Loved By You. (A Severus Snape Love Story)

Prologue

August 14th 1995
I covered my ears trying to muffle the sickening scream my mother let our as she drew her last breath. I could hear the loud scampering footstep of my mothers murderers ransacking the house below me. It was Death Eaters, followers of the Dark Wizard Voldemort, I knew that much, but I didn't have a clue as to why they were in America, my mother wasn't important enough to come all this way just to kill her.
I tried to focus on keeping hidden instead of thinking about my dead mother underneath me.
I've been sitting hunched up in the attic listening to my mothers gut wrenching cries as the bastards tortured her for at least an hour. They wanted information, I could barely make out what they were saying but I knew it must be important to them. My mother was strong though, she never gave in.
When she was near death and useless to them they slit her throat with a horrific spell, that was when I head up to the attic.
Now the death eaters were searching the house, for me probably, they had been for some time now but I'm sure they're going to give up soon, and they did. But this couldn't be the end of it.
When they left I couldn't hold myself together any longer. I balled my eyes out, tears flooding my face. I shook violently and struggled to breathe.
I went on like this for God knows how long, wondering what would become of me now I had no family left. I couldn't think of what else to do so I let myself cry. I cried so hard I couldn't think. And eventually I cried myself to sleep.

I was awoken hours later by the snap of someone apparating into the room. I heard a soft, slight cough from the visitor. I squinted through my blurred vision, staining to see the man before me.
It was an old man... dressed head to toe in wisteria robes, he had white hair and a long wispy beard. His half-moon glasses shielded his bright blue eyes that sparked as he looked down upon me.
"Aria." He smiled fondly approaching me slowly.
"Grandfather?" I exclaimed, shocked, my puffy eyes widening at his presence as he helped me to my feet.