Misunderstood (Severus Snape X Reader)

Chapter 24

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Your POV

We've been back at the castle for a couple of weeks now. I've been in the same spot for about that length of time. I've been in the hospital wing, watching Snape. After we got him back to the castle, and Madam Pomfrey started to look him over, he fell asleep again. I think the whole grounds heard me yelling at that.

Madam Pomfrey isn't entirely sure when he'll wake up, but her understanding is that he's very weak from all of the venom that Nagini gave him. Sitting in my spot as I watch the slow rise and fall of his chest as he lays there asleep. The same as he's been. Leaning over towards him I grab his hand gently.

Putting it in between mine, I hear someone clear their throat behind me.

"What did you give him when you found him in the boathouse?"

Turning around I saw McGonagall and Madam Pomfrey. I went to take my hand away from him but Minerva stopped me.

"It's alright, by now the whole school knows."

Sighing gently I look back to Snape as he sleeps. "When Dumbledore died, I was at the tower that he fell from. I was up there looking and trying to think for anything that I could do, and Fawkes came by. He was singing his lament of the loss of his friend when he spotted me. Landing on the rail next to me he nudged my arm, and when I looked at him I was able to understand that he had something he wanted to give me. Something I knew that I would need to use one day."

"His tears."

"Yes. He gave me his tears much like he gave Harry after he got bit by the Basilisk, so when I found Snape. I knew that if they stopped the basilisk from killing Harry, I had a feeling they would be able to stop Nagini from killing Severus."

Minerva put a hand on my shoulder, making me look up at her. "There's something else that you did that night."

Furrowing my brows in confusion she sat down and Madam Pomfrey waved her wand across Snape to confirm their suspicions.

"Did I do something wrong? Is he never going to wake up-"

"Now, now. You did nothing wrong, you didn't even know you did it. When Voldemort killed Lily and James Potter, do you know what protected Harry?"

"His mother's love, wasn't it?"

She gives a simple nod as she looks at me for a moment. "It appears that after you gave him the Phoenix tears, it did not work on its own. There was something else."

Looking at her I sigh for a moment. "Minerva, just spit it out."

"Very well. Much like Lily Potter's love for her son, the love you feel for Severus was what protected him from the rest of the poison. You were willing to risk your own life standing up to Voldemort."

"Then why is he in the coma? Why isn't he awake?"

"His healing is slow, that's why he's in the coma." Madam Pomfrey said.

"Can't you do something to wake him up?"

"I do not want to risk further pain on him, let him heal on his own."

Sighing I nod gently as they get up to leave. Sitting there for a moment I lay my head on the side of his bed, holding his hand as a few tears slip out of my eyes. "Snape, I told you to take that blasted key with you, why didn't you listen?" Crying for a few minutes I sit up to wipe my tears. Looking at him again, I place a small kiss on the tips of my fingers before I put them on his lips as he lays there.

Grabbing my cloak I decide to drown myself at The Three Broomsticks. Taking a couple steps from the bed, I stop when I hear a loud thud. Furrowing my brows I turn around and stop in my tracks. Looking at the bed that Snape was in, it was now empty. Dropping my things onto the floor I get around the other side of the bed and find him on the floor. The blanket wrapped around his legs as he looks at me, panting heavily.

"Severus!"

Getting on the floor with him I touch him slowly. He makes a small noise as his arm wraps around me, pulling me into him tightly.

"I didn't-"

He makes a small groan as he shifts slightly. "I didn't want you to follow me, its why I left the key."

Shaking my head I look at him. "You're a fool, Severus."

He furrows his brows slightly, a shocked look on his face. "I'll always follow you, key or not."

He smiles as he looks at me, his hand grabbing my face before he pulls me into a kiss. Holding his face with my hands I keep him close, not wanting to let him go again as I kiss him deeply. Hearing fast footsteps I pull away to see Minerva and Madam Pomfrey again.

"Minerva, he's awake."

She quickly comes around the corner of the bed and sees him laying on the floor. Helping me get him up we put him on the edge of the bed. Minerva and Madam Pomfrey were running around getting everything ready as the word was spread he was awake. Snape puts a hand on mine as he gets my attention.

"You agreed to tell me something when I was the man I was when you first came to the school, did you not?"

Smiling slightly I nod. "Indeed."