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Deeply Wounded	By : SnapesOnlyOne Category: HP Canon Characters paired with Original Characters > Het - Male/Female Views: 2044 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
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I lay with Severus as he trails small circles over my belly, and places gentle kisses on my neck. He leans over taking my lips gently and he entwined his fingers with mine pulling my hand onto my belly with his. We lay there for what seems like only minutes before he climbs from the bed and pulls me up behind him.
“New Years eve tonight my love, are we going to attend the staff party?”
“I'm on duty tonight, all of the heads are. Bloody dunderhead students will act like fools tonight which means It will be a long night”
“Come to the party between your rounds love, I want to break the news”
“I won't have time tonight, let's go eat, you can break the news over lunch”
He waves his wand dressing me in tight fitting clothes and surveys me with a nod.
“You do have a bump”
“So it would seem my love” I whisper running my hand over the gentle swell.
He pulls his cloak on, wrapping his arm around my waist and leading me to the great hall. As we reach the great hall he lets go of my waist and pushes open the door, holding it for me to walk through and following me in, taking his seat on the opposite side of Minerva as me and pours himself a glass of water and dishing himself out some food.
“Celestia, are you willing to take over my rounds tonight?” Astra asks me hopefully.
“Why would I do that?”
“Father set me up a dinner date for tonight”
“Dear Merlin, you're going to let him meddle in your life?”
“He's trying to help me”
“By making sure you date along his values” I respond shaking my head.
“Why is that such a bad thing? I'm a pureblood and I deserve the best”
“I prefer to know that I've earned what I have, my house, my husband, my girls, my life”
“Sorry for being nosy, but your girls?”
“Yes Minerva, found out last night that Severus and I are expecting twin girls sometime in July”
“Really? Congratulations. Though I have to admit I didn't see Severus as being the family kid of man” she smiles looking over at Severus who is staring back.
“I'm not, Celestia doesn't take no for an answer when she wants something”
“That's not what you were saying this morning”
“I admit it's growing on me, I'm not a family man, but I will give it my best to make you happy. I do want this, but am still unconvinced this will go well”
“Your charming husband has such a sweetness about him” Astra remarks sarcastically “really, I can totally understand why he is so irresistible” she finishes rolling her eyes.
“He's a good man Astra”
“Yea, the dark mark on his arm definitely screams that out for him”
“Everyone has moments in their lives that they regret, he has moved forward and proven himself to be trustworthy”
“Trustworthy yes, but don't trinket yourself into believing he didn't enjoy everything he did under the power of that mark. He joined them for a reason Celestia. He's not the saint like you believe”
“I know he isn't, I prefer to focus on his good points”
“All I'm saying is we could have everything, I'm not going to settle for less than that”
“I didn't settle, I married for love”
“I still don't believe that, I'm sorry.”
“I really wish you would give up harping on him. Lucius is scum Astra, as low as they come and you're letting him meddle”
“You saw him during the war too Celestia, he wasn't fighting, he was looking for his son.”
“That doesn't make him good, or changed Astra”
“Then either does anything Severus has done. Loving a woman, dead or alive doesn't make you a good person, hes still just as dark as Lucius, why else would they still be friends? The very reasons you hate father are the things you are choosing to ignore in Severus. You don't think they stood side by side, torturing, killing and raping? You think your husband hasn't participated in bringing the same pain you endured into someone else's life?”
I turn my gaze to Severus who seems to have gone a few shades paler, looking like he may be sick. I feel my stomach lurch and my heart sink, I had always assumed he had been in the background and never taken part in the bloodshed. But the look on his face says it all. I quickly excuse myself from the table and flee the room, instead of going to Severus room I go to my own and climb into my bed pulling the blankets up to my chest hugging them tightly. Severus comes in the room about twenty minutes later.
“Why are you in here Celestia?”
“I just need to clear my head” I start, and against my better judgement I ask “did you Severus?”
“Did I what Celestia, what are you specifically asking me”
“Have you taken part In rape and torture of innocent people Severus?”
“Yes Celestia I have” he responds icily
“Did you enjoy it Severus” I whisper, fearing his response. He is quiet for a long period of time before he speaks.
“I need you to understand I was a different person back then Celestia”
“So you enjoyed it”
“At that point yes Celestia I did”
I close my eyes and all I can see is Severus holding some poor woman down while she screams and tries to get away. My body begins to tremble and tears run down my face. I feel Severus’ hand on my shoulder and I pull away.
“How many women Severus, how many innocent women did you rape Severus?”
“Five Celestia, under direct orders to do so”
“Where are they now?”
“Three died under the dark lord—“
“Did you kill them?”
“No Celestia”
“You should have, do you know what it's like to feel a man force himself into you? To feel your body give into it's nature and betray your mind that's screaming for it all to stop”
“No, but I understand now. After seeing what you went through I faced my own demons Celestia, I live with what happened those years ago and I do regret what happened”
“Who are they, the two that are still alive?”
“Celestia”
“Tell me Severus”
“A muggle girl named Serenity Vargal, she was in the wrong place at the wrong time and the dark lord brought her back with a group of her friends as entertainment and a muggle born witch Marsela Osgot who had married a pureblood after convincing him that she was one as well.”
“Give me some space Severus, I need to think on this”
He nods in understanding and leaves. I snap my fingers summoning an elf and send it to find the two woman. The elf returns an hour later with their addresses messily scrawled onto a ripped bit of parchment.
“Tell no one of this” I whisper and apparate to a bar I know to be close to the first address, I move down the street and stop to knock on the door. After a few minutes the door opens and a tall thin woman looks out at me, her brown hair tied back in a messy bun and her green eyes fixed on me.
“Are you Marsela Osgot?” She nods slowly “I'm—“
“I know who you are. You're Celestia Snape. Why are you here?”
“Can I come in? I just want to talk to you”
“If you give me your wand” she whispers. I hand her my wand and she pulls the door open allowing me in and leading me into her shabby run down home and sitting me down in her threadbare sitting room.
“What can I do for you Mrs. Snape?” Marsela asks me quietly.
“I want you to tell me what my husband can do to make amends to you?”
“Why?”
“Because I have been through what you have been through and I know how hard it makes life after, please, anything to make your life easier”
“I'm between jobs and about to be evicted from my house, I doubt your husband could help me”
“No, but I could”
“I doubt your father would allow you to help me”
“You know Lucius”
“In the same way I know your husband, he was there that night twenty years ago, he did more damage to me than your husband ever did”
“Will you accept money from me?”
“Under normal circumstances never, but at this point I am desperate”
“Write down your gringnotts information and I will figure this out for you, please, take my apologies on their behalf”
The woman nods, tears in her eyes.
“You are truly something else, thank you”
I shake her hand and stand to leave. She folds a piece of parchment and hands it to me. I shove it in my pocket and pull out the second address. I step outside closing the door behind me and apparate to an overgrown field, walking through the streets and stopping outside a little house on the corner of the street. I bang on the door and moments later a young man opens the door and stares at me.
“Can I help you miss?” he asks politely
“Is Serenity Vargal here?”
“Vargal, no. She hasn't been a Vargal in ten years since I married her” he smiles, “ but yes she's here, come in”
He brings me into the house closing the door and we step over toys to get to he sitting room where a woman about 35 sits on the couch, her feet up and her hands resting on her swollen belly. Her attention moves from the television and over to me.
“Hello Serenity”
“Do I know you?”
“No, but I'm here to make a peace offering that will hopefully help heal the damage my husband has done to you”
“Your husband?”
“He hurt you, I don't know how long ago it was, you would have been unable to press charges against him because he had immunity most likely”
“Your talking about the man who—“
“Yes I am, I have been through what you went through growing up, I want to see if there is anything I can do to help you and maybe make amends, I can't live with him knowing what he has done unless I do”
“Will you answer my questions? Because no one will answer my questions”
“I can try” I nod as she points me to the other end of the couch.
“What was he? He wasn't normal, could make things happen”
“I really can’t”
“I figured as much, just go” she grumbles frustrated “he left me pregnant, your husband did. The child is weird like him, she's four and can make things happen that aren't normal. I need answers”
“A child? Does he know?”
“Ive never told anyone before, but my other children are afraid of her. We've taken her to doctors and they think were crazy. I'm not crazy am I?”
“No you aren't” I whisper shocked “I need to go talk to him”
“Please don't leave, talk to me, please?”
“Can I meet her?” I whisper and she nods.
“Marietta, come here” she barks at the girl.
A few moments later a little girl with black curly hair that falls in tangles to her shoulders appears in the doorway, she looks sad and dirty. She looks at me confused.
“This is miss—“
“Celestia” I whisper extending my hand to the little girl who seems afraid to touch me.
“I don't want to hurt you” she whispers.
“You won't, I'm like you dear”
Her eyes widen and she looks at me expectantly. I look at the drawing in her hand which folds itself into a paper crane and flies around her head before landing back in her hand. She looks at me with a large smile on her face. The other children in the house start appearing, then are all clean and taken care of except little Marietta who appears to be entirely uncared for.
“Why does she look neglected?” I ask as it dawns on me.
“I never wanted her, tried to be rid of her but nothing worked, she hung on” the woman tells me coldly. “You want to make amends with me? Take her, she's your problem now”
“I—I—“
“Please let me go with you miss” comes the little girls voice from beside me, her eyes hopeful as she moves closer not taking her eyes off me. Severus is going to be……I don't know how he's going to take this.
“Yes, I'll need her identification and a written piece from you so I don't get accused of kidnapping her from you”
“She's got no ID, born here, no one is going to report her missing, only we know about her”
I feel my heart drop and my anger welling up.
“Get your things Marietta, we are leaving”
The girl stands looking at me blankly.
“You don't have anything do you?” I ask and she shakes her head. I pick her up and wrap her in my cloak exiting the house quickly.
“An we don't want her back, you don't want her leave her somewhere”
I apparate to Hogsmeade where the little girl scrambles off me heaving violently.
“I'm sorry dear, I forgot how bad that was the first time. The good news is you didn't vomit” then I stop. “Have you eaten today?” She shakes her head and I feel my heart drop again. I pick her back up, the December snow and frosty breeze affecting the poor shoeless coatless girl. I move to Madam Malkins and move into the store closing the door behind me and putting Marietta down on the floor. Madam Malkins looks at her in alarm.
“Why is she dressed like that? It's December!”
“She came under my care less than 20 minutes ago, she owns nothing but this, that's why I'm here, she needs clothes, boots, shoes and a coat please, the best you have in shop”
Madam Malkins goes to works grabbing items from the shelves and from the back and shrinking them down to her tiny size after measuring the girl out.
“Theres a bathroom with a tub in it upstairs, clean the poor girl up, here's some clean clothes for her, and a brush” she smiles gently.
I lead the girl upstairs and close the bathroom door. She undresses and I take note of the bruises on her far too thin frame. She climbs into the tub and I quickly wash her up and wash and brush out her hair, drying her off and handing her the new clothes, a pair of black dress pants and a deep purple sweater, she pulls the socks over her feet and smiles up at me. We head back downstairs after I pull her hair back into a pretty French braid. There are three bags on the counter ready to go, Madam Malkin helps her into the pretty fleece lined leather boots and the thick wool pea coat before returning to the counter.
“Can you just ship the rest up to my room at Hogwarts?” And she nods gesturing for an elf who levitates the bags and. Disappears with them much to Marietta's delight as she looks at me completely entranced by everything she is seeing. We leave the shop, the girl clinging off my coat desperately. I take her for a quick bite to eat at the café and then take her to honeydukes. She can't contain her joy as the candies jump and moves around the crowded store, I grab her a bag of candy and we pay.
“Can I use your floo please? I don't think she can handle apparating again” I ask the shopkeeper who nods and points to it. I pick her up and floo directly into my room, looking around and finding it empty. I put Marietta down and she looks around the room, her eyes stopping on the bed with a yawn.
“Go ahead dear, you can lay down if you're tired” and she does just that, she kicks off her boots and drops her coat on the floor and climbs up into the bed. I move to her tucking her gently into the bed when I hear the door open. I look over to see Astra standing in the door staring at me.
“Come in and close the door Astra”
Marietta looks from her to me and smiles before snuggling into the bed and quickly dozing off.
“Who is she Celestia?”
“She's Severus’ daughter, he doesn't even know she exists” I whisper
“What is she doing here?”
“I made him tell me names earlier, there were two women, I went to make amends, the first woman was the victim of both Severus and Lucius, but Lucius did more harm to her. I'm going to help her financially to makes amends for Severus. The second was I woman who appeared ok until I saw her” I turn my gaze to the bed, drawing the curtains around it and dropping into the chair by the fire “they had around a dozen kids in the house, all well fed and taken care of except her. They were muggles, she's a witch like us Astra, they were starving and neglecting her. They told me I could make amends by taking her with me. So I did”
“Dear Merlin Celestia, What is –“
“Where have you been Celestia” comes Severus annoyed voice “you've been gone for hours, no one knew where you were”
“We need to talk Severus, I went to see the women”
“Are you insane Celestia!”
“No, I went to make peace, and I am going to do that with Marsela, she is in financial turmoil right now, I'm going to help her out, I apologized on your behalf. She is more scarred by what Lucius did to her”
“Merlin Celestia”
“I have no sympathy for Serenity however, what a horrid woman, I did however make amends with her as well, but I think you may be angry with me Severus”
“Why?” He whispers looking at me unsurely until his gaze falls on the bed, I turn and see Marietta peeking fearfully out of the curtains at us”
“She's your daughter Severus”
“What have you done Celestia, did you steal her?” He whispers staring at the girl.
“No, they wanted me to take her away Severus, she's a witch and they're muggles.”
“Are you insane!”
“They were taking good care of all their children except her Severus, she is neglected and starved, the poor child was in a large tshirt when I arrived there, caked in dirt with tangled hair, would you have left her there? She's your flesh and blood”
He sits quietly for Several moments before snapping his fingers and sending the elf to get poppy.
“What are we supposed to do with her Celestia?”
“We can raise her as ours Severus, she deserves a good life, this isn't her fault, you owe her this”
Severus leans his head back and let's out a sigh.
“Severus, this is what I am asking you to do to right your wrongs”
Poppy knocks gently and wanders in stopping in front of me.
“I need to to run another blood panel Poppy”
“Who now?”
Severus points to the little girl who is now climbing slowly off the bed.
“I want you to check her blood against mine Poppy”
Poppy nods sending an elf to get her stuff and immediately getting to work when the elf returns, the girl watches in fear.
“Are you gonna stick me?”
“No dear, I'm going to use magic to do it, it won't hurt a bit”
“Magic? Am I magic?”
Poppy looks at me and I nod “I haven't seen her do anything, but I can feel it when I'm near her”
“I can make things float” she whispers
Poppy runs the spell and both vials spinning the air and in only seconds combine into one.
“She's yours Severus”
“Can you check her health Poppy? Celestia said she was poorly cared for where she was”
An hour later we sit by the fire as Poppy reads over the results of the testing. Marietta sits on the floor in front of the fire flipping through a potions book that was on my table.
“Can you read it?” I ask her quietly and she shakes her head sadly.
“We will work on it dear, ok?”
“I can stay here with you? You aren't going to leave me somewhere?”
“No darling, you are going to stay with me”
“And me” Severus whispers and I look at him.
“She is underweight, short for her age, dehydrated and malnourished. I'm going to give you some potions to make to get her back on track, it'll help with all that”
I nod and watch as Marietta focuses on the book, lifting it back up to the table. She stands moving to me and stops in front of me.
“Are you going to be my mum now?”
I look up at Severus who sighs and nods.
“Yes dear, I will be”
“Good, I like you” she smiles climbing up on my lap and snuggling into my chest.
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