hi there - chapter 1 hold everything i posted of this story so far and
chapter 2 actually is the new chapter (unfortuantely i had to work with
replace chapter since ff.net took down one of my stories and decided they
needed to freeze my account) anyway, at least it got me going and therefore
i now have my own web page. the url is:
http://au.geocities.com/xxxxxleilaxxxxx
love, leila
TITLE: When I Wanted Sunshine I Got Rain
AUTHOR: Leila
EMAIL: xxxxxleilaxxxxx@yahoo.com.au
DISCLAIMER: Not me, but the wonderful J. K. Rowling
DISTRIBUTION: Do not take without permission
CATEGORY: SS (not too sure about the actual pairing yet)
RATING: Since "R" seems to be the highest possible rating - so I guess "R" it is
PART: 5/?
FEEDBACK: Yes please!!!
VISIT ME: http://au.geocities.com/xxxxxleilaxxxxx/
When I Wanted Sunshine I Got Rain -5-
"Severus?"
Remus Lupin carefully watched the tall motionless figure whose eyes were gazing unseeingly around Dumbledore's office. In all of their almost 30 years of acquaintance he had never ever seen the other man so tense, so very close to the edge. Ever since the headmaster had mentioned their former class mate and Severus' childhood friend Silas Tarrant emotions such as fear, anger, hurt and betrayal were rolling off of the dark-haired wizard in thundering waves.
Remus had no idea what may have happened between the two of them. All through their Hogwarts time they had been the best of friends - inseparably - for all that he knew. After all he'd spent many hours of quietly nurturing his jealousy of the shy sandy-haired boy who'd happen to wrap young Severus around his little finger seemingly without as much as a conscious effort.
His younger self had been intrigued with Severus Snape the moment he'd set eyes on the reserved dark-haired boy. In fact he'd even tried to talk the sorting hut into sorting him into Slytherin, since - the things he'd picked up on the trip to Hogwarts - had pretty much convinced him that Slytherin would be the house young Severus was most likely to be sorted into. The stubborn hut, however, had refused him his heart's desire and placed him into Gryffindor instead and therefore ruined his chance to ever getting close to the other child. For weeks he had been upset about his sorting, especially when forced to watch Severus almost instantly taking a liking to young Silas Tarrant - tailing the boy's every step.
Up until today Remus had no idea what Severus had seen in the sandy-haired kid. He had often wondered how somebody as charismatic as Severus had come to notice someone as shy and quiet as little Silas Tarrant who at more than one time had remind him of Remus himself. If anything the boy had been plain - average build, average height, average anything. And if there was a word Remus would have used to describe himself it was plain - so much for similarities.
After close to 30 years it was still a puzzle to him how boy so polite and self-absorbed as Silas could have been sorted into Slytherin. Of course he had been secretive and sly - how secretive and sly exactly Remus had only fully come to realize after the Shrieking Shack incident when Silas had come to visit Severus in the hospital wing, greeting him with a somewhat annoyed, "I told you that he was, so why did you have to go and almost get yourself killed for?"
He had been scared shitless at that time, wondering when and how Tarrant was to put his knowledge of Remus' illness to good use. However, much to his surprise, the kid had never ever as much as mentioned his illness again. It had been from that time that he had started to watch Silas Tarrant a lot more closely. This way he had come to learn a lot about the other boy over the years. One of the first things being that there'd been hardly anything to escape Tarrant's ever watchful eye and second the amazing maturity with which the boy had always handled his observations. No matter what he learned he would never treat it in the typical Slytherin attention drawing way - and as time had gone by Remus ever so slowly had come to realize what exactly Severus all along had seen in Tarrant.
tbc
love, leila
TITLE: When I Wanted Sunshine I Got Rain
AUTHOR: Leila
EMAIL: xxxxxleilaxxxxx@yahoo.com.au
DISCLAIMER: Not me, but the wonderful J. K. Rowling
DISTRIBUTION: Do not take without permission
CATEGORY: SS (not too sure about the actual pairing yet)
RATING: Since "R" seems to be the highest possible rating - so I guess "R" it is
PART: 5/?
FEEDBACK: Yes please!!!
VISIT ME: http://au.geocities.com/xxxxxleilaxxxxx/
When I Wanted Sunshine I Got Rain -5-
"Severus?"
Remus Lupin carefully watched the tall motionless figure whose eyes were gazing unseeingly around Dumbledore's office. In all of their almost 30 years of acquaintance he had never ever seen the other man so tense, so very close to the edge. Ever since the headmaster had mentioned their former class mate and Severus' childhood friend Silas Tarrant emotions such as fear, anger, hurt and betrayal were rolling off of the dark-haired wizard in thundering waves.
Remus had no idea what may have happened between the two of them. All through their Hogwarts time they had been the best of friends - inseparably - for all that he knew. After all he'd spent many hours of quietly nurturing his jealousy of the shy sandy-haired boy who'd happen to wrap young Severus around his little finger seemingly without as much as a conscious effort.
His younger self had been intrigued with Severus Snape the moment he'd set eyes on the reserved dark-haired boy. In fact he'd even tried to talk the sorting hut into sorting him into Slytherin, since - the things he'd picked up on the trip to Hogwarts - had pretty much convinced him that Slytherin would be the house young Severus was most likely to be sorted into. The stubborn hut, however, had refused him his heart's desire and placed him into Gryffindor instead and therefore ruined his chance to ever getting close to the other child. For weeks he had been upset about his sorting, especially when forced to watch Severus almost instantly taking a liking to young Silas Tarrant - tailing the boy's every step.
Up until today Remus had no idea what Severus had seen in the sandy-haired kid. He had often wondered how somebody as charismatic as Severus had come to notice someone as shy and quiet as little Silas Tarrant who at more than one time had remind him of Remus himself. If anything the boy had been plain - average build, average height, average anything. And if there was a word Remus would have used to describe himself it was plain - so much for similarities.
After close to 30 years it was still a puzzle to him how boy so polite and self-absorbed as Silas could have been sorted into Slytherin. Of course he had been secretive and sly - how secretive and sly exactly Remus had only fully come to realize after the Shrieking Shack incident when Silas had come to visit Severus in the hospital wing, greeting him with a somewhat annoyed, "I told you that he was, so why did you have to go and almost get yourself killed for?"
He had been scared shitless at that time, wondering when and how Tarrant was to put his knowledge of Remus' illness to good use. However, much to his surprise, the kid had never ever as much as mentioned his illness again. It had been from that time that he had started to watch Silas Tarrant a lot more closely. This way he had come to learn a lot about the other boy over the years. One of the first things being that there'd been hardly anything to escape Tarrant's ever watchful eye and second the amazing maturity with which the boy had always handled his observations. No matter what he learned he would never treat it in the typical Slytherin attention drawing way - and as time had gone by Remus ever so slowly had come to realize what exactly Severus all along had seen in Tarrant.
tbc