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Title: Lips Author:ivylady Rating: PG-13 Word Count: 675 Summary: Harry's obsessed with Severus's lips Author's Note: For alisanne and bethbethbeth, captains extraordinaire. Thanks for all of your cheer-leading and general awesomeness.
Harry did not know how he would make it through this class, let alone the rest of the day. While everyone else was dutifully stirring their potions and listening to Professor Snape talk, Harry was busy staring at the man's lips.
Thin and pressed into a perpetual frown, they had frightened a generation of students at Hogwarts. Now, Snape and his lips were inflicting terror on classes of Auror recruits. Recruits except Harry, that is. While everyone else cringed in fear that those lips would call their name and excoriate them in front of their classmates, Harry daydreamed of kissing those lips.
Pink and surprisingly soft, Severus's lips were the most amazing part of his body. They kissed Harry breathless, sucked him into ecstasy, consoled him when upset. Harry was obsessed with Severus's lips—he spent hours kissing them, memorizing their taste and shape. He could taste them now, salty with a hint of mint.
Harry licked his lips. Severus was walking around the room, criticizing everyone's potions. It would be so easy for Harry to grab Severus's arm as he walked by, press himself close, and devour those succulent, juicy...
"Potter!" Professor Snape barked in his ear.
Harry started, knocking his knee into the table. "Sir?"
"Why is your potion trying to eat through your cauldron?"
"Huh?" Harry managed to say, looking down at his work space. The green goo (it was supposed to be purple liquid) was sizzling and hissing in his cauldron. Fleck of iron floated in the muck, testament to the cauldron's corrosion.
Professor Snape glared at Harry. "Detention, right after class. Maybe a night of manual labor, cleaning the room without magic, will cure you of your ineptitude."
Harry perked up. Really, he tried to look chagrined, but the thought of having Severus all to himself was too delicious.
"Yes, sir," Harry replied, trying to sound sad. He did not succeed. More than a few of his classmates were giving him funny looks.
Professor Snape was not amused. "Clean up your mess and bottle your poor excuses for potions. Next class, you will all have ready for me a five feet on the adverse effects of these ingredients." The Aurors moved to do their professor's bidding, but not fast enough.
"Move!" Professor Snape bellowed.
They cleaned up and fled.
Right after the last trainee left, Severus slammed the door and applied every privacy charm he knew. Grinning salaciously, Severus turned to his lover.
"Thinking about my lips again?" Severus purred, his breath ghosting over Harry's ear. A flick of Severus's wand and Harry was naked.
Harry shivered. "Yes, you bastard! You know I was after what you did."
"And what did I do?" Severus asked as he ran his lips over Harry's collarbone.
"That," Harry moaned. "Do it again."
Severus smirked. "I will Harry, but only if you promise me something."
"Anything," Harry pledged as Severus licked his nipple.
"Marry me."
"Yes," Harry said without hesitation.
"Good," Severus replied, standing up and straightening his clothes. "If we hurry, we can get to Gretna Green before they close for the day."
"What? You can't leave me like this!" Harry protested.
"Don't worry, Harry," Severus purred. "The sooner we are wed, the sooner that we can consummate our union."
Harry got dressed in record speed and beat Severus to the Apparition point, disappearing with a flash.
Severus smiled, watching his lover. He had not planned on asking Harry to marry him, but it seemed like the perfect time. Harry may have been oblivious to the hungry looks his classmates were giving him, but Severus was not. He would be damned if he let some snot-nosed upstart move into his territory. Harry was his, and the sooner everyone knew that, the better.
Severus only hoped that Harry would forgive him the interview he gave Luna Lovegood about their relationship.
"If he doesn't," Severus said to himself, finally reaching the Apparition point, "I'll just have to shut him up with my lips."
Severus disappeared with pop, anxious to start his new life.