You're Nobody 'till Somebody Loves You - chapter 5

[snapealina]

Title: You're Nobody 'till Somebody Loves You
Author: snapealina 
Rating: T
Pairing: Severus Snape/Ron Weasley (no slash)
Disclaimer: The brilliant J.K. Rowling own the characters. I just play with them... a lot...

 

Chapter 5

“Bloody hell!” Ron cried out as he stared into the dark and searching eyes. He was confused. He was obviously in the hospital wing, but how did he get there, and why the hell was Snape sitting by his side? He looked at his professor with a despised look.

“Why am I in here?” he asked him. “The last thing I remember is… going to detention…”

Snape didn’t’ dare to look at him, but got quickly to his feet.

“Detention with you!” Ron yelled.

“Hush,” Snape whispered. “Keep your voice down.”

”Why would I keep my voice down,” Ron shouted. “You did this to me! You tried to hex me in detention, and when I didn’t put up with it, you followed me and tried to kill me!”

“That is not what happened!” Snape didn’t even realize that he had raised his own voice.

“Oh yeah?” yelled Ron. “And you failed, so now you’re back to finish me off!” He looked desperate around for his wand, but couldn’t find it anywhere.

“Would you please calm down, Mr. Weasley? That is not what happened. If you could only shut up for a second and listen I will tell you what…”

“So you can tell me a made-up story, to cover up that you’re out to get me?” Ron interrupted.

Snape sighed. The boy was clearly not going to listen.

“What is going on here?” Poppy Pomfrey stood in the doorway in her nightgown. “Who is making all this noise?” She lit her wand and looked in their direction. “Mr. Weasley,” she smiled. “You are finally awake. Now that’s a relief.”

She went over to him and saw Snape as she got closer. “Oh, professor, I didn’t see you there. Did you do this?” She asked him and nodded towards Ron. Snape shook his head, and was going to speak, but was brutally interrupted by Ron again.

“Oh, yes he did!” Ron cried out. “He was standing over me ready to kill me, but I woke up and stopped him.”

Snape rolled his eyes, and headed towards the door. There was no point in staying. Without saying a word he walked out of the hospital and sought directions of his room, not caring if anyone spotted him or not.

At first Snape thought about what Ron Weasley had said. The same thought that had gone through his mind the past week came back once more. A part of him wanted to go back and explain what had happened, but another part of him couldn’t do it. The boy had clearly made up his mind about what he wanted to believe, not caring about what anybody said.

This made Snape more and more frustrated. It was true that he was partly responsible for Ron Weasley being in the hospital wing, but coming to think of it, wasn’t that a good thing? If it hadn’t been for him, Weasley would never have made it to the hospital. Wasn’t the hospital the best thing that could come out of this situation? Snape was starting to get livid.

“That ungrateful ignorant, little weasel!” Then a great pain shot through his left forearm. Oh no! Snape thought clutching his arm. Not now! He really didn’t need this right now…

”Now Mr. Weasley would you please calm down?” Madam Pomfrey held Ron’s shoulders trying to keep him still.

“I don’t want to calm down! I’m telling you! Snape is trying to kill me!” Ron was yelling at the top of his lunges.

“Now I’m sure that isn’t the case, Mr. Weasley,” Madam Pomfrey replied calmly. “It was professor Snape that saved your life. You should be thankful for it, not accusing him for such an awful thing. You have been in a coma for six day, and you mind is obviously playing tricks on you.”

“That’s just what he’s telling you. What he wants you to believe!” Ron was getting frustrated. Why didn’t anyone listen to him?

“Now listen to me, Mr. Weasley,” Madam Pomfrey was talking firmly to him now. “You hit your head pretty severely when you fell in the lake, and professor Snape rescued you and brought you in here. Believe me! He is not trying to kill you!

But Ron still wasn’t convinced. He remembered the pain that Snape had given him during detention, and remembered Snape’s furious voice calling after him as he ran out of the castle. He wasn’t finished, Snape had yelled after him….

”Mr. Weasley, if professor Snape wanted to kill you, he would have had plenty of opportunities by now,” Madam Pomfrey laughed. “He has been in here to see you several times a day the time you have been here.”

“What?” Ron looked puzzled. Snape had been visiting him? That couldn’t be right. Snape would never do such a thing!

“It is true,” Madam Pomfrey said. ”I’ve seen him in here plenty of times, so I can assure you, he is not out to get you. He has, in fact, been working really hard to find some way to wake you up. Now will you calm down? This anger is not good for you. You need to stay calm, or that head injury is never going to heal.” She pinned Ron down to his bed, and gave him a potion to ease the pain and calm him down.

Ron was concentrating really hard to remember what had happened that horrible night. He was looking for anything to explain this weird situation. He remembered going down to the dungeons, and that Snape threw curses at him. He felt the pain in his arms as he thought about it. Snape never gave him the chance to prepare himself for what was coming. He remembered that they yelled at each other. He didn’t recall exactly what was said, but one word appeared in his mind: nobody. Snape had called him nobody…

Ron’s eyes suddenly filled with tears. That was it. That’s why he had run out. But why did Snape follow him? He wasn’t finished? What more could he possible do to him? Hadn’t Ron been through enough?

He remembered running faster to get away from him, but that it was hard because of the heavy rain. He had turned around to look if he still was being followed, but the next thing he knew he was staring into Snape’s vicious eyes in the hospital bed.

What had happened in between? He couldn’t remember a thing. And had Snape really been there to see him? Why? To find a way to wake him up? Surely that couldn’t be true. On the other hand, Snape was there when he woke up, so he had to have been there at least that one time… but every day? Why?

It had to be so that Snape could gloat about saving his life, Ron decided. He probably wanted to be there when Ron woke up to harass him even more.

He could hear Snape’s voice in his head: “Weasley, it was about time you woke up, sleeping for six days you lazy, arrogant git. I told you I wasn’t finished with you. You really thought falling into the lake would get you out of detention? Well you thought wrong. Detention is over when I say it’s over, and since I also had to save you life during it, you can consider yourself busy every night for the rest of the school year.”

Ron shuddered. Detention with Snape every night for the rest of the year would surely kill him… But as the thought of what Snape would be doing to him in these detentions crossed his mind, Madam Pomfrey’s potion kicked in, and he felt his eyelids getting heavy and drifted off to sleep.

Comments

[reg-flint.livejournal.com]

Ron's attitude toward Snape pisses me off, he is so narrow and limited from the first days of Potions on. I can understand why, but that does nothing to stop my throat feeling raw thinking about people who treat me like Ron treats Snape. Luckily, they are few. Often when I stand up for Snape I am sticking my own interests out too, as we are so very alike in some ways.

[snapealina.livejournal.com]

aaaaaaah. Now I get it. I was just a bit worried there for a minute that I was going to piss you off. *pheeeew* :D

I can see so many simularities in the Ron/Snape interaction in both our fics with my friend/her teacher (which was actually my German teacher once...) It's so weird, because I didn't think of that before tonight :)

Ron can be a total MoRon sometimes, and I can totally understand that you react to people that act like that, who wouldn't? People can be really mean :(

And when you identify yourself with a character or person it's only natural to stand up for them when they're being "attacked".

I just hope that iRon can surprise you in a positive way some day :)

[reg-flint.livejournal.com]

He surprised me when he came out of my pen and onto the page; he didn't act or think like the way I thought I saw him, well well- iRONy. ;)

[snapealina.livejournal.com]

LOL :)

Well, I'm finally off to bed. I should go to sleep, but I soooo want to listen to Snapecast as well (I've finally reached the Snupin-episode...:D)

Happy Snapeing and stay snarky and go fic yourself and all that stuff :)