All This Time, You Were Missing From My Heart

Chapter Twelve

When Neville, Ginny, Dean, and Seamus reached the Hospital Wing, Remus and his loveable mutt 'Snuffles' were just fixing to walk through the doors.

"Professor Lupin!"

Remus smiled at them. "I'm not your professor anymore, so call me Remus."

"So you're not teaching here this year?" Ginny 'awed'.

"No, sorry. Was I really that good of a teacher?"

"The best we've had yet," Seamus spoke.

"Maybe I'll speak to the Headmaster later then," Remus told the four. The Gryffindors beamed at him until the grim-like dog carked and wagged his tail anxiously. Remus chuckled slightly and opened the door for his furry companion. "Are you four coming to visit Harry?"

"Yes, sir," Neville responded as they walked into the Infirmary.

"He deserves good friends such as you, Ron, Draco, and Hermione."

Harry looked up as they came in and smiled. Sirius barked and trotted to his godson.

"Hey, you six!" Harry grinned.

Madame Pomfrey stuck her head out of her office again. "Don't mind him. He took a Numbness Potion on an empty stomach. I gave him the counter potion, but he'll be like that for a while."

"Didn't James do that once?" Remus asked the matron.

"Yes. He was worse than Finnigan," Pomfrey replied, glancing at said boy.

"Hey!" Seamus huffed indignantly. At all the looks he was getting, he crossed his arms. "Yeah, all right."

Sirius barked again and jumped up onto the bed next to the Boy-Who-Lived.

"Nice doggy!" Harry giggled and patted his godfather on the head, much to the amusement of Poppy and Remus.

Ginny giggled as the god gave Harry a funny look.

"Well, we're not going to get an intelligent conversation out of him right now," Dean shrugged.

"Oh, ho 'bout we go get that hot fudge, then?" Seamus waggled his eyebrows.

"You're insatiable," Dean shook his head, even as his boyfriend dragged him out of the Hospital Wing.

"Certainly reminds me of someone," Remus muttered, looking pointedly at his spouse.

"Do you think you'll get to teach again?" Neville asked the werewolf.

"I don't know. We'll just have to see," amber eyes twinkled slightly.

***

~~~Flashback~~~

"You don't love me, Severus. I know that you are destined for someone else."

"James...you don't love me either."

The Gryffindor smiled. "But I do, Sev. You're just not my soul mate."

"You're just a stupid Gryffindor," Severus snarled. "There's no such thing as a soul mate."

"You'll change your mind someday. There is only one person you can truly love, Severus, and I hope you'll let your heart make the decision," James smiled softly. He pressed a quick kiss to Severus's lips before walking off.

~~~End Flashback~~~

Severus cursed. "Damn him for being right. I can't believe I'm in love with Harry Potter."

***

The fourth year Gryffindor-Slytherin Potions Class watched in wonder as Professor Severus Snape banged his head on his desk, a feat that they all had walked in on.

"Uh, Professor? Do you need to go see the nurse? You're not acting like yourself," Dennis Creevy raised his hand before speaking, seeing as the Potions Professor wasn't going to call on him.

"Ten points from Gryffindor, Creevy, for not minding your own business," Snape's voice was muffled as he kept his head on his desk. "Get to work."

The Slytherins and Gryffindors scrambled to gather their Potions ingredients.

***

"Yay! Draco!"

Ron, Hermione, and Draco turned to each other and then back to Harry, who was bouncing on the bed.

"Mme Pomfrey!"

"He's fine. It'll wear off by tomorrow!" Came the reply.

"Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love yah, tomorrow!" Harry giggled as he sang.

"Right...well, better than him being depressed," Draco drawled.

"That's true," Hermione agreed.

"Well, what are we going to do? We can't take him to the Great Hall for lunch."

"We'll eat lunch in here, stomach boy," Draco answered.

"Boys!" Harry grinned. His friends raised their eyebrows in unison.

"Does that potion make him a three-year-old, or what?" Ron looked at his friend.

"Hey! Little Orphan Harry! That's funny!" Hermione laughed.

Draco and Ron looked at her like she was crazy.

"Never mind. Muggle thing," Hermione waved them off. The two of them shrugged.

"Well, well, well. Look what we have here. Potty, Mudblood, Weasel, and the traitor."

The three sane people turned to the sound of the voice.

Pansy Parkinson stood at the entrance flanked by Goyle and Crabbe.

"I'm not a traitor. I never joined that bastard in the first place. And I'll thank you not to insult my friends," Draco scowled, taking out his wand, Ron and Hermione doing the same.

"You think you scare us?" Pansy smirked.

"No. But we don't need to scare you," Ron spoke.

"Because we can hex you to oblivion," Hermione picked up where he left off.

"Oh, please! You're a mudblood," Pansy sneered.

Hermione glared at the Slytherin girl. "I may be a mudblood, but at least I'm not a bitch."

Pansy gasped. Draco and Ron looked surprised at Hermione's cussing.

"You're going to regret that," Pansy snarled, producing her own wand.

"Ferula!" Cords shot out of Harry's wand, surprising the others. They rapped around Pansy and the two bulky guards.

"Harry!" The Boy-Who-Lived grinned at his friends.

"I can't believe that potion took that long to wear off!" Harry smiled, stretching. He turned to look at the Gruesome Threesome and glared. "I'm warning you three now. Don't mess with my friends or me. That includes Draco."

Pansy sneered at him, despite being tied to Crabbe and Goyle.

"You'll bee sorry, Potter! One of these days, you'll regret you ever crossed the dark Lord's path!" Pansy growled. She turned, or tried to, to walk out. She quickly growled orders to the bulks tied to her. The Fearless Four laughed as the three Slytherins tried to walk out of the Hospital Wing.

"Oh, that was good," Draco chuckled, wiping a tear from his eye.

When they had calmed down enough to talk, they all started laughing again as Ron's stomach growled.

"We need to get you something to eat, before you dry up and blow away!" Hermione grinned.

"That can happen?" Ron gasped.

Hermione, Harry, and Draco burst out laughing as Ron looked at them with horror and confusion on his face.

***

"Ergh! I can't wait! I have to send them out right now!" Remus jumped up, grabbing the forged letters. Sirius watched, laughing as his spouse ran out to the Owlry.

"That man has some serious problems," Sirius shook his head.

***

Remus cackled pseudo-evilly as he watched as the two owls flew off, carrying the two letters to Harry and Snape.

"This is either going to be the perfect match, or everything will explode," Remus muttered, before giggling insanely. He then shook his head. "I've got Sirius problems, bad."

***

After lunch was over, Ron, Draco, and Hermione went back to their classes, leaving Harry alone in the infirmary. He looked up as an owl swooped into the Hospital Wing.

Thinking it was for Madame Pomfrey, he ignored it till the letter fell in his lap. There was no name on it, he noticed, as he turned it over. Curious, he opened it.

To my dearest love,

I've admired you for many years, but now I can't stop thinking about you. I've got to see you tonight. Meet me at 1am in the room behind the tapestry next to the Potions Classroom. The password is 'Isotope'.

Your love

Harry stared at the piece of parchment. The handwriting looked familiar. He couldn't place it for a few moments, but then it hit him like a hippogriff. It looked like Snape's writing!

And that's about the time Harry got giddy.