Slytherins aren't evil. Not always.

11.- "He is back."

"Miss Eastwood, Mr Zambini, please stay for a while." Severus's voice rang through the classroom and Blaise and I turned around quickly.

"What's the matter, Severus?" I tried to sound innocent. As if I didn't know. He waited for a while until he was sure all the other students had left, then he started speaking: "I talked to Dumbledore... about that thing on Halloween, you know what I mean." He gave us a stern look. I nodded.

"Well, Dumbledore considers it reasonable to wait and keep an eye on Quirrell, not giving him the idea of us wanting to do him any harm."

"Yes, Professor." Blaise looked like he just wanted to disappear. I, on the opposite side, was curious, hence I asked what had busied me since Saturday: "Severus, who was that speaking from... from Quirrell's head?"

Severus gulped and tensed; he seemed to search an excuse for not answering that question. "You don't really want to know, Kathrin, really..." "No, I need to." "Kath-" I glared at him in a way that, granted, no other student would ever dare to. He sighed.

"You must have a suspicion, don't you?... You two, keep quiet about it. No one can know, you should know that." His voice was sagging, as if he had to force himself to continue speaking. He didn't want to and for once you could read that in his face.

"Potter", he spat the name out with clenched teeth, "Potter and Draco Malfoy recently had detention in the forbidden forest. They were- met -by a dark creature that had killed a unicorn, that had drunk it's blood."

He looked at us expectantly but soon realized we had no clue what he was referring to. "Drinking a unicorn's blood makes you immortal... but not completely. It's hard to explain. He has no own body. We suspect that he lives in Quirrell's body, a symbiosis that is likely not his long-term solution."

"And... who is that creature?" Blaise sounded like he didn't really want to know. Severus looked into our eyes, sorrow in his own. "We suspect that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is covert under Proofessor Quirrell's turban."

Blaise inhaled sharply, I froze in awareness; He was back.

"And Dumbledore doesn't want to go in for anything?"

"The principal wants to find out his plans first."

A memory popped into my mind and I shivered: "You-Know-Who wants you to cooperate with him, right? Don't lie to me." "Yes." "Will you spy on him?" "Supposable." "Don't- don't get yourself in danger for Dumbledore."

"Not for Dumbledore. For Hogwarts." Suddenly I could hear the pain in his voice again.

"I cant let that happen!" My voice was stern, I would do anything to protect Severus even though I was the weaker one. He meant so much to me.

"You can't hold me back, Kath." His voice was rough and brittle.

"Let it be, Severus. If something goes wrong... You know him!This is about your survival and I... can't- I can't lose you."

He sighed, trying to suppress his obvious emotions. "I know. And I'm sorry, but trust me, it'll be okay. Nothing will happen, I promise. Just- just stay away from Quirrell, and... just go now. Dinner is waiting."

A/N Snape is so emo I swear to god (Dumbledore is just punk rock)

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