p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Due to the fact that I was staying at school over the Christmas holidays, Severus and I were allowed to spend more time together under the guise of me being just his newly reappointed assistant. In actuality, we spent most of our time talking in his private chambers… among other things of course./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"On one of those days, I sat in my chair at the corner of his desk, grading essays from the seventh year students. My head was leaning against my hand as I marked the parchments, my eyes heavy with sleep. Severus leaned back in his chair, "Little Star, you have been assisting me with grading all evening. It is almost midnight… I think it is time for you to get some rest." he was right but, he was busy finishing grading before the rest of the students came back from their christmas holiday and this was the last evening we were going to have together without most of the Slytherins clambering around the dungeons./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I'm fine." I said, blinking a few times and looking over at him. His arms were crossed over his chest and he had a very unapproving look on his face. "I don't recall that being a question. I believe I told you it was time for you to get some rest." I huffed and rolled my eyes. "We have more grading to do-" I was cut off when he, as quick as a snake, grabbed my chin between his thumb and forefinger. Our noses were almost touching and the intensity in his eyes made me pool in my knickers./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I did not ask for a rebuttal. I told you to Go. To. Bed." I nodded and he let go of my chin. Over the last several days, we had somehow fallen into a routine of him being more dominant while we were together. I was not allowed to huff or talk back but the thing he hated the most, was rolling my eyes and I learned that the hard way the day after we first made love./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He told me to use the time we had reading together to study for the potions mid term exam that was going to be happening when school resumed and of course, I rolled my eyes and tried to convince him that I knew everything I needed to… which led to me being bent over the desk and my potions master leaving his large handprints on my ass and the development of our safeword, Slytherin./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Gathering my things to head back to the common room, I looked over at him. Doing my best to hide the annoyance at him, making me leave when this evening was our last together, somewhat alone. "Where are you going?" He asked, raising an eyebrow and I gave him a confused look. "You told me to go to bed." He shook his head and stood from his chair, walking over to me. "No, I told you, you needed to get some rest. I never specified that you had to leave." He gestured towards his chambers and my heart started to beat rapidly in my chest./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""You want me to stay with you?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He nodded and for a second the dominant side of him faltered. "If you would like." he paused, looking at the door to his chambers and then back at me "If you would prefer not, that is also alright."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"My nerves disappeared at the sight of him, he was being vulnerable and allowing me to see a deeper side to him that did not involve having sex on his desk. It felt like he wanted to show me that I mean more to him than that, and it made my heart flutter. Slinging my bag over my shoulder I walked over to him and held his face in my hands./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""A sleepover sounds nice." I smiled, pressing my lips to his before skipping into his chambers. "You can leave your bag on the couch, I will go find you something to put on." He spoke quickly as he walked through the sitting room and to his bedroom, his normal teaching robes flowing behind him and reminding me that I was spending the night with my teacher turned secret lover./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"I had sat down on the couch by the time he came back into the room, holding one of his white linen undershirts. Pulling out his wand he silently cast a spell, transfiguring the shirt so it was a bit longer and would cover me to my knees./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"When he handed me the shirt I smiled, "You know, your ability to manage tricky transfigurations and some of the other magic you are capable of is pretty astounding."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He scoffed "What magic have you seen me do aside from stirring a cauldron, Miss Astrill?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I've heard some stories." I wink at him and walk towards his bedroom to change. He waits for a few seconds before he follows me and by the time he steps through the threshold I am down to my underwear, and undoing my bra./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He leans against the doorframe, arms crossed and looking me up and down. "What stories?" He asks while he watches me remove my bra and pull the shirt he gave me over my head. I just shrugged "You do know who my grandfather is…right? I've heard a few stories about you. Apparently Igor Karkaroff tried to sell you out at one of the Wizengamot meetings about him going free from Azkaban." I sat on his bed, which was made with a silky green duvet and black sheets which I ran my hand across while I looked at him./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Why do you look paler than normal? I'm not scared of you nor do I think you are still a death eater."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"His face was stone cold when he approached me. "How long have you known?" he didn't seem angry but his words were clipped. "Several years." I answered softly, running my eyes up his torso until they met his dark ones. "But I've never told anyone. Not even Edwin." I spoke quickly, hoping it would ease his severity and maybe calm his mind just a little./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""What exactly am I supposed to say? 'Hey Professor Snape, I know that you were a death eater.'" I laughed and he still looked at me with a stern expression./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Okay, I'm sorry I didn't say anything sooner. But I would like you to know that I don't think of you any different… You're still you and I kind of like you." I stood, playing with the buttons on his cassock./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"When he didn't respond, I looked up at him with doe eyes and the best pout I could muster "Don't be mad at me. It's our first night sharing a bed."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He cut his eyes at me and walked to his large, dark walnut wardrobe. Beginning the process of untying his cravat, unbuttoning his cassock and doing his nightly routine before bed./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"I crawled to the side closest to the window and settled against the pillows, I had noticed the night table on the side closest to the entrance to the room contained a book and a reading lamp so I assumed that was the side he chose to sleep /Pulling my legs close to my chest and wrapping my arms around them and watched Severus undress. "Are you enjoying yourself over there?" He asked dryly and I smiled, "Are you going to be in a mood for the rest of the evening?" I asked and he didn't respond, he just pulled his long nightshirt over his head and climbed into the bed beside me, making himself comfortable under the blankets and leaning against the headboard./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""And you have kept this information private?" He glanced over at me and I nodded, laying down on the pillows and curling up under the blankets with him./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"On one of those days, I sat in my chair at the corner of his desk, grading essays from the seventh year students. My head was leaning against my hand as I marked the parchments, my eyes heavy with sleep. Severus leaned back in his chair, "Little Star, you have been assisting me with grading all evening. It is almost midnight… I think it is time for you to get some rest." he was right but, he was busy finishing grading before the rest of the students came back from their christmas holiday and this was the last evening we were going to have together without most of the Slytherins clambering around the dungeons./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He told me to use the time we had reading together to study for the potions mid term exam that was going to be happening when school resumed and of course, I rolled my eyes and tried to convince him that I knew everything I needed to… which led to me being bent over the desk and my potions master leaving his large handprints on my ass and the development of our safeword, Slytherin./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Gathering my things to head back to the common room, I looked over at him. Doing my best to hide the annoyance at him, making me leave when this evening was our last together, somewhat alone. "Where are you going?" He asked, raising an eyebrow and I gave him a confused look. "You told me to go to bed." He shook his head and stood from his chair, walking over to me. "No, I told you, you needed to get some rest. I never specified that you had to leave." He gestured towards his chambers and my heart started to beat rapidly in my chest./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""You want me to stay with you?"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"My nerves disappeared at the sight of him, he was being vulnerable and allowing me to see a deeper side to him that did not involve having sex on his desk. It felt like he wanted to show me that I mean more to him than that, and it made my heart flutter. Slinging my bag over my shoulder I walked over to him and held his face in my hands./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""A sleepover sounds nice." I smiled, pressing my lips to his before skipping into his chambers. "You can leave your bag on the couch, I will go find you something to put on." He spoke quickly as he walked through the sitting room and to his bedroom, his normal teaching robes flowing behind him and reminding me that I was spending the night with my teacher turned secret lover./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"When he handed me the shirt I smiled, "You know, your ability to manage tricky transfigurations and some of the other magic you are capable of is pretty astounding."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He leans against the doorframe, arms crossed and looking me up and down. "What stories?" He asks while he watches me remove my bra and pull the shirt he gave me over my head. I just shrugged "You do know who my grandfather is…right? I've heard a few stories about you. Apparently Igor Karkaroff tried to sell you out at one of the Wizengamot meetings about him going free from Azkaban." I sat on his bed, which was made with a silky green duvet and black sheets which I ran my hand across while I looked at him./p
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