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See Part I for Summary and Disclaimers

Six Months Later ~

‘Here are you’re reading spectacles, Severus,’ said Neville as he triumphantly presented them. It had taken almost two hours to find them in the chaos of Snape’s rooms.

‘Longbottom, I told you I will be using the sight enhancement charm while I’m at the conference. I refuse to have these spectacles sliding around on my nose while I’m speaking,’ Snape growled.

‘Vanity,’ muttered Neville.

Snape’s sharp ears picked that up.

‘What, what did you say?’ Snape stomped towards Neville.

‘I said, Sev, you know those spells are self-limiting, and tiring to your eyes at that. At least keep these with you in case you need them,’ said Neville.

Severus snatched them out of Neville’s hand and stuffed them into his robes.

Severus continued to growl and snap until Neville had everything packed away and had cast a minimizing charm on his luggage.

‘There’s really no need to see me off at the station, Longbottom, I’m perfectly capable of managing on my own,’ Snape reminded him.

As Neville bustled him out the door, he replied, ‘I know, Severus. I want to see you off. I’m just sorry that I couldn’t go with you,’ Neville said.

As they walked upstairs and out the front entrance of Hogwarts, Snape turned to Neville.

‘And make sure that idiot Melville, doesn’t blow up my classroom while I’m gone,’ Snape added.

‘You’ll only miss two classes, Sev, I’m sure they’ll manage,’ Neville said soothingly.

Neville and Snape walked towards Hogsmeade in companionable silence.

‘Will you be able to finish your work with the wood elf plant this weekend?’ said Snape, startling Neville a bit. He hadn’t been aware that Severus had followed his work that closely.

Snape grunted.

‘I saw Elvira yesterday morning,’ he said as he continued to stalk down the road.

Neville felt a small smile begin to show on his face.

‘Of course. Yes, it looks like the wood elves will be in full bloom this weekend, and we should be able to extract the healing sap without difficulty,’ said Neville modestly.

‘Well done,’ said Snape.

Neville stumbled a little.

‘Thanks,’ he said with a grin.

Snape grunted again.

As they approached the station, Snape pulled his ticket out of his robe pocket.

‘No need to wait with me,’ he said briskly.

‘But I want to,’ said Neville, looking a bit hurt. ‘Don’t you want me to stay?’ he asked. This was the first time they’d be spending time apart since they’d become lovers.

Snape glared at him.

‘Do I look like a first year, Longbottom?’ Snape snarled. ‘I do not need you to hold my hand,’ he said sharply.

Neville winced a bit. During the day he was Longbottom---only at night when they were alone, did he become Neville. Severus never allowed his private life to bleed into his public persona.

‘Still, it’s a nice day. I’ll just stay here for a few minutes to enjoy the sunshine,’ said Neville a bit stubbornly.

Neville walked over to the bench near the waiting room and sat down.

The wind teased Severus’ robes and he irritably shook them back into order.

‘There was no need for that woebegone expression on Longbottom’s face’ he thought savagely. ‘I’ve told him not to come.’

The boy needed a firm hand, direction; otherwise, he tended to mope.

‘Longbottom, who will help you with the harvesting this weekend?’ he rapped out.

Neville’s head came up and his eyes lit up.

‘Elvira, of course,’ Neville said as he rose and walked over to where Snape stood near the tracks.

‘I tried asking Ernie but he said he was tied up,’ said Neville with a small frown crossing his forehead.

Snape smirked inwardly.

Indeed, Mr. McMillan, having suffered through several severe bouts of ‘wizards revenge’, had finally had the wit to cease his attentions to Neville.

‘But I was able to get two seventh years, Little and Bronstein, to help me. They’re taking the advanced courses this year,’ Neville said happily.

Neville itched to take Severus’ hand in his and give him a kiss goodbye but he knew Sev would have been horrified by the idea.

The whistle of the Hogwarts Express could be heard faintly in the distance.

Severus pulled out his wizard’s pocket watch.

‘Humph, two minutes late,’ he said as he snapped the watch closed and pocketed it again.

‘Don’t forget to owl me when you get there, Severus,’ Neville reminded him.

‘Yes, yes, don’t fuss, Longbottom. I’m sure I can get to London and back in one piece,’ said Snape sharply. ‘The Hogwarts Express is well guarded against Death Eater attacks,’ he snorted.

Albus had insisted upon this method of travel for all his faculty members after an attack upon Professor Flitwick earlier in the year. ‘Ridiculous’ thought Snape. Still, after Flitwick’s near disaster while apparating by himself and the disappearance of a high ministry official within the Floo Network---travel via the Express had become the recommended form of transport.

‘Well then,’ said Neville, shuffling his feet.

The clatter of the train as it pulled in drowned out what Neville had been about to say.
As they awaited the appearance of the conductor to issue the ‘all aboard call’, Snape caught Neville’s arm.

Neville looked at Snape in inquiry.

‘There may be a small favor you can assist me with while I’m away, Longbottom,’ Snape said.

Neville simply nodded.

‘I would prefer that we drop the fiction that is being maintained that you spend any time of consequence in your dormitory. You will please accommodate me by finishing the transfer process this weekend,’ said Snape, avoiding Neville’s eye.

‘Severus, are you asking me to move in with you?’ Neville asked, his heart thumping excitedly.

‘Isn’t that what I just said?’ asked Snape, irritated at having to repeat himself.

‘But—but what about the Headmaster? Wouldn’t he object to us—living together?’ said Neville, still too stunned to believe it.

‘I’ve already spoken to Albus and, as we are two consenting adults, he has no issue with us co-habitating, other than to ask us to use discretion. As if we’d be swinging naked from the chandeliers,’ Snape snorted.

‘All aboard,’ came the call from the bewhiskered conductor.

Severus turned to go, his luggage clicking and clacking in his robe pocket.

He reached up for the handrail but, before he could grab it, he was twisted around to face his young lover.

‘Severus Snape, you are such a fraud,’ said Neville as he grasped both sides of Severus head and yanked him down by the air into a quick kiss.

Severus yanked himself away quickly.

‘Cheeky bastard,’ Severus growled to Neville and then marched up the steps and slammed the train door behind him.

‘I’ll miss you too,’ Neville said softly as the train began to pull out.

Neville watched the back of the train disappear into the hills before he started back towards Hogwarts.

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