A.N:Okay, I think that this chapter turned out to be total crap. Sorry!
~*~*Snape P.O.V.~*~*
I continued to visit Harry in the Hospital Wing every night, at exactly 2:30 AM for over a
month. And every night I'd whisper in his ear,
"Harry, Harry wake up for me, okay? Take as long as you need, but just come back. I
need to tell you something so important Harry. So important. Just please come back to me."
All this time I had been sneaking into the Hospital Wing, and yet I had never been
caught. I have never even seen anyone. Albus had suspected me of something once, the morning
following my first night with Harry. He had surprised me with a visit, and not seeing me in my
livingroom, he took it upon himself to look in my bedroom.
~*~*~*~*Flashback~*~*~*~*
I sat in my bedroom at my desk, trying to decide what I would say to Harry when he
regained conciousness.
"If he regains conciousness,"I say bitterly to myself. Before I can even get angry, I hear
a gasp from behind me.
Startled, I turn in my seat to my door to see Albus standing there, sparkless eyes wide,
staring at my floor. 'Damn,' I think to myself as I realize that I hadn't cleaned my room after searching
for my Invisability Cloak. Albus turns to me, clearly shocked.
"Did someone break into your quarters, Severus?" he asks, staring at me. I sigh and
shake my head.
"No, no. I was just looking for something last night." I say, trying to sound reasuring.
Yet he gives me an even more amazed look, if that is even possible.
"You were 'looking for something,'? "he mockes me. "You mean that you, Severus
'has to clean my room five times a week,' Snape, make a huge mess in your quarters and not
clean it five minutes later?" he says, a faint smile creeping onto his face, still keeping that
look in his eyes that clearly says, "I wasn't born yesterday".
I frown at him. "Yes, well, there are more important things than cleaning my room."
I say, trying to frown as much as I can withput glaring at him. I fail miserably.
"Is there a reason you came down here, Albus? Clearly is wasn't to lecture me on
the cleanliness of my bedroom." I growl as he continues to stare at my littered floor. He looks
up at me and gives me a look not unlike the one that Poppy had gave me the day before.
"I wanted to ask how you are doing, Severus. The way you acted yesterday has
every-" he starts, but I clear my throat hurriedly.
"I am fine, Albus." I say dishonestly, staring down at the floor.
"Yes, I can see that."he says sarcastically. "And I have some good news and some
bad." I look up from the floor curiously.
"The good news is that when Harry stunned the Death Eaters, he also managed
to do the same to Peter Petigrew, who was underground in his Animagi form. Hopefully
now we can get Sirius a fair trail. The other bit of good news is that Harry has not left us."
At this, I try to look surprised, not wanting Albus to suspect me more than he allready did.
It was no surprise to me that Harry was still alive, I had left him just five hours earlier.
"The bad news is that Harry's health has not changed in the slightest. Also,
Remus has informed me that Sirius refuses to talk. It also seems that Miss Granger
and Misters Weasley and Malfoy refuse to talk to anyone but themselves." he said sadly,
and turned to go. As he reached the door, he turned to me once more and looked at me
with his piercing blue eyes.
"And Severus, if you need to tell me anything, anything at all, you know where
my office is." he left and once again left me with a feeling that he knew much more than
he should.
~*~*~*~*End of Flashback~*~*~*~*
Now that I think about it, for the past month or so Hermione, Draco, and Ron
have seemed different. I haven't seen them smile for what seems like ages, and the
way they look and act is disturbing. At meals, they are deathly quiet; very rarely did
they talk. And when they did it was so quiet that no one could hear them. Which is
quite surprising, considering the only ones at the school are the Weasleys, Hermione,
Draco, Albus, Minerva, Sirius, Remus, and I. (Albus had decided that the students would
not come back to Hogwarts until Harry either wakes up or...dies.)
The large wooden cherry clock goes off from the corner of my room, causing
me to jump in surprise. I look to the clock and see that it is time for dinner. I sigh and
stand up, walking tiredly out the door.
'I hope there is a change in the children,' I think to myself and continue to
the Great Hall.
As I entered the Hall, I immediately knew that something was different.
The Hall's torches were brighter, and warm sunlight poured into the room. Instaed
of walking into a quite and depressed room, there was talking coming from the
table, and a cheerful air about the place.
I watched closer and noticed that Hermione, Draco and Ron were all laking
happily, bright smiles on their faces. As I wathced, Hermione felt my stare and looked
across the room at me. The just stared for a moment and then grinned, and turned back
around. I was to surprised to smile back.
I slowly began to walk to the table, watching as Sirius and Remus whispered
to each other. I looked closer and saw how Sirius's eyes seemed to shine with happiness.
As I walked past him, he took his eyes off Remus and watched me walk to my spot
between Albus and Minerva. I was used to his look, he stared at me that way every day.
I sat down in my chair, continuing to look up and down the table in shock. Albus
cleared his throat next to me.
"Severus, I have grat news! It seems that Harry is recovering!" he said in
excited whispers. I took my eyes off the table and looked to him, my shock rising.
"Poppy informed my this evening that the cuts on Harry that she was not able to heal
have began to heal themselves after all this time. And Harry doesn't need to be forced
to breath anymore, he is able to breath by himself!" he said, grinning widely. Trying not
to look so excited, I put on a nuteral face and said,
"Just because the boy's wounds are healing doesn't mean he is going
to recover, correct?" I ask him, and it pained me to do so. Albus looked down the
table and back to me. He bent down close to me and whispered.
"Yes, that is what I had said, but she, well, let me go and see Harry; And he
does look much better." he smiled at me again and returned to his conversation with
Remus and Sirius.
I sat there stunned for a second, trying my hardest not to jump up and race
to the Hospital Wing.
I look to the clock hanging on the wall, counting down the hours until I can go
and see Harry for myslf. I groaned inwardly as I realized I still had to wait seven hours
to go see Harry. I began to slowly eat my food, thinking deeply to myself.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
I walked half asleep out of my quarters, on my way to the Hospital Wing.
Five hours of sleep a day really wasn't agreeing with me. Nor did the winter cold.
I tried to pull my Invisability Cloak closer to me for warmth.
As I became closer to the Wing, I was startled to hear a quiet noise
sounding through the halls. I stopped dead and strained my ears, trying to
reconize what the noise was, but I was to far away.
I began to walk closer to the source of the noise, which seemed to be around
where the Hospital Wing was. As I was just a corner and hallway away, I reconized the noise.
It was the most beautiul humming I had ever heard.
I stood at the corner for a moment, listening to the humming. Albus had said that
Pheonix song was the most pure and beautiful thing in the world, but this song was so
amazing I wondered if it was Fawkes. Yet the more I listened, I realized that it sounded
much to human.
I poked my head around the corner cautiosly, and surprised when I saw who it was.
It was Hermione Granger.
She was sitting on the ground outside the doors of the wing, wearing just a T-shirt
and a pair of jeans. Her head was leaning back against the wall, her eyes closed and a
smile on her face. She was humming pleasently, and I wasn't sure if I should interupt her.
I sighed, realizing the only way to see Harry was to send her back to Gryffindor.
I took off my cloak and folded it quickly and put in in a large pocket on the inside of
my cloak. I stepped around the corner and grunted to gain her attention.
The humming stopped as her eyes flew open and looked to me surprised. She was
not scared as she usually would have been and I wondered why. She continued to stare at me.
"Hello Miss Granger."
"Hello Professor." she responded, giving me a small smile. When she smiled, I
just realized how different she looked. She looked so happy, hopefull...mature.
"May I ask what you are doing out here? I could here you almost throughout the
entire castle." I said, and she blushed guiltily at me.
"Oh my, was I that loud? I had no idea. I'm sorry..."
"There is no need to apologise, it was not disturbing anyone. It was very
beautiful, actually. Shouldn't you be asleep? It's nearly 3 Am." I wondered why I had complemented
her, I would never had done that two months ago. She looked surprised at me.
"I couldn't sleep. As to what you asked before, I was just thinking."
"You need to be here to think?"
"Err, no. But I kind of wanted to be close to Harry. Do you think he will wake
up soon, sir?" she asked, looking up at me axiously. I nodded down.
"I do, actually. I truely do." I responded and was surprised by my own answer,
and I could tell she was as well. She yawned and stood up from her place on the floor.
"Well, I think I'll go back to Gryffindor Tower. Good night, Professor." she said,
and smiled at me again.
"Goodnight," I said as she walked away. As she was about to turn the corner
she turned back to me.
"Professor? I just wanted to say thank you." she said. I looked at her, slightly confused.
"For what?"
"For helping rescue Harry. And for believing that he would be okay. He wouldn't be
here if it wasn't for you." she walked away. I stared there for a second and listened to her steps
echo down the hall.
When they faded, I turned and walked quietly into the ward, my cloak once again in
place.
I walked quietly across the room and stood next to Harry's bed. My mouth opened in
shock.
'Albus was right...' I thought as I loked down at the still sleeping teen.
His face had finally reagained sme color, and his cheeks were slightly pink. The bandages
seemd to be thinner, and completely gone around his arms, displaying his Pheonix mark. The yellow
material that was once coming out of his chest was gone, and he was taking relaxed steady
breaths of air. I smiled and sat down next to him.
I took Harry's once cold hand into mine and leaned clost to his ear.
"You're coming back to me Harry. You really are."
And I fell asleep, still clutching Harry's hand. And amazingly, his hand gripped
mine weakly back.
~*~*~*~*
A.N: So? How did you like it? It ended out being a bit long. Not that you guys mind! Listen, now that
you have all read, do you think that you could please review? And when you do, can you tell me how
this chapter was and if Sev was out of character? I'd really appreciate it, ya know.
~*~*Snape P.O.V.~*~*
I continued to visit Harry in the Hospital Wing every night, at exactly 2:30 AM for over a
month. And every night I'd whisper in his ear,
"Harry, Harry wake up for me, okay? Take as long as you need, but just come back. I
need to tell you something so important Harry. So important. Just please come back to me."
All this time I had been sneaking into the Hospital Wing, and yet I had never been
caught. I have never even seen anyone. Albus had suspected me of something once, the morning
following my first night with Harry. He had surprised me with a visit, and not seeing me in my
livingroom, he took it upon himself to look in my bedroom.
~*~*~*~*Flashback~*~*~*~*
I sat in my bedroom at my desk, trying to decide what I would say to Harry when he
regained conciousness.
"If he regains conciousness,"I say bitterly to myself. Before I can even get angry, I hear
a gasp from behind me.
Startled, I turn in my seat to my door to see Albus standing there, sparkless eyes wide,
staring at my floor. 'Damn,' I think to myself as I realize that I hadn't cleaned my room after searching
for my Invisability Cloak. Albus turns to me, clearly shocked.
"Did someone break into your quarters, Severus?" he asks, staring at me. I sigh and
shake my head.
"No, no. I was just looking for something last night." I say, trying to sound reasuring.
Yet he gives me an even more amazed look, if that is even possible.
"You were 'looking for something,'? "he mockes me. "You mean that you, Severus
'has to clean my room five times a week,' Snape, make a huge mess in your quarters and not
clean it five minutes later?" he says, a faint smile creeping onto his face, still keeping that
look in his eyes that clearly says, "I wasn't born yesterday".
I frown at him. "Yes, well, there are more important things than cleaning my room."
I say, trying to frown as much as I can withput glaring at him. I fail miserably.
"Is there a reason you came down here, Albus? Clearly is wasn't to lecture me on
the cleanliness of my bedroom." I growl as he continues to stare at my littered floor. He looks
up at me and gives me a look not unlike the one that Poppy had gave me the day before.
"I wanted to ask how you are doing, Severus. The way you acted yesterday has
every-" he starts, but I clear my throat hurriedly.
"I am fine, Albus." I say dishonestly, staring down at the floor.
"Yes, I can see that."he says sarcastically. "And I have some good news and some
bad." I look up from the floor curiously.
"The good news is that when Harry stunned the Death Eaters, he also managed
to do the same to Peter Petigrew, who was underground in his Animagi form. Hopefully
now we can get Sirius a fair trail. The other bit of good news is that Harry has not left us."
At this, I try to look surprised, not wanting Albus to suspect me more than he allready did.
It was no surprise to me that Harry was still alive, I had left him just five hours earlier.
"The bad news is that Harry's health has not changed in the slightest. Also,
Remus has informed me that Sirius refuses to talk. It also seems that Miss Granger
and Misters Weasley and Malfoy refuse to talk to anyone but themselves." he said sadly,
and turned to go. As he reached the door, he turned to me once more and looked at me
with his piercing blue eyes.
"And Severus, if you need to tell me anything, anything at all, you know where
my office is." he left and once again left me with a feeling that he knew much more than
he should.
~*~*~*~*End of Flashback~*~*~*~*
Now that I think about it, for the past month or so Hermione, Draco, and Ron
have seemed different. I haven't seen them smile for what seems like ages, and the
way they look and act is disturbing. At meals, they are deathly quiet; very rarely did
they talk. And when they did it was so quiet that no one could hear them. Which is
quite surprising, considering the only ones at the school are the Weasleys, Hermione,
Draco, Albus, Minerva, Sirius, Remus, and I. (Albus had decided that the students would
not come back to Hogwarts until Harry either wakes up or...dies.)
The large wooden cherry clock goes off from the corner of my room, causing
me to jump in surprise. I look to the clock and see that it is time for dinner. I sigh and
stand up, walking tiredly out the door.
'I hope there is a change in the children,' I think to myself and continue to
the Great Hall.
As I entered the Hall, I immediately knew that something was different.
The Hall's torches were brighter, and warm sunlight poured into the room. Instaed
of walking into a quite and depressed room, there was talking coming from the
table, and a cheerful air about the place.
I watched closer and noticed that Hermione, Draco and Ron were all laking
happily, bright smiles on their faces. As I wathced, Hermione felt my stare and looked
across the room at me. The just stared for a moment and then grinned, and turned back
around. I was to surprised to smile back.
I slowly began to walk to the table, watching as Sirius and Remus whispered
to each other. I looked closer and saw how Sirius's eyes seemed to shine with happiness.
As I walked past him, he took his eyes off Remus and watched me walk to my spot
between Albus and Minerva. I was used to his look, he stared at me that way every day.
I sat down in my chair, continuing to look up and down the table in shock. Albus
cleared his throat next to me.
"Severus, I have grat news! It seems that Harry is recovering!" he said in
excited whispers. I took my eyes off the table and looked to him, my shock rising.
"Poppy informed my this evening that the cuts on Harry that she was not able to heal
have began to heal themselves after all this time. And Harry doesn't need to be forced
to breath anymore, he is able to breath by himself!" he said, grinning widely. Trying not
to look so excited, I put on a nuteral face and said,
"Just because the boy's wounds are healing doesn't mean he is going
to recover, correct?" I ask him, and it pained me to do so. Albus looked down the
table and back to me. He bent down close to me and whispered.
"Yes, that is what I had said, but she, well, let me go and see Harry; And he
does look much better." he smiled at me again and returned to his conversation with
Remus and Sirius.
I sat there stunned for a second, trying my hardest not to jump up and race
to the Hospital Wing.
I look to the clock hanging on the wall, counting down the hours until I can go
and see Harry for myslf. I groaned inwardly as I realized I still had to wait seven hours
to go see Harry. I began to slowly eat my food, thinking deeply to myself.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
I walked half asleep out of my quarters, on my way to the Hospital Wing.
Five hours of sleep a day really wasn't agreeing with me. Nor did the winter cold.
I tried to pull my Invisability Cloak closer to me for warmth.
As I became closer to the Wing, I was startled to hear a quiet noise
sounding through the halls. I stopped dead and strained my ears, trying to
reconize what the noise was, but I was to far away.
I began to walk closer to the source of the noise, which seemed to be around
where the Hospital Wing was. As I was just a corner and hallway away, I reconized the noise.
It was the most beautiul humming I had ever heard.
I stood at the corner for a moment, listening to the humming. Albus had said that
Pheonix song was the most pure and beautiful thing in the world, but this song was so
amazing I wondered if it was Fawkes. Yet the more I listened, I realized that it sounded
much to human.
I poked my head around the corner cautiosly, and surprised when I saw who it was.
It was Hermione Granger.
She was sitting on the ground outside the doors of the wing, wearing just a T-shirt
and a pair of jeans. Her head was leaning back against the wall, her eyes closed and a
smile on her face. She was humming pleasently, and I wasn't sure if I should interupt her.
I sighed, realizing the only way to see Harry was to send her back to Gryffindor.
I took off my cloak and folded it quickly and put in in a large pocket on the inside of
my cloak. I stepped around the corner and grunted to gain her attention.
The humming stopped as her eyes flew open and looked to me surprised. She was
not scared as she usually would have been and I wondered why. She continued to stare at me.
"Hello Miss Granger."
"Hello Professor." she responded, giving me a small smile. When she smiled, I
just realized how different she looked. She looked so happy, hopefull...mature.
"May I ask what you are doing out here? I could here you almost throughout the
entire castle." I said, and she blushed guiltily at me.
"Oh my, was I that loud? I had no idea. I'm sorry..."
"There is no need to apologise, it was not disturbing anyone. It was very
beautiful, actually. Shouldn't you be asleep? It's nearly 3 Am." I wondered why I had complemented
her, I would never had done that two months ago. She looked surprised at me.
"I couldn't sleep. As to what you asked before, I was just thinking."
"You need to be here to think?"
"Err, no. But I kind of wanted to be close to Harry. Do you think he will wake
up soon, sir?" she asked, looking up at me axiously. I nodded down.
"I do, actually. I truely do." I responded and was surprised by my own answer,
and I could tell she was as well. She yawned and stood up from her place on the floor.
"Well, I think I'll go back to Gryffindor Tower. Good night, Professor." she said,
and smiled at me again.
"Goodnight," I said as she walked away. As she was about to turn the corner
she turned back to me.
"Professor? I just wanted to say thank you." she said. I looked at her, slightly confused.
"For what?"
"For helping rescue Harry. And for believing that he would be okay. He wouldn't be
here if it wasn't for you." she walked away. I stared there for a second and listened to her steps
echo down the hall.
When they faded, I turned and walked quietly into the ward, my cloak once again in
place.
I walked quietly across the room and stood next to Harry's bed. My mouth opened in
shock.
'Albus was right...' I thought as I loked down at the still sleeping teen.
His face had finally reagained sme color, and his cheeks were slightly pink. The bandages
seemd to be thinner, and completely gone around his arms, displaying his Pheonix mark. The yellow
material that was once coming out of his chest was gone, and he was taking relaxed steady
breaths of air. I smiled and sat down next to him.
I took Harry's once cold hand into mine and leaned clost to his ear.
"You're coming back to me Harry. You really are."
And I fell asleep, still clutching Harry's hand. And amazingly, his hand gripped
mine weakly back.
~*~*~*~*
A.N: So? How did you like it? It ended out being a bit long. Not that you guys mind! Listen, now that
you have all read, do you think that you could please review? And when you do, can you tell me how
this chapter was and if Sev was out of character? I'd really appreciate it, ya know.