So You're Back?: A Snape Love Story (Under Major Editing)

Chapter Sixteen

A WEEK LATER.......

RASABITH WAS ADVOIDING SNAPE FOR A WHILE. SHE NEVER LEFT HER ROOM FOR NOTHING. SNAPE WAS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR HER BUT SHE WOULDNT SHOW UP. SHE FELT EMBARRASSED AND DEPRESSED. SNAPE MISSED HER, HE WASNT GONNA ADMIT IT BUT HE DID. RASABITH THOUGHT SHE SHOULD LEAVE THE ROOM TODAY TO DO SOMETHING. IT WAS CHRISTMAS EVE. SNOW WAS ON THE GROUND. RASABITH WANTED TO BE APART OF IT.

SHE WALKED OUT AND SAW THE LAKE. SHE FROZE THE LAKE AND DECIDED TO SKATE ON IT. DUMBLEDORE AND SNAPE WERE WALKING OUTSIDE TALKING ABOUT STUFF SCHOOL WISE. DUMBLEDORE KNEW SHE WAS OUT HERE BUT SNAPE DIDNT. BY NOW SNAPE LOST HOPE ON SEEING HER. DUMBLEDORE KNEW THAT SNAPE WANTED TO SEE RASABITH BUT DIDNT BRING IT UP.

WHEN THEY GOT BY THE LAKE THEY SAW THAT IT WAS FROZEN. SNAPE LOOKED UP TO SEE RASABITH SKATING ON THE ICE. HE SAW THE WAY SHE FLIPPED AND SPUN IT LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS HAVING FUN. HE SMILED AT THE SIGHT. HE DIDNT KNOW THAT DUMBLEDORE WAS TALKING TO HIM. SNAPE NOTICED THE ICE WAS THAWING AND STARTED TO CRACK. HE LOOKS UP AT RASABITH AND YELLS HER NAME. SHE STOPS SPINNING AND LOOKS AT HIM. SHE THEN FALLS THREW THE ICE.

SNAPE THEN JUMPS IN THE LAKE AND SWIMS OUT TO SAVE HER. AFTER HE GETS HER BODY. HE THEN COMES BACK OUT OF THE WATER AND RUNS TO HIS ROOM. HE KNOWS SHE HAS TO GET WARM FAST. HE TAKES OFF OF HIS ROBE AND GETS A BLANKET FOR RASABITH AND TRIES TO WARM HER. SHE SPITS OUT WATER. HE CARRIES HER TO THE FIRE AND SITS HER THERE. SHE WAKES UP IN SNAPES ARMS WHILE HE IS TRYING TO KEEP HER WARM.

LATER IN THE NIGHT RASABITH IS STILL BY THE FIRE TRYING TO DRY. SNAPE IS SITTING IN HIS CHAIR WATCHING HER WATCH THE FIRE. HER HAIR IS NOW CURLY AND SEMI DRY. HER EYE LINER IS RIUNED.

"THANK YOU SEVERUS." SHE SAID IN A LOW, SWEET, TIRED VOICE.

"WERE HAVE YOU BEEN. I HAVENT SEEN YOU IN A WHILE." HE SAID. SOUNDING ANGRY.

"I WAS IN MY ROOM." SHE SAID, LOOKING BEHIND HER A LITTLE.

"IS THAT WHAT YOUR GOING TO DO NOW? HIDE IN YOUR ROOM FROM ME?" HE ASKED, GIVING HER A DEATH/HURT STARE.

SHE DIDNT ANSWER. SNAPE REGRETS BEING MEAN, BUT TO TELL THE TRUTH HE WAS HURT.

THEY SAT THERE IN SILIENCE FOR A WHILE, UNTIL THE BELLS RANG. SIGNALING IT WAS MIDNIGHT, CHRISTMAS.

IN HER SAME, SOFT, LOW, HURT VOICE, "MERRY CHRISTMAS, SEV."

SHE GOT UP.

"MERRY CHRISTMAS." NOT EVEN CARING.

SHE LEFT THE ROOM ALMOST IN TEARS. HE WATCHES HER LEAVE FACE FULL OF REGRET. ONCE SHE WAS GONE HE NOTICES A BOX THAT WASNT THERE BEFORE. HE GOES OVER AND PICKS IT UP. AS HE STANDS INFRONT OF THE FIRE PLACE AND OPENS IT. THERE WAS A NOTE THAT READ:

SEVERUS,

I DIDNT KNOW IF YOU CELEBRATED CHRISTMAS SO I TOOK IT UPON MYSELF TO GET YOU SOMETHING. I HOPE YOU LIKE IT. MERRY CHRISTMAS SEV.

FOREVER YOURS,

RASABITH

HE PUT THE NOTE DOWN AND OPENED THE PRESENT TO FIND A CERAMIC SNAKE. HE CHUCKLED AT THE THOUGHT. HE LIKED IT. FIRST PRESENT IN A LONG WHILE THAT HE HAS EVER GOT FROM SOMEONE. HE PUT IT ON HIS MANTLE TO LOOK AT.