A/N Guess Im in a long chapter mood today. Ill try to update Anger induced and Dying, all of us tomorrow, but I am kind of at a loss as to how to continue.

This chapter is dedicated to PotionsForSev for your continued support! Its awesome to have someone read your stories. Thanks!

Disclaimer: I am not a good writer. I have not created the masterpieces that are the Harry Potter books. Therefore, I own no rights to them.

Blind

Chapter 6

After Poppy checked over Harry to make sure he was stable, she headed into her office, where the man she had come to think of as her son sat stiffly, as though trying to sense everything going on around him. The man tensed up even more, after Remus entered the room, understandably.

"What is wrong with Potter? How did he get here? Why did he want to see me, of all people?" Snape asked, restraining his hands from rubbing his now itchy eyes.

"Slow down Severus. Remus brought him here," Poppy explained, as Remus guiltily stared out a window, trying to look anywhere but the man he had unintentionally mocked.

"May I ask why?" Severus ground out, though confusion marred his tone.

"His... relatives, if you could call those monsters that... were beating and starving him." Severus sagged under the weight of that development. He had never suspected... And with all those Occlumency lessons!

"I never saw. Damn! This is all my fault!" Severus yelled in rage, trying to jump up, but stabbing pains rippling through his chest kept him grounded.

Poppy restrained the tears in her eyes. "Severus, stop blaming everything on yourself! Isn't... this," she tapped right beside his eyes lightly, "enough of a burden for you to carry? You are THIRTY SIX! A child!"

Severus laughed a harsh laugh, making Remus wince. "I might as well be a hundred and thirty-six, with all I've s... seen..." He shook his head. "But I should have noticed something, ANYTHING! God knows I've been watching the child to make sure he doesn't get himself killed! And with the Occlumency lessons and all those detentions... Merlin, he's Lily's SON!" Severus was totally sunk into the chair by then, rubbing his forehead to rid himself of the oncoming headache.

Poppy closed her eyes, hating that her child blamed himself for so much. Remus on the other hand, was shocked by the amount of emotion Severus was showing. Perhaps not being able to see people's reactions helped the man open up.

Whatever it was, the fact that the man that the Marauders picked on blamed himself for everything, was blind, and could still find no self pity within him whatsoever made Remus stride over, setting a hand on the darker man's shoulder.

Severus was so deep in his thoughts that he didn't flinch. "You and Harry both have the same mindset. You two are not the only people in the world that hold blame." Snape shook his head, as he tugged on his hair slightly. "He was worried about you, I think. He said he had a vision, about when you got found out. When he asked if you were okay, and I said you were alive... I've scarcely seen him that happy-"

"Wait. He saw what happened?" Severus asked, panicked.

Remus hesitated. "Yes, and I admit I asked what he saw. He threw up, but that may have been from his injuries. That bloody Vernon must have loved to hit the boy in the stomach..." Remus swallowed down the bile that had inched its way up his throat. "Plus they starved him. Probably won't be able to eat solid foods for weeks..."

Severus shook his head. "Anything else?"

"Three cracked ribs, sprained wrist, shattered kneecap, black eye, several bruises and cuts, and multiple lacerations on the back..." Poppy stated dutifully, though the anger and pain seeped through her words at the end.

Snape closed his eyes. "And I pushed him away-"

"Severus Tobias Snape, stop blaming yourself!" Poppy and Remus shouted in unison.

There was a long pause. "Why on Earth, though, if he was so injured did he walk over, and of all things, hug me?"

Poppy chuckled slightly. "Well, he was demanding to see you; kept saying how the brains were going to get you, or something like that. I guess seeing you alive, plus the fact that he was already under the influence of several potions made him a bit loopy..."

Snape let out a genuine smile, despite it being small.

A/N Longer chapter! Yah! Harry wakes up, next chapter!

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