Once In A Lifetime
When Harry woke up the next morning he could feel two arms around him. He was more than a little confused over his whereabouts. He opened his eyes. Oh shit... he thought when he remembered.
"Severus?" he said hesitatingly.
"Harry! You're awake! How do you feel?"
Harry thought for a while.
"I'm just a little bit tired. That's all"
"Gee, I wonder why," said Severus sarcastically.
"Severus, could you tell me how you really are? All I know is that you are this professor with a bitchy mood and snarling style with power over the innocent little students. And you're greasy!"
"Thanks for that description," he said dryly.
Harry smiled innocently.
"I guess I'm a lot like Sirius, young Sirius. But I'm smart, Sirius was not. I'm quite carefree. And I do have authority. I got the possibility to make people do what I want, and no I don't mean by magic. I guess I'm a bit evil but I hate Voldemort."
"Wow Sev! I always thought you said The Dark Lord."
"I do. Only with people I trust I call out Voldemorts name."
"And those who you trust are...?"
"You, Remus and Lucius."
Harry nodded. It made sense.
"But Severus, you knew about Peter!"
"I did not know who he was until it was too late. I didn't know Sirius had switched with Wormtail so I considered Peter as nothing threatening to the Potters."
"You blame yourself," Harry said firmly.
Severus midnight black eyes met Harry's emerald green.
"You can read my expressions?" Severus whispered terrified.
"Yes. My power inside me is bigger than before. I can look through you. But that's because I can study you from a close distance. Far away I can't read it so easily."
"I always knew your power would be great. After all James was a great and powerful wizard."
"Can you tell me about your time as a maroder?"
"I tell you when it's Christmas."
"Why then? It a very long time left!" he protested.
"Only a few weeks."
"Come on Sev! It's only the second day of September!"
"I can't tell you everything here. It's not safe."
"Safe?" Harry blinked. Hogwarts was the safest place on earth! But he didn't argue. He didn't know Severus all that well yet. Bloody hell! It felt like if he had known him for longer than just a day...
Madam Pomfrey came out from her office. She pulled a glass of something yellow into their hands.
"Drink!" she commanded.
It held a taste of fresh lemon.
"Probably the best thing I've ever tasted in here," Harry informed them.
"I have to say that the same goes for me. Poppy, when will we get out of here?"
"In two days."
"Come on Poppy! We are just tired! We can sleep in our own beds."
"Two days and that's final!" she stormed of to her office.
"Damn! Do you want to stay?" Severus asked him.
"No."
"Let's sneak out then."
"Yeah right" Harry snorted. "I've tried before. She can always tell when someone's at the door."
"Let's not use the door then," said Severus mysteriously.
"What do you mean?"
"Your father often made me go to this place after an attack or prank or whatever. I hate to be here and after two years of going in and out of here I finally found a secret passage to escape in."
"Where does it lead?" Harry asked curious.
"To the dungeons."
"Cool. Can we go now?"
"Yeah, I'll just leave a note as usual."
Severus wrote a note quickly.
BaD LuCk PoPpY!
LoVe SnAkEy