It was 2 days and a half already since Sarah was still resting in the Hospital Wing, unconscious. Severus sat on the very same stiff painful chair, well unless he was pacing around the room of course, and impatiently watched his own daughter in case she'd wake up. His stomach lurched at a bad feeling.... what if she wouldn't wake up? He lost her mother already (and if you were wondering, she WASN'T Lily Potter), and he couldn't take it anymore to lose his only child. He was parted away from her for 11 years. She needs the father she didn't have long ago. 

It was then around 11 in the evening when her arm began to twitch. This... this wasn't normal, was it? Not knowing what to do when she twitched every 5 seconds, he abruptly yelled: "Poppy! She's... Sarah's moving!" 

The old woman quickly ran from her rooms with a younger medical witch beside her, carrying a bunch of potions in her arms. "She might be waking up! Hurry, bring water. And don't try to shake her, Severus, or else she'll fall back to her unconsciousness!" yelled Madam Pomfrey as she ran to another medicine cabinet. Severus huffed and drew back his arm. 

"Sarah... wake up... I beg of you..." he whispered. His heart was beginning to race. Sarah was now turning in her bed uncomfortably and whimpering. "Wha- Pomfrey, hurry!"

"I'm here! Here, put this in her mouth!" She handed him a bottle of water. Gently pouring it into her mouth, he watched as she wasn't coughing it out but she was actually drinking it. 

"She's awake... she's awake!" the younger medical witch said excitedly. She scurried off somewhere to grab perhaps food or clothes, but she came back carrying a bag. 

"Hmm... Argh... I-It h-h-hurts..." Sarah suddenly murmured.

"SHE'S AWAKE!" Severus shouted that surprised both witches. "Sarah, please..."

A sigh of relief was let out of the three as they watched her eyes slowly open. The dark eyes she got from him looked back a little confused, and Sarah's eyes were watering. "What's wrong?"

"It's alright. She's just not yet used to being in this state. Are you fine, dear? The headache you have should've gone away from now-"

"W-What happened? Dad? Why... Why am I here? Did something happen to me? Another blunger to the head?" she asked, successfully even saying a few questions, looking around the Hospital Wing. Severus turned to Pomfrey questioningly, yet she only shook her head. "This is normal. Unconsciousness can lead to slight amnesia and headaches. She's supposed to be unable to move or speak, but she's doing fine. Though, she does look a little lightheaded and dizzy."

"Should we do something?"

"I'll go grab some potions. For now, explain to her what happened. She seems like she doesn't remember what adventure she's gone on lately."

"Adventure?"

"You don't remember anything?"

"I'm trying..."

"It's alright," he placed a stray of hair behind her ear, "you're fine. It's, um, hard to explain. The daughter of Bellatrix and the Dark Lord decided to visit. You listened to Dumbledore about the legend whatever and I followed you to the Chamber of Secrets. The legend told you to destroy a locket, and you did. The Dark Lord's daughter is gone, but you were knocked out. That's why you're here."

"I'm sort of remembering a few things."

"Good. Lay back and rest. I'll have to go down into details now, should I?"

 "I think you should."

"You think?"

"'I then come to decide that you should go further more into a deeper detail from your earlier explanation.' Happy?"

•••

It was early in the morning when Severus finally finished his story. Sarah was interested indeed and began to recall what happened, though her memory was quite blurry. A Pensieve could be useful, but that would be for another time.

She shifted more comfortably in the bed and thoughts drifted in her head. 'Now what to do' a voice in her head asked. "I just need to have a word with the Headmistress. I'll be right back," Severus told her and squeezed her hand after standing up.

"Okay. I'll just be here," she replied before sighing the second he was not in the room anymore. She... She just defeated a dark witch. It sounded so... weird. Strange. Unbelievable. How lucky she was to be alive! She was still 14 and not yet dead down in some chamber?! All these adventures... exciting, yet a little deadly. 

"Oh, are these mine?" She peered down from underneath the bed and found several candies inside a basket lying on the floor with a small parchment with her name on it. No one told her she couldn't eat candy, and it wasn't about who would let her, but probably who would stop her.

After unwrapping one chocolate frog and finding out it was the Cliodna card, Sarah bit a large chunk from the chocolate frog, and smiled at the familiar taste. She didn't really care if she would get a sore throat later... well, for now.

"Ow! Stop clinging onto me, Scorpius! You nearly tore my robes apart!" a muffled voice exclaimed that startled her. Her wand was with her father to be inspected if fine to use again so she was defenseless. Who would be at the Hospital Wing this early? Erm, being brought to the Hospital Wing could never be too early if someone were studying at Hogwarts. It may be the safest place on Earth... but there's still its controversies. 

"Sorry 'bout that Albus. But shouldn't I be holding the Time Turner now?"

"Shut up!"

She couldn't quite hear quickly, but the voices were familiar. They were probably behind a door. Could they get in? Well, she shouldn't stand up from where she was so she couldn't specifically do anything. 

Wham. 

The door slammed open as footsteps grew louder and louder. "What the hippogriff's shi-" she muttered. "What insurance do you have to be slamming doors!" Madam Pomfrey's voice barked from outside.  The two visitors looked surprised to see the witch approaching and their eyes quickly searched the room. "Can I help you boys?" she said and blocked them from coming in. "Is, um, Professor Snape's daughter here?" one of the voices asked.

And then she remembered who that voice belonged. 

Scorpius Malfoy! And... was that-

"I believe she's around here. Are we allowed to see her?"

Albus Severus Potter, of course.

Wait, why were they here at this time? What was it... still 4am in the morning?

"It's urgent, Madam Pomfrey, ma'am." Scorpius said politely. The medical witch looked down then realize she couldn't say no. She was surprised to see the boys not looking sleepy either. "Um... just a minute then. She's over at the seventh one at the right." she told them, pointing to Sarah's bed that was hidden in the curtains. "Thank you."

"Hello?"

Sarah's eyes widened to find the two different than the last time she saw them. Albus' hair was slightly tidy than usual, Scorpius was rather thinner, and... were those Slytherin robes on Albus?!

"What... happened to you two? And why're you like this? It's early in the morning!" she asked immediately. Scorpius reacted a bit shocked at her words. "You know who we are?" he said more like a stutter. Her eyebrows furrowed. "What do you mean? Yes, I know who you are! The amnesia thing didn't erase that much memory of you,"

Turning to Albus, he noticed his friend was just completely stiff. "Albus... are you okay, mate?"

"Oh- um, hey," he said shyly -with a hint of flirt- making her more confused than they were. "Uh, hey, Albus... You two are acting odd,"

"We need to break it to her, Albus. C'mon," Her attention was nothing else than them. Albus, meanwhile, was in his own secret fantasyland as his eyes rested on Sarah a little too dreamily. "Oh? Um, yeah. We need to tell you something, er..."

"Sarah?" she told them. "Yeah, um, Sarah. Beauti- I mean, yeah,"

"I understand that both of you are... just completely confusing right now, but I'm not catching up on the way you're behaving. Are you guys alright? You don't remember my name, or are you guys the ones who were unco-"

"We're not from here!"

"... You're messing with me right, because I know very well I'm not dreaming," Silence settled in between them until the two boys had enough. "We're from another version of the Wizarding world. We're trying to stop a witch named Delphini. Delphini Riddle and-"

"You're kidding. This is another one of you're pranks, right? This isn't funny, Albus-"

"We came from where Delphini came!" cried Scorpius. His voice echoed across the room, and he cupped his mouth to quiet down. "Sorry," he followed.

"Pardon?" The two exchanged glances then opened their mouths to start their story.

•••

"I see."

"I'm sure you don't, but it was nice of you to try."

"I'm just," she slowly sat on the bed, "surprised to hear there's some kind of alternate universe version of the Wizarding World. I mean, in the name of Merlin's saggy left, I don't exist! That's... so cool!"

"But what are we like here?" Scorpius said as he beckoned Albus to lean closer to the bed. She thought for a moment. "Well, what I know for sure, Albus is sorted in Gryffindor."

The boy's eyes widened. "Wha-?!"

"And Scorpius," she faced the silver-eyed wizard, "you're in Slytherin. You're sort of a thing with Rose, but you haven't told us if it's really official."

Within a second, she was bombarded with more questions and shocked reactions. 

But it all had to end.

Back to the point.

"Sarah, we need to ask you a favour." Scorpius told her while gently holding her hand. This was new, who knew Scorpius in another universe was such a sweetheart? Albus' eyes didn't look too happy though at his best friend's actions...

"You have to help us stop Delphini for good. But, well, it seems like you're in a bad state." He meant that she was too weak to even stand, making her a bit annoyed. "What can I do for you? I want to know!" she exclaimed.

"Well... you have to tag along with us to another dimension. before we take you back here. You're apart of a legend, aren't you? Can you help take down Delphini?"

"I've defeated her once, I don't wanna know if I still can."

She saw the two's faces fall and she felt pity. "But you came for me and went through trouble just to do so..." Staring at herself, thinking a moment about her father, she nodded her head. "I'll go with you."

"Yes! Let's go!"

•••

"Do you need me to carry you?" Albus asked, sliding his hand under her before she quickly stopped him. "Oh, I can get off, thank you." she replied reassuringly, and slid her feet off the bed. It took a few minutes for her to walk properly again and put on her sweater and robes. Her head was pounding from getting up when Madam Pomfrey said not to, but she had to do this.

"You want any water?" Albus offered the glass beside the table and she shook her head. "Albus, I'm fine. You don't need to worry too much."

"You're just important that's all."

"Woah there. Important? Not much."

"Well to him you are. Now can we get a move on? Madam Pomfrey would be back in precisely 3 minutes, and we can't waste much time until she finds out her patient's gone." Scorpius shouted from outside. Albus and Sarah stepped out of the curtain at once, making them bump into each other. "Sorry, still trying to work my way into this. I'm a little dizzy..."

"I'm serious. Do you need me to carry you?"

"Albus..."

"What? The lady says she's dizzy!"

"I'll just hold onto you, would that be fine?" She lifted her head to find him smiling at her. "That'll definitely be fine. Tight grip, okay?"

"Seriously, Albus, you need to work on your flirting skills." Scorpius commented, rolling his eyes while taking a look at the time-turner again. "So? I'm still practicing, Scorpius."

Her cheeks turned slightly red. "You're flirting with me?" A small chuckle escaped his lips. "Is it working, darling?" Now it was his turn to blush when she stood on her tiptoes to give him a kiss on the cheek. Who knew both different versions of Albus charmed her this much? "It might be."

"Sarah?"

The three turned to the doors. Severus stood there, surprised to find his daughter clothed to leave and standing with Potter and Malfoy. 

"Oh,"

"What's going on?" her father asked. His strides quickly brought him to them, and Sarah was a little lost for words. 

"Dad... I... need to go with them to help defeat Delphini. Again." she confessed. She tried to go to him, but limped in the way. "And... I'm sorry if I was about to leave without your permission."

Severus stared at his daughter. She was trying to leave? Another crazy extravaganza after she was still in the Hospital Wing? No... he can't-

"But I have to do this. Just like how you did, right? You still saved the Wizarding World even if you were like me, and maybe I want to prove to you I can be... well, worthy of being your child." Her hair curtained her face, but he placed his finger below her chin to make her look up. "You don't need to prove anything to me. You're worth more than the world. You're my daughter and I'm grateful. I just don't want to lose you."

A hug wasn't what he always got and Sarah wrapped her arms around him tightly as though it were her last. "I promise I'll be back. And Snape's are witches and wizards of their word."

"Yes they are."

"I love you. I'll be back in no time."

"I love you too." he whispered. He watched her go back to the two boys and hold onto Albus. "Ready to go?" Scorpius asked, about to twist the Time-Turner. Sarah looked back at Severus then nodded. "I think we're ready."

"Hold on tight. Your daughter is in safe hands, Professor Snape, sir."

"I can see that."

"1...2...3...."

"Sarah!"

"Hmm?"

"If you see your mother in another universe... tell her that I'll always love her."

"I will!"

In a blink of an eye, in a second you wouldn't notice, and in a snap you'd nearly miss, Severus Snape watched as Sarah, his one and only daughter, disappear into another universe. With proud eyes as if knowing she would be home suffering no scratch, he smiled to himself. A smile he rarely wore. She'll be back. He would confirm that. She'd live a Hogwarts life that she can enjoy unlike his, and have a father she deserved. 

Turning to the window showing a magnificent view of the outside, his eyes looked up to the heavens and chuckled. 

"That's my little girl."