HI. I am sorry for not updating for so long but my really good friend had recently died and I was really depressed. Besides, my beta dissapeared. So this is the work of my new and wonderful beta Chelle. Hope you will like it. Review TELL ME WHO TO PAIR HARRY WITH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dawn had to admit she wasn't expecting to hear this. Tara was always really special to her and it hurt to know the truth now. The man in her arms was shaking violently and soon something wet touched her hand. Snape was crying and it broke her heart to see him like this.
Dawn faced him. His tears were falling freely, his big nose was red and his hair looked even more greasy. But no matter what her eyes saw, Dawn's heart said he was the most beautiful man in the world. She wanted to say something to the man clinging to her as if his life depended on her. Hot tears dropped on her shoulders as he muttered an litany of apologies.

"Shhh. It's ok. I am here. It's ok." At last Dawn's legs gave out and they both fell on the floor.

Severus was crying his heart out. He cried for everything he had done, for all his mistakes. He was so happy that Dawn was here for him. At the same time he felt very ashamed. Never in his whole life he had lost his control like that. Soon his tears died out and he simply wept silently in her embrace. Then those loving lips touched his eyes. They were light as butterfly touches and soothing as cool water. They made him realize Dawn wasn't going anywhere. She was here with him. It meant that everything was going to be fine.

Harry Potter was really furious with his sister. She'd left without saying anything. Well, maybe she did but she was supposed to be in the Common room at this hour and she wasn't. Harry was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't even notice the blonde vampire through which he went.

"Hey!" Spike shouted, but the young wizard was walking away - not even noticing him.

" Hey." He repeated, moving to stand in front of Harry.. At last green eyes saw him. "Just because I'm not corporeal that doesn't mean I'm not here you know."

"What?"

"You just walked through me. Believe me if I were still the 'Big Bad' I would kill you for doing that. But you wouldn't be able to walk through me then. Well, that's not important. You can't walk through me again."

"Huh?"

"Have you heard a word I just said?"

"No, sorry." Harry was getting really irritated by the vampire. How could Dawn stand him?

"Typical, just typical. You give your unlife for the world and what do you get? You become a Casper, an unnoticeable Casper."

"Listen, I don't know what your problem is but I was..."

Spike cut him off with a harsh laugh.

"You don't know what my problem is? Let me tell you. I am stuck in this god damned school in which there is nothing good except Bit. But she is too deep in love to even notice me. And all of you wizards are just so full of yourself it makes me sick. It's like a school of bloody poofs. And you. You are the biggest one of them. You are like long lost brother of Angel. Oh, it's all my fault. I am so guilty." Spike imitated Angel. Harry tunred away from him, and Spike growled.

"Hey, where are you going? I'm not finished."

"But I am." Harry didn't want to spoil his mood even more. He wanted to ignore blonde's screams but then something hit him. Harry fell on the floor and something landed on his lap. It was a box addressed for Spike.

"It's for you."

"I can see that. Open it."

*Why me?* Harry thought. He opened a box and...

"It's empty."

"Great." Spike turned around and walked into the wall. But except from passing through it he bumped into the wall.

"What the hell?" Vampire touched his bloody lips. Bloody? Something clicked in Spike's mind. He jumped on his feet.

"I am corporeal. Yes. No more Casper." He hugged the stunned boy. Suddenly he remembered something. So Spike put on his sexiest smile on.

"Want to shag?"