Snape Comfort Fic

★does he actually care?★

I stared at him blankly, the long period of silence was concerning. Though, I didn't quite mind the thought of it, I didn't feel comfortable letting a teacher in like that. Snape reached his hand out and gently brushed it over my arm.

"Did you plan on trying to kill yourself?" He looked at me, he eyes fixated on mine. I shook my head slightly. "I didn't plan on cutting that deep professor, I'm truly sorry you had to see that.." I pulled my arms close to me and fidgeted with the neat bandages.

Snape rubbed my hands slowly before nodding and leaned back in the chair that was positioned on the left side of the bed. "Professor, who all knows?.." I spoke, and to that, he looked at me and crossed his left leg over his right. "Dumbledore, me, Lupin, Blaise, and Draco." I looked at him before nodding slightly and rubbed the bandages. While it was more than I would like, I knew it would probably stay those 5.

Madam Pomfrey returned with my water and handed it to me, to which I took and drank. It clenched my dry throat, so it worked for me.

I set the cup down beside me and rubbed the bruises up my forearm. "Why did I get put in a T-shirt?" I asked and looked at madam Pomfrey. She stared at me and looked at Snape before stepping closer to me and examined my arms. "Did you get abused as a child? Or lately?" My heart dropped and I tensed up.

"Dear?" She looked at me, waiting for an answer. "She mentioned it, yeah. Her mother is an alcoholic and a drug addict and her father left her at 10 years old, but he was an alcoholic to. So abuse in her household is common and she still gets beaten sometimes." Snape answered for me. I had ranted to him about it a couple of times but never realized he remembered it all.

"Did that c-" I cut her off and screamed at her. I didn't mean to, I just don't like being pushed. "I don't know ok! And it doesn't matter! Just leave me alone!" She looked at me with a shocked expression before fixing it and walked away. I stared at the blanket over my legs before tearing up. Snape moved forward a bit and rubbed my back slowly. "It's ok, I understand, just take a deep breath for me." I, still tensed up, slowly let out a shaky breath, which helped calm my body down greatly.

"I know you don't like being questioned a lot, but you can't snap at a staff member" he removed his hand and hesitantly asked a question. "Can you tell me a bit more about your family?" I continued to stare at the blanket "mom is an alcoholic and druggy, dad is a convicted criminal, alcoholic, rap***. Not much more to say with that I suppose, but whenever my mom got drunk she would choke me and hit me and that stuff.." that's all I wanted to say, and I knew I would snap at him to if he pushed further.

"Do you feel safe going home?" I looked at him confused. "For Christmas break?.." he nodded, and I shook my head hesitantly. "How would you feel coming home with me?" He leaned back into his chair and tilted his head to the side slightly. "W-what?.." shocked, I looked at him and was utterly confused. Normally, I would immediately say no, because I would think I was a burden but for some reason, the thought of staying with Severus wasn't that bad.

"While you were out, me and lupin were talking with Dumbledore and we agreed it would be unsafe for you to go home in those conditions, so-" "yes!" I interrupted him and hugged him tight.

(It's short but it's late at night so I'm sorry!)