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Unleashed	By : lordoberon Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 17651 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 3
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This is the last chapter. But there will be an epilogue. I'm so sorry that chapter 20 was confusing! I can answer any questions.

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UNLEASHED

by lordoberon

Chapter 21

The next slot of time was a whirl…Severus registered little. He remembered Madam Pomfrey’s voice, he remembered the wails and moans of the wounded…he remembered a quick flash of Harry’s face, concerned, hovering over his…he remembered seeing Harry with his two friends, hugging them both, and tears flowing down all of their faces…

When he came to, he knew it had been a long time. His face was grizzled with stubble. Yet he felt surprisingly washed and taken care of. He was not in the familiar walls of Hogwarts, in the Hospital Wing. No, he was in a much more clinical place, yet with the blue robes of medic wizards and witches around him…

Mungo’s. How was it he was here? The antidote had worked. Why did they house him here? He did not feel safe. Severus felt for his wand, and a warm hand put it in his fingers. He grabbed the hand, and pulled the person forward. He was ready to fight, if necessary. He didn’t trust anyone, Mungo’s or no. Everyone thought he was a Death Eater. They had every reason to kill him.

“Are you going to stab me in the throat again? Please don’t. It hurt the last time. I’ve had enough hurts…to last a million lifetimes. I’m just glad you’re alive.”

Severus opened his eyes, and stared up at Harry’s face. Oh Merlin! He didn’t think he would ever see him again.

He let his emotions flood through him, unable to repress them, and gathered Harry into his embrace. Of their own accord, his hands ran down Harry’s back, up into his hair, across his cheeks and his nose and over his ears…he couldn’t seem to stop. This was real, he told himself. This was Harry. They were both alive.

Then, because he couldn’t hold in what was going on inside him, he let the tears fall. They always seemed to come around Harry, and again he couldn’t hold them back. It seemed futile. He might as well stop trying. Stupid, sentimental Gryffindor…rubbing off on him!

Harry kissed away his tears, laughing, and then, sitting next to Severus on the bed, he took Severus’s hand.

“I have an idea,” he whispered, “And you can’t say no to it. You’re simply not allowed. You’ve been in here for ages – absolutely ages! – recovering from that damn snake bite. I’ve even started the process to release you from Ministry surveillance, and given testimony to your double agent status. But I want to take you with me to where I’m going next.”

The eagerness in Harry was contagious. Severus tried to keep the smile from his face, but it flashed through, before he bit it back. He tried a scowl. “Where are we going, then?”

The teenager looked shocked. “Y’mean…you’ll go with me?”

“Since I have no choice.”

“We’re going to a house by the beach, courtesy of Bill. I need a break from…everything.”

Everything. There was a lot encased in that one word. There was a lot of loss, shock, and hurt. And Severus had not been there to stop it. But he could not protect everyone, could he? Protecting Harry was difficult enough.

“Did I miss it?” He whispered. “You beat him.”

Harry’s face was hard, his youth shadowed by the grimness of the war survivor in a second. “See for yourself.”

He lifted up the cotton of Severus’s sleeve, and pushed it back. There, stark as ever against the skin of Severus’s left forearm, was the Dark Mark. It was now red.

He had done it! By Merlin, Dumbledore was right. Oh, it was over…

“I knew you could do it,” Severus breathed. “I knew it. Merlin, I was right. You! You…”

His excitement faded, and he loosened the grip he’d tightened on Harry’s arm. “Lily would be proud of you.”

Harry lay down next to Severus on the bed, his face still tight with so much sadness and grimness. “I know.”

They lay like that for a long time, not speaking. Severus wondered so many things – who had lived, who had died, and how he was going to go anywhere if the Ministry were watching him, and why the antidote had healed him but recovery had taken so long – but he put it all aside.

He let his arm drift slowly over, to lie behind Harry’s shoulders. Then he drew him in, closer.

There was no going back, he decided. Frightful as it was, he was going to say yes. He already knew it. Already just the fact that he had survived Nagini’s snakebite was demanding a new perspective on things. Hope had come in…and hope had won. It had won the war, and perhaps, it would win Severus over. Harry already had…and if no one else was Severus’s hope, than who was? Certainly not himself. He had already given his heart to Harry. Why not let Harry know it? He could still keep it secret from everyone else…or at least, he thought wryly of Harry’s curious little friends, he could keep it under wraps.

He did not let himself think of the details of how it would work out. He let himself just breathe. He breathed in Harry’s scent, the sweat and the broomstick polish and that earthy, calming something…he focused on the softness of youthful skin beneath his fingertips…the warmth of the body next to him.

He could definitely live with this.
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