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Please, Release Me!	By : Severus1snape Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Snape/Neville Views: 17663 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, J.K.Rowling does, I write for fun and do not make any money from this.

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AN: Ah - thank you for still reading. Praise do tell if you have any ideas to what will happen in this story?
Am I one to have them live happily ever after, will they break up, or will death take part of their relationship eventually? *Evil grin*

Neville froze in mid-action of cutting a slug into thin slices. Breathe in, breathe out. Don´t stop breathing. If Severus was surprised by this statement he was doing one hell of a job of hiding it from his friends. Neville could see from the corner of his eyes that he wore his ´professor face´.
“Who the hell is Mr. X, Mr. Finnegan? Last time I checked everyone present here knows my name, yes?” He said with his famous sneer.
“The doe.” Seamus simply said palms suddenly sweating.
“Excuse me?” Snape snapped pretending to be bored all the same. Stay cool. You could fool the Dark Lord for years; surely a handful of stupid students are not that hard to fool too.
“You sen´ the doe weeks ago an´ Nev told us it was from Mr. X then.” Seamus answered.
“What on earth has that got to do with me, Mr. Finnegan?” He quirked his brow to get the effect he wanted from the students. Don´t reveal anything. Neville will be in trouble if the Dark Lord should find out about us. There is no us!
”Besides, murderers cannot often make their patronus corporal. Like you said, I murdered the head master. It´s common knowledge that Death eaters don´t use patronus´ for that same reason.”
Luna remained silent. Why is Lovegood not revealing me? She knows my patronus, and she told the others about it. Surely they cannot have forgotten that already?
“I saw the same doe tonight, outside the window. That is why Nev went outside.” Dean chimed in.
FUCK, I´m so sorry Severus. Please don´t end what we have.´Neville resumed to his cutting, nobody but Luna seemed to have noticed his pause, because they had been too preoccupied with Snape. She smiled to herself. “Maybe Mr. X fled once seeing professor Snape there too? He is not always so friendly towards strangers.” Luna said dreamily as usual, and everyone turned to stare at her. I am never friendly. What is she playing at?
“It would make more sense than what you two are suggesting.” She added matter-of-factly.
“Then why did you ask if they were together in the first place Luna?” Ginny said annoyed. This Weasley is not like the other Weasleys that’s for sure; this one has no patience whatsoever. Severus thought.
“To rule out the obviousness of it all, naturally. Eventually the rest of you would be putting two and two together; I was just saving us time. I am Ravenclaw it´s in me to be smarter than you. No offense.” Luna answered in a heartbeat. Severus had to withhold a laugh now. This girl was actually funny. If any Slytherin had said that to a friend, well...
Luna placed a hand to Neville´s shoulder and their eyes met. She… She… knows? As the others were still watching them Luna said. “You can do this. If professor Snape trusts you of all people, then you should too.” Severus sensed something was off. What did Lovegood know?
“Thanks Luna.” For everything. He made a mental note of talking to Luna alone later to find out if she in fact knew. If she did, she had just openly given him her approval. “Grams keeps a Pensieve here, it´s been in the family for decades, 800 years or so. When you´re feeling better you can show the others the memories.” Neville said while mixing the last ingredient into the potion. He had told Severus he would follow the recipe he had helped him find, he had realized that this worked better than Severus distracting him. Severus agreed since it had worked fine the last time.
“Severus?”
The older man looked at Neville and frowned, knowing that having Neville calling him by his first name was not smart around anyone else. “I don´t care alright… They are my friends, and even though they are angry, confused and what not, they are still standing right here…. I trust my friends with my life… and I hope they feel the same too…” He suddenly revealed.
Neville glanced at all four and they each nodded, eventually even Ginny did, of course she did, but that didn´t mean she had to like Snape being here. “And if they are going to find out the truth about your role in the Order and that Dumbledore was already dying when you killed him, because you asked him to, then…” Neville, don’t. “Then I don´t care if they kn-.” God damned it Neville. There is no going back now.
“Stop!” Severus´ one word did the job and he fell silent, with one final hurt look Neville turned and began preparing to brew the second potion in silence. I can´t let him tell. It´s not safe for him. If his friends talk… Even though I am clearly breaking his heart…
“What´s going on now?” The angry red head demanded knowing.
“Dean, would you mind taking Ginny and Seamus upstairs for a while. Neville needs to concentrate on this next potion, it´s NEWT level and he is rather shaky to begin with.” Luna smiled broadly to not offend anyone.
“I´ll stay and supervise and call you if we need you. You keep professor Snape´s wand with you Dean. He can´t do anything without it.” Thank you, thank you Luna!
“Why you?” Seamus whined, not wanting to miss out on something.
“Because you all hate professor Snape and having you here right now is not helping Neville´s nerves in brewing.” Luna said honestly.
“You don´t hate him?” Dean said, not even trying to deny it himself.
“I don´t believe in hate. Sometimes people turn bad because they have to, sometimes because they want to. I pity the ones that want to be bad, and respect the ones that have to. I don´t think professor Snape would be bad if he was not asked to be.”
“Luna, you are talking crazy shit.” Ginny said.
“I don´t believe I am. Professor Dumbledore was the smartest man I have ever heard of and he trusted him. The ministry trusted Dumbledore until the end, always turning to him for advice, my dad told me that, and that proves to me that he was sane enough to still make up his own mind about things like this.” She really is a Ravenclaw. Smart and logical.
“But Luna -.” Dean began.
“You don´t have to be nice to be good, and you don´t have to be a bastard to be bad.” She reasoned with her friends.
“Makes sense to me.” Dean finally agreed. Another smart friend you have Neville.
“What?” Seamus said in disbelief.
“Well, why would Nev of all people trust Snape? Really, he hates him. We all know that he has always feared him.” Severus does not need to know that Dean! Neville cut his finger and cursed.
“If Snape hasn´t proven to Nev already that he is still an Order member why would he help him, hmm?” Dean went on.
“Dean´s right.” They all turned around, even Neville, to look at Ginny.
“Just because I hate the bat doesn´t mean I´m too stupid to listen to reason!” She yelled. Still bat after all these years, huh? Come up with something original, please...
“Fine, alrigh´. If Gin of all people… fine then… let´s go upstairs to wait… but ya better prove it afterwards Snape.” Seamus took a step back from the look Severus sent his way. Yup, still got it.
Dean, Seamus and Ginny lazily exited the room and went upstairs, talking all the way up. Luna cast a privacy spell. That was odd. “Add another spine.”
“But it says four, right here.” Neville showed Severus the book.
“Yes, but that´s before I improved the recipe myself.” He smirked. Neville nodded without hesitation. God, has it really come to this? He really does trust me now, does he not? The potion had to keep to itself for a minute and Neville looked to his left where Severus sat. Their eyes met and Neville felt his heart skip a beat. Please, let me not fuck this up.
“You´re doing fine, stop fussing.” Severus almost forgot that Lovegood was still here.
Luna smiled dreamily and Neville noticed. “Alright Luna, what´s up with you?”
“I just like to see you happy.”
Neville went back to work. “What do you mean?” Breathe, she doesn´t know anything.
“You and professor Snape of course. It will make quite the headline after the war I´m sure. I sent the others away because the more that knows the more danger you will be in. Tom Riddle is not really known to be too pleasant, so I could imagine professor Snape´s cover would be blown if he found out about the two of you.” Who the hell still calls The Dark Lord Tom Riddle? Must be her father´s influence.
FUCK, she does know. Neville froze. Severus realized what Lovegood had just said suddenly. My god, this girl is clever. How have I never noticed? For the same reason you´ve never noticed how hot Neville is. He is hot, isn´t he? Fuck, I don´t deserve him. He´s like a god damned three course meal and I barely paid for the appetizer as it is.
“Don´t worry professor, I will not tell anyone, but Neville is a sensitive man, he would need someone eventually he could talk about you with. I can be that person. He is my best friend after all, it´s my duty.” She smiled heartily.
“Sensitive?” Severus smirked. Oh, I already know of his sensitive spots. Cut it out, you´re acting like a freaking teenager.
“Of all the things she just said, that is what you chose to hear? That´s just… great… arsehole…” Neville scowled.
“Yet, you still love me.” What??? You idiot, what the hell did you say that for? Of course he doe-
“Yeah.” Neville said absentmindedly. Wait, what? Oh god, please, pleeease tell me he did not hear that.
Oh come on, now you’re just fucking with me? Right? Obviously this gorgeous, funny, charming sex god cannot possibly love me. He´s just confused, not used to this much attention. Yes, that´s it, he doesn´t have a male role model in his life, it´s only natural he should cast himself over me like he has done. “How´s the potion coming along, should be done soon?” Fucking coward. I had to change the subject, what if he had made a mistake? So what, it´s not like you want him to love you?
“Just about to mix them.” Neville answered.
“Good. Pour the yellow one into the other one, is has to be that way.” Thank god Severus didn´t hear it, he would have ended it on the spot. It cannot end, not now. Not ever… fuck… I do love him…

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