Title: That Lunch in December
Author: Deep-Ware
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: JK Rowling owns all the characters from the book and all the stuff I don't make up :D
Comments: Not the most important chapter, but it does answer a few things.
Chapter Six: Breakfast at Snape's
Snape apperated to the door of Professor McGonagall's office, and knocked on it. The wooden door swung back, exposing the one person Snape never expected to see that night; Ronald Weasley. McGonagall gave Snape one of her 'don't do anything stupid or else' looks, and left the room.
"Professor, I'm sorry to bother you, but I have to tell you something." Ron blurted the minute McGonagall had shut the door.
"Tell me what?" Snape asked, trying not to smile. 'If Draco really is in love with him, I'll have to be nicer. If so, I want to play one more trick on him.' Snape told himself.
"Well, I, uh, maybe we should sit down." Ron tried to say, blushing. He wasn't used to talking privately to the most feared, the most reckless, the most unfair teacher in Hogwarts. They sat, Snape never taking his eyes off the boy.
"Well, I'm...uh..." Ron started. Swallowing hard, he tried again. This time with more false confidence. "Professor, as you probably know by now, I'm gay. Since Draco is your godson, I thought you might like to know..."
"How'd you know that?" Snape asked, cutting the boy off. All reason to tease Ron disappeared, leaving him genuinely curious about the two boy's relationship.
"Draco told me." Ron tried to explain.
"Oh."
"Are-aren't you curious why Draco would tell me that? Aren't you even curious why he would talk to me?" Ron asked suspiciously.
"No."
"Why?"
"Hey, aren't you supposed to be afraid of me?"
"Well..."
Shaking his head and pursing his lips, Snape stared at what might just be his godson's only hope of not having to get the Death Eater's mark. 'Perhaps it is a good idea to tell Lucius. He would disown Dray on the spot, and then he could come live with me. I do sometimes get lonely, and Weasley could visit. What a wonderful plan!'
"Well, I suppose you're quite confused, am I right?" Snape asked the boy. Ron nodded slowly. "Draco came for dinner tonight, and told me about you two. Believe me Weasley, I'm not that cruel. I have nothing against being gay. Anyways, Draco told me he loved you. Would Draco be telling the truth if he said you loved him in return?" Once again, Ron slowly nodded his agreement.
A wicked thought came to Snape's mind, and he smiled inside. "And is he right in saying you're a good kisser?" Ron blushed, and the man had to grin. He loved playing tricks on people.
Ron looked at the ground, his cheeks very warm. When he looked up again, he blushed even worse. Professor Snape was smiling! 'He must have tricked me. Oh, I'm such an idiot! Well, I can trick him too!' Ron snickered to himself.
"Yes Professor, he would be right. And I would be right telling you that he is also a very good kisser. Of course he did more than kiss me this afternoon..." Ron said very clearly, making sure the man heard every syllable. Ron laughed as the potions master's eyes grew wide, his eyebrows knotted, and a look of disgust over came him.
"Weasley! Control yourself! That's disgusting! How can you even say such a thing!?" Snape yelled at his giggling student. Whipping out his want, he cursed the boy. Ron tried to scream, but no sound came out. "There. Now you can't say it again. Isn't that wonderful?" Snape said, smiling toothily at Ron.
Just then Draco cam running into the room. The two stopped arguing, and stared as Draco rushed, and hid behind, Snape's chair. "He's here!" Draco whispered, and squeezed his eyes shut, trying to make himself as small as possible. There was a rap on the door, and Snape stood. Quickly muttering the counter curse to give Ron's voice back, he went to the door.
Snape opened the door, and in strode Lucius. "Where is he? Where is that abomination?" the blonde man hissed. Eyeing the red head, he went straight for the chairs where Draco was hiding. He found Draco almost instantly, and pulled him up by his sweater. Lucius took out his wand and aimed for his son.
Before he could attack though, Snape laid a hand on the man's shoulder. "Don't." he said.
"Oh, and why not? Hmm? Severus, he's- he's-"
"I know hat he is."
"Well, soon he'll also be dead!" Lucius said, turning on his son again. Luckily Snape reacted fast. Grabbing the Lucius's wand arm again, he told the man "No" once again. As Lucius started to yell at Snape, Draco managed to sneak over to Ron.
"Are you alright?" Ron asked, getting up from his chair.
"Yeah." Draco said shakily.
"You don't look too good." Ron said, and he was right. Draco had a large bruise on his cheek and his left eye was swelling shut. A small cut was bleeding on his neck and his wand was no where in his robes.
"I've looked worse. Much worse." Draco said, trying hard to smile, but wincing. Ron embraced him in a hug, and they stood like that until a yelp was heard on the other side of the room.
Draco turned to stand next to Ron and, holding hands, they saw Snape on the floor, grabbing his leg with one arm and reaching for his wand with the other. Lucius was no longer trying to kill the teacher, but was staring at the doorway. The boys looked in that direction too and saw Madam Pomfrey, McGonagall and Fudge.
"Lucius, you'd best come with me." Fudge said. Lucius shot Draco a glare, and followed the minister out.
Snape groaned as he tried to sit up, but fell on his back again. Madam Pomfrey rushed to help him, and McGonagall turned to see the boys hand in hand. "Draco, it would be best if you slept in Severus's chambers tonight. If Lucius has escaped Fudge before, he will probably do it again."
Looking at Ron first, he nodded to McGonagall. "Alright."
He started to head for his godfather's room, followed by Ron, but McGonagall stopped them. "Where do you think you're going Mr. Weasley? I said Draco could go, not you."
"Please professor, we really need to talk. I swear I'll go back to Gryffindor right away, I promise." Ron pleaded.
"Well, alright. But only for a few minutes." McGonagall said, still frowning at the idea of the two being alone. Ron thanked her, and the boys went off, still holding hands, to Snape's room.
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The Next Day
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Ron woke on one of Snape's couches. Someone was sleeping next to him, their arms wrapped around him. Opening his eyes, he saw Snape sitting on another chair near them, reading the newspaper and drinking what smelled like tea. "'Lo Snape." Ron said groggily. He wasn't quite awake just yet.
The man looked over his paper and smiled. "You gave me quite a shock this morning you know. I mean, I come in to my room for some peace, and see my godson sleeping with another boy."
Ron grinned sheepishly and sat up a bit more, stroking Draco's hair absentmindedly. "Don't you have classes or something?"
"Saturday."
"Oh yeah." Ron said. Draco mumbled something in his sleep, and tried to roll over. Unfortunately, he was on a couch at the time and so he fell of. With a cry, he woke sitting on the ground, Ron and Snape booth laughing at him. Draco blushed, and laid back on the couch also laughing.
He stretched his legs out as far as they could go and let his head fall onto Ron's chest, turning it so he could see his lover. "Hello." Draco said grinning. Ron, grinning too leaned in to kiss the blonde.
"Woah! Stop! Teacher in here! At least get a room." Snape said, raising his hands in alarm. The younger boys both looked at him grinning mischievously.
"But Sev, this IS a room." Draco said. Then he kissed Ron. Ron, getting the joke, kissed him again.
"I'm going to make breakfast." Snape said as an excuse to get out of the room. When he left, the boys laughed.
"Is it safe?" Snape called from his kitchen. He had already eaten that morning, but he made pancakes for Draco and Ron.
"Yeah Sev, it's safe!" Draco laughed. He had gotten dressed, and was now at the bookshelf. Ron was still sitting on the couch, still smiling at Draco. Snape brought out the food on his trolley and after handing it to the boys, settled back in his chair, eager to read about Lucius's escape (it had said on the front page to see P3).
"Well Dray, dad's out again." Snape told them. Draco, who had been reaching for a book on the top shelf, ran over to his godfather. He sat on Snape's lap so he could see the paper too. Ron, plate in his hand, stood by the back of the chair. "Apparently he disappeared at five this morning, but is suspected to be out of the country."
Snape folded the paper up and looked up at Draco. "Dray, do you know of any forign Death Eaters? I remember that Indian guy, but he was killed last year. Was there anyone else?"
"Uhh...Karkaroff in Germany...yeah, I remember the Indian guy...but...wasn't there a Chinese one? I thought he came for dinner once...you were there, weren't you? He said something about your hair..." Draco said, lifting a piece of Snape's hair and letting it fall. The boy was obviously lost in thought, but his eyes came back into focus when he heard Ron choking.
"You alright?" Draco asked, rubbing the boy's back in small circles.
"Yeah. Sorry." Ron said after taking a swig of pumpkin juice. "I've just never heard anyone talk about Death Eaters so easily. I mean, you make it sound like something one talks about every day."
"Hello. Son of the Dark Lord's best friend here." Draco said, waving at Ron. "And Sev used to be one too, so yeah, we do talk about it a lot."
Ron had forgotten about that, and blushed. "Oh yeah. Sorry, I forgot. I mean, you don't act like the son of the Dark Lord's best friend at least."
There was a knock at the door, and Dumbledore let himself in. Draco stood up as Snape walked over to the Head Master, but then sat back down with Ron. The couch was large enough for two sixteen year olds to sit together, and the boys took every advantage of being together.
"Severus." Dumbledore said, greeting the teacher. Looking towards the boys, he frowned slightly. "I didn't know you had company."
"Yes, well Minerva thought it wise to keep Draco here for the night in case Lucius came back. As for Weasley, he came back here to comfort Draco and just forgot to leave. I found them sleeping on my couches this morning." Snape said, forgetting to mention the part about the boys sleeping on the same couch.
"Ah of course." Dumbledore said. "Severus, If I could have a word outside?"
"Of course."
When the teachers left, Ron looked at Draco, grinning. "So Dear. What now?"
"I have an idea." Draco said, also grinning from ear to ear.
-- -- --
The Hogwarts Grounds
-- -- --
"Severus," Dumbledore said to man beside him, waving to a student up ahead. "I was just talking to Fudge."
"I can only guess what about." Snape said, his hands clenched behind his back.
"Well, as you have probably heard, Lucius is gone again. He did leave something though. Can you make anything out of this?" Dumbledore asked as he drew a parcel out of his robes and handed it to Snape.
Snape unwrapped the small item, and stopped dead in his tracks, still looking at the item.
"Severus?" Dumbledore asked, coming to stand next to his colleague. "What is it?"
Snape was still speechless. "This, Albus, belongs to Draco."
A/N: longest chapter yet.....almost the end of the story......
-- -- --
CHAPTER PREVIW
Next Chapter: Mostly at the end of school...you find out what the parcel was...Draco
gets disowned...lots of angst...
Last Chapter: Set in the summer, Draco goes to live with Snape...Ron gets in fight at
home and runs away...Draco finds him at Diagon alley and brings him
home...at the beginning of school, Ron and Draco go public...
Author: Deep-Ware
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: JK Rowling owns all the characters from the book and all the stuff I don't make up :D
Comments: Not the most important chapter, but it does answer a few things.
Chapter Six: Breakfast at Snape's
Snape apperated to the door of Professor McGonagall's office, and knocked on it. The wooden door swung back, exposing the one person Snape never expected to see that night; Ronald Weasley. McGonagall gave Snape one of her 'don't do anything stupid or else' looks, and left the room.
"Professor, I'm sorry to bother you, but I have to tell you something." Ron blurted the minute McGonagall had shut the door.
"Tell me what?" Snape asked, trying not to smile. 'If Draco really is in love with him, I'll have to be nicer. If so, I want to play one more trick on him.' Snape told himself.
"Well, I, uh, maybe we should sit down." Ron tried to say, blushing. He wasn't used to talking privately to the most feared, the most reckless, the most unfair teacher in Hogwarts. They sat, Snape never taking his eyes off the boy.
"Well, I'm...uh..." Ron started. Swallowing hard, he tried again. This time with more false confidence. "Professor, as you probably know by now, I'm gay. Since Draco is your godson, I thought you might like to know..."
"How'd you know that?" Snape asked, cutting the boy off. All reason to tease Ron disappeared, leaving him genuinely curious about the two boy's relationship.
"Draco told me." Ron tried to explain.
"Oh."
"Are-aren't you curious why Draco would tell me that? Aren't you even curious why he would talk to me?" Ron asked suspiciously.
"No."
"Why?"
"Hey, aren't you supposed to be afraid of me?"
"Well..."
Shaking his head and pursing his lips, Snape stared at what might just be his godson's only hope of not having to get the Death Eater's mark. 'Perhaps it is a good idea to tell Lucius. He would disown Dray on the spot, and then he could come live with me. I do sometimes get lonely, and Weasley could visit. What a wonderful plan!'
"Well, I suppose you're quite confused, am I right?" Snape asked the boy. Ron nodded slowly. "Draco came for dinner tonight, and told me about you two. Believe me Weasley, I'm not that cruel. I have nothing against being gay. Anyways, Draco told me he loved you. Would Draco be telling the truth if he said you loved him in return?" Once again, Ron slowly nodded his agreement.
A wicked thought came to Snape's mind, and he smiled inside. "And is he right in saying you're a good kisser?" Ron blushed, and the man had to grin. He loved playing tricks on people.
Ron looked at the ground, his cheeks very warm. When he looked up again, he blushed even worse. Professor Snape was smiling! 'He must have tricked me. Oh, I'm such an idiot! Well, I can trick him too!' Ron snickered to himself.
"Yes Professor, he would be right. And I would be right telling you that he is also a very good kisser. Of course he did more than kiss me this afternoon..." Ron said very clearly, making sure the man heard every syllable. Ron laughed as the potions master's eyes grew wide, his eyebrows knotted, and a look of disgust over came him.
"Weasley! Control yourself! That's disgusting! How can you even say such a thing!?" Snape yelled at his giggling student. Whipping out his want, he cursed the boy. Ron tried to scream, but no sound came out. "There. Now you can't say it again. Isn't that wonderful?" Snape said, smiling toothily at Ron.
Just then Draco cam running into the room. The two stopped arguing, and stared as Draco rushed, and hid behind, Snape's chair. "He's here!" Draco whispered, and squeezed his eyes shut, trying to make himself as small as possible. There was a rap on the door, and Snape stood. Quickly muttering the counter curse to give Ron's voice back, he went to the door.
Snape opened the door, and in strode Lucius. "Where is he? Where is that abomination?" the blonde man hissed. Eyeing the red head, he went straight for the chairs where Draco was hiding. He found Draco almost instantly, and pulled him up by his sweater. Lucius took out his wand and aimed for his son.
Before he could attack though, Snape laid a hand on the man's shoulder. "Don't." he said.
"Oh, and why not? Hmm? Severus, he's- he's-"
"I know hat he is."
"Well, soon he'll also be dead!" Lucius said, turning on his son again. Luckily Snape reacted fast. Grabbing the Lucius's wand arm again, he told the man "No" once again. As Lucius started to yell at Snape, Draco managed to sneak over to Ron.
"Are you alright?" Ron asked, getting up from his chair.
"Yeah." Draco said shakily.
"You don't look too good." Ron said, and he was right. Draco had a large bruise on his cheek and his left eye was swelling shut. A small cut was bleeding on his neck and his wand was no where in his robes.
"I've looked worse. Much worse." Draco said, trying hard to smile, but wincing. Ron embraced him in a hug, and they stood like that until a yelp was heard on the other side of the room.
Draco turned to stand next to Ron and, holding hands, they saw Snape on the floor, grabbing his leg with one arm and reaching for his wand with the other. Lucius was no longer trying to kill the teacher, but was staring at the doorway. The boys looked in that direction too and saw Madam Pomfrey, McGonagall and Fudge.
"Lucius, you'd best come with me." Fudge said. Lucius shot Draco a glare, and followed the minister out.
Snape groaned as he tried to sit up, but fell on his back again. Madam Pomfrey rushed to help him, and McGonagall turned to see the boys hand in hand. "Draco, it would be best if you slept in Severus's chambers tonight. If Lucius has escaped Fudge before, he will probably do it again."
Looking at Ron first, he nodded to McGonagall. "Alright."
He started to head for his godfather's room, followed by Ron, but McGonagall stopped them. "Where do you think you're going Mr. Weasley? I said Draco could go, not you."
"Please professor, we really need to talk. I swear I'll go back to Gryffindor right away, I promise." Ron pleaded.
"Well, alright. But only for a few minutes." McGonagall said, still frowning at the idea of the two being alone. Ron thanked her, and the boys went off, still holding hands, to Snape's room.
-- -- --
The Next Day
-- -- --
Ron woke on one of Snape's couches. Someone was sleeping next to him, their arms wrapped around him. Opening his eyes, he saw Snape sitting on another chair near them, reading the newspaper and drinking what smelled like tea. "'Lo Snape." Ron said groggily. He wasn't quite awake just yet.
The man looked over his paper and smiled. "You gave me quite a shock this morning you know. I mean, I come in to my room for some peace, and see my godson sleeping with another boy."
Ron grinned sheepishly and sat up a bit more, stroking Draco's hair absentmindedly. "Don't you have classes or something?"
"Saturday."
"Oh yeah." Ron said. Draco mumbled something in his sleep, and tried to roll over. Unfortunately, he was on a couch at the time and so he fell of. With a cry, he woke sitting on the ground, Ron and Snape booth laughing at him. Draco blushed, and laid back on the couch also laughing.
He stretched his legs out as far as they could go and let his head fall onto Ron's chest, turning it so he could see his lover. "Hello." Draco said grinning. Ron, grinning too leaned in to kiss the blonde.
"Woah! Stop! Teacher in here! At least get a room." Snape said, raising his hands in alarm. The younger boys both looked at him grinning mischievously.
"But Sev, this IS a room." Draco said. Then he kissed Ron. Ron, getting the joke, kissed him again.
"I'm going to make breakfast." Snape said as an excuse to get out of the room. When he left, the boys laughed.
"Is it safe?" Snape called from his kitchen. He had already eaten that morning, but he made pancakes for Draco and Ron.
"Yeah Sev, it's safe!" Draco laughed. He had gotten dressed, and was now at the bookshelf. Ron was still sitting on the couch, still smiling at Draco. Snape brought out the food on his trolley and after handing it to the boys, settled back in his chair, eager to read about Lucius's escape (it had said on the front page to see P3).
"Well Dray, dad's out again." Snape told them. Draco, who had been reaching for a book on the top shelf, ran over to his godfather. He sat on Snape's lap so he could see the paper too. Ron, plate in his hand, stood by the back of the chair. "Apparently he disappeared at five this morning, but is suspected to be out of the country."
Snape folded the paper up and looked up at Draco. "Dray, do you know of any forign Death Eaters? I remember that Indian guy, but he was killed last year. Was there anyone else?"
"Uhh...Karkaroff in Germany...yeah, I remember the Indian guy...but...wasn't there a Chinese one? I thought he came for dinner once...you were there, weren't you? He said something about your hair..." Draco said, lifting a piece of Snape's hair and letting it fall. The boy was obviously lost in thought, but his eyes came back into focus when he heard Ron choking.
"You alright?" Draco asked, rubbing the boy's back in small circles.
"Yeah. Sorry." Ron said after taking a swig of pumpkin juice. "I've just never heard anyone talk about Death Eaters so easily. I mean, you make it sound like something one talks about every day."
"Hello. Son of the Dark Lord's best friend here." Draco said, waving at Ron. "And Sev used to be one too, so yeah, we do talk about it a lot."
Ron had forgotten about that, and blushed. "Oh yeah. Sorry, I forgot. I mean, you don't act like the son of the Dark Lord's best friend at least."
There was a knock at the door, and Dumbledore let himself in. Draco stood up as Snape walked over to the Head Master, but then sat back down with Ron. The couch was large enough for two sixteen year olds to sit together, and the boys took every advantage of being together.
"Severus." Dumbledore said, greeting the teacher. Looking towards the boys, he frowned slightly. "I didn't know you had company."
"Yes, well Minerva thought it wise to keep Draco here for the night in case Lucius came back. As for Weasley, he came back here to comfort Draco and just forgot to leave. I found them sleeping on my couches this morning." Snape said, forgetting to mention the part about the boys sleeping on the same couch.
"Ah of course." Dumbledore said. "Severus, If I could have a word outside?"
"Of course."
When the teachers left, Ron looked at Draco, grinning. "So Dear. What now?"
"I have an idea." Draco said, also grinning from ear to ear.
-- -- --
The Hogwarts Grounds
-- -- --
"Severus," Dumbledore said to man beside him, waving to a student up ahead. "I was just talking to Fudge."
"I can only guess what about." Snape said, his hands clenched behind his back.
"Well, as you have probably heard, Lucius is gone again. He did leave something though. Can you make anything out of this?" Dumbledore asked as he drew a parcel out of his robes and handed it to Snape.
Snape unwrapped the small item, and stopped dead in his tracks, still looking at the item.
"Severus?" Dumbledore asked, coming to stand next to his colleague. "What is it?"
Snape was still speechless. "This, Albus, belongs to Draco."
A/N: longest chapter yet.....almost the end of the story......
-- -- --
CHAPTER PREVIW
Next Chapter: Mostly at the end of school...you find out what the parcel was...Draco
gets disowned...lots of angst...
Last Chapter: Set in the summer, Draco goes to live with Snape...Ron gets in fight at
home and runs away...Draco finds him at Diagon alley and brings him
home...at the beginning of school, Ron and Draco go public...