Chapter 3

Three weeks later harry is sitting doing homework in the living room he sighs as boredom surges through his body again thinking he has nothing to lose he looks up to ask his dad a question.

"Hey dad I know I'm grounded but may I please go to uncle Sirius' house please dad I'm bored."

"well, I am glad you are bored that is the general idea, but since I have to go to work you may go see your uncle just make sure you behave or else."

"I will dad, promise" replied harry with glee as he knows his uncle doesn't mind him smoking as long as it isn't drugs harry just feels depressed lately but doesn't know how to tell his dad how he is feeling and feels that the only way to deal with it is by smoking.

Harry got up from the table where he was doing his homework and went upstairs to get his cigarettes and lighter to go to his uncle's house. He ran back downstairs and grabbed some floo powder saying goodbye to his dad over his shoulder he tosses the floo powder into the fire and floos to his uncles house feeling freedom at last.

"Hey uncle Sirius" harry said as he came out of the fire

"Hi harry what are you doing here I thought you were grounded"

"I am but dad had to go to work so he let me come here mind if I have a cigarette I haven't had one in three weeks and I feel like am going to explode"

Sirius waves for him to go ahead as he continues to read his book thinking he should speak to Severus about Harry's problem.

Harry lights up a cigarette and inhales a drag and feels all his tension leave him he started to feel worse about himself lately that he is a failure and nothing he ever does goes right he is so locked up in his thoughts of self-loathing that he doesn't even realise he just set his trousers on fire until he feels a deep burning in his leg he quickly jumps to his feet quickly patting down the fire with his jumper that he took off earlier. He pulled up his trouser leg and notices the big burn on his leg and knows if it doesn't get treated it will become infected.

"Umm uncle Sirius, I think I need to go to the hospital." Moaned harry wincing in pain.

"Why what have you done?"

"I burnt my leg with my lighter by accident I didn't realise I was playing with the lighter while I was thinking until I burnt myself" groaned harry

Sirius quickly grabbed harry and apparated to the hospital. "I need healer Snape now my nephew burned his leg" snapped Sirius to the nurse at the desk.

Severus is just walking by when he heard his name being called he walked up to the desk and asked what the problem was after being told he walked over to the patient.

"Hello I'm healer Snape if you follow me we will take care of that burn"

After they are in a free room Severus turns to Sirius to ask what happened. "What in the hell happened I leave him with you for five minutes and he is injured."

"He burnt his leg with his lighter while he was locked up in his thoughts, Severus he is depressed that is why he has turned to unsavoury habits to get a release from it all"

"is this true son, oh harry why didn't you talk to me we can get through this together first though we are going to have to heal that burn then we can go home and we will talk about how you are feeling perhaps get you a counsellor to talk to ok"

"am sorry dad, I just didn't know how to tell you, it just got worse it's why I snapped at Hermione that time it got too much I already felt bad about myself and she made me feel worse, I just feel sad, angry and worried all the time I can't think straight anymore I have constant headaches all the time as well, but when I smoke it's like all that goes away and I can just be free" harry explains while his dad deals with the burn.

"Don't worry son we will get you some help, now you said you are having headaches all the time how often do those happen?"

"At least four times a day, I have been taking pain killers but they don't work anymore so I stopped taking them"

"Right son I am going to run a scan of your whole body to check what is going on ok"

Harry laid back on the bed and let his dad run the scan when the results came back harry saw his dad raise his eyebrows "what? What is wrong with me?"

"the reason you seem to be getting headaches all the time is because you have a small bleed on your brain son we need to get you into surgery now" Severus says while pressing a button to summon his team so he can get the surgery done.

Two hours later

Harry is just waking up from surgery and he feels really groggy he looks to the right and sees his uncle "where's dad I want dad" croaks harry

"I'm right here son" Severus said from the bottom of the bed harry turns his head to see his dad.

"How long do I have to stay here for?"

"you have to stay here for a week before I can take you home, but you won't be going back to school for a month you need to recover and we need to get you help with your depression so it doesn't get any worse, now I need to ask you something, are you addicted to smoking?"

Harry doesn't really want to answer but knows he has to so he whispers out a yes.

"Ok I will help you quit as I don't want you smoking as it isn't healthy for you, how many do you smoke a day."

"About 15 a day"

"Ok we are going to get that down to 10 a day then gradually reduce it until you stop all together ok."

After harry answers yes Severus says he needs to go check on another patient and he will be back soon harry eventually falls back to sleep.

A/N: what do you think R&R