After the war

Harry realized he must have cried himself back into an exhausted sleep when he woke with a start to find himself once more alone, tucked up under his blanket, but now on the sofa.
He groped along the edge of the table for his glasses, slipping them on and looking around for Severus. There was no sign of the man, but there were two potions bottles on the table with a bit of parchment propped against them. He grabbed the sheet and skimmed the words.

Drink them both, they will help with your
aches and pains. If you wake before I return,
I will be in my private lab. I can assume you
familiarized yourself with my quarters, the
private lab is the one which was locked.

SS

He couldn't help smirking at the familiar snarky tone of the note, something safe, secure and reassuringly normal.
He drank the two potions, pulling a face at the vile taste. When he was done, he shoved the little bottles in his pocket and headed over to the door that had been locked the night before. He tapped lightly on the closed door.
"Come." Was the sharp reply.
He stepped inside, glancing around quickly. The lab was much like a smaller version of the schools potions lab, several cauldrons set up on benches around a central area to make it easier for him to move between them, there was only one bubbling now though.
"Can I help with anything?" Harry asked him after a long silence.
"You could make a start on cleaning the other cauldrons if you want. All the other potions I was making are done, and this one is almost finished."
"Sure, why not." Harry said with a shrug, going over to the sink and grabbing the dragon hide gloves before starting to scrub out the used cauldrons.
The potions master finished whaever was brewing, bottled it, and brought the cauldron over to the sink. He caught sight of Harry's arm, the healing gash and twin punctures, and grabbed his wrist, looking at the marks.
"I thought you said you weren't injured."
"I wasn't. I did that myself when we got back here."
"Why?" Severus asked, brushing his thumb over the punctures, making Harry shiver with supressed arousal, he still wasn't ready to tell the man he was attracted to him.
"Because you were seriously injured, because you needed the blood, because I didn't want to leave you while I went looking for some elsewhere in the school, because I couldn't bear the thought of you dying too, after seeing everyone else dead out there." Harry said, not meeting the man's eyes, but instead watching his thumb moving over the sensitive skin of his wrist.
"How long have you known about me?"
"About the Vampire thing?"
"Yes."
"Since just after you started seriously training me at the begining of the year. We were at Grimmauld Place one weekend, and you were summoned by..... that THING. You came back in a real state, half dead, and I saw Dumbledore forcing blood down your throat."
"Ah. Not an unusual occurance unfortunately." He said with a wry half smile.
"You never mentioned that you had seen it."
"No. I figured if you wanted people to know, they would. The ministery probably wouldn't have let you teach here if they had known. They flipped enough about Remus, and he wasn't dangerous at all with your potion, and even without it, he could only be considered 'dangerous' on the full moon."
"Thank you." Severus said simply. Harry shrugged, finally realizing that his wrist still rested in Severus's warm hand. He started to pull back, but Severus tightened his grip fractionally.
"You know, Vampires can scent many emotions, including arousal. I thought it was just the duelling, it affects many people that way, but it wasn't that, was it?"
Harry looked up, wide eyed, meeting the dark gaze of the older man. He swallowed hard, starting to lean in, the action mirrored by the other man. Before their lips could touch, there was a loud hiss, and they jumped apart, both looking in the direction the sound had come from.
There was another mirror mounted on the back of this door, and the irridescently shimmering snake was coiling around the bottom of the glass in obvious agitation.
"You assssked to be maade awaare off aanyone in the sssschool. There isssss ssssomeone trying to accesssss the headmasssstersss officcce." The snake hissed in english so both could understand it.
The two looked at each other, then making sure they had their wands, they headed out at a run.

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Ooooh, damn, they so nearly got to kiss. So, who is resposible for the untimely interruption, who is trying to get into the headmasters office, and why?

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