𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊 | S. SNAPE ✓

━ seventeen, you're somebody else

FREAK
act two, chapter seventeen
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━ VIOLA WINCHESTER
1993 ━
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𝗙ear is what Hogwarts and Viola knew now. After the Dueling Club incident, which was a snake trying to bite a Hufflepuff and Harry hissing some foreign language at it, more people got petrified. Justin Finch-Fletchly, the Hufflepuff who was nearly swallowed whole by the snake, and Nearly Headless Nick were found near the library. A few days later, Viola, Severus and Noah had to rush Colin Creevey to the Hospital Wing, where Madam Pomfrey accepted the boy with a grave heart. After all that, Viola had to rush to a Muggle hospital to do the procedure. Noah had been more than happy to hand her his semen, considering it as a win despite not actually sagging her.

Viola was set to return today, after the Winchester party, which unfortunately was hosted by her mother this year and Viola had no intention of going. ❨ Which is a lie because she loves the Winchester parties, so maybe even if it was hosted by her boring and dead on the inside mother, she'd still go. ❩ She decided not to set camp at her own house but rather went to the cold Winchester Mansion. This year, Alastor and James came with, but he had promised to stay out of everyone's path and just sulk and dance his sorrows away in the room like the miserable shit he is. Viola would like to disagree on two things about that statement James dramatically said; one, he doesn't actually have to stay in her room. He could go to Colleen's or Barnett's or even Dale's, as they each had their own rooms in the shadowy and edgy mansion Viola grew up in. Two, she tried the dancing away your sorrows technique and with personal experience, she can say that it doesn't work.

"When do you reckon the belly will show?" Alastor asked Viola as they stood far from the drunks scattered around the dance floor. She had a glass of apple juice ❨ courtesy of the notorious James Potter ❩ in her hand, pressed up to her lips as she scanned the crowd for Noah or Severus. She invited them both, despite not actually talking to Severus.

"I dunno, Doctor Sandton said that all bodies are different. My belly might never show or it could just magically appear after three weeks." She shrugged. "Do you think I made the right choice Al? I mean, the child may not even know his father when he grows up. There's a war brewing secretly, you've said it yourself and ━"

"Don't stress it Viola. Just remember constance vigilance. And then you'll be fine." Alastor smiled down at her and Viola grinned back, searching the crowd yet again for Noah or Severus. Her eyes caught Severus talking to Barnett and Viola smiled to herself before telling Alastor to hold her apple juice before she made her way towards Severus.

"Viola! I thought you'd stay in that corner forever! Cookie?" Barnett raised a tray and Viola chuckled, pushing it away.

"Nice try mister baker, but no thanks."

"You snooze you loose, I'll go try Alastor, I want to see him high." Barnett disappeared into a crowd of drunks that just happened to be passing by and Viola turned to Severus.

"I'm sorry." She breathed out. "I'm really, really sorry and I know that you probably must hate me by now and I wouldn't blame you." Viola sniffed, then watched as Severus only stared at her. She opened her mouth, ready to say more but Severus spoke first.

"He isn't a Death Eater." He began, sipping idly on his red wine. "But he'll use you Viola."

Viola sighed. "Look, I'm not here to talk about Noah okay?" She sighed again. "I wanted to tell you that I'm sorry I ignored you, I'm sorry that we fought because of Noah. And I'm apologizing because I am man enough. And I'm man enough to tell you that I love you Severus Snape, a lot... and that I ━ I'm pregnant. And it's Noah's, well we didn't actually have sex. It's this muggle procedure, very clever thing going on there ━"

"You know what Viola? I saw you change in a space of a few months. You look like yourself, but I know you're somebody else. And the way you talk? You sound like yourself but I can hear someone else's voice and words. You never spoke like that, you never acted like that, and you never wore such things." Severus huffed out and the blonde blinked, trying to ignore the burning in her eyes. "And I loved you too Viola, I did, but I'm not so sure who you are anymore. You were the better part of this dark heart I have, and I'm afraid you ran off with it, crushing it like it meant nothing to you."

"Severus, I ━"

"I said all that because I'm man enough to Viola." Severus turned on his heel and left Viola standing there, urging herself not to cry as she watched his retreating back.

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𝗦he felt horrible. Every part of her felt horrible. Viola wished she could just rip off her flesh, and replace it with what she used to be before she lost her friends to the war, before she met Noah. She was lying on her back, staring at the dark ceiling of her own room back at her house. Viola couldn't bring herself to go to Hogwarts just yet, she wanted to lie down in her mistakes first, cry herself to sleep and hope whatever thing tapping away at the door won't break it because she was sure it was sharp and she was doing it all.

As a little girl, Viola didn't have any friends. Her ability warded away any one and she didn't really mind, she did want to be alone at that time. She attended École Crimson pour les Purs, a school only for the pureblooded. Her mother forced her to attend it, to adapt their ways and trust Viola when she says that it torture. ❨ Her brothers had it easy, they didn't have to play the harp, or the flute, or try to move or blast things without wands. ❩

They couldn't yield wands at that age, hence why Professeure Dubois tried to teach eight and nine year olds how to channel their inner magic, try to cast a spell without actually using their wands. Viola was praised in École Crimson pour les Purs, because she could levitate things, but not of her own accord but Professeure Dubois was proud nonetheless.

Then came Hogwarts, where she gave Narcissa Black a bleeding nose when she tried to pick up her books for her after Andromeda Black had accidentally ran into her. Freak was then born. And it stuck, unfortunately.

Even as she lay on her bed in the dark, she still felt like a freak. Maybe her mother was right when she said that she won't ever change, that the École Crimson pour les Purs will stay forever in her blood. They were taught that if something goes sideways, a pureblood should always run, no precious blood can be spilled.

"Oh stop it would you?!" Viola yelled at whatever was prying away at the door and it immediately stopped, something clinking against the cold floor. She sat upright, stunned for a moment before she rushed to the door, finding a butcher knife on the floor. "Merlin, why do I own this scary knife?" She whispered to herself.

Viola bent down, carefully picking up the knife and she stared at it in awe. "Don't let it control you, you should control it." Alastor had always told her when they tried to help her control her telekinesis. But how was she going to do that? Yelling at the knife seemed to work earlier on, but Viola knew that it won't work again. At least that's what she thought. Be in control Viola. Tell it what to do. I mean, what could go wrong? Getting stabbed while pregnant maybe? Ha! That's child's play!

"Er ━ set yourself down on the dresser?" Viola asked but the knife lay limp against her hands. "Set yourself on the dresser." She said, an octave higher and the most wondrous thing happened. The knife levitated above her hands and Viola held out her arms towards the dresser. When it landed perfectly in the dresser, she smiled to herself. She finally did it.

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an. hey guys, hope you like this chapter cause I only liked the last part and where she had that argument with Sevvy. So École Crimson pour les Purs is basically just Crimson School for the Pure translated into French and Professeure is what they call a female Professor. So I decided that this will have two acts.... Sorry but it's nearing the end and I don't want it to end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😭😭