A new threat
Chapter 2
Snape had to help Harry all the way to their private rooms, for Harry seemed incapable of holding himself upright. Snape could feel the shaking that Harry was feeling.
"Harry are you alright?" Snape asked as they entered the cool of the dungeons. Harry didn't answer him, so Snape sighed and pushed Harry up against the stone wall, pulled out his wand and muttered,
"Leginamency". What Snape saw was heart weakening……
Harry had come in to Snape's private office the year he was taking his 7th and final year of Hogwarts. He looked distraught, as he had most days after the war. Snape was growing concerned for him and asked softly,
"Harry are you alright?"
"I can't make it! I can't handle anything anymore, not with my best friends gone! How am I to make it through the rest of this damn school year without Ron and 'Mione?" Harry burst out. Snape walked over to him and forced Harry to sit in a chair.
"Harry James Potter! I want you to understand that you will never forget them so I don't want you to go and get all depressed because you don't have your partners in crime with you anymore!" Snape immediately regretted it for Harry pushed him a blank parchment, pointed his wand at it and said,
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." To Snape's amazement a complete magical map of Hogwarts appeared on him. It took him a second to realize that Harry was gone from the room and Snape used the map to find him. From what Snape saw, Harry was heading to the astronomy tower!
Snape raced after him, keeping an eye on the map at the same time. A few seconds after Harry got there, Snape was right behind him, pulling him from the window sill. Harry was crying hard but silently and Snape could feel tears building up behind his eyes. He said to a trembling Harry,
"Please don't do this Harry! I lost your mother I can't lose you! Please Harry I love you! Please don't do this to yourself!"
"I love you too Severus. But I need my friends! I can't live without them and you know it!" Harry cried into Snape's shoulder, causing Snape say the one thing he hoped would work and the one thing he had wanted to say since he found out Mr. Weasley and Miss. Granger had died,
"Harry I can give you friendship but I know it wouldn't be the same as what you, Ron, and Hermione had. But I can help you when you need it. I can make you laugh. But you also have your godfather and Remus who care about you. I love you more than a friend and I don't think I would be able to handle losing you." Snape felt Harry stiffen in his arms as he lifted his head.
"That's all you had to say," Harry whispered before he pulled the potions master down for a heart searing kiss.
Snape pulled himself from Harry's mind, not having thought about their first kiss in a long time. He noticed that Harry was staring at him, this time not lost in memory, as he tried to find the hidden meaning of everything in his husband's eyes.
"Harry….." Snape started to say but couldn't continue. He didn't know what to say after that but Harry helped him a bit.
"Sevvy I just needed to see that memory one last time before I let go of the past. We have more than our own lives to protect now and I thought that seeing that day that you rescued me from myself would give me strength in a way. But I realized that the present you is my only strength and that I need to let go of the past."
"Harry love, no world is complete without you. I'm glad I went after you that day. If not……. But it doesn't matter because I have you and soon our own kid. We have your godfathers as well so we do have something worth protecting other than ourselves now as we always did and will," Snape replied before he kissed Harry soothingly.
"I guess this means no more late night sex now that you're pregnant and that the students are going to be back in the castle. Oh the joy of late night grading," Harry smirked when Snape pulled away from him. Snape retorted back with,
"I heard that this years Weasley twins are planning to prank us rotten." Harry shuddered at the thought of his years of schooling at Hogwarts with the twins. How much fun those years were.
"At least they are as good as beaters as Fred and George were. Which brings me to the subject of our annual bet. 30 galleons says my house will win the house cup and trump your house's asses in the first game, along with the usual tee shirt that we must wear to classes saying,
"My house got their ass kicked by…….." Fair enough?"
"Your on my lovely brat!" Snape pulled Harry into their rooms, hoping to get one last bit of peace and quiet before the usual stress and grumpiness that accompanied the students each year.