Chapter 6: Start of Term

The train later pulled up at Hogsmede station. They got off the train and took one of the Hogwarts carriages up to the familiar castle. She felt like she'd come home after a long stay at a school or somewhere. Hogwarts with all its magic and teachings felt to her like home.

The feast was excellent and by the time they reached Gryffindor Tower everyone or nearly everyone was too tired to argue about going to bed. The sixth year boys and Lily were wide awake in the boys' dorm. They were telling and re-telling stories of what happened in the summer holidays.

It was around 11:45 and Lily knew she had to leave. She asked James to borrow his invisibility cloak in case anyone saw her sneaking out of the boys' dorms. She really wanted to use it in case Filch caught her in the corridors.

At precisely 12 midnight Lily walked passed the piece of wall three times thinking about what they needed. A doorway then appeared and as she entered she saw her Sev sitting in a chair waiting for her.

She crossed the room and sat down beside him as he pulled her into a tight hug. They kissed and talked for hours, before falling asleep in each others arms. They had something special something no-one could touch, they had their love for each other.

Severus found himself awake hours before Lily but as she was snuggled into him he dared not move. Not that he wanted to move anyway, Severus Snape for the first time in his life was happy. He just lay there watching her sleep, she looked like an angel. Although in his mind she was, she stopped him from feeling what it was like to have an abusive father and helped him to feel love. His father was a muggle who'd married a witch. Because Severus had got into Hogwarts when his father wanted him to go to Eton, his father became violent towards his mother.

When Lily awoke she had forgotten where she was. She was tense at first in a strange place but she then realised she was with Severus so wherever she was she was ok. It was around breakfast time but before they could go they had to straighten theirselves and their stories out.

There would be questions from their friends as to why their beds had not been slept in, where were you etcetera. They had to work out was going to be said. They didn't want anyone who needn't know knowing. The boys knew but that was necessary, the same with her parents.

She decided to say she'd gone for a walk early this morning after making her bed because she couldn't sleep and he said he'd got up early to have a bath. They had to leave early enough so he could be seen entering the great hall from the direction of the bathroom and her from the grounds.

Lily hastily stowed James' invisibility cloak in her pocket gave Severus a kiss and headed in the direction of the grounds. She had successfully fooled the boys who where brilliant at sussing out lies, especially in the morning when they were expecting someone to try and fool them into something or other and the girls in her dorm were even easier fooled.

After breakfast she had double potions, two hours in which she could see Severus but not touch, kiss, hug, talk to, straighten his tie or something silly like that because of everyone else and their blood expectancies. They kept making stolen glances at each other when Professor Slughorn wandered off in another direction. Slughorn was head of Slytherin house and would therefore be able to make Sev's life hell.

She then spent break with the boys. They sat under a beech tree on the edge of the lake. Remus was reading, Sirius lazing in the sun, James playing with the snitch and Peter practically wetting himself. This was like the day last year after their Defence Against the Dark Arts OWL, except this time she was with them. Last time she'd been sitting at the lake and in the end had to stop them from bullying Severus, before he called a filthy mudblood whilst showing his gratitude.