Coping with the Pain The only way I know how

By: CSI-Panther

Summary: Severus discovers Harry smoking. After all, abused kids need to cope with with the abuse, right? Well besides cutting.

A/N: I dont own Harry Potter.

Last Time,

" Go ahead, you git! I don't care! " Harry shouted again and he never shouted again after that, well he was, but all he was doing was moving mouth up and down and Snape continued on, dragging him along to the portrait of the fat lady.

Ch. 2

First Detention

Harry was sitting at one of the desks, his legs going up and down again.

Snape noticed this and asked, " Potter. Exactly how long have you been smoking? "

" Why do you want to know? " Harry asked hotly.

" Because it appears that you are suffering from withdrawls. "

" No I'm not. I just don't want to be here. "

" Then you should've thought of that before you started smoking. "

" I didn't know that I would be here when I started! I thought I was just a normal kid that did freakish things! "

" What did you say? " Snaped asked, raising an eyebrow.

" You heard me. " Was all that Harry said.

" Damn you Petunia. " Snape muttered.

" Uh? " Harry said.

" Get over there and start cleaning those cauldrons, Potter. " Snape ordered and turned around and left the room.

Harry got up shakily and walked over to the sink and cauldrons and began to clean and scrub the residue off of them.

When several minutes went by and Snape hadn't returned, Harry stopped cleaning and pulled out a pocketknife that he had nicked from his cousin, who thought that he had lost it and his parents got him a new one.

Harry turned back to the door, listening with his sensitive hearing, not hearing anything, he pulled the blade out and rolled up his sleeve on left arm and slowly slashed into his arm. He knew that if he cut at his wrists that people would question the cuts so he cut several inches above his wrist so that his sleeve wouldn't show them when he reached out for something.

He had four long lines on his arm before he heard the door start to open and quickly put the knife away without putting the blade back down and went back to cleaning, putting the sleeve back down just as Snape came into the room.

" I see that you managed to get two cauldrons clean since I've been gone. " Snape said as he went over to the pre-teen and inspected the cauldrons that he had cleaned. If it weren't for the fact that the cauldrons were a flat black color, Snape would've said that they would shine with how clean they were.

Raising an eyebrow, he turned to Harry, " Did you use magic to get these clean, Potter? "

" No. " Harry answered.

Not believeing him, Snape held out his hand and said, " Wand Potter. "

" No! " He said again and went to run, but Snape got in his way and said,

" Accio Potter's wand. " And Harry's wand shot out and landed in his hand.

" Give it back! " Harry shouted and went to lunge at the hand that had his wand, but Snape stepped aside and Harry fell onto the cold ground.

He didn't cry out when his knees hit the stone floor, he knew that would only let Snape know that he had hurt him. So he stayed there for a minute and got up. He turned and faced Snape.

" You will get your wand back when you get done cleaning the remaining cauldrons. " Was all he said as he went to his desk and began to grade the papers there.

Breathing deeply, Harry walked over to the sink again and started cleaning again. He'd show that git that he wasn't lying.

Here's ch. 2 Hope ya'll liked it!

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