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"useless?" He questioned and I nodded. "Why would you be useless?" I looked at the ground and started to cry. "Because professor.. you're the only one that wants me here.." he sighed and pulled me closer. "Come on, you know that's not true." I scoffed and furrowed my eyebrows. "none of the students talk to me and the teachers barely acknowledge me and the only reason you and lupin did was because of my stupid arm!!" I screamed and stood up quickly before punching the cold brick wall in front of me.
Pain shot up my hand and I closed my eyes while feeling something wet drip down my hand. At least I was smart enough to use my good arm. Then, something warm wrapped around my hand, and I got pulled into a chest. I opened my eyes slowly to find a blanket wrapped around my hand and Snape holding it there gently while holding me close to his chest at the same time. "Please don't do that lun." He muttered and tried sitting me back down but I resisted.
"Why do you even want me here! Why won't you just let me fucking die!!" I stared at him and screamed. I haven't raised my voice in a while. He looked at me in disbelief before sighing and letting me go. "You remind me of a child." I got more angry. "A child?!" I couldn't believe he just called me a fucking child! "My child." I paused and stared at him wide eyed. "You are basically my daughter and I'm willing to treat you like one." Daughter. I've never heard those words come out of anyone's mouth, directed towards me at least. "Daughter?.." I mumbled
"I never found someone to love and I don't do good with children but you.. something is different. I feel like it's my duty to be the dad you.. you never had." Snape sighed, obviously holding back tears. "So yes, I see you as my daughter, and I want to protect you like one"
I was lost for words. Someone, my professor, saw me as his daughter?.. I mean, he was a great father figure but.. Snape grabbed my arms gently and rolled my sleeves up more, past my wrist, revealing long, deep cuts across my arm. Snape sighed and then took out his wand, but I stopped him. "I like it filled up, please.." he tilted his head and put his wand back in the harness. "It makes me discouraged if I have to look for a spot so.."
"I understand, don't worry, let's get them cleaned at least." He stared down at the trembling girl in front of him. "Lun, please let me patch them up. Especially this one." Severus motioned towards my infected cut, but still, I shook my head rapidly and tried pulling my arm away, but as gentle as his grip was, it was definitely strong.
"Why not?" Snape asked and pulled my arm closer to him. "The wraps itch.." I muttered under my breath and teared up. Please just let this be over with so I can go to sleep! "Is there something else I could use that doesn't itch?" I shook my head slowly. "Lunar, I need to take care of your infection. You need to let me care for you" I whimpered a bit.
"Only the infected one." I stated firmly, to which he nodded and sat me down. The blanket fell from my fist and revealed small scraps and cuts on my knuckles. Severus took a medkit from his emergency bag and took out a wrap and some cream. He crouched down in front of me before he pushed against my cut a bit and some pus came out.
He wiped it up and pushed over and over until pus stopped coming out and then he squeezed out some of the cream in the tube into his fingers and slowly and gently brushed it into the cut. It was a cold feeling, but I sat still the entire time while he wrapped my arm before he finished, cleaned up, and placed his hand on my cheek and let my arm go before hugging me and sighing while breathing slowly. "Let me get you to bed now." he whispered quietly and walked out of his room. "But my.."
"We'll talk about it tomorrow during Great hall, ok?" I nodded weakly and laid in his grip. He pulled me into the dungeon and into the girls dorm room and led me to a bed. Thankfully, nobody was here yet. It was just me. "Did you eat?" I shook my head and laid down before rubbing my eyes.
"Why not?" I rolled onto my back and looked at him. "It made me sick when I looked at it.." I mumbled and adjusted myself before pulling my blanket to me and hugged it to my chest. Daughter. Snape nodded understandably and then walked off after telling me goodnight and I stared at the ceiling. Daughter.
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Snape Comfort Fic
General Fiction16 year old lunar has been struggling with an eating disorder and self harm for 5 years, and it got worse when she moved to Hogwarts, with her eating being non managed, and alone most of the time, lunar's mental health went down hill.
