Better Than You

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"Better Than You"
Who:  Severus Snape & Remus Lupin
When: 6th Year
Chapter One:  Here


A pass to the Restricted Section was even easier than Severus thought it might be.  Dumbledore gave it to him without even glancing up, saying that he was looking forward to the results.  Severus could only imagine that he meant the Wolfsbane Draught paper he was going to submit, but who knew with the old wizard?  Dumbledore was not a man anyone ever underestimated.

When Remus did not show, Severus noticed and wrote it off.  That brief connection and near friendship had been enough to make him even more bitter about the whole idea of friendship and turned him off on it entirely.  Stupid git.  As if he might have actually found things in common with a creature like that!  Good riddance!

Too bad his breakthrough potion was going to help the mangy sod!  Severus groused as he found the book he was looking for and brought it back to the table.  This was not a potions book at all, but one on the animagi.

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Remus said it, not him. So that was a plus. Severus went back to copying. He needed to save up, he decided, for a quill that would do this for him. Of course, he'd actually have to find a way to convince his parents to send him money. His father would rather drink it away and his mother was too much of an enabler.

She loved the man. And love made people do crazy, crazy things. Like stay in the house Severus hated to think about, much less return to each summer.

"Yeah, 'm not opposed," Severus said, flipping the page. "'S yer guard dog gonna come lookin' fer yah tonight?"

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Remus looked up at that. "No. I told him I had to help Abbott with her homework. That appeased him, since he keeps going on and on about me finding a shagging partner." He screwed his face up at that, wondering if he should have even said that.

And because he couldn't face talking about that subject with Sirius, let alone Snape, he dropped his eyes back to the parchment. Although thinking about it, he realized as far as he knew Severus didn't date either. He wondered -- no, he wasn't going to wonder what Severus had and hadn't done.

Remus went back to the book. Right, this was work. Although mates talked about that sort of thing. Or at least that is what Sirius said, trying to pester into talking about it.

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