Love From The Soul (Severus Snape x OC)

Chapter 5

That morning I woke up without a flashback, and I was relieved. I sighed before standing up from my bed and looking at the other side of the room. Dempsey was still sleeping in a bed I had transfigured for him the previous evening, and I made sure not to wake him up. I was on my way to the bathroom to go brush off my bedhead when I casually looked in my tall mirror to the side. What I saw made me freeze in my tracks. My right eye was completely black and the skin around my eye out to half my forehead and cheek was blackened and looked as if a being had possessed a part of me. I jump back and fall on the floor while letting out a small yelp of surprise. 

Dempsey immediately woke up, and when he saw me sitting traumatized on the floor, he immediately got up and came to see what was wrong. 

''Alzenia what's wrong? Did you get another nightmare?'' I look to him then back into the mirror, but when I look back, my eye and face looks perfectly normal.

 ''I....I....don't know what happened....what the fuck is going on with me...'' He looks in the mirror for a second, before looking back to me.

''Did the mirror attack you or what?'' He joked in a tense manner. I chuckle, but it comes out very dry and isn't genuine. ''No no......its just.......when I looked into it...my face was-.....it looked exactly like the day I was cursed...''

 He didn't need to hear anything more, he understood exactly what I meant. ''God.....your reaction was probably accurate then. Trust me....I was there and I saw it....it was scary.'' I nod slowly and he helps me back on my feet.

I think for a bit, before saying. ''I think it was a hallucination, when I was in the process of being freaked out, I touched my face in horror.....but my skin didn't feel like it looked in the mirror....and trust me I remember as clear as day what that part of my face felt like when I was cursed...''

 He nods. ''That makes sense, anyway, lets go out to clear your mind, I think we both need it. It might give us more clear thoughts to figure out this situation too.'' I smile slightly and agree. We then got dressed and left for a walk.

We ended up going into the forbidden forest, but we made sure to not go too far as to not get in trouble. We were casually talking about our work and other memories we had made.

 ''Hey Dem, that makes me think, why did the S.W.I.C send you back around Hogwarts? As I recall you were in France.'' He looks down for a moment. 

''They sent me here to investigate a strange magic reading that has been detected around here, and......I have a theory as to where it might be coming from....but......'' He trails off and started looking uneasy. ''But.....?'' I say in a questioning tone. 

''But I'm so afraid of being right.........'' I frown in sympathy, and I don't ask any further.

Severus had also woken up early that morning, he planned on going out to collect some potion ingredients he needed from the forest. He set off silently from the dungeon and left. He had been out for an hour or so before having collected all he needed and starting heading back to the castle. He was almost out of the forest when he heard hushed talking. He stopped for a second, debating on if he cared enough to investigate, before he heard the voices more clearly and recognized it as Alzenia's. At that moment, his decision was taken and he decided to follow the voices while staying hidden.

He had gotten pretty close to them, and he started detecting bits of conversation. He saw that her friend was with her and he got suspicious. 

''The buffoon and the fool.....what great combination of ridiculous they are.....just walking around like the world is great.'' He muttered under his breath. They then fell silent and Snape stood still. Callidus kept asking Nomendia what was wrong but she didn't answer.