HP: Embrace the Darkness

"Shut up!"

Snape's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and he angrily reached out to grab the collar of Athis's pajamas. The room was too dark, and he missed it the first time. He finally caught it the second time, and suddenly tightened his five fingers and pulled Athis towards him violently.

"Do you know what you are talking about!"

The two men were very close, their breaths meeting each other, and Athis could even hear the sound of Snape's teeth chattering. He finally realized that he had said the wrong thing.

"Sorry, it's my fault, don't be angry."

"Shut up!"

Snape tightened his fingers again, and the tight collar almost made Aces speechless.

Aces knew when to shut up.

The bedroom suddenly became quiet.

Only the sound of heavy breathing could be heard.

until--

"Sev...let go."

Athis patted Snape's arm and squeezed out a word with difficulty. Snape woke up as if from a dream and quickly let go of his hand. He listened to Athis's rapid breathing at a loss.

When his breathing became steady again, he breathed a sigh of relief and said dryly, "Why don't you make a sound if you can't breathe?"

Aces rubbed his neck. When he heard Snape's words, a gleam of light suddenly flashed across his eyes, but he maintained a tone of grievance in his words, "Didn't you tell me to shut up?"

Snape never expected to hear such a ridiculous answer. He was so angry that he almost laughed out loud. "You still remember what I said when I was angry at this time?"

"of course I remember."

Lack of oxygen made his brain a little dizzy. Aces squinted his eyes, ignored the stabbing pain in his chest, and stared at Snape's eyes in the darkness.

"Sif, do you think this is a misunderstanding?"

Snape seemed to understand what Athis meant: "What do you want to say?"

"Hehe, I told you not to be angry." Ases' eyes wandered and his tone was weak, "If you really can't do it, slap me twice."

"Say!"

Snape's veins were throbbing.

He had a feeling that what Ases was about to say would have a great impact on him, but he was not willing to give up. He just wanted to hear what had made Ases jealous for so long!

"It's just... you obviously have a safer way to come back, but in order to come back earlier and..." Ases felt the murderous gaze from the other side, his voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he forced himself to change his words, "Come back one day earlier, at the risk of -"

Snape couldn't stand it any longer and interrupted angrily, "Nonsense! I'm doing this because of you!"

Ases felt like he was about to face a disaster, and asked tremblingly, "Because of me?"

"What else?" Snape roared in frustration, "I'm not a fool. Even if I'm trapped in the body, I have ten thousand ways to lead him to see Lily. There's no need to take the risk. Is your brain filled with fish mint and can't turn? You don't even understand such a simple truth!!!"

Aces was yelled at so hard that his soul left his body. He dared not say anything more, but Snape refused to let him go: "Keep talking, I want to hear how much fish mint is stuffed in your head!!"

Ases didn't dare to say it, but he didn't dare not to say it. He stuttered for a long time, and the voice he squeezed out was smaller than a mosquito: "Also, you are... different tonight than usual. You are too--ahem--enthusiastic, which makes it easy for people to misunderstand that you have other intentions--"

"Any other plans?" Snape repeated slowly, with no emotion in his voice.

Ases tried desperately to make excuses for himself: "Of course, I didn't mean that. It's just that sometimes people get carried away and lose control of their thoughts. I was wrong. Don't be angry, professor."

"Just shut up and leave me alone."

Snape tried his best to suppress the urge to slap someone, took several deep breaths, and finally regained his sanity.

"Aren't you very confident? Why don't you be more confident and think about it from another perspective, or am I someone you think I am for..."

"I am confident but not arrogant... and I tried to think about it." Aces defended himself in a low voice: "But we have met again after a long separation before, and you were not that kind of person at that time-"

Snape covered Athis's mouth at the last moment.

Athis blinked and kissed Snape's palm unexpectedly.

His palms felt itchy from the beating of his breath. Snape withdrew his hand, and Arces took the opportunity to ask, "It's not a long-awaited reunion, nor is it a ulterior motive. What's the reason?"

"Misunderstanding." Snape gave up on himself, "Because I misunderstood, okay!?"

Ases uttered "Oh" with a long drawl. He didn't say anything, but his eyes clearly expressed one meaning - you see, when people start to let their thoughts run wild, they can't be controlled.

Snape: "..."

He admitted that this statement made sense, but it was definitely not a reason for Ases to be jealous in the middle of the night.

As if knowing what he was thinking, Ases closed his eyes and whispered, "Sif, I've wanted to say this for a long time - the way you think of me is a little too perfect."

The man's hoarse voice was particularly ethereal in the darkness: "I'm not a saint. I can't be omnipotent. I don't have a God's perspective. I can't know everything. So next time you want to do something, just tell me, okay?"

He had been guessing all day.

I was guessing every minute and every second, torturing myself to death. My internal organs were rolling around in the fire of jealousy, burning my heart.

But the other party seemed to have no intention of telling him and kept avoiding the question.

He had no choice but to guess.

It was as if a bucket of cold water was poured over Snape's head, completely extinguishing his anger. He opened his mouth, but could not utter a word.

After an unknown amount of time, Snape finally found his voice.

"……it is good."

He thought that the best outcome was that everyone knew it.

This was the sentence that Aces had been waiting for. He immediately stopped while he was ahead, pulled the quilt over to cover him, and gently kissed Snape on the tip of his nose. "You have things to do tomorrow, go to sleep."

The topic and emotions changed so quickly that Snape was a little slow to react, but the double agent's sharpness could not be faked. He was puzzled for only a moment before realizing that something was wrong with Ases.

"So after all this time you just want a guarantee?"

Athis closed his eyes, turned over naturally to face Snape, put his hands forward, and muttered something in his mouth, looking like he was sleeping soundly.

Snape slapped him in annoyance, "Don't pretend to be asleep. Weren't you very talkative just now?"

Ases said vaguely: "Well, more or less."

Subconsciously concealing things when encountering things is a habit that Snape has developed over the years as a double agent. He doesn't want to interfere, but this habit always brings them some troubles, not to mention any.

Small troubles are fine, but once they lead to big troubles, a rift will be created between the two people, and over time, they will both be hurt.

It’s better to solve it early.

Lily just happened to be a thorn between them, so he simply took advantage of the situation and solved both problems at once.

"But I promise that every word I say tonight comes from my heart." Aces used his arms to pull Snape over, and their bodies were pressed tightly together, without any distance. "My worry is real, and my jealousy is real too."

The jealousy was all over the floor, almost splashing on him, how could he not know it was true?

Taking advantage of the darkness in the room and Athis unable to see clearly, Snape rolled his eyes, took Athis's hand and put it behind his waist, making full use of the function of the human-shaped pillow.

Ases understood and began to rub it neither lightly nor heavily with skillful technique.

Due to physical problems, Athis's body temperature has always been slightly higher than Snape's. When the two of them slept together, Snape felt like he was hugging a heater. His whole body was warm, which made him extremely sleepy.

Today is no exception.

Snape had no intention of pursuing the matter. As Aces held him in his arms and massaged him, sleepiness soon enveloped his brain again.

He closed his eyes, came closer without even looking, and kissed me somewhere.

"Good night."

Ases slowed down his movements and returned the kiss: "Good night."

The bedroom fell into complete silence, with only the almost overlapping heartbeats remaining.

The full moon hanging in the deep night sky outside the window is becoming more and more generous, pouring large patches of moonlight on the earth. Countless stars have fallen into the mortal world, and together with the moonlight, they decorate the dark night into a gorgeous silver skirt embellishing black bricks.