Chapter 16

From an unexpected attack, Snape did not panic, but rather quickly used Protego, creating a transparent dome that stopped the casting spell, and at the same moment pointing his palm in her direction, released a disarming spell, but the woman completely repeated the actions of Snape himself, blocking the spell and abruptly leaving side, with an anticipatory grin, she was about to attack again, but already Regulus managed to intervene, standing in front of Snape. "Cousin, stop it! He helped me!"

The woman only looked at her cousin with displeasure and, tucking a lock of dark hair behind her ear, looked suspiciously at Snape smiling at her. "Grandma said many times not to leave alone and not to communicate with all sorts of Mudbloods…" 

"I needed to pick up something, but I didn't expect it to be a trap and they would try to kidnap me," the young man answered with a weary sigh. 

"Sorry, I wanted to do everything myself and not bother you or Grandma."

"Understood," she said in annoyance and looked at Snape. "I won't thank you, just tell me what you want?"

"Before that attack, I had one idea, but after your appearance …" or rather, the marks that he felt on Bella's hand, he decided to abandon the idea of ​​finding the parseltongue through them. "I'll probably keep it to myself." 

"I don't want anyone to know that the Blacks owe something to some half-breed." 

"Is that so? okay," after walking past Regulus with a calm step, Snape stood right in front of a woman who was slightly shorter than him and began to examine the attractive body of the girl with a smile, especially for a long time, his gaze lingered on her face… a slight pallor inherent in all aristocrats, chubby scarlet lips, slightly short, but thick eyelashes, under which dark, narrowed eyes, like night itself, were hidden, which at that moment hinted to Snape to move away, while poking the young wizard in the chest with a wand, and she did not attack only for the reason that earlier he saved Regulus. 

"Then I will demand only one thing from Miss Black ... one kiss, do you think that is a worthy payment for saving your cousin?"

"You seem to want to die?"  from his request, not a single muscle trembled on the woman's face, and sparks of flame danced in her eyes, directly hinting to Snape that if he did not ask for something else, then his corpse would soon be found in this very place. 

"And I thought that the Blacks did not go back on their words ..." Bella's eyes trembled at these words, and the tip of her wand flared up.

At the same time, Regulus standing nearby was wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, feeling the tension hanging in the air, because who, if not him, knows how much his cousin hates any unclean wizards, and especially her quick-tempered "slightly" sadistic character, and the fact that at this moment she didn't use her favorite spell on Snape - Crucio - was already a miracle. 

"Do you want to change your mind?" Bella said coldly, emitting a murderous aura.

"Of course not, it's rare to find such attractive girls like you." From his words, a terrible displeasure appeared on the woman's face, and the light at the end of the wand became even brighter.

"I'm giving you one last chance, come up with something else." 

"Okay, then I don't need anything," the wizard languidly dismissed. "I shouldn't have expected anything else from pure-blooded wizards, all of you are mere idle talkers ..." passing by the frozen Bella, he headed for the exit from the alley, "only in the back you are ready to beat." 

"You…! How dare you insult pureblood mages, you fucking Mudblood! Yes, I'm going to kill you right now!" the girl exclaimed furiously, pointing her wand at his back, but no matter how angry she was, she still did not dare to attack, because his last words sounded in her head, and if she really hit him in the back, she would simply confirm the words of the damn half-blood. 

Gritting her teeth, Bella abruptly took a few steps forward, grabbing Snape by the shirt and "throwing" him into the wall, she pressed the tip of the wand to his chest and, taking hold of the collar, dug into his lips. 

'How easy it is to manipulate…' Snape thought, smiling inside. 

"But that's just not the way it works!" - placing one hand on her waist, and pressing the other to the back of her head, he abruptly turned the woman around, pressing his body against the brick wall.

Bella was momentarily shocked by such a turn, and after that, she already wanted to be vehemently indignant, but the next moment the woman was covered by a second wave of shock when Snape's dexterous tongue invaded her mouth and began to behave like an "owner". But, of course, this did not last long, because she quickly came to her senses and bit his tongue, forcing Snape to retreat, allowing her to escape from his embrace. 

"It was quite tasty, have you eaten strawberry cake before?" licked Snape asked with a smile because of which Bella's pale face had turned a slight blush while she was emitting a terrifying bloodlust. 

"I WILL TORTURE YOU, FUCKING BASTER! CRUCIO!" Snape deftly stepped aside. 

"CRUCIO!" he dodged again, and then a black needle flew out of his pocket, turning into a cube. 

"CRUCIO!"  but this time, he did not dodge but continued to retreat, but the spell did not hit Snape, because the cube released an azure glow right in front of the beam, protecting the retreating wizard, 

"CRU…!" 

" COUSIN! ENOUGH!" Regulus exclaimed, grabbing her hand as he saw the people gathering outside, at which time Snape turned to face them one last time and blew a kiss to the enraged woman before disappearing around the corner. 

"Let me go! I'm going to kill him!"

"He has already gone! And if you continue to use this spell, you will attract unwanted attention!" Pulling her hand out of her cousin's grip, emitting a burning thirst for blood, she looked in the direction where Snape had gone for a while and then shifted her gaze to Regulus. 

"If you tell anyone about this, I will kill you," her indifferent voice, coupled with a murderous look, caused shivers throughout the body of the younger Black. "O-of course…" the young man nodded with a nervous smile, inside cursing Snape for leaving him alone with an angry Bella.

After leaving Diagon Alley, Snape could hardly suppress a smile. " She's a crazy woman, if it weren't for Regulus, she would definitely have killed me even at the moment when I spoke to her, but…" Licking his lips, the man squinted contentedly, looking towards the nondescript bar. 

"But it was quite pleasant, for a long time I was not interested in women ..." touching his index finger, he slightly incised it and began to draw a diamond-shaped pattern on the palm of his hand with blood, which after a few seconds flared up and decreased to a small two-by-two centimeter tattoo, and after that, he gave a little magic, and an image of Bella appeared in his head, at the moment crushing her room.

"But still, it will be very difficult to tame such a tigress ... and the influence of this spell," crucio ", does not affect the mind very well, apparently, it was used on her more than once, so a simple restoration potion will definitely not be enough, .....sigh, I'll think about this later, now I'll at least know the situation in the country first-hand," the spell that Snape used, thanks to which he can watch Bella, belonged to Blood Magic, and it acted on the principle that the person drank even a drop of the caster's blood, the wizard can create a seal directly in the target's body, through which he can easily observe her, and will also know her condition, both physical and mental. 

"Well, it's time to "go home", I need to start preparing to take the potion as soon as possible …" and looking towards the roadway, he reluctantly, through force, took out his wand and waved it ...

And then, in a moment, a purple bus appeared right out of thin air in front of him, and as soon as the door swung open, Snape was met by a grinning driver.

"I'm glad you chose us again, do you want hot chocolate or a heating pad and a toothbrush?" The cheerful voice of the old man caused Snape to have a nervous tic." I'll probably refuse."

"As always…"

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A few minutes later, the bus came to an abrupt halt. "I hope you enjoyed our trip and continue to use the Night Knight." 

"Thank you," leaving the transport, he took a deep breath, feeling much better than the first time, and without turning around, headed towards the house, and the next moment the bus simply disappeared, leaving behind only a slight gust of wind and surprise on the faces of ordinary people who saw it.

Muggles could not see the bus for the reason that they did not own magic and did not even know that it existed due to the International Statute of Secrecy, signed in 1689, which forbids telling and conjuring in general in front of ordinary people.

If this rule was violated, Muggles were subjected to "Obliviate" - a spell that could correct memories - and the wizard was severely punished.

As he approached the Spinners End, Snape immediately frowned as he felt that the tracking spell he had placed on the house had dissipated, which meant only one thing: that someone had forcefully broken into the building. 

"Apparently, I will have to postpone my rest…" the young man thought with a tired sigh, without changing his face, because he still felt someone in the house and did not want to frighten him away.

Calmly opening the door, he looked towards the half-open basement and raised an eyebrow with mild surprise.

"I'm surprised he even managed to find this door, I can only praise this wizard who was able to see through the illusion spell…" said Snape And so, a few seconds later, a red-haired girl appeared from the basement, who was dragging an adult man with difficulty, trying to escape from her grip and go back to the basement. But, as soon as she noticed Snape calmly watching her, the girl turned pale sharply and, releasing Tobias, immediately grabbed the wand, but she didn't have time to do anything, as the wand flew out of her hand and fell into Snape's palm.

"Lily… that's what makes you so itchy…" the wizard muttered angrily, slamming her into the wall with telekinesis, and then passing by the trembling Evans, he removed all the furniture from the living room, except for the table on which the cauldron landed.

"Why do you keep pestering me, you have James, so go to him and leave me alone, you just don't understand how hard I restrain myself so as not to kill you and get rid of the problem from the bud."

"S-sev, why are you doing all this?" - the girl said with a tremble in her voice, tears began to well up in her eyes. 

"Eh ... women are really strange creatures …" shaking his head, he approached her and extended his palm towards her neck, which made the girl close her eyes, expecting the worst, but this did not happen, and when she opened her eyes, she saw a curl of her long, red hair in the hand of an indifferent Snape.

"At first you claim that I am not "him", and now you call me "him", you must stick with one."

"Sev would never hurt me…" 

"Maybe you're right, that one, yes, but here I am…" his hand abruptly moved to the thin neck and squeezed it slightly, "…I can, but I won't," opening his hand, he turned around and went to the cauldron, while taking out his wand.

"I swear by my magic that I am Severus Snape and no one else," And under the girl's shocked look, a light flashed above the wand, indicating that Snape had not lied. 

"Lily, you never understood me, considering me a dark wizard, and I wouldn't even be surprised if in your head you put me on a pedestal on a par with the Death Eaters."

"This is not true! I have always considered you my friend!"

"If so, then why did you never understand me and instead of supporting me in studying Dark Magic, only criticized it?" 

"Because Dark Magic is evil?" Seeing her bite her lip, Snape shook his head. 

"You think too narrowly, tell me, do you think Merlin is a Dark wizard? Evil in the flesh?"

"Of course not!"

"But he was a Dark Mage, at one time he was one of the strongest Dark Mages. Of course, he also wielded Light Magic, but in battle, he always used dark magic due to the fact that it had more power, and if we follow your logic, then he was an evil worse than Voldemort," the girl shuddered at the last word.

"Next, you criticized my "friends" …"

 "Because they were all terrible people!" 

"I don't argue with that, but tell me: do you want me to live all alone? Like a puppy, waiting for the call of his mistress?"

"N-no, it's not like that, I just wanted to…" 

"Help, open my eyes to them?" 

"Didn't you think that I already knew that?" Snape said with an annoyed look at the startled girl. 

"Lily, I studied at the Slytherin house, in which there are only purebred wizards, tell me who should I communicate with there? I'm a half-breed, Lily, do you understand that? In this turbulent time, when the Dark Lord began to recruit people, do you think that at least someone will communicate with me, with a half-breed, with a half-blooded wizard? And when such people did appear, you immediately began to criticize them and tell me to stop communicating with them, that is, to lose the only "friends" that I could have in my house. Lily, you're selfish, do you understand that? While you had friends with whom you had fun, I had to be alone and, at your first call, I had to rush in at the same second, didn't you want that?"

"Not! Not! I never thought so! I just wanted to…" Raising his hand, stopping the girl's speech, he returned to the living room and, taking out a bag, began to take out certain needles, which after a few seconds turned into jars of ingredients.

 "Sev…why did you do this to your father?" Lily asked him softly with a tremor in her voice, shifting her gaze to the basement, from which came the indistinct muttering.

"It's called revenge."

" Revenge…?"

"Yes, hey! Damn goof, get up here!" 

Tobias, swaying from side to side, came out of the basement with heavy steps, his eyes no longer had that rage, but only horror when he looked into Snape's indifferent face. 

"Tell me, why am I torturing you?" "Y-you are a m-monster…"

 "Monster, you say?So, that's what you think... you never realized your mistake, and I wanted to let you live…" Shaking his head in disappointment, he looked towards the photograph lying in the corner of the room.

"Tell me, what did you do to my mother?" 

"I... I... beat her d-to death," Tobias's words sent goosebumps through Lily's body, and shock showed on her face, because she didn't even know that Severus's mother had died.

"What did you feel at that moment?"

"I… was… happy that this w-witch… died…" with a face as pale as a dead man, through force, with a tremor, Tobias uttered every word.

"I see, but when did you beat her for the last ten years?" 

"I…I felt alive! That damn witch should have died a long time ago and left me alone!"

"Now do you understand why I'm doing this?" he asked Lily with a smile, her face as pale as Tobias's. 

"Sev… stop… you shouldn't stoop to his level, I understand that he did a terrible thing, but…" but the girl didn't have time to finish when Snape's hand fell on her cheek.

"Lily, you are too naive girl, you do not understand that our world is not a fairy tale, Obliviate…"

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