Accidental Injury Gone Right

Chapter 3

Three months later and they were once again, outside. Harry could now move about the house without any worries, but he had to travel slowly without help. Little did he know that Snape and he were living in Prince Manor, and that it seemed small because Severus had only shown him a small portion of the actual building.

He sighed in defeat as another potion fizzled and evaporated.

He had corrected and perfected his childhood recipe, and now deemed it worthy of testing on Harry. He knew it would work, he just knew it. The trouble he was having was the fizzing and evaporating as the last ingredient was added.

Yet again, Harry asked for the list and instructions be listed out loud. He complied, thinking that maybe listing things would help him think of a different solution. Harry's voice startled him out of his reverie.

"Try a crystal cauldron. You're metal ones are reacting to the dragon's blood and the mineral ones are reacting with the reaction caused by the unicorn hair and newts eyes." He sat there, shocked. The boy might actually be right. He ran to fetch one of his most prized possessions. His purple crystal cauldron given to him by his mother.

When he returned, he saw Harry looking in the direction of the pool.

"Can I sit on the edge while you brew? I miss water."

"Sure. Although I have no idea why you don't miss the air."

"Simple. It's hot." He led Harry to the edge of the pool, and watched him take off his socks and roll up his pants. He then started the potion over again.

Seven days later, after many sleepless nights and countless sunburn potions, the concoction was finally done and ready for testing.

"Harry. Come with me." He led him to a dark room his aunt had designed, and lit a candle with a dampening charm on it to prevent the light from hurting his eyes should it work. "Now I want you to drink this with your eyes closed."

He handed him the vial and watched him drink it with his eyes closed. He shuddered, and held it out for him to take back. After a few moments, he started rubbing at his eyes vigorously.

"Harry? Are you all right?" He nodded.

"They sting. But the worst of it is over, I presume." He rubbed at them one last time, and then took his arm. "Can...Can I try?" Knowing that he was asking to open his eyes, Severus gave him the affirmative and waited.

He slowly lifted his lids, and gasped at the same time they widened.

"Severus! I can see!" He watched, entranced as his hand came up to his face. He reveled in the gentle touches as Harry mapped out his face, somehow much more intimate than when he allowed him to touch his body when he couldn't see. This was different. Before it held nothing but curiosity. Now it was full of intimacy and implications. He suppressed a shiver.

"Severus..." His voice, before so excited, was now quiet and cautious. This time he did shiver. "Show me."

"Show you what?"

"Everything." The whisper was hardly louder than a hummingbird's wings, but was screaming implications. He took off the dampening charm and delighted in his eyes adjusting without a hitch, if a little slowly.

The next month they slowly got Harry used to brighter lights, and at the end of the month, he was able to go outside when it was sunny out.

A few weeks after that, Severus took him outside for dinner. They had a habit of waking around ten AM and eating lunch around four and dinner at nine or ten at night, which made it quite nice since it was always dark when they ate dinner, adding a touch of romance to their meals, whether they intended it or not.

"Severus, where would you say we are? We aren't dating necessarily, but we're closer than friends..." He trailed off, clearly embarrassed by his boldness.

"If you would like to be in a relationship, then I suppose I wouldn't be adverse to that. We've grown close in your time here before the school year. Normally I would just assume you were using my loneliness to take advantage of me and just toss me away when you had your eyesight back but yet...you stayed once you could see. I can't imagine you stayed for any other reason than to get to know me." And so started the relationship between Harry Potter and Severus Snape.