Chapter 1: I'm not clumsy! Yes, you are!


Alexander 'Alex' Severus Snape were sneaking into his father's potions lab. His father was in a meeting and he told Alex that he couldn't help him make potions, but he wanted to make a potion today, so he decided to make it in secret. He smiled when he placed the ingredients on the table; he took the knife about to start cutting them.

Katarina 'Kat' Lily Snape knew her father had a meeting and wanted to play a joke on her brother. At that very moment, she went into her father's potions lab quietly, without making any noise, then jumped up behind her brother putting her hands on his shoulders. -"BOO!"-

-"AHHHH!"- Alex screamed in fear and staggered on the stool, about to fall. He puts his hands on the table to keep from falling; he turns and looks at his older sister. -"Hey, Kat, why do you scare me like that?"- He pouts.

-"I knew you'd be in here"- Kat laughed as she walked around him, putting her elbows on the table then resting her head in her hands. -"I don't know, I'm bored"- She shrugged as she looked at the different ingredients he had to see what potion he was making.

Alex crosses his arms. -"What you did was dangerous, what would have happened if I had been adding any ingredient, if dad was here he would be mad at you."- He smirks, and then he begins to cut the ingredients.

-"Yeah, yeah, whatever, dad is not here and nothing happened."- Kai said with a huff as she watched his hands work on the ingredients. -"what potion are you trying to make?"- She asked him curiously, she was also very good at potions like her father.

Alex smiles proudly. -"Draft of Living Death, I found the recipe among dad's books in his study, so I decided to make it"-. He says as he begins to add the ingredients to the cauldron. He was very good at potions, among Snape's children he was the most inexperienced, but he was still good

Kat nodded as she watched him. -"well if you need any help just let me know."- She said as she turned away from the table and started to look around her father's lab. Walking around the room, she scanned the bookshelves and desks just curious as to what she may find.

Alex snorts. -"I don't need your help, I can do it myself."- He says confidently as he continues to make the potion. He hummed while he cut, added, and stirred the ingredients.

When Alex finished, he smiled proudly. - "Done, now I just have to let it rest" -. He began to clear the table and took the knife from the sharp side and slightly cut the palm of his hand. -"Ouch! It hurts! "- He whimpers. Alex is a very clumsy boy, so it was not unusual for him to cut himself from time to time.

Kat looked over at Alex when she heard the whimpers, walking over to him quickly seeing that he had a knife. -"What did you do?"- She asked as she took the knife from her brother. - "You know these knives are crazy sharp."- She scolded, not even knowing what he did.

Alex looked at his sister while holding his hand. -"I know they're sharp, I didn't cut myself on purpose, it was an accident, don't scold me."- He pouts before getting off the stool and walking to the first aid cabinet.

-"Give me your hand."- Kat said as she put the knife on the table and walked over to the first aid cabinet with him. Pulling out everything she would need for his cut.

Alex looks at her and puts his hand palm up in front of her. -"Thank you"- He says in a low voice and watches her take things out.

-"Just be more careful next time, please."- Kat said softly as she focused on fixing his wound. He's lucky she wasn't going to tell their father or they'd both be in trouble.

Alex nods slowly. -"Yes, I'll be careful, I'm sorry"-

-"It's ok, all long as you're not too hurt, then we're fine."- Kat smiled at him as she finished up his hand.

A few minutes later the lab door opened

-"Hey! What are you two doing here? You know you can't be here without dad's permission! "- Severus 'Sev'. Jr. Salazar Snape said from the doorway.

Kat turned to look at the door as her other younger brother walked in. - "Can you keep it down, or we're all going to get caught."- She said in almost a yell whisper voice.

Severus smirked, closed the door slowly, walked over to them and saw Alex's hand. - "Well, well, how are you going to hide that?" - He pointed at Alex's hand. -"If dad finds out, we'll be in a lot of trouble."- He looked down at Alex. - "Especially your little Alex, you can't make potions unsupervised because you always cut yourself" - He teases Alex.

-"That's not true and don't call me little"- Alex kicks his big brother.

Severus grabs Alex by the shirt -"You want to fight, shortie"-

-"Hey, break it up."- Kat said getting in between them and pushing them apart. -"Let's just focus on figuring out how to hide that"- She said, grabbing Alex's hand and holding it up.

Severus puts his hands on his hips -"Well, in the first place if you were with him why you left him alone with a knife, he always cuts himself. And second, did you put Dittany in the cut or did you use the Wound-Cleaning Potion? With that, the cut should be completely closed in about 15 minutes"-

-"I was looking around and forgot that he's clumsy with knives."- Kat said with a huff as she looked at Severus -"Wound-Cleaning Potion"- She said, letting go of Alex's hand.

Alex crossed his arms. -"I'm not clumsy with knives"- He frowns.

Severus rolls his eyes -"Aha, whatever you say clumsy"-

Alex pouts -"Sev!"-

-"You're clumsy with knives."- Kat said with a laugh as she chimed into the boys' argument.

Alex looks at the two of them -"Kat! Sev! I'm not clumsy!"-

Severus looks at his sister. - "Well, if you already put that in his hand, we just have to wait a few minutes; Dad can't see Alex's hand until then" -.

-"He won't see his hand, but do we know when dad's meeting is over?" -Kat asked curiously, she didn't plan on spending that much time in there.

Severus looked up to look at the clock. -"The meeting must be about to end, it would be better to get out of here before he return."- He looks at Alex's potion. -"And we have to clean that up first"-

-"Ok, let's hurry and clean this up then get out of here."- Kat said as she walked back over to the table where Alex was making his potion.

Alex walks behind her -"Hey, be careful, it cost me a lot to make that potion, I'll take it to my dorm"- He says while he starts cleaning.

Severus rolls his eyes, carefully takes the cauldron and sets it on another table. -"Ok, but if they catch you, don't say we were with you, you get in trouble by yourself"-

Kat nodded in agreement with Severus. - "Put it in a bottle, so I can clean everything up."- She said as she placed ingredients back on their shelves.

Alex runs to the sink and washes the instruments, then puts them in the closet.

Severus puts the potion in a bottle and places the cauldron in front of his sister and gives the bottle to Alex.

Kat cleans up the cauldron quickly with the help of the Scourgify spell, and then places it back where it belongs. - "Alright, let's go before dad gets back."- She said as she started to walk over to the door.

Alex puts the bottle inside his robe and follows his sister out of the lab.

Severus comes out last and closes the door slowly. -"Ok, done, we were never here, okay?"-

Kat turns to her youngest brother -"Do not tell dad we were ever here."- She said, knowing that if anyone would tell it would be him.

Alex frowns. -"I won't"- He takes the potion out of his robe and looks at it and smiles proudly.

Severus sighs. -"Oh, my gosh, don't go showing off your potion to dad, got it?"-

Alex frowns more. -"I already said that I won't tell him anything"-

-"Please don't let it slip, I don't feel like getting in trouble."- Kat sighed as she started to walk back to the Slytherin dorms.

-"Yes, shortie, I don't want to get in trouble"- Severus says as he walks next to his sister.

Alex pouts and puts the potion away -"I said I won't"- He crosses his arms and walks next to them.

-"I'm getting my homework from my dorm, and then I'm going to sit in the common room if anyone wants to come"- Kat said, looking at the two of them then down at Alex. -"If you need help with homework, just come find me"-

Alex nods -"okay, Kat, thanks"-

Severus rolls his eyes. -"Well, I'll go to the library to study"- He said as he walked towards the library and away from his siblings.

-"Don't roll your eyes at me"- Kat said as she saw Severus roll his eyes.

Alex follows his sister until they enter the common room -"I will go to my dorm"-

-"I'll be out here if you need me"- Kat smiled at her younger brother softly before turning to go to her own dorm.

Alex nods and goes to his dorm to do his homework. He puts the books and scrolls on his bed, lies on his stomach and begins to do his homework while humming. He did his homework happily, but after a while he started to feel uncomfortable, so he took off his robe, forgetting that he had the potion in it, causing it to fall to the floor and melt the floor. -"Oh no"- He ran out of his dorm into the common room. -"Kat! Kat!"- He ran desperately towards his sister with tears in his eyes.