Gosh guys! Sorry I took SOOOO horribly long to update!!!!!!!!! I really am!!! I've had soo much to do lately I havent been able to do hardly anything else! Well if you wanna go and yell at me... Go for it! My AIM is cousin5of9 -- Thank you for you patients! And please.. Now that Ive read the first FOUR chapters.. I know they are SUPER BAD. I will do better from now on... lol promise!!!

Harry Potter and friends are JK Rowlings. (But I do claim Liv Fox as MINE! muahaha) And I am making no money out of this, so chill man!

(Proff. Snapes Chambers.)

...After everything had happened... Severus Snape was feeling something he had never felt before. He had no idea what was happening. Was there something wrong with him!? What was this feeling.

"Maybe I'm just sick.Yes, I'm sick is all..." He said, getting more tired by the second

Lying in bed, he soon started his usual tossing-and-turning. It was always hard for him to get to sleep. HE was always thinking of all the things he had ever done wrong... These things had haunted him. And he did hate it so much.

He remembered, as a child, his father screaming at him about eating breakfast that morning. His father forced him to choke and throw everything he had eaten up. Then of course, yelled more. And the curses he had attempted to dodged were unheard of...

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(5 minutes later.. Proff. Fox's Chambers.)

...She had never liked the sound of the snow on the windows when she was alone in her room... It made her realize she was even more alone in this place. She did, hate this with all her heart.

"Why couldn't I go teach closer to home... Why did I have to go teach in another country!? I should have listened to my mom."

She remembered her parents both telling her, 'WHY CAN"T YOU STAY IN AMERICA!?' but as always she listened to her aunt who was always telling her to travel and go on adventures... 'For they bring excitment into your life...' as she would always say...

"Speaking of home... I think I'll go get some tea what do you think? Yea? okay lets go..." She wispered softly to her kitten, 'sparecat'.

Carrying the small ball of fluff out into the hallway and down the huge stes up stairs that seemed to tangle and become knots of winded road she made her way down to the kitchen...

Finally reaching her desitination... She sat down and waited for some small house elf to run and get her some of the warm beverage...

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Sitting alone in the library was better than sitting in your chambers with nothing to do. No one to talk to... Reading was deffinatly the better choice.

Finding the most comfortable seat, which few people knew about, Severus curled up with a cup of steamy summoned coffee in the giant chair. Relizing how fooling he might look if anyone saw him, in his dark green slippers, he quickly tucked his feet under a blanket and hoped no one would see him at all. Of course, as soon as he thought this. He heard footsteps and prayed that it was someone like Minerva or Dumbledore... They had been almost parents to him, without even knowing it... He always felt safe with them, he trusted them with everything he had... He knew deep down they didn't care about himin anyway. The only reason he forced him self to believe lies such as these.. Was only because when he was always getting oushed around... He NEEDED someone to care about him.. He wanted to know what it might feel like all along... Whatching other kids get on the train, saying goodbye to their parents... He wanted to know what it was like to miss someone. Maybe he even wanted to know what it was to have someone miss him...

"..oh. Hi Severus..." Liv said, a little startled by him.

"um... Good evening Ms. Fox..." he responded, a little embarrased maybe...

"...Call me Liv, pleasssse?" she pleaded with him.

"..Right... Liv... eh emm..." Severus blushed a tad bit at hearing this, and while quickly trying to change the subject he cleared his throught and in doing this spilled steaming hot coffee all over him self. Letting out the smallest squeak, he froze.

"..Sev, are you okay?... Severus?" She asked timidly.

He just looked at her. Not responding. Trying to force himself into believing maybe it didn't hurt one bit...

Now becoming a little concerned she said to him, "..Sev? Hey.. Are you okay? Did I say something?"

She didnt see the coffee spill, for she was making sure her cat wasn't wondering as she turned her head for a split second...

"...uh...h..h..huh...mm..." wimpered Severus, breathing quite heavily now.

Liv looked down and saw a large spot on his blanket, in fact, it was so hot, it made his blanket steam and hiss...

She quickly got some napkins and wiped up the liqui which she soon found burned her hand through the papers.

"No no. It's fine.. I'm fine... I..I swear.. don't touch me... You'll only hurt yourself. Please please, do stop... You should have to do this..." he tried to explain to her but she would have none of it.

"Severus... I know what I'm doing... Why was your coffee so hot anyway!?" she exclaimed.

"..I don't know.. I didn't know!" He tried to explain...

She finally held his hand and looked at him hoping for some sign of relief. None came. And... As she tried to look at his stomache, he would NOT allow it. He was already quite embarassed as it was. He really didn't see the point of causing him even more pain by letting her see himself. He was afraid she would tell him he was disgusting like everyone else had...

"..Severus. Let's go over to my room so I can take a better look it it. And I WILL. Take a better look at it whether you fght me about it or not..." she told him more than asked at all.

He sighed and noded his head in what could have been an agreement.

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Back in her room, he sat on her couch and hoped she wouldnt say anything about his appearance.

Lifting his shirt only up to the 4 rib bone up, she stopped. He was so very thin. She couldn't believe how malnourished he was... Looking closley at his ribs, she noticed something else. How horribly mangled his bones were. She always thought he was nervous, and that was the reason he breathed so heavily. She was wrong. He couldn't breath. Or he couldn't breath normally at any rate. His ribs had been pushed in, tangled, cracked, and she didn't know why. But she didn't bring this up just yet. Quickly she got an ice pack and placed it on his burn.

He gasped for breath, he wasn't sure if it was from her hands touching his waste or the cold ice she had placed so gently on him...

As she looked up at him kindly she asked, "Does that feel any better?" and he responded with a nod...

He was biting his bottom lip so hard she was afraid it was going to start bleeding any second. She relized he probably didn't notice he was acctually doing this either...

She gently kissed his forhead and she swore she could have heard another sigh of relief escape his lips... She noticed the slow blush rising on his cheeks.

At that moment he relized what was happening... He was slowly, but surley falling in love with her...

Slowly running her fingers up and down his rib cage felt so good to him. It was the first time he didn't hurt. He felt like he could breath again. He couldn't help but look at her. But everytime her eyes met with his be swiftly broke eyecontact with her and looked at the floor with something that almost looked like 'puppy dog eyes'...

She smiled slightly at this. She knew exactly what was happening. She felt almost bad for putting him through all of this. She didn't mean to cause him any stress. She just wanted to help him. She, without his permission, was healing his ribs, hoping fir a good outcome.

She was born with the power to heal, but never did anything about it. She didn't look into it too much. She woul hate being a nurse. She wanted excitment. Not hospitals.

"uh, what are you doing!?" he said as soon as he noticed what she was doing.

"What does it look like I'm doing Severus. That doesn't look too comfortable to me. It can't be. Do you mind me mending it?" she said smartly.

"...no", that was his answer and this was a shock to her.

She had always been prepaired to put up a fight with him. She didn't relize he wouldn't mind this. Sadly, she also realized, he was scared to death of what was happening... and she DID feel awful about it...

Not knowing what to do, she tried her best to comfort him. She sat down next to him on the couch and held his hand. She finally thought about what she was doing. She wondered if this frightened him even more so... She spoke to him in a calm soothing voice which in turn, put him to sleep.

When he noticed he was falling asleep he tried to stop himself, but had no such luck.

After about 10 minutes of this. He gradually fell asleep in her arms...

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