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Chapter 4

Two days later Severus stood atop the Astronomy tower once again.

"Were you going to mention it eventually?"

Severus turned around to meet the blue eyes of Orion Grey.

"Mention what?"

"That you're in love with Harry."

Severus' eyes widened and he spun around. "You're being ridiculous. Me, in love? With your godson? Please, I'm old enough to be his father."

"I notice you don't mention that he's young enough to be your son."

Severus closed his eyes and his shoulders hunched a little. That was enough for Sirius. "I'm not angry Snape. If I had known a week ago? I probably would've hexed you into next week. But quite obviously, you're in love with him and he has no idea." Sirius placed his hand on Severus' shoulder. "It only took me two days to figure that out. I always knew my godson was slow. But, why didn't you encourage me to reveal myself to Remus? That would most likely make Harry available…"

Severus shook his head and looked out at the lake as the sun's rays reflected lightly off the surface of the water. "This emotion has made me maudlin Grey. Instead of doing the proper Slytherin thing and encouraging you, I could not stand the idea of hurting Harry." Severus' black eyes turned to look at Sirius, "It is pathetic, I know. Loving a man young enough to be my son, a man who hated me for almost six years, who barely tolerates me now, who is dating another man, who—"

"For one, your age obviously doesn't matter, he's dating Remus for Merlin's sake, who's the same age as you. And two, he doesn't simply tolerate you, he obviously cares about you. He's been giving me calculating, disdainful looks all week."

"That is because you're an unfamiliar face. He does not trust you."

"No, he doesn't. But not only because I'm new, but because I am apparently your friend…and Harry doesn't believe I'm just any friend."

Severus raised an eyebrow and turned back around.

Sirius rolled his eyes, "He thinks we're lovers Snape."

Severus spun around, an incredulous look on his face, "what?"

Sirius grinned and then suddenly wrapped Severus up in a hug.

"What the fuck are you doing Grey?" Severus said as he began to push Sirius away.

"Shush. Pretend to enjoy it. Harry's glaring at me from down on the grass." Sirius laughed and pressed his nose against Severus' temple making it seem like he was whispering soft, romantic things into Severus' ear.

"You've gone mental Grey."

"Gone? My dear Snape, I do believe you thought I was born mental."

Harry stalked into his quarters banging the portrait door close.

"Harry? What's wrong?" Remus rushed out the study room to see Harry pacing in front of the fire.

"Severus is sleeping with that…that…that…man!"

Remus raised his eyebrows. "Who?"

"Grey. Severus is sleeping with Grey!"

"Harry. I've never seen Severus with anyone. I don't even know if he's homosexual. Hell, sometimes I think the man's asexual. You can't really tell with Severus."

"I saw them embracing at the Astronomy tower. They're lovers! I know it. He's sleeping with a complete stranger!"

"I doubt their strangers. It's obvious they know each other. Besides, if Severus' is happy then we should be happy for him. For Merlin's sake, the man convinced Severus to wear color! It must be love."

Harry glared at Remus. He didn't understand why, but the idea that Severus was sleeping with that man irked him.

"I don't know. There's something off about him."

Remus frowned. This wasn't just Harry being suspicious, "Oh? Why do you say that?"

"I don't know. But every time he's around warning bells go off in my head."

Remus looked at Harry in concern. This was really bothering his lover. "Ok love, I'll watch him tomorrow and see okay?" With that Remus smiled and kissed Harry, "But, right now, there are more…interesting…things we could be doing, aren't there?" Remus drawled, a wolfish grin on his face. Harry smiled back, and let Remus distract him with better uses of time, his thoughts on Grey and Severus filed away into the back of his mind.

Remus walked into the staff room with a purpose the next morning: to discover as much as he could about this Orion Grey. Making himself a cup of coffee, the first thing he noticed was that Grey entered from Severus' personal door. Which came straight from the Headmaster's quarters. Next, he made himself two cups of coffee. One half milk, half coffee, and two spoons of coffee, and another that was simply black, obviously for Severus. Remus's heart constricted. Half milk, half coffee, two sugars. That was Sirius' preferred way of drinking coffee.

"Good morning, Professor Grey."

Grey turned and smiled at Remus, "Please, call me Orion."

"In that case, please call me Remus. Forgive me, but I don't remember you from Hogwarts. Where did you go to school?"

Ah, thought Sirius, so the twenty questions begin. "I studied in the States but did my Masters in Defense from the University. Must've picked up the accent then." Sirius winked at Remus. One half of him wanted to sweep Remus up in his arms and devour his lips, but the other was having fun pretending to be someone else. Perhaps he had an undiscovered kink for roleplay? Besides, his new goal was to find a way to bring Harry and Severus together. The fact that Remus would be single again after that was totally a side effect. Not the main goal of course.

"Ah. And how did you meet Severus?"

"Oh, mutual friends. I needed a bit of help and they introduced him to me. As they say, the start of a beautiful friendship." Sirius was really just tweaking the truth. Severus' lessons on answering questions like a Slytherin were actually paying off. Sirius was not a Slytherin. Not at all. But Orion Grey? He could be a Slytherin. Sirius had no problem with that. Severus had rolled his eyes and muttered something about inane Gryffindor semantics when Sirius had said that.

"Remus, are you interrogating my Astronomy professor?" Severus glided in wearing his customary black robes but with grey trousers and a green shirt. He raised an eyebrow at Remus as he leaned over Sirius' shoulder to pick up his cup of coffee.

"Of course not Severus. It's called getting to know each other," Remus replied, his keen eyes taking in the way Grey brushed his hand over Severus' arms as he sat down.

Harry walked in next, sliding into his seat next to Remus and pecking him lightly on the mouth. "Good morning!"

Severus felt Sirius tense up next to him, "Good morning Harry." Severus stepped on Sirius foot to get his attention.

"Good morning Professor Potter," Sirius said, glaring a bit at Severus.

"Oh, Severus, I wanted to talk to you about the Dueling Club," Harry mentioned as he made himself tea.

"Ah yes. I will be busy the rest of the day however. Perhaps right now? We can go to my office," Severus said putting his mug down and getting up.

"Sure," Harry said getting up as well. He watched with a frown as Grey rose as well, pressing a hand against Severus' arms and whispering in his ear. Severus smirked at whatever Grey said and Grey smiled back.

Sirius looked over at his godson and couldn't help the feeling of satisfaction that swept over him at Harry's frustrated face. He loved his godson, but he was slowly realizing that this pretending to be another person was not going to work forever. At this point, he would do anything to get Remus back, and besides, Severus was obviously totally infatuated with his godson, and frankly, he was starting to think that deep down, Harry was unknowingly just as infatuated with Severus. Ah, to play matchmaker, Sirius grinned.

"Shall we, Mr. Potter?" Severus was speaking to Harry again, who jerked and followed Severus out the door.

Halfway to the Headmaster's office Harry turned to Severus and asked, "Are you sleeping with him?"

"Excuse me?" Severus looked at Harry in shock.

"Grey. Are you sleeping with Grey?"

"Who I am and am not sleeping with is none of your business Potter," Severus sneered, his eyes turning slightly cold as they narrowed.

Harry flinched, Severus hadn't called him by his last name in years.

"There is something off with that man. And if you're sleeping with him you should know."

"There's nothing off about him. I know him well. We are friends. Do not insult my friends Potter. I've known him longer than I've known you."

Harry tensed up and looked at Severus, "I see. So that's it is it? You choose him over me?"

Severus stopped and looked at Harry, "What is this Harry? You barely know the man. I am not choosing one of you over the other. I am saying that I know everything there is to know about this man and there's nothing off about him."

"So you don't believe me. Well fine," and forgetting all about the Dueling Club, Harry stormed off.

Well that could've gone better, thought Severus. He was tempted to call the whole farce off and tell Harry there was nothing between Grey and him, but a little part of him kept telling him that if Harry didn't like that he might be sleeping with Grey, than perhaps Harry might have feelings for him. And maybe, just maybe, this time Black wasn't playing a vindictive prank on him, but actually helping him. It seemed that Severus' weakness when it came to Harry was quite immense. Severus old boy, you really are going soft. Severus shut his eyes and prayed that this wouldn't end with him getting hurt.

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