Love Changes Everything.

[pekeleke]

Title: Love Changes Everything.
Author: pekeleke
Characters: Harry Potter, Severus Snape.
Rating: PG
Warning(s): None.
Word count: 365
Disclaimer: Don't own these characters. No money is being made out of this work.
Written for: hogwarts365 Prompt #55 – "This is not my life."
Summary: I wanted a fling. A harmless fling with a young and passionate hunk. I don't know the first thing about love.

Love Changes Everything.
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Harry stared besottedly at the man who was still blinking dazedly at the ceiling, attempting to recover from their passionate lovemaking.  He grinned helplessly when those kiss-swollen lips sighed contentedly and pecked the tip of that long, hawkish nose before confessing his feelings for the very first time, convinced that he'd finally found the right time to speak out.
“I'm head over heels in love with you, Severus Snape.”

The Slytherin's sudden jerk away from him was the first sign Harry had that his carefully-timed confession hadn't gone down well.  But it wasn't until the potioneer sat rigidly among the rumpled bedding and stared into space with a flinty expression that he finally realized he may have miscalculated something more crucial than timing.
“Severus, what...?”

“Love...  You. Love. Me.  You want commitment and happily-ever-after.  You want—I can't do this.”

Harry's heart sank when Severus accioed his clothes and started dressing himself at breakneck speed.  He curled a staying hand around a bony wrist and confronted those shuttered black eyes with wounded trepidation.
“Of course you can do it.  You already excel at it.”

“Let me go, Potter.”

A cold chill ran down Harry's spine.  Severus hadn't pronounced his last name in that deadly-cold tone since Hogwarts, and hearing him do it now shook him so badly that he felt he couldn't breathe.
“Are you saying you don't love me back?”

“That's neither here nor there.  Look at me, Harry!  This is not my life.  I don't know the first thing about love.  I'm not—touchy-feely at all.  I wanted a fling.  A harmless fling with a young and passionate hunk.  I should have broken it off ages ago, but you're so very... caring... that I became selfish.”

“That's not what I asked.  You love me back, don't you?”  Harry demanded sharply and his hackles rose when Severus avoided his gaze.  “Answer me, damn it!”  He snarled, refusing to let the most skilled manipulator he'd ever met cheat them out of their happily-ever-after.

“Does it really matter?”

“You know it does.”

“This isn't...”

“It is.”

“I'm not...”

“You are.”

“Harry...”

“This is your life now, if you're in love, Severus.  Because love... love changes everything.”

 

Comments

[pekeleke]

LOL. Poor Harry. He had signed up for a romantic post-romp heart-to-heart and ended up having to fight tooth and nail to keep his man from running for the hills... It is true that Severus is too good at pushing people away, but since Harry is equally good at clinging to people they both complement each other rather well and should be fine in the long term, don't you think? *wink, wink*

Thanks, as always, for taking the time to both read and review, my friend. I'll see you on the next one.

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