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Much Ado About Nothing	By : goblet Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male Views: 2534 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
by The Goblet

Chapter 25

Early the next morning, Severus was woken by a heavy thumping on his front door. Grumbling to himself, he pulled on a dressing gown and stumbled into his living room.

"What?" he growled as he yanked open the door to find two fully dressed, smiling Gryffindors waiting in his corridor.

Both Lily and Minerva jumped as the door was unexpectedly jerked open.

Lily was the first to recover. "Good morning, Sunshine!" she announced, sweeping past Severus and into the room. She was followed closely by Minerva who was carrying a breakfast tray complete with a pot of strong coffee.

Severus closed the door and warded it again, before staggering to the couch. "Coffee…" he murmured, accepting a mug of the dark brew from Lily.

Lily smirked as she watched Severus devour the hot drink. She'd been living with Severus for the past two years, and nothing short of a several cups of coffee would ever get him up in the mornings before ten. That is, apart from Remus.

"You know, Severus," Minerva said as Severus re-filled his mug. "We could have brought you breakfast in bed if you hadn't strengthened your wards.

The Slytherin glared at the two ladies over his coffee. "And allow you access to do God knows what to my body while I slept? I think not."

Lily smiled and pushed Severus' breakfast in his direction. "Eat," she instructed. "You'll need your strength."

Severus screwed up his nose at her suggestion but set down his coffee and picked up a knife and fork before tucking into his bacon and eggs. The eggs were over-easy, precisely the way he liked them and the bacon was at just the right point between crispy and charcoal for his tastes.

"We would not want you to faint during the ceremony now would we?" Minerva commented as she poured Severus a glass of orange juice - freshly squeezed - none of the preserved stuff he hated.

The Slytherin scowled at his Maid of Honour. "I don't faint," he replied, as he picked up a piece of toast and began to spread his yolks over it.

"Of course you don't, dear," Minerva replied, patting his leg. "We just wouldn't want you to start now."

Once Severus had finished his breakfast, he was shoved into the bathroom, with strict instructions to shower and shave quickly and return to his bedroom. A new pair of white trunks was thrown in after him as he closed the door, together with an order to put on the new underwear and not his usual black boxers.

When he emerged fifteen minutes later, Severus found that Lily and Minerva had laid out his robes on the bed, and were busy polishing his boots.

When Lily saw Severus she beamed. "Your gown is exquisite," she remarked. "Very you… yet not," she tried to explain.

Severus shot her a wry grin.

"I mean the gold edging and the pearl buttons," she continued. "The buttons! They're everywhere down the front, down the sleeves, it's just beautiful. I love the train, and the sleeves are gorgeous, so wonderfully full."

"I hope I feel as good wearing it as you feel looking at it," Severus replied. "I don't feel too good."

"Probably just nerves," Minerva replied, standing up from the bed and crossing the room to give Severus a small hug.

"I don't know… something isn't quite right," he replied. He really was worried. "My stomach is… sore."

"Don't worry about it, Severus, I'm not feeling the best myself," Lily told him, trying to keep his mind off speculating what was wrong.

Severus shrugged and moved over to his robes. "I suppose you two ladies are going to help me dress," he said, somewhat dolefully.

"Of course we are!" Lily replied untying Severus' dressing gown and letting it fall to the floor. "Those pants look nice," she said, admiring not only Severus' new underwear, but his package as well.

The Slytherin blushed.

"Lily!" admonished Minerva. "You're embarrassing him!"

She handed her former student a pot of moisturiser and the two set about rubbing the lotion into Severus' skin.

When he was sufficiently sticky, they stopped, and replaced the lid on the jar.

"We'll just wait for that to dry," Minerva announced, wiping her hands on a towel, before handing it to Lily.

Lily looked into Severus' face. He actually looked quite terrible. Something must have been troubling him. "I feel sick," she announced once more, trying to keep Severus' mind off his nerves. She sat on the side of the bed. "My tummy hurts."

Severus snorted.

"No seriously, it hurts. I have a stomach ache," she complained.

"There, there, dear," Minerva said, patting Lily's hand. "I'll get you some of Potter's Acidosis," she said, rooting around in her bag until she produced a jar of pills. "Arabella swears by them."

Potter's Herbal Remedies was the largest range of herbal medicines in Europe. Granted the Potter in question was not related to James, but Minerva could help but tease Lily.

"Potter's?? Potter's??" Lily spat. "Why on earth Potter's?"

Minerva chuckled as Severus smirked. "Because their Acidosis mix is very good at helping with indigestion, stomach ache and acid stomach," she said.

"You thought I was referring to James?" She laughed gaily as Lily blushed. "What help would he be if you had a stomach ache?" she asked.

Severus laughed softly for the first time that morning. "You jumped to that conclusion very easily, Lily. Have you been spending your time thinking about Potter?" he teased.

"No!"

Minerva smiled. "And yet James, who swore off love, seems so oddly in love, don't you think?" she asked Severus.

"Oh, shut up," Lily retorted, picking Severus's robes off the bed and holding it up so that he could slip into it.

Minerva sensed that the conversation was at a close, so she didn't pressure Lily with any more hints of James or love or marriage.

"Just wait a moment," she said as Severus began to slip on the white silk. She rummaged around in her basket once more and pulled out a lacy, pale blue garter.

"Foot up please," she said, as she knelt before Severus. Grudgingly, he raised one foot, and she carefully slipped the garter up his leg.

"There, a nice surprise for Remus," she said once the garter was in place.

"I do believe that my lack of hair will be surprising enough," retorted Severus. "Now, may I dress?" he asked, before Minerva could insist that he wear something even more feminine.

"Of course," Minerva smiled up at him.

Severus slipped into the gown Lily was holding open for him, grumbling the entire time. "One would believe that I enjoy prancing around in my underwear before strange women," he muttered under his breath. Lily laughed as she turned him and began buttoning the pearl buttons down the front of his robes.

The robe he had chosen had a high neck and collar, and was fitted to his chest. Once it reached his hips, it flared out and trailed behind him. The cut of the robes was accentuated by the use of gold thread. The sleeves were full, widely cut and almost touched the floor.

Minerva returned to her basket and retrieved a handkerchief. She offered it to Severus. "A loan," she explained. "Arabella and I have a bet that you will cry at the wedding. She thinks you will, I think not," she explained. "Take the hanky just in case."

Severus rolled his eyes. He shouldn't have been surprised that there were bets going on about his wedding. He took the handkerchief and hid it in a concealed pocket in his robes.

Minerva then presented Severus with an old pocket watch. "This was my father's," she explained. "I want you to have it." She opened the watch to show Severus the inside, silencing him with a glare as he opened his mouth to protest.

There were two dials. The first showed the time. The second had only one hand which showed Severus' face. The hand pointed to 'Getting dressed'. "I charmed it so that it would show your family," she explained. "In its normal state, it will only show you, in case someone else happens to see it. To see Remus, all you need to say is 'Show me my Heart' and he will appear for a few moments."

Minerva handed the watch to Severus. "Thank you," he whispered, looking down in awe at the watch.

"Try it," Lily said.

"Show me my Heart," he whispered. A second hand with Remus' face on the end appeared. It spun around until it came to a stop at 'Travelling'.

"He's travelling," Severus said quietly.

"Travelling?" Lily asked. "He's not travelling; he's heading for the gardens! Quick, we need to finish getting ready!"

Severus found himself roughly pushed to sit in a chair. Minerva was busy pulling a comb through his hair, while Lily had thrust one foot inside his boot, and was lacing up the laces.

"I don't know why you are bothering with my hair," he grumbled as Lily threw a Muggle penny into his other boot and shoved his foot inside.

"Because you can't go to your own wedding with messy hair," admonished Minerva.

"No-one is going to see my hair," growled Severus.

"Remus will later."

"Remus won't be worried about my hair," Severus fumed.

"He'll think it will be nice once you take your hood off," Minerva retorted.

"Whose bloody idea was it for hoods anyway?" asked Lily. "It's just a load of rubbish: keeping evil spirits away!"

"It's tradition," replied Severus, as Minerva tugged at his hair.

Lily sighed and handed Severus Remus' ring. "Along with all that codswallop that the groomsmen and the bridesmaids are there to confuse the spirits: like they'd be confused. The ones getting married are the two wearing hoods!" she continued.

"And yet, Muggles have adopted our practises," Minerva replied, setting Severus' hood in place and securing it with a simple charm.

Minerva helped Severus stand up, adjusting his robes, while Lily moved the mirror so that Severus could see himself.

"Are you ready, Severus?" she asked.

Severus stared at himself in the mirror for a few moments.

"As ready as I'll ever be."

tbc...

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