Together Again ✦ Snily

[chap.16]

Chapter Sixteen: His Grey Shirt
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||Lily||

Harry has a chance of dying.

I burst into more uncontrollable sobs, how is it possible for all these unfortunate events to keep occurring? The only person keeping me sane enough is Severus, even though he ticks me off with his irritable attitude.

"I must relocate you and Harry." Dumbledore muttered, brushing Harry's hair from his eyes, revealing the lightning bolt scar.

"Relocate? Relocate where?!" I asked weakly.

"L'hôpital du maladies de St Santos." He replied simply. Was that... french?!

"I've only ever heard of St Mungos." I said quietly.

"St Santos is in France."

My jaw drops, how am I supposed to relocate hospitals to France?!

"It's fine Lily. I'll take your son to St Mungo's for the night, just so he's under the supervision of Healers. I will file his reports to London so they can send it via to France." Dumbledore says, then ends with a reassuring smile. "You will be leaving tomorrow Lily. Now go get some well needed rest, ask Minerva if you can stay in one of the spare teacher's dormitories." Dumbledore opens his office door for me to leave. I nod, kiss my baby's head then I go.

Once I descend down the steps, I notice Severus was pressed up against the wall and looking hella stressed. Was he waiting for me all this time?

"Sev?"

"Lily?" He opens his eyes and steps forward to me. Instinctively, I take a step back. "Is everything okay?" He asked softly.

"I'm...well Harry is in...critical condition." I sighed, my voice wobbly and threatening to quiver. His expression falls, and seeing him look like that made me want to cry. It made me want to just give up on being strong, and just be weak again.

"He's just going to stay in St Mungo's for the night, just until we relocate hospitals."

"Relocate? Relocate where?!" He arched an eyebrow. I just realized...if Im going to be in France for a couple days...weeks...months; I won't be able to spend any time with Severus. What if Im there for a year?

"St Santos." I whispered. "In France."

"France?!" He gapes. I nod, avert my eyes from him and start walking toward McGonagall's quarters.

I can hear his footstepts rushing to me and he catches up, putting a hand on my shoulder. I give him a small glare, telling him to get off. Dark eyes widening, he understands my silent message and returns his arm to his side.

"That's a bit far, isn't it?" He said hurriedly. "What if something happens to you or your son, you have no one there to help you. What if the Healer's there are completely useless? What if-"

"What if, you stop being so negative? Does it kill you to look at the positive side of things?" I snapped impatiently.

"Where are you staying anyway?" He said, clearly ignoring my question.

"I'm going to ask McGonagall to stay in one of the extra quarters here at Hogwarts." I said, finally coming closer to the teacher's dorms.

"You can just stay with me, you know." He frowned.

"You only have one bed." I rolled my eyes, bringing my fist up to knock on McGonagall's door. He rolled his eyes too, and took my hand and dragged me away from McGonagall's door.

"What's your problem?" I asked defensively, but feeling quite amused.

"I think you should just stay in my quarters."

I didn't protest another time.

||Severus||

She drapes her winter robes over a chair and awkwardly watches me as I turn on the lights and kick off my shoes.

For a moment, I feel brave and I risk a glance to her. Our eyes instantly lock, and sheepishly I look away and open my drawers just for the sake of doing something.

"My pyjamas..." I heard her mumble quietly, obviously I was not meant to hear. However, I find a large grey shirt that I never wear, and absently toss it to her. She arches her eyebrows at me quizzically.

"You can wear that, if you don't mind." I explained.

"Are you sure?" She frowned. "You won't need it for the night?"

"Yeah, besides...my style is more like black billowing robes if you haven't already noticed." I joked lightly, and she laughed as she clutched the shirt to herself.

"Thank you." Lily smiled. I love her smile. It's so perfect, and beautiful.

I find myself staring, so I turn my gaze away and nod. "It's nothing."

She grins and walks to the bathroom to get changed, I look back to my dresser. What am I supposed to wear? I can't wear a t-shirt and boxers because a)that's awkward, b)she'll see the Dark Mark and c)that's awkward.

||Lily||

The grey shirt fits me well. It's big enough, so it hangs down about mid-thigh. It's warm and I love how it smells like mint-like him.

I leave the washroom and I notice that he's changed too, in some pyjama pants and a dark sweater covering his arms. Was he cold? Or does he just wear that every night?

He looks at me, and then he goes a light shade of pink. I don't understand why, I hope he isn't uncomfortable with me. We're just friends, everything should be okay.

I sit awkwardly on the side of bed closest to me and I shift.

"I can sleep on the floor." He offers kindly. I rolled my eyes at him.

"As if. I don't want to hear you complaining about a sore back tomorrow." I smirked. He smirked too and rolled his eyes at me. "But...but I guess it'd not so bad if we just share the bed..."

His eyes widened slightly, that totally came out wrong.

Great job Lily.

"No! I mean, well-only if you're comfortable." I explained quickly, not wanting him to get the wrong idea. I blushed anyway, but he didn't press on the topic.

"Good night Lily." Was all he said. I lay down on the comfy sheets, then he turned the lights off. On the other side of the bed, I can feel the matress dip as he got on. I turned on my side, facing away from him.

Sooner or later, I fell asleep. I don't even think he was asleep yet. Oh well. No matter.

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A/N:

Hey!

I am so so sorry if this chapter isn't good enough. Yesterday, y'all got the notification that I updated my fanfiction. That's because I did, but when it got uploaded, the whole chapter was gone. Completely gone. Wattpad has been screwing with me lately, so please be patient as I try to figure everything out. I just ended up deleting it, and now I had to rewrite it. It isn't as good though, Im sorry. It was hard to remember everything I had written.

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