The End…Psyche!
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Severus was quick to shove the figure from him. "Stop! Make it stop!"
But it was too late. Severus felt the coats of magic he'd adorned for over a decade begin to melt away and with it, the string that was his sanity started to tear albeit slowly.
He stood from the chair he'd been sitting in and looked frantically around the room for a mirror.
When his eyes rested on one against the wall he almost tripped over himself trying to reach it. "Severus calm yourself! You mustn't over exert yourself so soon!"
The potions master ignored him to look in the mirror and sobbed at the sight he was met by. His glamours were gone. The ones he'd worked so hard on. "What have you done?" He whispered.
"Severus you're beautiful," the figure said desperately, "can you not see that?" He asked approaching the potions master from behind.
"Of course! Of course I can!" Severus yelled, turning so fast he startled the figure. "Everyone can see it." He said in a defeated tone.
The figure raised a brow but, before he could ask questions, the other person that he'd been with came in looking a bit ruffled but not hurt.
"Hadrian when I said 'get him out of here,' I didn't mean don't come back out and help me." He said, plopping down into the chair Severus had vacated.
"Well I thought the 'I've got this' comment meant that you had the situation under control."
So his name is Hadrian, Severus thought.
Tom looked to the man behind Hadrian and his face fell immediately. "Severus? Severus what's wrong?" He stood from his chair and pushed past Hadrian towards him.
Severus backed away, eyes wide and full of fat tears. He moved until he was backed against the wall. "Stop, stay away." He tried in vain to blink away his tears but it seemed impossible.
Tom stopped immediately and rounded on Hadrian. "What happened?"
Hadrian snapped his head away from Severus and looked at Tom. "I took down his glamour," he said guiltily, "I didn't know he would react this way."
Tom turned to Severus again. The potions master was beautiful in every way, shape, and form. At least he was to him.
Terrified amethyst eyes stared back at him. They were gorgeous even when filled with tears. But he prayed that they never did again.
Such a beautiful contrast to the pale face they laid within. A face framed by shoulder length black hair that curled at the end; he hoped he could run his hands through it.
"Severus please, we won't hurt you. I promise," he moved forward and slowly placed a hand on the other's cheek, brushing tears away, and unmoving even as the other flinched away, "with everything in me I promise Severus."
Severus whimpered pathetically. "They're all going to do terrible things to me," he clenched his hands into fists.
"Who Severus?" Hadrian asked, stepping up beside Tom. "Who's going to hurt you?"
"All of them," Severus whispered, his eyes flicked back to Tom, "he told me. They're all going to touch me with their dirty hands." He grimaced.
Severus walked up beside Tom and reached for one of Severus's clenched hands. "Severus we aren't going to let anyone hurt you."
Severus let his eyes flick between them. He couldn't believe them. It was impossible. Written in the stars and set in stone. "Who are you?" He whispered desperately.
"We'll tell you when we're back in the castle." Hadrian said gently, slipping his hand into the potion master's.
"Here," Tom reached into his robes and pulled out a silver ring with gems Severus didn't even bother to study, "put this on so we can apparate through the wards."
He grasped Severus's left hand in his and slipped the ring onto his index finger. Severus could feel the magic laced within it.
"Do you trust us to apparate with you?" Hadrian asked.
Severus studied their face for what had to be the twentieth time before wiping at the tears in his eyes with the hand not holding Hadrian's. "I think so."
Tom and Hadrian both smiled brightly at him, pulling a smile out of the potions master.
"Then off we go." Hadrian pulled Severus into an embrace, arms around the other's waist and smiled kindly at the blushing professor.
Severus, still nervous and embarrassed after laying his emotions down on the table, put the hand that wasn't holding Hadrian's in the latter's robe; gripping tightly to avoid being splinched.
He felt Tom wrap his own arms around them before the familiar tug of apparition pulled him.
"Severus, open your eyes. We're here."
Said potions master opened his eyes and looked through his lashes at Hadrian.
"Come now we have to move quickly." Tom said, stepping up behind him. He looped arms with both of them, a man on each side, before pulling them forward.
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"Hadrian?"
"Already done." Hadrian said from Tom's left, head held high in confidence.
They were moving so fast that Severus had no time to adjust his eyes to his surroundings. "Done what?"
Tom looked down at him with a small smile, pulling him closer. "Disillusionment field, Severus."
Severus heard no movement around them so he wasn't sure what they were hiding from, but better safe than sorry.
"Where are we?" He asked.
"You don't recognize it Severus?" Hadrian asked, still not breaking his focus though his voice had a gentler tone than before.
Severus looked to his right and squinted his eyes. He was surprised to see a line of sleeping paintings.
"Hogwarts?" He asked.
Tom nodded. "Wait!" he hissed urgently. Before Severus could react he was tugged to Tom's chest. He didn't even stumble with the tight grip now around his waist.
He pulled his face out of Tom's robe slowly; only enough to turn his head and rest his cheek against him instead, trying to see the face that matched the footsteps now coming behind him.
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It was Filch doing his nightly rounds. He was about to pass them when his cat stopped and hissed at the trio.
"Stop that now," he heard Filch say, now walking back to his cat and the trio.
Mrs. Norris continued to hiss and spit at them.
Stupid cat, Severus though, we aren't here!
Filch finally stopped trying to console his cat and looked up in the direction she was spitting at. "What do you see?" He asked. He leaned forward and reached a hand out.
Severus held his breath as the hand reached for his face.
Then Mrs. Norris went flying into the opposite wall and Filch yelled in surprise, turning to his cat.
Tom wasted no time grabbing their robes and bolting down the hall.
Severus did his best to keep the pace set having had to run many times in many situations similar to this one.
He looked at Hadrian who caught his eye and smiled at him. Severus raised a brow.
He'd ask later.
Then Tom stopped at a wall.
Severus thought it was a dead end but he recognized the corridor.
Tom released their robes and started pacing in front of the wall before coming to a stop. A large door appeared and Tom gestured for them to follow behind him.
Hadrian immediately reached for Severus's hand and the potions master took it, following the other wizard into the Room of Requirement.
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