Title: Meant to Be???
Author: Requiem of a Dream
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters and I co-own the plot with a friend.
Meddling in People's Lives
*Author's POV*
Severus and Harry walked back towards the castle after having left Hermione and Ron in front of the Three Broomsticks. Things were settling down between the two and seeing them talking in the hall or being civil to one another was normal. No one knew of the bond except Hermione, Ron and Dumbledore. So no one knew why they were acting as they were, most thought that it probably had something to do with Dumbledore and a threat. Maybe something along the lines of, "If you two don't stop acting like children I'll make you live together." The entire student body knew of the hatred between the two and summed it up to an action that Dumbledore had taken.
So when Harry and Severus walked into Hogwarts together no one noticed. But what a few of them did notice was the fact that they both went down to Severus' chambers. This was not normal. It was strictly against school policy for students to enter the private chambers of a teacher. Rumors spread like a wildfire and by Monday the entire school knew that Harry had been into the Potion Master's chambers, and by Monday afternoon there were some very nasty rumors going around about the two. Dumbledore decided that he had to take action before the Daily Prophet or worse yet that Rita woman got hold of the information.
*Severus' POV*
'How could I have been so stupid? I shouldn't have let anyone see us enter the chambers together. I can see the headlines now, "Severus Snape Seduces Boy-Who-Lived."
It was dinner time and I was trying to get out of the Great Hall as soon as possible. But it seemed that Albus was trying to do his best to keep me at the table. I could feel the stares of Professors and students alike. I kept up my facade though. I acted as though nothing had happened. Then Albus excused himself from our conversation and stood up. 'It's about damn time.' I thought to myself.
Then I heard my name as he was speaking to the students, "...around this school involving Mr. Potter and Professor Snape. I can assure that none of these are true. Harry is now living with Professor Snape as his apprentice. Professor Snape wishes to become the DADA teacher and Harry will become Potions professor at the end of his seventh year. Now I hope to no longer hear anything unpleasant about the living arrangements."
And with that there was a buzz going around the Great Hall. Harry Potter, The-Boy-Who-Lived, wanted to follow in the footsteps of Snape and be Potions Professor. 'I sure hope that Albus knows what he is doing.' I stood up and headed towards the dungeons. I only wanted to go to bed and hope all of this was a dream.
*Harry's POV*
'I'm dead!!! Severus is going to kill me. The Prophet is going to have a field day with this.' I looked up and saw Hermione looking at me with concern written all over her face.
I said to her quietly, "I'm fine just wondering if I want to be buried or cremated." It worked I got her to laugh.
"I'm sure either way Professor Snape will do the other just to annoy you beyond the grave. No Resting in Peace for you."
"You're right. How long before Malfoy lets it slip to the Prophet?"
"I bet he has them all lined up outside right now. He's probably just going to wait till Dumbledore says something about it." Hermione said jokingly.
People had been staring at me all day and whispering as I passed and finally I gave up and just ignored all of them. No matter what I said or did it would all be a lie and I can't lie. Especially to another house-mate. Seamus, Dean, and Neville had been bugging me most of the day. They wanted to know what had possessed me to go near Snape in the first place. Finally I had to stun them to get them to leave me alone.
Then I heard my name as Dumbledore was speaking to us, "...Harry is now living with Professor Snape as his apprentice. Professor Snape wishes to become the DADA teacher and Harry will become Potions professor at the end of his seventh year. Now I hope to no longer hear anything unpleasant about the living arrangements."
It sure came easy to Dumbledore to lie to his student body and faculty for that matter. He never missed a beat and Then the full effect of what he had said hit me. I was no longer a part of my house. I would no longer be able sit at the Gryffindor table and I didn't have classes with the rest of the student body. Things were spinning out of control fast. I looked up just in time to see Severus close the door to the Great Hall. I got up and followed him.
When I finally reached him we were about half-way to the dungeons. 'Man he walks fast. He didn't leave the Hall much earlier than I did. He must have great legs.' Then I snapped myself out of my thoughts and called out to Severus.
"Hey wait up." I called out of breath.
"What do you want Potter?"
"Just to talk. When did you and Dumbledore come up with this crazy idea?"
"WE didn't come up with it. HE did."
"Oh. Umm . . . Sir? Does this mean that I have to act like your apprentice?"
"It would seem so. Call me Severus you are no longer my student."
"Oh. . . ok Severus." 'I love the way his name rolls off the tip of my tongue.'
"Severus doesn't being your apprentice mean that I now don't belong to a house and that I don't go to class and that well everything that matters to me is now gone?" I said just kinda letting it all spill out.
*Severus' POV*
"It would seem so." Then I looked back and saw his face. He looked as though he were ready to cry.
"What's wrong Potter?"
"Nothing Sir. Nothing."
Then he took off walking. I was having a hard time catching up with him. I had upset him and I wasn't sure what it was that I had said or done. So I walked up behind him and grabbed his arm. He tried to pull away but finally gave up.
"What's wrong?"
" . . ."
"Tell me."
"My house is my family, my friends my siblings, and everything that I imagined a family to be like was what the Gryffindor House was to me. And now again for the second time I'm having my family ripped away fro me and there is nothing I can do about it. All of my class time is to be spent in your classroom, all of my free time is for tutoring, and I no longer can I sit at the Gryffindor table to eat my meals I have to sit at the head table. Tell me when will I have time for what matters?"
"I don't know Harry. But I can tell you that you won't be losing your family. You will still have them and . . . . you will have me." As I said this I was unknowingly stepping closer to him.
We were just inches apart. He looked up at me tilted his head slightly and kissed me gently on the lips. Nothing passionate just there and yet it stayed with me even after he had ran off. I looked around and then realized that I didn't know which way he had went. I went to our chambers and decided to wait for him. I sat down in a chair by the fire and began to read a book that I had recently bought. It was entitled Brave New World and was shaping up to be a very interesting read.
*Author's POV*
Four chapters and two hours later Harry found a sleeping Severus.
'Look at him. He looks so angelic when he is sleeping. If anyone ever saw him like this they wouldn't know who he was. He's handsome and he's mine.' Harry thought as he walked over to Severus. Gently Harry shook awake Severus. When Severus opened his eyes and saw Harry he was surprised. He hadn't expected Harry to wake him.
"Severus I just want to say I'm sorry . . ." Harry was stopped in the middle of his sentence when the older wizard pressed his lips against Harry's.
Surprised at first, Harry stood there for about 2 seconds before he wrapped his arms around Severus' neck and pulled him in closer. Severus parted his lips and slid his tongue across Harry's lips asking for entrance. Harry responded immediately, opening his mouth. Severus probed it with his tongue gently, and then pulled back, opening his mouth to give Harry access. The kiss deepened but they had to break contact, they needed air.
Harry turned away from Severus and began to walk towards the bedroom. He had a hold of Severus' hand and was leading him to the bedroom. Upon entering the room Harry pulled Severus into another kiss. Harry let his mouth wander down Severus' jaw line and neck leaving love bites here and there. Severus moaned and pushed Harry back onto the bed. Severus had just gotten Harry's robes off . . . .
"Severus, Harry are you in there?" Albus called from behind the dungeon door.
'I'm going to kill that old man if it is the last thing that I do.' Both harry and Severus thought.
"Yes Albus," Severus called, "you meddling old fool." He added under his breath.
"I suggest that you get your robes back on. Who knows what that old man wants." He said to Harry.
"Ok Severus." Then Harry pulled his robes back on and went into the bathroom to washup real quick. Severus walked out into the small common room to let in their guest.
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Author: Requiem of a Dream
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters and I co-own the plot with a friend.
Meddling in People's Lives
*Author's POV*
Severus and Harry walked back towards the castle after having left Hermione and Ron in front of the Three Broomsticks. Things were settling down between the two and seeing them talking in the hall or being civil to one another was normal. No one knew of the bond except Hermione, Ron and Dumbledore. So no one knew why they were acting as they were, most thought that it probably had something to do with Dumbledore and a threat. Maybe something along the lines of, "If you two don't stop acting like children I'll make you live together." The entire student body knew of the hatred between the two and summed it up to an action that Dumbledore had taken.
So when Harry and Severus walked into Hogwarts together no one noticed. But what a few of them did notice was the fact that they both went down to Severus' chambers. This was not normal. It was strictly against school policy for students to enter the private chambers of a teacher. Rumors spread like a wildfire and by Monday the entire school knew that Harry had been into the Potion Master's chambers, and by Monday afternoon there were some very nasty rumors going around about the two. Dumbledore decided that he had to take action before the Daily Prophet or worse yet that Rita woman got hold of the information.
*Severus' POV*
'How could I have been so stupid? I shouldn't have let anyone see us enter the chambers together. I can see the headlines now, "Severus Snape Seduces Boy-Who-Lived."
It was dinner time and I was trying to get out of the Great Hall as soon as possible. But it seemed that Albus was trying to do his best to keep me at the table. I could feel the stares of Professors and students alike. I kept up my facade though. I acted as though nothing had happened. Then Albus excused himself from our conversation and stood up. 'It's about damn time.' I thought to myself.
Then I heard my name as he was speaking to the students, "...around this school involving Mr. Potter and Professor Snape. I can assure that none of these are true. Harry is now living with Professor Snape as his apprentice. Professor Snape wishes to become the DADA teacher and Harry will become Potions professor at the end of his seventh year. Now I hope to no longer hear anything unpleasant about the living arrangements."
And with that there was a buzz going around the Great Hall. Harry Potter, The-Boy-Who-Lived, wanted to follow in the footsteps of Snape and be Potions Professor. 'I sure hope that Albus knows what he is doing.' I stood up and headed towards the dungeons. I only wanted to go to bed and hope all of this was a dream.
*Harry's POV*
'I'm dead!!! Severus is going to kill me. The Prophet is going to have a field day with this.' I looked up and saw Hermione looking at me with concern written all over her face.
I said to her quietly, "I'm fine just wondering if I want to be buried or cremated." It worked I got her to laugh.
"I'm sure either way Professor Snape will do the other just to annoy you beyond the grave. No Resting in Peace for you."
"You're right. How long before Malfoy lets it slip to the Prophet?"
"I bet he has them all lined up outside right now. He's probably just going to wait till Dumbledore says something about it." Hermione said jokingly.
People had been staring at me all day and whispering as I passed and finally I gave up and just ignored all of them. No matter what I said or did it would all be a lie and I can't lie. Especially to another house-mate. Seamus, Dean, and Neville had been bugging me most of the day. They wanted to know what had possessed me to go near Snape in the first place. Finally I had to stun them to get them to leave me alone.
Then I heard my name as Dumbledore was speaking to us, "...Harry is now living with Professor Snape as his apprentice. Professor Snape wishes to become the DADA teacher and Harry will become Potions professor at the end of his seventh year. Now I hope to no longer hear anything unpleasant about the living arrangements."
It sure came easy to Dumbledore to lie to his student body and faculty for that matter. He never missed a beat and Then the full effect of what he had said hit me. I was no longer a part of my house. I would no longer be able sit at the Gryffindor table and I didn't have classes with the rest of the student body. Things were spinning out of control fast. I looked up just in time to see Severus close the door to the Great Hall. I got up and followed him.
When I finally reached him we were about half-way to the dungeons. 'Man he walks fast. He didn't leave the Hall much earlier than I did. He must have great legs.' Then I snapped myself out of my thoughts and called out to Severus.
"Hey wait up." I called out of breath.
"What do you want Potter?"
"Just to talk. When did you and Dumbledore come up with this crazy idea?"
"WE didn't come up with it. HE did."
"Oh. Umm . . . Sir? Does this mean that I have to act like your apprentice?"
"It would seem so. Call me Severus you are no longer my student."
"Oh. . . ok Severus." 'I love the way his name rolls off the tip of my tongue.'
"Severus doesn't being your apprentice mean that I now don't belong to a house and that I don't go to class and that well everything that matters to me is now gone?" I said just kinda letting it all spill out.
*Severus' POV*
"It would seem so." Then I looked back and saw his face. He looked as though he were ready to cry.
"What's wrong Potter?"
"Nothing Sir. Nothing."
Then he took off walking. I was having a hard time catching up with him. I had upset him and I wasn't sure what it was that I had said or done. So I walked up behind him and grabbed his arm. He tried to pull away but finally gave up.
"What's wrong?"
" . . ."
"Tell me."
"My house is my family, my friends my siblings, and everything that I imagined a family to be like was what the Gryffindor House was to me. And now again for the second time I'm having my family ripped away fro me and there is nothing I can do about it. All of my class time is to be spent in your classroom, all of my free time is for tutoring, and I no longer can I sit at the Gryffindor table to eat my meals I have to sit at the head table. Tell me when will I have time for what matters?"
"I don't know Harry. But I can tell you that you won't be losing your family. You will still have them and . . . . you will have me." As I said this I was unknowingly stepping closer to him.
We were just inches apart. He looked up at me tilted his head slightly and kissed me gently on the lips. Nothing passionate just there and yet it stayed with me even after he had ran off. I looked around and then realized that I didn't know which way he had went. I went to our chambers and decided to wait for him. I sat down in a chair by the fire and began to read a book that I had recently bought. It was entitled Brave New World and was shaping up to be a very interesting read.
*Author's POV*
Four chapters and two hours later Harry found a sleeping Severus.
'Look at him. He looks so angelic when he is sleeping. If anyone ever saw him like this they wouldn't know who he was. He's handsome and he's mine.' Harry thought as he walked over to Severus. Gently Harry shook awake Severus. When Severus opened his eyes and saw Harry he was surprised. He hadn't expected Harry to wake him.
"Severus I just want to say I'm sorry . . ." Harry was stopped in the middle of his sentence when the older wizard pressed his lips against Harry's.
Surprised at first, Harry stood there for about 2 seconds before he wrapped his arms around Severus' neck and pulled him in closer. Severus parted his lips and slid his tongue across Harry's lips asking for entrance. Harry responded immediately, opening his mouth. Severus probed it with his tongue gently, and then pulled back, opening his mouth to give Harry access. The kiss deepened but they had to break contact, they needed air.
Harry turned away from Severus and began to walk towards the bedroom. He had a hold of Severus' hand and was leading him to the bedroom. Upon entering the room Harry pulled Severus into another kiss. Harry let his mouth wander down Severus' jaw line and neck leaving love bites here and there. Severus moaned and pushed Harry back onto the bed. Severus had just gotten Harry's robes off . . . .
"Severus, Harry are you in there?" Albus called from behind the dungeon door.
'I'm going to kill that old man if it is the last thing that I do.' Both harry and Severus thought.
"Yes Albus," Severus called, "you meddling old fool." He added under his breath.
"I suggest that you get your robes back on. Who knows what that old man wants." He said to Harry.
"Ok Severus." Then Harry pulled his robes back on and went into the bathroom to washup real quick. Severus walked out into the small common room to let in their guest.
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