I can feel the adrenaline starts coursing through my veins. The real Severus accepts the fact that I had no choice in this, that I couldn't choose who my mate is. He," I point to my true mate, "Doesn't want me to leave. He doesn't want to never see me again. He wants to at least be friends and see what happens. He is a good man with a kind heart, even if he doesn't want anyone to know. My mate, Severus Tobias Snape, actually cares, and to be honest I don't really know why I don't know why I was so scared to tell him what was going on in the first place. I don't know why I was so afraid of YOU." I point at him and he smiles almost sweetly.
"Finally," is all he says before he disappears. That's when I remember that my mate is still behind me. With all the adrenaline leaving my body, I feel weak. I turn around with my head lowered so I'm looking at him through the fringe on my hair.
"When did you learn my middle name exactly?" He asks, with a smile and raising an eye brow. As if that is the most shocking part of everything I just said.
"Umm...I don't actually remember," I say truthfully. "I just know it." He chuckles and, to my suprise, pulls me in for a hug.
"It's ok. Though if you ever tell anyone that I actually smile let alone Laugh. I'll make you grade work with me for a week." He jokes.
"Is that supposed to be a punishment? Or a reward?" I ask. Hoping he's telling the truth, that he will let me spend that much time with him.
"Guess that would be up to how you view it." He replies with another laugh.
"Well I know you finished your challenge, because that guy disappeared." I say, hoping to keep that smile on his face. Though I regret saying anything, the smile slowly drops from his face, he looked as if his mind was starting to wander to some not so good places. "I'm sorry. Severus, I'm sorry I said anything. Please forgive me."
"It's ok. Harry, you should probably know. Being you will most likely be in my life for Quite some time, and I no one know by the way knows this about me. I never even told your mother. That man that you saw, was my father. He was not a nice man by any means. He hated my mother beat her every day, and when he was drunk a lot more. When I was old enough, would send me out to get his drinks, if I ever took to long or didn't get any at all or even kept any change for myself, he would do the same to me. I got the belt more times than I can remember." He has a far away look on his face as he tells me all of this.
"You don't have to tell me any of this if you don't want to, Severus. I won't force you to."
"I do, Harry, I do. You have to know my past if you want to understand why I am the way I am. Harry, I hated that man, for hurting my mother and then me. I wanted him dead, and then one day when he was going after my mother in a drunken rage, a bottle just happened to roll under his foot. And he just so happened to fall on a kitchen knife. Sadly though he had a broken bottle in his hand and I didn't notice until it was too late. My mother died shortly after he did." he pause, a broken look on his face. "A few years later I met Lily. She was the first person I let in since that incident. Then we went to Hogwarts and everything changed."
"Yes, I know. She met dad and he bullied you, a lot. Same with Sirius and Remus. They all made your school life hell." I saw all of that in the Occlumency lessons.
"Yes, what you don't know is that, without knowing that Lily and James were mates, I tried to get Lily away from James, just so she wasn't associated with him when he finally got his dues for being the bully he was. It cause a huge fight between us and she stopped talking to me."