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ALL RIGHTS GO TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS AND I CAN ONLY OWN THE PLOT AND THE CHARACTERS MADE BY ME. NO MONETARY GAIN IS MADE OF THIS STORY AND IS NOT INTENDED TO.
A.N.: Here I give you my birthday present, a new chapter!
I know that some of you may hate me by now because of what Oliver did to Iris, but I had promised a great twist in the story…but it does not mean that we have an ending already… there are many things to come..
Thanks for your support through the story!
Chapter 10
More than a feeling
Oliver was furious. Iris not only spoke first to Snape when she arrived at the party, but she also hugged him in front of the others! What they would think? He was furious and mad with her super sexy dress. Oliver Wood was jealous because every man in the party would be looking to his girlfriend.
Oliver entered in the house and he started a conversation with a girl that was sitting in the living room. She was one of Ginny's teammates. They could completely understand each other. Iris knew many things about Quidditch but she always seemed to not care that much about it.
They talked for a couple minutes when she started making more personal questions…She told him that she had some veela origins and Oliver told her that he is completely jealous of his girlfriend because every time she walks in a room everybody notice certain parts o her body.
Their conversation ended when Oliver mentioned that Iris was talking al the time about another man. The girl, who from the very beginning liked Oliver very much, somehow convinced him that his girlfriend had an erotic affair with the other man and only one thing he could do in order to feel better…
The next minute they were in the backyard, in a room that it seem as a shortage store. They were kissing passionately and she unzipped his trousers.
"I want you…" she whispered in his ear and then it hit Oliver a badly realization.
"What I am doing? What? I am not in love with this woman, I love Iris" Oliver thought and he stopped.
"I cannot do that Jessica.. I am in love with another woman. I am sorry" Oliver said. He pulled off, he zipped his trousers and he turned to go.
He froze. In the entrance were standing Iris and Harry. His world faded away when he saw into Iris's eyes. Her eyes were full of disappointment, sorrow and tears. Tears that he had provoke. His heart broke down. Iris was falling apart right in front of his eyes because of his stupid mistake.
He was breaking down because he had surrendered to the sin. He didn't resist to the temptation and now he was the one who was breaking down two hearts: Iris's and his.
He managed to say no word when Iris left running from the store. Oliver started running behind her. The only thing that he was repeating to himself was:
"You are a fool! You are a fool! "
Harry was in shock. He had no idea what to say or how to justify Iris's and Oliver's departure from the engagement party. The only thing he knew for sure was that Iris was heart broken and that she was going to need all the help she could get in the world.
When he returned to the party Severus Snape asked him where Iris was.
"I'll be with you in few seconds professor" Harry replied to him and went to Ginny to tell her that Iris and Oliver had left because something had happened to Oliver's father thus they had to leave.
Afterwards, Harry went back to professor Snape,
"So Mr. Potter, where Iris is?" Severus asked eagerly
Harry was not that sure what to tell him. He acknowledged how Iris felt about professor Snape, but what about Snape's feelings towards Iris?
"She left professor. She left few minutes ago" Harry said to him.
"Why? What happened to her?" Severus asked again.
" I am not sure if I am the right person to tell you what happened professor" Harry admitted.
"So, actually something happened! Please Potter tell me! I need to know what I can do to help Iris, my friend, my only family…my only companion…"
Harry was looking at him without saying anything.
"He is my family Harry, the only family I ever had", Iris's words were echoing inside Harry's mind.
"Professor please be calm. He betrayed her. Oliver betrayed Iris by kissing another woman and not only that…he betrayed her. We saw them… Iris is broken and I have no idea where she could be. Please professor, go after her. I know very well how important she is to you, I know how essential you are to her. You are her only family, sir. You are the only man in this world who can find her, who can truly help her" Harry finished his words, relieved that he had spoken the truth to professor Snape.
Severus Snape understood completely that Harry was saying and he was right about that. He knew where to find Iris. He knew how he could help her this time.
Iris was heart broken and there were only two places where she could be. Severus would start from the first. The village by the sea where they met for the very first time more than a decade ago…
Iris was desperate. She could feel her heart tearing apart in millions pieces every second.
The day when her life with life supposed to begin, her life ended. Oliver's action was unforgivable. His betrayal took the life out of her body.
Iris felt like a sea in a summer storm, her mind was spinning rapidly… she could not face he fact that Oliver betrayed her. She even felt guilty for letting Oliver to do so…Iris held no explanation. The event was recent and she would need her time to recover from her wounds.
Today her life begun because when life is full of lemons and difficulties the most important thing in life is showing up.
Severus had just left from the small village in the coast. Iris wasn't there but he had the chance to recall the summers, the moments they had spend there together.
Severus Snape remembered clearly the first time they met. He had been bewitched by her, by her wit and her kind spirit.
He could not either deny that as the ears passed by Iris became much more like Lily. However, their differences where obvious, but of course he couldn't be neutral in his judgment. Lily and Iris were his friends, Lily was the woman that he had loved for many years, and she was the woman of his life as he used to believe and Iris… what Iris was?
That was the great question.
Iris was many things to him. She was his family and his best friend, she was the only person in the world who could understand him totally and she was the only one who kept faith on him when everybody else accusing him of being a murderer.
Iris kept faith on him beside the fact that he had hurt her terribly.
Severus loved her for sure but he had doubts if he should go further with their relation. He had finally realized that Lily had been a great part in his life, but Iris had now the greatest part in his miserable life.
He knew very well that if the circumstances where different Iris would be his now, and he would belonged to Iris heart and soul.
Severus left from the village and the following day he traveled to a place equally important to Iris. When he observed the horizon he could say with the utmost certainty why Iris loved so much Ireland. That country had a unique landscape.
Iris needed a place to think a place to hide. A place that no one knew she would hide. That place was the magical community of druids in Ireland. That was the place where she had hid herself the previous two times…that was the place where she needed to be that time too.
The first time she had been hiding in Ireland was after her seventeen birthdays and the terrible fight she had with Severus. There she realized how deeply in love she was with him, she realized that whatever had happened between her and Severus was mainly her fault…a foolish teenage fault.
The second time that Iris had been in Ireland was two years ago some months before the final battle in Hogwarts.
That time she had been seriously injured in a fight with Deatheaters and Severus begged her to go in a place where she could be safe until she recovered from her wounds. Severus begged her to stop trying to kill herself. Severus begged her to be safe because he cared about her. Severus again…
In Ireland Iris acknowledged Oliver's feeling towards her for the very first time and she decided that if she survived the final battle she could give him a chance to conquer her.
That time was completely different.
Iris was trying to understand what she did wrong, what she had done to turn Oliver away from her, but still she had no idea what she was going to do now. Her new life, their new life supposed to be starting today but Oliver destroyed everything.
Iris needed some time to figure out some things…She needed to find the strength to speak to Oliver but she did not know where she could find that strength.
Iris had approached to the house in the center of the village. Her steps were slow and heavy. She knocked the door and when the door opened the woman told her;
"Iris, my child, we were expecting you. Come in my dear" Alisa told her.
"What do you mean? How you were expecting me? " Iris asked surprised.
"She wants to say that, I have already informed them that you would come here" a deep male voice came from behind.
Iris turned only to see Severus Snape standing right in front of her. When she saw him she burst into tears and run upstairs to the room she usually used when she was there.
"Excuse me; I will go to check on her. My poor friend had an extremely hard day" Severus said and went upstairs to comfort Iris.
When Severus entered the room he found Iris crying on the bed.
He sat next to her and he placed her in his arms. Iris continued weeping until she fell asleep in his hug.
Oliver was in their "new house". He was so mad with himself, he never meant to hurt Iris-Maya but he actually did it.
He was furious because he did not even think before act and that was so childish from his behalf. He was saying that he loved her, so how, why he did that to her? Just because the other girl charmed him? Just because her veela blood attracted him?
"No! No! I should not have to do this! She is my love… I need her in my life, I cannot live without her, and Maya is my world… why I have to be so idiot? Why?" Oliver asked himself.
"I have to find her! I have to find her and explain to her what happened. I have to beg for forgiveness… she is my world"
Oliver was repeating all the time. He was weeping. His eyes were red and he could barely see from the tears that covered his eyes.
He looked on the mirror in the wall; "Oliver Wood, you are an idiot! You should be ashamed of yourself! You have to search for her, you must find her. Yes, I must find Maya, but from where I should start my research?" asked his reflection in the mirror.
Oliver Wood had no idea where Iris could be. They had an affair for more than a year and he did not know where to look for her.
A sunshine entered from the window and the summer breeze entered the room.
Iris woke up after almost ten hours of sleep but she didn't open her eyes immediately. She could feel nothing expect of one thing; protection. She could feel protection and security for an inexplicable reason.
When she opened her swollen eyes from the tears she saw Severus Snape holding her in his arms and Severus that moment was looking outside, to the wonderful sunrise that everyone in this room could see from the opened window. Severus had not realized that Iris was awake.
Iris by his look could tell that he was thinking something intensively and from his red and tired eyes she could also say that Severus haven't slept all night long in order to look after her.
Severus was there for her…Severus, her watchful protector, her family, her best friend… Iris knew very well that her live would start again and she needed him by her side through the depths of high and low. Iris needed him in her life and Severus need her in his life too.
"Severus…" Iris whispered softly.
"Iris, my Iris, how are you?" Severus asked her.
"You are here Severus..you are here… Now I am fine, I know that I can give a million battles if I have you by my side" Iris said and few teardrops fell from her gorgeous eyes.
Severus smiled back to her; "No, my dear, I can stand everything if I have you by my side".
Iris smiled for first time after so many hours. It was the first time that Severus saw Iris in such terrible condition. He was devastated by that. When Iris had fallen asleep he accused himself for provoking to her that pain in the past, because he could tell that Iris was like that when they had their huge fight. When Iris smiled to him his entire world lighted up.
"Iris, what do you want me to do for you?"
"Sev, I want you to promise me that we will never going to fall apart again. I have lost Oliver.. I could not even bear it if I lose us too… " Iris said and her eyes covered with tears one more time.
"I will always be by your side my dear friend" Severus Snape replied honestly to her.
"How I move forward Severus? How? How did you moved on when Lily married James, how you moved on?" Iris asked him and now she knew how Severus had felt when he lost Lily.
"Iris, Iris listen to me. It's not the same thing. Lily and I… we did not have a relationship..we could but I made a mistake that I tried to rectify. However, the question lies upon you. Do you want to forgive Oliver? You love him so deeply, so endlessly so you could even forgive that he did? " Severus asked her trying to make her think more.
"I have no idea Severus. I need my time to think, to feel… I have many things to consider" Iris replied uncertainty.
She could not say for sure what she was going to do, but for the time being she had made her mind, she would stay with Severus in Spinner's End. Only with him she felt the strength she needed in order to face the whole situation.
Iris asked him to arrange everything for her and the house where she had move in with Oliver few hours ago. She asked Severus to go there and collect her belongings and transport them in her quarters in Hogwarts. Iris also asked Severus not to say anything if he would meet Oliver.
Severus accepted the task gladly. There was nothing in the world that he couldn't do for Iris. She had saved his life; she had saved him from the hell. Severus Snape could do everything for her happiness. His happiness, theirs happiness.
Yes that day Severus could say for sure that Iris meant to him more than a friend, more than a family. What Severus Snape felt for Iris was more than a simple feeling.
His heart tore apart when he saw her crying over Oliver's deed. That night he could feel her heart biting while he was holding her in his arms.
Yes, Severus knew very well what he had to do. He had to help her heal her wounds, to restore what she had lost… he had to remind to Iris the love that she held for him deep down in her heart.
He had to make her to fall in love with him again, because Severus loved Iris in a romantic way too and that was growing stronger inside him, only that he couldn't admit it.
The only thing that Severus did not acknowledged was that Iris never stopped to love him…
A/N: Tell me that are you thinking. Exams in the university start in few days, but I think I will post one more chapter in June.. I believe during the exams is a very lucrative period to write..