don't know how I got the idea for this story, but I hope you enjoy it:)

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter Characters, they belong to JK. However, I own Elisabeth (Els) Vinyal, she's my character, if you want to use her, send me a PM so I know;)

The rest of the week went by quickly, and before I knew it, it was Christmas morning. Most of my time I had spend in finishing my homework, so the rest of the holidays I was free to do whatever I wanted to do. I woke up with sunlight on my face, and blinked a few times before I saw the pile of Christmas presents on the foot of my bed, there were presents from my parents, Ginny, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna, Mrs Weasley, Jessica, Gina, Emily and Dobby. I had remembered to leave a Christmas present for Dobby behind in the Gryffindor Tower on Christmas Eve.

I didn't expect that he would send me a present in return, but when I opened it, I was glad he did because in his box was a wonderful smelling treacle tart. Mrs Weasley had send me a green Weasley jumper with an 'E' on it, Ginny, Harry and Ron had send be a box with all different kind of sweets from Honeydukes, Hermione had send me 'Rare Herbs and where to Find them', from Luna I got a pair of custom made glasses, she said that they were to see Nargles. Jessica, Gina and Emily had send me one present from the three of them, two books on philosophy. After opening all my presents, I quickly put on my new Weasley sweater and a pair of jeans, and made my way to the Great Hall for breakfast.

The house table's had disappeared, and instead there stood a large, round table in the middle of the Great Hall. It had room for 10 people, the other students already sat at the table, as were Professor Dumbledore, McGonagall, Sprout, Flitwick and Trelawney, I was surprised to see Professor Trelawney here, because she rarely left here tower. There were two places left, between McGonagall and Trelawney, and between the Ravenclaw girl and Professor Dumbledore, and since I didn't really like Professor Trelawney I took place next to Professor Dumbledore. "Good morning sir", I said, he smiled at me, "Good morning, Miss Vinyal, I hope you've enjoyed your holiday so far, besides from your accident on the Quidditch Field."

I nodded, "I've never had such a quite holiday before, sir, I can sit on the best chairs there are in the Common Room, but I miss my friends, and I can't walk that fast at the moment, my leg is still hurting."

Dumbledore nodded understandingly, "Well, at least you have more then a week left before you have to run around the school again."

"Actually I'd hoped that it would heal a bit quicker, because it hurts al lot sometimes."

"Have you been to Madame Pomfrey?", Dumbledore asked, I shook my head, "no sir, if I went to her, she probably would keep me in the hospital until the end of the holiday."

"Maybe you should go to Professor Snape, he can make you a pain-relief potion, it doesn't work for days, but at least you've got less pain."

Of course, why hadn't I thought of that one myself, he had said that I could ask him for one, "Sir, do you know were Professor Snape is, I haven't seen him after he found me on the Quidditch Field last week, and probably haven't even thanked him properly."

"I think you can find him in his quarters, he's always there when it is Christmas."

I looked curiously at him, but decided not to ask, Professor Dumbledore probably wouldn't answer it anyway. After I had finished my breakfast, I had an internal debate, should I go and see Professor Snape now, or should I wait and go to him in the afternoon? I decided to go now, the pain in my leg was still there. I slowly made my way to the dungeons, not sure what to do, or how to ask for the potion. When I stood before the door of his quarters, I took a deep breath and knocked, no answer, I knocked again, but nobody responded, "Professor Snape wish not to see anyone today."

I looked around to find the person who said that, "I'm here, silly girl", I looked over to my left and saw one of the portraits next to the door.

"But Professor Snape said I could ask him for a Pain-relief potion if I needed one, and right now my leg is hurting like hell", I said to the portrait, the man disappeared for a minute, but then returned again, "You can come in, the Professor says, but only for the potion."

I rolled my eyes, "For what else should I came down here?", I said, but the portrait gave no answer. Carefully I opened the door, there was a nice room on the other side of it. It was bright, with a green floor, Mahoney furniture and a lot of books, every free space on the wall was covered with books. I closed the door behind me and walked into the room, one big chair was turned to the fireplace, an empty bottle of Firewhiskey, stood on the ground. I carefully walked to the chair, "Professor?"

"Missss Vinyal", he slurred, "What arrre you thoing heerrre?"

"You told me I could get a pain-relief potion when my leg was hurting too much, sir." "Yourrrr leg, what happened to yourrrr leg?"

"I broke my leg, sir, and you brought me to the hospital wing last week."

"Did I? I cant rememberrrr a thing", he slurred, while trying to get up, "OI", his legs were too wobbly and he felt back on the chair.

"Sir, how much did you drink?", I asked, if he even couldn't get up, then it must've been a lot, "Not a lot, bit of Firrrrewhiskey, and soooome wine", he said, while trying to hide something under his chair. I kneeled down to see what he tried to hide, and saw at least three more empty bottles of Firewhiskey and 2 empty wine bottles. I decided to look for some sober-up potion, one of the doors stood open on a kier, I opened it more and saw shelves with potions, Snape's private stores.

"Wherrre arre you going?", I heard Snape slurring behind me, "I'm going to get you something to drink, Professor."

I heard a loud thud behind me, "Dooont go, I have drrrinks here!"

I pretended to ignore him and looked on the shelves, I took a pain-relief potion, a Sober-up potion and a headache potion. I searched for his kitchen and filled a glass with water, I emptied the Sober-up potion in the water and made my way back to Snape.

"Elisssabeth, what tho you haaaave therrre?", he grinned, while laying on the ground, a bottle of Firewhiskey in his hands.

"I got you something to drink, Professor", I said.

"I am not Professorrrrrr, my name is Severussss, and I have drinkssss here!"

He showed his bottle, "Sir –"

"It's Severussss, love", he interrupted me, "Okay, Severus, you have drunk enough alcohol already, I'm surprised you're not knocked out by now, and for Gods Sake, it's not even in the afternoon!"

I tried to grab his bottle, but he hold it tight against his chest, "Noooo its mineee."

I sat the glass of water and the two vials on the table next to the chair and grabbed the bottle with two hands, "You've had enough, you are going to give me the bottle now, or I'll hex you!"

He slanted his head to the side, "Hexing a teacherrrr? You would neverrr do that Missss Vinyal."

I scowled at him, "Oh yes, if you keep on acting like a spoiled kid, I will hex you." Snape grinned, "Thennn you've to be quickkk", he yanked at the bottle I was still holding.

I felt on top of him, immediately I felt two arm around me, I looked up and saw Snape still grinning, "Well, hello, what are you thoing soooo close to meee?", he slurred, he took a last swig from the bottle and threw it away.

"Professor, please, can you let me go, this isn't a very good idea to do", I tried to loosen his arms, but even in his drunken state he was strong.

"It iss Severussss, not Professorrrr, and I dont let you goooo."

I tried to loosen myself once more, but then gave in. I let my head rest on his chest, to be honest, it wasn't that bad, yes he smelled of the whiskey he'd drunk, but also his cinnamon, vanilla and forest scent, it wasn't a bad position anyway, since I had realised why I was given my second chance, I had been think about how I could do it, I can't tell him who I really am, but I can try to make him fall in love with who I am now. My fingers found one of his buttons and started to fidget with it, I moved my head a bit so I could look at him. He was looking at me, "Prof – Severus, why are you doing this to me?"

"Doing what?", I had the tendency to roll my eyes, but he was drunk, it wasn't his fault that he was slow in catching up at the moment, "Well, first drinking so much, and now holding me here."

His eyes were reflecting the light from the fire place, they didn't look as black as they usually did, they were dark, deep brown, "Because – because Christmas is something you should celebrate with your loved ones, and the only person I've loved died. I just wanted to be on my own, but then you came, for your potion, and I didn't want you to leave, so I pretended to be drunk, to keep you here –"

"WHAT, you're not drunk, then why are you doing this", I shouted angry at him. His eyes looked hurt, and immediately I was regretting my outburst when I saw the pain in his eyes, "It's just, you're my teacher, I shouldn't even be in your quarters."

I couldn't look at him, and buried my face in his chest, "Miss Vinyal", he said, "Elisabeth, I didn't want to scare you away, because I care about you, but I just didn't know how to say it, if just had told you, you probably would've run straight away."

He tried to sit up, but was holding me against him at the same time, so I ended up sitting in his lap, my face still buried in his chest, "I started to realize it, after that night on the Astronomy Tower, I could sulk the rest of my live over a dead woman, who never loved me, or give her a place in my heart, and try to find new love", I felt his knuckles caressing my cheek, "I know that I can't ask that of you, I'm twenty years your senior, but I want you to be part of my live, even if it's only as friends –"

I placed a finger on his lips to silence him, and pointed to something above our heads. Snape looked up and spotted the mistletoe, "You old fool", he muttered, "why is it always me?"

I placed my hand on his cheek, "does it matter then, sir?"

"No, but Albus does this every year to me and –" I cut him off by placing my lips on his', "I don't mind, and neither should you", I whispered, before kissing him gently, I felt him tense for a moment, but then he relaxed. One of my arms found its way to his neck and my fingers tangled in his hair, it was really soft. His lips started to move against mine, and I felt his tongue against my lips, asking for my permission, I opened my mouth, and immediately his tongue started to explore my mouth. My tongue found his, and we duelled for dominance, I knew that he would win our little fight, but I didn't give up that easily, I knew that he was ticklish, and since my arms were near his ribs, I had a good access to that spot. I started to tickle him and at the same time pushed him flat on his back, but since he was holding me, I ended up on top of him, again. I smiled to him, "Looks like I won."

Snape pouted, what actually looked really cute on him, "How did you know?"

"Everyone is ticklish, the only problem is finding out where."

He sighted and stared into the fireplace, while absently minded stroking my hair, I looked at him, "What's wrong?"

His eyes wandered from the fireplace to my eyes, "It's just – I care about you, but you're also my student, and I've in love with this other women for so long, I told you I've given it a rest now, but it's still hard, I've loved her for more then twenty years. But anyway, I don't want to talk about it now, I've been mourning last week on my own, and now I'm not on my own anymore", he gave me a small smile, which made him look years younger, I hadn't seen that smile in years, "I haven't even thanked you properly for your Christmas present, I usually only get something from Albus, which are always colourful clothes, how did you know I liked muggle tales?" "I just guessed, if I'd bought a book about Potions or Defence Against the Dark Arts from a normal bookshop, you'd probably already have it, and I wasn't sure if a Muggle tale was appropriate, but I just bought it before I could hesitate."

"Oh, well Thank you, but now I feel stupid because I don't have anything for you - " I cut him off with a quick kiss, "No need for, you already gave it to me, this was the best Christmas Morning I've had in years", I said, kissing him passionately.

Uhhh, Christmas in January, a well never mind, I hope you enjoyed the chapter:)

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