Title: 20 Random Facts about Severus Snape's Relationship with Lily Evans
Author:
iulia_linnea
Rating: R
Warning (highlight to view): For mild violence and underage sexual activity.
Word Count: 865
Disclaimer: This piece is based on characters and situations
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Author's Note: Written for Round Three of the
Harry Potter Random Facts Fest.
1. The
first time he saw her, she seemed so bright and shiny that he found her
hard to look at; in
spite of this, he couldn't look away.
2. When
he overheard her name the second time he saw her, he spent all night
under the covers
doodling pictures of lilies. His father walloped him for wasting paper
when he came to wake
Severus the next morning and then threw the crumpled pieces into the
bin.
3. Severus
saved the paper and smoothed it out before hiding it under his mattress
later that day.
4. The
first time Lily took Severus to meet her parents, he was filled with
shame, apprehension,
and pride. Mr. and Mrs. Evans were so nice to him that it made him
suspicious-and the way
that awful girl kept staring made him even more nervous-but he forgot
all about those things when
he was invited to eat supper with them. It was a lot of food, Lily kept
offering him more, and no
one shouted.
5. Severus
thought it was funny that "Little Miss Witch-Hater"
wanted to go to his and Lily's
school. He almost charmed his letter to look like it was for Petunia,
but he knew Lily would
disapprove-and he cherished his Hogwarts' letter
almost as much as he lo-liked his best
friend.
6. He
hated Lily for a moment while waiting with his mother for the
Hogwarts' Express: her
parents had both come to see her off, and they were
smiling.
7. Lily
found Severus the day after their Sorting and swore to him
they'd always be friends.
Hearing her say so made him feel warm all over.
8. Third
Year, Alecto Carrow saw him talking to Lily after a Quidditch match and
mocked him.
Later that month, Severus figured out how to get into the
girls' dormitory and charmed her
sheets to turn her skin black. It remained black for almost a month,
and Alecto received
detention for twice as long for hexing Azalea Parkinson, her dorm mate,
because she thought
Parkinson was responsible for the curse.
9. Lily
gave Severus a book on origami for Christmas that year. He spent a good
part of the hols
making origami lilies with the paper he'd saved under his
mattress.
10. In
the spring of Third Year, Alecto fire-hexed the origami lily bracelet
Severus had given Lily on
the train. Lily laughed it off, but Severus could see the tears in her
eyes. Later in the week,
Severus put an elixir in Alecto's pumpkin juice that made her
skin blister and ooze. Lily figured
out it was him, and, oddly enough, didn't approve.
11. Mulciber
did approve, even if he didn't like that Severus had poisoned
"one of his own" on behalf
of a "filthy Mudlbood." After Severus hexed him for
it, Mulciber didn't insult Lily again until
Fifth Year.
12. The
summer before they went back to Hogwarts for their fourth year, Lily
developed in a way
that made it hard for Severus to look her in the eyes. She hexed him
for it, and then became so
upset with herself that she kissed him. On the mouth.
13. Every
time Severus touched his mouth for the rest of the hols, he got hard.
14. It
made him proud to know how smart Lily thought he was, and sharing his
Potions experiments
with her after classes was almost his favorite way of spending time
with her.
15. Severus
liked it best when he and Lily snuck up to the Astronomy Tower to share
a fag and
read poetry to each other. When Lily was feeling especially romantic,
she'd snuggle in close
and kiss him. Once, she blew her smoke into his mouth, and he blew it
out-in rings.
16. In
January of Fifth Year, Lily surprised Severus by bringing a picnic
hamper up to the
tower-and a blanket. He learned a lot about Lily under that
blanket.
17. In
February, she learned something about him, but after some practice, he
learned to control
himself.
18. In
March, they fought about Mulciber and Avery after Severus showed Lily a
curse his house
mates had taught him. She said she didn't like
"that kind of magic," and he said she was
"behaving like a stupid girl." There were no more
tower meetings between them until the end of
April.
19. At
the end of April, Severus tricked Lily into coming up to the Astronomy
Tower, which was
knee-deep in origami lilies. When Lily began to wade through them, they
became animate,
spelling out, "I'm sorry" as they wound
themselves around her like a paper shroud. Severus
kissed each part of Lily he revealed by removing the individual pieces
of his apology; feeling her
shudder through her orgasm when he pressed a fervent kiss through her
skirt was the most
erotic thing that he'd ever experienced.
20. Avery
got Severus drunk after he returned to the Slytherin common room near
tears after Lily
rejected him. Mulciber didn't join them; he was still
writhing on the floor in pain from the boils
all over his body. "Don't worry about it,
Snape," Avery told him. "When things change,
she'll
see. She'll see you're worth more than ten
Potters!" Despite the flush caused by the alcohol,
however, all Severus could feel was cold.