*EDITING* It's rare to keep keep your tattoo, they normally fade out by around the age of fifteen, because there isn't the other half to your riddled message, no one perfect enough to be assigned as your soulmate. Clementine Whitlock, a shy girl with a big heart and an even bigger crush on the Potion's Master, Professor Snape, is shocked when her tattoo finally disappears because of him. She quickly realises that the teacher she previously thought would be a teenage crush might end up being her lifelong partner. Will they be able to continue their separate lives, only meeting in secret, or will they finally succumb to the desires that can't be quenched? Tw: Self-harm, abuse, neglect, mentions of suicide and suicidal thoughts, swearing, mature content. Most characters belong to JK Rowling

Severus Snape x Female Character | First-person POV Ellie never expected Hogwarts to feel like a battlefield. Being hired as the new Alchemy professor was exciting-but arriving during the Triwizard Tournament was never part of the plan. Thrown into a castle already tense with secrets and danger, she's forced to work closely with the one person who seems determined to push her away at every turn: Severus Snape. Cold. Infuriating. Impossible to read. And to ignore. Yet the more time she spends beside the Potions Master, the more she senses something beneath the hostility. Sharp words and colder silences slowly give way to something far more complicated-a fragile trust, an unwanted closeness, and something neither of them is ready to name. As danger unfolds and shadows begin to gather, Ellie finds herself pulled into a story far larger than her classroom, her past... and far more dangerous than her growing connection to Snape. Because Hogwarts is not the only thing hiding secrets this year. And some of them involve her. - Slow burn. Canon-aligned events. - Enemies-to-allies-to-something-more. - For readers who love tension, restraint, and dangerous loyalty.