Chapter 20: Kat' ability


Severus sighed heavily before opening the door and walking into Kat's room. -"Well, it's official, it's not a reaction"- He looks at Alex. -"You're contagious"-

Alex tilts his head without understanding. He stops knitting as he looks at Severus, waiting for an explanation.

At first, Kat laughed as she watched Alex's reaction to what Severus said as he walked into the dorm and then groaned as she realized that something was destined to develop in her too -"Are you sure?"- She asked, resting her head on her hands.

Severus nodded. -"Yes, after several tests and an intense discussion"-

Alex raised an eyebrow. -"You got into a fight with Madam Pomfrey again, didn't you?"-

Severus rolled his eyes. -"That's not the point, and I'm healthy, so it's the development of an ability, so you're doomed too"-He decides to tease his sister a little.

-"Ugh"- Kat growled at Severus as she rubbed her face -"Oh shut up"- She said, raising her voice slightly with a smirk, knowing it would bother his ears. Two could play at this game, and he was unfortunately screwed when she wanted revenge.

Severus put his hands to his ears. -"Hey, don't fucking do that"- He frowned.

-"Then don't make smartass comments like that"- Kat said, laughing as she watched his reaction. Her mind was spinning with ideas of what her ability could be, all she hoped was that it was useful and Severus couldn't mess with her like she was doing to him.

Alex looks at the two of them. -"Development? Ability? Contagious? What are you two talking about?"- He said, confused. During the conversation between Sev and their father, he wasn't paying attention, as he felt the need to be comforted by Kat.

Severus glared at her. -"I will have my revenge"-

-"Yeah, sure, we'll see about that"- Kat says as she laughs.

Severus snorts before looking at Alex and smiling, then moves his hands from his ears. -"The abilities we're developing little Alex, you have one, or do you think it's normal to see people's magic and at the same time be able to feel Kat's magic, dad's and mine?"-

Alex frowns. -"Yes, it's normal"- He says, completely sure.

Severus chuckles. -"It's not, and that ability was the trigger for me to develop one and possibly Kat will develop one"-

Alex's eyes watered, starting to get scared by what his brother was saying. -"I don't"-

-"Yep, you're contagious"- Severus said with a smirk.

Alex sniffed before bursting into tears. -"I'm not contagious, and I'm normal!"-

Severus covers his ears again at Alex's loud cries. -"Shit!"-

Kat laughs again before listening to Severus talking to Alex as he starts to get worked up. The second Alex starts to shout; she can't help but laugh as she sees Severus covering his ears again. -"You're so dumb"- She says in between breaths as she can't help but laugh. It helped being nice to Alex because if you're not, it always seems to come back around and bite you in the ass.

Severus frowns. -"Alex stop crying it's not something for you to be like this"-

Alex cried harder. -"I'm normal, I'm not contagious, Sev you're an idiot!"- He said as he put his fists over his eyes and kept crying. Alex felt very confused and scared; he couldn't control his emotions, causing his magic to spiral out of control, causing the window to start cracking.

-"Oh, great, Alex, you're too old to have accidental magic"- Severus said in exasperation, but that only made Alex finish breaking the window.

-"No, no, no, Severus shut up!"- Kat shouted as she saw the window start to break, jumping up and running to Alex to comfort him to try and stop him from breaking the window. -"Alex, you have to relax, I'm here"- She said, wrapping her arms around Alex and pulling him to her chest.

Alex clung to Kat's neck as he continued to cry. -"I'm normal! I'm not contagious! Sev, you're an idiot!"-

Severus growled -"Okay, okay, you're normal, what you have is completely normal, and you're not contagious, I'm sorry, okay, just calm down"- He felt like his eardrums were going to explode.

Alex, feeling his sister's magic very close to him, calmed down enough not to break the window completely.

The second she touched Alex, and he wrapped his arms around her crying, her vision when black for a second. A replay of Severus telling Alex he was contagious and not normal flashed before her eyes. Pushing Alex off of her quickly as she snapped herself back into reality, her ability had started to develop -"What the hell was that?"- She said to herself wide eyed still shocked of what just happened.

Alex looked at Kat in confusion and felt rejected before crying at the top of his lungs. He placed his legs against his chest as he rested his head against his knees and continued to cry inconsolably.

Severus couldn't take it anymore and cast a silencing spell on Alex, and the room fell silent. He sighed in relief as he removed his hands from his ears. -"Are you okay? Why did you do that?"-

-"I...I don't know, I s...saw something"- Kat said, shaking her head trying to figure out what is happening. Looking up at Severus as she got an idea -"Give me your hand"- She said holding her hand out for him to take; she wasn't asking but telling him to listen to her

Severus raises an eyebrow. -"Okay, but this is weird"- He said as he shrugged and held out his hand to Kat.

-" Just give me it"- Kat said taking his hand, the second she touched him her vision when black and a vision of Alex screaming and Severus shutting him up. She pulled herself out of the vision and shook her head. -"Touch, my ability has to do with touch"-

Severus blinked rapidly before looking down at his hand. -"Really, and what can you do with your ability? What can you do when you touch people?"- He said curiously.

-"I don't know exactly what it does, but when I touched Alex I saw why he was so upset and when I touched you I saw why you were so irritated"- Kat said with a shrug right as her head started to hurt. -"It was weird, my vision just blackout out, and then I could see like scenes of what happened"-

Severus looks at her for a few minutes before shrugging. -"Well, I don't know what my ability would be useful for either, I guess we'll have to wait until they're fully developed to find out what they'd actually be useful for"- He sits down on the floor. -"And tell me, how annoying does it feel? Because the way you reacted when Alex hugged you, it wasn't a very pleasant experience, and it will be very annoying for you every time Alex seeks comfort from you"- He chuckles.

-"Oh shut up I just didn't know what happened"- Kat said annoyed as she went back over to her bed to lay down -"I just don't know how to control what I see and what I don't, so it caught me off guard"- She sighed.

Severus shrugs -"Well, you'd better be on your guard, after all that kid loves to cling to us, well, more to you, without warning"- He chuckles. -"Speaking of Alex, he should have calmed down by now"- He turned his head to look at Alex, his eyes widened when he didn't see him behind him; he looked around the room before looking at Kat. -"Where's Alex?"-

-"What do you mean where is Alex, he was right ther...shit"- Kat said as she looked over and to her surprise Alex wasn't there. -"Where did you lose him?"- She said, turning back to look at Severus.

Severus raises an eyebrow. -"Me? I didn't lose him"- He stood up from the floor as he looked around. -"After I cast the spell on him, he was sitting here"- He pointed to the floor.

-"Well he's not there anymore, and he's technically your responsibility for the next 2 weeks still"- Kat said as she started looking around the room, frantically calling his name. -"Alex, Alex!"-

Severus groaned and frowned slightly. -"Don't remind me, if we don't find him, I'm dead"- He started looking in the bathroom and in the closet -"It's no use calling him, I cast a silencing spell on him"- He says closing the closet and then looks towards the door. -"You don't think he got out of here, do you?"- He said, knowing the answer, but he didn't want to be right.

-"Well maybe he'll come out if he listens to me"- Kat said before looking over at the door realizing that Alex 100% left while she was seeing Severus's vision -"Were so screwed"- She complained as she walked out of her dorm and into the common room.

Severus walks behind her. -"Well the kid isn't that stupid, he must not have left the common room"- He walked through the common room looking for Alex. He sighs in exasperation before turning pale as a note appeared in front of him.

-"You underestimate how much that kid doesn't think"- Kat said with a sigh as she turned around to face Severus -"What does it say?"- She asked as the note appeared.

Severus took a deep breath before swallowing hard. -"Dad wants to see me in his office"-


{Snape and Alex's POV}

Alex, although he could Kat's magic, the fact that she pushed him made him feel worse. -"Kat"- He said in a shaky voice, but realizing she wasn't looking at him, he called her again -"Kat!"- He said a little louder, but she still wouldn't look at him. When Severus and Kat spoke to each other, he stood up, he needs comfort and Kat seemed unable or unwilling to give it to him at that moment, so he ran out of the room, closing the door behind him. Obviously, Kat and Severus were so distracted that they didn't notice he was gone.

Alex ran down the hallway still crying until he reached his father's office -"Daddy, daddy!"- He said through his tears, but his father didn't even look up, he ran to him and pulled his robe tightly -"DADDY!"- He shouted loudly, upset and confused as to why no one was paying attention to him. The windows began to vibrate, their magic was about to overflow, again.

Snape looked down when he felt someone tugging at his robes; he was too busy reading the books an elf had brought him about sensory abilities, so he hadn't noticed that someone had entered his office. -"Alexander, what are you doing here?"- He looked at him confused when he saw him crying, but no sound came out of him, and a little mad that his youngest son who was grounded was alone outside his dorm. He sighed as he realized he was under a silencing spell, he cast a counter spell making Alex's loud cries heard throughout the office -"Alexander, son, calm down and tell me what's wrong?"- He said before grabbing him by the armpits to pick him up.

Alex, feeling that warmth coming out of his father's magic, threw himself against his neck and cried inconsolably against his chest -"Daddy...Sev...Normal...Kat... Scared"- He managed to mumble between cries before his magic got out of control again. Books, scrolls, and various things in the office began to fly out around the office, and the once vibrating windows now began to shatter.

Snape sighed and rubbed his back, -"Alexander, calm down, your magic is getting out of control, breathe"- He said softly, but began to lose patience as things in his office flew around the room, the whole thing was a mess. He took a deep breath, not too proud with what he was about to do, but Alex could get hurt if any object or glass hit him. He held his son's shoulders tightly and pulled him away from his chest and forced him to look at him - "Alexander Severus Snape calm down this instant!"- He said with a demanding and stern voice.

Alex shuddered a little at his father's tone -"Waaahh...I...I...I'm sorry...Waaahh"- He said with a sad voice, still crying, but he took a deep breath trying to calm down without success -"I can't...Waaahhhh...I'm scared...don't be mad at me..."-

Snape sighed before summoning a potion -"Drink this and no whining"- He said sternly, he wasn't going to get into a fight with his son if he refused to drink the potion.

Alex nodded and drank the potion slowly before sticking his tongue out in disgust -"Waaahh...Yuck, tastes bad"- He says before starting to feel calmer -"I'm sorry, I'm sorry"- He said between sobs.

Snape sighs in relief as things fell to the floor, his office was a complete mess, but he didn't have time for that, he had to know why his son was here alone and why he had had such an emotional breakdown -"I know, I know, but you needed to calm down, if you couldn't do it on your own, I had to help you calm down, it was just a Calming Draught potion"- He rubbed his back and laid him against his chest resting his head on his shoulder.

Alex curled into his father's chest as he sobbed, although he no longer felt his emotions were through the roof, but that didn't mean he felt better, he still didn't understand what Severus told him and why Kat had pushed him away when he hugged her -"Daddy, I'm scared, I'm normal am I not?"-

Snape frowned when he heard Alex's question -"Of course you're normal"- He sighed before writing a note to Severus that he wanted him in his office right away, he made it disappear before he got up with his son in his arms and went to the couch. He sat with his son on his lap -"Come on, Alexander, son, tell me what happened?"-

Alex shook his head and clutched his father's neck and sobbed against his neck -"But...Sev said...and I can...I don't know...I don't know"- He felt very confused; he couldn't organize his words and stayed sobbing against his father's neck.

Snape sighed heavily at the few words his son said between sobs. -'It seems I won't get much out of this kid, I'll have to wait for Severus to come and give me an explanation, as it seems he told Alexander that he caused all this'- He thought before his anger was increasing. -'And that I told him to be careful what he said to his little brother, as this could happen'- He thought as he took a deep breath. He rubbed his son's back -"Shhh, it's okay, it's okay, breathe for me, calm down, it's all right"- He tried to comfort him hoping he would calm down completely, after all depending on what happened he would have to have a conversation with his youngest about not breaking his punishment.

Alex gradually calmed down, making his sobs softer and softer. He looked around a little seeing his father's office -'I did this?'- He thought in surprise, when he was little he never had such big magical accidents. He clung tightly to his father's neck when he could feel anger in his magic; he hoped he wasn't mad at him for wrecking his office. He hoped he wasn't in trouble, completely forgetting that he wasn't allowed to wander without his siblings around the castle.

As more time passed, Snape's anger slowly rose, his office was a mess, and he would possibly have to punish his youngest, again. He really didn't have much patience at the moment, but he had to swallow his anger a little when he heard someone knocking at the door, he knew it was his older child. -"Come in"- He said with a grunt.