[HP] Can you be gentle with me

It didn't take long for them to reach their destination, thanks to Merlin...

Tahlia didn't want to spend even one more second in the winter waters, and Snape obviously thought so too, his lips pale, and he pulled out his wand as quickly as possible, even though his whole arm was shaking, and even the simple swing The movements were extremely jerky, and finally, the wand was pointed straight at Tahlia.

Tahlia immediately felt her robes dry instantly, and she blinked for a few seconds before realizing what Snape had just done—

He... fucked her first?Instead of making yourself comfortable first?

No, now wasn't the time to think about it... She shook her head, pulled out her wand too, and with a flick of the hand, helped Snape dry his clothes.

Clearly aware of a strange feeling in her heart, she has been suppressing this feeling to the bottom all these years, Tahlia has never thought that it seems natural today, just an unintentional move by Snape, it will also Let her emotions be vented in an instant──

"how?"

Tahlia regained her composure, glanced silently at Snape, then shook her head.

Anyway, no matter what exaggerated thoughts she has now... now is not the time to think about it──

She took another deep breath and spoke. "I think we should split up—"

But he was immediately interrupted by Snape. "No."

"──listen to me!" Tahlia interrupted him too. "Don't be so eager to reject me... I know there is a voice in your heart telling you that—"

Snape kept his mouth shut, but his face was dark as well.

Damn intuition...damn Bliss Elixir...

"Not now, though." Tahlia said without Snape replying. "They noticed us..." Wei Wei nodded towards a collapsed low wall not far ahead.

Snape looked along.

There are broken bricks scattered around the low wall, but it is not difficult to see that it was originally built to surround the whole of Azkaban. At this moment, almost all the walls have collapsed, and only a few broken pieces remain here and there. part.

And behind those remaining bricks, several half-floating cloaked figures slid around, and Tahlia was right, they had noticed them... because Snape could clearly see that a few of them were barely moving. , while the side that was covered by the cloak, whose face could not be seen clearly, was staring straight in their direction.

"What should we do?" Snape said as calmly as possible.

"Let's go straight over." Tahlia forced a smile and walked forward first.

Snape followed closely behind.

It didn't take long for Tahlia to feel another indescribable chill, which became more pronounced the closer they got to the dementors.

In comparison, the coldness they were immersed in the winter sea water just now seems not worth mentioning.

She unconsciously pulled the robe tighter.

Seeing this, Snape drew his wand—

"No, not now." Tahlia stopped Snape, who was about to cast a spell. "We're supposed to win them over, aren't we? They won't like your Patronus."

Snape's hand holding the wand paused, then slowly dropped.

After a while, they came to the dementors.

They didn't seem to see them as enemies right away, Tahlia felt like they were watching, it should be said.

"We have no malicious intentions." Tahlia cleared her throat, suppressed the trembling all over her body, and tried to make her voice as smooth as possible. "We were sent by the Dark Lord to negotiate."

The dementors were unmoved.

"Remember his previous promise?" Tahlia continued without giving up. "He will give you what you desire...and all he asks is a little...loyalty—in return."

The air seemed to freeze instantly, as if they were not so satisfied with what Tahlia said.

"...I know everyone thinks he's failed—" Tahlia said hastily. "But trust me, he'll be back again, and I can attest to—"

In response to her, the air almost froze.

Tahlia felt that her lungs froze as soon as she inhaled the gas... that feeling was really uncomfortable.

Subconsciously took several deep breaths, but it didn't improve the situation at all.

"How do you want me to prove it?" She squeezed out a sentence. "Trust me, I can prove—" The insults began to fill her head again, whispers from different people, merciless abuse... She turned her head slightly, and from Snape's frown, it was obvious that he was also with herself Same.

"What exactly do you want?"

The dementors who were still gliding left and right suddenly stopped their movements. At this moment, all the dementors turned around and stared at Tahlia and the others.

Tahlia understood instantly.

These dementors have been watching the show from the very beginning... It doesn't matter to them whether Voldemort will rise again, what they care about is whether they can get benefits from the Dark Lord──

Obviously what Voldemort promised them for the first time, let them no longer be confined to Azkaban, and they could wander around looking for prey at will, which was no longer enough for them──

But what else do they want?Let Voldemort provide them with...the so-called 'food' on a regular basis?

They moved slightly closer together.

Although the temperature seems to have dropped a few degrees more because of this, Tahlia has a feeling that it is not as cold as before...

"Is that what you want?" she asked.

Dementors can suck people's happiness, so of course they can feel what Tahlia was thinking just now... but it's really—

"Really?" she asked again.

The dementors stared at each other for a while, and then, one of them slowly floated forward, revealing a pair of dry and decayed hands, and then slowly raised those hands, and lifted the hood──

"Tahlia—" Snape called out warningly.

"It's okay, Snape," Tahlia said reluctantly, forcing herself to meet the creepy face.

No, that's not a face at all...

"Is your request what I said?" She asked tremblingly. "The Dark Lord has always been omnipotent, he can do more things for you... and what you want is only one thing—the prey?"

The thing nodded very slowly, very slowly.

"Then, we promise you," Tahlia said. "But for now, I hope you can do us a little favor—"

There was a little commotion, but it didn't last long, and Tahlia took it as a tentative agreement...

"We want to ask you a few people—" She took another deep breath, and this time she finally felt like breathing air. "Hmm...you should be able to notice...they have the same thing on them as us—" He said, slowly pulling up his sleeves.

The dementors froze.

what happened?

Tahlia felt Snape standing closer to her, and heard his voice. "It's not right."

"Ah."

Something was wrong, and they felt it quickly, because the air that had been slightly warmer began to freeze rapidly again.

Tahlia took a few steps back involuntarily, bumping into Snape, and he reached out to grab her. "Don't panic," he said. "I'm behind you."

Tahlia steadied herself and nodded.

"This is what the Dark Lord wants," she said loudly. "Didn't the Dark Lord give you any benefits before? It shouldn't be too much to ask you a few people now, right?"

A moment of silence.

"Maybe you'll resent us for taking your...food - but trust us," Tahlia continued. "The Dark Lord will reward you double in the end."

It was still silent, accompanied by the chill that still made their blood freeze.

After an unknown amount of time, those dementors finally retreated slowly, and a few of them drifted faintly towards the inside of the building.

Tahlia breathed a sigh of relief, almost leaning back... wait, leaning?

She jumped up sharply, took a step forward, and turned her head quickly. "Sorry." She said stiffly.

"No." Snape replied flatly, squinting at the dementors, not lowering his wand for their retreat.

Tahlia took another deep breath, forced a smile, and spoke. "You know, I always thought you were—too serious."

"I guess I have to take that as a compliment," Snape said dryly.

After a while, he took a few steps forward, turned around, and told Tahlia who was still trembling unconsciously. "It's time for us to part ways...they can't be trusted..."

"Yeah." Tahlia replied. "What are you going to do?"

"Follow them in—"

"It's too dangerous!" Tahlia couldn't hide her excitement, and the volume instantly increased, she stared at Snape in disbelief. "There are more dementors in there...if they're going to attack you—"

"You mean it's up to you?" Snape cut Tahlia straight off. "Come on, you don't know how to use the Patronus Charm, Tahlia," he said, ordering himself to ignore Tahlia's sudden paleness, saying there was no way he would let Tahlia in there. "No offense intended, obviously it was a reasonable choice for me to go."

"You want me to wait here and do nothing?"

"Are you going to do nothing?" Snpae raised his eyebrows, turned his head and dropped the words, and walked straight forward.As he passed through the dementors, Tahlia almost thought the creatures were going to turn around and attack Snape the next second...

But her worries didn't materialize.

Seems like things are going really well...?

Can she believe that?

The waiting time was always long, and after Tahlia picked up a stone and set it as a portkey, she could only stand there in a daze.

After Snape left, her thoughts drifted uncontrollably to Snape's actions just now—even though she didn't want to admit it, Snape's attitude over the years did clearly show that he had no intention of taking her life... Or revenge on her.

Maybe Snape was just planning another, bigger revenge move, she had every reason to suspect that, didn't she?

It should be said that what really bothered Tahlia was that Snape had no flaws at all, not at all!

This kept her in trouble...it was almost driving her crazy──

Snape was acting too mild, more harmless than he had ever been before, and if he really planned to continue to seek revenge on her, would he be so completely unaware?

No matter what time it was, no matter how Tahlia looked, she was horrified to find that she really couldn't find... she couldn't find any sign that Snape was trying to do her any harm...

But should she believe it?

Tahlia found it hard to think. The simple question made it difficult for her to answer.

She is completely confused now.

Even with the help of the Blessing Elixir, she couldn't clear her mind... Of course, Blessing Elixir wasn't meant to be used like this...

Or, even if Snape had really changed, what could she do?

Shouldn't she think that all their previous mutual hurts didn't exist, and just a simple "I forgive you" can be regarded as nothing?

of course not……

No matter what she said, she would never allow herself to do such a stupid thing again──

So it doesn't really matter, right?

No matter what Snape thinks now, no matter how she feels...they will never go back to those days-

Maybe eventually they'll be able to have everyday conversations, be able to get along as friends, be able to greet like friends...but that's all, they have to be.

"Hahahahahahahahahaha—"

A series of sharp and high-pitched laughter suddenly cut through the air and pierced into Tahlia's ears, causing her to frown unconsciously, and her eyes drifted to the direction of the sound...

A small group of people was seen rushing out of the building.

The Lestranges, little Crouch... and two people whose names she can't even remember ran towards this end, cheering loudly and triumphantly──

Each of them looked extremely embarrassed, their prison clothes were stained with dirt, their hair was matted together, and their faces were bloodless. Even so, they were still the number one dangerous person.

Wait, where's Snape?

Tahlia's mind went blank, and all the thoughts she had secretly decided to keep away from Snape were instantly thrown out of her mind.

She stood there in a daze, and handed the door key to Bella and the others when they had already run to her side, not knowing how to react at all.

Why didn't Snape come out with them?

"Let's go." It was Bella's voice, although it was unusually hoarse because it hadn't spoken for a long time, Tahlia could still recognize it easily.

She didn't follow them to grab the key.

In the next second, she felt that everyone around her disappeared, and then, the dementors took action.

Where the hell did Snape go?