We walked quietly and dropped our bags in the common room before tailing down to the great hall with everyone else for dinner. Angelina and the boys had been told everything by a Ravenclaw but we refused to talk about it, shaking it off as another Ambrose incident. We got the normal greeting from the Slytherin table and took our usual bench, both Harry and I looking at one another as it dawned on us that Ambrose wasn't at the Slytherin table.
Severus flicked me the normal greeting on his goblet and he was the first teacher to leave the hall. I followed after everyone else and told Harry to tell the others I was popping into the library before bed, before flicking the hood on my hoodie up over my head and pushing open the great doors quietly. My sneakers were sliding as I trampled down the hill towards the forest. Severus had warned me not to walk in their alone so I skirted the edge of it quietly, aware of how dark it was. When I reached the lake I could see no one, so slipping my hands into the pockets of my hoodie I trailed the edge of the lake. Still, no one was around and my heart skipped a beat with the crack of a twig behind me, but the warmth of someone's arms around me made me jump and I nearly screamed before gentle hands pushed my hood back off my face, warm lips pressing tenderly against mine. "God I've missed you," His voice broke and we stood nose to nose. "I feel like a part of me's been missing. It's horrible." I stroked his cheek lovingly and he pressed a kiss against my palm. "Oh Severus." A breeze caught our hair and whipped it around our faces. Laughing we lay down on the bank, his arms wrapped tightly around me. "If I'd known those detentions were going to take you away from me I never would have agreed to them," my voice was hoarse with longing and I wanted nothing more than to stay like this forever, here in his arms. "I heard about Ambrose, you really messed his face up there." I felt his lips against my throat and I pushed my hair over my shoulder. "It wasn't me, Harry got him" "remind me I have to thank Potter then won't you." He laughed a little but my tone was serious, "Ambrose knows Sev. He said…he said there were things he wanted to do to me, but that…well that a certain professor wouldn't be too happy," I left out the bit about the crotch grab as his hands had already tightened around my forearms. "Severus?" I turned my head a little and he caught my mouth, "I'll never let him touch you Lena, I promise." "I think Harry might already have that covered." I shook my head, all the men in my life wanted to save me.
Noticing that I'd gone quiet, Severus changed the topic, "have you decided what you're doing on your birthday now?" I nodded and his mouth lay kisses down my throat, "Angelina, the twins and Lee are taking me into Hogsmeade, McGonagall's already given them permission. Then I thought I could come back and see you maybe. I don't know if I'll get a chance in the day." "That sounds like a good idea to me. Come straight to my rooms though, we'll have more privacy there." He kissed the skin just below my ear and I groaned.
"Severus?" "Mm?" his lips were hot against my skin and it felt as though he was kissing my skin raw. "I'm ready. I've thought about it a lot this week, and I can't think of anything that feels more right than lying in your arms, and lying here as yours wholly? I can't even imagine how good that will feel." His lips had pulled away from my skin, and although he held onto me, there was a space between us. "Are you sure Lena, this isn't something you can take back?" I turned to face him and kissed the side of his mouth, "I know, I'm ready, I'm yours when you want me." I felt myself blush deeply and he sighed, "Lena, I want you of course I do, but you have to be ready, it's going to hurt and it's something you'll remember for the rest of your life, you shouldn't rush into it." I took his hand and his fingers fell loosely in mine. "I'm ready Severus. But I won't hold back anymore, it's your choice." His fingers squeezed mine and there was a rustling in the trees.
We stopped and pulled away a little, but as the trees quivered, nothing came, "Thestrals." "Oh," We'd learnt about them at Beauxbatons in our fifth year but being so rare, Madame Maxim had been unable to acquire any. I looked at Severus and he held me tightly. "You can't see them?" I shook my head and he seemed relieved. "You can see them Severus?" He nodded and smiled grimly at me, "Yeah." He looked into the darkness and I knew he was watching it drink as the water at the edge of the lake moved a little on its own. "Who Severus?" He looked down into my eyes and I squeezed his hand tightly in my own. "My parent, a few muggles and some half-bloods." I relaxed back into his arms and he pressed his chin gently on the top of my head. "You're a half-blood Severus." He pulled me to him and I squeezed his hand gently. We'd discussed his parents and his blood status last week and fear had struck me a little, a half blood death eater was almost unheard of. "Was it you who…?" I hated to ask but a part of had to know. "Never Lena,' His voice shook a little and I held onto him a little more tightly, 'He did though, and he forced me to watch. They all did. It would take a lot to force me to do that, to kill, there are only a few things in this world I'd kill for and your one of them is that wrong?" I looked up at him and saw the tiniest bit of dread in his eyes, "No Sev, I'd kill for you. Sev…I…I…'and looking into those deep dark pools that saw every last inch of me, heart, head and soul, I found the words I'd wanted to say for a while now, 'I think I love you Severus." He exhaled loudly and I felt my heart shrink a little, He lifted my chin, "It's probably a good thing I'm in love with you too then isn't it." A smile broke out across my face and I kissed him deeply, our tongues entwining and my head spinning.
His hands fell securely around my back and the muscles in my legs felt tight as I turned around to straddle him. My hands flew through his hair stroking the soft strands away from his face and my fingers fell to the tiny buttons holding his robes together. I slid a few from the bottom open and wrapped my hands tightly underneath, around his waist. I flicked my hair back over my shoulder and his mouth connected with my jugular, his teeth grazing the skin there, sending shivers down my spine. I kissed his throat and feeling his teeth puncture the skin on my neck, I slid my tongue along his jawline. His hands were underneath my jumper and I felt my own hands unzipping the hoodie slowly before Sev's hands slid it over my arms. I only had a thin vest on underneath and his mouth lay gentle kisses along my collarbone as his hands trailed up my back, his fingers were only light and the shivers that had slid down my spine now shot straight back up it.
His fingers finally reached my underwear and his fingers played upon the lace, our lips now crushing against teach others hungrily. I felt a release and realising what Severus had done slid the bra's straps down and off my arms, my buds hardening in the cold air, under the cover of the thin vest. The pool in my stomach began to boil and as Sev slid his thumb beneath my left breast, I felt my muscles clench and a wetness pool between my legs. Disconnecting my mouth from his, I placed my hands on either side of his face, kissing his cheeks and his eyelashes, before looking down into those deep dark eyes and feeling the pool flow and ebb in my abdomen. I pulled my hands from his face and gripping the edge of my vest, whipped it over my head, my hair falling heavily down across my chest.
Severus stopped and watched as I pulled away from him and off his legs, lying down beside him on the bank. He glanced up towards the heavens as if they could help him before looking once more down to where I lay. I smiled wickedly up at him, looking up through my lashes as I placed my arms up above my head, holding them tight, displaying myself for him. He ran a finger from my left arm all the way down the side of my bare chest and abdomen and I smiled up at him, fluttering my lashes. He groaned and I pulled him down to me taking his mouth in mine and his hand in my own. I placed my finger through his own and taking his other hand, pressed it gently against my breast. My chest heaved with excitement and my heart felt as if it were skating out across the lake.
I lay beside the lake, that freezing September night, and all I could think about was how amazing life would be if every moment could be just like this, being able to look up into Severus's eyes and see nothing but love.
My head tipped back in ecstasy as he took my bud in his mouth and my nails clawed against his own bare chest. He bit down gently and I cried out, my legs wrapping around him and as his tongue licked and his teeth grazed every inch of my breasts, the pool in my stomach ebbed away and pooled again between my legs, causing my arms and legs to become weak as I shook and Severus lay me gently back down on the bank. I held on tightly to his neck and brushed my lips against his. He lay down beside me and traced a finger over my abdomen as I rolled on my side to face him.
"You didn't hurt me." "It was hardly the same Lena." "No, but you managed to hold on to me through it, you have no idea how good that just felt Sev." He smiled cheekily and I rolled back onto my back, "Your beyond beautiful Lena, every time you walk into my classroom I want to grab you and take you there and then. "Maybe if I accept the fact I won't hurt you, you could give in on this 'I'm not perfect, I'm not beautiful' thing you've got going on and just believe me when I say it." I smiled up at him, "I was starting to get used to it actually, I quite like being called beautiful, but saying it too much could give a girl a complex so watch it." I stroked a lock of hair out of his face. "I really do love you Severus Snape." I sighed and he kissed me gently, the smallest, sweetest kiss. "And I really love you Lena Black."
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