3. Rebirth.

# Snape Residence #

-Severus's POV-

I don't know how much time has passed since I murdered him.

My first ever murder, I never thought I would be able to kill someone.

I invented sectumsempra to cause my enemies pain and misery yet I didn't have the gut to kill anyone just yet, so I invented the counter curse for 'Sectumsempra'.

I knew at some point in the future I might have killed someone, that was if I ever joined the Death Eaters, joining Death Eaters meant I would be required to kill.

But I didn't think the time for hands to be stained in blood would come this soon.

I remembered all the beatings and Insults, that I and my mother had to endure at his hands.

Mother never back down from his constant assaults, whenever she raised her wand, the bastard would stop his rumbling like a coward.

I looked battered body of that bastard, I don't how long I continued to stab him but the knife cuts and wounds made the whole body look as if it was ripped apart in many areas.

His body lay still in a large puddle of blood.

I felt a lot of emotions right now but those emotions would not improve my situation so I used occlumency to bury these emotions.

I was filled with hate, anger, and vengeance just a second ago but now all I felt was emptiness.

My rational part of the mind caught a slight difference between my normal occlumency and now, there was some kind of difference between them but I can't place my finger around it just yet.

But it helped me think rationally and kept emotions from affecting my decisions.

I thought about my situation, if this situation is reported to either the Aurors or muggle police, it would guarantee me a few years in prison.

Both Aurors and police would check my house even if I reported the incident with false information.

If Aurors checked, they would take in for the usage of underage magic in the muggle area and will find out that I killed my father.

If muggle police checked, they would find evidence of the wizarding world, which would only make the ministry act against me sooner.

Due to my mother being a witch, I would only receive a letter of warning, not a summoning.

I can't even give my mother a proper burial as that would cause the neighbors to gossip, which can lead to an investigation into how my parents died.

I thought about a method to get myself out of this situation.

After a while, I concluded that the whole Snape family had to vanish from the spinner's end.

Our sudden disappearance would raise several conclusions but it won't cause an investigation as my father wasn't employed anywhere right now, my mother rarely went out, and I spend most of the year at Hogwarts.

Neighbors would gossip for some days and forget that we even existed here before.

One problem was solved but the next problem arises, which was the dead bodies.

My mother would receive a proper burial even though I would be the only one, who would be present but I didn't want to waste my time on that bastard's body.

I got an idea of how to make this bastard's body disappear.

Human transfiguration is a branch of transfiguration which includes changing the species of a human. It works on both on living and dead bodies of a human.

Even though it was only taught to NEWT level students in their Seventh, I was able to learn it through the books from the library and practiced on bugs, rats, and frogs.

I was not the best there was when it came to transfiguration but I am skilled enough for the task.

I point my wand at the body and transfigured it into a leech, it suited the bastard.

He leeched onto my mother's magic to keep himself fed by only bringing a bare minimum amount of food to the house.

"Incendio!!"

I cast the fire-making charm on the leech.

I waited until it was burnt to crisp, only the burnt rotten body was left.

I buried the small leech under the same spot he died.

I left the kitchen and went towards the front door.

When I saw the lifeless body of my mother, I felt the barriers of occlumency that I set up break due to the overwhelming emotions I felt right now.

Suddenly the hate and anger I felt towards my father returned, with each passing second my hate towards him increased a thousand folds, and my anger towards myself increased as well.

I looked at her face which had a slight smile. Sadness washed over me, a realization struck me, and she was gone.

She wasn't going to come back, she will never call me Sev again, she won't be here when I return from Hogwarts, she won't here to shout at me, she won't here to love me, she...she is gone, dead.

It was all my fault, if only I was here, I could have saved my mother.

I knelt in front of my mother.

"I have so much more to tell you, you had so much more to live for, you were supposed to be a witch who can live for two hundred years, why did you leave me?"

"I'm sorry, it was my fault. I shouldn't have left this morning, I'm sorry mother. please forgive me"

I took her body in my arms and walked out of the house, it was dark, empty, and silent outside as if it represented the void I felt right now.

Everyone in the street has slipped into Morpheus's embrace, leaving me and my mother alone on this snowy night.

I carried her body to the nearest cemetery.

I found a spot that would be enough to bury my mother.

# Cemetery #

I looked around for anyone, and cast 'humano revelio' to check again but no one was around, so I went ahead with the burial.

I felt an odd sense of familiarity in the cemetery, among the dead, something that I never felt before.

I shook those thoughts away and concentrated on the task at hand.

I charmed the shovel to dig a grave for her.

I transfigured her clothes and cleaned her bloodstains using magic.

I transfigured the grandest casket I could imagine for my mother.

I placed her body in it but I didn't want to let her go.

I thought about dark arts, maybe I could bring her back to life in the future when I am powerful, yes there is still hope. A chance to bring her back.

I transfigured a nearby small wooden branch into a knife, I made a small cut on my mother's wrists and collected the blood in a flask.

I looked at my mother's face for one last time,

"I am sorry, Mother. I failed you when you were alive but I promise I will not fail you in death. I will be known through your name, I will become someone you would be proud of, I will show them, I will show them all, muggles and wizards alike, I will show this world, who the son of Eileen Prince was. The purebloods didn't want you and the muggle never appreciated you, you were right mother, those who shunned us, don't deserve us. This happened due to me, if only I had taken you away sooner. if only I had acted sooner. If only I was strong enough. you would have been here. You would have been by my side."

brushing away my tears, I made an oath "I promise, mother. I will become the great wizard you envisioned me to be, so please watch over me. I will bring you back to life, mother. I promise I will find a way to bring you back."

I closed the casket after looking at my mother's face for one last time, I buried the casket and left the cemetery.

Once, I left the cemetery, the feeling of emptiness gripped my heart again.

I felt empty inside.