Title: Lions and Lambs

Pairings: Harry Potter/Severus Snape

Rating: T

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Chapter 12

Friends

Harry's POV

Slowly, Harry made his way towards the Burrow. He was very nervous about what, or who, he might find inside. He may have practically lived there when he was a kid, but now that Ron and Hermione knew his secrets, he didn't know if he was welcome or not. Harry hoped that Mr. and Mrs. Weasley didn't mind and would let him stay anyway. He knew that Ron would care, but that was just something he would have to deal with when the time came, Harry decided.

Mya also looked a little nervous of the rickety old house that looked like it could fall over any second. Harry even had to admit to himself that it did look a little dangerous. Once Harry assured Mya that the house was held up by magic, though, she was all smiles and laughs.

It seemed to take forever to reach the front door. Once there, Harry hesitated, rethinking his decision to come to the Burrow. Before he could turn around and leave, however, the door flew open in front of him and two identical wizards stood in the doorway, smiling down at him. "Harry!" George exclaimed. A while before the Final Battle, Harry had made it his mission to be able to tell the Weasley twins apart, and after many days of looking for subtle differences, Harry was now able to call them by name easily and proudly.

"Hi, Fred, George. I don't think you have met my daughter, Mya?"

"No! We haven't" Fred declared, "And why are you still standing out there? Come in!"

After much small talk in the living room with the twins and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, who were fine that he was gay and were enraged by their son's reaction, Fred proposed they go up to their bedroom to talk some more. Harry agreed because he could tell the twins were not going to take no for an answer, and he and the twins headed up the stairs, leaving Mya to play with Mrs. Weasley.

Before the door even closed, George whirled around to face Harry and said, "Now what's the real reason you are here. We can tell you didn't just come to small talk with our parents or to get free babysitting." Harry didn't know what to say. Should he tell them the truth? Or should he just make up a story to get them off his back? Harry knew they were OK with him being gay, but he didn't know how they would react to him dating Severus!

Harry immediately grew sad again at the thought of the Potion's Master. The breakup hadn't really settled in yet, so Harry figured that he should tell someone what had happened before he lost it. So he started his story. He started from when he found out that Mya had a fatal hole in her heart, told how he went to Hogwarts to get help from Severus, and finally said how he started to fall in love with the professor and how they came together. He left out the part where they took their relationship to the next level because he didn't think that would be a very comfortable subject to mention.

When the story was done, Harry glanced up into the faces of the twins to find them both with their mouths hanging open and eyes bulging. Harry immediately became embarrassed and looked back down at his lap again, waiting for someone to say something.

Finally one of the twins began slowly, "Wow….I-I can't believe it…Snape actually has a heart. But that still doesn't explain how you got here."

Still looking down, Harry mumbled the story about their fight and breakup, "….and I just apparated here because it was the first place I thought of." The realization finally came to Harry that the entire thing had been real, and he fought to keep the tears back, he was not going to cry.

They sat in silence for a couple of minutes, the twins giving Harry their silent support. Until finally, Fred clapped him on the shoulder and declared, "Well, Harry, we think that if he really loves you and you are meant to be, it will work out. You'll just have to wait and see what happens." Before they both left the room quickly. Harry couldn't help but chuckle through his unshed tears at how uncomfortable Fred and George were with this topic when they always seemed to have a new love interest.

Still laughing slightly, Harry lay down on the bed and fell asleep, trying to escape reality for a little while at least.

Fred and George's POV

The next couple of days were horrible for Harry. Once he had woken up from his impromptu nap, the realization of what had happened finally settled in fully. Harry wouldn't eat or sleep. He would just sit in his room, staring at the wall, trying to think of what he had done wrong.

Finally, one day, the twin had enough. They marched up the stairs and all but dragged Harry down from his room. They apparated to Diagon Alley where they shopped for all of ten minutes before Harry went back to the Burrow. So, Fred and George were left alone in Diagon Alley.

That's when they saw him.

Snape.

He was walking towards the apothecary like nothing was wrong in the world. This annoyed the twins more than anything. How could Snape look so calm and collected when Harry was still too depressed to eat or leave his room? They immediately sprang into action. The twins hid in a nearby alley until Snape walked by and when the professor walked by, they both grabbed one of his arms and pulled him into the dark space between the buildings.

Fred and George knew that if they hadn't each been holding an arm, they would have been hexed into oblivion by now. Thankfully though, all Snape did was struggle and almost punched George in the face.

That was when Snape seemed to notice who was holding him, "What do you want, Weasleys?" he spat at them.

"We want to know why you look perfectly fine while Harry is sitting at our house, totally depressed. Was the entire thing with you too just a ploy to destroy the person who destroyed your master?" Fred questioned.

"You don't even know what you're talking about." Snape spat with a little less confidence this time.

"Oh, we know what we are talking about. Harry told us the entire story. And now we want your side of the story. Why did you go to such lengths to destroy Harry when you could have just used hexes and curses?" George put in his two cents.

"Well I hope you're satisfied," Fred said, not giving Snape a chance to answer the previous questions, "Because Harry is crushed now. He won't eat or sleep. But do you know what we are going to do? We are going to bring back the old Harry back now, and together we are coming after you." And for the first time, Snape actually seemed a little frightened by the treat.

Snape's POV

He couldn't believe it. Harry was really that broken up about their breakup? Severus couldn't help but feel a little giddy at the news because that meant that Harry had cared for him on some level, right?

For the past few days, Severus been living on autopilot. He woke up, ate, made potions, ate, went back to sleep. But he was like a robot who just did what he was programmed to do day in and day out. Today was the first day he had broken out of the trance like state to go to Diagon Alley. He almost regretted it now that he knew what he had done to Harry and was now feeling guilty. Almost.

Now that he knew Harry had cared for him at least a little, he couldn't stop thinking about the breakup. He wanted to be back with Harry! He really did.

Severus didn't know how long he stood there in the empty alleyway, thinking about Harry. It might have been hours. All Severus knew was that he really wanted to get back together with Harry.

And he had a plan.

AN: I'm soooooo sorry for taking so long to publish to this chapter! I don't really have any excuses so please don't hate me or send an angry mob after me or anything! I decided that if you guys will give me 6 reviews by tomorrow I will post the next chapter! It not only helps me get reviews, it also holds me to my posting schedule and gives me a set amount of feedback! Love you all!