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Author's note: This was just an idea in my head, and I had to get it out. There was no one to share it with except for you guys. Sorry for bothering you. As you're already wasting your time reading this, spend a minute more on a review, please? Anyways, enjoy =)
It was way to early on a Monday morning when Snape had to get out of bed. 'Ugh, I hate Monday mornings' he mumbled to himself. He came down for breakfast, with the same look on his face as always. When he really had to get down to his classroom, he went back to dungeons.
As soon as he entered the room, silence fell, and all the gryffindor and hufflepuff first-years looked up at him. Was it just his imagination, or was there something different in the way they did it?
He soon discovered the answer when a boy from gryffindor asked: 'Is it true that you're in love, professor?'
The class burst out giggling, and Snape answered, in his silkiest voice, that made shivers run down the students' spines: 'Now, tell me, Mr. Parker, where on earth would you get an idea like that, and even believe it's true?'
Thomas Parker was looking terrified now, and his friend Anna Brown, who sat next to him, decided to help him out. 'Then what about the apple, professor?' He asked, and he knew he had hit a nerve immediately, for Snape now moved to him, looking madder than anyone had ever seen him.
'Enough!' he bellowed, 'Detention, both of you!'
All the while he was thinking: 'No, this, can't be true, how on earth have they found out?'
-flashback-
It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon and the sun shone brightly outside. Snape, of course, wasn't enjoying it. He was in his office, because he had to make the wolfsbane potion for the werewolf. He walked over to gather his ingredients to start, when he saw it.
An apple.
Not just an apple, but a honeycrisp. The best he had ever seen. Its skin was perfect, and was a beautiful pinkish red colour, and it looked delicious. But it would be such a shame if it would be eaten. It was way too beautiful for that.
Then Snape shook his head. Apples are never too beautiful to be eaten, they're apples. They look tasteful or, most of the time, not so much. But apples weren't beautiful, they were apples.
Nevertheless, he didn't eat the apple, he put it on his desk, and continued with the potion.
It took him a few hours to make the potion, all it had to do now was simmer, before he could add more ingredients. 'Ugh, why does that potion take so long?'
When he walked over to the desk, he saw the apple still lying there. It caught a ray of sunlight, which caused it to glow, and look like it had a halo. Snape stared at it, transfixed. Without knowing it, he took a step closer, and another one, and another. He stretched out his hand, and when he touched the skin, it felt soft, and almost warm, almost pulsating, as if it was really alive. He caressed the apple, and then picked it up, and brought it to his mouth. As soon as his lips touched it, he thought: 'It tastes so sweet, is this what it feels like to kiss somebody?'But he knew, deep in his heart, that kissing anybody, could never be as delicious, as sweet, as this. He closed his eyes, and licked the apple. Then he gently put it back on his desk, and yawned. He looked at the clock, it was already 11 o'clock! Deciding it was time to sleep, he put out all the lights, and went to bed.
- end flashback-
The bell ringed, and Snape looked up. He hadn't thought about the fact that he was still in class. The students got up to leave but he held them back.
'For next lesson, you will write me an essay about how to make a cure for boils, which we will be making next lesson. Anyone who doesn't have it, has the change to be used as a guinea pig.'
In the mean time, Anna and Thomas were already trying to get away as soon as possible, but stopped as soon as they heard his voice, which was full of some suppressed emotion: 'Parker, Brown, we need to arrange your detentions.'
They looked at each other and thought: 'Oh God, we're in trouble.'
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