Hey so I saw a tik tok that used Jaime Campbell Bower as a young Salazar Slytherin. So that's who I'm using in this, make sure to watch the video up above first.
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I was pacing around Hogwarts, there was rumors going around about a fight between the main 4. Salazar was a friend of mine for a few years but I didn't really know much about him. Just that he had some very strong views that set him apart from the other three. He did avoid that when he was speaking to me, which I appreciated.
I'm a teacher at hogwarts, I was placed in the Gryffindor house however so my friendship with Salazar was always dramatic.
I didn't realize how deep in thought I was until I run head first into Helga Hufflepuff. I jump and look down at her, panic on my face "Madam Hufflepuff, I'm so sorry!" I yelp, holding out my hand to help her up. She smiles and shakes her head "No, that's quite alright." I nod slowly and gesture for her to follow me "I figured everyone was at dinner, why are you out and about Madam?" I ask. She glances and me and looks out at the stars "Well, there was a disturbance around the school is we were all checking it out." She sighs. I look around "Uh, we?" I mentioned. She laughs "Godric, Salazar and Rowena are looking around the corridors as well. Blimey, I'm surprised you ran into me instead of one of them." She giggles. I nod as we turn into the dining hall, I walk up onto the stage and sit down next to Salazar, my eyes glancing over to him "Weren't you supposed to be wandering the corridors, sir?" I ask. He looks at me and sighs "In fact I was, but I lost the motivation. I was hungry Y/N." He chuckles. I roll my eyes and shake my head "Zar, when the head masters tell you to do something, shouldn't you do it?" I groan.
He turns to face me, a very intense look in his eyes "I do not HAVE to do anything they tell me, like they know better than I do." He says, obviously there was a hidden message behind it. I place my hand on his back and shake my head "You are all equals. You know as much as they do, you all just have different strong suits. And that's okay Salazar, you're all the most powerful wizards of our age."
Salazar glances at me and shakes his head "Y/N, your parents are both wizards, correct?" He asks. I laugh and nod "Of course, but Juliana's parents are both human and she's my best friend so I know about that stuff." I smile. His eyes go dark "Don't you think it wrong? Shouldn't this school teach PURE wizards. Us wizards are better than muggles, we are superior. We can't have them slithering their way into our school like they are like us." He hisses, a thick hate of muggles now becoming apparent to me.
"Salazar, the fact you believe that means we aren't any better. We eat food, just like them. We sleep, just like them, and we feel things deeply just like them." I say, placing my hand on his heart "We are all capable of amazing things, and horrible things. There isn't a spell that we can learn that a wizard born from humans can't learn." I say, looking him directly in the eyes. He did not like what I was saying at all, but deep down, he was considering every word escaping my lips.
"Salazar, you have to understand that we can't control where we come from, we just control where we're going to go. It's better with people to support you, no hate." I smile, drinking some pumpkin juice. "Now I see why you're a Gryffindor...." He sighs. I nudge him with a small giggle "Hey, you're friends with this Gryffindor so shush." I roll my eyes. Salazar nods and stands up, holding out his hand "I have to show you something." He says lightly, as I take his hand. He leads me down the long hallways into a bathroom. My cheeks felt hot "Um Salazar, why are we in here?" I ask. He looks at me and simply says "I have a secret base of sorts down here."
I nod, slowly bringing my fingers to a small snake symbol on one of the sinks "A snake? Could you be more obvious, Zar?" I laugh. He rolls his eyes and speaks but I didn't understand what he said. It wasn't a normal language. It sounded like a snake. "What did you say?" I ask. He shoots me a glare and pulls me over towards a hole opening up between the sinks. My eyes widen "Salazar what is---" I get cut off by him pushing me down. I slide down a very long tunnel to find myself in a strange circular room. I look up, seeing Salazar coming down as well, but landed with a lot more grave than me considering I'm directly on my ass.
I get up, and dust myself off as salazar goes ahead of me, I quickly chase after him "So what's this secret base for?" I ask. He looks at me, showing no emotion. "You'll see." He smiles, almost sadly as I follow behind him. It was a long dark tunnel and it made me feel very uncomfortable.
We enter a very large room, with dozens of pillars and a large statue of an older man, who I could only assume was him in his later years. I take in a deep breath "This is all very cool but, why am I here Salazar?" I ask.
He turns towards me "You were right....we feel things like humans, which is what makes them weak, makes US weak...." He states, walking up to me. My eyes shift up towards him, as he placed a long kiss onto my lips. The butterflies in my stomach burst, as I slowly kiss him back.
He pulls away and placed his hand on my cheek, his gaze examining my features "Over the years Y/N, I've grown to care about you....maybe even love..." He confesses. My eyes sparkle with excitement, I've been waiting forever to hear those words. "I love you, Salazar...." I whisper, sensing something is off. I see tears flooding out of his eyes for a split second, making my expression soften but he quickly recovers his composure. "Y/N..... You have been the most loyal friend...that's all I could have asked for from you....but....I cannot be weak. I cannot be human..." He says, then speaks again in that weird language from before. My eyes never left him as I feel the ground rumble, I turn around to see the mouth of the statue opening. My eyes widen as I turn to look at him
"What's going on?" I whimper, the setting starting to scare me. "I hope you understand eventually, Y/N..." He says, as I turn around to be met with some bright yellow eyes, then everything went black.
