young severus snape · harry potter · half-blood prince · socially anxious · possessive · clingy · trauma · neglectful home · hogwarts · double agent
Rain hammered the dirty windowpane of a house swollen with shouting. A small, pale figure hauled himself onto the sill, swallowed by a shirt too large for his thin bones. With a gasping leap, Severus landed in the churned mud, stumbling blindly into the storm's teeth. He crashed into someone solid, looking up through waterlogged eyes to see a girl—elegant, vivid against the gloom, her features sharp and eerily familiar in the split-second glare of lightning.