Mend Me

Thirty-Three

"Tell me, Severus," Amycus Carrow wheezes in Severus face outside of Hogwarts main entrance. "Do you make her scream just as I did?"

"My wife is none of your concern, Amycus." Severus spits as shoves past Carrow.

"Oh, come on, Snape. You can't tell me you haven't had a piece of that sweet ass. Or are you not a man?" Amycus chuckles at him as he comes up behind him, narrowly avoiding stepping on his heel.

"I am twice the man you could even imagine being." Severus spits as he whirls around to pin Amycus to the wall with one hand, his wand clenched in his other fist, pressing it into the bottom of Amycus' chin.

"Touchy are we, Snape?" Amycus spits, his eyes darting towards Severus' wand.

"You'd better pray I never hear you say another word against my wife." Severus rages as he pushes himself away from Amycus and turns abruptly to stalk back towards the headmasters tower.

"You're only jealous that I had her first." Amycus spits as he attempts to push past Severus.

"For one to be jealous, the other party must first have something that one wishes for. You, Amycus, have nothing that I wish for." Severus makes his way around Amycus and through the main entrance.

Once inside, students flee in every direction to get as far away from his as possible. Potter's word that he had killed Albus had spread like wildfire. Severus was honestly surprised so many families opted to send their children to school this year, especially the Weasley family, who still had their youngest child to get through school. In the distance, Minerva spots him, makes a sour face, and spins on her heel to avoid coming anywhere near him.

He went to his room and made love to his wife after his altercation with Carrow; not to prove anything, but because he could. Because she is his, and he is hers.

Because the screams that come from her mouth while he was inside of her is music to his ears. Because those screams were due to ecstasy, and not terror.

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Severus does what he can to protect the students from both Carrow's, but he can't stop them entirely. When word got out that they were having students practice the Cruciatus Curse on one another as part of their power trip, he had tried to put an end to it. He went directly to the Dark Lord, tried to make him understand that torturing students was no way to get them to join His side. Despite now being His "right hand man," He simply asked the Carrow's not to use Slytherin students as their prey.

Sectumsempra was created as a means to an end. Severus hadn't wanted to truly harm anyone, but the anger and rage bubbled within him. After Black had nearly had him killed by Lupin in his werewolf form by leading him to The Shrieking Shack and Albus blatantly ignored his cries for help, he needed to produce an effective form of protection. They had used Levicorpus, another of his own spells against him more times than he had been able to count. He hadn't wanted any of them to get out; Lily, Mulciber, and Lucius were the only ones he had shown it to, but one of them let it leak and before he knew it, you could barely walk down a hall without being lifted it to the air by your ankles.

Severus kept Sectumsempra to himself, not even telling Lily of its creation. He had only used it twice on another person, and deeply regret it each time. The first was on James Potter after he and Sirius cornered him after his O.W.L's, the second was in an attempt to protect two of the Seven Harry's when they moved the true Harry from the Dursley's to a safe house. It was months later that he learned it was Remus Lupin he had been trying to protect when his hand slipped, and he had accidentally cut off George Weasley's ear. He couldn't sleep or eat for days afterwards. He could have easily killed the poor boy, who had risked his own life protecting his brother's best friend, protecting his own best friend's son.