Prongs {Book One}

Chapter Twenty-One - Green Eyed Monster

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SEV.

I sat up on the desk just before I heard the door creak open.

I froze - thinking it must be Filch or another teacher - but instead a small voice called, "um, hello? Is... are you okay in there?"

I didn't say anything.

The door opened wider, and a Hufflepuff girl I recognised as Charity Burbage stood there looking a little scared. "Oh! She said, a bit shocked, "you're... you're Severus, right? I'm Charity."

My eyes widened slightly. No one called me Severus. It was either Sev - for my close friends - Snape, for everyone else, or Snivellous for the Gryffindors.

"Yeah," I said, wiping my eyes.

"You look... different," Charity said, coming to sit down next to me.

I rolled my eyes and gave a hollow laugh. "Thanks."

"No! No, I mean nice different. Really nice."

"Oh," I said, and looked at her.

Charity was pretty. She had long, straight blonde hair that was slightly bedhead at the moment, clear blue eyes and a good looking face. It looked like she had been wearing makeup, but it was smudged slightly under one eye.

She was pretty, but she wasn't Lily.

"What's wrong?" She questioned.

"Everything," I sighed.

"Oh. Is... is it... your family?"

I paused. That was quite far from the truth, wasn't it? But weren't my absolutely shit parents the reason behind... well, everything?

"One of the reasons."

"I know how you feel. I mean, I heard you're not, uh, close to your parents. Mine were elitist purebloods, but they died when I was young. I hate my muggle foster parents. But I love everything about the Muggle world. It's not all bad, you know? It's actually pretty great. It's just some of them that suck."

I looked sideways at her. It seemed incredible that she was in such an awful situation - her parents dead, awful foster parents - and she could still see the best out of a situation.

"A lot of them suck." In this case I was talking about Petunia Dursley.

"Maybe you just haven't met enough." Charity smiled at me.

She reminded me of Paula - the Hufflepuff Quidditch player that Potter had got drunk with at Sluggy's Christmas party, but I couldn't put my finger on what it was that made them seem similar.

As I thought about that, the part of my brain that was going Lily, Lily, Lily, suddenly had an idea.

Potter had used Paula to make Lily jealous, hadn't he? And that had worked, hadn't it?

"Charity," I said quickly, my heart beating.

"Severus?" I grabbed her arm and looked into her eyes.

It seemed obvious that she liked me. There was hardly a doubt in my mind as I pulled her from the room and we sprinted as quietly as possible down the dark corridors into the grounds.

As we got to the greenhouses, I positioned us in a spot where I knew Lily and Potter, if they were still there, could see me, but Charity couldn't see them, because of my protective charms.

I smiled to myself. This would give them a shock.

I leaned in and kissed Charity hard on the lips.

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JAMES.

"Oh my god," Lily said, looking at something just behind my left shoulder.

I turned around, to see two people entwined in an embrace, their faces pressed against each other.

Snape. And Charity Burbage.

"I don't believe it," Lily breathed.

I made to get up, planning to storm over there and hex the hair off of him, but Lily grabbed my arm.

"Don't. That's- that's what he wants, James. He wants you to go and hex him and me to get mad at you for doing it and me to get jealous of him..." I looked back at her. She wasn't crying anymore. She looked almost defiant.

"What do you want me to do?" I asked, and I admired the fire in her eyes. She may have been crying, but Lily was strong.

"Nothing. I mean, walk with me. Right past them. Let's link arms. Just completely ignore them - don't even look at them."

"Um, okay," I replied, unsure of her exact plan, "let me just get the cloak. Then we don't have to worry about Filch inside the castle."

"Your... cloak?"

"Invisibility cloak."

"You've got one?"

"Yeah."

"Wow."

I went and grabbed it, and then linked arms with Lily. "Ready?"

"When you are."

We strode out from the enchantments, which I knew had broken now that no one was inside them. It took all my concentration not to look sideways at the snogging couple, but I kept walking at Lily's side until we got to the entrance hall.

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SEV.

I saw the enchantments break as Lily stepped out their circle, arm in arm with Potter.

Charity's eyes had been closed when I kissed her first - I assumed they still were now - but I could see Lily and Potter thoroughly ignoring us as though we were part of the greenhouses.

In result, I kissed Charity harder, pushing her against the greenhouse wall, but they still didn't turn around.

This had to be Lily's idea.

She knew me too well.

"Severus?" Charity breathed as she caught her breath, "are you alright?" She had no idea they'd just appeared.

"Yeah," I muttered, and kissed her again.

The only thing I could think about was how she wasn't Lily.

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READ THIS IF YOU AREN'T LIKE A TOTAL NERD WHO HAS READ THE BOOKS A HUNDRED TIMES:

The reason behind using Charity Burbage is because she becomes the Muggle Studies teacher at Hogwarts at the same time Snape is a Potions Master. In the Deathly Hallows, we see Voldemort torturing and killing her, before which she asks Snape for help. This just makes it so there's a little more backstory between them... hehehe...

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