Three Years
Author: Leta McGotor
Disclaimer: I owe nothing but the idea. The other belongs to JKR.
Ok, to say it at the beginning this is an experiment. I don't know much about vampires but some friends of mine do. Therefore it is possible that I have mixed up or invented some things. You won't see it in the first chapter but later.
Chapter 1 Looking back
Now I'm sitting here writing a diary, something I ever thought is a really childish, girlish thing without any use. So let me say I don't write a diary more that I write only my thoughts down. People say it helps you to clear your mind, helps you to forget the pain. But now writing I see that the pain is always with me no matter what I do. I'm sitting here at the desk which never feels like mine. In front of me a picture of her, my love, the only woman I ever really loved, the only one who ever loved me and the one who destroyed my heart until it only was dust and then blew it away.
Three years. Three years and only three years of an eternity. Three years like an eternity although only the beginning.
I never thought that memories are able to hurt in such a way. I always thought the past would never follow me, never hunt me. If I had a problem with them I would turn them away, maybe in a pensieve. But these are thoughts, memories I don't want to turn away, to forget although they are a cruel torture. Every second, minute, hour, day for nearly three years.
Three years. Three years and only three years of an eternity. Three years like an eternity although only the beginning.
I remember clearly what happened. It was the happiest summer of my whole life but the most terrible one as well. Three years. Three years and only three years of an eternity. Three years like an eternity although only the beginning. My name is Severus Snape and I'll tell you what happened nearly three years ago:
It was nearly midnight as Professor Snape made his way through the deserted corridors of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, half a dozen rolls of parchment in his hands.
'You'll tell her you had too much to do to give it to her earlier today… You had to brew something… You had to go to Lodon… and to brew something. Yeah, good.' He thought. He knocked at the door in front of him. Surely Professor McGonagall was asleep therefore he knocked again louder this time.
In fact he had started to write down the plans for his lessons half a week ago and finished it easily by midday today. The whole afternoon and evening he was busy with thinking, thinking about which words to choose. He wanted to ask her out for a date. He had missed her badly the last days of term when she had been in St. Mungo's. That also was the time when he recognized how much he felt for her, how much he loved her.
He felt like a teenager standing in front of the house of the girl which he wanted to ask for sitting next to each other in the school bus. He sighed. Surely she was asleep. What a stupid idea to ask her now at that time. He wanted to turn around when the door opened and he stared in the face of a sleepily Minerva McGonagall. She yawned widely and blinked at him expacting an explanation.
But Severus Snape was stunned. She didn't wear more than what seemed like a wafer-thin négligé. It was a black fabric which was nearly transparent here and there. Her hair hung loosely around her with some curls it was like a frame. Noticing the look on his face she looked down at herself, blushed and muttered something like 'Wait a moment'. She returned wearing her usual dressing gown.
'Please, Severus, come in. What do you want at this outrageous time. It's ten minutes past midnight.'
'Well I… I… the plans', he stuttered. She looked at him bewilderment to be read in her eyes.
'Which plans?'
'The lesson plans. I could… could not… bring them earlier because… because… I… I…'
'Severus, why haven't you waited until tomorrow, I mean today… later. They are not that important. So would you excuse me I want to sleep for a few hours. I went to bed barely half an hour ago and you need sleep as well. Therefore…'
But she didn't get further. While she spoke her hastily put on dressing gown opened a bit and Severus could see the négligé she wore under it. He couldn't take hold of any clear thoughts and later he couldn't tell why he did what he did but he pressed her against the next wall and kissed her, simly kissed her. To his great surprise she responded. Severus deepened the kiss until he had to let go of her because of the lack of air. He searched for a reaction in her face. Would she slap him? Would she scream at him? Would she do both? But she surprised him again. Her eyes were shut and a smile was on her face. Severus was confused but also curious about her smile.
'She is really overworked and she didn't sleep. Surely she doesn't know who has kissed her.'A voice said in his head.
'But maybe',began another voice 'Maybe she feels the same for you, maybe…'
'Oh no, don't think that there is one, only one on this planet who would actually love you.', screamed the first voice.
'Oh, everybody has someone to whom he or she belongs. Everybody can be loved, has the right to be loved.' Whispered the second voice.
Severus didn't know what to do therefore he only stood there and thought his surroundings completely forgotten. He missed to notice that Minerva had openen her eyes in the meantime. The conflict of his thoughts were to be read in his eyes but she didn't want to stand there and wait. Therefore she stepped to him, grabbed him by the neck and pulled him down to her for another kiss, where she began to explore his mouth and he buried his hands in her hair.
Severus awoke with a start the next morning as sunlight fell on his face. Since when did he have a window which let sunlight in his bedroom? He blinked and his face lost all colour. This wasn't his bedroom. Where was he? He looked around but this room was all but familiar to him. As he tried to sit up he noticed to his relief that he had slept in a bed which was to be find only in Hogwarts. So he had to be somewhere inside of the castle. He moved a bit and touched something what did definitely not belong to a bed more to a … human? Slowly he turned his head. Besides him lay Minerva McGonagall fast asleep. His brain worked hard borderlining at a headache. What had happened? Then he remembered. He had knocked at the door, she wore that black thing now lying on the floor. He had given her the plans and then had kissed her and then…
He watched her. She looked so peaceful and in some way a little bit strange with her loosely hanging hair, without her glasses and without her stern expression. To be exact she smiled in her sleep. He tried to be careful not to wake her up but he hardly stand when he heard a sleepy voice from behind him.
'Severus? What are you doing here? What …?' She stared unbelievingly at him as comprehension dawned on her. 'Oh'
Severus returned to his rooms in the afternoon with a broad grin on his face so that Madam Hooch had to turn around to be sure that she really had seen him grinning. Severus went up to her again this evening. She opened the door with a smile on her face awaiting him. Minerva pulled him inside and in a passionate kiss.
They continued their meetings nearly every night. First she said she needed him to feel alive and he that he needed her not to be bored. But soon they (or she because he knew already) had to recognize that between them was more and their meetings turned in a passionate relationship and in a secret of them both.
There were only two weeks left of the summer holidays when the news arrived:
Vampires seen
Yesterday we received the message that in cities like Edinburgh, Dublin and London Vampires were seen. A witch who was with her children in London to buy their books for the upcoming year in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry told us, that she had seen half a dozen of them at least. 'Dark creatures, very dark. The only thing I thought about was to bring my children out of reach of these… these horrible creatures. But I remember that they looked around as if they would search for someone or something.' She said after wizards from the Ministry had calmed her down. The description of all witnesses no mater in which city they had seen the vampires is the same: The vampires looked for someone or something. From a muggle from Dublin who was obliviated after his statement we know that these dark creatures are looking for a witch and a wizard. The Ministry gave no comment about this. They declared that there is no danger at all and that the people have to stay calm. We from the Daily Prophet will inform you of every change of the situation and about all happenings.
Please review and tell me what you think about it. Please, tell me what do you think about the title of the story, too. I wasn't sure about it. THANKS