Where Your Loyalties Lie - {Severus Snape x Reader}

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When I finally reach the top of the Astronomy Tower, immediately the wind tangles in my hair so it floats and keeps getting into my eyes. "Oh..- Damn it." I curse under my breath while trying to maintain the situation. Right away, I notice no one's here anymore. Hmph, and I came all the way here for nothing. Back when I was a student, I never really came up here. Only if it was necessary regarding the studies. Really don't know why I was never interested coming here, maybe I was just too lazy climb all the way up. But I am here now. Wonder how it all looks from here? With that in mind, I walk towards one of the railings just to see the view. Woah! It's beautiful. Sure - it's very dark and gloomy evening, but I can only imagine how it all looks when it would be beautiful sunset. I need to bring Severus here someday.

All of sudden, I hear behind me the sound of when someone does the Apparate spell. It got me so off guard, I flinch and let out a small gasp:"Wah!". Quickly, I turn around to see who just appeared. My eyes widens when I realize it's Harry Potter, who's trying to keep Dumbledore - the Headmaster himself, on his feet. Looks like he's hurt or something. "Wha..-?! What happened?!" I rush to them. "We need to get him to the Hospital Wing..- To Madam Pomfrey!" Harry looks at me worried. We quickly help the old man to sit down on the metal stairs that are near by. Harry steps aside to watch as I try to create eye contact with my boss. I hold onto his shoulder and try to main calm:"Albus, please talk to me. What happened? What you need?". He looks very weary, like his heart might stop beating any second now. Dumbledore keeps gasping under his breath:"Severus. Severus is who I need.". Severus.

Then, I turn my head to look over the shoulder to see the boy behind me. For a split second, I try to figure out which one of us should go to him. My mind is all over the place. I can't leave the poor man here alone with the young teenage boy. Then again, I could use Apparate to get to Severus. But I'm not in that state of mind to be able to do that now. Urgh! In panic - that I try so hard not to show, I let out:"Harry, go. Go get Severus. Tell him everything that happened and bring him here.". Harry stands there, watching Dumbledore and not saying a word. Like he doesn't know what to do. After all, he's just a boy. "Harry!" I raise my voice to snap him out of it. He then looks at me. I keep the determinant stare at him:"Severus. Get him here and tell what happened. Now.". The thought of he might be a Death Eater doesn't concern me right at this moment. Dumbledore trusts him. I trust him.

Harry rushes down the spiral staircase to go get the Potions Master as fast as he can, leaving me and the Headmaster alone on the top of the Astronomy Tower. My attention goes back to my boss and I place a hand on his shoulder again. "It's going to be alright, Albus. You are going to be fine." encouraging smile creeps on my lips as I try to convince myself as well. He really doesn't look too good. The old man breaths now a lot more calm manner:"You really are... A light in middle of darkness, (Y/N). Remember that.". Alright, he really is lost his mind at this point. "Sure. Whatever you say, sir." I nod with caring smile people like to do when they speak with elderly, who has lost their mind or such.

Dumbledore then told me what happened. How he and Harry went to this mysterious cave where they believed one of the Horcruxes made by You-Know-Who was hidden. They successfully obtained a locket from a lake inside the cave, where Dumbledore weakened himself by drinking a potion somekind and they managed to escape from a group of Inferi. Inferi. Cold shivers goes down my spine just hearing the word. That's what my parents used to scare me by saying if I won't behave like they want me to, they will turn me into one. 'That way you could finally be useful' - they said. Then, we hear fadely how someone's climbing up the spiral staircase. My head snaps to the sound, slightly amazed. That was fast!