Who would have thought, that the grumpy old dungeon bat could ever feel something that is just similar to love? Well, Elena Smith surely did not. But still, this is exactly what happened. He found love in his student - even if it was love at detours.
It was January 5th, the day before the first day of school – and it became a day that would forever haunt her in her worst dreams.
Elena was not feeling well that day, so she made her way to the infirmary. There, she was told by Poppy that they were out of stock of the Vitamix Potion and that she should ask the Potions Master. She sighed because she really did not have enough energy to walk that long way to her teacher's office, but she had to.
After entering Snape's office, he looked at her blankly and said: "Miss Smith, your detention will start in about three hours. Don't you own a watch?" She really did not feel energized enough to counter anything, so she just replied: "Poppy is out of a potion that I need. It's called... um... Vu.. Vila... Vita-"
Snape interrupted her pathetic attempts to remember the potion's name. "If you cannot pronounce it, do not say it. Take it. It is in the red bottle on the left shelf." Elena smiled thankfully, took the potion, and drank the bottle in one go.
"Why, hello, handsome!", she said and sat down on the chair in front of Snape. For a second, surprise was written all over his face. "You're so attractive, and I find it so distracting..." Snape caught a glimpse of the bottle in her hand, and the realization hit him. "I said the red bottle, you daft girl! This one is magenta!" Instead of taking the Vitamix Potion, she drank a love potion – and it should be noted that she drank quite a big portion of it. "I love you... I want to be with you forever, Severus!"
He looked at her in disbelief, not knowing how to handle this situation. "It's Professor Snape for you!"
Snape wanted to take her back to Madam Pomfrey – but that girl did not move as long as he refused physical closeness. So, he had to allow her to hold him by his sleeve while walking her to the infirmary.
When they arrived there and Poppy saw them, Elena said instantly: "Look, this is my new boyfriend! I love him so much." The mediwitch could not hold back her laughter. "Severus Snape, don't you think that she is a bit too young for you?", she asked in a mocking voice. With big eyes, the young girl looked at Poppy and said: "But age is just a number!" The addressed man just looked at the mediwitch in annoyance. "For Merlin's sake, just get her off me!" Elena looked at him with wide eyes and had a sad look on her face. "But I don't ever want to be apart from you, Sevy! Being without you is like being afflicted with the Crucatius Curse..."
Poppy just was not able to keep calm and cracked up while watching them. She just said that Snape was the Potions Master, that he should know better how to handle that situation, and left. "Now we are alone," the smaller girl said, looking her teacher in the eyes – and before he could even react, she pressed her lips against his. Panicked, he pulled away. "Do not ever do that again!", Snape said horrified and Elena looked confused. "But Severus, I am in love with you! Don't you feel the same way?"
The Potions Professor did not even try to get her to call him Professor Snape in her current state because she could not control herself after having that potion. "You are under the influence of a love potion!" Happily, she looked at him. "But you do love me!", she told him her interpretation and because of her cheerfulness, she hugged him – and kissed his neck several times. He struggled to get her off him, so she clung to him for at least a minute. After he had got her off him, he looked her dead-serious in the eyes. "Stop touching me, I do not like it. If you really do love me, just sit there and don't make a sound. And for Merlin's sake – DO NOT touch me!"
She listened to him and just watched him, smiling in love. When she got tired and laid down on the hospital bed, she talked again. "Sev, you look so hot standing there... I mean.. Did you survive the Killing-Curse? Because you look drop-dead gorgeous! I love you so so much... You could lay with me, you know? I would not mind." Before he could even answer, she fell asleep and drifted into the land of dreams. "Merlin, this was torture", Snape muttered before leaving the room.
When Elena woke up the next day, she did not quite remember what happened. She did recall that she went to Poppy's to take a potion against her feeling of sickness, so the girl figured out that she fell asleep from that potion. It was the first day of school after the holidays, so she got ready for class.
When she was in the hallways, she heard students whispering about Snape having a girlfriend which confused her. If he really had a girlfriend, why wouldn't he spend New Year's Eve with her? And how comes that no one ever saw him with a woman?
After entering the Potions classroom, she saw Snape – with a hickey. And the scales fell from her eyes: Everyone thought that Snape had a girlfriend because of the hickeys on his neck – but they were caused by her. Her head turned red, and she tried to look everywhere but at him. To be exact, she spent the whole lesson staring at her desk, not even daring to make a move.
When the lesson ended, she summoned up all her courage and stayed behind, looking like a scared puppy. "Professor, I am so, so, so sorry! I can't believe that I did..." – when she saw the hickey again from close up, she stalled for a second. "That I did... this stuff. I hope you can forgive me..."
Snape looked at her with a stern expression on his face, not showing how embarrassed he was because of that situation, too. "We will n e v e r talk about the events of yesterday again, Miss Smith. Understood?"
The girl felt as uncomfortable as ever and just nodded. "How many detentions will I have to serve, Sir?", she asked shyly, hoping to hear a period of time smaller than 'forever' "You do not get any detention. I can hardly tell anyone you got detention because you gave me a hickey or even trying to kiss me and partially succeeding in doing that, can I?"
Elena just then remembered that she did not 'only' give him a hickey but also a kiss on the lip. "I- oh my god, I kissed you?!", she squeaked embarrassed and her teacher looked at her, raising his eyebrow. She explained that she did not really remember what happened and that her memories are coming back only piece for piece. Blushing, she apologized for the incident another thousand times and then left the room, feeling as humiliated as ever.
At Dinner, Draco asked her why she was so silent over the lesson. Normally, she raised her hand nearly constantly, knowing the answer to every question. That day she just sat there and died inside. Her cheeks turned red when Draco asked her, reminding her about the incident with her professor. Draco looked at her suspiciously when he saw how flustered she had become after he asked her that question. Elena scratched her head and whispered: "Did you see the hickey Snape had?"
A confused look crossed Draco's face. Everyone at Hogwarts already knew about it, he thought, everyone is talking about Snape's mysterious girlfriend. After he had expressed those thoughts, Elena's face turned a darker shade of red – if that was even possible. "It was not his girlfriend. I drank a love potion... Accidentally, of course! Well... Snape was the first person I saw."
Draco choked on the pumpkin juice he was drinking, causing him to cough loudly, drawing attention to him. "Shut up, Malfoy!", Elena hissed. While still coughing, Draco laughed at how she reacted – they looked at them because he was nearly dying, not because they knew her secret!
After he had recovered, he just said: "Well, that makes sense. I wondered why I never knew that my godfather had a girlfriend. Who would even want to date that greasy old man?" Normally, Elena would have reacted immediately to his mean words towards Snape, but the first part of the sentence made her look at her blonde friend with an open mound.
"Your WHAT?" Draco chuckled as he realized that he never told her that piece of information. "My godfather," he repeated himself with a teasing tone, finding her reaction very funny.
"Oh my god", she whispered more to herself, banging her head on the table and hoping that everything was just a nightmare. But she did not wake up. "If I marry Snape, I will become Draco's godmother...", she thought for a split second, then shaking her head. What was she thinking? A future with Snape? She must have hit her head harder than she thought.
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