S. T. Snape

Severus Snape ✘ Sixth Year ✘ Slytherin Don't Fuck With Me.

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Her hands were thrown in the air in defeat. “You know, you can be rather rude.” She kept ascending the stairs on light foot. Daisy turned when she reached the landing and placed her hands on her hips. “Ha! Finally taller than you.”

Severus came to a stop when she did, not wanting to bump into her. He gave her a pointed look at the words. “Even two steps higher and you barely scrape past me in height. Such a shame,” he tutted at her, a smirk playing out across his features.

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Shades of Shadows ✗ Remus & Severus

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                                                          “Morsmordre.”

Severus turned and lifted his head to the sky, watching the clouds gather and form the green symbol that struck terrors into the Wizarding world’s hearts. He, himself, had never conjured the damn thing. He didn’t think he ever would, either. The spell was simple enough, but it was too... show-off for him. Unlike most of his comrades, he didn’t like what they did to get their voice heard. Coming home smelling of iron and the blood-curdling screams that echoed in his nightmares -- those weren’t trophies to him, they weren’t something to be proud of. 

No, he preferred to keep to himself. To do his job, and then go home and suffer alone. Suffer from remembering, regretting, licking any wounds he obtained during the raids, and trying to no avail to stop the throbbing in his forearm. That was the worst part. The intense burning only lasted for as long as the Dark Lord held his wand to the mark, but the phantom pain afterwards? It kept him up at night sometimes. It felt like a third-degree burn he couldn’t see, like the skin around the mark had dissolved, leaving just the tissue in his arm to have salt poured all over. It was agonizing. 

His plans were ruined, though (oh and what a shame). Loud cracks of Apparition echoed through the field they surrounded, followed by just a second or two of eerie silence before spells and screams cut loose. Severus ducked down to dodge a suspicious green aura that was aimed at him before taking off towards the wooded area on the outskirts, hoping to get to a safe place to Apparate back to the base. He spotted flashes of black move in, but once he slid between the trees, he might as well had been alone the entire time. 

Severus slowly moved deeper, wand gripped tightly in his hand and feet moving cautiously. Not wanting to attract attention to himself. He managed to get away enough that the screams from before were faint and unclear. Then his troubles began. A spell cracked in front of him, breaking the bark of the tree he was standing nearby and hitting his mask off from the flying debris. His head snapped back, hood falling back. Order or not, he preferred to keep himself from killing unless directly ordered, but this man gave him no choice now.

Every muscle tensed as he glared his opponent down the sight of his wand.

He sneered, “Lupin.”

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“I’m serious, Severus.” Though Daisy knew it was like speaking with a brick wall. “A stick you shall become.” Her voice took a teasing tone. “Are you embarrassed of me?” She asked before she slipped inside, muttering something under her breath as she passed him.

Severus watched her pass him by to carry herself up the stairs, and the thought that he could probably turn and high-tail it out of the tower and lose her crossed his mind. He didn’t entertain it, but it was an idea. Following right behind her, he resisted the urge to roll his eyes and just gave her a leveled look she couldn’t see. “Dramatics.” He echoed.

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“Acting over writing novels? No thank you.” She shook her head. “Oh shall I? Then perhaps stating so a few more times over might be good.” She couldn’t hold her anger much longer, being that she wasn’t explicitly upset. Just disappointed. She sighed softly and her face fell. “I’m well aware of the fact, but be reasonable, you can’t just push everyone away–or rather you shouldn’t. You’re going to want some tomfoolery once the year picks upright. Otherwise you’ll just become a stick right in the mud.” She bumped her shoulder against him. “We had a great summer after all, and I thought we had something special Sev.” A hand went playfully over her heart. “You’re right I really should take up acting!”

“I shouldn’t? Are you a head doctor now?” Severus asked her with a raised eyebrow. He stumbled to the side at the bump to his shoulder. “A stick in the mud. It’s as if you don’t know me at all...” he found himself tutting at her as they came to the tower’s outside entry. He pulled the large door to the staircase open to let her in. “Let’s stop mentioning the Summer, shall we?”

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Her skirt flitted in the slight breeze that came with her faster pace, and the stern yet calm look stayed plastered on her face. “Moon cycles? I could help with that.” She mentioned outright, astronomy being one of her more well rounded subjects. “Why are you really avoiding me?”

“After Hogwarts, I’d suggest you consider Acting as a career path. Your dramatics are to die for.” Severus complimented. “I’m not avoiding you, stop saying that or you’ll be on the other end of a hex. I’ve been busy, the Sixth Year is a very important year, Daisy. I’ve no time for tomfoolery.”

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“Truly Severus you choose to pull this on me now?” She watched as he moved with ease around her, slipping past like a snake in the garden. With a groan she followed quickly after, taking a faster pace to keep up with his strides. “Quite the contrary, my friend, I believe your company is worth at least two sickles. Come now, where are you off to at a time like this?”

Severus held back a sigh when he heard the quick steps behind him. He should have known it wouldn’t be so easy to lose her. Short or not, she kept up. Wedging herself into his side like a thorn. “Astronomy Tower. I have ten inches due on Moon Cycles and I’d like not to fail.”

Irked from his failed attempt at escape, he grumbled, “Why are you following me?”

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“Just because you’re nearly a whole 31 centimeters taller than I am does not mean you get to disregard how upset I am.” Fingers rapped gently on her arm and she scowled up at him, neck tilted. “So you haven’t–then what’s been going on in the bloody thick skull of yours?”

“You can’t really be that upset, Hookum. My company isn’t worth a sickle, ask anyone.” Severus assured her as he slyly stepped around her to continue his walk towards the Astronomy Tower. 

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Severus had been running a little late, which was very unlike him. But, little Remus had been giving them a problem. Pulling on his sister’s hair, making a mess in the kitchen. It’d ended with an agreement between he and his wife that it was ‘take your son to work day’ for Severus, so here they were.

Remus, despite only being four years old, was sitting on the ground by the door with a cauldron on a warming charm and a basic flu potion boiling. Severus was keeping an eye on him between moving boxes from the front to the back to sort through later. When the door bell rung, signaling someone had come in, Severus sighed heavily. Nowhere near ready for customers.

“I’ll be with you in a moment,” he called between the aisles of shelved ingredients. 

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Task 03 PT 1: Alternate Universe: Married to Daisy Hookum ;;

Right after graduation, the young couple wasted no time. Severus Snape and Daisy Hookum married the Summer of ‘78. Daisy took a toll on Severus. His personality stayed the same, but he did soften up a bit. He became a better man with all the sarcasm and glaring in a bundle. Going as far as making friends with Remus Lupin, a close friend of Daisy (and Severus’ former enemy). Severus overcame the animosity enough to allow the man to be Godfather to his and Daisy’s pack of brats.

The first few years of their marriage, they brought their oldest Adrianna (top left picture) into the world. Next was Melody (bottom left picture), followed by Remus and Rose (top middle and top right), and last for the time being, Eileen (bottom right). They’re expecting Harmony and coming on twelve years of marriage.

With all of this said, Severus did not become a Death Eater or an Order member. He opened an Apothecary while his wife worked at home as an Author. In his later years (sometime after the age of 30), he does become Potions Master at Hogwarts, but only when a few of his brats are at the school themselves. 

Let it also be known that in this universe, they probably have to move every few years because eventually Severus gets the neighbors to hate them by burning down gardens that look nicer than his or he gets in heated arguments with said neighbors. And, ‘this is why we can’t have nice things’ might as well be patented by Daisy.

AU FACTS; -’1990′ -Frank Grillo as Severus Snape. -Nicole Kidman as Daisy Hookum-Snape.

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“Severus Snape, is there a reason as to why you’ve been avoiding me since summer? Don’t think I haven’t noticed your convenient dodges out of every location where our eyes meet a less than proper glance.” Arms were crossed over her chest. “Well? Explain. I thought we were friends.”

“I have a feeling that stance is supposed to be... intimidating.” Severus reckoned as he dragged his eyes over her form. Arms crossed, a little flame of... anger? Maybe annoyance in her eye. She’d come a long way from being your everyday innocent, calm, and happy-go-lucky Hufflepuff in their ‘friendship’. 

“I haven’t been dodging you.”

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“Hey - why are you staring like this? Never have seen a girl smoking before?!?”

“I have. I tend to stare at others who smoke, too. You’re not special. I’m just waiting for a flick to land on your clothes and set you up in flames. I reckon such a thing only happens one in a million -- I wouldn’t want to miss it.”

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“I…I–just don’t know what to do anymore…”

“I can assure you the answer is not: wallowing.”

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“Who knows? We could wind up winning this war.”

“Your optimism makes my stomach turn.”

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Task 02: Halloween ;;

In very, very poor taste, Severus attended as a Werewolf.

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Task 01: Summer Scrapbook ;;

Over Summer Hols, Severus avoided his house as much as possible. Normally, he can be considered a shut-in, but with his mother gone and only his father lurking the brick house on Spinner’s End -- it’s definitely not a place he wants to be. 

Running off funds from potions he sells throughout the year to other students and some part-time work he’s devoted in Knockturn Alley’s Apothecary, he traveled many places. Mostly by train. A large part of the time, he was alone, but when he wasn’t -- he was accompanied by Daisy Hookum (who was as close to ‘friend’ as he was willing to go with anyone after Lily).