"No way?!", Ron looked up from his bed next to Harry's.
"Snape is… banging your mum?"
"Don't call it like that", Harry looked over to his best friend.
"But you saw them doing it?", Ron's voice sounded like a mixture of surprise, laughter and disgust.
"Yea.. well no. It looked more like they were making out", Harry's look changed to disgust.
"Eww, bloody hell. This is absolutely awful. And it's not even my mum.", Ron spoke into the darkness, "but that would be even worse"
Now Ronald pictured his mother kissing Snape, which made him swallow.
"They are probably doing it now", Harry led out a slightly heavy breath and turned onto his side.
"Hopefully they know what they are doing. Or else you can share your mother with his child soon", Ron still laid there with that look on his face. Hardly trying to get Snape and his mother out of his head.
"Stop it Ron!", Harry pulled his blanket over his shoulders more. "From everyone here in this school, why is it Snape? Why can't it be Lupin or… Hagrid?"
Ron started laughing instantly.
"Hagrid and your mum? He's probably 6 feet taller than her"
"I know. It's just. My dad must have been such a good person, and now she chose this bad, dark one.", Harry answered quiet.
"She's old enough. As long as she's happy."
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"You're gorgeous", Severus mumbled those words while he pushed into Lily again who groaned loud into the small room as she came, just as he did almost at the exact same time.
„Sev, please. I already came twice", she bagged and tried to grab his face to kiss him.
„It's enough", she whispered nearly completely out of breath.
He slowly kissed her back and rolled over next to her.
„I love you, Lily. I always have"
Her heart stopped hearing these words. Did he really just said that?
She propped herself up on her elbow and looked at him. His face looked reddish from exhaustion, but he smiled at her.
„Let me show you something", Lily run her index finger over his hot cheek and grabbed her wand from the night stand.
„Expecto Patronum", she whispered and waved her wand in the air. Blue fog build up in front of them and a beautiful Doe looked at them.
Severus eyes widened as he realized. The Doe ran through the room before it disappeared again.
„You. Always you", she smiled at him and kissed him slightly.
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Morning came and both of them went back to work very early.
Lily was now Dumbledores new secretary. That job was also the reason why she now lived in the castle as well.
"Good morning, Professor", Lily mumbled as she entered Dumbledores office.
"Ah, Miss Evans! You look.. tired.. haven't slept good?", the old, white man looked at her.
They all preferred calling her only with her own last name to not get confused with her sons name.
"No, good. Just a lot going on.", she sat down on her small desk, still enchanted from the thoughts of last night, which made her smile.
It was the best night since almost 5 years. When she stayed in the muggle world, she met different men once in a while, but none of them were like him. No one showed her that much affection.
"Nice thoughts?", her new boss nodded slightly from his desk. He knew. Of course he did. He's the great Albus Dumbledore.
Lily smiled wider and looked down to her to-do list of the day. She was obviously embarrassed. To her, it felt like she was suddenly 17 again and full of hormones, that made her feel like flying.
"Even if it not seem to. These walls catch more than you think, Lily. And I know how everyone sees him, but let me tell you. He is a good man", the older one continued.
"There's this connection between you two ever since you were first years back then. Even I caught this."
Without an answer, she started working. A lot of stuff was left over from yesterday. It was hard for her to concentrate, because Severus was every other thought that came to her mind.
When Dumbledore retired to his private rooms,she gave herself a little break. She expected to see Harry soon and tried to think of a way to tell him.
As it knocked she woke up from her journey of thoughts.
"Come in!", she said quite loud, when - other than she expected - none other than her man entered the room with each a Weasley twin grabbed by the collar.
"Miss Evans.", Severus nodded firmly, "We need to see Professor Dumbledore. These both decided to throw a little firework show in my class", he said, roughly pushing them both in the room.
"I'll get him!", she said nice and went out to call him.
Soon after Dumbledore took place at his desk again, Severus explained the whole incident to his headmaster.
To Lily he looked absolutely beautiful doing his typical Snape things. He seemed like this dark, mean and grumpy man, but he wasn't. He was so much more than that strict, mean teacher.
Dumbledore gave them two a very long monologue on behaving in school, but neither Severus nor Lily listened.
Snape slowly went back step by step. Almost not noticeable by everyone else in this room.
He gave the redhead a meaningful look and whispered to her: "I want to give it to you right there on this desk"
Lily took a deep breath to minimize the growing heat inside, when Albus interrupted the moment.
"You can go now!", he said to Fred and George, who walked out of the office like first year students.
Albus slowly walked around his desk, so slowly, that a kind of strict aura built up in the room.
Severus looked to Lily and turned around to leave as well, but Dumbledore stopped him.
"Severus! Do you mind staying another minute?"
"Yes Sir", he said quiet and looked at him.
"You might know, that every word that's been spoken in this room remains as a part of my memory.", he began as Lily started to blush, which made her look down to her feet.
"Just as the words you just told Miss Evans."
"Yes, Professor", he nodded politely.
"I dare you to ever say such things in front of students again!", he said louder and came close to Snape.
"It fills me with joy to see, that you and Miss Evans finally found each other, but keep your words under control, Severus…
You can go now, thank you", Dumbledore nodded and smiled polite before he went back to the desk.