Severus Snape and the picnic

~Characters: Severus Snape and Harry Potter.

~Rating: K+.

~ AU~Severus Snape is Harry's legal guardian after a botched Death Eater raid on number 4 privet drive.

~A/N: Italics are Snape's inner thoughts.

~A/N: Flames and insulting comments will not be tolerated, if you don't like the pairing/story then...Why are you still reading this fanfic?.

~Disclaimer: THIS IS A DISCLAIMER! I do not own Harry Potter in any way, shape or form. All I own is, my own creativity, magical imagination and OC characters.

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Severus groaned as he felt blinding sunlight piercing his eyelids and effectively waking him up. The moment his senses cleared away the sleepiness, he remembered that today was the day of Harry's 7th birthday.

"Oh, hell no..." he groaned as he heard light quiet footsteps pattering towards him.

"Hey! Severus, wake up, wake up! Its my birthday today!" yelled an excited Harry right into his ear.

"Oww" Severus growled as he sat up in his bed. Looking over he saw a madly grinning Harry with a mischievous look in his green eyes.

Oh great! He looks as though he has eaten 20 chocolate frogs before breakfast and now thinks I will accept just any behavior because it's his birthday...well I guess he does deserve a break for one and only one day.

Severus sighed, "All right, all right I'm up you don't have to shout in my ears you know, I am not deaf... and for the record, if you wake me up in this manner again in the future for anything short of an emergency, then i will assign you 200 lines on determining what is an emergency and what is not" he stated while glaring at the boy with an unimpressed look on his face.

What the devil is...the little imp is still grinning at me as though I were making a joke...oh well...it's his birthday after all and I guess he deserves a little happiness.

"All right Harry, since it's your birthday today you get to decide what activities you want to do" Severus said, as he looked down upon the cheeky little brat who was starring up at him with an expression of pure mischief.

Oh no, the last time he looked at me like that it was a nightmare. Severus recalled the celebration of the year before and Harry's insistence that he invite Draco and Micah for a sleep-over. Having no idea what a "sleep-over" was, he had asked Harry for an explanation, however he had only received an enthusiastic "you'll see" and an expression of pure mischief on Harry's face, as an answer. Unbeknownst to him at the time, was that the house would look as if a tornado had gone through it by the next morning and the cleanup job which would inevitably follow such a "natural" disaster would become his responsibility.

"Umm, Severus?" Harry asked quietly while looking up at Severus expectantly. "Uh, oh sorry Harry, I got sidetracked, you were saying?" Severus asked gently whilst focusing his attention back onto Harry.

"I had asked if we could go on a picnic in the forbidden forest with Draco and Micah." Harry repeated hopefully.

Severus thought it over for a few moments and weighed the pros and cons of such an outing.

On one hand its not as outlandish as last year's request, but on the other hand the forbidden forest is not really the best place for young children to be playing in.

Looking into Harry's green eyes he saw the boy's hopes and the puppy dog eyes he was making just did it. He groaned inwardly, whenever the boy did those eyes he would end up giving in to anything requested.

Sighing, Severus said "Ok, that's fine. Now go to the floo and tell Draco and Micah that they can come over in 1 hour."

That should give me enough time to collect a few things for lunch and stock up on some healing potions and bandages, just to be safe, since it is very unlikely that those three will not get some scrapes and bruises during this outing, with their ridiculous talent to attract trouble wherever they go.

I am probably going to really regret this decision, but so long as I keep them in sight it shouldn't be that bad. What could possibly go wrong? Severus thought as he listened to Harry rush out of the room, and make a beeline downstairs to the main fireplace.