My Everything 2

6

Avery and Rosier were engaged in conversation to his left. Regulus wouldn't be out to dinner for a few more minutes at least so the seat on his right was vacant for the moment.

Dinner was set to be its usual boring affair but Severus was thankful for that much. Boring and uneventful was better than Lupin trying to ask for his help and whatever it is that Potter tried to pull on him earlier that day.

The Slytherin couldn't help but flush as he thought about what happened earlier that day. He let his eyes drift up to the Gryffindor table and found himself relieved to discover that the Marauders had yet to show for dinner. Going early proved to be a good idea after all.

Earlier during Potions Potter, the stupid twat, not only sat down beside him in class but actually attempted to engage him in conversation. That was odd enough but-but then...

Was Potter, flirting with him?!

No, of course not. That can't possibly be it. But Severus had only ever seen the Gryffindor use such tactics on Lily in an effort to gain her affections, having him behave that way with Severus was causing the Slytherin's skin to crawl in all sorts of ways and leaving him to feel... confused. That must have been the plan after all, for some reason the toad has gotten bored with the physical and verbal abuse and has moved on to psychological abuse; probably hoping to drive the raven insane before graduation.

Severus shook his head and tried to focus on his meal. Whatever it was that Potter was trying to do didn't matter, because Severus wasn't going to allow himself to be pulled into one of his sick games

Its unfortunate that he ended up getting detention because of Potter's stupidity, but Severus had no intention of apologising to that arrogant berk the way that Slughorn actually had the nerve to suggest, so he was more than happy to spend a few hours scrubbing cauldron's in the potions lab.

Slughorn never stayed to supervise his detentions anyway, so he could get away with reading or studying while he was there.

It might interfere with his studying and of course the extra time he'd like to spend on his Ancient Runes assignment, but he should be able to manage relatively well enough.

It was right in the middle of these thoughts, just as Severus reached out to start filling his plate, that the doors of the Great Hall suddenly slammed open. Severus didn't look up until a figure seemed to come rushing from the entrance right up to the Slytherin table, around the side and straight for him. He looked up when his shoulder was suddenly grabbed and he was forcibly turned around and then-

A pair of lips covered his own in a kiss.

Severus froze, but he wasn't the only one as a wave of shocked gasps and shouts echoed around him and he could feel the hundreds of stares from the students in the hall lock onto him and stay on him. For the moment though he was preoccupied with other things.

The figure that kissed him had his arms wrapped around the Slytherin's neck, pressed right up against him as he braced his knee on the bench beside Severus. A deep moan reached his ears as his mouth was worked open, soft but insistent lips parting his own to allow a tongue to slip inside-

That's when Severus snapped out of it.

He lifted his arms up to the figures shoulders and grabbed hold to shove him away and keep him at arm's length.

"What the-"

Severus' words died on his tongue as he finally got the chance to get a good look at the idiot stupid enough to try and kiss him in the middle of the bloody Great Hall like that. The idiot had bone straight pitch-black hair down to his shoulders, a slightly larger nose with a bit of an odd shape to it, pale skin with the slightest hint of a rosy glow under his cheeks and obscenely dark onyx eyes. He looked like... He looked like him.

Severus was shocked silent.

That's when he noticed the whispers.

"Who is that?"

"Has he always been here?"

"He looks like Snape, right?"

"Snape has a brother?"

"It must be his brother."

"Would you kiss your brother like that?"

"I always knew he was a freak."

That was bad enough, but the worst thing, the absolute worst was what his apparent doppelganger was wearing.

"Aren't those Gryffindor colours?"

"No way!"

"Snape has a brother in Gryffindor? Since when?!"

Severus opened his mouth to speak trying to find the words when-

"James loves you." The doppelganger said and Snape was yet again thrown for a complete loop as he stared at that oddly adoring look on the other's face, "He loves you so much he can't stand it."

"What?"

"I swear he adores you. You see, I'm a manifestation of his desires. I'm you the way he wishes you would be but I'm not the real you so of course he doesn't like me as much as he likes you but... James really does love you so much."

Severus just stared back at the other, still unable to form the proper words. Because really, what the hell is he supposed to say to that?!

That's when Avery who had been staring wide-eyed at the scene along with the rest of Slytherin house spoke, "James who?"

"James Potter. Of course." The double answered simply earning a whole new series of gasps and confused mumblings only for him to look up at the door of the hall and smile. "Oh, here he comes."

All eyes fell on the door and less than five seconds later the Marauders came bursting into the Great Hall. Wide eyed and out of breath.

"James! I told him! Isn't that great!"

The Gryffindor stared back at the double in horror as he saw the one raven with his arms around Severus' neck, leaning against him with a bright smile on his face before he looked back at Severus and his head gave a tilt.

"This was one of his fantasies you know. At first he thought about how much easier it would be if you had a brother in Gryffindor who was a bit nicer and he dated that one, but then he decided that if you did have a brother then he'd rather just have both of you at the same time."

Those that were close enough to hear the double speak all stared at him in shock before looking back to the door where Potter stood frozen with a deep flush on his face, while Lupin and Black stood awkwardly behind him. The Gryffindor chaser seemed to swallow hard before determinedly walking over to the Slytherin table over to Snape's side.

"That was a really long one too." The double said as he dragged a hand through Severus' hair, "Lots of hair pulling and bondage. James really wants to try that with you but he's not sure how you'd react, but then he thought you could just try a collar at first and then-"

The raven was cut off when Potter suddenly pulled him away from Severus.

"James!"

And then threw him over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes before heading right back out the door. Lupin and Black quickly followed. Severus was still frozen as he stared after them only to quickly realise that now that the Marauders were out of the room, all eyes were on him waiting for a reaction.

Severus took a deep breath and then slowly got up from his seat. He could feel the blush burning under his skin but still made his way across the hall and out the door with as much dignity as he could muster. The second the door shut behind him, the hall erupted with noise.