Chapter Twenty-One: Those Three Little Words
"Maybe I better go check on Carly." Stevie said before she got up and quickly hurried into the restroom after her friend.
"I don't see what the point is." Severus began. "She won't be able to do anything until Miss Clark drinks a cure for boils potion." He finished.
"And you're going to give it to her aren't you?" Lily questioned him.
"Maybe I will, maybe I won't. That's only something for me to know and for you to find out." He told her with a really rather sly grin when suddenly Lily withdrew her own wand.
"You know I'm pretty quick with a wand myself." She boasted.
"You wouldn't threaten your own boyfriend." Severus pointed out.
"Oh yeah? Well, just don't tempt me." She told him.
"Fine, turn into that arrogant brainy old husband of yours." He told her curtly.
"Don't you dare talk about James like that!" She cried.
"Why not? That's exactly what he was. The only good that I ever see him do is when he sacrificed his life to protect you and Harry." He told her.
"Listen James, although I'm very well aware of the fact that neither of you were the best of friends, there was this whole other side to him that you never knew. He was actually rather sweet, and he loved us more than anything in his life, maybe his whole entire life in itself." She told him.
"Ah I see." He began. "In that case maybe we did have something in common after all." He told her and that's when suddenly it occurred to Lily that although they had been dating for the past year, she never actually heard him admit his romantic feelings for her aloud. Before either one of them could say anything else a waitress came and showed them over to their table.
Meanwhile, Dumbledore had just finished getting Harry's and Sarah's supper ready for them. They each had a bowl of Spaghetti O's and although Harry was rather determined to finish his whole entire bowl, Sarah wasn't having any of it and refusing to eat so Dumbledore just basically shrugged it off since she had at least had her bottle. He also figured that she would eat it if she wound up getting hungry enough and stuck it back in the refrigerator to heat up for later.
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"So Severus, can we talk about what you said before?" Lily questioned him once they had received their meals.
"You mean about Miss Clark's acne problem?" He questioned her back and Lily couldn't help but stifle a laugh.
"No,.. I meant when you said that your feelings for me and Harry is something that you and James had in common and he just simply looked at her with a very serious expression.
"So, what about it?" He wondered.
"Nothing, it's just that I don't think I ever heard you say that you loved me before. I've heard you say many times you've loved Harry but_" She told him but he just simply shrugged at her.
"I thought that it was already common knowledge." He said before continuing to eat his supper.
Back at their place Harry was watching television while Dumbledore bathed his baby sister. He thought about how Sarah was starting to become such a problem and he grabbed ahold of her tiny pink teddy bear and started pulling out of the fluff out of him. "Bad Sawah! Bad Sawah!" He exclaimed while continuing to rip him up.
As soon as Dumbledore had finished bathing Sarah, he put a new diaper on her along with her pajamas and carried her back down the hallway and into the living room and saw the mess that Harry had made. The moment that Sarah saw it she instantly burst into tears. "It's alright dear one." Dumbledore reassured her while withdrawing his wand with his free hand and pointing it at the teddy bear and the remaining cotton.
"Reparo." He said with a wave of his wand and once Sarah's beloved toy was repaired, he gave it to her to calm her down. "Well Harry, what do you have to say about this?" He questioned him but Harry just silently glanced up at him. He set Sarah down and knelt down in front of him. "Now I know you're old enough to tell me why you thought it was necessary to destroy your little sister's teddy bear." He told him.
"Bad Sawah." Harry replied.
"What did Sarah do to cause you to be angry with her?" He wondered.
"She stole my daddy." Harry told him.
"Ah, I see. Could it be that you are jealous of all of the attention that your father was giving her earlier?" He wondered and even though Harry didn't know what the word jealous meant, he could tell by the rest of the sentence that he was correct, so he simply just nodded. "You know, babies need a lot of love and attention, but that doesn't mean that your father loves you any less." He explained.
"That's something that I want you to think about for the next couple of minutes in the corner over there while I finish getting Sarah ready for bed and if this happens again, then you yourself will know how it feels like to sleep without your beloved stuffed animal." Dumbledore told him while pointing over at his stuffed dragon before lifting Sarah back up inside his arms and carrying her back to the nursery while Harry reluctantly sat in the corner and folded his arms angrily.
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After supper Severus offered his arms to Lily as The Dragons started singing one of their beloved ballads "Feels Like Magic" in the background. "Lily Potter, may I have this dance?" He questioned her.
"Oh Severus, you know I can't dance." She told him.
"Neither can I, but if you danced at your own wedding then what's to stop you from dancing with your own boyfriend?" He inquired before gathering her inside his arms and starting to waltz a crossed the floor with her. "I love you." He began. "You do know that don't you?" He questioned her while placing a tender hand to her cheek and gazing into her eyes as she simply just nodded back at him.
"Yes I do." She replied.
"I always have and I always will." He told her.
"I love you too." She told him before they both closed their eyes and closed the gap between them with a passionate kiss.
