It was nice talking to Voran, he was different, though the two older wizards mostly talked about Potions, which bored Harry to the core. But the good thing was, he could ask Voran some questions about some Potions, but the problem was, he could see Snape glaring at him as if to say, why were you withholding those questions from me? You had every other day to ask... Are you afraid of me?.
Harry cleared his throat as Voran would explain the potion, truth be told, Harry was a little bit frightened from what Snape would say, he expected the boy to know this and would throw a snarky comment instead of helping him.
“Did that solve your problem?”
“Yes, I did, thanks”.
Harry smiled at the man, “I thought Snape would’ve known that”, Voran said with a chuckle, man this was getting difficult and Voran wasn’t making it any better for Harry as Snape shifted in his seat. “Anyway I should be heading off, the wife would be wondering where I was, it was nice meeting you both”.
“It was a pleasure”.
Snape said with a small smirk, Harry was dying now, why did Voran have to leave now? How about in a few hours time? He had just put the boy in deep shit.
The wizard left with a snap, leaving Snape and Harry alone, Harry could hear Snape lean back into the chair, “so why, may I ask, did you not ask me those questions when you had the chance?” Snape’s voice was low. Harry opened his mouth to say something but decided against it, but Snape had spotted him, “what were you going to say?”
“Nothing... I just...”.
God, this was awkward, Harry thought as he shifted in his seat, “you’re not afraid of me are you?” Snapes voice seemed to echo throughout the whole entire room, sending shivers down the boy's spine, “uh... What makes you think that?”
“Well, you’re afraid to ask me such questions, and I would be quite confused if you were afraid of me because you’re quite defiant in class... So I assumed you had no fear towards me”.
Harry was starting to get quite agitated around the man now, “look will you just lay off of it, I don’t have to ask you anything!”
“Oh really, and what would’ve happened if Voran hadn’t of come over, you still would’ve been searching for the answer to your lovely question”.
Snape was snarling at the boy, man this wasn’t going to go down well, both males had really short tempers. They glared at each other for quite some time, “why do you always serve to piss me off?” Harry growled at the man, whose eyes widened in complete anger, “well I’m sorry t piss you off, but that makes me human! I don’t know about you”.
“I’m completely human thank you very much you bat!”
“How dare you!”
Snape had sprung up from his chair as did Harry, Snape was taller, he was six foot whilst Harry was only small at only five foot five, he had to crane his neck in order to glare back at the professor before him.
“Apologize at once Potter”.
The boy flinched, hearing his last name once again, “no, you apologize for taking this whole situation too seriously!”
“Potter!”
“Snape!”
Suddenly the older wizard lunged towards the younger one, Harry yelped out in shock and threw himself backward. Both of them were sprawled out on the living room carpet, Snape was trying to grab Harry's ankle in order to drag the boy closer, “Potter -Harry – stop moving!” Snape was trying to crawl after the boy. If anyone had come into the room they would immediately walk out, it’s not every day you see an adult crawling after a teen on the carpet. Harry couldn’t help but burst out laughing after realizing what they were doing, “he threw Snape a look and slowed down as the professor caught up to him. Snape had thrown himself on top of the boy in order to push him into the floor, stopping him from moving anymore, “that’s enough from you!” Snape snarled, but that only made Harry laugh even more as Snapes elbows managed to poke his sides, “what may this be, is the boy who lived is ticklish?” Snape had realized as he went to prod the boy's side again, earning himself a good squeal.
“You’d be careful, the dark lord should never know about this”.
Snape couldn’t help but smile as Harry tried to squirm out from under him, “get off me!” The boy yelled but was overcome by giggles as Snape shoved his elbows down in his sides again. “Stop, get off me, I mean it!”
“It doesn’t look like you mean it!”
“Dad!”
Snape froze and Harry found it the best time to spin around into him back and shove his knees up, connecting with Snapes stomach. Snape gasped and fell back off the boy. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to call you that – well I did, but then – well I’m sorry okay –“.
“Harry”.
“I know you’re not my dad, but it just slipped out – I’m really sorry, god I’m such an –“.
“HARRY!”
Harry looked up at the teacher who shook his head, “it’s alright, remember what I said to you in the kitchen about an hour ago?”
“No”.
“Oh... Well, that’s concerning”.
“Sorry”.
“It’s fine”.
Snape sat back and leaned against the couch, “I said along the lines of, you can call me that if you feel comfortable”. Harry nodded and mirrored Snape's position. “He Snape”.
“You can call me Severus, Snape is when we’re doing classes and around the school”.
“Cool... Just saying... I think you would’ve been a great dad”.
Severus froze at the words, and Harry added on, “I think you would’ve been better if you didn’t have me though”. A pang of guilt washed over Severus and he quickly shook his head, “either way I would have been a pretty damn good father”, he said, trying to lighten up the mood.
•
He two had migrated the kitchen, Severus had asked if Harry liked cakes and seeing the boy flinch had gone against the idea. But the boy shook his head, as they started with the ingredients he explained to Severus about the cake ordeal at the Dursleys when he was younger.
“Oh wonderful, the Malfoy’s house elf makes it worse for you”.
Snape chuckled, “why’d you go for the cake anyway?”
“I thought If I could catch it then it would’ve been saved”.
Snape shook his head.
The cake was meant to be a chocolate, “I didn’t know you liked chocolate”, Harry said, as he mixed the contents together, watching the oozing chocolate lap over the spoon, “Yeah, I do, but eating too much I unhealthy”.
“Yeah true”.
Harry then sniffed the spoon and threw a shocked look at Severus, who frowned at him, “what?” Severus asked and the boy pointed at the spoon, “that’s not chocolate!”
“What!? Yes, it is!”
“Then you smell it, it doesn’t smell like chocolate at all!”
Severus leaned forward to take a sniff and Harry basically flicked the spoon upwards, the spoon hit Severus on the nose and stayed there. Harry backed away a few steps, trying to hold back the laughter. He watched as Severus slowly removed the spoon from his face and wiped the chocolate from his nose, “you’ve asked for it!” Was all Harry heard before a bag of flour hit his forehead. The bag exploded, flour covering the boy. Severus tried to keep a straight face as did Harry The flour settled and Severus looked at the flour covered boy.
“You suck!”
Harry yelled at him, “I think that’s the translation of, you’re the best at fighting back”, Severus laughed, “no way, you’re not!” Severus burst out into hysterics, totally shocking the boy, he had never seen his potion teacher like this. “What’re you gawking at, never seen someone laugh?” Severus stopped, “Oh right, you haven’t really seen this side of me have you”.
“Haven’t really? I’ve never seen this side of you, you’ve been a heartless –“.
“Heartless?”
“Yes, a heartless ass of black robes since the day I got sorted”.
“Oh wow, I hadn’t noticed”.
“Oh really?”
Harry rolled his eyes and turned to the cake, “think we should finish it?” He nodded towards the cake and Severus turned to it to see if It was still alright, “it’s not damaged so why not”.
What was the cake like? No clue, Severus didn’t know because Harry ate the whole damn cake, “you know, you could’ve just left me a smidge”.
“You’re too slow”.
“Harry!”
“Okay, alright, I’m sorry, I was hungry!”
“You eat like you’ve been –“.
Severus stopped himself, eyes widening when he realized what he had said, but the boy shrugged it off, “It’s okay” Harry said, but Severus could see that tears were starting to form in his eyes, “Harry, I’m sorry I didn’t mean to say that” Severus had no clue what to do, hug the boy, no he’d already opened himself up to the boy way more than what he had intended. “Tissues are over there” was all he said. He couldn’t hug him and he never will.
Heal by TinkerTailor
Chapter 7