LIKE LIGHTNING | Harry Potter x Reader Fanfiction

⁕ too young ⁕

For my bestie <3 (Feel free to skip this chapter, I will update again today :) 

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Makayla's POV

Being in love with your professor was quite a hard secret to keep. In fact, it really wasn't even a secret anymore. Most students had started rumors about her. I didn't mind. It's not like they had proof, anyway. Malfoy caught us alone, but I had just been sitting at my desk. 

After that rendezvous with Severus, I had lied low for a bit. I still focused on my studies diligently and made it a habit to visit Y/N every couple of days. Except for today, she and the trio had gone down to Hogsmeade with the rest of the school. So I decided to stay behind..... and figure out other things. 

My shoes clacked against the stone floor as I made my way down to Professor Snapes' classroom. The air down there was always freezing, and I wrapped my robes around me tighter. Taking a deep breath, I entered the classroom. I couldn't see him from this angle and I purposely closed the chamber door a bit louder, telling him I was here. 

I heard the rustle of his cloak move and he appeared in the doorway connecting the classroom to what must have been his private chambers. As always, I felt my heart begin to race and my face flushed. I couldn't help it. 

"Hello, Miss Cochran." He said to me in that low voice of his. 

"Hello, Professor." I responded, putting my hands behind my back and walking a bit closer to him. 

"Is there anything you need?" He asked innocently. I knew he was beating around the bush and I sighed, pulling a stood out from underneath one of the desks, sitting down on it and sighing. 

"Severus-" I began, but he cut me off. 

"Do not call me that. Remember what I told you, we are not on a first-name basis just yet." 

I got angry. "Then when! When can I call you by your actual name? You can't just pretend that what we have is just some kind of fling! I care about you-" I started yelling, letting my emotions get the best of me. 

I don't even know how I got into this mess in the first place. For the first three years at Hogwarts, I had never felt this way about him before. But then Fifth Year began and something inside me changed. I couldn't deny that I felt extremely attracted to him, and in the beginning, I felt guilty. I was a freak. What girl could ever love their teacher? He was so kind to me, unlike other kids. He praised me for my potions work and never made me feel less than special. I did know he had favoritism for his own house, but.... there was something different with the way he interacted with me. His face didn't soften at the sight of other Slytherin students, and his body language absolutely did not become less tense around them either. 

And then I had come in one day for detention, and I had gotten close enough to him to feel the heat radiating off his body, and I had become undone. I held his hand and it felt as if everything had finally come full circle. He was who I was meant to be with. Needless to say, I hadn't done any work in detention that evening. Nothing... intense, had happened, we just.... talked. My hand entwined with his the entire time. And when the short hour was done, he had kissed my knuckles and sent me off to dinner. 

I had constantly gotten myself in trouble to get detention and we got closer each time. Going from just talking to well... things other than kissing. Never sex. I wasn't ready for that. And now as things became clearer, it seemed as if we both had forbidden feelings for each other. Once we had admitted it to each other, he had started to drift away. Now, I was finally telling him how I felt about it. 

"I care about you too! Don't ever think that I don't!" He yelled back at me. It made me jump, my thoughts coming back to reality. 

"Then why won't you let me get closer to you?" I asked softly. He looked away, bracing a hand on his desk. 

"Because... what would everybody think of us? I could lose my job, my life would be ruined." He hissed through clenched teeth. 

"Then we don't tell anybody! We've kept a secret for this long, we can wait another year." I suggested, I was sixteen and the legal wizarding age was seventeen. 

"You don't understand, this is... different. Quite frankly, you are too young, and sometimes I feel disgusted in myself. How could I act like this with my student." He said. 

I shut my mouth at that. So we both felt guilty. Awesome, I thought. I got off the stool and came closer to him, he looked away. 

"Well," I started softly, "when you make up your mind about us, you know where to find me." I said, feeling my eyes start to water. 

"Then I suspect you know I won't come to find you." He said finally. And I felt myself choke up. I turned on my heel and stormed out of the dungeon, letting the tears fall from my face. 

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Well.... that was fun. 😀

Word Count: 910