Voldemort´s eyes are red, Alex´s are green.
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Chapter four, Shopping with the professor.
"No! I can´t belive this, he beat me again." Alex was fuming. She glared at the black chess-pieces, and then on her white ones. For the fifth time in one and a half hours, she set up the chess-set again and yet again began a new match with her father and professor. She laid on the floor in the room she had sleept in the previous night, beside her was a small bowl of grapes, strawberries and cherries that Jasper had brought her so that she would have something to snack on. He had said that she shouldn´t eat it all before dinner because she would ruin her appetite, she had promised that she wouldn´t. She really liked Jasper, he had more of a free mind then any other elf she had met. Of course that didn´t meen that she didn´t like Dobby, but he could just be a little...too much, at times. She plopped a cherry into her mouth and moved her queen´s side knight.
--Twenty minutes later--
"Ohh, not again." she groaned as the black tower moved and her king fell over, meaning that it was check-mate. She put the pieces back into it´s case, she didn´t really feel like loosing anymore. Then she rolled onto her back with her hands behind her head and stared at the ceiling.
"How did things get so difficult? What would have happened if I had told the truth from the beginning? Had I told aunt Petunia about it when I first changed, would she have liked me better? She already had one son, maybe she would have felt that I wasn´t a treath against Dudley if I were a girl." she sighed. "Not likely, they hated me because of what my parents were, and what I am. If I had told Hagrid about it? Dumbledore? My friends?" she covered her face with her hands and groaned. What if this, what if that. She had to focuse on present and future, she couldn´t change the past.
" I even had to live with the Dursley´s, they aren´t my relatives at all." she felt her eyes water but she quickly wiped them with the back of her hand. She remembered all of those hungry nights locked in the cupboard, all of those painful punches and slaps, all of those heart-stabbing comments and neglect. She smiled a sad smile to herself, never again would she have to go back there, she could go to her friends homes and stay with them during summer(if she still had any friends when the summer comes), she could stay at the Leaky Cauldron, at a hotel in London. No one could force her to return to the Dursleys since the only reason to do so was the blood-protection, but she isn´t a blood relative of the Dursley´s, so never, ever again.
"Alexandra?" came a hesistant call from the living room. "Since when is Snape hesistant?" she wondered. She walked out from the bedroom and met Snape who was standing in the hallway.
"Do you want to go for a walk?" he asked and once more his voice was back to neutral and his face emotionless.
"Sure." she said walking over towards him. Snape raised an eyebrow at her. "What?" she asked. He just shook his head and walked past her and through the door on the far wall behind his desk, his bedroom. "What did I do?" she started to feel the same way as she did when the Dursley´s insulted her when she was little. "I didn´t do anything." she thought angerly, but then she saw him coming out again with a cloak over his left arm and his wand pointing to it and it shrunk a little.
"Here," he said as he handed her the cloak. "it´s a bit chilly outside." Alex just stood there, staring at the cloak. Her earlier feelings washed down the drain as she put it on and felt the warmth coming from it.
"Thank you." she whispered as she walked through the wall. Severus stood there for a second, wondering about all of the emotions in the girl´s voice, face and foremost her eyes. But as soon as he had given her the cloak all emotions disappeared, she had at first looked numb, but then she changed to silent gratefullness. He followed her through the wall and together they walked out on the grounds.
"Why did you sound hesistant before?" Alex asked quietly. Snape glanced sideways at her.
"I wasn´t certain that you would really approve of me calling you by your first name. But I couldn´t call you by your other names..." he shrugged.
"It´s ok, I mean you gave me the names after all."
They walked towards the lake, the grass was moist and the wind swept by them softly, caressing their faces. Alex drew the cloak closer around herself, Snape was right, it was chilly.
"Before I handed you that cloak, what were you thinking about?" Alex didn´t say anything for awhile.
"Nothing, it´s stupid." she said looking away. He turned to her and laid a hand on her shoulder so she turned to face him.
"Would you tell me anyway, and let me deside?" he asked, showing some honesty.
Alex eyes flashed angerly."Why, so you can mock me about it? It isn´t something I want to talk about." she snapped at him, for a second he looked angry, then he returned to emotionless.
Snape let go of her shoulder and turned towards the lake instead. Alex studied him from the corner of her eye, was it her tone that had made him angry or that she didn´t want to tell him?
"I am not going to treat you as I did before, I understand that you might not believe me." he glanced at her for a brief second, then he turned back to the lake. "I thought that before you, Alexandra, get settled at Hogwarts, you need some new things, clothes and so on. We could go now and eat in Diagon Alley afterwards." he said.
"So this means that it´s settled for being Alexandra? I thought I would get a say in this this time." she said, sounding dull. "Should we leave then?" she said hootly and turned around to leave. Snape grabbed her arm. "I´m really considering chewing off my arms, that way he won´t be able to catch me." she thought snidely. She turned back to face him, she winced at the look in his eyes, he looked...sad, angry and at the same time determined.
"There isn´t another option right now, we can´t put another glamorie on you like the one you used, you can´t go back to only dressing as a boy and you still need to go to classes. I allowed you to miss today, but tomorrow you will be introduced to the school and re-sorted." he said. They walked towards a carrige that stood outside the Entrance Hall and went inside it.
"What were you thinking about?" Snape tried again. Alex looked out the window.
"My rel...the Dursleys." She said without moving her eyes from the window. "When you only shook your head and walked past me without saying anything, I thought that I had done something wrong, then when I realized that I accually didn´t do anything, I got upset thinking that this was the way they made me feel, always looking down on me telling me that I wasn´t worth their time, attention, money or care. I thought for a second that you were just like them, and that I needed to get away, then I saw you coming out with this cloak and you gave it to me saying that it was chilly outside. I remembered one time when I asked aun...mrs Dursley if I could have a coat since it was freezing outside, she said that I didn´t need one and then she told me to not come back right after school but to be back around nine o´clock in the evening since they were going to have some guests. I managed until six p.m, by then I had blue lips and fingernails, I was so cold I thought that I would die, lucky for me mrs Figg walked by me and invited me into her house." she sighed, that had been one of the worst days in her life. Snape observed her, she had seen something like that in her memories.
"How about that large man I saw hitting you? Did he do that alot?" he asked carefully, while she was being absent minded then perhaps he could get some answers without having her getting all upset. It didn´t work though.
"Look, I really don´t want to talk about it. They aren´t a part of my life, so I just want to forget them." she said emotionless.
"Should I push her into telling? If she keeps it all bottled up inside she will one day burst. How did Albus miss this, this abuse? Even I shouldn´t have been able to miss it, but I did because I blindly thought that she was spoiled rotten at home. She is good at hiding things after all, perhaps it wasn´t so obvious."
The carrige stopped and they walked to the Three Broomsticks, and flooed to the Leaky Cauldron. Alex went first and as soon as she stepped out from the fireplace, someone grabbed her arms and pulled her backwards.
"Hey! What do you think you´re doing!" she yelled at them, a flash of light blinded her when she yanked her arm free from the grip.
"Miss Snape? How come no one has ever heard of you? What is your first name? Who is your mother? Will yo be staying at Hogwarts from now on? Do you have a boyfriend." Rita Skeeter appeared before her face, a green quill hoovering behind her scribbling on a piece of parchment.
Alex glared at her, how dare she? Hadn´t Hermione treathned her to keep a low profile? She took a step towards her and Skeeter took a step back, realizing the glare that came from the girl. Alex leaned forward and whispered in her ear.
"Don´t ever, ever pull a stunt like that again. Do you understand me, beetle?" she hissed in her ear, Skeeter paled and backed off. "Y-yes, perfectly." but before she left she threw a glare at her. Snape appeared behind her.
"What did you say to her?" she turned around and glared at him, "It isn´t his fault." then she smirked.
"Who me? I didn´t say anything." she said, trying to look innocent, and failing miserably. Snape gave her a look as if to say, do-you-honestly-believe-I-will-fall-for-that? "How did she know who I was? And how come she knew that I was coming here? She grabbed my arm as soon as I stepped out from the fireplace and took a photo."
She shrugged and went outside to the dead end that lead to Diagon Alley. Snape followed her and opened the wall.
"Let´s go to madam Malkin´s first." he said and lead the way. Alex put a hand on his arm.
"Wait, I need to get some money from Gringotts first." Snape looked at her in confusion for a second before he said. "Don´t be daft, I will pay for your things, save what money you have to when you finish school."
"I´m not daft, and you don´t need to pay for me I have my own..."she suddenly stoppped and looked at the huge white building that was Gringotts. It wasn´t her money, it was Harry Potter´s money, it was the Potter´s money, not hers. She had used someone else´s money.
"I´m a bloody theif!" she exclaimed indignantly.
"No you´re not. You didn´t know about it, you were him until yesterday you know." Snape said.
"But I have used someone else´s money. Ignorance isn´t an exuse. I had no right to do so. If Harry is dead too, to who does the money belong?"
"Ignorance is no excuse indeed. How do you then explain these four years of potions." he thought.
"I don´t know, if you want to we can ask the headmaster when we get back, but for now you don´t need any money." he said impatiently. She glared at him but then the glare softned. She sighed and headed to Madam Malkins. Snape followed, "I know it´s hard but can´t you give me a chance. I know that I don´t deserve one, but I´m trying aren´t I?" he thought.
"Welcome dear, ah professor Snape long time no seen. What can I do for you?" Madam Malkin greeted them.
"My daughter is in need of a new wardrobe. The Hogwarts uniform among that." Snape said and sat down in a chair beside the changing rooms. Madam Malkin looked positively delighted at the task. She started to pile up some white undergarments, then she told Alex to stand on the stool so that she could get her measured. When the measures was done she was being pushed towards the changing rooms.
"Come on dear, your father said a full wardrobe, we still need to get you some day-to-day robes and cloaks." Alex glared at her father who smirked as he read a magazine.
Malkin gave her a forget-me-not blue robe to try. She did and looked in the mirror, she was really pretty accually, but the color didn´t suit her "Come out dear so that your father can see how it looks." Malkin called from outside. Alex walked out and held her arms out waiting for her father to say something.
"It looks good but it´s the wrong color." He said and turned back to his magazine, "You might want to try greens, dark blues and black for everyday robes. Ruby, emerald, saphire, black and silver for special occassions and dressrobes." Alex stared at him. "How many special occassions do you think that I will attend this year?" she asked. "That´s to many, it isn´t necessary to have so many dressrobes."
"Yes it is, with you one can never know when a robe is going to be destroyed" Snape said lightly, turning back to his magazine. Alex was gaping at him. "If you manage with only one robe then I´m sure that I will too." she said airily and walked back into the dressing room and out of the way for any "stray" curses. She peaked through the door and saw him smirking. Ok so either he thought that it was amusing, or he has already planned a payback.
"You are getting those robes, whether you like it or not." he stated. Alex really had to bite her tounge to stop it from escaping her mouth. She tried on a few more and the pile was just getting bigger and bigger. She glanced at Snape but he didn´t even raised an eyebrow at the pile of packages of clothes when he payed. He put them into an magically enlarged bag and left.
"Why did you insist on all of those clothes? I could have managed on a forth of that you know." She couldn´t understand it, why would anyone spend so much money on her? Snape looked at her, seeing her confusion he remembered that her "relatives" hadn´t spent a penny on her. "You need clothes and that´s that. Just because those muggles never provided you with anything else then hand-me-downs that were three sizes to large, doesn´t mean that I will deny you things you need and want. Within limits of course." Inwardly she smiled, she guessed that she had to get used with being suprised by her professor and father.
"Lets get changed and leave, we still need to go to muggle London." he said as he headed for the Leaky Cauldron.
"What are we going to do there?" Alex wondered.
"You need some muggle clothes as well." was all he said.
"More clothes?" she raised an eyebrow at him, not even Parvatti and Lavender shopped this much clothes when they were out, and Merlin knows that Hermione had countless with sleepless nights because of those two showing off their new shirts or skirts or tops and whatever. But they only bought a maximum of two garments at the time.
"Yes." she rolled her eyes but followed.
Some jeans, tops, blouses, skirts and shoes later, they sat down in a muggle resturant. They had been in the muggle side for quite some time now but Alex couldn´t keep from giggling at Snape. It had just been too much to see him in muggle clothes, it´s not like it didn´t suit him, rather the other way around. One of the shop assistants in one of the stores had even flirted with him, to the never ending amusment to Alex. That woman had gone on and on about fathers who didn´t spend enough time with their children and those who didn´t care if their daughters came home at the wee hours of the day. Snape hadn´t said anyhting but only continued picking out some decent clothes for Alex to try, and he had all but asked her to go to hell when she had suggested a very see-though top. Alex blushed furiously when she had seen the top that the woman suggested. "It´s very popular among young girls nowadays and you have such a lovely figure my dear" Snape had payed for the things and dragged Alex out from the shop faster then she could blink. When they had gotten outside she almost fell over laughing. Snape only glared at her, but amusment was playing in his eyes.
The waiter came over and handed them a meny, Alex eyed throught it. She glanced at Snape who was looking through his own meny, but when he glanced back at her she looked away quickly. He raised a silent eyebrow but turned back to the meny.
"Have you desided?" he asked.
"Umm, I don´t know. Lasagne?" he nodded and waved the waiter towards their table. He took their orders and left. There was an uncomfortable silent until the food arrived.
They sat in silence while they ate their dinner and when the dessert was served even the waiter seemed to notice the tense air around the two of them.
"Come on Alex, say something" she thought to herself. "Thank him for the clothes at least. Yeah I´ll do that."
"Sir?" Snape looked at her. "I only wanted to thank you. You know for the clothes and dinner and everything. For helping me." she looked down at her bowl with slices of musk melon and strawberries. Snape stared at her in confusion. What had he done to help her? She hadn´t told him about the abuse so he hadn´t helped her with that. What was she talking about?
"Your welcome for the clothes and dinner, but I´m afraid that I´m not sure what you mean by helping you."he observed her for a moment before she turned to her bowl again.
"It´s hard to explain, but it has a lot to do with you not blaming me for being who I am. At least it doesn´t seem like you´re blaming me." she mumbled the last part. She half expected him to sneer or smirk at her for being stupid, but he didn´t. He had a neutral expression gracing his face and a guilty look in his eyes.
"I certainly don´t blame you for being born, I think it was idiotic of you to keep the secret from at least the headmaster though, but there is nothing to do about that now. If anything I´m blaming myself for not knowing that Kathrine was with child when she left." Snape stated.
--Flashback--
"What do you mean?" a twenty year old Severus Snape asked his girlfriend, Kathrine Nightingale. The girl, who had deep blue eyes and hazel shoulder-lenght hair, closed her eyes and bent her head.
"I´m sorry Severus, but we really can´t be together any more. Don´t you ever doubt that I love you with all my heart, but I have a duty towards myself not to get involved in this idiotic war, I can´t risk it." the last part was said in a whisper, more to herself then anyone else. Severus only stood there, did she know? By the look in her eyes when she looked at him, he knew the answer was yes.
"Kath, I´m not loyal to him. I´m a spy." he said in a low voice. She looked him straight in the eyes. " I know that Severus, but what will happen when he knows?" she stated cooly. "I will not risk it because you desided to play Gryffindor. If you have to attend the meetings then it won´t be long before he asks for my presens. Bella joined together with her husband, Sissy didn´t have to recieve the mark because of her fragile physique, but she still has to do some work with Lucius." she paused."Severus Snape, I swear my love and life to you, I swear that my heart and soul will always belong to you. I wish that you escape from your courageous choise with your life and mind safe. Good bye love." and with that she left, leaving the ring that Severus had given her only a couple of days before. It wasn´t an engagement ring, it was a promise ring, a promise he now couldn´t keep.
Severus couldn´t do anything else that night, but bury himself in work.
--End Flashback--
"Sir? Professor? Are you alright?" Alex asked snapping her fingers in front of the professor´s eyes. He snapped out from the flashback and almost glared a the young girl in front of him, but then he changed his mind and took a sip of his wine.
"Sorry, I haven´t thought about Kathrine for a long time." He couldn´t believe that he had blanked out like that. He couldn´t afford to loose his guard now, not when he now had a daughter to think about.
Alex felt that the man clearly didn´t want to talk about it now, so she desided to change the subject. "So what´s planned for tomorrow?"
Snape seemed to appreciate the change. "Tomorrow at breakfast, the headmaster will announce you and you will be placed in a house."
"Placed in a house? I won´t be sorted?"she felt a little relieved at that, it had been enought nerv-wracking the first time.
"No, the sorting hat doesn´t sort the same student twice, he knows what he sees, and he doesn´t make any mistakes, even if he believes that someone could do better in another house then the one you are sorted into." he explained.
"So how do I get into a house?" she was completely lost to how something was going to work tomorrow.
"We´ll see, the headmaster will deside that after consulting with the hat." he raised his hand and waved the waiter over to their table. "We should be heading back now, it´s getting late." He payed the bill and they left.
They walked down the streets towards the Leaky Cauldron. When they entered the pub the went over to the fireplace and flooed to Three Broomsticks.
When they reached the castle it was close to ten, so it was past curfew. They walked down to the dungeons and entered the quarters. They hadn´t talked anything for the whole trip from London.
"You should go to bed, and do try and not humiliate yourself tomorrow at potions, everything you do will reflect upon me." Snape said curtly and left the livingroom with Alex standing just outside the door the the bedroom she had slept in.
"Wai.." his door closed. "Thanks a lot Snape, one minute you´re nice and the next you´re back to the bat. I should have known, why did I get my hopes up?" she went inside the bedroom and changed into that old-fashioned sleeping gown. "Tomorrow I´ll ask the headmaster if he could help me with another glamorie, I can´t stay like this. ARRGH, WHY DIDNT I KNOW BETTER? " she sighed. "At least it didn´t go so far, all he did was buy me clothes, for a minor fortune. I need to get a job during the holidays too, I can´t use the Potters money." she went into a worried sleep yet again.
'Alex woke up feeling like she only seconds ago fell asleep, she groaned and got out of bed. She went out to the livingroom and what she saw made her froze. In the armchair and in the sofa, sat the headmaster and Sirius. She was about to say something when Remus Lupin, Ron and Hermione entered. Her two friends looked confused, but they smiled at the sight of Sirius.
"Ahh, Alexandra, just the one we were waiting for." Dumbledore said with a sombre voice.
"If you were waiting why didn´t you simply wake me up sir?" she asked carefully, she had only now noticed the look that Sirius and Lupin were sending her way. A look of pure disgust and loathing, only it was more discreet in Lupins features. She winced at the glare Sirius sent her way and remembered her dream from the night before.
"You filthy snake. How could you decieve us like this?" Sirius hissed at her. "Sirius, I didn´t mean..." she pleaded with him.
"NO! You didn´t mean to lie? You didn´t mean to pretend to be Harry Potter?" Ron and Hermione looked sharply at her. "What do you mean, pretend to be Harry Potter?" Ron asked. Alex turned to him. "Ron please forgive me. I couldn´t tell, I didn´t dare. I was a girl all along." She couldn´t believe that this was happening. How could Dumbledore have told Sirius without her being there? She was the one that were supposed to tell them, but not like this.
"Harry?" Hermione whispered. She shook her head from side to side as if in denial. "Hermione, I´m sorry. It was so hard to..." #SLAP#
Alex stood there and stared at Hermione, she raised her hand to her cheek were the girl slapped her, it stung terrible. Ron lunged at her but she managed to step aside and back right into Lupin.
"Professor Lupin please, please believe me, I couldn´t tell." Lupin didn´t say anything but pushed her away from him. She looked around and saw blame, anger, bertrayal and hate in the faces around her, she couldn´t breath. She would suffocate if she didn´t do anything, so she ran. She ran out the door and through the halls, ran as fast as she could but she still couldn´t breath. She was aware of the familiarity of the situation but she continued to run until she collapsed hard on the stone floor. She shook and trembled and tried to catch her breath. She covered her head with her arms and clenched her eyes shut.
"This isn´t reality, I´m only stuck in a dream, they wouldn´t do that, they wouldn´t." she flinched when she felt big hands on her back, but calmed down when the hands started to rub soothing circles. She looked over her shoulder to see who it was, and her heart stopped when she saw Voldemort. Just as before, Voldemort sat on his throne and his duplicate was the one rubbing her back. She tried to get away but she couldn´t move, she tried to scream but no sound was heard.
"Hello again. What is the matter little serpent?" he said and of course he received no answer. "When we met last night you caused me pain. Normally I would punish someone who causes me pain, and do you know how?" he lowered his voice to a mere whisper. "I use the cruciatus." she flinched again. "Please wake up, wake up, wake up. Snape please, wake me please." she pleaded in her mind. "But I won´t use it on you, no little serpent, when you appeared now, you acted like a hunted animal." Voldemort took her into his arms and Alex felt like she could´ve gaged. She had to say something, get out of the monster´s arms.
"You intrigue me. I want to know who you are. Last time was a failiure, I couldn´t see your mind, but this time I will." he hissed in her ear. He pointed his wand towards her temple and whispered "legilimensy". The same soaring pain as the night before slammed through her head, her scar was on fire.'
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Severus paced his bedroom, furious with himself for letting his anger and frustrasion out on the girl. After he remembered that night when Kathrine left, his mood sunk to the ground, and since Alexandra apparently couldn´t find anything to say he only got deeper and deeper into his foul mood.
He sat down on his bed and rubbed his temples, what was he gong to do? He didn´t know how to be a father, maybe it would be better to let the Weasleys get guardianship over the girl, he could preform the blood-protection over their house and then Alex would be safe during holidays.
But what did she want? What did he want? "I want to get to know my daughter" he thought. "No I don´t, even if she happens to be my daughter by blood, she is still the same person she has been since she arrived at the school. Just another obnoxious dunderhead, another troublemaker."
It wasn´t true if he thought about it, that boy he knew as Harry Potter wasn´t really obnoxious, he only stood up for himself and his friends when they were unfairly treated. But he/she did have to learn how to control his/her emotions or someday he/she will end up in more trouble then he/she already experienced.
Snape was brought out of his train of thoughts when he heard Alex scream, just like she had done the other night. He rushed into her room and was meet by the sight of his daughter laying on the bed, all tangled up in the sheets and gasping for air. He rushed over feeling dread in his chest, "Bastard, stay away from her!"
"Alexandra?" he reached out to touch her shoulder but when he did she flinched away.
"Get away from me, don´t touch me." she wheezed with her eyes closed. Snape backed away. "Wake up, please wake up. Snape please wake me. Please."she continued to say between her gasps for air.
Snape now understood what was happening. He shook her shoulders to wake her but that only made her flinch away from him. He sat down on the bed and embraced her in his arms and whispering to her to wake up.
"NOO! LET GO. DON´T THOUCH ME, GET AWAY." she screamed, but Snape didn´t bulge.
"Alexandra wake up. You´re only dreaming, nothing is going to happen, no one is going to hurt you." his voice grew louder for each time he repeted the words. "If she only could wake up." her screams faded as she didn´t get enough air. Snape rubbed her back and turned her face to him, if the Dark Lord was "inside" her head again he had to push him out since Alex didn´t know how, he wasn´t even sure if she could hear him.
"Legillimens." when he entered her mind, but what he saw was something that he had never expected to see, a fullfilled mind-block. A mind-block is individual for each person, he himself had the dungeons of Hogwarts as a block, or at least something that looked like them, a labyrinth of corridors and doors. Alex´s was, from what he could see, a grass-field and mist. Thick fog was all around him and he couldn´t see his hand before his eyes. This was so very different from the open mind-flow from yesterday night. He had been able to see all of her memory´s but now all he could see was white mist. He exited her mind and saw to his delight (even though that is not a word he would use) that she had opened her eyes and calmed down, her breathing was still strained but it was better then for a minute ago.
"Are you alright?" she looked around to find the source of the voice, then when she realized that it came from the thing that she was leaning against she yelped and would have ended up on the floor if Snape hadn´t been holding her. She looked away blushing.
"Alexandra?" he watched her with concern." Are you alright?" he repeted his question and his tone demanded an answer.
"I´m fine, I´m sorry if I woke you." she said quietly, her deepest desire right now was to sink through the ground. Two nights in a row, twice had Snape seen her in such a vulnerable state.
"You didn´t. What was it this time?" Alex squirmed a little, trying to deside whether to tell him or not. Snape didn´t push her, he kept quiet and still, he kept holding her, waiting for her to say something or trying to get away from him.
"First a nightmare like the other night, not the exact same but the message got through." she sighed. "Then I found myself in Voldemort´s lair once again. He could see me and thouch me, like I had been there. Once again he tried to get into my head to find out who I was. Apperantly he didn´t get into my mind yesterday either." she said with malice. Her father rubbed her upper arm, trying to find something to say.
"I´ll let the headmaster know." A strained silence sneaked up on them. "You should go back to sleep, it´s school tomorrow." Alex chuckled, the tone he had used implied that he only said that to get rid of the silence.
"Are you serious when you say that you want to give this a chance?" he looked down at her and gave a small smile.
"Yes I am. I apologize for before, I allowed my bad mood take over after the mention of Kathrine. Also that I didn´t know about you for all of these years, it...frightned me, in a way I didn´t believe possible. I have not been close to someone in years." he said quietly.
"It´s alright." her eyelids started to drop. "When do you think I will be able to tell my friends about this?"
"I do not know, anytime you wish and have a lot of free time afterwards, I believe there will be a lot of arguments and it will sertainly drain you all." Alex had already fallen asleep, but Snape made no move to get up just yet.
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