As Time Goes By

Later that night, Severus Snape walked into his quarters to find Harry Potter lying on his couch sleeping soundly. As he walked up to the couch, Snape couldn't help but put a hand on Harry's head and start stroking it. 'What am I doing' he thought to himself but slowly noticing Harry waking up from his slumber.

Harry then sat up and quickly pulled away from the hand making him fall to the floor. As Snape realised that what he had done might have been what his relatives might have done to him after they would cause him pain, he slowly walked towards his student.

"I am not going to hurt you Pot...Harry." he said while getting more and more closer to him. 'This is harder than I thought' which ran through his brain while he stopped infront of Harry, trying not to scare him anymore than he already has. Snape stretched out his hand towards the teenager and held it still. Harry looked at his hand and slowly and hesitantly to the offered hand. Snape then pulled the young student up and let him sit back down on the couch again.

It was around 6 o clock at night that Harry managed to calm down just before Snape prepared Harry for lessons on trying top make him overcome these fears from the violent acts that Harry went through. The first lesson was talking over from what Harry's relatives did to him.

"Harry, I know this is going to be hard for you, but I need you to tell me what your relatives did to you" Snape said with concern in his voice. He knew it was going to be hard for the boy but Albus had told him that whenever anything happens to people that hurt them, that they did need to tell a person they could trust. Snape also knew that Harry most likely didn't even trust him, but he was terribly concern about Harry whether he admitted to it or not.

"Um Professor...c-can I trust you not t-to tell Dum-Dumbledore?" Harry said shaking violently.

"Yes Harry, you can trust me not to tell Dumbledore" Snape said while he walked over to the shaking boy and pulled him into a warm embrace. Once he felt that Harry had calmed down, Snape let go of the boy.

"Ok. Well U-Uncle Ver-Vernon has hurt me a-and r-r-ra-raped me when I ha-have done not-nothing wrong." Harry said as tears rolled down his cheeks and then onto his robes. Snape saw this and pulled Harry back into a warm embrace again.

"What do you mean by you did nothing wrong Harry" the potions professor said as he brushed the tears away with one long pale finger.

"Dudley would lose something of his and tell Uncle Ver-Vernon" he replied and then buried his face into his teachers chest. And then slowly Harry moved his head from his professor's chest, leaned towards the others face and kissed him. Shock racked through Snape's body and when he finally came back down to earth he found Harry had fallen into a dreamless sleep.