A/N: hello again to all my fans! :V ok so for those of you who have officially gone insane because of the cliffy, I'm sorry…anyway…NEXT CHAPTER: in which the cliffy at the end of the last chapter shall be answered and…yeah that's all I got…kay here we go! Oh yeah...Review Replies at the end of this chapter. (For those of you who haven't quite caught on yet, I do Review Replies every 3rd chapter) :)

Chapter 6

Harry's eyes flickered open. He groaned as he remembered his panic attack the night before. Now the whole lot of them are going to think I was being a scaredy-cat. Honestly! Freaking out over a dream; what was I thinking? He thought angrily to himself. Reluctantly, he rolled out of bed and headed out to the Common Room after he'd gotten dressed. No sooner had he got down, however, when suddenly:

"Harry! Ron was telling me you had a nightmare last night! What was it about, Harry? What happened? Are you alright? Oh, I forgot to tell you, Professor Snape's looking for you. Oh, but it must've been an awful nightmare if you had to take a Calming Drought for it. What-"

"Oy! Hermione! Honestly slow down and take a breath why don't you?" Harry replied putting a hand up to stop another rampage of questions that were threatening to come out. "Now, what was that you said about Professor Snape?" he asked, for that seemed to be the only part of Hermione's rampage of questions and comments he could remember.

"Oh, right. Professor Snape is looking for you. He told me to send you to him as soon as you woke up," Hermione said, sounding breathless.

"Oh, right. Yeah I'll go down and see him right now," Harry replied, and turned to walk out of the portrait.

"But, Harry, I-"

"Please don't ask all of that again. I'll tell you about it later," Harry said, walking out. I wonder when we'll get to Silencing spells; it would be good to use that on Hermione sometime. Harry thought hurrying down the corridor.

HPSSHPSSHPSSHPSS

Severus heard a knock at his door.

"Come in," he hissed quietly, setting down the report he'd been grading. Harry walked in,

"You wanted to see me, profes-Severus?" Harry asked; he was still getting used to calling Severus by his first name instead of Professor Snape.

"Yes, I did. Harry, what was your dream about last night?" Harry's face instantly went pale and Severus could see that the boy was chewing on his bottom lip. He had, of course, expected this kind of reaction, but it still hurt that even after he'd tried many times to comfort him, Harry wasn't responding. "Harry, tell me. You can talk to me about anything."

"Why do you care?" Harry snapped, his face turning from fearful to angry in a split second. "Why do you care what happens to me? Nobody does! I'm just a…a freak!" At last, Harry could take it no longer, and he burst into tears.

"Who told you that? Was it your uncle? Harry, trust me! I care more about you than I've ever cared about anyone in my life. I promise you if you'd just tell me what's going on you'll feel so much better."

Harry couldn't take it anymore; at that moment he realized that Severus was right, and he wanted, no, needed to tell someone. With tears running down his face, he told Severus everything about what happened for ten years at the Dursleys: being locked in the cupboard under the stairs, Dudley using him as his personal punching bag, uncle Vernon strangling him all the time, most days having little or nothing to eat, and how he dreaded going back there for two more months in the summer.

"A-and now, I h-have to g-go back in j-just a f-few m-m-more d-days, a-and uncle V-Vernon is g-going to d-do t-terrible th-things t-to m-m-me if h-he f-finds out I t-told you, and I d-don't want to g-go b-back! P-please, S-Severus, d-don't l-let them s-send m-me b-back th-there!" Harry sobbed, grabbing on to Severus and clinging to him as if his life depended on it.

"Shh," Severus said gently, hugging him back. "I won't let those bastards hurt you ever again, Harry, I promise."

They stayed that way for a long time until Harry finally got his emotions back under control.

"Can I come live with you, Severus?" he asked, looking hopefully up at Severus.

"I'll see what I can do, Harry. All I can tell you for sure is that you won't go back to the Dursleys. I'll make sure of that even if it kills me," Severus replied. He knew Dumbledore was not going to like this at all.

A/N: in case you guys didn't get the answer to the cliffy, it's basically the conversation between Harry and Severus, so…yeah

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