Private Life of Severus Snape

When we last left Severus and Ana....



\"If you sur sure that you don\'t want to talk about it, and I know I\'m

not going any further until I know you\'re okay, then I guess we\'re

stopping for now.\" He was trying to hid how hurt he was. She had

managed not to die in the accident earlier, but he was afraid he was

going to lose her anyway.





The Potion That Spelled Disaster, Part Two



Ana started to cry, and cureld up in his lap like a little girl. \"I

don\'t want to think about him, pleait hit hurts,\" she cried. \"Him,

who?\" Severus was starting to be genuinely worried. Something was

obviosly wrong. His hands fumbled as he stroked her hair, trying to

clam her. He had never been good at emotions, and he was quickly

finding himself inadequate to make his love feel any better at the

moment.



\"My daddy,\" Ana whispered, burying her face in his robes. She never

spoke of him. Her mother yes, but never of hatheather before. \"Why

does it hurt to talk about him, Ana?\" Severus held her against him

and spoke calmly, trying to soothe her.



\"Because he went away!\" Ana sounded so very fragile, young, and

frightened; she began to shake slightly again. \"I\'m not leaving, you

know.\" Severus was unsure how to proceed. Emotional stuff wasn\'t

really his forte, which was becoming only more and more apparent with

each passsecosecond, but he was determined that Ana not be afraid of

him.... or that he would leave her.



\"Now you\'ll die toooooo!\" she wailed. \"What?\" He was really startled

and pulled away slightly to look at her. \"Why will I die?\" He was

deeply confused. \"You\'re not making any sense, sweetie.\" \"But..

there was a fight... and daddy shook me.... and then he died! You

shook me, and we fought, don\'t die!\" Ana cried hard, clinging to him.



\"Ana! I\'m not going to die and I\'m not going to leave! I did shake

you, and I\'m sorry for that. I only shook you because you scared me

so badly. But, I swear that I\'m not going to leave or die any time

soon, fates willing. I\'m in excellent health.\" He tipped her chin

up, eyes twinkling devilishly, \"As you pointed out a few nights ago.\"



\"Promise?\" she whispered earnes tea tears still rolling down her

face. \"I promise.\" He held her closely. \"I\'m not going to leave

you.\"



Severus held her until she quit shaking and the tears dried. \"Feel

better, dearest?\" Ana nodded. \"My parents were getting a divorce...

and they were fighting in the lviing room. I was seven,\" she

whispered. \"I went out, because the yelling was scaring me. He called

mom a bad name, and I pushed him. He shook me, hard and then stormed

out. Then the police came....\" her voice trailed off.



Snape held her, rocking gently. \"Why did they come?\" He suspected

he already knew, but thought that getting it out would help Ana deal

with it. \"He died,\" she whimpered and sniffled. \"He was driving drunk

and was going too fast and went off a bridge.\" she shuddered.



\"My poor Ana. It\'s okay, darling. You know it wasn\'t your fault. He

was an adult, and you were only a child,\" Severus attemtped to reason

with her. \"But I made him mad and he left!\" she protested.



\"You know that\'s not how it happened, Ana. You said yourself that

your parents were fighting. And even if he was mad, it wasn\'t at

you. And there is no way that you are responsible for his decision

to drive drunk. You didn\'t cause his accident or his death.\"



\"Are you sure?\" Ana asked, her eyes clouded, lines of stress

appearing on her forehead. \"I\'m sure, dearest. And if you really

think about it, you know I\'m right.\" He continued to rock her

gently. \"I\'m in really really big trouble, aren\'t I?\" she asked

softly, snuggling deeper into his arms.



Severus stilled slightly. \"I am not happy with your decision to try

and make that potion without me. Potion making is very complicated.

I am even less happy that you didn\'t protect yourself first.\"



Ana nodded and hung her head. After a moments paused, she hugged him

tight, then lowered herself over his lap, closing her eyes.

For a second he did nothing, rubbing her back. \"Do you understand

why I\'m going to punish you Ana?\"She nodded. \"Because I almost died

and because I didn\'t ask, and I blew up your desk...\" she hoped that

was everything, as that was all Ana could think of at that moment.



Severus hid his grin. \"Well, I\'m not happy about the desk... but,\"

and his grin vanished, \"but, this is not about the desk. It is about

you and taking care of yourself. If you are in danger, that should

be your first priority.\" He hesitated. \"And if you are hurting, I

hope that you will try to talk to someone in the future. If not me,

there are lots of people who can help you.\"



Without another word, he brought his hand down hard on her robe. She

jumped, then tensed on his lap.



Gently, he pulled the robe up and over her bottom, easing it off her

shoulders as he pulled. Then he swatted her panties several times,

alternating cheeks as he did so. Ana began squirming and whimpering,

trying hard to lie still, but his hand was very hard!



Severus didn\'t say anything now. He\'d said his piece and he wanted

to make sure that she understood his point. He brought his hand down

twice more, on each side.



Then, \"Raise your hips, Ana. I\'m going to lower your panties

now.\" \"Do I have too?\" Ana whined. Severus hid his simile again. \"If

you\'d rather, I\'ll keep going for a while. But, you\'ll eventually

have to take them down for the rest of your punishment. Your call.\"



\"I\'ll be good, I think I\'ve learned!\" she squeaked. \"Have it your

way.\" Severus brought his hand down more sharply. Covering both

sides of her bottom at once. Three, four, five swats and he didn\'t

appear to be slowing down.



\"Ow oww OWWWWWWWW!\" Ana screeched. \"Ok, take them down!\" she howled,

kicking her legs, hard. \"Good girl. Now, raise your hips.\" Severus

waited patiently for her to obey.



Ana slowly raised her hips for him, sniffling, a few tears trailing

down her cheeks. He pulled her panties down, quickly and gently.



Her bottom was already a bright pink and warm to the touch. He was

not at all amused now, determined instead that she realize how

precious she was to him. And since she seemed to balk at realizing

it when he explained it, he\'d just have to show her.



Severus started to spank her again, quickly and in pairs. But the

spanks didn\'t fall in any particular pattern. Ana kicked her legs

hard. \"Severus!! Oww, please, OWWW! Nooooo! Shit!!!\"



He ignored her pleadings and kept spanking, concentrating on the

undercurve of her bottom. He quickened the pace of her spanking.

Spanks on her undercurve sent her into true howls and pleas and she

quickly disolved into tears, squirming for all she was worth, both

hands flying back to try and block. \"Sev----sss---ttooopp!\"



He slowed, but kept spanking, more gently now, since she was

definately feeling every spank on her already reddening bottom.



\"I\'m sorry Ana, but I need to make sure you really understand how

dangerous your actions were.\" He reached over to the nightstand and

picked up her wooden harbrush. Ana gasped as she saw him grab her

brush. \"Nooooo!\" several sobs choked her. \'\"Sev, no!!!\" Both hands

covered her bottom and she struggled to get away. \"I\'m sorry I\'m

sorry PLEASE!!\"



Severus easily pinned her down, and gently grasped her wrists and

held them in the small of her back. \"Ana, we are almost done, but I

have to make sure that you remember this.\"



He brought the brush down sharply on her bottom and watched as the

oval mark turned first white and then a bright red. He spanked on

the other side, and started methodically turning her entire bottom

the same shade of red.



At first Ana kicked furiously, then she went limp over his lap,

sobbing and crying, not even begging anymore. It just hurt too much,

and it had been too much of an emotional day.



Finally, he stopped, setting down the brush and just rubbing her

bottom instead of spanking it. It had been an emotional day for him

as well. He held her over his lap, gently rubbing her back and her

bottom, until her sobs quieted some. Then he pulled her to him and

lay back on the bed, content to just hold her to him.

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He could feel the heat from her bottom even through his robe and he

shifted to keep from chaffing her bottom even more. \"It\'s okay,

Ana. It\'s okay. We\'re done and you\'re alright.\" She hiccuped and

cried into his robes. \"I\'m so sorrrrrrry!\" \"I know. You\'re forgiven.

Everything is alright now.\" He tried to soothe her, and kept rubbing

her back gently, holding her to him.



Ana finally calmed down enough to talk er aer and instead of talking,

she kissed him. \"I\'m so glad I didn\'t die,\" she whispered. \"And that

you aren\'t going to die.\" \"So am I, dearest.\" He chuckled slightly,

but her words went deep. \"So am I.\"



\"I\'m sorry I got all upset. I wasn\'t afraid of you Severus, I never

have been, well of your hand maybe,\" she blushed. \"But for a minute,

that night falshed through my mind,a nd I saw my dad in stead of you.\"



Hehed,hed, releived that she wasn\'t afraid of him. \"I\'m sorry that I

reminded you of that bad night. Butwoulwould never ever do anything

to hurt you. I will spank you when you need it, but I don\'t want to

lose you.\" Ana nodded. \"I know. And I never want to lose you.\"



Together, Severus and Ana sat there, just holding one another. They

lost all track of time, the world seeming to stop turning for them,

there was no one else in the world, there was time to hold one

another and heal each other\'s wounds.