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 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. 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..! Tightening the grip around my wand, wondering 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. But it makes the werewolf angry, so his focus quickly goes to the witch.

Wasting no time, he attacks and makes a jump right above me. "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. Her horrifying scream echoes all over the Forbidden Forest and shakes me from the shock. Two other Dark Wizards who knows Apparate spell disappears right away. Other four stands there in fear. Quickly, I got 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 it hits a tree near me. 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. 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. Taking some support of my knees:"..Haahh... haaahh..!". Still can't believe what I just saw. Remus is a werewolf!!! Why he never tell 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. Gently, I place my hand against it and look down to my hand. Blood. Realizing Remus's sharp claws had pierced thru 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..-", can hear some leafs rustle and I turn around towards the sound, wand ready. My heart starts beating fast again. Don't tell me he went after me. Quickly, I go behind a tree and lean my back against it. Oh, Merlin! I'm going to die, I'm going to die!

When it got all quiet, I dare to take a peek. No one is there. Huh... Maybe he walked right past me..? A hand grabs me by the shoulder and sharply spins me around, automatically I let out a shriek. "What in the Merlin's name are you doing in here?!" Snape hisses while holding onto my collars, pushing 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 clearly angry:"I..-", but then his eyes goes down to my bloody clothes. The anger from his face vanishes and turns into something else. Something I've never seen on his face before. "Did he bite you?!" he asks. Frowning at his question:"What? N..-", "Did his saliva ever get into you?!" he keeps asking, almost as if his own life depends on it. Then I realize what that look on Snape's face means. He is actually worried. Pushing his hands off of me:"No! I have never exchanged saliva with that man in any form!".

Snape relaxes his shoulders a bit, and lets out an exhale. Then both of our heads snaps at the direction as we hear the werewolf's howl further away. "Guess he got rid of the Dark Wizards..." I whisper to myself. Snape turns his head back at me with angry eyes. "What have you gone yourself into?" he hisses. "I..- We were supposed to safe Buckbeak." I explain. By the look on his face, he doesn't understand who am I talking about. "Hagrid's hippogriff. He was held on as a hostage by the Dark Wizar...-", "I know the hippogriff." he snaps annoyed. Then he continue:"I saw it stuck in the bushes by its collar.". "What?! Why didn't you help him?" I ask heated. Snape looks at me baffled:"So what you are saying is, I made the wrong choice for choosing you over that overly large bird?". "Yes!" I exclaim.