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CHAPTER 14

THE LONG ROAD AHEAD

The years had gone by quickly for Severus, Katrina and their now, four children. The children; Amelia and Severus Junior were eight, Abraxix was six, and Jeremiah was four. This year had the entire school staff anxious about the arrival of a boy named Harry Potter. Katrina had learned that this boy was the downfall to the dark lord ten years prior, and a few years after Katrina had arrived at Hogwarts.

Severus was not at all happy to know he would be teaching the child of the woman he had once loved many years ago, but Severus kept it well hidden from Katrina. After the school year had started, Severus had come home in a foul mood. Katrina instantly knew something was amiss, and decided to ask him. "Severus, ever since you returned home this evening, you have been-I don't know-very distant. What is wrong?"

His eyes shot like daggers to Katrina's, and she knew he was angry over something. "That Harry Potter is not worthy of being a wizard. The insufferable ingrate couldn't even tell me where to find a beazor."

She walked in front of him kneeling down, his gaze sharper than a knife, cut right through her. She did not let it get to her, though she was sure to know that he could see the pain in her eyes. "Why do you think he would be any different than the other children?"

"He was the one to rid the magical world of the dark lord, Katrina." He spat at her like venom. "That child looks so much like his father, I cannot bare to see how he turns out. I am sure he will be nothing like his mother."

"And who were his parents?" She asked, wondering why he was so upset by this young boy who saved them all. "I am sure he did nothing to make you angry other than not knowing where a beazor came from."

"He looks like his father." The venom slipping from his tongue would be deadly if he were a serpent.

"Tell me why you despise this boy?"

"I love his mother." He said in a threatening tone. "I've loved her since we were little kids, before we even were at Hogwarts!"

Katrina was a bit taken aback, but did everything in her power to not show any emotions. Her voice betrayed her when it cracked. "You said you love her. You still do, don't you?" She asked accusingly, standing up and walking away. "Tell me, Severus Snape, tell me that you love her still!"

Severus stood, staring at Katrina's back with a loathing that he confessed this to her. "I always will love her, Katrina!"

With her chin starting to quiver, she took a deep breath. "And I thought I was the one to have stolen your heart all those years ago." Tears seeped from her eyes now. "Do I look like this boys mother?" She turned her head slightly to one side. "Why did you marry me, Severus if you still loved another woman who is now dead?"

"It brought back a lot of memories seeing him. I will not apologize for what I had said to you. Lily was my first true love."

Katrina was still angry. "Answer my question." She did not move. She did however want to slap him for what he was saying.

"No, you don't." Moving away from his chair, he walked toward the stairs. "I will love Lily until the day I die. Maybe then I will be able to be with her."

Katrina pulled her wand, aiming it at Severus, "Get out!" more anger spilled from her veins as she threw a hex at the man she not only married, but loved and had children with as well. "I am the one who bore your children! I am the woman who married you, who I thought made you a man instead of who you once were!" She walked out through the kitchen and out the back door, not caring if Severus followed or not, which he did not.

The days had drug by slowly, with Severus not returning at all. At the end of the second week, Dumbledore arrived at the house, wanting some answers for himself. Katrina opened the door, surprise etched on her face, and swollen eyes. "I apologize for not informing you of my visit before hand, Katrina."

"Please, sir, come in." Katrina said accompanying him into the kitchen. "Why is it you came for, sir?"

"For one, sir is out of the question anymore." Dumbledore sat down, while Katrina started making tea for them both. "It is Albus, and you should have been calling me that for some time now." Katrina turned around when he said this, then hung her head. "I do realize that old habits die hard, and that is why you still call me sir, or Professor. But, anyway, I came to see what has happened between you and your husband. The man has been very distant lately and refuses to talk to anyone about it. And, now that I see you, you are looking as if you have not slept since."

Walking over to the table now, Katrina sat, wiping the tears that had just escaped her eyes rubbing both her hands down her face. "It all has to do with the Potter boy." She answered softly. "That he still loves his mother, Lily, I think her name was."

"Ahh, yes." Dumbledore nodded. "I should have thought as much." He reached a hand over to touch Katrina's. "He had loved her for a very long time. Like I said, old habits die hard. And, as I'm assure you are aware, they had been friends since before school." Katrina nodded.

Sighing deeply, Katrina spoke as if she were about ready to break down. "Albus-I am not going to make up with that man. I know I am being stubborn right now, but, I feel it is he who needs to apologize to me for all the things he had said." Absentmindedly she waved her wand for the tray with cups and the tea kettle and brought it to the table. She served themselves both tea and sat there stewing. "I cannot fathom why he would marry me, when he still loved another."

"Katrina, you will need to be the one to go to his office." Dumbledore said in a soft fatherly tone. "You still love him, do you not?" She nodded in which he continued. "Then go to him. I do know that you are not as stubborn as he is, but, he also wishes to be with you when I see him at mealtimes. And, since I know you will say yes, I have the three favorite house elves at the ready to apperate here for when you wish to go." he was looking over his half moon spectacles, awaiting her answer.

Looking up at him, and knowing that expression all too well, she threw her hands in the air. "Uhg, fine, you win, Albus." Standing, the house elves appeared within seconds. "Let me change and I will journey to the school."

"Lovely." Dumbledore stood and walked to the entrance of the sitting room. "I will be in my office if anything worse happens."

Katrina smiled for the first time in what seemed like a very long time. "You will, since you will hear word from Madame Pomfry that Severus is in the Hospital Wing."

As soon as Dumbledore disaperated out of the cottage, Katrina went upstairs to change. The children were happy to see, not only their mother going to the school to fetch their father, but also that the three house elves had come to visit them again.

As she bid the children farewell, they had been playing with the house elves. The house elves were floating the children's toys in the air, making them do all funny sorts of things.

Katrina walked out the door, heading toward the school and finally inside. She knew that it was about time for Severus' break, and she also knew that he would go to his office to prepare himself for the remainder of the day, or to grade papers and potions. When she arrived in his office, classes were still in session and close to dismissing, so she sat in his chair-the one where no one is allowed, not even her, and waited as patiently as she could. She grabbed a book, and started reading through it, and when he walked into his room, she calmly put the book down on his desk.

"What are you doing here?" As if in a worse mood than before, his tone was harsher. "You shouldn't even be allowed in the Castle."

Raising her brows, she stood from the chair, walking over to him. "I came to bring you home. But, if you're enjoying life without me, then I guess I will return to the cottage to raise my children without you." The tension between the two could not even be cut with a knife.

Walking to his desk, he replied, still in a vulgar tone. "Bring me home? Why would you want to do that for? You think I do not love you, that I love Lily far more than you."

"Well?" Katrina asked as Severus walked up to her. The silence between the two had become deadly. "Do you love Lily more than I, your wife?"

His voice was slow, and deadly sounding. "What do you think?"

"You're a stubborn git, you know that?" she looked up into his eyes, yet saw no love for her at all. "It was a waste of time to come here, I see. I'll just go." She started to walk past him when he grabbed her by the arm. "What do you want from me? You do not love me anymore, just let me go." she was trying to hold herself together, but, she knew it would not last long. She was near her point to just start breaking down and crying.

"You think I do not love you anymore?" Severus asked, looking down at her in which she was not looking at him. He grabbed her by the back of the hair, pulling it back, making her look up at him. His voice still deadly, he spoke. "How do you think I could not love you, Katrina. You were the one who opened my heart-the one who stole it." His voice was becoming softer, more loving.

"She never loved you. She would have never loved you the way I love you, Severus." Katrina whispered as their lips became extremely close. Severus had been leaning into her, wanting to take his wife back. "I am the one with your children, who misses you. I am your wife, your lover, or so I thought."

"You are and always will be my love." Severus kissed her, working his way down to her jaw line and neck. "I have loved you enough to marry you, give you children, even to let you stay in my chambers when you were in school. Why would I not love you?"

"Severus." She wanted to ask him, but she was not sure how she should word it. It just came out the way she could only think of asking. "Who is your only love?"

Severus pulled away slightly looking at her slightly taken aback. "Why would you ask such a question? You should know the answer."

"It would seem that I do, though right now I am very confused as to what it is you are really wanting now."

"You, Katrina are the only woman I want. The only woman that makes me feel alive. You make me forget who I had once been." he whispered into her lips, placing a chaste kiss which she reluctantly returned. "I love you and only you, Katrina."

Tears seeped from her eyes as they stood there now staring at one another. "Then why is she always on your mind? What was it about her that made you fall in love with her-keep trying to get her to love you in return? Why did she not return that love-the love that you wanted more than anything?"

Pulling away from her, he turned toward his desk. "She had been something special to me. I had never had friends when I was younger, and she was the only one kind enough to talk to me." Not looking at her, nor she him, he continued. "Lily become my best friend the instant she had spoken to me. Helped me through a lot, she did, and I some how fell in love with her and I tried to save her that night, but things went wrong."

"I'll just leave." Katrina sighed. "I know when I have lost a battle with a dead woman." she headed toward the door, then turned around. "Just to let you know, I am not dead. Neither are the children that I gave birth to. I, and I alone will be able to love you like you deserve. But, then again, maybe I'm not the person that I thought I was." She walked out the door, leaving him to his own thoughts.

Severus hurried and walked out the door to find Katrina and bring her back into his office. He knew he had a lot to tell her, though he was not one to apologize to anyone about anything. Not even to his own wife. "Katrina." She kept walking to the front doors to go home when he pulled out his wand and jinxed her with petrificus totalis. "You would not stop for me, Your husband of all people who wants-no, needs to talk to you? To explain things to you."

She did not answer, not that she could, so he carried her back to his office without a word being said. Once inside his room, he took the jinx off her, and she was more than ready. "How dare you jinx me when my back is turned to you!" She yelled, more than angry, and Severus could tell that she was about to do something deadly. "You are not the man I married eight years ago!"

"It wasn't like you were going to turn around if I were to have called your name again." he spat out angry at her for not doing what he had told her to do. "Maybe I should be the one questioning you about if you truly love me-your husband."

With anger still etched on her face, she looked surprisingly shocked by what he had said. "How dare you accuse me of not loving you!" Her voice was hitched, as it cracked when she spoke. "You are and always will be the only man I love." Adrenaline was coursing through her body, she wanted nothing more than to walk up to him and slap him. "How could you say such a thing when we practically lived together since I came here in my fourth year! You know what I had felt for you even before I knew what I felt for you. I knew that we were meant to be together from the moment we shook hands at The Leaky Cauldron all those years ago. Ask me why I love you? Then again, maybe I should ask you why you love me?"

As she spoke, Severus slowly walked to her, though not too close for her to do him any physical harm. "There is no reason why I love you, Katrina. I do, and that is all that matters. It is every time that I see you-my heart starts to race, as I do know yours does as well. When my world feels complete knowing you are in the same room with me, or just in the same vicinity as I am." He gently touched her arms as he spoke to her a little softer. "Katrina Anne Snape, I love you and only you. I have missed you those nights I have stayed here, wanting to hold you in my arms and make love to you."

She let out a breath, wanting to be with him for the remainder of the day. "Severus, how am I supposed to tell you how I love you when I don't even know." Finally, she put her hands on his chest as he pulled her to him. "It is more the looks you have always given me and not what you have said or done. You mean everything to me-Professor Snape." She smiled for the first time since she had arrived.

"Katrina." His hand roamed up to her cheek, gently caressing her, pulling her closer to him. "You have been the only woman that has excepted me for who I am-and used to be. No one has ever wanted me the way that you have." He leaned down, kissing her lips, knowing that she was the only one that would ever love him the way that he deserved to be loved. And, she was the only woman that he will ever want in his life. True, he loved Lily Potter so many years ago, but he never really loved her like he loves his wife. "I look at my love for Lily as what I thought love was. Now that I have you-my beautiful, extremely jealous wife, I know that I never really truly loved her as I do you."

"I am not extremely jealous." She whispered, looking down at her hands on his chest.

Severus let out a laugh, which made her look up at him quickly. "You are at least jealous, especially of a woman that is no longer alive." He looked up to see what time it was, continuing. "I wish to stay with you right now, my love. To make up for the time that we have missed. But, I unfortunately have classes soon." His mood changed slightly, Katrina somewhat wondering why his mood changed. "First years are next." He whispered as he pulled away to sit in his chair. He had brought her over to him, pulling her on his lap to straddle him. "I have a break during lunch that I would like for you to come back." His hands were on her ass, rocking her back and forth against him. "I wish to make up the time we have lost when you return, if you wish to come back."

Unbuttoning his jacket, Katrina's hands slowly made their way down to the buttons of his shirt as she grew wetter from him grinding against her as his pants became tighter. "Why don't we just make up quickly now, then I will come back for more later?" She felt his hands slowly run up her back as he pulled her closer to him.

His hands came to the front of her, rubbing her covered breasts. "I would, my love. If we started, I think I would be the one absent from class, and I do want to have my Potions classroom still standing. I will be thinking of you till I see you at lunch. I just hope that I do not give myself away during class."

"Then I guess I should get up." She whispered pulling herself up. "I would think that you won't be thinking of me during your next class though. You'll be having too much fun scaring the first years."

Severus stood, but still held Katrina close to him. "You are probably right, sweetheart." he whispered into her lips. "Be here at lunch. Then I will have another break after lunch to show you how badly I have missed you. Not that you don't already know."

After he kissed her with the most passion that they have ever shared with one another before, Katrina wanted more now. "I will see you in our chambers in two hours then. It will be hell during those that time, and I hope that we can both make it through." her lips turned into a devious smile as she had a thought. "Maybe we should meet in the Potions room. Then we could be a little more-oh, how should I put this…naughty?"

"Walk with me to my class, sweetheart." He whispered, as they started to walk out of his office. Walking down the hallway a short distance he spoke of what he wanted to do to her. "I would much rather have you laying on your back, underneath me while I take what is mine."

"And what if I want to be on top?" She asked as they reached his door. "What if I want you beneath me as I drench your hard cock with my juices?"

Quickly he pulled her close to him, making her jerk and look up at him. "As tempting as that sounds, I want to fuck my beautiful wife senseless." He kissed her with a lust, wishing he could fuck her now. "You must go before the students arrive and see me fucking you up against one of these walls." His smile devious, which had been returned by Katrina.

"I might be up for that. Though not in such a public place." She whispered as their lips hovered so close to one another's. "But, fucking each other senseless sounds like a plan, which might take more than a few hours."

"When the time comes for me to journey home, I will finish what we had started here after the children go to bed. So, I would suggest that when you get home, you have the children worn out and ready for bed early."

"They are already getting worn out with the house elves. The Headmaster had sent for me to come here to argue with you more." she whispered, lust covering each word thickly.

As the children started to arrive, he pulled away from his wife. "I will be waiting for you at the appropriate time, Mrs. Snape." He kissed her gently, knowing the children that were already there were watching.

"Keep your wand in your pocket as I leave, Professor." She whispered. "And, I might need to add…" She nonchalantly roamed her hand over his still hard cock. "…keep this magical creature calm until I return to take care of it." Both their brows were raised as she walked back to the front doors.

The students that were there were in a bit of shock, not realizing that their Potions Master was actually married. "Inside-now." Severus ordered the children as he walked past the first years and into the classroom.

The hours went by agonizingly slow for the both of them. Katrina made lunch for the children after she had changed into a rather revealing outfit to entice Severus even more.

Severus, on the other hand had his hands full with the first years for those two excruciatingly long hours. Potions either clouding the room in smoke, or exploding in an inexperienced first years face, requiring first aide from Madame Pomfry.

The house elves stayed at the cottage, knowing that they were needed for Katrina to return to the castle. She left half an hour earlier to get their chambers ready for when Severus would arrive.

Upon entering, Katrina set the small table in a more appropriate place, and the chairs accordingly. She conjured a small lunch for them both, candles in the center. Being caught up in her thoughts, Katrina jumped when two arms wrapped themselves around her. "You conjured lunch, I see." Severus whispered in her ear. "But, right now, I do not wish for food." He unfastened Katrina's cloak, removing it, finding her in something that had excited him even more.

Katrina slowly turned around in his arms. "I thought you would like to eat before we started making up." She said breathlessly as he leaned in kissing and nipping at her neck.

"Food is not at the top of my priority list at the moment. You are." Pulling her to the bed, he removed his cloak as Katrina started unbuttoning his shirt. Before she had finished with this shirt, he had his pants and boxers off. Now he turned his attention to what Katrina had on.

Pulling up her very sexy, very see through black outfit, that she only wore for him, he picked her up the second his shirt was off, carrying her to the bed. "You are incredibly beautiful in this." he whispered as he threw her on the bed, climbing on between her legs.

There had been more want and passion as he rammed his cock hard into her very wet pussy, fucking her, giving in to the lust that had engulfed them both over the course of two weeks.

Staring into each others eyes as Severus rammed her hard with his swollen cock, he could feel the tension building up deep inside Katrina's body. Knowing she would cum soon, he know how to get her off and still keep giving her what she wanted. He enjoyed watching her shake beneath him, getting his cock so wet, that it made him crazier with lust, that he fucked her even harder as she screamed out his name. It had seemed like it had been years without her, feeling her body and making love to her. Keeping the tempo of pounding her extremely wet hole hard yet slow, he brought his lips down to her tits, and started sucking one as he rubbed the other. Driving her into a wild frenzy, she bucked up against him, arching her back as she came on his hard cock again. This time, he could not control himself, exploding within her, their lips on one another's as they moaned, cuming together.

"Severus." Katrina whispered out of breath as he still lay on top of her, his cock softening inside her. "I do not want to fight like that again."

"My beautiful wife." Gently he kissed her lips, moving down to her neck then kissing up to her ear, he whispered. "I would fight with you every day to have it end at night by making it up to you like we just had."

Giggling seemed to be the only thing Katrina could do. Severus pulled away slightly. "We could always make up, without even fighting."

"But, I so enjoy watching you get worked up over the littlest things. I want to make up with you even if we do not argue." He started rubbing the tit he had been sucking on before and sucking on the one he had rubbed. He knew it always made her horny, as she squirmed, enjoying his lips on her full rounded breasts, which gave her goose bumps all over her body, which made Severus thrive on it. "Severus, you're driving me crazy. If you don't make love to me soon, I will use my wand and throw you on your back."

Pulling himself away from her, he kissed his way up to her lips as his now hard cock awoken still inside her. "It isn't any fund if I cannot tease my wife." He whispered making love to her this time.

Moaning at his gentleness, and hitting her special spot with his hardness she let him know how she felt about him. "I love you so very much, Severus." The tears started escaping her eyes.

Kissing the tears away, he reassured her. "I love you, my erotically beautiful wife."

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