Taken Care Of

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Wow you guys I am SOO sorry that it took this long to update. I’ve been really busy lately, with my brothers wedding and stuff, but I’m gonna try to get a chapter in every day or two. But with the courses I’m taking it means that the chapters are going to probably be a little shorter. But I will probably update more. I don’t want them to be short, probably the size of this chapter.


ella I’m so glad you like the fic. I’m trying to do that with Severus, keep him Snape and Sev at the same as well as different times

morgie lol I’m trying Ü

lightgoddess lol , glad you like it too. (( love all of your HP/SS fics by the way Ü keep em up )) I really liked the idea of Snape and a sister, especially a cute one that annoys Sev (though he loves her with all his heart anyway) and that all the guys drool over, which pesters Sevvie even more. *wink*

Ness I’m not quite sure what to do with Vernon yet, maybe some revenge by Snape once Harry and him are together, I dunno post what you guys think should happen

Anon lol, I know I kinda regret saying that, I was just trying to get the point across that his eyes were a deep blue, deeper and bluer than the Caribbean Sea, Is that better? Lol .. His eyes are just different than Harry’s all together

Okay, just to get the point across, Harry and Snape both have a physical attraction towards one another, though neither of them will admit it is anything more. Hopefully that will change soon.

Ron and Draco are getting to know each other better by the minute and are on the brink of love for one another, though the wont admit it either

( You wont hear that much about Ron and Draco, like none of the fic will be just about their relationship or from the POV of their relationship , the fic is mostly about Harry and Sev with the exception of Jessica and Blaise every once and a while.)

Jessica and Blaise are just starting to get to know one another, having just met not that long ago. They will get to know each other more.

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The next couple of days passed rather satisfactorily in Snape‘s opinion. With all of the annoying little children out of the halls, with the exception of his precious Slytherins, life just seemed to be better. On Sunday he had begun training Harry, finding out what the boy could do.

It seemed to Severus that the boy was holding back in his classes, either that or just truly not caring. This annoyed Severus to know that Harry could be doing much better in all of his classes. Other than DADA, he was also very good in transfiguration and potions. Also, he could do an good bit of wandless magic.

“Harry..” Severus started one day during their lessons “.. Why don’t try this hard in your classes, its obvious that you are very talented in all of them, why does that talent not show up in your grades?” The professor asked, curious to why Harry would do this

“Well, Hermione Ron and I thought it would be good to keep that on the down low. If everyone knew that I was fairly good in most of my classes then Riddle would be expecting me to be, catching your enemy by surprise is always a plus.” Harry answered. Grinning as he did so, having a good answer for once.

“Well, it would be wrong to say that I’m that surprised. I just always thought that you weren’t trying. How did you become so trained in Potions, it takes years to master that?” Snape asked, wondering how the boy had mastered the craft so efficiently

“Umm… practice I guess.” Harry answered, lying. No one knew the true reason that Harry had become so good at the art of Potions.

Then the two continued with the lesson. Each lesson they would cover two of his courses, practicing his occulumency , and martial arts.

Harry still was having trouble with his occulumency, Severus just needed to find something that would help the boy relax

Though he had problems in that subject, it wasn’t very hard for him to pick up martial arts. He was already very lean and cut, not to mention had amazing reflexes from Quidditch, he just needed to learn the technique.

The two men got to know each other more and more each training session. Also living with one another they began to know and like each other more than they thought possible.

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About half way through the Yule holidays one of the sessions ran long.

“Just relax Harry, you have to clear your mind or it is not going to work.” Severus explained occulumency to his student. They had been going at it for over an hour now.

“Yeah right relax… its so easy you know.” Harry replied snidely

“ Legilimens ! “ Snape shouted, trying to enter Harry’s mind.

The feeling was back again, like someone was trying to pry open Harry’s head by yanking on his ears.

No I wont let him in…… relax……. Breathe…. His cupboard … NO!!! Holding Cedric’s dead body.. NO!!! Sirius falling through the veil …. NOO!!!! …. Vernon standing over his wilted and bloodied body.. NOOO!!! … all the Weasleys dead … Dumbledore dead … Snape dead .. Jessica dead … everyone dead …. Voldemort laughing … GET OUT GET OUT!!! Harry screamed in his mind, hoping Severus would leave him be. Severus retreated, letting Harry have his mind back.

Harry fell from the chair onto the hard dungeon floor, breathing harshly, vision blurred, everything spinning. Before he blacked out.

Severus carried Harry’s limp form back to his room in their quarters, a worried look on his face.

Sev passed the next few hours by lounging on the couch in front of the crackling fireplace. Jessica had gone out earlier with Blaise, Draco, and Ron. Sev had allowed them to go to muggle London to see a movie, of course as long as Minerva went with them. So he was left alone to himself and the book he was supposedly reading, though he had been looking at the same page for the last couple of hours.

He had been thinking about Harry, about what had happened during his occulumency lesson today, and about his feelings toward Harry. It was obvious that he had some for him, he just hadn’t discovered what they were yet. At first he thought he was just physically attracted to the boy, but after these last few day’s events had passed, he began to think they were something more.

Maybe I just care for him more than I thought I did. It’s just because he’s living here now. …. Yes that’s it. I never had any of these before he had moved in here…… Yes I’ve just noticed the boy’s body more, well that’s what I get for seeing him only in his pajama bottoms …. Severus thought as he sat there on his leather couch.

Just as he had finished the thought, he heard the unmistakable sound of screaming coming from the other room … coming from Harry’s room.

He ran to Harry’s room, not knowing what to think, was someone hurting him? Is he alright

Please be alright

He entered the room to find Harry arching and thrashing through his covers around his bed. He approached the boy quickly, but with caution. He remembered what he did last time something like this happened and how well it had worked. So he repeated his actions, climbing into the boys bed with him and wrapping his arms and legs around him, ending the thrashing. He slowly calmed the boy and rocked him, singing the same French song that he loved when he was younger.

Sev tried to calm him. He could hear Harry’s whimpers lessening, and his body relax, becoming much less rigid.

After a few moments Harry came out of his dream state… “Sev?” He asked awakening

“Yes Harry its me. Your alright.” Severus answered him

Harry clung to Sev like he would never see the man again, and sobbed into his shoulder. They stayed like that for a while, Severus cradling Harry in his arms while Harry clung to him and cried. Shortly his sobs shortened, and his breathing evened.

“Harry..” Severus tried “What happened?” He asked, still not knowing what exactly had just gone on.

“I had ….. I had a vision.” Harry answered truthfully

“Has this happened before Harry?” He asked

“Yes …” Harry began “… It started over the summer, and it got worse when I came to school. I must have forgot to put up silencing spells… I’m sorry please don’t be mad?” Harry asked

“Harry, why would I be mad? You should not have to use silencing spells. I’m still confused as to why you didn’t ask for help in the first place.” Severus answered him

“Because I don’t need help Sev’rus. Will you reach in that drawer and give me a pink potion and a green potion?” Harry asked, still recovering.

Severus obliged without asking what they were for. He opened the drawer to find them full of many sets of potions, most of them either pink or green or blue, he gave a pink and a green to Harry.

After Harry downed both potions he asked “Harry why didn’t you tell anyone?”

“I couldn’t Sev’rus, I didn’t want anyone to know. Of course Ron knew something, rooming with me for so long, that’s when I started to put up silencing spells and making the potions on my own…”

Now we know how he’s gotten so good in potion making

“… I just must have forgotten tonight.” Harry answered, still confused as to how he had gotten here and when he had gone to bed.

“ Harry you don’t have to do this alone. There are a few forms of dreamless sleep potions that might help. And I think that occulumency might help keeping them out of your mind. What do you see in your visions?” He asked

“I see Riddle, and what he’s doing right now. He killed someone, I’m not sure who...” Harry answered.

Severus had asked all he wanted to for the night, so he left Harry to retrieve the special form of dreamless sleep that he thought might help. After he knew that Harry had fallen asleep, he went back to his couch to think.


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The days before Christmas passed in very much the same way. Harry would spend the day with Jessica, Draco, Ron, and Blaise ((Sometimes Snape too)) doing various things around the school. They often had a lot of fun on the Quidditch Pitch, since all of them were fairly good fliers. Harry was sure that Jessica and himself would make the Slytherin Quidditch team next year, ooh it would be fun.

Sometimes if they were lucky enough, Snape would agree to take them to Hogsmade or to muggle London. They had gone to see quite a few movies, and twice they had gone clothes shopping. This meant that Harry no longer had to go around wearing his cousins old baggy, torn up clothes. He had bought some very nice clothes that accentuated his figure rather nicely. They had even gotten Professor to try on some clothing, not that he’d had much of a choice. Ron, Draco, and Blaise had pushed him into the changing rooms while Harry and Jessica had picked him out some nice clothes to try on.

They had also gotten much of their Christmas shopping done on this trip. Harry had bought everyone that he wanted to buy something for something already. And by the looks of the amount of things his friends had bought its obvious they had too.

Then every afternoon, Harry would spend 3 hours with Snape. They had already covered all of what he was going to learn the rest of this year, and he was progressing in Occulumency. He had a total of two, count two times where he had kept Severus out of his mind completely.

There were still occasions where Harry would have a very rough time during his lessons, where Severus would have to put the boy to bed himself. Not that the Professor was complaining, he didn’t absolutely ‘hate’ gathering Harry into his arms and carrying him into his room.


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Christmas approached much too rapidly for Jessica‘s taste, it was already Christmas eve and yet they had not yet done anything to celebrate it.


Well.. I’ll just have to change that now wont I?”
Jessica woke up all occupants of the quarters, as well as fire calling two whom were residing elsewhere, and waited for them ((Harry, Severus, Blaise, Draco, and Ron)) all to arrive in the sitting room, She crammed all five of ‘her boys’, who were unmistakably grumpy at how early she had woken them up, onto the couch and paced the floor in front of them.

“Alright boys, I know a few of you do not often get into Christmas…” She said, pointedly at her brother, Harry, and Draco. Whom all three gave her an innocent look. “… not that its your fault. But that is going to change this year. We are going to have fun and enjoy ourselves all day today, as well as all day tomorrow….” Her brother sat up rigidly and gave glare that would knock most people six ways from Sunday “… Severus don’t you think that glare will work on me. I am part Snape too you know, I’m unaffected by it…” He slumped back down into the couch. Next to him, Harry was fidgeting trying hard to suppress a giggle.

“…. Now you all listen to me while I explain what will happen today. Okay…” She pulled out her wand and with a flick of her wrist, green letters danced in front of them that read. 1. Breakfast in Great Hall “.. First we will have breakfast..” Another flick, more green “.. Then we’ll head out to Hogsmade and floo to Muggle London…” Another flick “.. When we arrive there we will first go to Burberry’s for some shopping. I’ve been there many times and I’m sure we’ll ALL find something there we like.”

Another flick “Next, we will go catch a flic at the local theatre.” The flicking continued “Then we will go grab a bite to eat.” The stupid flicking seized to end. “Then we will visit my wonderful friend and stylist Kyan at his wizarding salon.” Severus and Ron groaned, they weren’t really the type to get all done up. Jessica ignored the moaning from some of the men “Then off to a lovely store called Alexander McQueen, a beautiful store if I might say so myself.” One last flick “Then we will have dinner at this wonderful little Italian place, and then we will head home. If we do so happen to find a few stores to go in along the way then we’ll spare some time in them too.” She paused, looking at the men expectantly.. “… Well go shower and get ready, we gotta big day!” She said cheerily, once again ignoring the moans and groans coming from her boys.


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Okay I think I’ll leave it there for now. I will try to update soon but I will be very busy this week . I’m so sorry that it took this long to get this posted, my muse seemed to be sick or something, but I think ive got a good idea going now Ü. At the moment I’m building a website that I’ll put my fics on and I’ll put some pictures on there of the characters in my fics. Please keep the reviews up.

I hope to have a new chapter up at LEAST by Wednesday..


Love always - Jessica