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Hey guys, here's chapter 3.
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"Severus…"
I say nothing. I keep saying nothing.
"Severus, look at me."
I can't not answer. Not to him. I turn my head from the fenix nest to him to meet his eyes.
"It wasn't me".
His blue eyes sparkle, a sparkle I personally know very well, because I have seen it many times: comprehension, kindness. His lips lift up as his mouth forms a smile.
"I know it wasn't you, Severus. But understand that, as Headmaster, I had to hear it from you."
I nodded slightly, and turn my look to Fawkes again.
" Fawkes is very lucky, isn't she? How wonderful is it to start a new life and the previous one is reduced to ashes. Am I right?"
I look to him and raise an eyebrow, while saying, covering the anger in my voice:
" If you're using Legillemency on me, you can also see I'm innocent."
"I'm not using Legillemency on you", he says, with a simple smile. I raise both eyebrows in interrogation.
"I know you very well, Severus. I know what you're thinking. And I said I believe you, I wouldn't betray you. Otherwise, you're the best Occlumens I know."
I say nothing. A calm silence falls between us.
"Were you talking to…?"
"Yes."
"How is he?"
"Confused. Almost giving up"
"You can't let him give up"
"I know"
"we have to go on with this."
"I know."
A knock in the door.
"yes?"
Minerva stepped in.
"Professor Dumbledore, professor Snape is needed."
He nods and she gives a cold and angry look. What was that girl thinking to blame that way?
I stand up, and with a nod, I turn my back and go to the door.
"Severus?"
I turn my look to him, and he shows me that intense pair of blue eyes.
"I know this is hard for you, but you're the most loyal person I know, Severus. The most loyal person to me."
Crap! Why the hell he can always say something that doesn't let me give up?
"I won't let you down.", I say, turning my back to him and leaving.
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"Professor Snape…"
An awkward silence installed between the two women and Snape. They seemed both uncomfortable. Hermione was still asleep, not in a calm and deep sleep, but disturbed and troubled.
For some reason, the image of the girl laying there, harmless, exposed, hurt some deep part of him. "what?", he thought to himself "no, it's pity. It doesn't matter she's a Gryffindor or an insufferable know-it-all, or a friend of Potter, she was attacked, who knows what more… Pity. Nothing more than that." He kept saying to himself. A sarcastic voice in his head said "is that so? Professor Snape feeling pity?"
"professor Snape, we need you to get a potion to awake miss Granger."
"I'll get it.", he said, and then he left the infirmary, leaving behind the two women in an awkward silence.
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