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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Severus sat himself down hard and tapped the scroll to his lips. He wasn't quite sure how to answer without sounding weak. He still had his pride, no matter how misguided. "Gryffindors and Slytherins aren't mates."

He echoed the very thoughts Remus had been having earlier, though their very long string of moments on Thursday evening made him rather certain he'd been hexed somehow.

Each time he found himself looking at Remus, he felt the same tug, the same need to stare. He was not scared. No...no.

If Gryffindors and Slytherins could not be mates, what could they be?

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"Yeah." He merely said, not able to look at him any more. His own voice was weak and this hurt way more than he wanted to admit.

"I don't know what you want from me. I was only trying to help. But it just... I like... I don't know. I can't explain it. And that's a rubbish excuse to end a friendship. What about school unity or all that rubbish the Sorting Hat keeps blubbering on about?" He asked, finally looking up.

Like hell was he going to just let him go, let him walk out of his life. He didn't know why he cared, but he did. And he wasn't going to let Snape pull away from him.

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"We work well together," Severus said, almost as if that was his defense. If it was possible, his knuckles would have gotten even whiter from gripping the scroll so hard. Admitting that he didn't know how to deal with friendship was never going to happen so he slowly unwrapped his fingers from the parchment and held it out.

It was a very muggle thing to do, conducting transactions and all sorts of friendly relationships with a simple handshake. It felt like an eternity. He felt so vulnerable.

"You're...interesting Lupin." The words, taken with the more than enamoured look in Severus's eyes could have been taken for something else entirely. Sirius was right. Severus did fancy one of the Marauders.

He just couldn't deal with it yet.

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He looked down at the handshake. Remus didn't know why he was shaking it, but he was. Even though he was half Muggle, he grew up in the Wizarding World. He was shaking his hand though, because he wanted to touch him again. He wanted to feel something of Severus on him. He didn't know how powerful that want was, but a handshake would satiate him for now.

"You're you, Severus. That is a good enough reason for me." He said with a small smile. Remus had already seen Snape at his worst, and while he could be cruel and somewhat horrible, Remus was willing to take him as is - as long as he respected him.

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