Chapter 2: Death

Severus's flat, The Leaky Cauldron, Muggle street off Charing Cross Road in London, June 18, 1976, Great Britain.

In one of the rooms of The Leaky Cauldron, a dark and dilapidated pub and wizarding inn serving as a gateway between the non-magical world and Diagon Alley, lay a young 16-year-old Severus Snap.

The poor boy was pale and very sweaty, he seemed to be going through a heavy hangover.

"This..., What happened, I...I don't understand what's going on, my head hurts, UGH, my head, damn it hurts..."

"Ufff, so dizzy, now I'm starting to remember, I'm Severus Snape, I'm 16 years old and ...UGH, yes, I remember everything now, it was yesterday I rented a room to stay a few days in the pub when suddenly I started to feel very dizzy and it seems I fainted, then I had a very strange dream in which there was only darkness and I even felt cold, very cold, I felt the only thing that gave me warmth being taken away little by little, it felt so real"

"Fuck... Come on Severus wake up, obviously, it was a dream and for sure it's because of Lily again, I have to stop thinking about her, she already made her damn decision"

"Merlinnnnn I feel so strange like something is missing, I feel a big void in my head, but I don't know what it could be, I remember everything so well now, but then why do I feel like there is something important missing in my memories, UGH, I don't understand, first my parents, then Lily and James, and now this, I thought that by getting away from everyone for a while I could clear my mind and set my priorities, but here I am thinking about unnecessary things and feeling worse than ever without even understanding the fucking why"

"Let's think calmly, let's see, I... I know that this strange feeling is not due to the death of my parents or the betrayal I felt from Lily, it's... it's something else that makes me feel this way, I don't know what, but it's not sadness, grief, anger, or loneliness, it's something else, it feels like a great emptiness, it's similar to the empty feeling I experienced when I finally understood that Lily would never forgive me, no matter what I do and that I would definitely take a path with Potter and his group that I knew I wouldn't like"

"But now, this emptiness I feel is like I'm missing something I can't remember, something important, like a part of my being, is being taken away"

"Maybe I'm just delirious, my head still hasn't recovered from seeing that bastard James Potter and my beautiful Lily together, it must be that, yeah"

"Now I just need to rest, then concentrate on impressing Mr. Malfoy to present me to Lord Voldemort and finally get him to accept me into his ranks to get me to gain more power"

"But why do I feel like something is wrong, I feel like a part of me dislikes the idea of being part of Lord Voldemort's followers, this... impossible, Lord Voldemort is the most powerful wizard in the British magical world, he is my inspiration, my goal is to be able to serve a wizard as great as him, but then why do I still feel like this is wrong, fuck, what is wrong with me, this never happened to me before, it's so weird"

"UGH, I feel so dizzy and my head hurts again, what's wrong with me?"

A few moments after the headache and dizziness.

"Huh, it can't be, how is it possible, I...I'm Benedict Clark!!!, all these memories, UGH, my head, I can't quite grasp it all but I...I'm from earth!!!"

The realization shakes me to my core, soon after, memories of a lifetime come flooding in.

But I only managed to process a little of the information I was receiving.

"By Merlin, am I delirious, how is it that I remember seeing such incredible things, such a different world, huge buildings, technologies of all kinds, so many new things I had never seen"

"I also felt things I had never felt before and knew things I could not even conceive in my thoughts before"

I remembered 18 years of experiences in a single moment, very messy and complex, but there it was, all this new information in my head.

And through this new knowledge, I can discover valuable information that was very pertinent to my current situation.

"I am definitely not only Severus Snape, but I am also Benedict Clarke."

"But how is that even possible?"

I took a few moments to take in my current situation.

Sitting on my bed in a dreary room, surrounded by nothing but a small bedside table and a few items I brought from my parents' house.

"Fuck. What in Merlin's name; what the hell is happening to me?"

"Are these memories of my other life?"

"Maybe a past life where I was Benedict Clarke and died at the age of 18?"

"Fuck, it can't be as simple as that."

"Am I hallucinating!!!, some curse or potion of some kind, mmm it could be possible?"

"For Merlin, it's all so vivid, I may not understand much of these new memories in my head, but no doubt they are real and just as vivid as those of my life as Severus Snape, I lived a real-life as Benedict Clark, indeed, I was him before I died apparently"

"But no doubt my current life as Severus Snape is also real, this is all so strange"

"I am Severus Snape, but I was also Benedict Clarke before I died, that's the best conclusion I can come to, yes, I just have memories of a past life, I just have to understand them and process them better little by little"

"Yeah, that's it, but why I keep feeling that something is wrong?, that it's not all as simple as memories of a past life"

"Maybe is some kind of magic or potion must have finally driven me insane?"

"Merlinnnnn, just remembering parts of my life as Benedict Clarke makes me feel like my whole life as Severus Snape is a bloody farce, it's like someone is controlling me at all times."

"In my other life apparently I(Severus) was nothing more than a fictional being, the Severus Snape that Benedict Clarke knows is just a fictional character from the Harry Potter series, written by an English author named J. K. Rowling"

"The only thing that gives me some peace of mind is that this author doesn't tell much about my childhood or adolescence"

"So only I really know my whole life, but there are so many things she tells that happened just as they did, so many feelings, events, everything is exactly the same as what this author wrote in my other life as Benedict Clarke"

"And if everything she wrote is true, my past, my present, my future"

"Lily's future!, her...her death at the hands of Lord Voldemort, no, impossible, I...I would never allow it, but if the future is really like that, I...I...I"

I feel my breathing begin to quicken and my body begins to tremble.

I couldn't calm down.

I became vaguely aware of the moans coming out of my mouth; my mind was too lost in the impossibility of the situation, the supposed future that awaited me, Lily's future.

'I mean this kind of shit doesn't happen true; people don't suddenly get flashbacks to a past life where their entire current life was a fucking fiction, crazy like that!'

'I mean, I read stories about this like Benedict Clarke, but this is what stories are, pieces of fiction that don't happen in real life!'

'This...this isn't happening, I'm dreaming!'

'Right, this is a dream, just a dream that happened because of the shitty situation I'm going through after the death of my parents, the breakup of friendship with Lily, and her sudden good relationship with Potter, it has to be all that, nothing more!'

Although, I could feel everything with intense clarity, the clean smell in the cold air in the room, the headache, the dizziness, the long-lived memories of not one but two lives-Ohgodthisfeelselsowrong-.

I started to hyperventilate, I could no longer process the situation, that's when the information came and invaded my brain, projecting a lot of knowledge and data that gave me to understand and assimilate my situation once and for all.

—Information projected in the brain—-

{When Benedict Clarke died on earth, his soul left his dead body and entered the state of eternal sleep, which apparently is what awaits everyone after death, there is no judgment or heaven or hell, just an eternal rest for the soul or so it would have to have been if it were not for his soul being awakened from its sleep and pulled by Death to another living body but with his soul almost dead.

Death left a clear message to the soul of Benedict Clark and the soul of Severus Snape:

---- "Mortal soul of Earth-777, due to the misuse of forbidden magic by the mortals of Earth-2712 and had to intervene to maintain the natural order of the Multiverse, your soul has been selected for its similar characteristics to the near-dead soul of Earth-2712, thus to incorporate, mate with and then restore the near-dead soul of Earth-2712, thus avoiding the total death of the near-dead soul of the living body known as Severus Snape found on Earth-2712.

To give you a little more understanding of the current situation, I will begin by explaining that the Earth and world you lived on as Benedict Clarke before you died was just one of many Earths and Worlds in the vast Multiverse.

The Multiverse is made up of many alternate realities, Earth-2712 is a reality in which the World of the Harry Potter books exists as an alternate version of Earth-777 (your "real" world), Earth-2712 can be defined as an alternate version of both Earth-777 (your "real" world) and others such as Earth-888 and Earth-999, realities in which the World of the Harry Potter books exists as fiction.

Now, the reason why I have taken your mortal soul from Earth-777(Benedict Clarke) is because a living body cannot host a dead soul because the living body would behave only based on the memories already formed in the mind and the motor impulses that the body preserved.

Also by having a dead soul, the living body would lose the ability to have a personality, It would be what you call in your world (Earth-777) a Robot that follows the commands given by its software, only in this case the living body with a dead soul would follow the commands given by its brain and the memories that it keeps, this would generate an irreparable disorder in the natural order of life and death.

Therefore, to maintain the natural order of the Multiverse and had to intervene by waking from his eternal sleep to a living soul in good condition (his as Benedict Clarke) but that is without a living body, this soul (his) had to meet the requirements necessary to mate with the almost dead soul that has a living body on Earth-2712 (Severus Snape).

It was then when your mortal soul of Earth-777 without a living body was selected to be awakened from eternal sleep to then be housed and joined to the almost dead soul (of Severus Snape) and the living body of Earth-2712, restoring and preventing the soul of the body of Earth-2712 to end up dying altogether.

Thus maintaining the natural order of space, time, life, and death in the Multiverse.

Since now most of your soul is not from this reality, a permanent mental block will be imposed on you, this block implies both benefits and some prohibitions.

First of all, you will be forbidden to divulge pre-existing knowledge that may reveal your former identity or what happens after death.

All such knowledge will be kept silent and secret from anyone else on Earth-2712.

So from this point forward you must live your life only as of the mortal in the body known as Severus Snape in which you find yourself without being able to mention your other life or anything related to death itself.

Secondly, for your benefit and protection, this lock will also serve to protect all your memories along with your mind from anything, no living thing, spell, potion, or the magic of any kind will be able to affect or intrude upon your mind/memories, so you will be immune to Legilimency or any other things that act upon your mind/memories.

Only in case, you allow it, this block will open and let others see only your memories as Severus Snape, but you must keep in mind that everything related to your other life or death itself will remain blocked and hidden permanently.

Finally, let me warn you that you will preserve attitudes, feelings, and other aspects related to both souls and being both souls united as one in Severus Snape's body.

It is likely that at first the traits and attitudes to which the body is already accustomed will predominate.

But these will vary and change over time due to the union of the two souls.

Both mortal souls (Severus Snape and Benedict Clarke) were coupled, thus joining the two into one, so he is no longer Benedict Clarke or Severus Snape and has become the result of the combination of the two souls, it is likely that in his rational mind will usually predominate more his thoughts as Benedict Clarke because his soul as Severus Snape was dying when both were united in one, while his soul as Benedict Clarke was in perfect condition to join.

But obviously, you will still be Severus Snape in body, mind, and feelings.

I should clarify again that now your almost dead soul as Severus Snape has gone on to fully unite with your soul as Benedict Clarke, so you are now the union of both parts, both souls are one and the same person in both body and soul.

It may be cumbersome for a while, but given that you have been given a new lease on life and at the same time your life has been saved, these details are only minor things.

With all of this cleared up, I bid you farewell.

I wish you good luck

Death. ----

After Death's message was projected, a lot of information and memories of all kinds began to integrate perfectly into the body and mind of Severus Snape/Benedict Clarke.

The total amount of 16 years of Severus Snape's experiences and the same with the 18 years of Benedict Clarke's experiences were introduced as if nothing in his brain.

Apparently Death also helped him in that, otherwise, it is likely that being the body of a mortal he would not understand much of what was projected and even would have fainted or worse because of the excessive amount of information that he was managing to understand in moments.}

-——Fin of projection of memories----