Our Arranged Marriage -Snape

16- Apple Cake.

I woke up in the middle of the night. I had fallen asleep. So had he. He was laying down knees hanging off the bed. My head was on his chest. My feet near my pillows. He was warm. I Lifted my head, and I saw his face. His features were soft. His mouth slightly agape. His brow is soft and lifted rather than its normal furrow.

I sat up slowly and the hand he had wrapped around me slowly fell. I dug into the bag I had packed and taken with me to Grants house. I pulled out my Journal and sat up in my bed. Sitting across from him. Laying back against the headboard. I put my knees up to my chest and put the Book on my knees. Then I started writing.

Severus snape Pov

I woke up to soft scratching sounds and quiet snuffling. I perched myself on an elbow I Spoke softly still not fully awake. "What are you writing?" I mumbled.

"Just some...Stuff." She responded.

"Book? Or Diary?" I asked Leaning up against her head bored.

She gave me a strange look. "Journal." She replied looking back at the book in her lap.

"What about?"

"Just... How sh-...crappy Today was."

"All of it?" I wondered if the moments before we fell asleep were just as bad.

She paused and smiled then spoke softly. "It wasn't... ALL bad." Her eyes Flickered to my lips for a brief moment.

I noticed. "I agree." I let a small smile cross my face for a brief moment

She leaned towards me and rested her head on my shoulder. I stiffened slightly then I relaxed and scooted down slightly so it was more comfortable for her... she flipped to a new page in her Journal and started drawing. After a while I spoke quietly. "What are you drawing?"

She shrugged her shoulders. "Don't really know. Just kind of going with the flow." she whispered.

"It looks good so far." I noted.

"It's just Scribbles." she countered.

"Nice Scribbles." I complemented.

She looked up at me. Merlin. She looked perfect. Then her eye caught the window. "It's morning. Severus." she whispered. I looked out the window.

"So, it is... I should... I should get ready for work." I realized. And started climbing out of bed. She grabbed my wrist.

"Wait... Thank you." she smiled. "For... Letting me vent... Thank you."

I looked at her. "Anytime" I smiled and leaned down, giving her a kiss on the top of her head.

Mae Pov

The rest of the day after Severus left my room I kinda wished he was still here. Is that weird? He's so Warm and now I'm cold. I Snuggled in my blanket, For a moment. Then I made my way to the fireplace.

*Flowsh*

"Mae dear. What are you doing here?" Narcissa asked as I appeared in the Fireplace of Malfoy manor.

"I came to get some Apples." I smiled. Sure, I could just use the apples from the Hogwarts kitchen but they weren't as good as the Heritage Apples from my mother's tree.

"Oh? For what?" she said, offering a hand to help me out of the fireplace.

"Dumbledor asked me to make something for their Christmas staff party." She followed me as I made my way to the garden. "He probably remembers that one time I made a Treat for his birthday."

"Makes sense. Everyone loves your cooking, and Baking. Mae, you were born for it." She smiled, opening the door to the garden for me.

"That's a bit far-fetched. I'm not that good." I rolled my eyes walking down the rows of Fruit on one side and rows of vegetables on the other, down to the back of the Beautiful greenhouse garden where the trees were. In the center of a beautiful rock circle was my mother's apple tree. I summoned a basket and started picking apples. "Do you want to help Nissi?"