Chapter Two

Potions Class

Severus sat in potions class with Professor Slughorn, his copy of Advanced Potion Making opened on his desk. Today, they would brewing a Wiggenweld Potion, and Severus was extremely confident. In his common room, he'd realized that the instructions in the book were incorrect, and he had written down different notes all throughout the pages. He followed his notes carefully until his potion was the perfect final shade of green in the book.

As Professor Slughorn passed Lily, he clapped his hands when he saw the turquoise potion and granted five points to Gryffindor. When he came across Severus, he clapped a hand to Severus's back, "Superb job once again, boy. I shouldn't have expected any less from you. Ten points to Slytherin for the perfect potion!" Then, he moved on to James. Severus laughed as he noticed the greenish blue liquid bubbling from the cauldron. He knew well enough that the only way to get a more blue than green potion when following the instructions written in the book (The book instructions should cause a turquoise potion, which is more green than blue, instead of a perfect shade of neon green as it was with Severus's correct instructions) would be by adding way too much Salamander Blood at the end.

James looked at Severus in disgust for a second and then turned away and looked back at Slughorn, who was just going back to his desk after granting a few more points to Slytherin for another wonderful potion.

"I expect each and every one of you to research Everlasting Elixirs by next Wednesday," Slughorn stated. "Also, Severus, Lily, I'd like to see you two after class."

The bell rang and everyone gathered up their things to head out the door. Severus walked up to Slughorn's desk, resisting the urge to look at Lily and smile. Instead, he looked at Slughorn, "You wished to see me, Professor?"

"You and Lily both, yes. I am very pleased of your two's progress in my class. Therefore, I have decided to invite you to a special party with the rest of the Slug Club for Wednesday evening at 6. What do you think? Wonderful, isn't it?"

"Um, professor, I-" Severus began.

"Of course we'll come!" Lily exclaimed. "Right, Sev?" When he didn't respond, she kicked him hard under the table.

"Ow! What was that for?" Severus spoke angrily to Lily under his breath while rubbing at his shin.

"Say yes!" Lily responded back.

"Er, yeah. Yeah, we'll come."

"Wonderful! I'll look forward to seeing you then!" Slughorn observed them with huge grin spreading across his face.

Severus turned around and rolled his eyes at Lily, "Now what?"

"We go to the party on Wednesday. Seriously, Sev, potions is your favorite subject, and Slughorn is your favorite teacher because of it. Why are you suddenly turning down an opportunity to hang out and talk more about potions?"

Severus shrugged, "I don't know. I guess I just think this is going to be different."

Note: Sorry I took so long to write this chapter, and sorry it was so short. I've been very busy and also thought that this would be a good point to stop. I'll try to get the other chapters out quicker but still have them be longer and turn out pretty nice. Please review this as well. I'd love feedback and am also open to constructive criticism. In the meantime, I'll work on chapter three.

-SheepDudeWriting