The Masquerade Ball (Y/N x Severus)

Perfect (7)

"And your going to be my little assistant..."

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I couldn't sleep, I was trying to think of something to say to him after he saw that. I can't imagine what he must think of me. I locked myself in the room all night, not falling asleep until the early hours of the morning.

I was woken up to a loud knock at the door. I didn't answer, my pulled my head under the covers and wished he would go away. "Umm, meet me in the classroom when you're uh ready," he muttered from behind the door.

I heard his footsteps fading and the door shut before I got myself out of bed. I unlocked the door and slowly opened it, praying he wasn't still here. Once I saw no sign of him I grabbed some clothes from my bag and headed towards the bathroom where I did my normal morning routine.

After about 15 minutes I walked out of the bathroom and made myself a cup of coffee before slowly putting my shoes on. I really didn't want to see him after last night. Maybe if I just don't talk about it, it's like it never happened.

I combed my hands through my hair before I walked to the door leading into the classroom. He was sitting at a desk at the front of the classroom and his eyes immediately met mine.

"Ehh, morning," I said shyly, immediately moving my eyes to the floor. He replied with a Kirt nod before reaching for a stack of papers and handing them to me.

"I'm assuming you have had a potions classes before?" he asked as I took the papers from him. I skimmed through them and hummed a soft yes before setting them on the desk before me.

"I had the best potions tutor in England," I replied.

"I'll believe it when I see it," he snorted.

I huffed and sat in the chair infront of his desk. "Why are we here anyway?" I asked as I looked at the vials of potions lining the back wall.

"The Head Master has asked me to come back and teach the potions classes because the last professor retired, and I had the best marks he has ever seen when it comes to potions," he smirked as he talked about himself.

"And you are going to be my little assistant, though Dumbledore has asked if you would pretend to be a student, a 6th year Hufflepuff. It will be less noticeable," he waved his wand and 2 sets of yellow and black robes appeared.

"What do you mean noticeable? Am I not supposed to be here? I don't understand," I worried as my breath started to speed up.

Severus immediately noticed my change in mode and stood up and rounded his desk to be in front of me. "Hey. Hey, calm down. No need to worry" he placed his hands on my shoulders and rubbed smooth circles into my skin.

"He means that they don't need to know I'm married, it's no ones business. It's to protect us," he whispered as I calmed down.

I nodded and apologized for my little burst of anxiety. "No need to apologize Y/N." Once I had calmed down he let go of me. "So. You are an automatic prefect for the Hufflepuff house so you'll get your own room in the Hufflepuff common room but of course you'll stay with me, that room can be for whatever you want," I nodded and wiped away my tears as he led me to the door.

"I'll lead the way."

He led us out of the classroom and into a rather large corridor. We were soon met with a large staircase the brought us out of the dungeons, and we went to the 3rd floor.

Soon we were met with a yellow door at the top of the staircase. Severus handed me a silver key with the word prefect on it. "This key will unlock almost any door in the castle, but it's mainly to open the door to the Hufflepuff common room," he whispered in my ear. My nodded and took the key from him.

He turned to walk ash but I grabbed his wrist softly. "Urm, I-I just wanted to- To apologize about last night," I stuttered out quietly. I kept my eyes to the floor as I heard a chuckle come from his lips. My eyes widened and I looked up at him, a huge smile on his face.

"Don't apologize Y/N, I let my mind get the better of me and I shouldn't have gone into the bathroom," he paused and grabbed my chin with his soft fingers and brought my face closer to his, "But, if you ever want me to take care of those.... Feelings for you, all you have to do is ask," his breath fanned against my face as a smirked played his lips.

My heart rate increased as my eyes stayed glued to his. "I-I, ehm, You-" he cut me off by placing his lips on mine, his free hand wrapped around, and planting itself on my lower back. I let out a surprised moan and that made him stop in his tracks. He pulled away to look at me, a huge smirk playing his lips. My cheeks turned bright crimson as I forced myself to look at the ground, refusing to say anything else that will embarrass me.

He chuckled and grabbed my chin once more, forcing me to look at him. "I will leave you to look around, be back soon though, I'm going to help you with things you need to know about Hogwarts," with that he let go and walked away. I stayed frozen on the spot as I watched him walk away.

Once he was out of eye sight I brought my hand up to my lips to feel them, something about this kiss was different. Not like the other ones at all. After a few minutes of recalling what on earth just happened I unlocked the door and headed inside.

Inside I was met with a comfy looking living room. There was yellow couches and chairs surrounding a fireplace, on the other side of the room was a wall of books with a table full of board games on it.

On the far end of the hallway there were too sets of stairs. The words girl and boy were on either of the doorframes. I walked up the girls staircase until I was met with a door that said prefect.

I opened the door and I walked into a bedroom with a private bathroom. There was a bed in the middle of the room with side tables on either side. On the left wall there was a wooden wardrobe and on the right was the entry to the bathroom. There were 2 long skinny windows behind each bedside table and yellow curtains accented them.

I opened the wardrobe and put one of my uniform sets in there before looking around the room a little more. Once I thought I had seen everything I started to head back to the dungeon, if I could ever find my way back down there.

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Word count: 1237

Hey.... All I can do is apologize people. I'm so far behind on this book and every thing else in my life 😭😭 love yall sorry again!