Where Your Loyalties Lie - {Severus Snape x Reader}

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Just then, I hear a pond do a little splashing sound, like someone just quickly walked few meters behind my back. Quickly, I turn around to see no one's there. As my instinctive reaction is to reach for the wand, but then I realize... It's not there! I don't have it with me. What the..-? Then I remember how I hand it to Hagrid few hours back. Oh, no! My hands starts to sweat. How is it I feel so naked without the wand? I try to ignore the feeling like someone is following me and keep on walking the direction I think I should go.

Then, corner of my eye, I see some white light coming end of an alleyway. Huh? It's a little light ball, dangeling in the air. It moves slowly and smoothly. "What?" I whisper to myself. Hard to tell if it's because how drunk I am or what, but the light slowly transforms into something. Something that looks like... A doe. What? The doe keeps looking at me end of the alleyway. We stare each other for a moment. Is that..? My heart fills with joy when I realize it. Patronus! Must be Hagrid's. The doe turns around and looks back at me. He's guiding me the way to the train station! Gladly, I go after it. To be honest, I didn't know Hagrid was able to do that. The doe walks some meters ahead of me calmly, sometimes looking back to make sure I follow. "Yeah, yeah. I'm coming." I chuckle.

After walking two minutes like that, I see the exit from this maze further away and the doe disappears. "Thank you, Hagrid." I smile and starts speeding the steps. Just then, a woman appears behind the corner of a building ahead of me. Huh?! My heart skips a beat and I froze. Immediately I recognize it's the twin sister, Alecto. She still has that same sour look on her face. Then I hear how someone else steps around a corner behind my back. "Aw, don't leave yet, (Y/N)." the familiar male voice says. Quickly, I turn around to see him. It's Amycus. He's just standing there with smug smirk on his face while twirling a wand in his hands. "Amycus..." I let out, confused what's going on. I am now standing between them. Both of them are about ten meters away from me. "You know, no woman has ever walked away from me before..." he says, keeping the tone calm, yet I can sense some danger in it. He then lift his eyes on me from the wand with determinant look:"But if they ever tried, I have made sure they'll regret it.". What?!

The rain keeps on coming down fast. All three of us are just standing here, waiting something to happen any second now. My heart keeps beating fast inside my chest, hands sweating. Merlin, why I had to give my wand away?! I don't know what to do at this point. There is no way I can get out of this without using magic. Everything happens so fast; without a word or any warning, Amycus draws his wand, pointing it at me. He quickly casts a spell, but I manage to dodge it by running to the alleyway next to me. The spell hits his sister instead, who falls down. "Argh!!" she groans in pain as her back hits the stone ground. "Alecto!" Amycus gasps. But he won't stay to check up on his sister, instead he runs after me. At this point, I have no idea where I'm running off to. All I know is I need to get far away from them!

I'm back in middle of the same looking streets. Hard to tell if I'm running circles at this point. After a little while, I had to stop and stay still so I can hear where they might be. I'm now leaning against a brick wall while hiding in another alleyway. My chest keeps going up and down fast. Trying my best to settle down the breath so I can hear clearly. What do I do?! After couple of seconds, a smooth whoosh sound appears pretty close to where I'm standing. It sounded like someone just flew and landed. But it didn't sound like it was done with a broom. No. It was too smooth for that. Don't tell me..- "There is no point of hiding from a Death Eater, (Y/N)." Amycus's voice echos around the empty streets. I knew it! That's how he was able to move so smoothly. Every step he takes makes a sound of a pond being stepped on. Slowly, but surely, he's coming this way. Oh, no.

Amycus tries to listen if I make any sound while he's walking:"So be a good girl and come out from your hide.". My heart beats fast. Too scared to peek from my hide, I press my back more against the wall. Think, (Y/N)! THINK! When all of sudden, I hear another smooth whoosh and landing somewhere near by other side of the alley. I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die! Then - out of nowhere, someone blasts a chimney pipe next to me with a spell. "AH!!" I let out a scream and hunch down, covering my head. Thick smoke shoots out of the broken pipe and the whole alleyway gets covered by the smoke. It's really hard to see thru it. That was close! Whoever did that, must've missed their target. Having no time to react, Amycus jumps to the alleyway I'm in.

He won't hesitate and starts shooting with his wand thru the smoke right away. Shit!!! I keep myself hunched down, hoping for the best none of his spells hits me. When all of sudden, other side of the alley a single light of spell shoots thru the smoke and hits Amycus right in his chest. "Argh..-!!" he gets thrown back few meters and his back hits the stone ground, loosing his consciousness. What?! Then, a hand comes thru the smoke behind me, quickly covering my mouth. "Mpfh..-!" my eyes goes wide and heart drops. No! When I try to fight myself out of their grasp, they hold onto me tightly, folding their free arm around my waist to bring me more close to them. Now my back is up against their torso. This can't be happening! I can feel how the person leans in, their nose and lips almost touching my ear. "Don't. Make. A sound." familiar deep voice whispers. Severus?!