They shared charms class with each other, Yaxley, Lucius and Rowle were with them as well. Today they were going over how to make the Bubble-Head charm for underwater breathing. They were practicing spells instead of having a lecture. Yesterday they went through the spell and the wand movements as well as the theory. Rowle scoffed and said the method was not drowning when you fell in the tub, it caused the class to laugh of course. He got five points taken from Slytherin for speaking out of turn in class and disrupting.
"Today we will be practicing the Bubble-Head charm! Everyone will have to pair up! I want you to practice with your partner first before yourself. Remember to use Finite Incantatem to cancel the charm!" Flitwick instructed and waved his wand. The desks moved to the side of the room and all of their personal belongings.
Usually, when they had to pair up, Severus and Juliet got to stay together, and one of the other three had to find someone else. Today Flitwick split the room in half down the middle and Juliet was paired with Remus. Severus tried to argue with the small teacher but was deducted 5 points for undermining authority. He watched Juliet and Remus cautiously eye each other with their wands drawn. He didn't think the Gryffindor was stupid enough to try anything with him and Flitwick in the room, but he kept an eye on him all the same.
"Remember the spell and the wand movement! Respirare Abyssi!" Flitwick said as he paced up and down the room.
Severus turned to Yaxley who was his partner and took his wand out. He let his friend go first to practice on him so he could watch Juliet.
"Same time then?" Remus asked Juliet who nodded and they both stopped circling. They pointed their wands out slowly, and he counted. "On three. One… two… three!"
The right color of spell came out, but it was all wrong. At first, nothing happened, and they looked down at themselves then each other. Juliet noticed it. First, she pointed to his head then made a circle with her hand then expanded it. He pointed to hers as well. Both of their heads were quickly getting bigger and bigger by the second. Instead of panicking both of them started laughing so hard they lost balance. Their heads hit each other due to the weight being too much for their necks.
Flitwick was on them quick, canceling the spells and their heads safely shrinking down to standard size quickly. He scolded them on proper wand movement, and verbiage then left them to it. Severus nearly had a panic attack and rushed over, but their Professor beat him to it. Yaxley's spell caught him off guard, and he fell on his ass. The spell was correct, but the force of it was too hard.
"Sorry, Snape." He said and helped him up.
Juliet and Remus waited for Flitwick to walk far enough away before they huddled together and whispered back and forth while giggling. Juliet pulled out a parchment, quill, and book from her bag and they went to one of the desktops to look it over. Severus nearly snapped his own wand watching them whisper so close together, he couldn't hear what they were saying, but he didn't like it.
"No no… it was too heavy remember? We need lighter." Remus shook his head and flipped through the charms book.
She shook her head and started to draw something in the corner of the page. It was a balloon floating in the clouds. 'Muggle balloons use helium, we don't need lighter- we need floating.' She scribbled on it quickly.
"Of course! You're a genius!" he whispered back.
They stood a few paces from each other again, and she took her wand out. 'You first.' She mouthed, and he nodded.
Remus had his hands out to his side and stood as still as he could. She cast the new spell of a different color, and his head got bigger once more, as soon as it hit a certain size his feet started to lift off the ground.
"Yes! You did it, Juliet!" he laughed as started to kick his legs higher.
Everyone in class stopped and laughed as they watched him go up like a hot air balloon. Juliet looked around to make sure that Flitwick wasn't watching and she jumped up and grabbed him by the leg and brought him back down then canceled the spell. Both of them high fived and went back to whatever they were writing on that piece of paper.
Soon they were sitting at the desk and leaning over to each other to whisper things back and forth. Severus sent his spell at Yaxley and didn't stop to look at his work. The bubble appeared around his head but there was no oxygen in it for him to breath, he clawed at the bubble and tried to gasp for air.
"Mr. Snape you need to remember the wand movement for air!" Flitwick scolded.
Severus looked back at his friend who was turning different colors. "Oh shit, sorry mate." He said and rushed forward to cancel the spell and help Yaxley.
I know.- Juliet wrote on the paper.
Know what?- Remus replied.
That you're a werewolf-
Remus grabbed the paper and crumpled it then shredded it and set it on fire. He panicked and looked around to make sure that no one else read it. She put her hand on his and shh'd him to calm him down.
"How do you know?" he hissed.
Her hands came up to sign it, but he grabbed her hands and put them down. "I can hear you." He said and pointed to his ear. He had heightened senses and hearing her whisper clear as day from across the room was a perk he never told anyone.
"The scars, you leave school every lunar phase, you only eat rare red meat, your pupils are huge. Your name in Latin is the wolf. Your full name being wolf wolf-" she rolled her eyes.
"Alright." He slammed his fist on the desk, but it didn't scare her. He looked around the room over his shoulder and leaned forward more. "What do you want? Expect me to buy your silence?"
"I want you to know that it's going to be alright. That I don't care about it and in a few years things will change for you." She whispered and rubbed her thumb on the back of his hand.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean? What are you playing at?" he scowled.
"I'm not playing at anything. I can see your pain- hell I'm surprised your friends can't and haven't figured it out. They don't know do they?" she asked.
His face said it all, and he couldn't look at her. He tried to pull his hand away from her, but she wouldn't let it go. "They wouldn't be my friends anymore if they knew…"
"You're wrong. I may only know the one side of you, but I know they are good friends. You're a jerk. You were mean to me when I first got here, and you're still sometimes are a jerk. But I see past all of that, I see deep down that you are a good person. COULD be a good person." She whispered and pulled her hand away from him. She knew of the Remus in her time, risking his life in the final battle and dying with his wife leaving his son orphaned.
"You won't tell?" his eyes were pleading with her. "Not even your boyfriend?"
"No. I won't tell anyone. I swear. But you need to tell your friends before they figure it out."
"And when they hate me and don't want to be my friends anymore?"
"Then you still have me." She smiled at him and held her hands out to display herself. She wiggled her brows at him.
He snorted, "What do you mean? YOU'LL be my friend?"
"Yep." She smiled even wider.
Severus was grinding his teeth as he watched them flirt back and forth. He couldn't do anything with Flitwick standing right beside him showing him how to do the spell correctly.
"After everything?" he asked seriously.
"First impressions aren't everything."
"Look. Ollivander-"
"Juliet." She corrected.
"Juliet… I'm sorry. I was a right bastard and don't deserve your kindness let alone friendship. I'll back off and have the guys do the same. I can't promise anything for Snape though." He said and held his hand out to shake.
She took it and smiled. "Besides… you need me if you ever want a shot at talking to Dani." She whispered smugly.
He perked up and leaned forward. "Are you a fucking psychic?"
"No. I'm a girl, dumbass… and I'm a Ravenclaw. Not that fucking hard." She rolled her eyes and tapped her finger to her temple.
He ran a hand through his hair and looked around the room before asking. "Did she say anything about me?" he couldn't keep the smile from his face.
After class, Severus pulled her away from Remus roughly. "Keep your hands off." He growled. His friends were right behind him, ready to make a move if Remus tried anything.
Remus put his hands up in surrender then grabbed his bag. "She's not your bloody property."
Juliet tried to hold Severus back. "She belongs to me." He pushed Remus hard in the chest with one hand. "You brought this war on- you keep your fucking hands off of her."
Remus stepped forward again, shoving his chest against Severus'. "What if I don't want to? Huh?"
"You will see the face of war." He spat in his face.
His friends put themselves between them and Juliet, blocking her from interfering and getting hurt.
"What if she wants me to touch her? Hmm?" he was taunting him, and it was working.
Severus' face turned red, and his hands clenched at his side, he hadn't considered that, and he would deal with that separately. His friends stepped forward and drew their wands.
Remus looked at her and back to Severus. "Whatever. I'll see you later Juliet." He took a few steps back and walked down the corridor.
"No, she won't," Severus said and watched him walk off.
'That wasn't nice.' She signed to him.
"Nice?!" Severus couldn't believe her!
"We'll see you guys later. Come on." Rowle said and left the bickering couple in the hallway.
Severus grabbed her by the arm and pulled her into one of the empty classrooms a few doors down. He threw her inside and slammed the door shut behind him after he warded and silence anyone from hearing them, well him mainly.
"What the fuck was that?" His hands were in fists at his side and nearly shaking.
'We were just talking!' she signed and met his temper.
"That looked a hell of a lot more than just "talking." He was all over you!" he spat and pointed in a general direction of where Remus might be in the castle.
She rolled her eyes, it only angered him further. 'What do you mean all over me? You're acting as if he and I were kissing! We were just talking!'
"His eyes were all over you-" he dropped that point immediately when he realized he wasn't going to get anywhere with it. He moved to his next point. "He's a fucking Marauder! He's hurt you, he's hurt me!"
'He apologized to me and wants to be friends.'
"Oh and all of a sudden? What did he say? 'Sorry I blew up your cauldron last year, and pushing you down the stairs, oh and sorry for hexing you in the halls- all good though?' You think that's all he wants?" he had his hand up mimicking Remus' mouth like a puppet without the sock. She nearly laughed, but she didn't dare.
'It wasn't like that.'
"And you were cuddling up with him and whispering!"
'I don't have a voice!' She snapped back. He opened his mouth to say something, but she held up a finger and gave him a look that told him to shut up.
'I was the one who wanted to be friends. Just friends- nothing more.'
He was on her before she could finish explaining. He pinned her to the wall behind her, next to one of the windows overlooking the forest. His hand around her throat and his nose touching hers. "I watched you touch him. I saw it with my own eyes."
"It was nothing like how I touch you." She breathed. She wasn't afraid, she would never be scared of him, but she knew when to submit. She stayed still and didn't fight back.
"I don't care. I don't want you touching him- or anyone else for that matter. You are mine and only mine. In body, soul and holy fucking spirit- whatever you need to hear to understand that no one else can have you. No one can touch you, and you cannot touch anyone else or so fucking help me I will fucking kill them." He crushed his lips to hers and moved his hand from her throat into her hair, pulling her to him.
He pulled back after a few more moments of her sucking on his tongue and lips. "Do you understand me? You are not to touch or be touched by anyone else."
"What about-"
"ANYONE!" He roared and slammed his hand on the wall beside her head.
"Yes, Sir." She didn't flinch.
He was breathing fast and heavy, he couldn't calm down even though he needed to. He released her but didn't step away. Her hands came up to caress his face, she paused to see his reaction. He nudged her hand slightly for her to continue. She kissed his chin, then his cheek and his eyes closed.
"I don't want anyone but you, demon. I've only ever wanted you."
She spent the next two hours calming him down and reassuring him that she didn't want to leave him. He closed his eyes to her touch and whispers, taking in her warmth and affection. Their kissed were intense, yet it wasn't enough for him. He didn't know how to show or say what he wanted. That he needed more of her.
