Severus woke the next morning with a stiff neck. And back. And an odd weight on his side. He turned his head slowly and saw that Harry was still asleep, cuddled into his side.

"Harry," Severus said, gently shaking him, "wake up."

"No." Harry mumbled, burrowing deeper in to Severus's side.

"Yes, we need to go to breakfast."

"No we don't." Harry said, still burrowed in Severus's side.

"Harry, come on. You need to eat."

"Fine." Harry said, making no effort to move.

"That means you have to get up."

"I'm working on that." Harry said, slowly getting up.

"Why don't go shower, its the first door on the left down the hall?"

"What bout you?"

"I have a shower off my bedroom."

"And clothes?"

"I have some you wear, shrink them to fit. I'll go get them for you and then you can shower." Severus said, getting off the couch.

He went to his room and returned a few minutes later with a pair of black jeans and a white tee shirt.

"Thanks Sev, what about robes though?"

"You don't need robes. Only a few of us have been wearing robes."

"Okay thanks."

The two parted ways to shower.

Thalia was sitting at in Great Hall with Hermione and all the others, except Harry and Severus when the Daily Prophet arrived.

Hermione eyes when wide when she saw the headline: SIRIUS BLACK MAKES AN APPEARANCE!

Thalia started reading over Hermione's shoulder.

"Fuck!" She exclaimed. "Harry is going to kill him."

"Why?" Hermione asked, still reading the article, the others listening carefully.

"Jack Poindexter. Harry's boss at the pub in LA. He was like an uncle to Harry, Harry trusted him and he was lying to Harry."

It was that moment Harry and Severus walked in, their hair still damp from their early morning showers. Harry was wearing the outfit Severus gave him with his white Converse , and Severus was dressed similarly, he had on grey jeans, a black long sleeved shirt, and black combat boots.

They were talking quietly and Harry was laughing.

They sat down at the table and Harry instantly knew something was wrong.

"Okay, what are you hiding from me now?"

Thalia wordlessly handed the paper over. She watched Harry's varying facial expressions.

"That fucking two faced scheming bastard. That utter asshole. I am going slowly kill him, and then bring him back just to kill him again. I fucking hate him."

Harry got ready to storm out, when Severus grabbed his wrist and pulled him back down.

"No, you are going to eat. And then we shall discuss rationally without that deplorable language of yours."

"Thanks, but no thanks." Harry sneered pulling his wrist out of Severus's grasp, and storming out.

Severus got up and ran after him, with Thalia, Hermione, and Remus hot in his heels. "Potter, if you want to live another day, you will stop running and discuss this rationally."

"What would you know about that Snape? He fucking lied to my face, I'm pissed. I want to kill him."

"Harry, being irrational about this will not help."

Harry sighed, deflating, "I know, Sev. It's habit, it's what I've had to do to survive."

Severus pulled Harry into his arms, and by now, Thalia, Hermione, and caught up. They were all surprised to find Harry crying into Severus's shoulder.

"I know, Harry. Believe me, I know, but that's not going help now. He can't hurt you now, he can't come here. I promise."

"I want to believe you so badly, Sev. But I can't. You know why."

"Harry, I'll adjust the wards so Sirius can't get in."

"Hasn't stopped him before." Harry was still clinging to Severus.

"Harry, you have to trust me."

Harry sharply pulled away from Severus. "You fucking know why I can't trust anyone. We had this discussion yesterday. Are you trying to ridicule me?"

"No, Harry, I'm-"

"I don't want your half assed excuses." And with that, Harry stormed by, pushing through Thalia, Hermione, and Remus.

Remus was the first to recover and ran after Harry.

He found Harry sitting atop the astronomy tower. Crying. Remus lowered himself next to Harry and started talking.

"Hey pup, I haven't seen much of you since you came back."

"I was busy."

"So I heard you were studying for your NEWTs."

"Yup."

"Pup, I don't know what you told Severus yesterday, but seemed pretty broken up that you don't trust him."

"I don't want to talk about him. If you don't have anything else to say, I'm going to have ask you to leave."

"Okay, I'm sorry about yesterday, I didn't mean to offend you. I was impressed actually."

"Don't apologize. Remus, I overreacted. It's no big deal."

"It's big deal if avoid me for a whole day."

"You didn't mean to offend me. I overreacted."

"Still, I want you know I won't do it again."

"Okay."

They sat in silence overlooking the Hogwarts grounds.

"Harry?"

"Yes Remus?"

"I missed you when you were gone."

"I missed you to. I'm sorry I wasn't in touch."

"It's okay. I understand why you did it."

"You don't know all of it, but I'm glad you don't hate me."

"I could never hate you, pup."

"Thanks, Remus, it means so much more to me than you could ever know."

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"Not really. I mean, it's nothing against you, I just, I think I have trust issues. And its hard to talk about."

"But you told Severus."

"Because he pulled it out of me. After he told me something personal, that I could connect to."

"Still, you always hated him before."

"Jealousy does bot become you, Remus." Harry hissed, storming off. He stormed passed Minerva, Molly and Filius at one point, and Remus was running in pursue pf Harry.

Harry ran into his quarters and locked it with every spell he could think of. He then went his couch and grabbed one of his textbooks and started reading it. He didn't stop for lunch or dinner. He put up a silencing spell when people wouldn't leave him alone. He fell asleep on the couch with his nose in a book.

Severus was upset. He didn't mean to set Harry off. He didn't even understand what exactly set Harry off. He followed Remus, but saw Remus talking with Harry, so decided not to bother Harry. He stayed in the shadows and watched their conversation. He inwardly flinched when he heard what Remus said to Harry about trusting himself. He saw Harry run past Harry and knew Remus screwed himself. Again. He waited until Remus ran after Harry, and then he slowly got up and walked to office. Minerva, Molly, and Filius came to his office a few moments later.

"Is Harry still upset about Sirius? We saw him run by, with Remus running after him." Molly said.

"I don't know." Severus sighed. "We got into a disagreement and he ran away from me. "I trust the wolf said something to upset Harry some more."

"Why is Harry upset with you?" Minerva asked.

"I don't want to betray his trust, so therefore I will not talk about it."

"Okay, Severus, but we are trusting you to fix this. And soon." Minerva said.

"I'll do what I can. I offered him the defense post. I figured it might be good for him to have a job. A sense of purpose."

"What did he say?" Filius asked.

"He needs time to think on it. I don't want him to know I told you. If needs advice he will come to one of you, I suspect and ask. Act surprised."

"Of course, Severus." They all said.

"Do you need anything else?" Severus asked, and they all recognized the dismissal. They quickly left and Severus began to work on some paperwork with the reenrolling students.

Remus tried knocking on Harry's door but knew it was futile. He knew by now that Harry probably had a silencing charm up. He sighed and walked back to his rooms. He washed his face and then went up to the Great Hall for dinner as he had missed lunch.

Thalia didn't whether to glare at Severus or Remus. So she decided to do both at dinner that night.

"Thalia, stop glaring at Severus." Hermione hissed in her ear.

"Why?" Thalia said turning to her.

"Because Severus and Harry was a misunderstanding. Can't you see how miserable Severus is. Remus screwed up his second chance. Harry will be madder at him. Glare at Remus."

Thalia laughed and then leveled her glare at Remus.

She noted that Severus was just pushing the food around on his plate and not really eating it. Remus seemed to be just as bad.

Harry didn't show up to dinner that night.

Sirius Black was walking around Hogsmeade, trying to find a way into Hogwarts. He had tried multiple ways, but the wards were not letting him in. He knew he had to explain to Harry and knew that Harry had already seen the Prophet and was probably very pissed. He did not envy the occupants in the castle.

Sirius tried slipping through where the wards were weakest, and failed. He would write a letter to Remus, maybe Remus could help him get in.

Harry woke the next morning with a piece of paper stuck to his face. He looked at the time and realized it was 10. After breakfast then. He also realized that Severus had some how figured out a way to return his clothed, as they were sitting there neatly folded.

There was a letter atop the pile.

Harry,

I'm sorry I offended you. That was not my intention, I just wanted you to trust me. I realize it is hard to trust people, especially those you have hated for years. I had my house elf, Giselle, bring you your clothing back. Do not worry about the clothing I gave you, you can have it. If you need anything you can call for Giselle.

Missing you,

Severus

Harry realized it must have been hard for the man to apologize and he knew the man didn't mean to offend him. Harry put the letter down and went to shower.

"Giselle?" Harry called after taking his shower.

"Yes?" The little elf asked.

"Bring Severus down here, if he wishes."

"Yes sir." The elf said before popping away.