kill innocent people. They don't care if it's a man, woman, or child they'll kill anyone who gets in their way... It's gruesome. Some of the foulest things I've ever seen. It was a stupid mistake but I can't back down now."
She leaned in "Why?" her voice was barely over a whisper.
"They know what my weakness is..." he looked up "...you... If I quit or decide not to participate in a raid... they'll kill you..."
"But they wouldn't do it. Th-They're under aged—!"
"They don't care. There are over twenty others and if one gets imprisoned they'll come back to finish the job, everyone in your family will be killed."
"They're all muggles though. Th-They wouldn't—"
"They would..." they both sat in silence for a while. I took a seat on the bed next to my mum's. This was very Romeo and Juliet but somehow it was real and I could see the love and pain in their eyes. "I don't want to lose you... but on the same note: I don't want to say goodbye..." dad said quietly. Mum just cried silently but she didn't want my dad to hear. I felt myself being pulled by my robes but when I turned around I was back in my room with my dad staring back at me.
Snape's POV:
"Did you enjoy that little flashback?" I said quietly.
"I don't get it..." she whispered "Why'd they hurt mum? Wasn't it you they were after?"
"It was me, but they wanted to hurt the person I cared about so I would suffer, not physically but mentally."
Her look was painfully sad "So I take it mum fought to the death."
I smiled "...yes. She was the bravest person I will ever know. Her love always overpowered her mental thinking. It was her most powerful gift, but that is what drove her to her grave." I stopped. My heart ached again. "She loved so many, but was killed so menacingly..." Hermione was crying again.
"C-C-Can I see the other memories?" she questioned.
"Sure..." I grabbed the second vial in the box and held it in front of her "This is one of the happiest memories of my life. I hope you take a liking to it" I turned the vial upside down and the silver, silk-like substance came out.
"What are you going to do about my classes?!" She jumped up and grabbed her bag "I have Potions now! Oh god! I'm so dead!"
"Hermione. Calm down. We're both out of class." I said, pulling her back down "I have a temporary substitute and you have a pass. Don't worry..." she laughed, embarrassed. "I think it's ready" the pensieve was glowing. She stood up and walked over to the pensieve. "Oh Hermione. Try staying on your feet the best you can. Less painful landing..." she nodded.
"Now he tells me..." I heard her say. And with that she was sucked back in...