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"Alex!" Sev giggles, he had woken in the best mood, he was happy and excited, he was in his bed with his new friend's hair tickling his face. He couldn't wait to get up, he had a friend, someone who wasn't afraid of him or thought he was weird, or wanted to hurt him. "What should we do today? We can go to the woods, or the stream or the library or I know! I can bring you to meet Lilly!" Alex knew from the look in Sev's eyes and the tone of his voice that he wasn't an adult anymore.
"Sev." Alex forces himself to giggle. "You can't introduce me, I'm not real." It made sense in Alex's mind, but Sev looked confused. "You named me, I live with you, Sev don't be Silly, we both know your not a dummy." Sev sits up, a frown forms on his face. "Did you have something your supposed to do today?" Alec wasn't sure how this was supposed to work it was a memory so he can't change things even if he tried.
"My fathers coming home from his trip today... We should leave the house..." He glances away from Alex, if Alex is imaginary, that means he can tell him all his secrets. "My father's not a nice man, if he's angry he might hit my mother and... I don't want to see that." Alex was horrified, that wasn't what Sev's life was supposed to be like, Sev has such a nice mum, he has a big room and he gets all the food he needs. Why would he have a bad person, that's not fair.
"I hate mean people, let's go wherever you want." And they did, they went to the woods that was near his house and they ran around trying to catch each other and then Sev hide and Alex had to find him and then they saw a butterfly and tried to follow it.
Neither had ever felt so free.
When it was time to sneak back into the house Severus wasn't feeling the usual quickening of his heart instead it was calm. The tv was playing loudly in the front room and he heard the sound of a pot boiling. If he didn't tell his mother he was home she would be worried, he hoped she was in the kitchen.
Fortune was not on Severus' side. He creeps into the sitting room. "Close the damn door, your letting the heat out." Alex cringes at the yell, Sev drops his head, his mother must have said something that he didn't like, that tone meant he was angry. Meant if he didn't leave and shut the door right that instance he'd regret it.
In his fright he actually pushed Alex over to get out of his way of the door. His heart drops into his stomach, he was horrified at himself. He had just hurt his friend, he could tell by the look on Alex's face. Sev knew it, he knew he was a bad person just like everyone thought.
He couldn't bare to look at Alex's hurt expression so he ran, up the stairs and hurried into his bedroom. He felt himself shake, his vision blurred, he was panicking. All rational thought had fled from Severus' mind.
Alex slips into the room, Sev is facing away from him, his body quivering. "Are you crying?" He's not sure how to act whether to sit next to him or not.
"A-Alex, I'm surry." He whimpers, Alex doesn't understand. He knew what had happened, Sev's father had frightened him, he needed to escape, wanted to hide, Alex understood, what he didn't understand was Sev's reaction.
"Sev?" Alex scrambles onto the bed next to his friend, he sees the red face and the tears. "Sev..." He holds his friend, he lets him cry on his shoulder. "You know s'not so scary when you have a friend."
"Still friends?" Harry smiles, the tears have stopped falling.