It would really be nice if something went smoothly for once in his life. Really. Truely.
Just once, please, Universe?
"Severus. That is a wall. Not a doorway."
...Well. ....No wonder it didn't open up, then.
"And from when do you call me by my first name, oh winged and splendid one?"
"Snape. ---What is wrong? Are you ill?"
Ill or mad. Quite probably both. But who cared, anyway? Severus could hardly keep from bursting out in laughter.
Or tears. Ugh. Don't even think of it, Severus Snape.
"Sorry I was late, Hazama."
Hazama looked so ...young...!...
"You should have sent a owl if you were too ill to participate today. Or sent that roommate of yours. One does not participate in Special Potion Projects with a fever-addled mind, it's dangerous enough as it is."
Severus blinked as the taller boy leaned down and put a hand on his forehead.
"---Hey!"
"It is as I thought, you have a fever. A high one, too..."
Oh, yes. Hazama could get annoyingly physical, at times...
But this was a little too much.
"---Hazama! Put me down, you idiot!"
"You are the idiot, walking about the school grounds in this state. Did you even think of the fact that Potter and Black happen to be both still around yet?"
Ugh. Of all the things to have to think about right this instant...
"Put me down, Hazama! Just where do you think you're taking me?"
"To Poppy's, of course. The infirmy is still open, I believe."
---No.
Oh Hell, NO!
"Hazama. Don't. Not Poppy's."
"---Snape? What is it, stop thrashing about so, you never had any trouble with Madame Pomfrey before!"
That was then, this is now.
"No."
"---Snape. Stop this!"
"No. No. No."
Because this was the winter vacation of his seventh year in Hogwarts.
And his forearm was, very quitely, starting to tingle. And burn...
"---Very well, not Poppy's, than. I will take you to your room in the dungeons, all right? Snape?"
"---Snape?"
It was all a dream, though, because Hazama was dead. They'd thrown him out of the Healer's Academy in his fifth year. Almost broke his wand, too.
Not that that had mattered, in the end. Nothing had mattered, in the end.
Except that cold, cold chuckle coming out of a too-handsome face---
"Now Potion Master, Potion Master, it is time for us to see. If all those old witch's tales regarding blood and meat of a True Healer have any ----meat to them, eh?.
And his answer. Yes, My Lord..
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