Chapter 10

Alex and Severus walked back to their chambers. "Why didn't you say anything?" She asked, finally breaking the silence.

"Would you have believed me?" He asked, glancing over at her.

"Probably not. Sev I need to ask you something and I need you to tell me the honest truth." She said, with a serious tone, as they walked through the door into their quarters and sat in the living room.

"What is it Alex?" He asked.

"Was I a Death Eater?"

"Yes. We both were. But you never really wanted to, you did it..."

"For you?" She asked briefly.

"Yes."

"Did I love you that much?" She asked without hesitation.

"Yes you did."

"Then what happened? If I loved you so much why would I let them put me in hiding?"

"Because you had escaped the Death Eaters and went to Dumbledore for help. We found a way to deactivate your mark and then hid it..."

"Let me see it."

"What?"

"My mark, I want to see it, take the spell off." Alex said rather forcefully.

"Are you sur..."

"Yes, show it to me." He pulled out his wand and rolled up her sleeve. His wand moved slowly over her arm as he muttered an incantation. Suddenly her arm tingled as the mark began to show.

"Oh my..." Alex began to say as it showed with more clarity.

"You were so happy when they covered it."

"I remember that, when you decided to become a spy... that's why you wouldn't go into hiding with me. Because Dumbledore wanted to keep someone in his camps as a spy." She fell silent and just looked at him.

"That's right." He said softly, as she closely examined the mark on her arm.

"They did a temporary memory-loss charm on me. So if they needed me for something they could bring me back... Am I needed for something then?" She asked.

"Not really. But we needed to find you and bring you here before one of the Dark Lord's servants found you/"

"Are you still a spy then?"

"Yes." There were a few more moments of silence.

"I remember the last time I was here with you. In your chambers." She began to blush.

"I couldn't have been... did I just see Alexandra Candence Scarlett Douglous Grant blush?" Snape asked with a mock tone and laughed slightly when she grimaced at the use of her full name.

"Do you really want to play that game Severus Nexus Alan..."

"Alright, this needs to stop. It's not my fault that my mother had a lot of names picked out for me."

"Indeed." She smirked, knowing that she had won a small victory.

"You were saying about that memory..."

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