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year at Hogwarts so believe me when I say it this fic is far from over.
Hope you guys are up for a long haul! But here's the next chapter and I
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Chapter 18
That night thankfully passed by uneventfully and Harry's levels had gone up to 98% which made Severus very happy. Harry's temperature was finally back to normal but was kept on an iv drip for nutrition purposes. Harry woke up at 9am that morning and stretched and said,
"Dad, can I get up? I'm tired of just laying here."
"No Harry you can't get up. Not until your levels are back to normal and you're taken off of the mask."
Harry pouted and said stubbornly and folded his arms across his chest,
"But I feel fine, I wanna walk around. I hate being stuck in this bed!"
Severus walked over to Harry's bed and sat on the edge of it and put his hand on Harry's cheek and turned Harry's face so he could look into his eyes and said,
"I know you don't like being here Harry and I know you feel fine but you're not totally fine yet and you don't want to make yourself worse by moving around before you're supposed to. As soon as your levels are back to normal you can probably move around and you'll go back to Hogwarts. All right? You just concentrate on your breathing and getting it back to normal. Okay?"
Harry softened under his father's gaze and said
"Okay Dad, I'll try."
Severus bent over and kissed Harry's forehead and said,
"I know you will Harry, that's all I'll ever ask from you in any situation. That you try."
Harry nodded and said,
"Dad would you tell me about mummy?"
Severus paused for a moment and said
"Of course I'll tell you about your mother. What do you want to know?"
Harry slowly turned on his side, carefully minding the wires and tubes and thought for a moment and said
"I wanna know how you two met."
Severus pulled his chair right next to Harry's bed and sat down and said,
"Your mother and I met on the train going to Hogwarts for our first year. She was so sweet and even then she was pretty. She had gorgeous red hair that fell just past her shoulders that naturally curled at the ends and her green eyes that always shone with an inner fire that never seemed to go out."
Harry smiled and said with a mischevious glint in his eyes,
"When did you fall in love with her?"
"I think I fell in love with her that day actually, but we didn't become a couple until our sixth year and then married shortly after we graduated from Hogwarts."
Harry looked puzzled for a minute and said
"Then why did you leave mummy?"
Severus sighed. He had a feeling that this would come up.
"Because the same person that killed her threatened to kill me and her before you were born if I didn't. So because I loved her so much and didn't want to see her hurt and you not be born, I left her. But I loved her very much, and I still do."
"Then why did you and mummy have me?" Harry said with innocent curiosity
Severus put his hand on the side of Harry's head and said
"We had you because we wanted to and not a day goes by that I regret that decision."
Harry cracked a smile that quickly turned somber and said
"I miss mummy."
Severus lightly stroked the side of Harry's face and said,
"I miss her too Harry and I'm sorry you never got to know her. She was a remarkable lady. But I know that she's proud of you and loves you, and so do I."
Harry nodded and Severus leaned over and kissed Harry's forehead then leaned back and stroked the boy's cheek. Severus looked over to the machine monitoring Harry's levels and saw that they had gone up to 99% He smiled at this and said
"Harry your levels are almost back to normal it's up to 99% only 1% left to go."
Harry smiled and said
"Dad can you hold me? I miss you holding me."
Severus shrugged his shoulders and said
"I don't see why not."
Severus climbed up into Harry's bed being very careful not to snag or tangle any of the tubes or wires and sat behind Harry and pulled the boy into his lap and Harry tried to wrap his arms around Severus' torso but because of the iv line and the pulse/ox clip line on his other finger, they wouldn't reach. So Harry contented to put his arms in his lap, lean his head up against Severus' shoulder and have Severus wrap his arms around the boy.
Severus started to softly hum and Harry dropped off into a light sleep. At 10am a nurse came in and changed the iv bags, checked the pulse/ox machine and wrote some notes on Harry's chart. Looking up, she adressed Severus.
"His levels are back to 100% but he's to stay on the mask, monitor and drips for a few more hours to make sure they don't go back down. I suspect that after these drips bags are done he can be taken off of them. I'll have to talk to the doctor but he might be able to go home later this afternoon."
Severus nodded and said
"Thank you, and is it all right that I'm holding him like this?"
"Well I don't see it doing any harm. In fact he looks more relaxed which definitely helps."
Severus nodded again and said
"All right, thank you."
"You're welcome." The nurse said and took her leave.
Severus stayed in his current position holding Harry for the rest of the morning. Lunchtime came and went and Harry slept on. At 2 o'clock Harry's doctor came in and checked all of the monitors. Seeing that everything was normal he adressed Severus
"Well everything is back to normal so all I have to do is disconnect everything and you're free to take Harry. Though we should wake him up first."
Severus nodded and started to rub Harry's arms and back and said softly
"Harry time to wake up, you're ready to go back to Hogwarts but you've got to wake up first."
Harry's eyelids fluttered open and said,
"Dad? Is it time to go back to Hogwarts?"
Severus nodded and said
"Yes Harry, it's time but they have to disconnect and take all of this stuff off of you. Okay?"
Harry nodded and didn't protest when his father slid out from underneath him and laid him back down. The doctor moved forward and first turned off all of the machines. First the mask came off, much to Harry's relief. Then he disconnected the the probes from the heart monitor. Then came the part that Harry hated the worst. Taking out the iv. Harry screwed his eyes shut and looked the other way. Only after feeling a bandaid being put on his hand did he look over and open his eyes and said
"I didn't even feel it, thank you doctor."
"You're welcome Harry, now here's your clothes. Why don't you get dressed while I step outside and talk to your father, okay?"
Harry nodded and started to shrug out of his hospital gown as Severus followed the doctor out into the hallway.
"Harry shouldn't do anything very physical. Nothing that'll over exhert himself. Just quiet activities. Besides that ankle is still pretty weak from the sprain anyways. Now if his ankle hurts then he should take a simple pain relieving potion. His throat'll be a little bit sore from being on the vent and his stomach won't be able to handle solid foods for a couple of days from being on the sedative and iv nutrition. His body will have to re-adjust to eating regular food again. He'll probably vomit for a little bit but it's nothing to be worried about, it's just his body getting rid of the sedative. You're free to take him now."
"Thank you doctor."
"You're welcome."
Severus went back into the room and the doctor walked down the hall. Harry was sitting on his bed and looking at his father and said
"Dad can we go back to Hogwarts now?"
Severus smiled and walked over to Harry's bed and picked the boy up and said as they walked out of the room and down the hallway
"Yes Harry we can go back to Hogwarts. But we're going to have to travel by Floo Powder."
At the mention of flooing Harry wrinkled his nose, he definitely hated traveling by that method
"Don't worry, you're going to floo with me. Your ankle is not strong enough."
Harry nodded and they arrived at the fireplace in the waiting room and Severus took a pinch of floo powder and the two were whisked away back to Hogwarts.
Severus stumbled out of the fireplace in the Headmaster's office still tightly clutching Harry. Dumbledorewas sitting at his desk and upon seeing Severus and Harry he smiled and came from behind the desk and walked over to the two.
Harry seeing the headmaster buried his face into his father's robes. Severus smiled and squeezed Harry as the Headmaster spoke and put a gentle hand on Harry's back and said
"Glad to see you back here and better Harry."
"Thank you sir" Harry mumbled
Albus smiled and pat Harry's back lightly and said
"Severus I assume that you and Harry will be retreating to your rooms?"
"That would be correct Albus. I think it's best to just cancel my classes for the rest of the week since it's already tuesday."
The Headmaster nodded and said
"I was actually thinking along the same lines Severus, now why don't you two get along. Classes will be ending soon and I'm sure the last thing both of you wanted is to be seen and stopped in the hallway."
"You're right Albus, we're going to be eating in my rooms tonight and probably for the rest of the week so feel free to come down and visit. Tell Minerva and Remus that as well."
"All right Severus, I'll stop by later this evening. Have a good afternoon."
"Good day Albus."
"Good day Severus, see you later Harry."
A muffled "bye" was heard and Severus left the office.
Severus walked through the deserted halls down the familiar path to his dungeon rooms. Upon entering his rooms he saw that Albus had obviously had the house elves tidy up. Clearly Poppy had forseen the return and had seen to it that a child sized crutch had been left in the room. Severus cracked a small smirk and walked over to Harry's room and grabbed some of the puzzles and coloring books from the other day and went back out into the main chamber. Facing Harry Severus said
"You need to take a bath so we're going to do that first, all right?"
Harry nodded and said
"Sounds good to me."
Severus walked into and through his bedchamber and to the bathroom. He turned the bathwater on and filled the tub as Harry took his clothes off. Severus set Harry in the tub and Harry sighed and closed his eyes in contentment. Thirty minutes later Harry was clean and smelling good and was finished. Severus wrapped Harry in a towel and brought the boy back to his bedchambers.
Severus sat Harry on the bed and went over to Harry's dresser to get some clothes. He brought back over a pair of underwear, blue cotton shorts with a snitch that flew around the garment and a red t-shirt. Walking back over to Harry, Severus handed him the clothes and turned around to allow Harry to dress himself.
After Harry had dressed himself Severus brought Harry back out to the main chamber and the two spent the rest of the afternoon coloring. Right before dinner started Professor McGonagall stopped by to see Harry. Harry was very happy to see the nice professor because whenever she watched him before she told him about teaching his mother and father.
Minerva excused herself and Severus ordered dinner for the two of them. Just before dinner arrived Harry got sick, which was expected and anticipated by Severus because of the doctor's warning. After bringing the boy back out from the bathroom they saw that their food had arrived. Harry was hungry but he didn't think that he could eat everything on the plate. Severus seeing the wary look in Harry's eyes said
"Harry I don't expect you to eat all of that of course but just a little bit of everything, okay?"
Harry nodded and tucked in
Just as they were finishing their meal Remus came with Dumbledore. Harry's face broke out into a big smile at the sight of Remus. He simply adored the werewolf. He told him stories about when he went to school with his mother and father. Remus was very relieved to see Harry looking better. That night at Saint Andrews terrified and nearly killed Remus. He hoped to never see Harry in that state ever again.
As glad as Harry was to see Remus he was getting tired which Severus immediately picked up on. Harry had had a long and busy day, afternoon especially. Severus picked up Harry and brought the boy into his bedchambers and into bed. Harry had aged to 8 years by this time. Five minutes later Severus emerged to find Remus and Dumbledore sitting in two of the armchairs in the room and sat himself down on the couch. Albus spoke first.
"How was last night Severus? Any dreams or visions?"
Severus shook his head and said,
"No thankfully. After the dream from the night before I don't think he could've handled another one. He slept straight through it and woke up at about 9 o'clock this morning but fell back asleep from 10 until 2 o'clock when the doctor came in and said he could go home."
Remus spoke next,
"What made him have to be taken in the first place if you don't mind my asking Severus."
"No I don't mind you asking Lupin. Harry had a very bad vision on saturday night that caused seizures and a severe asthma attack. That's basically the gist of it though."
Remus was shocked to find out, but nodded his head and said,
"How does this affect the wearing off of the potion?"
"If anything it'll delay his getting back to 15 by a few days tops, provided nothing else happens." Severus responded.
Remus nodded and said,
"When do you think he'll be back to being 15 again?"
"My guess would be by saturday or sunday latest."
"All right Severus, you should probably get a shower and get to bed yourself. You've had a rough few days and need to rest. I'll stop by when I can and you know where you can find me if you need anything." Albus said
Severus nodded and said
"Thank you Albus, I'll see you tomorrow sometime."
Dumbledore nodded and left the room leaving Remus and Severus alone.
"I guess I'll be going as well, I'll stop by sometime tomorrow as well. You also know where to find me if you need anything."
"Thank you Lupin, I suppose I will be seeing you sometime tomorrow as well."
Remus nodded and also left the room. Severus walked over to Harry's room and peeked in and found the boy holding tightly onto the teddy bear that Lei had given him. Severus just realized that he still had Harry's inhaler in his pocket. Silently creeping over to the bed Severus gently pried the bear from the boy's arms and put the inhaler in the pouch and put the teddy bear back in the boy's arms and crept silently from the room.
Going to his bathroom Severus finally took a good look at himself. He definitely looked worse for wear. After disrobing he got into a hot shower. Just standing there and letting the water run over his body and take the tension out of his muscles. After 30 minutes Severus was finished with his shower and in his favorite pair of flannel pajamas and re-emerged into his bedchambers. He bonelessly sunk into his bed and was asleep before his head hit the pillow.
A/N: WOW! That was a slightly long chapter and I hope that it was okay. If it's a little confusing it's because I finished this at 4:15am, just tell me and I'll fix it! I really hope that this chapter didn't suck too bad and I know that I said that Harry would be 9 in this chapter but that's next chapter but at least he's 8!!! Thanks for all the nice reviews people, I really love and appreciate them. Now push that little button in the left hand corner and leave me a review. Oh and this fic is and will NOT be a romance or relationship heavy fic! And if Harry did date anybody once getting back to normal it would be Ginny. Sorry to disappoint, but that's what I'm saying. Neways REVIEW PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chapter 18
That night thankfully passed by uneventfully and Harry's levels had gone up to 98% which made Severus very happy. Harry's temperature was finally back to normal but was kept on an iv drip for nutrition purposes. Harry woke up at 9am that morning and stretched and said,
"Dad, can I get up? I'm tired of just laying here."
"No Harry you can't get up. Not until your levels are back to normal and you're taken off of the mask."
Harry pouted and said stubbornly and folded his arms across his chest,
"But I feel fine, I wanna walk around. I hate being stuck in this bed!"
Severus walked over to Harry's bed and sat on the edge of it and put his hand on Harry's cheek and turned Harry's face so he could look into his eyes and said,
"I know you don't like being here Harry and I know you feel fine but you're not totally fine yet and you don't want to make yourself worse by moving around before you're supposed to. As soon as your levels are back to normal you can probably move around and you'll go back to Hogwarts. All right? You just concentrate on your breathing and getting it back to normal. Okay?"
Harry softened under his father's gaze and said
"Okay Dad, I'll try."
Severus bent over and kissed Harry's forehead and said,
"I know you will Harry, that's all I'll ever ask from you in any situation. That you try."
Harry nodded and said,
"Dad would you tell me about mummy?"
Severus paused for a moment and said
"Of course I'll tell you about your mother. What do you want to know?"
Harry slowly turned on his side, carefully minding the wires and tubes and thought for a moment and said
"I wanna know how you two met."
Severus pulled his chair right next to Harry's bed and sat down and said,
"Your mother and I met on the train going to Hogwarts for our first year. She was so sweet and even then she was pretty. She had gorgeous red hair that fell just past her shoulders that naturally curled at the ends and her green eyes that always shone with an inner fire that never seemed to go out."
Harry smiled and said with a mischevious glint in his eyes,
"When did you fall in love with her?"
"I think I fell in love with her that day actually, but we didn't become a couple until our sixth year and then married shortly after we graduated from Hogwarts."
Harry looked puzzled for a minute and said
"Then why did you leave mummy?"
Severus sighed. He had a feeling that this would come up.
"Because the same person that killed her threatened to kill me and her before you were born if I didn't. So because I loved her so much and didn't want to see her hurt and you not be born, I left her. But I loved her very much, and I still do."
"Then why did you and mummy have me?" Harry said with innocent curiosity
Severus put his hand on the side of Harry's head and said
"We had you because we wanted to and not a day goes by that I regret that decision."
Harry cracked a smile that quickly turned somber and said
"I miss mummy."
Severus lightly stroked the side of Harry's face and said,
"I miss her too Harry and I'm sorry you never got to know her. She was a remarkable lady. But I know that she's proud of you and loves you, and so do I."
Harry nodded and Severus leaned over and kissed Harry's forehead then leaned back and stroked the boy's cheek. Severus looked over to the machine monitoring Harry's levels and saw that they had gone up to 99% He smiled at this and said
"Harry your levels are almost back to normal it's up to 99% only 1% left to go."
Harry smiled and said
"Dad can you hold me? I miss you holding me."
Severus shrugged his shoulders and said
"I don't see why not."
Severus climbed up into Harry's bed being very careful not to snag or tangle any of the tubes or wires and sat behind Harry and pulled the boy into his lap and Harry tried to wrap his arms around Severus' torso but because of the iv line and the pulse/ox clip line on his other finger, they wouldn't reach. So Harry contented to put his arms in his lap, lean his head up against Severus' shoulder and have Severus wrap his arms around the boy.
Severus started to softly hum and Harry dropped off into a light sleep. At 10am a nurse came in and changed the iv bags, checked the pulse/ox machine and wrote some notes on Harry's chart. Looking up, she adressed Severus.
"His levels are back to 100% but he's to stay on the mask, monitor and drips for a few more hours to make sure they don't go back down. I suspect that after these drips bags are done he can be taken off of them. I'll have to talk to the doctor but he might be able to go home later this afternoon."
Severus nodded and said
"Thank you, and is it all right that I'm holding him like this?"
"Well I don't see it doing any harm. In fact he looks more relaxed which definitely helps."
Severus nodded again and said
"All right, thank you."
"You're welcome." The nurse said and took her leave.
Severus stayed in his current position holding Harry for the rest of the morning. Lunchtime came and went and Harry slept on. At 2 o'clock Harry's doctor came in and checked all of the monitors. Seeing that everything was normal he adressed Severus
"Well everything is back to normal so all I have to do is disconnect everything and you're free to take Harry. Though we should wake him up first."
Severus nodded and started to rub Harry's arms and back and said softly
"Harry time to wake up, you're ready to go back to Hogwarts but you've got to wake up first."
Harry's eyelids fluttered open and said,
"Dad? Is it time to go back to Hogwarts?"
Severus nodded and said
"Yes Harry, it's time but they have to disconnect and take all of this stuff off of you. Okay?"
Harry nodded and didn't protest when his father slid out from underneath him and laid him back down. The doctor moved forward and first turned off all of the machines. First the mask came off, much to Harry's relief. Then he disconnected the the probes from the heart monitor. Then came the part that Harry hated the worst. Taking out the iv. Harry screwed his eyes shut and looked the other way. Only after feeling a bandaid being put on his hand did he look over and open his eyes and said
"I didn't even feel it, thank you doctor."
"You're welcome Harry, now here's your clothes. Why don't you get dressed while I step outside and talk to your father, okay?"
Harry nodded and started to shrug out of his hospital gown as Severus followed the doctor out into the hallway.
"Harry shouldn't do anything very physical. Nothing that'll over exhert himself. Just quiet activities. Besides that ankle is still pretty weak from the sprain anyways. Now if his ankle hurts then he should take a simple pain relieving potion. His throat'll be a little bit sore from being on the vent and his stomach won't be able to handle solid foods for a couple of days from being on the sedative and iv nutrition. His body will have to re-adjust to eating regular food again. He'll probably vomit for a little bit but it's nothing to be worried about, it's just his body getting rid of the sedative. You're free to take him now."
"Thank you doctor."
"You're welcome."
Severus went back into the room and the doctor walked down the hall. Harry was sitting on his bed and looking at his father and said
"Dad can we go back to Hogwarts now?"
Severus smiled and walked over to Harry's bed and picked the boy up and said as they walked out of the room and down the hallway
"Yes Harry we can go back to Hogwarts. But we're going to have to travel by Floo Powder."
At the mention of flooing Harry wrinkled his nose, he definitely hated traveling by that method
"Don't worry, you're going to floo with me. Your ankle is not strong enough."
Harry nodded and they arrived at the fireplace in the waiting room and Severus took a pinch of floo powder and the two were whisked away back to Hogwarts.
Severus stumbled out of the fireplace in the Headmaster's office still tightly clutching Harry. Dumbledorewas sitting at his desk and upon seeing Severus and Harry he smiled and came from behind the desk and walked over to the two.
Harry seeing the headmaster buried his face into his father's robes. Severus smiled and squeezed Harry as the Headmaster spoke and put a gentle hand on Harry's back and said
"Glad to see you back here and better Harry."
"Thank you sir" Harry mumbled
Albus smiled and pat Harry's back lightly and said
"Severus I assume that you and Harry will be retreating to your rooms?"
"That would be correct Albus. I think it's best to just cancel my classes for the rest of the week since it's already tuesday."
The Headmaster nodded and said
"I was actually thinking along the same lines Severus, now why don't you two get along. Classes will be ending soon and I'm sure the last thing both of you wanted is to be seen and stopped in the hallway."
"You're right Albus, we're going to be eating in my rooms tonight and probably for the rest of the week so feel free to come down and visit. Tell Minerva and Remus that as well."
"All right Severus, I'll stop by later this evening. Have a good afternoon."
"Good day Albus."
"Good day Severus, see you later Harry."
A muffled "bye" was heard and Severus left the office.
Severus walked through the deserted halls down the familiar path to his dungeon rooms. Upon entering his rooms he saw that Albus had obviously had the house elves tidy up. Clearly Poppy had forseen the return and had seen to it that a child sized crutch had been left in the room. Severus cracked a small smirk and walked over to Harry's room and grabbed some of the puzzles and coloring books from the other day and went back out into the main chamber. Facing Harry Severus said
"You need to take a bath so we're going to do that first, all right?"
Harry nodded and said
"Sounds good to me."
Severus walked into and through his bedchamber and to the bathroom. He turned the bathwater on and filled the tub as Harry took his clothes off. Severus set Harry in the tub and Harry sighed and closed his eyes in contentment. Thirty minutes later Harry was clean and smelling good and was finished. Severus wrapped Harry in a towel and brought the boy back to his bedchambers.
Severus sat Harry on the bed and went over to Harry's dresser to get some clothes. He brought back over a pair of underwear, blue cotton shorts with a snitch that flew around the garment and a red t-shirt. Walking back over to Harry, Severus handed him the clothes and turned around to allow Harry to dress himself.
After Harry had dressed himself Severus brought Harry back out to the main chamber and the two spent the rest of the afternoon coloring. Right before dinner started Professor McGonagall stopped by to see Harry. Harry was very happy to see the nice professor because whenever she watched him before she told him about teaching his mother and father.
Minerva excused herself and Severus ordered dinner for the two of them. Just before dinner arrived Harry got sick, which was expected and anticipated by Severus because of the doctor's warning. After bringing the boy back out from the bathroom they saw that their food had arrived. Harry was hungry but he didn't think that he could eat everything on the plate. Severus seeing the wary look in Harry's eyes said
"Harry I don't expect you to eat all of that of course but just a little bit of everything, okay?"
Harry nodded and tucked in
Just as they were finishing their meal Remus came with Dumbledore. Harry's face broke out into a big smile at the sight of Remus. He simply adored the werewolf. He told him stories about when he went to school with his mother and father. Remus was very relieved to see Harry looking better. That night at Saint Andrews terrified and nearly killed Remus. He hoped to never see Harry in that state ever again.
As glad as Harry was to see Remus he was getting tired which Severus immediately picked up on. Harry had had a long and busy day, afternoon especially. Severus picked up Harry and brought the boy into his bedchambers and into bed. Harry had aged to 8 years by this time. Five minutes later Severus emerged to find Remus and Dumbledore sitting in two of the armchairs in the room and sat himself down on the couch. Albus spoke first.
"How was last night Severus? Any dreams or visions?"
Severus shook his head and said,
"No thankfully. After the dream from the night before I don't think he could've handled another one. He slept straight through it and woke up at about 9 o'clock this morning but fell back asleep from 10 until 2 o'clock when the doctor came in and said he could go home."
Remus spoke next,
"What made him have to be taken in the first place if you don't mind my asking Severus."
"No I don't mind you asking Lupin. Harry had a very bad vision on saturday night that caused seizures and a severe asthma attack. That's basically the gist of it though."
Remus was shocked to find out, but nodded his head and said,
"How does this affect the wearing off of the potion?"
"If anything it'll delay his getting back to 15 by a few days tops, provided nothing else happens." Severus responded.
Remus nodded and said,
"When do you think he'll be back to being 15 again?"
"My guess would be by saturday or sunday latest."
"All right Severus, you should probably get a shower and get to bed yourself. You've had a rough few days and need to rest. I'll stop by when I can and you know where you can find me if you need anything." Albus said
Severus nodded and said
"Thank you Albus, I'll see you tomorrow sometime."
Dumbledore nodded and left the room leaving Remus and Severus alone.
"I guess I'll be going as well, I'll stop by sometime tomorrow as well. You also know where to find me if you need anything."
"Thank you Lupin, I suppose I will be seeing you sometime tomorrow as well."
Remus nodded and also left the room. Severus walked over to Harry's room and peeked in and found the boy holding tightly onto the teddy bear that Lei had given him. Severus just realized that he still had Harry's inhaler in his pocket. Silently creeping over to the bed Severus gently pried the bear from the boy's arms and put the inhaler in the pouch and put the teddy bear back in the boy's arms and crept silently from the room.
Going to his bathroom Severus finally took a good look at himself. He definitely looked worse for wear. After disrobing he got into a hot shower. Just standing there and letting the water run over his body and take the tension out of his muscles. After 30 minutes Severus was finished with his shower and in his favorite pair of flannel pajamas and re-emerged into his bedchambers. He bonelessly sunk into his bed and was asleep before his head hit the pillow.
A/N: WOW! That was a slightly long chapter and I hope that it was okay. If it's a little confusing it's because I finished this at 4:15am, just tell me and I'll fix it! I really hope that this chapter didn't suck too bad and I know that I said that Harry would be 9 in this chapter but that's next chapter but at least he's 8!!! Thanks for all the nice reviews people, I really love and appreciate them. Now push that little button in the left hand corner and leave me a review. Oh and this fic is and will NOT be a romance or relationship heavy fic! And if Harry did date anybody once getting back to normal it would be Ginny. Sorry to disappoint, but that's what I'm saying. Neways REVIEW PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!