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(A/N: Well, I decided to take a break on my Silver to Bind the Fey fic I'm writing cause I'm kinda burnt out on it. This came as a spur of the moment thing, I don't know if I'm going to keep it. What do you think? Please R/R)
You might recognize this from elsewhere. I wrote it a while back on my CreamyCoconut43 penname but I forgot the password and im moving all my fics here sorry for the confusion lol
A December's Love
Severus Snape walked through the Hallways of Hogwarts the way he did since his first year-with his head down, not making contact with anyone. Although he had changed from the scrawny little rat of a first year he was five years ago physically, he still remained as cold and distant as he was then. He had grown taller and more toned, a few girls even found is stark features to be attractive. His personality however, still left much to be desired. He hid himself behind a mask of cruelty and smugness and that was what he showed the world. And it suited him just fine.
He made his way down the steps to the second floor. He was on his way to his favorite class, Defense Against the Dark Arts. He excelled in it, it was one of the few things he did well. Not even the fact that had to share the class with the Gryffindors for the past five years could ruin it for him.
"Speaking of Gryffindors, where are those idiot Marauders." he thought to himself. As if on cue, he felt a sharp push from behind that caught him off balance. He lost his footing and tripped, falling down the hard wooden steps and landing in a heap outside of the DADA door. The hooting laughter behind him left no room to wonder who pushed him.
"Aw, Sevvy you should watch yourself, these steps can be tricky you know, you could have hurt someone on your way down." came a voice from the top of the steps. James Potter of course.
"Maybe the grease from your hair is affecting how your brain is working." And that would be his little sidekick Sirius Black. Severus pulled himself up and dusted the dirt from his robes.
He had of course, been right. On their way down the stairs were the idiot burgade. Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and James Potter, of course with his girlfriend Lily Evans hanging on his arm. They all had on their maroon and gold ties under their black Gryffindor robes. Severus' eyes flicked to Lily's prefect badge pinned high on her shoulder, and then down to his. All the boys were still smiling about Severus' no doubt humorous fall down the stairs. Lily however, gave Severus a look of sympathy. "Damn her too," he thought, "I don't need pity from a Gryffindor Mudblood."
"I've noticed you're flying skills are improving Black, perhaps James' little Mudblood is giving you some tips on how to ride, if you know what I mean. Better watch it Lily, Black's head might swell as big as your boyfriends. Then nobody will be able to make their way through the hallways." he spat, picking up his books and walking into the classroom before James could smash his head in for that little remark, ignoring the hurt expression on Lily's face.
Angrily, Severus threw his books down on the front table next to Lucius Malfoy.
"What's wrong with you?" asked Lucius upon seeing his friend's angry expression.
"Those damn Gryffindors. I hate them all." Severus spat as the Professor started the lesson. They were going to be learning how to handle a Kappa. "Oh how peachy." thought Severus as the Professor began explaining the lesson plan.
"Don't worry about the Gryffindors Severus. They're just a bunch of Mudbloods and Muggle lovers. They're trash." Lucius said, scribbling down some notes on his parchment.
"I'm sorry to interrupt your class Professor, but can I please see Mr. Snape and Miss. Evans in my office for a moment please?" Headmaster Dumbledore stood at the door, smiling at the two of them. Ignoring the odd looks from the rest of the class, the two students made their way out of the class.
"You're not in any sort of trouble I assure you." said Dumbledore, seeing their expressions. They walked in silence for a while before Lily glanced at Severus out of the corner of her eye. "Why does he always walk with his head down? Why is he keeping so much distance between us?" Lily thought. Severus glanced up to see Lily observing him.
"What?" he snapped angrily. Lily looked startled at his attitude.
"Nothing." she said looking straight ahead again.
Dumbledore opened his office door and pointed to the two seats in front of his large mahogany desk. Severus and Lily took the seats and waited patiently.
"Well, I would like to inform you too that you both are seriously being considered for Head Boy and Head Girl next year." Dumbledore said. Lily let out an excited squeak and Severus smiled one of his seldom true smiles.
"However, two things are endangering that. For you Miss Evans it is your DADA grade. You have very high marks in everything else, but you are failing that." Lily's smile erased quickly.
"Sir the thing is, I'm having some trouble with the subject." she told him.
"I know Miss Evans, let me finish. For you Mr. Snape, you're Transfiguration grade is endangering you. I've spoken to Professor McGonagall and she said its not that you don't try, you just don't seem to be grasping the material" Severus nodded in agreement. Dumbledore looked at the two for a moment before clasping his hands together and smiling.
"Well, I'm going to make a logical decision. One that I'm sure you will find beneficial to the both you. Mr. Snape I would like you to tutor Miss Evans in Defense Against the Dark Arts. As I see from your records, you seem to have a knack for it. Likewise, Miss Evans you're strong point seems to be Transfuguration. You in turn will be tutoring Mr. Snape."
"But sir! You...you can't DO that!" Severus hissed.
"Oh, but I am, you can use the empty room in the corridor on the 3rd floor. You are excused from the rest of this period so you two can set up a lesson plan. You both may leave now, have a nice day." Lily and Severus recovered from their shock enough to leave the office. Lily trailed next to Severus who looked extremely peeved at the moment.
"Look, I don't like it any better than you do." she told him. He stopped suddenly and turned to her, eyes blazing.
"Yes I know, your idiot friends won't want you to stoop as low as to spend time with a greasy Slytherin." he spat. Lily just stared at him, surprised.
"That's not what I meant." she said softly.
"I'm sure it wasn't." he answered before continuing on his way to the third floor.
"And I'm sure you little cronies are going to love the fact that you are spending time with the likes of a Mudblood." Lily stated sarcastically.
"That is not part of the lesson plan we are forced to discuss at the moment." Severus said, swinging open the door to the designated classroom. It was empty except for two candlesticks on a desk in the middle of the room.
"So how are we going to go about doing this?" he asked, taking a seat opposite Lily at the table.
"Well I can tutor you and then you can tutor me the next day, so it's kind of like an every other day thing." Lily offered. Severus nodded in agreement. "Well there's a start, at least he didn't snap at me." she thought.
"What exactly do you have a problem with in DADA?" he asked taking out a quill and a spare piece of parchment.
"Well, I suck at dueling, I'm not too great with curses and counter curses, the animals are a little bit of a problem-"
"So pretty much everything." Severus cut her off. She glared at him for a moment.
"Yeah, I guess. What are you having trouble with in Transfiguration?" Lily asked. Severus thought for a while.
"Everything." he said plainly.
"Well, I guess that's one thing we have in common." Lily offered. He smiled a sort of half smile, and Lily couldn't help but noticed he looked charming when he wasn't sneering or snapping at people.
"Okay so how about tomorrow, we'll start with dueling." Severus asked.
"That sounds good to me. And the day after we can start with the basic Transfiguration techniques." Lily said. Severus nodded and the both of them started jotting down some notes on their parchment.
"Listen, I'm sorry about what James and Sirius did to you today." Lily said suddenly, putting her quill down and looking at Severus.
"Ah, making excuses for your beloved how sweet." Severus said sarcastically.
"I'm not making excuses for him, I'm just saying it was wrong of him to do it."
"Yes it was." he said nonchalantly
"Well, aren't you going to apologize for what you said?" she asked.
"No I am not." he said, finally looking up from the paper. Upon seeing her hurt expression he added, "maybe what I said about you and Black wasn't true." Lily decided that was the closest she'd get to an apology from him and decided not to push it any further.
"Well if we're going to work together for a while don't you think we should learn a little bit about each other?" she asked after a few minuets of silence.
"I know enough about you." he said coolly.
"You don't know anything about me." Lily challenged. Severus looked up and smiled again.
"You're name is Lily Marie Evans, you're parents are Muggles, you live in London, you're an only child, and you're favorite color is green but you'd never admit it since it's a Slytherin color, you're a virgin, and you're favorite past time is watching Quidditch." he said, giving her a cocky look.
"How did you know all that!?" asked Lily, amazed.
"I'm not as stupid as I look." he simply said.
"Well, tell me a little bit about yourself." she asked. He gave a little snort and answered in a sarcastic tone.
"You don't care about my life Lily, don't pretend like you do."
"Maybe you just don't want to open up to anyone." Lily pressed. Severus suddenly looked angry.
"Maybe there's a reason for that, but since you seem so interested in my life maybe I will tell you. My middle name is Orion, my parents were both pure blood wizards. My dad ran off after my younger bother was born and my mom started drinking. She got so drunk one day that she look it out on my brother, he died almost instantly after she hit his across the head with a cooking pan. I was four. I got carted around to various relatives until the time that I was eleven and got my letter from Hogwarts. There, now you can go and tell your buddies so all of you could feel better knowing that you have had a better life than me." he spat. Lily sat stunned for a few moments. It was amazing how quickly this guy could switch moods. One minute he's semi nice the next he's biting her head off.
"I'm sorry." she said.
"Don't worry about it."
"Is that what you think I'm going to do?"
"What?" Severus asked confused.
"Go tell Sirius, Remus, James, and Peter everything you tell me." Lily asked.
"I wouldn't be surprised." Severus said dejectedly.
"Then perhaps you don't know me as well as you think you do." They sat in silence for a few more minuets until the bell rang.
"I'll see you tomorrow?" Lily asked.
"Yes, you will."
(A/N: Well, I decided to take a break on my Silver to Bind the Fey fic I'm writing cause I'm kinda burnt out on it. This came as a spur of the moment thing, I don't know if I'm going to keep it. What do you think? Please R/R)
You might recognize this from elsewhere. I wrote it a while back on my CreamyCoconut43 penname but I forgot the password and im moving all my fics here sorry for the confusion lol
A December's Love
Severus Snape walked through the Hallways of Hogwarts the way he did since his first year-with his head down, not making contact with anyone. Although he had changed from the scrawny little rat of a first year he was five years ago physically, he still remained as cold and distant as he was then. He had grown taller and more toned, a few girls even found is stark features to be attractive. His personality however, still left much to be desired. He hid himself behind a mask of cruelty and smugness and that was what he showed the world. And it suited him just fine.
He made his way down the steps to the second floor. He was on his way to his favorite class, Defense Against the Dark Arts. He excelled in it, it was one of the few things he did well. Not even the fact that had to share the class with the Gryffindors for the past five years could ruin it for him.
"Speaking of Gryffindors, where are those idiot Marauders." he thought to himself. As if on cue, he felt a sharp push from behind that caught him off balance. He lost his footing and tripped, falling down the hard wooden steps and landing in a heap outside of the DADA door. The hooting laughter behind him left no room to wonder who pushed him.
"Aw, Sevvy you should watch yourself, these steps can be tricky you know, you could have hurt someone on your way down." came a voice from the top of the steps. James Potter of course.
"Maybe the grease from your hair is affecting how your brain is working." And that would be his little sidekick Sirius Black. Severus pulled himself up and dusted the dirt from his robes.
He had of course, been right. On their way down the stairs were the idiot burgade. Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and James Potter, of course with his girlfriend Lily Evans hanging on his arm. They all had on their maroon and gold ties under their black Gryffindor robes. Severus' eyes flicked to Lily's prefect badge pinned high on her shoulder, and then down to his. All the boys were still smiling about Severus' no doubt humorous fall down the stairs. Lily however, gave Severus a look of sympathy. "Damn her too," he thought, "I don't need pity from a Gryffindor Mudblood."
"I've noticed you're flying skills are improving Black, perhaps James' little Mudblood is giving you some tips on how to ride, if you know what I mean. Better watch it Lily, Black's head might swell as big as your boyfriends. Then nobody will be able to make their way through the hallways." he spat, picking up his books and walking into the classroom before James could smash his head in for that little remark, ignoring the hurt expression on Lily's face.
Angrily, Severus threw his books down on the front table next to Lucius Malfoy.
"What's wrong with you?" asked Lucius upon seeing his friend's angry expression.
"Those damn Gryffindors. I hate them all." Severus spat as the Professor started the lesson. They were going to be learning how to handle a Kappa. "Oh how peachy." thought Severus as the Professor began explaining the lesson plan.
"Don't worry about the Gryffindors Severus. They're just a bunch of Mudbloods and Muggle lovers. They're trash." Lucius said, scribbling down some notes on his parchment.
"I'm sorry to interrupt your class Professor, but can I please see Mr. Snape and Miss. Evans in my office for a moment please?" Headmaster Dumbledore stood at the door, smiling at the two of them. Ignoring the odd looks from the rest of the class, the two students made their way out of the class.
"You're not in any sort of trouble I assure you." said Dumbledore, seeing their expressions. They walked in silence for a while before Lily glanced at Severus out of the corner of her eye. "Why does he always walk with his head down? Why is he keeping so much distance between us?" Lily thought. Severus glanced up to see Lily observing him.
"What?" he snapped angrily. Lily looked startled at his attitude.
"Nothing." she said looking straight ahead again.
Dumbledore opened his office door and pointed to the two seats in front of his large mahogany desk. Severus and Lily took the seats and waited patiently.
"Well, I would like to inform you too that you both are seriously being considered for Head Boy and Head Girl next year." Dumbledore said. Lily let out an excited squeak and Severus smiled one of his seldom true smiles.
"However, two things are endangering that. For you Miss Evans it is your DADA grade. You have very high marks in everything else, but you are failing that." Lily's smile erased quickly.
"Sir the thing is, I'm having some trouble with the subject." she told him.
"I know Miss Evans, let me finish. For you Mr. Snape, you're Transfiguration grade is endangering you. I've spoken to Professor McGonagall and she said its not that you don't try, you just don't seem to be grasping the material" Severus nodded in agreement. Dumbledore looked at the two for a moment before clasping his hands together and smiling.
"Well, I'm going to make a logical decision. One that I'm sure you will find beneficial to the both you. Mr. Snape I would like you to tutor Miss Evans in Defense Against the Dark Arts. As I see from your records, you seem to have a knack for it. Likewise, Miss Evans you're strong point seems to be Transfuguration. You in turn will be tutoring Mr. Snape."
"But sir! You...you can't DO that!" Severus hissed.
"Oh, but I am, you can use the empty room in the corridor on the 3rd floor. You are excused from the rest of this period so you two can set up a lesson plan. You both may leave now, have a nice day." Lily and Severus recovered from their shock enough to leave the office. Lily trailed next to Severus who looked extremely peeved at the moment.
"Look, I don't like it any better than you do." she told him. He stopped suddenly and turned to her, eyes blazing.
"Yes I know, your idiot friends won't want you to stoop as low as to spend time with a greasy Slytherin." he spat. Lily just stared at him, surprised.
"That's not what I meant." she said softly.
"I'm sure it wasn't." he answered before continuing on his way to the third floor.
"And I'm sure you little cronies are going to love the fact that you are spending time with the likes of a Mudblood." Lily stated sarcastically.
"That is not part of the lesson plan we are forced to discuss at the moment." Severus said, swinging open the door to the designated classroom. It was empty except for two candlesticks on a desk in the middle of the room.
"So how are we going to go about doing this?" he asked, taking a seat opposite Lily at the table.
"Well I can tutor you and then you can tutor me the next day, so it's kind of like an every other day thing." Lily offered. Severus nodded in agreement. "Well there's a start, at least he didn't snap at me." she thought.
"What exactly do you have a problem with in DADA?" he asked taking out a quill and a spare piece of parchment.
"Well, I suck at dueling, I'm not too great with curses and counter curses, the animals are a little bit of a problem-"
"So pretty much everything." Severus cut her off. She glared at him for a moment.
"Yeah, I guess. What are you having trouble with in Transfiguration?" Lily asked. Severus thought for a while.
"Everything." he said plainly.
"Well, I guess that's one thing we have in common." Lily offered. He smiled a sort of half smile, and Lily couldn't help but noticed he looked charming when he wasn't sneering or snapping at people.
"Okay so how about tomorrow, we'll start with dueling." Severus asked.
"That sounds good to me. And the day after we can start with the basic Transfiguration techniques." Lily said. Severus nodded and the both of them started jotting down some notes on their parchment.
"Listen, I'm sorry about what James and Sirius did to you today." Lily said suddenly, putting her quill down and looking at Severus.
"Ah, making excuses for your beloved how sweet." Severus said sarcastically.
"I'm not making excuses for him, I'm just saying it was wrong of him to do it."
"Yes it was." he said nonchalantly
"Well, aren't you going to apologize for what you said?" she asked.
"No I am not." he said, finally looking up from the paper. Upon seeing her hurt expression he added, "maybe what I said about you and Black wasn't true." Lily decided that was the closest she'd get to an apology from him and decided not to push it any further.
"Well if we're going to work together for a while don't you think we should learn a little bit about each other?" she asked after a few minuets of silence.
"I know enough about you." he said coolly.
"You don't know anything about me." Lily challenged. Severus looked up and smiled again.
"You're name is Lily Marie Evans, you're parents are Muggles, you live in London, you're an only child, and you're favorite color is green but you'd never admit it since it's a Slytherin color, you're a virgin, and you're favorite past time is watching Quidditch." he said, giving her a cocky look.
"How did you know all that!?" asked Lily, amazed.
"I'm not as stupid as I look." he simply said.
"Well, tell me a little bit about yourself." she asked. He gave a little snort and answered in a sarcastic tone.
"You don't care about my life Lily, don't pretend like you do."
"Maybe you just don't want to open up to anyone." Lily pressed. Severus suddenly looked angry.
"Maybe there's a reason for that, but since you seem so interested in my life maybe I will tell you. My middle name is Orion, my parents were both pure blood wizards. My dad ran off after my younger bother was born and my mom started drinking. She got so drunk one day that she look it out on my brother, he died almost instantly after she hit his across the head with a cooking pan. I was four. I got carted around to various relatives until the time that I was eleven and got my letter from Hogwarts. There, now you can go and tell your buddies so all of you could feel better knowing that you have had a better life than me." he spat. Lily sat stunned for a few moments. It was amazing how quickly this guy could switch moods. One minute he's semi nice the next he's biting her head off.
"I'm sorry." she said.
"Don't worry about it."
"Is that what you think I'm going to do?"
"What?" Severus asked confused.
"Go tell Sirius, Remus, James, and Peter everything you tell me." Lily asked.
"I wouldn't be surprised." Severus said dejectedly.
"Then perhaps you don't know me as well as you think you do." They sat in silence for a few more minuets until the bell rang.
"I'll see you tomorrow?" Lily asked.
"Yes, you will."