Author Notes:

To Rana an Shanaan: I know it sounds cheery because Snape gets semi-cured, but if you like torture rest assured, it will get worse before it gets better.

To empath89: Sorry. I've put the first initial of the person for whenever I switch perspectives. Let me know if it's okay/

Disclaimer: If I owned this I wouldn't survive on little debbie snacks. I'd survive off Chic Fil A.

Chapter 12

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Harry's heart-wrenching, body-wracking, sobs of misery where the first thing he heard after the sound of a gargoyal springing away. The sobs got louder, and louder, seeming to pierce his body, so that he didn't even try to master his first impulse.

"Remus don't-", Dumbledore's voice. He wrapped both arms around Harry, including the one Severus held onto.

Harry's scream of both physical and mental pain came right before the huge magical surge that threw them all across the room.

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He reflectively opened his eyes when he awoke, and just as quickly closed them. The light had hurt, and his head was only concentrated on the pain, and not the miracle. He groaned softly in a weak, raspy voice, not hearing the slight sound through the shield his ringing ears put up. He buried his aching head into Lupin's shoulder. A shoulder, that was rolled off of him, along with the rest of Lupin. He heard an indistinct mumer beside him, and then," Severus….rrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinngggggggggg…..talking? Riinng…hear…rin-me?"

He covered his ears. Like the light, voices hurt too. Trying as best he could to block all sound with one hand, he reached for Remus with the other.

"I'm taking you, Harry, and Remus to the hospital wing!" Dumbledore shouted, making sure to say each word loudly and clearly.

"Remus…hurt?" he asked in his broken, weak, raspy voice"

"Yes Harry's magical release hurt him badly!"

"Potter…hurt?"

"Yes."

"Good…hurt…Remus"

"Can you walk or see at all!"

He opened his eyes again,"…hurts…". He didn't hear the metallic clank of Dumbledore conjuring another stretcher.

2 days later

"Mr. Snape you need to sleep!" Madame Pomfry shouted near the only non-bedridden inhabitant of her infirmanry. He bodily turned around to face her and tilted his head until he saw her in his tunnel vision. Looking at her through his shades he said," not…sleepy"

"You haven't slept in two days!"

"not…sleeping"

"Tomorrow you'll wish you'd slept!", she looked at his evidently confused face before continuing," Headmaster Dumbledore is giving you a job interview! I told you yesterday!"

"I'm…not…teaching…not…leaving"

"Your expected at 8 in his office tomorrow! The password is Cadbury Chocolates!

8:54 am tomorrow

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"Ah, Severus there you are!", Headmaster Dumbledore said to the man purposely ignoring him. He sat down in the second chair next to Severus, by Remus's bed. "Have you slept!" he asked getting no response. "Well, I'm here to tell you that your next class is in five minutes! I already have the supplies ready!" he continued undettered. Severus gave him a look of incredulity. "Out of all my applicants you were best qualified!"

"What…makes…youthink…I'm…going…to…teach?"

"Because you want us to continue taking care of Mr. Lupin!"

"You…wouldn't…throw…him…out"

"It's school policy to care only for those connected to the school, as Mr. Ewing from the board has been kind enough to remind me!"

Severus's eyes widened. They couldn't throw Remus out!

"So, my only choice is to send him to Mungos with it's horribly tight visiting policy…unless, of course, if he were living with one of my professors!"

"I'll…teach"

"Good!", Dumbledore replied clapping him on the shoulder," the class is in two minutes!"

"…Remus?…"

"I'll let you know when he wakes if you're gone!"

He watched Severus leave smiling that his two problems were solved. Lycanphobic parents could not complain anymore to the school board, and Severus was no longer zombie-ishly sitting by Remus's bed. He was focusing on teaching now, and who knows, maybe he'll actually sleep for the first time in two days

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