Severus Snape(dad)

It was a gray, late-November day as twelve-year-old Mathias gazed up at the tall, imposing gates of what he now called "home." A slender figure in black stood motionless in the doorway, surrounded by shadows. His face was unreadable, but Professor Severus Snape's dark eyes held an intensity that hinted at something more—perhaps a reluctant care. Mathias felt a quiet promise in that gaze, an unspoken reassurance that here, despite the strangeness, he might find an unexpected and steadfast father