Severus fought the tears trying to fall from his eyes as he looked at his lost friend in front of him.
He knew...
If he did this, he sealed their fate...
"I'm sorry." He choked out to her. "It's got to be now."
He gripped the wand in his hand tigh...
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April 1994
Apparently the twin's birthday celebration was a success, they spent the whole day executing elaborate pranks and announcing to everyone they saw, that 'they were boys no longer!'.
Miss Night had baked all her classes cupcakes in celebration of the day, the Twins had been especially smug about it to everyone.
Though Professor Lupin had been right, her baking was godsend. (Hermione had asked for a couple extras she could share with Harry and Ron)
The end of the year started drawing nearer and the trio of third years were excitingly headed towards DADA.
When they entered the room, it wasn't Professor Lupin standing behind his desk waiting for them. Instead all the third years were witness to a small argument between the Muggle Studies Professor and the Potions Master.
"Are you saying I can't handle this?"
"I'm not saying that, you are exceptionally talented at everything you do, and an excellent teacher. I'm worried."
"There's no reason to-"
"I don't want what happened last time to happen again."
Miss Night Sighed "I will be fine Severus, we're just working on Carpe Retractum. Besides this is the only class starting anything new, the others are just reviewing."
The students all watched as Snape took deep breaths and stalked to the front of the room, pushing chairs and desks aside as he went.
Once there he squared his feet and lifted his wand to Miss Night.
"Prove it."
Every head in the room turned to look back at Miss Night.
She laughed as she ducked her head.
"Fine. Wandless?" She asked him, smirk appearing on her face as she took position opposite him.
Snape scowled slightly "You're the only one I know good at that."
"Non Verbal it is then." She said to him before addressing the class.
"Professor Lupin is feeling under the weather today, so he asked me to take his place. However, it seems you all get a treat in watching a short duel. I ask that you please gather over here."
She pointed to the stairs Leading to The DADA office.
The students including Harry were quick to comply.
"Now as I remember, most of you were part of the dueling club last year. So you should know the rules. As you've seen, Professor Snape and I have set the grounds for our own duel. Non Verbal Spells only, which means if either of us cast a spell using our voices, or if we perform any type of wand-less magic, we lose. Now I need someone to keep score."
