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Chapter 20
The rest of the week passed by uneventfully with Harry's ankle getting stronger and himself aging 2 years a day. Neither had discussed what they had seen during Harry's memory retreival process, and neither had any desire to discuss what had been seen. Harry, now that he had his memory back ploughed through all of his homework. Severus proved to be quite a big help in everything but Divination, but Harry easily did that homework anyways.
Friday night found Harry and Severus sitting in the main chamber. Severus was grading some leftover essays from the previous friday while Harry was attempting to make a sign to put up in the common room announcing the tryouts for the quidditch team. This proved to be more challenging than Harry originally thought because he could see what he wanted in his head but for some reason he couldn't put it on parchment.
There was a nice little pile of crumpled up bits of parchment surrounding Harry. Severus looked up as he heard Harry sigh and crumple up another piece of parchment. Severus smiled and went back to grading.
After some time Harry approached his father holding a newly completed sign. Severus looked up and said,
"What is it Harry?"
Harry thrust the sign into his father's hand and said,
"Does that look all right to you?"
Severus looked disdainfully down at the sign and looked back to his, now 14 year old, son with a raised eyebrow and said unable to hide the sarcasm out of his voice
"You interrupted me to ask me if this looks all right?"
Harry smiled brightly and nodded his head.
Severus inwardly smiled at Harry's antics and said,
"Looks fine, now do I have your permission to finish my work?"
Harry's response was to nod again and dash back over to the couch and pick up a book. Ten minutes later there was a knock on the door. Harry looked up and, seeing that his father made no move to get the door, got up himself and yanked open the door only to be ambushed by a bushy haired girl.
" 'Lo Mione."
Hermione made no move to relinquish her grip on Harry and said,
"Oh Merlin Harry we were so scared. We haven't seen you since last week and then Professor McGonagall told us that you were sick and were to be left alone but that you would be pretty much back to normal by today." Hermione said in a rush without breathing.
Harry listened to Hermione smiling and thinking to himself 'yup, that's definitely hermione.'
Ron just stood back in the doorway during this entire time looking kind of lost and scared being in the presence of Snape again after what happened with Harry back in the Gryffindor Common Room.
Hermione relinquished her grip on Harry and held him at arm's length to look at Harry. Harry was a little uncertain and uncharacteristically self- conscious from the scrutiny he was getting from his friend. Harry's time spent in hospital stunted his height and body weight a little bit, but nothing to be concerned about. Harry was naturally disposed to be on the short and skinny side anyways.
Hermione smiled and said,
"You look good Harry are you back to being 15 yet?"
"Not yet, I should be by tomorrow."
Harry looked over at his father and saw that the man was ignoring the infamous trio and Harry beckoned the two inside. The 3 Gryffindor Prefects settled themselves on the couch and chairs in front of the fireplace and lapsed into silence. Hermione broke the silence,
"Harry what was wrong with you? Why were you sick? Nobody has seen or heard hide or hair from you or Professor Snape since last saturday at breakfast?"
Hearing that question come from the Granger girl's mouth Severus' head snapped up from his work and looked over at Harry who had visibly tensed slightly and Severus could tell that the boy was doing some serious thinking. Harry stole a glance at his father that clearly said 'I need you over here.'
Severus stood up from his seat and moved over to the couch and sat next to Harryand Harry's hand snaked into his father's and Severus gve it a gentle squeee and Harry took a deep breath and started.
He told them first about falling down the hill and having the attack and the treatment but when he got to the part about the vision Harry didn't know what to say because he had the memory of what happened in the vision but Harry still didn't know about what his body had gone through. All he knew was that he had a severe asthma attack. Severus told that part of the story. Then Harry picked up after he had woken up at Saint Andrews. Finally he told them about taking the potion and the spell that got his memory back, but didn't go into detail about the memories, he just said how he got them back.
After Harry and Severus had finished Ron and Hermione didn't have a clue as to what to say. They just sat in their chairs not saying anything. Harry was still a little shocked as to what had happened to him when he had the vision that landed him in hospital.
Sometime during the telling of Harry's reaction to the vision Harry had crept closer to his father and Severus had his arm around Harry's shoulder. Severus could feel the tension in the boy's back and started to massage in small circles. Harry turned his back to his father to allow him better access and almost dropped off to sleep from Severus' gentle ministrations.
Hermione and Ron watched in shocked fascination at the interraction between Harry and Severus. Hermione looked pointedly at Ron as if to say 'I told you so.' Ron's response was to merely glare at the girl.
Severus worked out the last knot out of the boy's back and whispered something into his ear and Harry nodded his head. This snapped Ron and Hermione out of their reverie and Hermione said
"Harry are you going to be coming back to the Tower tonight or tomorrow?"
Harry shook his head and said,
"No guys, I'll come back on sunday night. I'd rather stay here this weekend with my father I'm still not feeling completely up to speed and would rather be down here closer to him."
Hermione nodded her head. Harry looked over at Ron and said,
"Well you've been awfully quiet tonight. You haven't said a word since I opened the door."
Ron snorted and said sort of sheepishly,
"Yeah I know. Sorry 'bout that mate. But you know how Herm gets when she gets talking and then I just didn't know what to say after you and Sn- Professor Snape said what happened."
Harry nodded then smirked and said,
"I see your point Ron. Hey Ron when you go back up to the Common Room can you post this on the announcement board?" Harry said holding out the sign
Ron took and looked at it and said
"Sure thing mate."
Harry yawned widely and said
"Well guys, I hate to do this to you but I'm really tired and am going to turn in early so I will see you both back up in Gryffindor Tower on sunday evening after dinner."
Ron and Hermione nodded and stood up and took their leave. After the two Gryffindor Prefects left Severus pulled Harry into a hug and said,
"I'm proud of you for how you handled that. I know it wasn't easy for you."
Harry nodded and made no move to separate from his father, nor did Severus move to separate from Harry as long as the boy wanted. Before long Harry's breathing evened out and Severus looked down and realized that Harry had fallen asleep.
Cracking a smile Severus easily lifted Harry and carried the boy into his bedchambers. Gently laying the boy on the bed he walked over to Harry's dresser and pulled out a pair of red plaid pajama pants and a red t-shirt and carefully dressed the boy in his pajamas and bedded him down. Leaning over Severus smoothed an errant lock of hair off of Harry's cheek and kissed the boy's forehead and quietly crept from the room.
Setting himself behind his desk again Severus quickly finished the essays that he had abandoned. Thirty minutes later the grading was done and just as Severus put down his quill there was a yelp from Harry's bedchamber. Severus raced to the chamber to see Harry sitting up and slightly panting.
Walking over to Harry's bed he sat next to the slightly shaking boy and put an arm around his shoulder and said
"Did you have another nightmare?"
Harry shook his head no and said
"I just woke up and realized that I was alone."
Severus sighed and pulled Harry into a hug and said
"Do you want me to stay in here again tonight?"
Harry minesculey nodded and Severus sighed and stood and got into his pajamas, came back and climbed into Harry's bed and enveloped the boy in a tight hug. Harry sighed in contentment and snuggled down and just before Harry fell asleep Severus said,
"You know that you've got to get used to sleeping alone again right? I'm not going to be up in your room in Gryffindor Tower."
Harry nodded and said,
"I know, but I just wanted to be with you while I can."
Severus squeezed Harry a little bit and soon both father and son were asleep.
A/N: I'm sorry if Harry seems like a little kid asking his father to sleep in his bed with him at age 14 but I will make a confession. If I'm at home from school and I have a bad dream or just feel scared I won't hesitate to go into my parents room and climb into bed with them and if you all think I'm an immature scared little kid then go right ahead because I DON'T CARE! ;-) I'm secure enough to come out and say that and if a 22 year old can do that, then so can a 14 year old and I'm pretty mature for my age so you can't say that I'm acting like a child! :-P Anyways I hope that chapter didn't suck so why don't you push that little button in the bottom left hand corner and leave me a review and tell me what you think about it but please no flames!!!!! Next chapter will probably be a bit slow getting up too because I have to perform for a festival here on campus this weekend and then next weekend I have to do tech rehersals and performances for my school's dance concert which my choir is singing Britten's Ceremony of Carols so the dancers can do a ballet to and I have a solo in the piece so I'm going to be really busy for the next week and a half with rehersals, lessons and classes so please just bear with me and be patient with me. Thanks all and don't forget to leave me a review!!!!!!!!!
Chapter 20
The rest of the week passed by uneventfully with Harry's ankle getting stronger and himself aging 2 years a day. Neither had discussed what they had seen during Harry's memory retreival process, and neither had any desire to discuss what had been seen. Harry, now that he had his memory back ploughed through all of his homework. Severus proved to be quite a big help in everything but Divination, but Harry easily did that homework anyways.
Friday night found Harry and Severus sitting in the main chamber. Severus was grading some leftover essays from the previous friday while Harry was attempting to make a sign to put up in the common room announcing the tryouts for the quidditch team. This proved to be more challenging than Harry originally thought because he could see what he wanted in his head but for some reason he couldn't put it on parchment.
There was a nice little pile of crumpled up bits of parchment surrounding Harry. Severus looked up as he heard Harry sigh and crumple up another piece of parchment. Severus smiled and went back to grading.
After some time Harry approached his father holding a newly completed sign. Severus looked up and said,
"What is it Harry?"
Harry thrust the sign into his father's hand and said,
"Does that look all right to you?"
Severus looked disdainfully down at the sign and looked back to his, now 14 year old, son with a raised eyebrow and said unable to hide the sarcasm out of his voice
"You interrupted me to ask me if this looks all right?"
Harry smiled brightly and nodded his head.
Severus inwardly smiled at Harry's antics and said,
"Looks fine, now do I have your permission to finish my work?"
Harry's response was to nod again and dash back over to the couch and pick up a book. Ten minutes later there was a knock on the door. Harry looked up and, seeing that his father made no move to get the door, got up himself and yanked open the door only to be ambushed by a bushy haired girl.
" 'Lo Mione."
Hermione made no move to relinquish her grip on Harry and said,
"Oh Merlin Harry we were so scared. We haven't seen you since last week and then Professor McGonagall told us that you were sick and were to be left alone but that you would be pretty much back to normal by today." Hermione said in a rush without breathing.
Harry listened to Hermione smiling and thinking to himself 'yup, that's definitely hermione.'
Ron just stood back in the doorway during this entire time looking kind of lost and scared being in the presence of Snape again after what happened with Harry back in the Gryffindor Common Room.
Hermione relinquished her grip on Harry and held him at arm's length to look at Harry. Harry was a little uncertain and uncharacteristically self- conscious from the scrutiny he was getting from his friend. Harry's time spent in hospital stunted his height and body weight a little bit, but nothing to be concerned about. Harry was naturally disposed to be on the short and skinny side anyways.
Hermione smiled and said,
"You look good Harry are you back to being 15 yet?"
"Not yet, I should be by tomorrow."
Harry looked over at his father and saw that the man was ignoring the infamous trio and Harry beckoned the two inside. The 3 Gryffindor Prefects settled themselves on the couch and chairs in front of the fireplace and lapsed into silence. Hermione broke the silence,
"Harry what was wrong with you? Why were you sick? Nobody has seen or heard hide or hair from you or Professor Snape since last saturday at breakfast?"
Hearing that question come from the Granger girl's mouth Severus' head snapped up from his work and looked over at Harry who had visibly tensed slightly and Severus could tell that the boy was doing some serious thinking. Harry stole a glance at his father that clearly said 'I need you over here.'
Severus stood up from his seat and moved over to the couch and sat next to Harryand Harry's hand snaked into his father's and Severus gve it a gentle squeee and Harry took a deep breath and started.
He told them first about falling down the hill and having the attack and the treatment but when he got to the part about the vision Harry didn't know what to say because he had the memory of what happened in the vision but Harry still didn't know about what his body had gone through. All he knew was that he had a severe asthma attack. Severus told that part of the story. Then Harry picked up after he had woken up at Saint Andrews. Finally he told them about taking the potion and the spell that got his memory back, but didn't go into detail about the memories, he just said how he got them back.
After Harry and Severus had finished Ron and Hermione didn't have a clue as to what to say. They just sat in their chairs not saying anything. Harry was still a little shocked as to what had happened to him when he had the vision that landed him in hospital.
Sometime during the telling of Harry's reaction to the vision Harry had crept closer to his father and Severus had his arm around Harry's shoulder. Severus could feel the tension in the boy's back and started to massage in small circles. Harry turned his back to his father to allow him better access and almost dropped off to sleep from Severus' gentle ministrations.
Hermione and Ron watched in shocked fascination at the interraction between Harry and Severus. Hermione looked pointedly at Ron as if to say 'I told you so.' Ron's response was to merely glare at the girl.
Severus worked out the last knot out of the boy's back and whispered something into his ear and Harry nodded his head. This snapped Ron and Hermione out of their reverie and Hermione said
"Harry are you going to be coming back to the Tower tonight or tomorrow?"
Harry shook his head and said,
"No guys, I'll come back on sunday night. I'd rather stay here this weekend with my father I'm still not feeling completely up to speed and would rather be down here closer to him."
Hermione nodded her head. Harry looked over at Ron and said,
"Well you've been awfully quiet tonight. You haven't said a word since I opened the door."
Ron snorted and said sort of sheepishly,
"Yeah I know. Sorry 'bout that mate. But you know how Herm gets when she gets talking and then I just didn't know what to say after you and Sn- Professor Snape said what happened."
Harry nodded then smirked and said,
"I see your point Ron. Hey Ron when you go back up to the Common Room can you post this on the announcement board?" Harry said holding out the sign
Ron took and looked at it and said
"Sure thing mate."
Harry yawned widely and said
"Well guys, I hate to do this to you but I'm really tired and am going to turn in early so I will see you both back up in Gryffindor Tower on sunday evening after dinner."
Ron and Hermione nodded and stood up and took their leave. After the two Gryffindor Prefects left Severus pulled Harry into a hug and said,
"I'm proud of you for how you handled that. I know it wasn't easy for you."
Harry nodded and made no move to separate from his father, nor did Severus move to separate from Harry as long as the boy wanted. Before long Harry's breathing evened out and Severus looked down and realized that Harry had fallen asleep.
Cracking a smile Severus easily lifted Harry and carried the boy into his bedchambers. Gently laying the boy on the bed he walked over to Harry's dresser and pulled out a pair of red plaid pajama pants and a red t-shirt and carefully dressed the boy in his pajamas and bedded him down. Leaning over Severus smoothed an errant lock of hair off of Harry's cheek and kissed the boy's forehead and quietly crept from the room.
Setting himself behind his desk again Severus quickly finished the essays that he had abandoned. Thirty minutes later the grading was done and just as Severus put down his quill there was a yelp from Harry's bedchamber. Severus raced to the chamber to see Harry sitting up and slightly panting.
Walking over to Harry's bed he sat next to the slightly shaking boy and put an arm around his shoulder and said
"Did you have another nightmare?"
Harry shook his head no and said
"I just woke up and realized that I was alone."
Severus sighed and pulled Harry into a hug and said
"Do you want me to stay in here again tonight?"
Harry minesculey nodded and Severus sighed and stood and got into his pajamas, came back and climbed into Harry's bed and enveloped the boy in a tight hug. Harry sighed in contentment and snuggled down and just before Harry fell asleep Severus said,
"You know that you've got to get used to sleeping alone again right? I'm not going to be up in your room in Gryffindor Tower."
Harry nodded and said,
"I know, but I just wanted to be with you while I can."
Severus squeezed Harry a little bit and soon both father and son were asleep.
A/N: I'm sorry if Harry seems like a little kid asking his father to sleep in his bed with him at age 14 but I will make a confession. If I'm at home from school and I have a bad dream or just feel scared I won't hesitate to go into my parents room and climb into bed with them and if you all think I'm an immature scared little kid then go right ahead because I DON'T CARE! ;-) I'm secure enough to come out and say that and if a 22 year old can do that, then so can a 14 year old and I'm pretty mature for my age so you can't say that I'm acting like a child! :-P Anyways I hope that chapter didn't suck so why don't you push that little button in the bottom left hand corner and leave me a review and tell me what you think about it but please no flames!!!!! Next chapter will probably be a bit slow getting up too because I have to perform for a festival here on campus this weekend and then next weekend I have to do tech rehersals and performances for my school's dance concert which my choir is singing Britten's Ceremony of Carols so the dancers can do a ballet to and I have a solo in the piece so I'm going to be really busy for the next week and a half with rehersals, lessons and classes so please just bear with me and be patient with me. Thanks all and don't forget to leave me a review!!!!!!!!!