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When Madame Pomfrey entered Professor Snape's quarters after an hour passed, she noted that both men were asleep. She quickly ran her wand over Severus first, just to be sure he wasn't also coming down with anything, but didn't find anything besides a small headache.

Next, she walked into the other room, and watched Harry sleep. Doing a check of him, she noticed that his fever was the same level as it was last time they checked and the fever-reducer seemed to be doing very little. As she was contemplating this, she started to hear thrashing coming from the other room.

Hurriedly, she walked into the other bedroom to see Severus obviously having a nightmare. His face was drenched in sweat and his sheets were a tangled mess around him. Tears were pouring down his face but he made no sound.

"Severus, child, its okay, wake up, you are at Hogwarts. You are safe and sound with us. Calm down," the Healer softly crooned to him, "You are safe here, calm down."

Slowly, he started to wake up and take in his surroundings.

"Poppy?" he softly whispered to her, as she hugged him, "Thank you."

"Would you like to talk about it, Severus?" she tenderly asked him.

"It was my nightmare about when my father came home really drunk that night, when he killed my mother. Same old dream," he said, sobbing.

"Oh, Severus. You are safe here at Hogwarts, always remember that. Would you like some tea to help you go back to sleep? No, you can't have a sleeping potion, you will not get addicted to those as long as I'm healer," she said in a soft but firm voice.

"Yes, please," he managed to get out, even though he was still sobbing.

The healer called a house elf to get some calming tea for Severus and while they were waiting for it to arrive, she went back to Harry's room to check on the boy. Finding him still sleeping soundly and his condition stable, she returned to Severus' room.

"How often do you have nightmares, young man?" she asked him, while rearranging his covers.

"Every time I go to sleep without a p-potion," he answered truthfully.

"Have you reconsidered the therapy I told you about? How long can you go without breaking?" she asked him in a stern voice, but was careful to keep it low enough as to not wake Harry.

"No! I said I'm fine!" he responded forcefully, not caring how loud he was.

"Professor?" a voice croaked from the other room.

"Crap," the professor said, falling back into his bed, as Poppy went to the other room to talk to the boy.

"Madame Pomfrey, what was he yelling about? Is he sick?" Harry asked the healer as soon as she appeared in his doorway.

"Professor Snape and I were having a discussion. He is very sorry that he woke you up though. As long as you are up, would you like anything? A glass of water, perhaps?" she gently told the still confused boy.

"Water, please," he responded, hating how sore his throat was when he spoke.

She quickly conjured him a cold glass of water and pressed it to his lips so that he could drink slowly.

"Thanks," he mumbled when he was done drinking.

"Does anything hurt besides your head, Harry?" she asked the boy while she waved her wand to check his condition.

"My throat does but the rest is fine. May I go back to sleep now?" Harry said as softly as he could to avoid hurting his throat more.

"Yes, dear, you may. I'll wake you for dinner," she said, pulling the covers tighter over the shivering boy. Her findings had showed that while his fever was still high, it had remained stable and his cracked skull and concussion were slowly starting to mend.

Once she was sure Harry was sleep, she walked back into the other bedroom where Snape had begun drinking his tea.

"I completely forgot Harry was here, Poppy. I'm sorry I woke him, is he doing any better?" Severus asked remorsefully.

"A little better. He needs plenty of rest and fluids along with his potions for the next few days and then he will be fine. I assume you are going to take very good care of him and be especially nice and considerate to him as well as apologize to him for waking him up?" she asked her younger colleague, who she was very disappointed in for waking her patient.

"Yes, Poppy, I will. What should I say if he asks me about what he heard?" Professor Snape asked, clearly afraid that his student overheard the conversation about nightmares and therapy.

"I think you should try the truth. I have long suspected that Harry may not have a wonderful home life, despite what you have thought. Now, are you going to try to sleep some more, or get up?" she responded in a very motherly way.

"Get up, if that's alright, Poppy. I want to see if I can brew him a bone mending potion to heal his cracked skull that won't aggravate his illness," he said as he threw the covers off of himself and slowly got out of bed.

"If you start to feel ill, I want you to tell me or Albus or Minerva immediately. Also, I am forbidding you to use sleeping potions this weekend. If you wish, you may take a calming draught before bed every night," she clearly stated to the professor in front of her.

"Thanks, Poppy," he sincerely replied.

As Poppy exited his quarters, she took a quick look over Harry who seemed to be in a deep slumber. She thought that maybe having another person in Severus' care would help the spy learn to be more compassionate and less sarcastic and cold-hearted all the time.

Severus got up and put on his brewing robes over his pajamas and carefully went into the mini Hospital Wing to retrieve the book on healing potions he needed in order to brew the potion.

"Potter looks very peaceful when he is sleeping but its obvious he still has a high fever. I hope he doesn't have to spend all weekend confined to bed," Severus thought when glanced over to the boy to make sure he didn't wake him up.

He went into his private lab and worked hard, completing the potion about twenty minutes before dinner. In the time that he had worked, Madame Pomfrey had been in and out to check on Harry but the boy never woke.

AN: Thanks for reading! Please review, especially if you have suggestions for upcoming chapters. Do you think Remus or Sirius should enter the story?