Where Your Loyalties Lie - {Severus Snape x Reader}

-16-

All of the Dark Wizards are nervously standing further away, wands ready. My heart keep pounding fast inside my chest. The werewolf whimpers while keeping his head down. The whole atmosphere sends shivers down my spine. "...Remus?" my voice sounds like a whisper. Those yellow eyes with tiny black pupils slowly looks up to me and I can feel this twist in my stomach. Every part of my body and soul tells me to run, but I can't move. I'm too scared. Then, the werewolf raises his head up high and howls, waking me up from the stunned state to cruel reality. The Dark Wizards gets startled by this and takes a step back. Werewolf gets on all fours with those long, bony legs and slowly starts approaching me, hunger in his eyes. Remus..! The grip around my wand tightens as I began to wonder if I should use it. I don't want to..-

All of sudden, one of the Dark Wizards behind me uses a spell on the werewolf, thinking they can tame the beast. "Get back..!" the witch hisses, keeping her wand steady. But it only made the werewolf angry, so his focus quickly goes to the witch. Wasting no time, he makes his attack as he makes couple running steps before jumping right above me. In those quick seconds, my heart sinks to the bottom of my stomach after thinking he's about to attack me - so I flinch, shut my eyes and bring my arms up to shield. "Look out-!!" other Dark Wizards yell as they run out of the way. The witch who tried to tame the werewolf gets attacked cold blooded. Right when the werewolf's teeth digs into the flesh, her horrifying scream echoes all over the Forbidden Forest and shakes me from the shock. Two other Dark Wizards who knows to Apparate disappears right away. Other four stands there, frozen by the fear.

Quickly, I force myself up from the ground and start running. Time to go! "Hey!!" one of the wizards sees me escaping and tries to hit me with a spell, but hits a tree near me - making tiny, shattered bits of wood fly. That catches the werewolf's attention and he starts attacking the four remaining wizards. Without looking back, I keep on running as fast as I can, and I can hear how they are all screaming and trying to survive by using magic against the beast. Shit, shit, shit, shit! The ground keeps rustling under my feet as I run. By every breath I take, some steam comes out of my mouth. Don't even know where am I running off to. All I know, that I just need to get out of here!

Finally, when I have gone far enough, I stop to catch my breath. I take some support of my knees:"...Haahh... haaahh..!". Still can't believe what I just saw. Remus is a werewolf!!! Why he never told me that?! 'Oh, (Y/N). By the way, I'm going to turn into a cold blood werewolf this evening, hope you don't mind!' Now that I have the time to take this all in, my legs and hands starts shaking. Slowly, I start to feel some pain across my chest. What..? Gently, I place my hand against it and look down to my hand. Blood. It won't take long before I realize Remus's sharp claws had pierced through my coat, therefor he had made a long, clean cut against the surface of my skin. It's not deep, but enough to make me bleed. "That son of a bitc..-" suddenly, I can hear some leafs rustle and I sharply turn around towards the sound, wand ready. But no one's there.

My heart starts beating fast again, eyes shifting and darting the area. Don't tell me he went after me. Quickly, I go behind one of the big trees and lean my back against it. Oh, Merlin! I'm going to die, I'm going to die! When it got completely quiet, I dare to take a peek. Still, no one's there. Huh... Maybe he walked right past me..? A hand grabs me by the shoulder and sharply spins me around, and I automatically let out a shriek. "What in the Merlin's name are you doing in here?!" Snape hisses after he hold onto my collars and pushed my back against the tree. I stare at the man for a quick moment in pure shock. "Wha..- what are you doing here?!" I whisper hiss back. He's visibly angry:"I..-", but then his eyes goes down to my bloody clothes. The anger from his face vanishes immediately and turns into something else. Something I've never seen on his face before.