Ties of Friendship, Bonds of Fate
Ties of Friendship, bonds of Fate- Ch 29
Title: Ties of Friendship, bonds of Fate
Pairings: Future JamesxLily and RemusxSeverus
Rating: K to start but future M.
Summary: snupin prequel to Bound to You set pre-Harry Potter Era Hogwarts in a Marauder era AR/AU. Traces the bonds between snupin and jily as well as the falling out/distancing of Peter from the others.
Chapter 29- When you wake
Severus woke to a duller version of his nearly omnipresent headache, as well as achingly familiar scents.
He cautiously peeked one eye open only to groan and bury his face in an unfamiliar pillow.
Damn it all…
Not again…
They’re not real!
Severus curled up in a foetal position and rocked slightly, ‘They’re not real, I’m alone…alone…so alone…”
“Sev? SEV! Remus wake up before I push you off this bed!”
Lily’s voice’s felt like knives to his heart, she wasn’t here…
Aunt Sofia wouldn’t let her visit anyway…
“Sev? I’m here Sev, please open your eyes.” Remus’ deep voice filling his ears was torturous.
“Why? Why? You’re not real! Go away!” Severus whispered shakily.
“Oh Sev…” Lily’s voice broke, “I’m sorry, I should have fought harder. This is all my fault…I waited too long…”
“Sev please look at me…”
“I’m so tired, just leave me alone…” Severus mumbled.
“Severus I can’t leave. I won’t leave you…” Remus’ voice teased his ear.
Severus flinched.
Gentle hands rolled him onto his back, caressing his cheek and hair, “I’m here Sev, I’m real…”
“We’re both real…” Lily sniffed.
Severus found himself instinctively leaning into Remus’ touch, unwillingly tears filled his eyes. “I just want this to end…this slow gnawing emptiness.”
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“I just want this to end…this slow gnawing emptiness.”
Remus’ heart twisted, he reached out and shook his mate “Stop this! Look at me, I’m real Sev and I’m here. You’re not alone, I can’t leave you alone. Being alone is what caused this damage, we need each other.”
Severus’ eyes opened slowly, spurned on after Remus shook him, his voice trembling with uncertainty, “Remus?”
Remus threw his arms around his mate, holding him tightly, “I’m here…”
Slowly realization dawned in Severus’ pale drawn face, “Thank you…thank you…I couldn’t handle it if you weren’t real again…”
Remus held him tightly, kissing his neck, “I’m here...”
Severus’ painfully thin arms entwined themselves around Remus’ neck, “Don’t leave me…”
“I won’t. Andromeda said I have to stay with you and I want to…”
She also said as much as their soulbond craved sex, they were too weak to do so yet. Remus didn’t care; he had Severus in his arms…
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Lily stayed on the end of the bed where she had curled up after Andromeda delivered them here to Merit Manor where Severus’ new guardian lived with his family.
She just wanted to be sure that her friends would be okay, while she wasn’t soulbonded to Severus and Remus, she had sensed Severus weakening and when he blacked out.
The accompanying pain had dazed her as well; the longer they were friends the more flashes she got from Severus. Yet she never felt more for him than that of a sister, a majority of her heart belonged to James.
She needed this, to be sure that her first friends were recovering well…
The panic and pain were melting from Severus’ face; Remus’ worry had lessened but not disappeared.
How could Severus’ aunt hurt him like this? As if being betrayed by his parents wasn’t awful enough, his own aunt nearly killed him by ripping Sev’s support system out from under him.
It would be sometime before they all recovered from this…
What do you think? Outstanding? Exceeds Expectations? Acceptable? Poor? Dreadful? Troll?