A Lily for a Snape

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Sometime later that morning, Lily lay cuddled on Severus’s chest as they gasped for air.

The bed had been destroyed, the soft covers rumpled and dampened from their exertions.

Severus’s black hair was as messy as Lily’s long, red tresses, although his throat did not bear the same red marks of bitten desire as her pale flesh.

She sighed as she pressed her ear over his heart and listened to his slowing pulse, strong and loud.

Quietly, as they lay in the devastation of those wonderful hours, Lily finally admitted her secret as she closed her eyes, “.......I love you, Sev.”

Severus’s breath hitched.

Surely he had been murdered the night before.

Some calamity had to have befallen him and left him either comatose or dead, the events of the morning could only be real in his imagination.

Slowly, carefully, terrified of discovering that it was all only a dream, Severus lifted his arms and wound them tightly around Lily’s bare body.

His dark eyes widened as she giggled and moved to nuzzle into the crook of his neck.

“What are we going to do now?” Lily asked as she placed a kiss on a sentiive spot close to his chin.

“I………can hardly believe what we’ve already done.” Severus managed to stammer.

“We’re mates.” She whispered.

Severus could hear the smile in her voice as she spoke, “You and I…….”

His hand found her cheek suddenly and lifted her face until she looked into his eyes.

“Lily…….” He began.

“Yeah, Sev?” She asked.

A part of her suddenly feared his next statement would detail what a grand mistake they’d made.

“Everything I’ve done……Everything I’ve worked for…..the hope of earning your affections has been my sole motivation…..since that day I met you on the riverbank, all those years ago.” He drawled as he gazed into her green eyes.

She couldn’t help the width of her grin or the blush on her cheeks as she listened to Severus’s words, amused by the touching, temporary crack in his stoicism.

“Oh, Sev, I do love you!” She gasped as she leaned forward and gave him another sweet kiss.

“And I love you, Lily.” He managed to whisper just before she found his lips.

While they shared another tender moment, Lily began to wriggle her hips against him in a way so obscene any alpha would have been enticed.

Severus forced himself to think past his own wants as the reality of their circumstances began to bear down upon him.

“No…..” He whispered as he pulled away.

Lily blinked while she stared into his dark eyes, “Why not?”

Before he could speak, she attacked his lips once more, hormones forcing her to pursue his touch, but Severus recoiled and gasped, “Not until we’ve brewed a batch of Contraceptive Potion.”

“It’s only once, Sev.” Lily said as her eyes shimmered while her pheromones took over logical thought, “Just a single day, what will come of it?”

“Actions have consequences, Lily. A single day is all it takes.” Severus whispered back, slyly dodging her next attempt at a kiss as he wrenched himself out of her nest and onto his feet in one smooth motion.

Lily nearly let out a mournful wail as she watched him slip his trousers and robes on before he nodded, “Rest for a while, I’ll be back as soon as it’s ready.”

As he turned and closed the door behind himself, he heard her aggravated sigh of frustration echo off the bedroom walls while he walked down the stairs.

Severus couldn’t help but smirk.

After years of lonely rejection, being wanted seemed like a fine gift, but being wanted by Lily was a luxurious privilege he had never really believed he would be able to attain.

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Severus put on a brave front for his darling.

He wanted nothing more than to drop all sense of obligations, all fear, and all cares to run back into that room, right into Lily’s arms.

His sense of discipline held him in place over the bubbling cauldron instead.

Positioned on the dining table, sweat poured down the back of Severus’s neck while he worked quickly to prepare the magical mixture that may yet save him and Lily from fulfilling Voldemort’s sinister wish.

Once each of the ingredients had been added, he grit his teeth while he quickly penned a letter to Hogwarts and sent the parcel off in the beak of a rust-coloured owl.

Lily’s cycle could easily last a week and Severus intended to remain by her side until its conclusion.

The least he could do was notify his employer of his anticipated absence.

At last, the Contraceptive Potion completed its simmering time.

Severus gladly placed several ladles’ worth into a goblet retrieved from the kitchen’s cabinets before he quickly strode upstairs to return to Lily.

As he opened the door and walked into the room, he tightened his grip on the goblet, pleasantly shocked to see his new mate lying on their bed, nude, with her cheeks pink and her lips pouted as she waited for him.

“You’ve been gone far too long.” Lily complained as she stretched her shapely legs across the covers.

“Forgive me, my love.” Severus began. She smiled at the expression, “A single sip may rescue us yet……. Surely you’ll deem my absence worthwhile then?”

“I doubt it.” Lily shrugged as she slowly sat up, “But I’ll give it a go anyway.”

It did not escape her notice that Severus’s dark eyes flickered down to her full, bare breasts as she reached out and took the goblet from his hands.

Embarrassed that she had caught him rudely staring, mouth agape, Severus quickly looked into her face again just in time to watch her swallow a mouthful of potion.

“Are you going to take some too?” Lily asked.

“You’ll be the one who primarily benefits from this, but I will do my part as well.” Severus replied as he took the cup back from Lily and drank from it after her.

He had barely swallowed when Lily reached out, grabbed him by the arm, and pulled him towards her.

The empty goblet clattered to the floor, forgotten in the urgency of the moment.

Annoyed at his sudden stumble, Severus crawled over her with deep longing glimmering in his dark eyes.

As their lips met while he hovered over her, surprisingly strong and intimidating despite his pale, slender body, Lily pulled him down closer as their kiss deepened.

Having Severus as her mate was a fantasy come true.