Love and Betrayal: Chapter Four
Summary: Christina-Lee Potter is a 16-year-old pure blood Gryffindor, She's the cousin on James Potter, and she has her eyes set one of his best friends. Little does she know that two boys like her, which one will she chose?
Disclaimer: See previous chapters.
(Christina's thoughts in Brackets)
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Chapter Four: Sirius and Severus.
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I continued to back away. "No."Remus put an arm around me and turned to Sirius, still his face filled with hate.
"Why?" I asked still backing away, making Remus have to drop his arm; which I wished wouldn't happen because his strength was an extreme comfort.
"Christina, I just... we... I'm sorry," Sirius began, but he didn't seem to be able to find an adequate excuse.
"Look, I don't want to hear it, how could you? I can't believe I was stupid enough to think you loved me. You selfish prick!" I turned on my heel and began running. I was so angry, beyond angry; I was furious.
Sirius had really betrayed me. After all the family back ground I had pushed aside, he still had proved me right. He was a Black and just as bad as his slutty cousin's, Narcissa and Bellatrix; and their boyfriends, Malfoy and Lestrange.
This was really going to cause trouble in the group. What would James, Peter, and Remus think about Sirius? And Lily, what would she do?
This put both Lily and Remus in a difficult position; they were both bestfriends with Sirius and I.
Now I despised everything about Sirius Black. His hair, his eyes, him. (How could Sirius of done this? Why had he done this? Didn't he love me?)
I suddenly realised I was outside the library. I walked in and took a seat at an empty table, located at the very back of the room. I put my head in my hands and began to cry.
Everything was so screwed up. I was beginning to become too much.
James and he's accident, Mum and Dad not coming home for Christmas, and now Sirius was cheating on me. It was really too much.
Someone had just placed their arm around my shoulders and was whispering to me.
"Chris, are you ok?"
I recognised the voice; It was Remus.
"Remus, how could he do that?" I said trying to wipe to the, still flowing, tears from my eyes.
"I don't know," Remus said, he sounded lost in thought. He pulled me into a hug. "I don't know, sweetie."
I enjoyed the warmness and strength that Remus' hug provided. The embrace ended and I suddenly slipped back into depression.
Remus seemed to a little nervous about the situation. I realised I was unblinkingly staring at him.
"Um- Remus, I think... I need to be alone. Maybe you should get some breakfast."
Remus nodded. He always understood in these situations, this was something I was very grateful for.
He stood up and left the library, a little too quickly for my liking though. I slumped back in my chair and sighed. I could hear the noise of Hogwarts students passing the library, but the noise was faint and drowned out from my dark and usually unknown corner.
As I gazed down at the table, there was a loud thud of books. My head shot up. There stood, none other than, Severus Snape himself. I sighed. "Yes, Snape?"
"You're at my table, Potter."
"Excuse me?"
"I said, you're at my t-"
"I heard you. Your table?"
"Yes, Potter, is that so hard to digest. My table as in I sit here everyday. Now are you going to more or what?"
"No, you don't own this table. It's public domain," I crossed my arms stubbornly.
"Fine, we'll have to share."
(Why does he have to be so stubborn?)
He sat down. I clenched my teeth. I really didn't want to start a shouting match with Snape, well not in the library anyway.
Snape grabbed the top book from the pile he slammed down and began to read.
I huffed and stared in the other direction. I wouldn't let Snape have the satisfaction of thinking he won. I had to stay. I wished I hadn't asked Remus to leave now.
"So what's got you so down?" Snape asked, although he was flicking through the book in his hands.
"What's it to you?" I asked coolly.
"Just wonder. You seemed down, normally girls like to talk about these things, don't they?" Snape was looking up from his book now.
I stared into his icy eyes, but now that I looked into them properly they looked mysterious and deep, almost sexy. I looked away. I could not think Severus Snape was sexy. He's a muggle-born hating Slytherin git. Suddenly this didn't matter anymore.
Snape was being nice. He was a guy who wanted to talk about feelings. More so, he was a Slytherin guy who wanted to talk about feelings. These types of guys didn't come along very often.
I realised Snape had asked me a question.
"Yeah they do, I s'pose."
"Well you want to talk about it?" Snape put his book down giving me his full attention.
I couldn't believe what was happening. I was so overwhelmed what happened next just seemed to happen.
"Yeah, okay," before I knew it I had told Snape everything that had happened that morning.
"You're going to the dance with Sirius Black?"
"Was. And yes, I WAS going to go with Sirius Black."
I looked down at the table. I wasn't sure what Snape's reaction was going to be, but I was expecting him to laugh, not what he was about to do.
Snape's mouth fell open. I looked up when I didn't hear laughter. "He what? He's scum."
I nodded. "I thought he loved me."
Snape's eyes bored into mine. "He's a blood traitor, you can never trust them."
I had no idea why Snape was being so nice to me. Wasn't he like betraying his house by being this close to me?
"Christina-Lee, are you okay?" Snape asked, he actually sounded worried and sympathetic.
I nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine."
Snape went to pick up his book again.
"Snape- I mean Severus, can I ask you something?"
Snape nodded.
"Why are you being so nice to me? I thought you hated me."
Snape let out a short laugh. "I've never hated you," he said softly. "I've actually thought you were always rather nice to me."
I blinked hard. "Huh?"
"Well... Do you remember that time in fourth year? When you and I were partnered together in Potions and we almost blew our cauldron up...?"
"You mean I almost did," I said with a giggle.
"Yeah, well... it began flowing and ruined your best sneakers just so that my potions paper wasn't destroyed."
I smiled. "Yeah, I remember. Then you carried me off to the hospital wing when the potion began to burn my feet."
Severus let out another laugh. His laugh seemed so smooth and sexy. I'd never seen this side of him before.
I looked down at my watched and remembered I hadn't eaten breakfast. My stomach growled.
Severus turned his head to me. "Hungry, are we?"
I nodded with a smirk. "Yeah, still haven't had breakfast."
I stood up and set off to walk away. I turned. "Coming?"
Snape shook his head and tapped his book. "I've got a lot of work to do, but I'll see you around."
I nodded once again. "Yeah, see you 'round."
Down in the Great Hall
I entered the Great Hall. James, Lily, Remus, and Peter were all sitting at the Gryffindor table. I wasn't really in the mood for talking. I just want to eat and get out.
Lily noticed me walking towards the table. I pretended I hadn't seen her. She began waving her hand more frantically. I continued to ignore her.
I sat at the opposite end of the table. In ate quickly and got up to leave. Sirius walked into the hall.
(I do not need this right now.)
I quickly stood up and walked to the door. Sirius turned as he saw me.
"Chris, please," he pleaded as I passed.
"Fuck off!" I shot, before I was out of earshot.
I was out the door. I noticed Sirius had followed me out of the hall.
(Why wont he just leave me alone?)
Suddenly I noticed Severus standing at the bottom of the Marble Staircase.
(Perfect!!)
I walked over and slipped my arms around him.
"Huh?" he asked, confused.
"Please, just play along. I need you to kiss me," I said out the side of my mouth.
Severus became even more confused. "Why?"
"Oh forget it," I said. I wrapped my arms around his neck and began to kiss him softly. It was sweeter and tender than I could have imagined kissing Severus would be like.
(Oh, I love revenge!)
We broke apart.
"Well, hello to you too," Severus said with a large Slytherin smirk. "So, what was that about?"
"I'll explain later," I said as I looked around at Sirius.
His mouth had fallen open. He was gapping soundlessly. I gave him a short wave and then made an obvious grab for Severus' hand and led him outside and down the stone steps.
I led him over to a large beech tree at the edge of the forbidden forest.
"Sit," I ordered simply. Severus looked at me for a bit, but obliged.
He leant against the tree. I placed myself on his lap before moving one of his hands over my knees and the other around my waist.
He still looked rather confused. "Are you going to explain now?" he asked.
"Fine. Sirius was watching, I can't think of one thing more offending to him than me kissing you," I told him, watching the castle.
Severus tried to look offended.
"Don't pretend to look offended. You enjoyed every second of it."
Severus smirked cheekily. "So what if I did?"
He gave me another sexy grin.
(Oh gosh, I just thought Severus Snape was sexy, again.)
I noticed the unwelcome marauders, and Lily were now standing on the stone steps. They were all looking over at Severus and I with rather confused looks on their faces.
"Oh shit, They're over there," I nodded in the direction of the stone steps when Severus looked like he was about to ask who I was talking about.
"Oh no, they look like they're coming over."
I quickly leant in and kissed Severus again. This time it was more than a simple kiss. Severus moved his hands on my back, I moved my around his neck. His tongue entered my mouth and began a war with my own. The weird thing about it all was I wanted it to happen.
(Oh gosh, I'm kissing Severus Snape, again. And I like it!!)
I could feel the others approaching.
(Can't they see we're busy?)
"Hem... hem..." came a voice. Severus and I broke off our war. I looked up. The others were there.
"Oh, hey guys," I said, mock-casual.
Sirius wasn't even looking at us. Remus was just gapping as Sirius had done before. Lily seemed to be biting back what she wanted to say. Peter was silent. James however...
"What the hell are you doing?" He burst out angrily.
"What does it look like?" I snapped.
"It looked like you're kissing Snape," Peter put in.
"So? What's your point?" I said as I shot a glare at Sirius, who had risked a look at me.
"His point is you just kissed Snape," James snapped back.
"Yeah, so what?"
I knew this was a big thing for James. He had hated Severus since, well, forever.
James was fuming by this point. "Get away from that greasy scum, NOW!"
"NO! James you don't own me," I yelled angrily and I wrapped my arms around one of Severus' arms.
Suddenly Lily spoke up. "Chris, think about what you're doing. You hate Snape."
"Does it look like I hate him?" I asked, getting really sick of how they were reacting to this. Though I had brought this on myself.
(Why are they on Sirius' side? Wait do they even know?)
This thought skipped through my mind. Besides Remus, the others didn't know about what Sirius had just done. I looked back at Severus. I gave him a smile and mouthed a thank you.
I realised the position I had just put Severus in. He was actually being rather good and James was gunna kill him, that's if Sirius didn't get him first.
(Why is Severus being so good about this? Any normal Slytherin would have walked off by now. Why was he taking this crap?)
I looked back up at the others.
"You're disgusting," James said turning away.
"He's Slytherin," Peter said stepping next to James.
"Yeah, well he's Gryffindor and look at what he did. Explain that?" I snapped angrily as I pointed at Sirius, who wasn't looking at anyone, he had fixed his attention back towards the castle.
"What did he do?" Lily asked confused. She seemed undecided on whose side to take.
"Why don't you ask him yourself?" I said coolly as I stood up and waited for Severus to stand. I took his hand and pulled him off towards the castle.
We stopped inside the entrance hall. I leant against the wall.
(What have I done? They probably all hate me. What am I going to do?)
Severus placed his hand on my chin and tilted my head upwards so I could see into the deep dark pools that were his eyes.
(Gosh, he's so sexy.)
He tucked a strand of my long blonde behind my ear. "Are you okay?" He asked softly.
I looked back down. "I have no idea," I began shaking my head. "What have I done?"
"You've done nothing wrong here. This is all them. Don't worry, I'm here for you," He pulled me into a hug.
He looked down on me, as he was slightly taller than I was. "Christina, can I ask you something?"
I nodded.
"Will you go to the ball with me? I was thinking that since you aren't going with Sirius anymore that maybe you'd like to go with me and..."
I placed my hand over his mouth. "I'd love to go with you," I said before I even considered the answer or question for that matter. It sunk in, what I had just said. And you know what? It felt right, and I wanted it. I was going to the ball with Severus Snape. And I couldn't be happier.
Snape's usual sexy smile spread across his face. It wasn't a look I usually saw out of happiness, it was more the look he had on his face when he was imitating sweet revenge or sarcastic delight but there was something about this smile that was genuine.
Suddenly Remus and Lily burst into the castle. Lily ran over to us, she shot a glare at Severus but pulled me into a tight hug.
"I'm so sorry," She kept saying. "I never thought he'd ever do that, he's just scum."
I just kept nodding. I looked over at Severus. He nodded and turned to leave. I grabbed his sleeve. "See you later," I said with a smile.
"Yeah, see you later," and he was gone.
Remus suddenly was at my side. "And what is that supposed to mean?" He shot.
"What?" I countered.
"See you later," Remus said in a mock girlish voice.
"First, I don't sound like that and second, it means exactly what I said."
I began to walk off in the direction of the marble staircase. Remus and Lily each appeared on either side of me.
"You can not see Snape," Remus practically ordered me.
"Why not?" I asked questionably.
"Because you love Sirius," Lily said in a matter of factly tone.
"No, I don't," I said loudly.
"Yes, you do!" Lily and Remus said in unison.
I shook my head and pushed passed them before I stormed off up the marble staircase.
We arrived at Gryffindor Tower. I quickly gave the password and entered. James, Peter, and Sirius were sitting in armchairs by the cold non-flammable fire.
They looked up as we entered.
(How can he hang out with that scum after what he did to me?)
Lily and Remus began to make their way to the other three sitting down, as I walked over to the girls' dorms. I began to climb the stairs. I closed the door behind me and walked over to my bed. I was ignoring the girls huddled in the other corner of the room, who seemed to be whispering about something.
I turned to my trunk to grab my book bag. Sirius was leaning against the post of my four-poster bed. My eyes met those of which had once been a magical blue, but were now just empty pools.
"What do you want Sirius?" I asked bitterly.
"To talk to you."
"No, duh," I waited for him to talk. "Well?"
"Um... yeah, well..." he led me over to the bathroom. "I was wondering if I could explain about..."
I didn't even wait for him to finish. "No."
"Please, Chris... Look, I love you, just hear me out."
"No, and oh... if you were wondering if we were still on for the dance, the answer is no. I'm going with Severus," I turned away and finished packing my book bag for the day.
"Snape?"
"Yes, Severus Snape. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to be late fore class."
I pushed passed Sirius and went to the door. I turned to doorknob.
"Chris, wait, can I ask why?"
"You want to know why?" I let go of the doorknob. "Because Severus cares about me and you- well your just a black," I turned and was out the door.
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Okay, here it is, completely re-mastered. It took me a whole bloody hour, maybe longer... but that's coz I was listening to music and shit. So it was a long and grueling chapter.
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