Disclaimer: No I don't own Harry Potter, But I do like to use the characters as my own little puppets now and again….
A/N: just a little One-Shot, nothing serious, J Rated T cause kiddliwinks might find a word here and there slightly offensive…
Severus watched Potter from where he sat behind his desk, he scanned the rest of the class, Idiot Gryffindor's and supercilious Slytherin's, Potters 'friends' Know-It-All and The Weasley Boy and Malfoy eyeing each other with contempt as those around them worked diligently for fear that Snape would slam them into the next year with detentions. But not Harry. He was working alright but every so often he would look up at Snape through his mess hair that would hang over his face.
For weeks now they had been playing this same old game, they would scope each other out, try and catch each other un-aware, each would try and get the other to break first… to admit that they can't go on as they have been. But no, neither one is willing to be the first to break, knowing the other will crow for all eternity. But Severus knew that he was coming to the end of his tether. There was only so much he could take before the steal of his emotional mask cracks under the pressure. And by the looks of things Potter isn't doing much better.
Harry couldn't take it anymore, this had been going on for quite long enough. At first it was a joke, he knew, Severus knew it and that's all it was supposed to be, a friendly wager between sometime adversaries. But now, now it was just an all out, no hands barred, battle to the death. And Harry, could not and would not be the one to break, not with so much at stake. Mostly pride and the knowledge that Snape would not let it go if he were to buckle under the pressure. He knew that what they were doing was beyond stupid, even at the beginning he knew someone was going to get the backlash, but at the time he had bothered thinking through the consequences. Looking up at Snape through the curtain of hair falling across his face, he thought he saw the man looking his way, probably trying to catch him out the bastard. That man was underhand after all, would do anything.
A bang ricocheted around the room causing everyone, not just the two men battling it out to jump, Neville it seemed had blown another cauldron and was swiftly backing away from the thunderous Snape.
"GET OUT ALL OF YOU. NOT YOU POTTER YOU STAY RIGHT THERE!"
Everyone scrambled for the doors, leaving Harry to sit and wait. No sooner had the last student left than both of them were at each other, breathless and finally complete again. Wrapped up in each other, the battle for who could last the longest was over.
Outside a bushy haired girl turned to a red headed boy who was as red as a tomato and whispered "We had to do something Ronald, I couldn't take it any more, it was getting to much. They had to get it together or Snape would have ended up killing someone and Harry wasn't much better." Leaving it at that they left the dungeons for their next class, unaware the occupants had heard the girl.
" You know you lost right?" Harry muttered into the mans neck, "Erm, Potter I think you'll find that neither of us won or lost" The smirk evident in his voice. "Did you just say 'erm' Severus?"
Severus pulled the boy back around and crushed his mouth to his. " Potter, Shut up".
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