Anywhere

normal\'>Anywhere

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normal\'>Author:
Darkness-Fades-dtws

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normal\'>Summary:style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Based on the song, Anywhere by
Evanescence. Harry knows he and Severus
can’t be together for obvious reasons. He’s
a student and a hero for saving the wizarding world, not to mentionclass=GramE>, he’s expected to have a “normal” life which means he’s
expected to marry some nice witch and have a few kids.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Severus is his teacher and a spy and an
ex-Death Eater. Everyone opposes their
relationship and Harry just wants to be happy with the one he loves.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> So where do they go, the muggle
world, and normal\'> style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-US\'>New Yorkstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>lang=EN-US style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-US\'> at that.

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normal\'>Rating: PG-13 may go
up to R depending on how I feel.

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normal\'>A/N:style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> I wrote the first few chapters of this when I
was very bored one day. There are two
versions: This one which has multiple chapters and a shorter version.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> You guys are getting the longer version class=SpellE>cos I like it better.

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Chapter
1: We’re Leaving Here Tonight

Dear my
love, haven\'t you wanted to be with me

And dear my love, haven\'t you longed to be free

I can\'t keep pretending that I don\'t even know you

And at sweet night, you are my own

Take my hand

The past
eighteen months for Harry James Potter have been, in one word: Hell.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Ever since he, along with many other people,
defeated Voldemort, nobody has left him alone.
The press hounded him at all hours wanting to know what was going on in
his life. When word got out that not
only was their precious Boy-Who-Lived-to-Defeat-Voldemort was gay but was also
involved with a teacher, things got even wo
The whole of wizarding population had expected him to settle down and
marry a nice witch, have a few kids and live a “normal” life.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Harry would never have a normal life.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> All he wanted was to be happy and be with the
man he loved and who loved him. Was that
too much to ask?

The day
before he was to graduate (and give a compelling speech in front of the student
body about something he didn’t care about), Harry thought of the perfect
idea. He would leave.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Wouldn’t show up at graduation, wouldn’t give
a speech, and if he had his way, there would be one less professor in
attendance as well.

style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-US\'>Four pmstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-US\'> found Harry running through the halls of the
school down to the dungeons and barging into his office.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Gasping for breath, Harry waited until he
could breathe before launching himself at his lover.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> “I’m not going to graduation tomorrow.”style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> He stated,style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> “I’m leaving. Tonight.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> I don’t want to be put up on a pedestal and
praised for something I couldn’t have done without the help of so many other
people. I’m tired of the way people look
at me. And you.
I’m getting as far away from here as I can.”

Severus class=SpellE>Snape gently slipped from Harry’s arms.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> He was heartbroken.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Harry, his beautiful, wonderful Harry, was
leaving him and going far, far away.
Harry was everything to him. For
almost two years, this man-boy had been his everything.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> He was the reason why he woke up in the
morning.

“What do
you mean you’re leaving? You’re just
going to leave here and everything behind. You’re going to leave style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>me behind?”style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> He tried to keep his composure and not cry in
front of him.

“I could
never leave you behind, Severus. Yes,
I’m going to leave and go somewhere where I could start over and just
be…me.” He sighed. He raised a hand a lightly
stroked the man’s cheek. “Haven’t you
ever just wanted to leave?”

“Of course
I have. I just want to know how you
could throw away two years together just because you don’t want people to judge
you.”

“I’m not
throwing away two years. These have been
the best two years of my life.” He
smiled thinking about all the plans he and Severus made.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> After graduation, they would move into
Severus’ ancestral home in style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-US\'>Cornwalllang=EN-US style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-US\'>.
“You think I’m going to leave you behind and forget all about you?”style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> He realized what the other man must have been
thinking. Severus nodded,
his control faltering and a tear falling.
Harry wiped it away. “Run away
with me. We’ll go live in the class=SpellE>muggle world. We’ll
be happy. No one will bother us.” He
said enthusiastically.

Severus sat
down on his desk and peered into nervous green eyes.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> If he said ‘no’ he may lose the one thing in
his life that meant the most. If he said
‘yes’ he would be leaving everything he knew behind.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> “You’re serious!?style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> I wish I could, love, but this is where I
belong. Everything I know is here.”style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>

“I’m dead
serious. I don’t want to leave you but I
just can’t stay here anymore. Let’s go
far away. Just us.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> We can have all those things we talked
about. I have more than enough money to
live comfortably and you have your inheritance.
You can write for one of the potion journals and do all the pointless
research you love so much.”

“You
haven’t thought this through. And how
are you just going to leave before graduation.
What about your speech?”

“I didn’t
write the speech and I don’t need to think it through.”

“You won’t
be able to stand me after a while.”

“Yes, I
will. I love you too damn much to leayou you behind. I wouldn’t know what to do
with myself. You keep me focused.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Please, Sev, I don’t
want to have to leave you.”

Severus
thought for a few minutes about what Harry was saying.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> He didn’t have anything left for him here
besides teaching. Then again, they would
be living in the muggle world and he’d have to learn
all new things. Losing Harry was one of
his greatest fears.

“I’ll
go.” He whispered.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Harry beamed at him and started placing tiny
kisses all over his face.

“Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I love you so goddamn much!”
Harry was ecstatic. Harry took
out an envelope with a wax seal on it and placed it on Severus’ desk.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> The Front read:

style=\'mso-tab-count:3\'> style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>To: Hermione Granger

style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-US\'> style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Seamus Finnigan

style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-US\'> style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Virginia Weasley

Ron had
unfortunately been lost during the war and never got the chance to tell Hermione
how he felt. Not long after the end of
the war, Hermione and Seamus had gotten together and were planning on renting a
small flat in EN-US\'>LondonEN-US\'>. Ginny was the closest Harry
ever got to having a little sister so he saw it fit to include her.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> The letter was simple.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> It stated that he had left and not to contact
him, he would contact them and not to let anyone know where he was.

“You should
go gather your things.” Severus
suggested after penning a quick letter to Dumbledore stating that he quit and
not to contact him. He left a letter for
Draco, telling him to look after his home in lang=EN-US style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-US\'>Cornwalllang=EN-US style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-US\'> until he returned, whenever that
may be.

Harry took
out a shrunken trunk and tiny owl cage with a shrunken Hedwig inside it.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> “I’ve already packed and have taken the
liberty to pack most of you books. All
you need to do is shrink them and pack your clothes and whatever else you own.”

The couple
spent the next few hours packing Severus’ remaining belongings, shrinking then
and placing them in a trunk. “We’ll need
to stop off at Gringotts.”style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Severus said,
rubbing small circles on Harry’s back as they sat on the couch in front of his
fireplace.

“I’ve taken
most of the money from mine and converted it to
money. Do you need to go to your
vault?” Harry asked, leaning against the
solid form of his boyfriend.

“I just
have to convert some money and empty my personal vault that I’ve been keeping
my yearly salary in. How are we getting
to wherever it is that we’re going?”

“We’re
going to EN-US\'>New Yorkstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-US\'> and we’ll be taking a plane.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> There’s a fair sized wizarding population
there and others not too far away from it.
We’ll stay in a hotel until we find a flat.”

“Isn’t this
all going to coast a lot of money, Harry?”

“Yes, but
we should be able to afford it. I can find
work.”

“As long as
you’re sure about this, I am too.”

It was
nearing style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-US\'>ten o’clockstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-US\'> and Harry thought they should leave.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Taking one last look at the place that they
had both come to think of as home, they walked to the apparation point hand in hand
and apparated to Diagon Alley to retrieve some money
from Severus’ vault.