Happily Ever After.
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pekelekeTitle: Happily Ever After.
Fandom: Harry potter (Snarry)
Characters: Harry Potter, Severus Snape.
Author: pekeleke.
Rating: G.
Word count: 962
Disclaimer: Don't own these characters. No money is being made out of this work.
A/N: Unbetaed. Written for the adventdrabbles (DW,LJ, IJ) 2013 Prompts 18 and 20: Christmas Bundt Cake and Christmas Toffee, respectively.
This is the fifteenth -and final- part of my Harry Potter And The Clueless Prince series.
This story is now officially complete.
Summary: In which there is happiness all around...
Happily Ever After.
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As soon as he enters his lab and the aroma of freshly-minced herbs and slowly shimmering potions enfolds him like an old, favorite cloak Severus sighs contentedly. There's an atmosphere of peacefulness about this room that he's never managed to find anywhere else and he craves it like the air he needs to breathe...
“Severus?”
He sighs, realizing that Harry has followed him down again and casts a longing look at his waiting cauldron before turning towards the door with a smile on his face, welcoming his adorable Gryffindor inside his formerly private domain with the kind of contented joy that has become as constant in his life as the presence of the man that causes it.
“How may I assist you, professor Potter?”
Harry falters in the doorway, pouting fetchingly upon hearing his formal address.
“The express left Hogsmeade station two hours ago. There's no need for you to go all... professional... on me.”
Severus smirks, tapping his bottom lip with his index finger in a thoughtful gesture that he knows drives Harry crazy.
“Hummm... that's odd. I've suspected for a while that you like it when I go all professional on you, Harry. I clearly remember you mentioning the other day how fast my 'headmaster's tone' turns you on.”
A playful growl precedes his riled lion as he stalks towards him with the kind of expression that promises the most pleasurable form of retribution.
“I wanted to invite you out for a drink. We've been so busy lately that we've hardly socialized with anyone...”
Severus frowns, thoroughly uninterested in leaving their quarters at all, unless there's an emergency.
“We socialize with others all the time. We eat every meal with the rest of the staff and nod agreeably at everyone we cross paths with in the corridors.”
Harry's smile widens for some reason and his gaze softens with soppy devotion.
“I suppose that's true, but...”
“Wonderful. I'm glad we are in agreement, then. Now, if you follow me out of this drafty laboratory, I'll show you a much better way to spend our first day of vacation...”
“You're dragging me off to bed already?” Harry giggles, sounding so deliriously happy that Severus loops his arms around his hips and plants a small, passionate kiss on his laughing mouth.
“Oh, Severus...” Harry sighs when they finally come up for air and the unexpected wobbliness of his tone makes him frown. There must be something off with the special Lumos charm that illuminates the entryway, because there's no logical reason for Harry's eyes to have brightened with a worrying film of tears... is there?
Severus swallows his dismay and cradles that beloved face with concerned gentleness, brushing away the small tear that has dared to roll down Harry's cheek with the pad of his thumb.
“What's wrong? I thought you'd be a lot more... enthusiastic... about my plans for the evening. I want to lay you down on our bed and make love to you until there's no more strength left in our bodies, Harry. I want feed you Christmas fudge in bed and maybe even a slice or two of that cinnamon swirl bundt cake that you like so much. I want to cradle your head against my chest and play with your hair while the fire crackles in the hearth and the sun sets on the horizon...”
Harry sniffles through his tears and smiles at him so brightly that the tight coil of sheer worry that has settled in the pit of his stomach begins to dissolve inch by inch.
“That sounds like a dream come true, Severus. It's been almost a year to the day when I first drummed up enough courage to ask you out for the first time and I've never been happier in my life. I can't bear to imagine how awful the last twelve months would have been if you hadn't decided to take a chance on caring about something besides potions, dark hexes and Slytherin plots.”
Severus frowns with perplexity, wondering what on Earth that heap of nonsense even means and decides to list as many... fluffy interests... as he can come up with, just to keep his ridiculous brat from suddenly deciding that he's some kind of cold fish.
”I care about a cauldron-full of different things. I care about the people who work here and the students under my protection. I care about promoting good education and fairness and having the strength to do the right thing, no matter how hard that might be. I care about the annoying bunch of Weasleys you've saddled me with and I care about you. I care about you most of all, Harry.”
“I know that, sweetheart, and I thank Merlin for that miracle every day of my life.”
Severus swallows past the huge lump in his throat as his cheesy Gryffindor raises himself on tip-toes and places the most reverent of kisses on the underside of his jaw. His eyes narrow as he tries to make sense of Harry's strange mood, but ends up shaking his head with practiced forbearance and abandoning the task as a lost cause, deciding to ask him about it outright:
“Why on Earth are you crying then, if you know that I love you and you love me right back?”
“These are tears of happiness, Severus...” Harry whispers in response, leaving him so utterly baffled that he decides there and then to abandon the confusing conversation altogether, since it'll never make sense to him, anyway.
He grabs Harry's hand instead and begins to tug on it determinedly, dragging his lion towards their waiting bedroom while grumbling under his breath:
“Tears of happiness... I've never heard anything more ridiculous. Gryffindors! Why do you all have to be so bloody weird?”
The End.
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Date: 2013-12-21 12:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-12-21 05:32 pm (UTC)I'm thrilled that you enjoyed this story to the very end. Thanks so much for both keeping up with it and letting me know what you thought of every chapter. Your lovely comments were greatly appreciated. :)
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Date: 2013-12-21 04:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-12-21 05:34 pm (UTC)I'm thrilled that you enjoyed this series all the way to the end.
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Date: 2013-12-21 07:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-12-21 08:38 pm (UTC)I'm thrilled that you enjoyed this story so much. Thanks for keeping up with it and letting me know what you thought of every chapter. Your lovely comments were an absolute joy to read. :)
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Date: 2013-12-21 09:04 pm (UTC)someone has to be the soft fluffy one, and harry is definitely IT. of course, he's influenced severus to be less rigid, and that's good too.
this was such a lovely story-arc!! thank you so much, my dear!
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Date: 2013-12-23 03:30 pm (UTC)I'm thrilled that you enjoyed this story-arc so much, my friend. Thanks, as always, for taking the time to both read and review. You should know by now that I absolutely adore chatting about the boys with you.
Have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year, fallconsmate.
Hugs
pekeleke
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Date: 2013-12-23 03:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-12-23 03:39 am (UTC)That is so wonderfully Severus it delights me.
Great job telling this long story,
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Date: 2013-12-23 03:32 pm (UTC)Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year wherever you are.
Sincerely
pekeleke
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Date: 2013-12-23 11:24 am (UTC)Thank you for a wonderful story! (Though my favourite chapter was "In Broad Daylight")
Your version of Harry and Severus are just what I crave. Please, write many, many more stories about them!! :)
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Date: 2013-12-23 05:23 pm (UTC)I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new Year wherever you are.
Sincerely
pekeleke
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Date: 2013-12-24 11:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-12-26 04:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-12-29 12:14 pm (UTC)I love Severus' slytherinness at the beginning, him being clueless to Harry's advances, sending Harry to Hagrid, they are just so funny and adorable with their miscommunication.
Your Draco, I am in love with him (and believe me that is an extremely rare occurance)His sarcasm and the banter with Harry You're neither a potion, a dark hex or a slytherin plot, are you? Severus tends to ignore everything else
Lol. I was giggling like a madwoman:)
I loved Draco's solution to the problem, and Severus's self-sacrificing
It'll have to be me, then
Right in the middle of the river of denial, poor dear.
My other favourite installment was the scene with the Weasley, oh, they were just priceless:) LOL! I loved Severus' nearly panic in the face of Molly's siege and Arthur's attempts to make the blow a little less overwhelming.
In addition to being very funny with a sparkling, clever kind of light humour, this tale was overly romantic, with that tiny snippet of bittersweetness I appreciate so much in all your works.(Seeing Severus so vulnerable and insecure always makes me a little sad, but your Harry always succeeds in making it better;))
This story was full of beautiful romantic moments, but my favourite was the moment of epiphany in the pub,that they want the other just the way they are. It was such a simple, but tender moment.
The ending, coming a full circle, partially repeating the opening scene, preserving severus' slytherinness from there, but giving the new layer of their love and relationship, it was lovely.I also appreciated the way you brought Draco's words back and let Severus react to them finally.
Thank you Dear, for the pleasure of reading this:)
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Date: 2013-12-31 03:33 pm (UTC)It was so lovely to hear from you again, my friend. I hope you had a lovely holiday season and I wish you the very best for the coming New Year.
Now on to your lovely review... I'm so glad that this crazy story of mine made you laugh so much. I was going for lighthearted humor this year and I'm thrilled to hear that it worked that way for you.
I had such great fun plotting Sev's cluelessness and finding the right words to advance this story while keeping him in the dark for as long as possible. LOL. I think poor Harry was ready to scream with frustration by the time he got to planting that first kiss on his Prince's mouth, wasn't he?
I'm absolutely thrilled that you loved Draco here, specially because he is not a character you like all that much. He did a great job at delivering the cunning and underhanded support Harry needed to get the ball rolling with Severus, even if it was in the form of Slytherin plotting... :D I'm thrilled that you enjoyed Draco's description of Sev's general interests, since that one happens to be one of my favorites lines in the entire story.
I agree with you on the understated romance of the pub scene and it's wonderful that you picked it out of all the rest. That is the turning point in this story. The moment Severus' eyes finally begin to open to what's really going on around him, even if it takes him a little while longer to realize it.
I must confess that I had a ball writing the Weasley scene. Portraying Molly as an overwhelmingly loving character with a slightly naughty streak is a weakness of mine and I'm thrilled that you enjoyed her small appearance in this tale so much.
All in all I'm chuffed that you had a great time with this series. Thanks for taking the time to both read and review this story. Your gorgeous and amazingly detailed review not only made my day but it also left me smiling from ear to ear.
Take care for now, my dear friend
Happy New Year.
Sincerely
Pekeleke
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Date: 2013-12-30 03:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-12-31 03:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-06 11:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-06 11:58 pm (UTC)It's true that Severus understands just enough of what is going on to function around his Gryffindor. But I doubt he'll ever be able to comprehend romance properly. At least now he has Harry to help him navigate those perilous waters... ;D
I'm thrilled that this made you laugh. Thanks, as usual, for your lovely comment, soleo. You really made my day with your very welcome return into the world of snarry! :D
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