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With dinner finished, they had no choice but to head back up to their dorm room, despite the fact that neither James nor Sirius was particularly thrilled about dealing with their... guest. Remus reminded them that they couldn't avoid Severus forever. They had to go back to check on him at least, so they reluctantly went back to their room.

The moment the door opened James suddenly found himself with an armful of raven-haired Slytherin as Severus leaped up, wrapped his arms around his neck and kissed him right on the lips.

"Welcome back James." Severus said with a smile and James just stared back at the other in complete silence as those dark eyes that had been glaring at him with contempt every time he was near had suddenly filled with warmth and absolute devotion.

"Did you have a good day?"

"I ughm." He cleared his throat just as Sirius moved passed him with a scoff and Remus shut the door behind them with an amused smile, "It was fine."

"How was your day, Severus?" Remus asked as he dropped his bag on the bed the raven looked back at him.

"It was fine." And then he looked up at the Gryffindor in his arms, "But I missed you James. Did you manage to eat? Get to all your classes in time?"

"Wow." Sirius said as he watched them from his bed and Remus shook his head as he gestured to the Slytherin.

"Really, James?"

"I ate." James said shortly as he walked over to his bed, letting his bag hit the floor and Severus allowed himself to be dislodged but still followed, "Do you need to eat or-"

"No," He shook his head, "As long as you're fine then I am too."

"Right." James said, giving the Slytherin an uneasy look as he immediately hopped onto the bed with that smile still in place.

"Did you talk to Severus today? I didn't feel anything too different so I wondered."

Remus looked up at that, "You can feel that?"

"I'm a manifestation of his desires. Whenever he feels anything related to Severus I feel it." The raven explained, "Like earlier, I'm not sure what you did but James was jealous."

Both Sirius and Remus looked over to their friend and James flushed. Remus folded his arms over his chest.

"Really Prongs, I'm just studying with him."

James' mouth opened and closed, Severus was staring at him intently before he spoke.

"James wants you to promise you won't go into his room, he wants to be the first one to see it."

James groaned, hiding his face in his hands and Sirius just stared at him in shock.

"Wow."

"Shut up!"

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The next day went more or less the same as the one before. With the exception of Transfiguration, Charms and Potions, since those were all classes they shared with Slytherin.

James had decided to try and at least just sit next to the Snape as a way to break the ice and at least show some semblance of civility. Unfortunately in Transfiguration McGonagall had immediately stopped his attempt as she immediately started screaming when she saw him headed towards the Slytherin's table. Prior experiences between James and Snape quickly reminding her to not let those two anywhere near each other.

In Charms, they were partnering up to learn a new spell. Rosier quickly took up his usual seat beside Snape, shoving the Gryffindor out of the way with a barely restrained, out of the way Potter before he sat down and proceeded to mooch off of Snape's spell casting abilities for the rest of the period while Flitwick as always kept a wary eye on James. Prior experiences reminding him not to let his eye wander from Potter when learning new spells around Snape.

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