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Dianthus Stories	By : icewomin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female Views: 3127 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, nor any of the characters from the books or movies. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Anything you
recognize belongs to someone else, namely, JK Rowling. Specifically, elements of
the HP universe, characters from same.
Sadly, I have no hope of publishing this story outside the fan fiction base, although I hope you enjoy the plot and the original
characters I�ve created. Feel free to
give me critical feedback, including flames and harsh criticism. I may delete it afterward, so as to reduce my
personal embarrassment, but I do promise to read it and incorporate it if I
feel it improves the story.

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This is Chapter
Twenty. Smut begins in Chapter Twenty
Six, so if you�re only looking for that, feel free to skip ahead. Be warned that you may be confused about some
of the stuff in those later chapters if you don�t stick it out.

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Chapter Twenty �
Truth, Lies, and Something In-Between

�Precisely,� he
sneered. �To protect
you from me.�

They sat in
silence for perhaps thirty seconds, and then Snape cleared his throat and spoke
again. �You have not yet run screaming
from the room.�

�Part of me thinks
I should,� she said, shrugging.�Yes, you are,�
she insisted. �Most of your old mates
are probably Death-eaters, too � fucking Slytherins � and now you�re out of it,
you don�t talk to them much, I imagine.�
An image of Snape flashed in her mind, sitting by himself in his rooms
every evening. The thought of it made
her heart ache for him. She had a
reckless urge to rush to tell him everything she felt for him. She wanted to wrap hems ams around him and
hold him until the hollow look left his eyes.
�You�re lonely,� she said again, wonderingly.

�Dianthus�� he
said warningly.

�What will you do
when I leave?� she asked, cutting off whatever snappy comment he was preparing
to throw at her.

He looked down at
his hands. �I will continue as I have,�
he said, sounding thoroughly dejected.

�I don�t know,�
said Melanie evasively. �I just knew he
would.�

�So,� demanded Erin. �Did it work?�

Dianthus rolled
her eyes. �You are worse than Cornish
pixies. You almost got me killed. I thought he was going to throw me off the
bloody tower when he came swooping down on me.
And how do you know somebody else wasn�t listening � anybody could have
thought to go looking for me, with all the racket you
were making about me not being with you.�

�Yeah, right,� simpered Erin. �Snape wasn�t going to let McGonagall or
anybody else find you.n stn st'mso'mso-spacerun:yes'>
Mel said he jumped so high when he heard your name, she thought his head
was going to ricochet off the roof.�

�Don�t be an ass,�
Dianthus drawled. �You�ll be pleased to
know he took fifty points from Ravenclaw.�

�Knew that was
going to happen,� said Martine, waving her hand dismissively. �McGonagall took twenty-five points each from
us as well.� She grinned. ��Course, we
weren�t as drunk as you.�

�Shut up,
Martine,� said Erin.
�She�s going to tell us what Snape said when he found her.�

Dianthus
sighed. �He yelled at me for about an
hour, threatened to write my Grandpa, the whole nine yards. Oh, and he laughed at me, because I barfed
all over the stairs in the Astronomy Tower.� The roommates all made noises of
disgust. �He gave me something to drink,
some potion that sorted out my stomach.
Said he didn�t want me throwing up all over his office. He yelled at me some more, and told me if I
ever did that again, he�d take me straight to McGonagall. Then he brought me back here.�

�That�s it?� said
Melanie, obviously disappointed.

Dianthus
laughed. �What were you expecting? Fire and brimstone?�

�No,� said Erin,
slowly. �We were expecting�something
else.� She reddened, which was such a
rare occurrence that Dianthus suspected she knew what that �something else�
was.

�You thought he
was going to declare his undying love for me,� she said sardonically. �Throw rose-petals at my feet and sweep me
away on his white horse.�

�Well,� said
Melanie defensively, �at least make up to you for treating you so, uh, nicely
these past few weeks.�

�Well, he
didn�t.� She hesitated, wondering how
much more she would have to tell them.
�Well, we did talk for a bit.�
Their disappointed frowns were replaced instantly by avid stares. �But it�s just the opposite of what you�re
thinking. He�s still trying to figure
out how to put me in my place. Doesn�t want to be my friend. He insists I keep a proper distance from
him.�

�Hmm,� said
Melanie, looking pensive.

�What?�

�Nothing,� Melanie
shrugged. �Just seems strange that he
keeps telling you to keep your distance, when he was the one running around at midnight looking for you.�

Dianthus shrugged,
feeling evil for not telling her roommates the whole story. But she had finally earned Snape�s trust, and
she wasn�t going to break it now. �You
know what?� she said, rising from her bed.
�I am starved. I think I threw up
every bit of that shepherd�s pie you guys brought me. Let�s get down to the great hall and get some
breakfast.�
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