A/N: For SkyeElf I hope you like it. Be warned this is dark.

The Madness is Eternal

Severus Snape sat alone in the dark living room of his home. The second war had ended over two months ago. He himself had barely survived, in fact if Potter had not gotten the anti-venom while Granger kept him alive that would have been it for him.

Potter had heard from Albus' portrait that Severus was innocent and he had proven it himself with memories. After that they had very carefully extracted the Horcrux and destroyed it. Then ironically they had united together to defeat the dark lord.

With his name cleared, and a decent relationship with Potter Severus should be happy right? He was not however, in fact he almost seemed worse than he had during the two wars. His hair was matted, and a few hairs had begun to fall out.

No one other than Potter knew this of course because Potter was the only one who visited him any more. They had a sort of friendship now and Harry was surprised at Severus' break down in recent months. He could not tell what was wrong and Severus refused to say.

It was not the Severus did not want to get help he just could not explain what was wrong. No matter how much time had passed all the memories of the wars had begun to appear before his eyes. At first, He had hopped at first they would go away with time.

He had however been wrong, the more time went by the more intense and clear the memories became to him. He would sometimes relive whole weeks of war in a few hours and no one could help while he screamed at some of them.

They began with ones that only made him wonder what he had been thinking. Like when he had agred to be a Death Eater. Then when he had reported the prophecy and Lily's death. He began to scream for hours before they left him again.

'Why me? After all I did for the right side why is this happening to me?' He thought downing his glass of Fire whiskey.

Days went by and those turned into weeks, then months, and still the memories got worse and came more frequently. He decided to barricade himself in his home screaming like a mad man that he was becoming. No matter where he turned they never left.

Lately they had even begun to seep into his dreams. He was loosing it and even when people mostly Potter got into his home these days they were unable to help him out of all this. Harry had begun to stay at spinners end and tried all he could to help as Severus' mind continued to succumb to madness.

Then one day Harry left with his wand and Snapes to go grocery shopping and to see Ginny and his friends. He thought Severus would be safe, he was wrong. Snape pulled a concealed wand from one of the bookshelf's in his library.

He wrote out a note thanking Harry for all his help and attempting to cure him even through the bits where he could not get near him. Then he pointed his spare at himself and said: "Avada Kadavera." the flash of green light shone through the windows and Snape moved no more.

When Harry found him he was horrified and sad.

'Damn it Severus why couldn't you have waited?' he thought as he contacted the Aurors and pulled a vial from his pocket.

He had discovered through a magical blood test that Nagini's venom was similar to dementors effects. They had not know originally about that. He had gotten the anti-venom and was going to give it to Severus today. He punched the wall hating that Voldemort had done this. He had made sure that for Severus Snape the madness of the wars would never end.

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