Draco x Reader

Chapter 21: Dark Marks and Dinner Starts

Two stone hands placed themselves on either side of my head, and all of a sudden, I was standing in a Slytherin dorm, one I knew to be my Father's based on his pictures. I turned around and saw him at his desk, his head in his hand. In the corner was a man I knew was Snape - just many, many years earlier. Snape had to have been crying, his eyes red and in flame.

"Maybe there's only one choice..." Snape whispered, trembling. His wand was clutched in one hand.

"You will not kill yourself, Severus. You won't. I can fix this."

"There's no way to fix this, Will!"

"There is!" My dad slammed his hand on the desk. The candle on it, which was the only light in the room, shuttered under the pressure of movement.

After a moment of silence, Severus spoke again, "They'll kill you. It doesn't matter who you are - your aunt won't protect you, she'll just give you up."

"Bellatrix is not my aunt - she married into the Lestrange family and disgraced us," My father whispered chaotically, flipping through pages of seven books, "Even so, she cannot betray me. 'Corvus oculum corvi non eruit.'"

"Your Latin won't save you now."

"Cut the negativity Severus."

"You'll never find a solution and I can't serve them forever, so the only possible option is-"

"I found it." My father cut him off in a whisper, "I found the spell."

Dad stood up quickly, grabbing the book and his wand, "We need someone way better than us for it, though."

"A professor?"

"Bloody hell, of course not. That Ravenclaw girl... I think her name is Scarlett Priest."

I was shocked by my father's sudden running out the door, but I followed him and Severus all the way to the top of the Ravenclaw tour, and the. to the dorm room of one 'Scarlett Priest.'

"Scarlett!" My father yelled.

The door whipped open, revealing my mother, clearly straight from her bed, "Bloody hell, it's midnight. What do you two good-for-nothing miserable arses want?"

"I found a spell to erase Severus's Dark Mark," Dad whispered. My mom's face exploded into a smile, and she pulled them both in. I managed to slip in with them, into her pristine dorm room.

She looked over the page my father handed her, "Yes, this definitely could work, but Severus, it will hurt."

I did everything I could to look at the page, but it was moving so quickly in her hands, until she finally took a chair, pulled it next to Severus, and took her wand out. "Will, you'll have to help us."

"Anything, Scarlett."

"Point your wand and recite this with me, together."

At once, they recited:

"Vade cum tenebris.
frange incantamenta;
statim relinquendum est;
Bonum et bene relinquendum est.

Liber spiritus est;
Purus sit anima;
Fortuna Voldemort,
Amicum nostrum solum relinque."

Severus began screaming as his arm bubbled up, horrible swells forming and bleeding all over the mark. Smoke began rising from it as well, and his pain was unbearable to watch but I found myself unable to look away. My father held him, and let him squeeze his arm, but the bleeding and pain did not slow down for another two to five minutes. When it did, though, Severus passed out. His arm was clear.

I awoke to the statues hands, and looked into it's stone eyes. I was slightly disheartened that they were not my father's.

"I understand, thank you."