Summer Changes Chapter 3

I smile as I re-enter my dungeons. I laugh to myself as I remember the look of utter shock on Albus' face when I met him in his office.

I stand in front of my mirror like I did when I decided to change. I now have a nice body, a tan, medium length blondish hair and blue eyes. I like it a lot.

I undress and slide into my warm comfy bed and fall asleep. I have dreams about Quidditch and my past. Pictures of James Potter and Sirius Black flash before my mind. I roll over, there's sunlight streaming in. I look over at my clock it's 3pm. The students will be arriving soon.

I get out of bed and have a shower. I take my time and wash my hair. After I dry myself, I brush my hair and teeth. With my towel around my waist I walk back into my bedroom to find the outfit Luke and Nathan bought me when we got my hair done.

I pull on a pair of underpants followed by the tight fitting jeans. I slide on my socks and shoes, then drag the blood red shirt on and doing up the buttons carefully. I style my hair and leave my rooms.

I stride up to the hall cheerily, smiling and waving at ghosts, painting and other people I cross on my journey. I sit at my normal seat just as Minerva McGonagall walks into the hall.

She comes up to me, a strange look on her face. "I'm not sure who you are, but you may want to move from Severus' chair." She says. I just smile and she leaves to fetch the first years.

I watch the second years and above walk into the hall and sit at their house tables. There is a lot of chatter until Albus stands up.

"Hush, hush! The first years are coming!" He says as Flitwick places the sorting hat and it's stool before Albus on the platform.

The first years wander in looking around in a very terrified way. Some of them are trembling with nerves and others look excited.

The sorting is quick, and Slytherin doesn't get too many students. I get a lot of weird looks from students because I seem new and because I'm in the old Severus' chair. I simply smile at them and they go back to eating.

At the end of the feast, Albus gives his usual speech and the students leave quickly. As the last few leave, I start to walk away from the table, about halfway down the hall, I hear Albus say,

"For those who haven't realised, that strapping young lad is Severus Snape." I reach the doorway and turn around to smile at them all. Then I leave and go back to my rooms to get a good night sleep, even though I only have one class tomorrow.

I wake up the next morning feeling refreshed. I smile as I get dressed and head towards the hall for breakfast. I smile at everyone I pass and still no one seems to know who I am.

I notice I have a pile of timetables beside my plate, so I eat while waiting for all the Slytherin students to arrive.

I finish quickly and get up to take the timetables down. I walk along handing out the timetables, smiling at my students when I hear a strangled yelp from the table behind me.

I turn around to see Potter and Weasley holding their timetables.

"We have Potions half a day! And with Snape!" I hear Potter cry.

"And a normal class on Wednesday! Two days in a row with that git!" Weasley whines.

"In a row? My half day class is first on a Monday." Granger says surprised.

"Mine's last Friday! Today!" Potter says getting stressed. "We're going to be alone!"

I smile; at least Potter won't get distracted. I sigh to myself happily looking forward to half a day of freedom.

I've just gotten out of the shower when I realise I spent too long in there and I'm meant to be teaching! I rush to my room and pull on my pants and slide on my shoes. I grab my shirt and run down the hall doing up my pants. I pull on my shirt and enter the classroom to see Potter waiting patiently at the table in front of my desk.

I smile and push my wet hair out of my face. "Hello Mister Potter." I breathe noticing how his eyes flick to my chest and back to my eyes, I hastily do up my shirt.

"Hello sir," He says, obviously quite shocked, "You are?"

I grin a bit wider before I stand over him. I bend over and growl in a tantalising voice, "Professor Severus Snape… Your worst nightmare." I straighten up and write instructions for a Potion on the board. "You are to make this Potion. If you need help, ask." I smile sitting at my desk in front of him and watching him with interest.

He starts the Potion well and after about half an hour he asks for help. I give him a charming smile and stand up to help. He just need it all explained and so I explain the Potion. He nods and continues on as I sit back down.

He asks for an ingredient he doesn't have and so I leave the room to go and get it from my personal stores. When I re-enter the room I notice he's washing his hands, he dries them quickly before smiling and thanking me as I hand him the ingredient.

After half the lesson I stop him. "You may have lunch, you don't have to leave, but if you would like to…" I beam at him. He smiles and leaves the classroom. I can tell he's probably running up to his friends to say the mysterious teacher is Snape.

I look over his notes and check his Potion. Everything he has done so far is really good. There's a couple of extra pieces of paper which a quickly murmur a spell to show what's written on them.

Nothing comes up he knows his spells. I sigh to myself before messing up my hair a bit. Now that I'm dry, I can dress properly, so I take off my shoes and my shirt to put them on properly.

I put on a pair of socks I grabbed as I left earlier and put my shoes back on. I'm just standing up to put my shirt, on when Potter storms back in, red in the face.

He stops when he sees me, topless yet again. He seems to blush more, but not on his face, the blush creeps down his neck and under his shirt. I pull my shirt on, "Twice in one day, lucky ain't we." I grin cheekily at him. He doesn't look in my direction until I'm sitting down again.

I've left the top few buttons undone as it is hot in the room, and he notices this, and looks away. He concentrates on his Potion; "You're doing very well, Mister Potter." I sigh happily.

He looks up shocked, "Really?" He asks, a small tremble of worry in his voice.

"Really, really. It seems that you've either studied or just do better without distractions." I catch his eye and keep it with a kind smile that he returns.

"Thank you, sir." He says getting back to work.

Before too long, he had finished his Potion and it was the end of the lesson. "Good work Mister Potter. I shall see you Wednesday for our full class lesson.

"Goodbye sir." He mutters rushing away with his books.

I smile to no one in particular and walk slowly up to dinner. I am not surprised to find an éclair on my plate by dessert. I take it and open it carefully. I eat it and turn to my dessert. I take a large strawberry and dip it in a small dish of chocolate.

I can sense someone watching me, so I lick the chocolate off the strawberry. I glance up in the direction of the stare and look at the person as I bite into the juicy strawberry.

The person goes red and looks away. I eat the rest of the strawberry and lick the juice off my fingers. I smile slightly as I stand up to leave I make sure I brush past the person. That in itself is hard, because I don't wear billowing robes, but tight fitting ones. Thankfully someone from the other table pushed back their chair as I walked past giving me reason to brush the person I had wanted to.

I go to my room and undress to my boxers before sliding into bed. I have no dreams that I can remember and morning comes too quickly. I stare out my window for a long time, wondering why I want to be my old self.

I tell myself it's because it was easier to hate everyone. But I love to smile and only four people can make me smile, and only three of them I know I can rely on.

I get up and dress before writing a letter to Kyle, Nathan and Luke asking them to Hogsmead. I send them off and wait for a reply, and it doesn't take long.

Dear Severus!

Of course we'll come to Hogsmead! See you there in half-an-hour!

Love,

Kyle, Nathan and Luke!

I smile happily and go to breakfast. Part of me tells me to tell them about the man I want, but part says not to because of the uproar if people were to find out.

I tell Albus I am going to Hogsmead and that I'll be back later. "It might help to have a sobering potion on hand when I return, too." I laugh leaving the castle.

"Of course, you young party animal. Just notify me when you're back." He smiles watching me leave.

I find Luke, Nathan and Kyle easily; they're waiting for me at the Three Broomsticks. "About time Sev!" Nathan yells waving me over to the booth they're in.

"What can I get you?" Rosemerta asks us,

"Four FireWhiskeys please." Kyle replies giving her a sweet smile. She nods and goes to get out drinks.

We thank her as she brings them back. "To us!" Luke laughs.

"To us!" We chorus. We drink down the drinks and ask for more. We slowly become more and more intoxicated. I motion for them to lean in, "What do you do when you like a guy 20 years younger than you?" I ask.

"He's your student?" Nathan asks me his features turning to shock.

I nod, Kyle smiles, "Give him detention! Then seduce him… Does he like you?"

"Well… He was watching me at dinner last night, and so I ate a strawberry sexily, and he went red all over." I smirk flicking my hair out of my face.

"OH! Go for it Sev!" Luke says a bit too loud. People look over at us and I smile at them cheekily.

I smile at my friends and go back to Hogwarts. Albus comes down to meet me with a potion in hand. I drink it in a gulp and grab onto the older man to stop me from falling over.

"Thank you." I smile. "I met my friends, I needed to relax a bit."

"I understand, Severus." He smiles.

I go back to my rooms and stay there for the weekend. I make the potions Poppy has requested for the Hospital Wing as quick as I can and write up plans.

I don't leave my rooms for the weekend except to eat and even then, I just smile at people and go back to my rooms.

I wake up early on Monday morning and go to my classroom. Granger arrives at the same time as me, I smile, "Good morning Miss Granger, ready to work?" She nods enthusiastically and I set her the Potion for this week.

She has this lesson and Wednesdays lesson to make it. I watch her as she chops and shreds the ingredients and smile. She is a really good student and she works better without people around, too.

Half way through the lesson I stop her, "You may have a lunch break if you wish." I smile and she leaves the room. When she arrives back she gets straight back to work and I'm surprised she can stay on task.

She doesn't ask for help at all, she doesn't even register I'm in the room, she just works. The bell rings and she looks at me and smiles. "Good work Miss Granger, see you on Wednesday for our full class lesson."

"Goodbye sir." She says leaving the room quickly. I stand and cover her potion and put it away until Wednesday.

I take the rest of the day off to run around the grounds. I put on a pair of shorts and my good joggers and take off my shirt before leaving the castle and running.

The grounds are so large that by the time I'm back to the start it's getting dark and I go into the castle for a shower before dinner.

As I'm going to my rooms a few girls smile at me shyly, looking at my chest. I just smile and hurry away.

I go to dinner and eat my food and the éclair and go to bed. I have my first class with Weasley tomorrow, and I'm not sure he'll be as good as Potter and Granger without them there.

He enters the classroom a bit late and I tell him what to do. He's shocked by my kindness. "If you need help, Mister Weasley, please ask." I say watching him start.

He asks for help a lot, and I don't mind. In fact, I'm glad he does ask. "You can go have lunch now." I tell him half way through.

He leaves wordlessly and comes back 20 minutes later. He works better now and doesn't need as much help.

"Goodbye, Mister Weasley, you have worked well." I smile at him at the end of the lesson.

"Thank you for your help sir." He mutters leaving quickly. I cover his Potion and store it with Grangers.

I go to dinner, wearing a nice shirt and jeans and smile charmingly at everyone, though that's probably because I had a couple of glasses of FireWhiskey.

I notice there's an éclair again and I eat it slowly and then I eat some grapes. I love fruit, because it's so juicy and sweet. I lick my fingers and look around. A couple of girls blush and look away and I smile to myself at what they'd do if they found out I was gay.

I go to bed looking out my window. I fall asleep and dream of blurred faces and distorted words. I wake up and go for a quick run before coming back inside, having a shower and going to my first full class lesson.

I jump over my donut shaped desk and sit on the swivel chair in there. I like the idea and spin a bit before Zabini arrives. He smiles shakily and sits down at a table.

A few minutes later Granger, Weasley and Potter arrive smiling widely at a joke someone's said. They look around and sit at a table each, a look of longing passing of Weasley's face as he's separated from Granger.

I get their Potions and give them to their owners and they get to work. I give Potter and Zabini the instructions and they too get to work.

"Zabini you dick, give me my scales!" I hear Potter yell after a few minutes. I look up and Zabini is looking quite innocent.

"Mister Potter, for your language, you will serve a detention on Saturday with me. Come to my office at 4:30 p.m." I say airily and the two boys get back to work, Potter red in the face and Zabini smirking proudly.

As it's only a short lesson, Zabini and Potter don't get far, but Weasley and Granger finish theirs. I nod and take the flasks they produce with their potions in them. I cover Zabini and Potter's potions and put them away for their next lesson.

"Good work everyone, see you in your single classes." I smile waving them out of the room.

I hear Potter complain about his detention to his friends, and asking why it was so late in the day.

I have Zabini the next morning and I go to bed early. I'll need the strength with this Slytherin I know it.

'Severus?' James asked me, 'Severus, open your eyes!' I couldn't do it no matter how hard I tried. 'Please Severus, please just open your eyes, let me know you're okay!' He cried desperately. I open my mouth, 'J-J-J-' I stutter weakly, 'James… Dumbledore…' I whispered before it all went black.

I wake with a yelp. It's been years since that happened, I didn't even know I remembered it… I get out of bed and get ready for breakfast.

I skip along happily like Luke told me to do when I wasn't feeling my best. It helps me feel awake and energized, which was how I'd have to be with Zabini.

I smile at everyone at the staff table and sit down to my breakfast.

I eat quickly and rush off to get Zabini's lesson ready. He enters looking slightly worried and angry.

"Good morning Mister Zabini, please get to work on the potion you started yesterday!" I beam sitting at my table and watching him, "If you need help, ask for it."

He works in silence; he doesn't even notice my presence. I've heard the Slytherins are angry with me for changing and not teaching Potions. I've also heard they're angry because I'm nice.

I sigh and start doodling on a piece of parchment. By the end of the lesson, Zabini isn't finished, and I've drawn all over the paper.

"Poor, Zabini, you need to get your act together." I sigh sadly taking a flask of his Potion. He leaves red faced and I go to the lake. Today, Potter and Weasley are there, Potter is writing, his hand moving quickly over the parchment and his tongue poking out as Weasley tells him what to write.

"Lovely day, isn't it?" I smile walking past them and undressing to my togs. They nod as I run into the water and swim out to the deep water.

I dive under the water and come up fully soaked; by this stage the giant squid has realised someone is in the lake and comes over to me. I pat one of his tentacles. He bubbles a bit and lazily swims away.

"Come in!" I call to the two boys; "The water is lovely!" Weasley looks at me, his eyes wide open and Potter smiles at his friend. They quickly discuss it before discarding their clothes and joining me in the water.

We swim till it gets dark and Weasley runs off, saying something about Granger and dinner. Potter and I lazily swim to the shore. "Thank you for inviting us in, sir." He mutters drying off and dressing.

"Not a problem." I give him a small smile and flick my hair off my face before getting dressed. We walk up to the castle before he rushes off to find someone.