you didn't know me when you were a kid {CLOSED}

[fishpetals]

Who: Lily and Severus.
What: A witch and a wizard dicking around working.
When: Over the weekend.
Where: Hogwarts.
Warnings: Swearing, smoking, shit-talking, the usual. Harry, don't look.

Lily hasn't been back to Hogwarts since graduating. She's had no reason to be—her correspondence with the young potionsmaster is shaky at best and before that there had simply been no reason for it whatsoever. In fact, without the need for her assistance in a professional capacity, her presence at Hogwarts would be very suspect indeed. LUCKILY, she is there to work! Needing an escort is strange but traveling with Severus has some kind of calm associated with it even if it shouldn't; maybe it's the fact that this is a different Severus that gives a rat's ass, maybe it's not. The why doesn't matter so much.

Getting settled is easy—she has one small bag and she'll be taking it with her to her accommodations when curfew rolls around. Mostly it just winds up with Lily squinting up at Severus with her hands on her hips, looking expectant. "Well, we should get to work." Yes they should. But what is the real work, you ask? It is a mystery.

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[darkart]

"I may not have thought every detail of this through," is the kind of admission Severus would die before making in front of anyone else, "because whenever I practice dueling it's with-- the Headmaster," Severus is half in the habit of calling him Albus after years of nagging, but this world makes it feel strange, "and I haven't the faintest idea how to get into the labyrinthine corners he finds when he leads the way. And my thought of going deeper into the dungeons is straight out thanks to that prick Riddle's letting lurk around."

You'd think Severus would have more respect for the founder of his own house, but no. Salazar abandoned the school and left every student sorted into Slytherin for the rest of fucking time to deal with the stigma of it, giving the other three a moral righteousness dumping ground on a silver platter. Full of children.