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Severus' eyes pierced into the flickering flames in front of him, dancing in the fireplace.
Their uncontrolled movement was hypnotic and caught him under a catalepsy.
His eyes seemed to drown into the flames as he manically stared into them.
He didn't even notice the presence of the girl standing in the doorway to his office.
She looked at her shoes with a face filled with shame and sadness.
Eventually, the potions master changed the direction of his gaze and spotted her figure.
"You're late, miss Ayron." She nodded, but continued to have her sad glance fixed downwards. "Well, aren't you going to say anything?" The girl stood unflustered still and Severus stood up from his desk, making his move towards her.
"You do know why you are here, don't you?"
She nodded again, and moved her face up an inch.
"Then why don't we just begin this detention," he led her figure and placed her down on a chair, "as we don't have much time. Let's see; you recieved this detention for intentionally slipping severe anti-psychotics not used for mentaly healthy people in the apartment of schzophrenia into Mister Draco Malfoy's drink. Not very nice, miss Ayron, and not what I would have expected from you."
She bent her head forewards again and didn't say a word. "Miss Ayron, I would appreciate it if you could say something, because according to your behaviour-"
"I didn't do it!" Severus starteled as this was something he hadn't quite expected: "I didn't mean to! They were for me, not for him! He just happened to sit right next to me and I took the wrong glass! Are you happy now!"
This time it was Severus' time to keep quiet. They conducted this action in at least ten minutes before Severus talked again: "As being the head of your house, Miss Ayron, I'm rather shocked that I don't know of this. Why is that?" She took a deep breath and sighed: "You're the only one who knows. I don't want it to come out."
Severus nodded, and then did something he didn't do often, call a student by first name: "Well Marion, I suppose this detention just turned into a talk." She looked up at him with tears glistening in her eyes, then fell down with her head between her knees, sobbing uncontrolably.
Severus sat took a chair and sat down next to her, carefully handing her a hankerchief.
"Is there any other things that I should know about, miss Ayron?"
Marion slowly accepted the hankerchief and put it up to her eyes, wiping her tears away.
She then nodded slightly and looked up at the leader of her house with red eyes from crying.
He took the hankerchief back and wiped her new tears carefully away.
She closed her eyes, getting used to the gestures done towards her face.
"Do you want to tell me about those things yet?" She shook her head and fell back into her chair, muttering to herself. The muttering became louder and louder, and eventually, Severus could hear what she was saying:
"I cannot, I cannot, I cannot, she won't let me, I've been a bad girl, very bad girl, leave me, no, I won't, stop doing this to me, yes, no, NO!"
With that last scream, she took both of her hands to her ears and banged her head into the back of the chair.
Severus, who'd been watching calmly, removed her hands and started looked into her eyes.
She looked back and one single tear fell from her eyes: "Professor, I want to die."
With these words, she hit her head once more and fainted.