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Summary: "...we now have to dance around a deranged werewolf who might off himself at any moment...", Remus isn't dealing well with the aftermath of OotP, Severus doesn't deal well with life. RL/SS.
Warning: OotP spoilers and some suicide themes. This is a slash fic, meaning m/m relationships, don't like it, don't read it. I put this as PG- 13, but there is swearing, so it might even be R, dunno.
A/N: Hey all! Yay! New chapter! Lol! Took me long enough! The funny thing is I had it all typed up weeks ago, but my comp died...sorry! hopefully the next one won't be as long coming! And the story gets a LOT less angsty from here.
Chapter 2: Drinks and Duvets!
Remus had put off his visit to Snape's quarters to collect his potion, forgetting it by Sunday night. The weekend had pasted by uneventful at the Black mansion and Sunday evening found Remus drinking gin while looking at old Hogwart's albums. He came upon a picture of Severus Snape glaring at James Potter, he leapt to the fireplace, remembering his need for a certain potion.
Flooing to the Potion's classroom, he found it empty, he stumbled to the office where Snape usually awaited him. No Severus, he must be in his rooms. Having little idea where they could be, Remus wandered around the dungeons and the floor above, knocking on random portraits, getting very grouchy looks from many of the paintings.
*****
Snape heard the pounding on the walls of the hallways outside his rooms, "Lupin," Snape growled.
Exiting his rooms. He found the tired looking man banging on a picture of a fox hunt a couple paintings down. "Lupin" Snape called.
The slouched man jumped and turned to him.
"Goddamn Lupin, you look like shit", Snape exclaimed in surprise, and he did, Remus' eyes were glazed, his clothes were rumpled, and he still hadn't shaved.
"You're a prize yourself Severus dear," Remus slurred his words, "I need the ah...ah...potion, unless you want to wait till tomorrow."
"No come in," Snape beckoned Remus sharply towards his private rooms. "It's in the store room, I'll get it. Feel free to pour yourself a drink," he said in mock politeness, not like Lupin hadn't had enough already, Snape noted as Remus swayed a little where he stood.
Remus slouched in one of the chairs and stared intently at the fire.
Snape returned with the vile and shoved it towards the beaten man. He poured himself a second drink from the almost full canter. He lost himself within the flames before he realized Remus was still sitting in the chair next to him.
"Lupin" Snape yelled to the half-awake man, he shoved a glass towards him and motioned to the canter. He waited till Lupin had poured himself some.
"Dumbledore wants you to stay for the next couple days, for Potter's sake," Snape spat. He hated being Albus' lacky.
Lupin laughed demonically, "What could I do for him, look at me, I'm a fucking wreck, I mean I was starting to accept that fact, like I did Lil and James, but with Wormtail and all, loneliness is maddening." Remus downed his glass and poured himself some more. Snape followed suit.
"If you're looking for sympathy..." Snape started with a growl.
"I an't gettin' it. Yah I know, for god's sake Severus could you be civil for one fucking evening?" Remus cried in exasperation.
Snape started to retort but stopped himself, why not, he hated drinking alone and if the only company he could come by was Lupin's, he'd deal. "Fine" he spat, "Have a couple drinks. But after that go find Dumbledore."
Remus smiled slightly, "Why don't we start again then," Remus held out his hand, Snape raised his eyebrow. "I'm Remus Lupin, a crazy werewolf with no life,"
Snape rolled his eyes; this was going to be a long night. "Severus Snape", he returned coldly.
*****
Two hours later, the canter more then half empty, the fire dieing, the two man sat, no slumped, barely sitting in their chairs, both completely buggered, pouring out their woes.
"....and she left you because of your choice of bedcovers," Remus laughed hysterically at Snape's failed love story.
"Yah" Snape responded, joining in the drunken laughter. " Have a look for yourself, it's a pretty nasty colour" he slurred. He pulled himself difficultly to his feet and dragged Lupin with him. Remus laughed and stumbled along with him, each leaning heavily on each other.
"See?" Snape asked almost incoherently and laughed as Remus raised his eyebrows to the puke green colored-duvet and then to Snape.
"Not black, Snape you surprise me," Remus spat out between giggles. "But I think it's S-E-X-Y anyway, Sevvie."
Snape returned the eyebrow raise, and smirked a smirk to rival any Malfoy's. "Really?"
"Really" Remus confirmed, leaning into Snape's face, brushing his lips against the other man's.
Snape stared, surprised for a second, but smiled a drunken smile. He pushed Lupin towards the bed.
"OH I don't think you want to do that Mr.Lupin." Snape said kneeling beside where Remus had fallen on the bed.
"I bet I do," Lupin's lips quirked.
This was more then Snape could take, he pulled Lupin into a full-fledged snogging fest. Limbs flailing to rid themselves of clothing and all other thoughts fled their heads.
*****
'Ow', Snape groaned, he would never drink that much again he opened his eyes, but shut them quickly to the brightness of the little light streaming through the tiny ground level windows.
His head felt like a sledgehammer had hit it, he untangled his arms from the rumpled sheets and the chest of the man next to him, to rub his temples despairingly. Snape opened his eyes again, whomever the man was he still looked asleep. He must have been pretty pissed to invite some stranger home, a man no less, considering he'd hardly admitted to himself he was gay. It was unlike him to be so forward when it came to sex. He leaned forward to get a better look at the bedside clock, 6:30am, fuck it; he'd skip breakfast at 7. Classes didn't start till 8:30 anyway; he wrapped his arms around the other man again and fell asleep. He'd think about what to do when he wasn't so tired.
*****
Hermione, Ron and Harry rushed into breakfast, afraid of being late, they soon realized others had overslept, it being the first weekend after school started.
"Bloody Mondays" Ron grumbled before digging in.
"Hey, look Snape's not here either, maybe he'll be late for potions this morning," Harry said hopefully.
"Probably still fuming over not getting us expelled on Saturday," Ron responded through his mouthful of ham and eggs.
"Or maybe", said Ginny, who had just sat down, picking up the conversation, "He had a hot date." She giggled. Ginny was always excited about other people's love lives.
"Ew, Ginny, god, I can't believe you're my sister, that's just gross," Ron blanched.
"Well it would explain his weird behaviour the other day, maybe he's in love," Hermione said logically, she and Ginny loved ganging up on Ron.
"Ew, not you too 'Mione," Ron choked and turned to Harry, "Can you believe these two?"
"Huh, oh yah, that's great Ron," Harry responded listlessly, he was watching the owls coming in, no messages from Snuffles, ever, he sighed deeply. The others exchanged concerned looks.
*****
The school bell rang, to signify a half an hour till classes, Snape jerked awake in surprise, damn, breakfast was almost over and classes were soon. He struggled to wake himself up completely; he pushed himself up till he was sitting on the edge of the bed.
Remus moaned and asked, "What time is it?" in a groggy voice, muffled by the feather pillows. He turned to towards the naked back of Snape.
Remus thought, 'Where am I?'
"It's 8:10," Snape responded sharply turning towards Remus, still tangled in the sheets. Their eyes locked, recognition dawned on both their faces. They both yelped in surprise and Snape lost consciousness for a several minutes.
When he came to, Remus was rushing (stumbling) around the room, cursing madly, holding his head with one hand, and gathering up his discarded clothes with the other.
"Fuck" Snape yelled loudly and followed, gathering his own belongings and raced towards the on suite bathroom.
"Exactly," Remus yelled through the door as it closed behind Snape, "That's exactly what happened."
Snape burst out of the bathroom still half dressed, "How did this happen?" he raved at Remus as he went into the living room to grab their wands, magic would make things simpler.
"I think you'd better explain yourself Severus," Remus stated commandingly, he followed Snape out and grabbed his own wand to finish dressing.
"ME???" Snape yelled in return, "You're the one in my bloody rooms!"
"Well..." Remus said slowly rubbing his head thoughtfully, " We're definitely hung over," he laughed and pointed to the glasses and brandy canter.
"Well no shit," Snape hissed, "Not that you could tell with you, you're that ugly hung over or not" Snape felt the need for some insults to re- establish himself, not his best, but it was still early.
"Well you didn't seem to find me so unattractive last night," Remus smirked before the real meaning of his own words sunk in, he groaned and brought his hands to his temples again.
"You little..." Snape's eyes blazed, as he turned to throttle Lupin.
The school bell rung, to begin classes before he could leap. Abandoning Lupin he quickly got ready and raced the short distance to his 6th year Slytherins and Gryffindors class (A/N: bet you never saw that one coming huh? Smile). The entire class turned to him as he banged the door open and stormed into the classroom late. Had Snape's head been pounding less he could have come up with a legitimate reason for being late but the shock of what happened hadn't worn off. He felt no need to justify himself anyway he glared at the students.
Snape swept through the aisles to his desk and immediately began searching through his desk drawer for his headache potions. He finally found some and drank greedily, only then did he look up at the class, to his surprise they all sat staring at him, even Granger wasn't working.
"Well?" he demanded icily, " Get to work."
The students looked at each other questioningly and a hand shot up, Granger's of course.
"Yes Ms. Granger," Snape said in an exasperated tone.
"Sir you haven't given us a potion to do," she pointed at the board. Several students giggled before catching Snape's glare, needless to say each lost 5 house points.
Snape growled and took out his wand to put the instructions on the board, shit his wand. He'd put it down to attack Lupin, he must heave been REALLY out of it to go at him like a some muggle and then forget his wand. First years weren't that stupid. Several students seemed to notice this and gasped.
"Sir, would you like me to put one up there?" Hermione asked politely.
"Yes," Snape sneered, " And 10 points from Gryffindor, for being so damn annoying,"
Hermione gasped, and Ron attempted to glare a hole through him. Draco started laughing at the look of the Gryffindor's faces. Snape was in no mood, he turned swiftly towards the boy. "Oh shut your trap," he said and then smiled at the look on Draco's face. Snape made his way towards the classroom door, to retrieve his wand.
"Ummm...sir?" came Hermione's voice again, less confident then before.
'Does she ever shut up?' Snape thought, "YES?" he said impatiently.
"What potion?" she asked.
"Oh," Snapes mouth dropped open, "Potion, right, potion, I don't bloody care what potion. Take one from page 189 in your textbooks or something. He growled and stormed out of the classroom.
"Well," Ron turned to his friends, " That was very....interesting?"
Harry just sat there stunned.
"So who wants to ask him for the supplies we need when he gets back?" Hermione asked.
The two boys just gawked at her, "What?" she demanded, "What?"
*****
After Severus had left, Remus went to the bathroom to wash his face, being honestly scared of what he saw, he decided a shower would help. Dumbledore had left a note asking him to meet in his office around 10, he had time, and he needed to be presentable after all. He still wasn't sure how much he liked the idea that Dumbledore somehow knew he was in Severus' rooms, 'Bloody man has spies,' he grumbled.
How much he didn't want to stay in Snape's quarters what with last night, but he wasn't about to go wandering around Hogwarts looking for a bathroom. He rang a house elf and had tea and scones sent up for after his shower. He was just pouring himself some tea, while still in one of Severus' black fluffy towels, when Severus came into the room furious. 'That man has some anger issues.' Remus thought.
"Hello Severus," Remus said in his polite cheerful Lupin-voice, causing the other man to jump.
"Lupin," Snape sneered. He looked to Remus, taking in the teacup and his clothing, well lack-there-of. 'Wow, he actually has abs,' Snape mentally slapped himself for that thought. " What are YOU still doing here?" He demanded.
"Spending as little time as possible, I assure you," Lupin retorted, "I couldn't very well go see Albus looking like I took a tumble with some nasty creature," He smiled, he could be evil when he wanted to be. Snape's eyes grew wide with anger, he marched up to Remus until he was mere inches from his face, "You dirty dog" he spat, "Get changed and out of my rooms this instant!" he roared.
"With pleasure," Remus returned, smile never faltering; he spun on his heels to get the remains of his clothes from the bathroom.
Snape rubbed his temples again, "Bloody Perfect," he snatched his wand from the nearby table and was gone.
*****
He returned to find his class in uproar; it mostly was centered around the Dream Team, mostly Granger and Malfoy.
"Mudblood" "Ferret" "Bucktooth" "Pureblood Whore" and it went on back and forth, with Harry and Ron trying to avoid the threatening looks they were receiving from Malfoy's bulk of friends. Wands came out, and Snape intervened, when he realized no one noticed him.
"THAT IS ENOUGH" Snape's voice boomed over the class, Hermione and Draco dropped their wands in surprise.
"Ms. Granger and Mr. Malfoy, I have had quite enough of this. You both will be serving a month's detention with Filch." Draco's eyes went wide with disbelief, "TOGETHER" Snape stated, watching both their faces turn slightly green. "And Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley, 10 points off each for doing nothing to help the situation."
"Well? Class, get to work", with a swish of his wand the ingredients appeared on the desks. The students moved to start their potions.
The rest of the class was uneventful and reasonably quiet, except for the odd whisper between the students concerning Snape's weird behaviour. Snape spent most of the class with his head on his desk, rubbing his temples; he'd have to improve his headache potions. "Bloody werewolf," he mumbled. He didn't notice the weird looks he received from Potter at this.
The bell rang and the students rushed to pour their potions into the vials and brought them up to Snape's desk. "Oh and before you go, note, there will be 20 points taken from Slytherin and Gryffindor, for your inability to be quiet while I'm out of the room,"
The Slytherin's looked on in disbelief, the Gryffindors groaned, "And an extra 10 from Gryffindor, Ms. Granger, Mr. Malfoy is hardly the pureblood whore, Pansy is." He finished and stamped to his office, slamming the door shut before anyone could speak.
*****
A/N: So tell me what you think! Btw if any of you are wondering why Snape had a girlfriend, he didn't really realize he was gay till later in his life, which is the real reason why the girlfriend left...but all will be explained in time. Just didn't want you to think I'm crazy! LoL! Okay so next chapter (or the one after), Someone finds out gasp! Besides Dumbledore...'cuz man he knows everything. As always thankz for reading...and please review --- Sapphire
Summary: "...we now have to dance around a deranged werewolf who might off himself at any moment...", Remus isn't dealing well with the aftermath of OotP, Severus doesn't deal well with life. RL/SS.
Warning: OotP spoilers and some suicide themes. This is a slash fic, meaning m/m relationships, don't like it, don't read it. I put this as PG- 13, but there is swearing, so it might even be R, dunno.
A/N: Hey all! Yay! New chapter! Lol! Took me long enough! The funny thing is I had it all typed up weeks ago, but my comp died...sorry! hopefully the next one won't be as long coming! And the story gets a LOT less angsty from here.
Chapter 2: Drinks and Duvets!
Remus had put off his visit to Snape's quarters to collect his potion, forgetting it by Sunday night. The weekend had pasted by uneventful at the Black mansion and Sunday evening found Remus drinking gin while looking at old Hogwart's albums. He came upon a picture of Severus Snape glaring at James Potter, he leapt to the fireplace, remembering his need for a certain potion.
Flooing to the Potion's classroom, he found it empty, he stumbled to the office where Snape usually awaited him. No Severus, he must be in his rooms. Having little idea where they could be, Remus wandered around the dungeons and the floor above, knocking on random portraits, getting very grouchy looks from many of the paintings.
*****
Snape heard the pounding on the walls of the hallways outside his rooms, "Lupin," Snape growled.
Exiting his rooms. He found the tired looking man banging on a picture of a fox hunt a couple paintings down. "Lupin" Snape called.
The slouched man jumped and turned to him.
"Goddamn Lupin, you look like shit", Snape exclaimed in surprise, and he did, Remus' eyes were glazed, his clothes were rumpled, and he still hadn't shaved.
"You're a prize yourself Severus dear," Remus slurred his words, "I need the ah...ah...potion, unless you want to wait till tomorrow."
"No come in," Snape beckoned Remus sharply towards his private rooms. "It's in the store room, I'll get it. Feel free to pour yourself a drink," he said in mock politeness, not like Lupin hadn't had enough already, Snape noted as Remus swayed a little where he stood.
Remus slouched in one of the chairs and stared intently at the fire.
Snape returned with the vile and shoved it towards the beaten man. He poured himself a second drink from the almost full canter. He lost himself within the flames before he realized Remus was still sitting in the chair next to him.
"Lupin" Snape yelled to the half-awake man, he shoved a glass towards him and motioned to the canter. He waited till Lupin had poured himself some.
"Dumbledore wants you to stay for the next couple days, for Potter's sake," Snape spat. He hated being Albus' lacky.
Lupin laughed demonically, "What could I do for him, look at me, I'm a fucking wreck, I mean I was starting to accept that fact, like I did Lil and James, but with Wormtail and all, loneliness is maddening." Remus downed his glass and poured himself some more. Snape followed suit.
"If you're looking for sympathy..." Snape started with a growl.
"I an't gettin' it. Yah I know, for god's sake Severus could you be civil for one fucking evening?" Remus cried in exasperation.
Snape started to retort but stopped himself, why not, he hated drinking alone and if the only company he could come by was Lupin's, he'd deal. "Fine" he spat, "Have a couple drinks. But after that go find Dumbledore."
Remus smiled slightly, "Why don't we start again then," Remus held out his hand, Snape raised his eyebrow. "I'm Remus Lupin, a crazy werewolf with no life,"
Snape rolled his eyes; this was going to be a long night. "Severus Snape", he returned coldly.
*****
Two hours later, the canter more then half empty, the fire dieing, the two man sat, no slumped, barely sitting in their chairs, both completely buggered, pouring out their woes.
"....and she left you because of your choice of bedcovers," Remus laughed hysterically at Snape's failed love story.
"Yah" Snape responded, joining in the drunken laughter. " Have a look for yourself, it's a pretty nasty colour" he slurred. He pulled himself difficultly to his feet and dragged Lupin with him. Remus laughed and stumbled along with him, each leaning heavily on each other.
"See?" Snape asked almost incoherently and laughed as Remus raised his eyebrows to the puke green colored-duvet and then to Snape.
"Not black, Snape you surprise me," Remus spat out between giggles. "But I think it's S-E-X-Y anyway, Sevvie."
Snape returned the eyebrow raise, and smirked a smirk to rival any Malfoy's. "Really?"
"Really" Remus confirmed, leaning into Snape's face, brushing his lips against the other man's.
Snape stared, surprised for a second, but smiled a drunken smile. He pushed Lupin towards the bed.
"OH I don't think you want to do that Mr.Lupin." Snape said kneeling beside where Remus had fallen on the bed.
"I bet I do," Lupin's lips quirked.
This was more then Snape could take, he pulled Lupin into a full-fledged snogging fest. Limbs flailing to rid themselves of clothing and all other thoughts fled their heads.
*****
'Ow', Snape groaned, he would never drink that much again he opened his eyes, but shut them quickly to the brightness of the little light streaming through the tiny ground level windows.
His head felt like a sledgehammer had hit it, he untangled his arms from the rumpled sheets and the chest of the man next to him, to rub his temples despairingly. Snape opened his eyes again, whomever the man was he still looked asleep. He must have been pretty pissed to invite some stranger home, a man no less, considering he'd hardly admitted to himself he was gay. It was unlike him to be so forward when it came to sex. He leaned forward to get a better look at the bedside clock, 6:30am, fuck it; he'd skip breakfast at 7. Classes didn't start till 8:30 anyway; he wrapped his arms around the other man again and fell asleep. He'd think about what to do when he wasn't so tired.
*****
Hermione, Ron and Harry rushed into breakfast, afraid of being late, they soon realized others had overslept, it being the first weekend after school started.
"Bloody Mondays" Ron grumbled before digging in.
"Hey, look Snape's not here either, maybe he'll be late for potions this morning," Harry said hopefully.
"Probably still fuming over not getting us expelled on Saturday," Ron responded through his mouthful of ham and eggs.
"Or maybe", said Ginny, who had just sat down, picking up the conversation, "He had a hot date." She giggled. Ginny was always excited about other people's love lives.
"Ew, Ginny, god, I can't believe you're my sister, that's just gross," Ron blanched.
"Well it would explain his weird behaviour the other day, maybe he's in love," Hermione said logically, she and Ginny loved ganging up on Ron.
"Ew, not you too 'Mione," Ron choked and turned to Harry, "Can you believe these two?"
"Huh, oh yah, that's great Ron," Harry responded listlessly, he was watching the owls coming in, no messages from Snuffles, ever, he sighed deeply. The others exchanged concerned looks.
*****
The school bell rang, to signify a half an hour till classes, Snape jerked awake in surprise, damn, breakfast was almost over and classes were soon. He struggled to wake himself up completely; he pushed himself up till he was sitting on the edge of the bed.
Remus moaned and asked, "What time is it?" in a groggy voice, muffled by the feather pillows. He turned to towards the naked back of Snape.
Remus thought, 'Where am I?'
"It's 8:10," Snape responded sharply turning towards Remus, still tangled in the sheets. Their eyes locked, recognition dawned on both their faces. They both yelped in surprise and Snape lost consciousness for a several minutes.
When he came to, Remus was rushing (stumbling) around the room, cursing madly, holding his head with one hand, and gathering up his discarded clothes with the other.
"Fuck" Snape yelled loudly and followed, gathering his own belongings and raced towards the on suite bathroom.
"Exactly," Remus yelled through the door as it closed behind Snape, "That's exactly what happened."
Snape burst out of the bathroom still half dressed, "How did this happen?" he raved at Remus as he went into the living room to grab their wands, magic would make things simpler.
"I think you'd better explain yourself Severus," Remus stated commandingly, he followed Snape out and grabbed his own wand to finish dressing.
"ME???" Snape yelled in return, "You're the one in my bloody rooms!"
"Well..." Remus said slowly rubbing his head thoughtfully, " We're definitely hung over," he laughed and pointed to the glasses and brandy canter.
"Well no shit," Snape hissed, "Not that you could tell with you, you're that ugly hung over or not" Snape felt the need for some insults to re- establish himself, not his best, but it was still early.
"Well you didn't seem to find me so unattractive last night," Remus smirked before the real meaning of his own words sunk in, he groaned and brought his hands to his temples again.
"You little..." Snape's eyes blazed, as he turned to throttle Lupin.
The school bell rung, to begin classes before he could leap. Abandoning Lupin he quickly got ready and raced the short distance to his 6th year Slytherins and Gryffindors class (A/N: bet you never saw that one coming huh? Smile). The entire class turned to him as he banged the door open and stormed into the classroom late. Had Snape's head been pounding less he could have come up with a legitimate reason for being late but the shock of what happened hadn't worn off. He felt no need to justify himself anyway he glared at the students.
Snape swept through the aisles to his desk and immediately began searching through his desk drawer for his headache potions. He finally found some and drank greedily, only then did he look up at the class, to his surprise they all sat staring at him, even Granger wasn't working.
"Well?" he demanded icily, " Get to work."
The students looked at each other questioningly and a hand shot up, Granger's of course.
"Yes Ms. Granger," Snape said in an exasperated tone.
"Sir you haven't given us a potion to do," she pointed at the board. Several students giggled before catching Snape's glare, needless to say each lost 5 house points.
Snape growled and took out his wand to put the instructions on the board, shit his wand. He'd put it down to attack Lupin, he must heave been REALLY out of it to go at him like a some muggle and then forget his wand. First years weren't that stupid. Several students seemed to notice this and gasped.
"Sir, would you like me to put one up there?" Hermione asked politely.
"Yes," Snape sneered, " And 10 points from Gryffindor, for being so damn annoying,"
Hermione gasped, and Ron attempted to glare a hole through him. Draco started laughing at the look of the Gryffindor's faces. Snape was in no mood, he turned swiftly towards the boy. "Oh shut your trap," he said and then smiled at the look on Draco's face. Snape made his way towards the classroom door, to retrieve his wand.
"Ummm...sir?" came Hermione's voice again, less confident then before.
'Does she ever shut up?' Snape thought, "YES?" he said impatiently.
"What potion?" she asked.
"Oh," Snapes mouth dropped open, "Potion, right, potion, I don't bloody care what potion. Take one from page 189 in your textbooks or something. He growled and stormed out of the classroom.
"Well," Ron turned to his friends, " That was very....interesting?"
Harry just sat there stunned.
"So who wants to ask him for the supplies we need when he gets back?" Hermione asked.
The two boys just gawked at her, "What?" she demanded, "What?"
*****
After Severus had left, Remus went to the bathroom to wash his face, being honestly scared of what he saw, he decided a shower would help. Dumbledore had left a note asking him to meet in his office around 10, he had time, and he needed to be presentable after all. He still wasn't sure how much he liked the idea that Dumbledore somehow knew he was in Severus' rooms, 'Bloody man has spies,' he grumbled.
How much he didn't want to stay in Snape's quarters what with last night, but he wasn't about to go wandering around Hogwarts looking for a bathroom. He rang a house elf and had tea and scones sent up for after his shower. He was just pouring himself some tea, while still in one of Severus' black fluffy towels, when Severus came into the room furious. 'That man has some anger issues.' Remus thought.
"Hello Severus," Remus said in his polite cheerful Lupin-voice, causing the other man to jump.
"Lupin," Snape sneered. He looked to Remus, taking in the teacup and his clothing, well lack-there-of. 'Wow, he actually has abs,' Snape mentally slapped himself for that thought. " What are YOU still doing here?" He demanded.
"Spending as little time as possible, I assure you," Lupin retorted, "I couldn't very well go see Albus looking like I took a tumble with some nasty creature," He smiled, he could be evil when he wanted to be. Snape's eyes grew wide with anger, he marched up to Remus until he was mere inches from his face, "You dirty dog" he spat, "Get changed and out of my rooms this instant!" he roared.
"With pleasure," Remus returned, smile never faltering; he spun on his heels to get the remains of his clothes from the bathroom.
Snape rubbed his temples again, "Bloody Perfect," he snatched his wand from the nearby table and was gone.
*****
He returned to find his class in uproar; it mostly was centered around the Dream Team, mostly Granger and Malfoy.
"Mudblood" "Ferret" "Bucktooth" "Pureblood Whore" and it went on back and forth, with Harry and Ron trying to avoid the threatening looks they were receiving from Malfoy's bulk of friends. Wands came out, and Snape intervened, when he realized no one noticed him.
"THAT IS ENOUGH" Snape's voice boomed over the class, Hermione and Draco dropped their wands in surprise.
"Ms. Granger and Mr. Malfoy, I have had quite enough of this. You both will be serving a month's detention with Filch." Draco's eyes went wide with disbelief, "TOGETHER" Snape stated, watching both their faces turn slightly green. "And Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley, 10 points off each for doing nothing to help the situation."
"Well? Class, get to work", with a swish of his wand the ingredients appeared on the desks. The students moved to start their potions.
The rest of the class was uneventful and reasonably quiet, except for the odd whisper between the students concerning Snape's weird behaviour. Snape spent most of the class with his head on his desk, rubbing his temples; he'd have to improve his headache potions. "Bloody werewolf," he mumbled. He didn't notice the weird looks he received from Potter at this.
The bell rang and the students rushed to pour their potions into the vials and brought them up to Snape's desk. "Oh and before you go, note, there will be 20 points taken from Slytherin and Gryffindor, for your inability to be quiet while I'm out of the room,"
The Slytherin's looked on in disbelief, the Gryffindors groaned, "And an extra 10 from Gryffindor, Ms. Granger, Mr. Malfoy is hardly the pureblood whore, Pansy is." He finished and stamped to his office, slamming the door shut before anyone could speak.
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A/N: So tell me what you think! Btw if any of you are wondering why Snape had a girlfriend, he didn't really realize he was gay till later in his life, which is the real reason why the girlfriend left...but all will be explained in time. Just didn't want you to think I'm crazy! LoL! Okay so next chapter (or the one after), Someone finds out gasp! Besides Dumbledore...'cuz man he knows everything. As always thankz for reading...and please review --- Sapphire