Harry's Severus.

[pekeleke]

Title: Harry’s Severus.
Author: pekeleke
Pairing(s): Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Challenge: Written for snarry_100 ( IJ, LJ, DW ) prompt challenge 598: Lie(s).
Rating: G
Length: 100
Warnings: none.
Disclaimer: Don't own these characters. No money is being made out of this work.
Summary: Harry’s Severus is no longer a professor but a happily married man who steals cookies from the jar and laughs himself silly whenever his husband catches him.
 

Harry’s Severus.

 

Harry’s Severus doesn’t stalk around the house, doesn’t scowl. He’s neither Hogwarts’ forbidding Severus nor the penitent wreck Voldemort discarded.

Harry’s Severus is Severus’ favorite Severus. He’s no longer a professor but a happily married man who steals cookies from the jar and laughs himself silly whenever his husband catches him.

Harry’s Severus is free to do what he pleases, and it pleases him to live openly. To love aloud. To lie on his bed wearing nothing but a smile and watch Harry’s gaze darken.

“I’m coming to get you.” Harry growls.

Severus’ smile brightens. “I’m counting on that, Harry.”

 

Comments

[dreamingjewel64]

The best Severus.

[pekeleke]

I'm glad that you like Harry's Severus, dreamingjewel64. I like him too. ;)

Thanks, as always, for taking the time to both read and review another work of mine. Your kind and lovely comment meant the world to me. :)

[adafrog]

Love it.

[pekeleke]

I'm glad you enjoyed it so much, ada. Tanks, as always, for your kind and lovely comment. :)

[sarahsezlove]

Sarah always loves pekeleke's Severus.

[pekeleke]

And pekeleke is chuffed to know how much sarah loves her Severus. Thanks, as always, for taking the time to both read and review another work of mine, my dear friend. Seeing your name in my in-box left me smiling from ear to ear. :)

[agneskamilla]

So deliciously lovely! Gave me all the goooood feels:)

[pekeleke]

I'm thrilled that you enjoyed it so much, agnes. Thanks, as always, for your kind and lovely comment. I hope RL is treating you well and that you're managing to both write and enjoy fandom-related things wherever you go when you aren't around here. The warmest hugs you can imagine, to last you until we meet again,

Pekeleke

[alisanne]

Awww. I love this version of Severus.
So open and happy and free. THIS is what he deserves.
Yay that Harry (and you!) can give it to him. :)

[pekeleke]

"THIS is what he deserves." Yes, it is, and I love seeing Severus like this too. I'm thrilled that you enjoyed this drabble, ali. Thanks, as always for taking the time to both read and review another work of mine. Your kind and lovely comment meant the world to me.:D

[keyairreem]

Playful!Severus is so cute! More please!

[pekeleke]

I'm thrilled that you found Playful!Severus so cute, keyairreem. Thanks, as always, for taking the time to both read and review another work of mine. Your kind and lovely comment was greatly appreciated. :)

[teryarel]

Harry’s Severus is Severus’ favorite Severus.
What is it with me and mis-reading things that you write. Because I read: "Harry's Severus is Harry's favourite Severus." (And mine, too.)

At first it does not seem like much of a difference, but of course it is. Harry loves Severus, and must have fallen in love or at least got to know Severus better, when Severus still was the old Severus. And I believe that if Severus were to have a bad day and revert to old Severus, Harry would still love him.

But when I read that "Harry’s Severus is Severus’ favorite Severus" this means that Severus himself has left old Severus behind. He changed (for?) with Harry. He finally has found not only peace in himself, but self-acceptance (self-love?) and happiness.

And this, surely, must be exactly the Severus that Harry like best, too.

Thank you for another sweet story, dear friend! ^^

[pekeleke]

I think you are the only one to mention the difference implicit in the fact that Harry's Severus is Severus' favourite Severus rather than Harry's. You're right about it, of course. The fact that Severus himself likes this particular version of himself better than any other means he's managed to accept himself to a degree that I don't think he'd managed before, and is now all the happier for it. I'm sure Harry loves him best like this too, not because he's easier to handle this way, but because Severus himself is happier, and it shows.

I'm thrilled that you enjoyed this drabble, teryarel. Thanks, as always, for your kind and lovely comment. :)