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Welkin in the Wizarding World (COMPLETED)	By : welkin_cooper Category: HP Canon Characters paired with Original Characters > Het - Male/Female Views: 14600 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Chapter 44 - The Visitors

What should have been a pleasant summer break from Hogwarts brings some very disturbing events into Severus's and Welkin's lives.

The summer of 1996 was not a good one for Severus and Welkin Snape, even though it started out with Severus being a hero on two separate occasions.

Snape alerted Albus Dumbledore when Harry and members of Dumbledore’s Army were lured to the Ministry of Magic’s Department of Mysteries by Harry’s vision of Sirius Black being tortured there. It was a false vision induced by Voldemort to entrap Harry, who unwisely charged off in pursuit of his godfather’s rescue.

With the alert from Snape, members of the Order of the Phoenix arrived just in time, but in the intense battle, Black was killed. Albus battled Voldemort, who fled, then rounded up most of the Death Eaters who had sought to do the Dark Lord’s bidding. Among those subsequently sent to Azkaban was Welkin’s would-be rapist, Lucius Malfoy.

With Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge finally forced to admit that Voldemort had returned, Albus was reinstated as Headmaster at Hogwarts. But from there, everything went horribly wrong.

Albus, who had been hunting the Horcruxes made by Voldemort in his bid for immortality, was severely injured when he tried to destroy one. Although his life was initially saved by Snape, Severus told Welkin that the injury would eventually prove fatal, and Albus only had a year at the most to live. There was no cure for the condition he suffered from.

But the worst was yet to come, as Welkin discovered. She learned too late to influence the decision, that Severus had entered an Unbreakable Vow with Narcissa Malfoy, pledging to protect her son Draco. Draco, who to Welkin’s great shock, had joined the ranks of the Death Eaters like his father, had been tapped by the Dark Lord to kill Albus Dumbledore. Part of the vow Severus made was to finish the job in Draco’s stead if Draco could not. If he reneged on his vow, he was a dead man.

For days after learning this, Welkin would break down and cry whenever she looked at Severus. Their summer at Spinner’s End, which she had so looked forward to, had turned into a nightmare.

"But my love, there was not time to seek your counsel," Snape protested, as Welkin cried and ranted at him for the third time in as many days.

"Yes, there was! You should have taken the time, and not let yourself be talked into a vow like that by Narcissa and that crazy jail bird of a sister of hers!"

Snape tried to put his arms around her again, but she walked away to fling herself on the couch angrily.

"Please cease this, Welkin. I cannot bear this from you, of all people. Have I not enough to endure as it is?"

Welkin stopped her wailing, and snuffled a little more as she considered that. Snape sat down beside her, and finally succeeded in putting his arms around her, and pulling her against his chest. It comforted him as much as it did her, to hold her close to him like this.

"I’m sorry to be acting like this, Severus, but I just can’t help it. I love you. I don’t want anything to happen to you, or to Albus either. I just know something terrible is going to happen to you because of this. How could Draco do this, and how could Narcissa ask you to take on such a horrible, disgusting obligation? She doesn’t care about you at all - all she cares about is Draco. We have to tell Albus."

"Albus knows," Snape said quietly.

"How does he dare to do this to you? Hasn't he stolen enough of your life? Does he have to keep coming back for more? Albus doesn't care either. Not really. Or he wouldn't make you do this," Welkin said angrily.

It was quite obvious to Severus that Welkin was the only one who did really care what happened to him. He did not think that he would be able to endure this without her. At least Albus had given him that much.

"He is coming here tonight, but not to discuss this matter. He is coming for a much needed social visit. I had hoped that you could elevate his spirits by perhaps cooking something which he might enjoy. Do you think that you could do that, my pet?"

"Well…yes…I guess I can," Welkin told him hesitantly. If it was what Severus wanted, then she would just have to put aside her own feelings for the night, she decided. She didn't want to make it more difficult for him than it already was. He needed her to be strong about this.

"Excellent. I am pleased that you will support me in this, regardless of our feelings in the matter," Severus said.

"Of course, I support you, Severus," Welkin murmured, hugging him tightly. "I always will."

"Please do not cry again. It is quite disturbing to me, and if this house were not so well-insulated, I cannot imagine what the neighbors might be thinking," Snape told her.

"I’ll try not to cry anymore, but I’m just so upset about this. Severus Snape, don’t you dare even think about dying! If you die, I swear that I’m going to...I'll just never speak to you again!"

Welkin dissolved into tears again, her promise to try to control her emotions forgotten, as she couldn’t help dwelling once again on what terrible thing might happen to Severus.

Snape did not bother to point out to Welkin how nonsensical her threat sounded.

"Promise me!" she insisted.

"Very well, my sweet," he told her. "I promise you that I shall not die." If I can help it, he added a caveat silently to himself.

"Good!" Welkin huffed. "You’d better not!" she warned, hugging him to herself as tightly as she could.

"I would not dare. You are most fearsome, my love. I believe that Wormtail was quite frightened of you when you ejected him from our home this morning with the admonition never to return."

"Well, he's creepy. I don't want him around the baby. What kind of a person lets himself be called Wormtail, anyway, instead of his real name? I wish I’d ejected Narcissa and Bella as soon as they got here too," Welkin said. "I should never have left you alone with them."

Snape looked concerned at her mention of Bella. "Do not engage with Bella in any way. She is, as you have pointed out, quite mentally unbalanced. She could do you great harm, and I fear that she may already wish to do so, without any further provocation."

"Damn straight. Did you see the way she looked at me when you sent me upstairs with Sully? What does she have against me? I hadn’t even met her before today," Welkin said, starting to calm down again.

"Bella is quite…admiring of the Dark Lord," Snape told her. "Unfortunately, he has mentioned you favorably to her, and she dislikes you for it, perhaps even hates you."

"What do you mean? Favorably in what way? I thought he was convinced that I’m an idiot," Welkin said.

"Your physical attributes and your comeliness, my sweet. He may think you none too astute mentally, but though his form is misshapen, he still remains enough of a man to not be immune to your physical charms," Snape informed her.

Welkin shivered at the thought and grew silent, as Snape stroked her calmingly.

"That was a delicious fruit crumble, my dear," Dumbledore complimented her. "I can see why Severus is gaining a little weight these days."

"Thank you, Albus. Are you sure you wouldn’t like some more?" Welkin asked.

"I don't believe that I could hold more, but I will have another glass of wine, I think."

Snape obliged him with a generous pouring, and poured more for Welkin and himself as well.

"It’s not often that I get invited to someone’s home these days," Albus continued. "A great many of my contemporaries have departed this vale ahead of me, I’m afraid to say."

"You’re always welcome in our home, Albus," Welkin said. "For as long as…"

"I live?" Albus finished for her. "Severus tells me that may not be such a long-term commitment at that."

"I could try to heal you," Welkin offered.

"That is very kind of you, but the Life Giver’s healing gift only works at the point of death, the legend goes. Despite appearances, I assure you that I am not yet that far gone, as you Americans might say," Albus joked.

An awkward silence settled on them across the table. Welkin could think of nothing to fill it, and she struggled not to let the tears fill her eyes again, as Severus had asked her not to cry in front of their friend and honored guest.

"I shall finish my wine, and then I must be off, I think. But before I take my leave of you, may I take a look at Sullivan? I promise not to wake him."

"Of course," Welkin said. "Severus and I will take you upstairs to his room. It’s right next to our bedroom."

"Good…very good," Albus said, sounding a little distracted. "It always cheers me so, to see the wee ones. It’s the renewal of life, you know. As miraculous as any of our magic."

It was at that moment that Severus realized that, unlike Voldemort, Albus Dumbledore, the most powerful Wizard of his era, was starting to come to terms with his own mortality.
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Chapter 44 - The Visitors