A/N: First things first: DON'T KILL ME!!!! I'm so incredibly sorry it's taken me so long to get this thing updated. That's what I get for setting things aside to take care of other things, and then things like school and work and extra curricular activities get in the way and just bog!!!! Good news though. I have a laptop now so I'm a bit more versatile and able to write more, at times when I originally couldn't without a laptop, so yay laptop. Also I should say there are some thanks in order. I thank one of my best friends trindejour for giving me the good kick I needed to get started back on this story cause she for some reason likes my writing (Believe it or not the only Harry/Sev fics she can stand are mine) , and also a huge thanks to all of those whom have reviewed this story. You guys over the past months have reminded me of the existence of this story and the existence of you guys out there who've read and been reading it. I thank you all.
Randmness of the Moraco: Now if only there were more hours in a day. I think I do too much sometimes
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The Young And The Hopeless
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Chapter 6
The Same As We Are
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Harry woke up being held by a set of strong arms, as he had done so for the past two months. This day was different though. It was nearly the middle of the day when he was waking up instead of the usual before the sun rose to make sure no one would notice there had been more than one person in his bed at all the previous night.
'Morning,' a deep voice said to him.
'You sure it's not afternoon yet?'
Sev chuckled.
Harry rolled over to face Sev and gave him a small peck on the lips. 'This is nice. I wish we could do this every morning forever.'
Sev's grip lightened from around Harry, and he turned his gaze away.
'Sev, what's wrong?'
'You know I won't be here forever. Not like this anyway, and despite the way I feel about you, your time's me isn't the same person,' Sev explained.
'I'm sorry. When you do finally have to go back, I don't know what I'm going to do,' Harry said.
'This is why I was very resilient about this whole thing in the first place. Besides, you know it will happen. It's obvious because my future self is here.'
'Can we just stop talking about this?' Harry gave Sev quite more than just a peck on the lips.
Sev gave Harry one of his glares. 'You can't just ignore this. No matter how I feel about you or you feel about me we both have to realize that I'll eventually leave soon at any random moment,' Sev explained. He sat up in the bed and began climbing out.
Harry grabbed Sev's arm. 'I really am sorry. I just try not to think about it and have the best time I can with you while you are here. I guess I'm just not prepared to give you up yet.'
Sev took Harry's hand, and kissed it. 'Try not to delude yourself anymore than you have.' Sev got out of the bed and began getting dressed.
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Sev was standing outside in the snow next to the lake where he had originally been found. He thought he'd exited the castle unnoticed, but alas he was not yet as sneaky as his future self had become.
Professor Snape came up behind his younger self and asked, 'What are you doing out here? I know perfectly well you hate the snow.'
'Snow is a …
Severus mock says at the exact same time '…cold, fickle, blasted piece of weather'
'My point exactly,' said Severus. 'Your portal isn't going to show up for another two months and three days. You should enjoy the time you still have to spend here.'
'You mean you've known all along how long I was to have to spend here?' Sev looked a bit angry whishing he'd known how much time he really did have.
'Of course. You do realize I was you. If you'd wanted to know you could have asked,' Severus told him. 'If you have questions, as long as they don't pertain to certain pieces of information, I will answer them. But I must request you do so inside where it's a bit warmer.'
'I'd like that. There's a few things I've been curious about,' Sev admitted.
'Follow me then,' the older Snape ordered. They walked down to the dungeons and to Snapes private chambers. Severus offered his younger counterpart tea, which he agreed upon. Severus sat in a large arm chair and Sev on a couch which had a small table placed in front of it where their tea sat.
'What would you like to know?'
'I've been questioning my feelings for Potter. I care about him, but I keep driving him away when he starts talking about the future because he never seems to realize that I will have to leave.'
'Stop trying to drive him away. You love him more than you'll ever love anyone else even to this day, and besides yourself personally will be gone, but technically you, or rather myself, live on in this time. Let him know that even now, you're incredibly in love with him and always will be,' Severus told his younger self.
Sev looks at his older self a bit startled. :: Did he basically just say that he loves my Harry more than anyone? Wait, when did I start calling him "MY Harry"? This is all just strange. So, if he's in love with Harry, and he was at one time me, then he knows everything Harry and I have done together, and if he loves him, then my true feelings for him must be those of love. ::
The older Severus started chuckling as he looked at the deep in thought face of his former self. 'Let him know how you feel. Let him know that he doesn't exactly have to give you up in a sense. Remember though, make everything worth while to yourself as possible. You, personally will have to wait 20 years to see him again as he is now.'
Sev stood to leave. 'If you'll excuse me, I need to go apologize to him.'
'He'll be moping in the kitchens with those loony house elves.'
'Thank you.' Sev left Professor Snape's chambers making way for the kitchens.
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A/N: Please excuse me for the horrible shortness of this chapter. After all this time this is what I have produced. It's sad, ne? Anyways though, let me know what you all think. The story only has a few more chapters to go…maybe I'll have them out before this time next year *dodges all the rotten veggies and sharp knives being thrown my way* j/k. Now if you'd be so kind as to click that review button down there and stroke my ego a bit, I'd be happier than a tiger lily. Wait, do tiger lily's have emotions? If they have one emotion I think it would be vanity because they're just pretty and they should know it. Okay I'm gonna stop rambling and be quiet now.