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Chapter Five: Oh Great
"Good Morning Professor. How are you doing on this fine morning?" Harry said cheerfully, too cheerfully for Severus' standards. As far as he was concerned, no one in their right mind would be bright and sunny this early in the morning. It was only 6 o'clock Saturday morning.
"Good Morning Potter and my welfare is none of your business. I thought you would be lazy and stay in bed until noon like the rest of the students." Severus kept his voice and expression cold while looking at Harry. He was wearing only his pajama pants and he gave Harry a glare that clearly stated, if you remark on my state of dress you will die a very fiery and painful death.
Harry walked to the counter silently. He fixed himself a cup of tea and sat down at the table. Severus was looking at the paper with a concentrated gaze. Harry looked at the way Severus was dressed and sat back to enjoy the view. Slightly pink scars littered the top half of his body and his skin was just as pale as his face. Harry thought his skin color made him look like a porcelain doll, a sometimes-scary porcelain doll. There wasn't any hair on his chest but there was a little line of hair that led from his bellybutton to below his pants. The muscles on his stomach were defined but not overly so. They didn't show completely but if someone saw his body, they would understand that he possessed a lot of physical strength.
Oh my dear God. I never knew he looked like that under his robes. Great, now I'm not going to be able to control myself in class. I want to touch him so bad.
"Potter, do you have a problem with staring at people?" Snape asked without looking up from the Daily Prophet.
"Umm no, Sir."
"Good. Now pay attention Potter. I am not going to let you lay about while you are having something that resembles an apprenticeship with me. You are going to pass all your N.E.W.T.S. with O's. Even in Potions. Are we clear?"
"Yes, Sir, we are."
"Good, go get ready. We will start with Potions." Harry got up from the table and left the room without a sound.
He cannot like me and I cannot like him. Therefore I'm going to make it so he hates me more than he did before.
Severus got up from his chair, placed the Daily Prophet on the table, and grabbed his teacup. He carefully placed the teacup in the sink and left to go get dressed.
(Harry's Room)
Harry was rummaging through his drawers to find something good to wear.
Okay, I was right yesterday. Instead of liking me, he has a reason to kill me. I should have kept my mouth shut. Now it is going to be very strained between us. This is just what I need right now. Well there's no use in not trying. I'm going to keep trying with him because I have a hunch that he might like me.
Harry's decision on clothing was a pair of somewhat baggy pants, a green shirt that tightly hugged his chest, and a pair of white sneakers. He left his room and Severus was already waiting for him in the living room.
"Potter, there is no need to primp for standing over a cauldron." Severus stated when Harry entered the living room and he looked at Harry's wardrobe.
"I was not primping, Sir." Harry said with his voice raised slightly. Harry looked at Severus' outfit and thought he looked really good. Severus was wearing his normal black slacks with a black button up shirt that had the sleeves rolled up to the elbows and two of the buttons were undone at the neck.
Holy Crap Severus looks really good.
They walked off to Severus' personal potions lab and they both set up a cauldron for themselves.
"Are you set up now Mr. Potter?" With a small nod from Harry he continued. "The Ministry needs Veritaserum and I was asked to make it. I will make the potion in my cauldron and demonstrate what needs to be done." Harry nodded as he watched his teacher. Snape conjured up a piece of paper that had all the ingredients for the potion and brought it over to Harry. Harry couldn't believe how much different Snape was at teaching one on one. He wasn't any better but everything made more sense.
Harry watched his teacher carefully and couldn't help noticing that Severus had a certain style with his potions. His hands simply glided as he chopped and stirred. Harry fell in love with the movements he made. He wished that those hands would pay attention to him. His hands were one of the best parts of Severus. They were long, slender, and very sexy.
"Potter pay attention, this is the critical part. Now do as I do. We're almost done." From then on Harry watched Snape and repeated what he did.
The potion was now done and Severus was inspecting Harry's work. He looked at the potion and carefully swirled it around in the phial.
"It looks correct Mr. Potter. I expect you to now be able to make this in class and not blow up my classroom." Severus smirked and Harry smiled at his teacher. This was great. Severus would be happy with him, for once. "Potter it's almost lunch time so you might want to go to the Great Hall after you clean up." Harry nodded and started cleaning up his space. Right after he was done, he left to go to lunch.
I'm surprised. The boy can actually make a potion correctly. It looked perfect. Maybe he isn't a complete imbecile.
"Hey Harry. How was your morning?" Hermione looked at him with a smile on her face. Her hand was resting on Ron's knee.
"Oh it was ok. I had to brew a potion for Professor Snape."
"Sounds like great fun." Ron said in a sarcastic tone.
At that moment, Dumbledore stood up and tapped his fork on his glass.
"Good afternoon students. I am pleased to inform you of the students that have taken up our new program. Neville Longbottom, from Gryffindor, will be with our Herbology teacher, Jacquie Larsen from Slytherin, will be with our Tranfiguration teacher, Draco Malfoy, from Slytherin, will be with our Defense against the Dark Arts teacher, Hermione Granger, from Gryffindor, will with our Arithmacy teacher, and lastly Katrina Lenius, from Ravenclaw, will be with our Charms teacher. Thank you students and staff, enjoy your meal."
"Hermione, when were you going to tell me that you joined the program?" Ron inquired of his girlfriend.
"I was just going to let it be a surprise, Ron"
"Well that's just great. Well as long as you're happy."
"Hey Harry, are you going to come to practice tonight? We're going to need you for the next game. I still can't believe that Umbridge banned you from Quidditch. Just be happy that she's gone and so is that ban. If that ban wasn't gone we would have lost every game so far."
"Yeah sure I'm going. Professor Snape will probably glad that I'm gone."
"Can you believe that we only have one more month left in Hogwarts? What are we going to do when we leave here? I'm going to miss this place when we're gone." Hermione asked the rest of the trio.
"I have no idea what I want to do with my life yet. Ron wants to be an Auror and I can't deal with anymore evil wizards. Quidditch sounds good to me. It's a lot of attention but since it's something that I love, I can deal with it." Harry stated after a moment or two.
"Yeah Harry, that sounds good for you." Ron commented around a load of food that was crammed in his mouth.
"Alright guys, time to go study for our N.E.W.T.S." Hermione announced.
"Great." Ron mouthed to Harry.
After a couple hours of studying, the Golden Trio went down to the Great Hall for dinner. Nothing eventful had occurred while they were studying besides chocking on a piece of food that he carried upstairs.
"Come on Harry, I know you can eat your food faster than that. We got to get our brooms and head out the pitch soon." Ron urged his friend.
"I'm not an endless pit like you Ron. I have to take more time than you."
"Screw excuses, let's go." Ron grabbed a hold of Harry's arm and ran to get their brooms and gear.
Once on the pitch, Ron and Harry were yelled at for tardiness and therefore had volunteered themselves to demonstrate a drill for the other people on the team. Harry came close to falling to the ground a couple of times. They practiced for two hours then headed inside to take their showers.
"Hey Ron, I'm just going to head off to my room. I can take a shower there. See you tomorrow mate."
"Okay, see you later."
Harry trekked out of the changing room and headed back to Severus' quarters in the dungeons. He came up to Lucien and spoke the password. Lucien didn't open and Harry wondered what was going on.
"Lucien, why aren't you opening? Did Professor Snape change the password?"
"No, the password is still the same. I wanted to speak with you Mr. Potter. If you really want Severus you're going to have to wait for him. He's slow on love but he will realize it. Just Wait." Lucien's portrait swung open and Harry went inside.
While walking to the bathroom Harry thought about what Lucien said. When Harry entered the bathroom, Severus came through the portrait. Harry hadn't heard him enter and Severus didn't know Harry was back yet.
How long does imbecilic Quidditch practice take? I don't want Harry interrupting me while I'm working. He can be so annoying when he does that.
Severus started opening the door to the bathroom but stopped when he caught sight of someone taking off their clothes. It donned on him that it was Harry and before he shut the door, he saw Harry taking off his boxers. Severus strode quickly to his room and shut the door.
Oh Merlin, Harry naked was not a sight I needed today. Great this is going to make me think of him naked every time I see him now. Now I really am a perverted old man.
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A/N: Okay I'm done now. Well hate to tell you all but I'm a comment whore, so give it to me. Sorry about that. The chapter I first posted was the unbetaed one and I felt as though you guys should have the good one so there you have it. Sorry about that and I hope you enjoyed it.