Thread: Noticing things in class (Tenty x Mera1506)

It was the end of another day at Hogwarts. Classes had come to an end, the students were filing out quickly in order to get out of their uniforms and into more comfortable and casual clothes before dinner that evening. There was one student that wouldn't be leaving Severus Snape's potions class just yet however, he had discreetly requested that she stay behind once class was over, a student in his own house by the name of Fala Takoya. She wasn't in trouble, far from it, she was an excellent pupil, however for a few years now Snape had always thought she had potential to do more, that something was holding her back or distracting her during class. In the recent months he had finally figured out what that was. Several times now he had caught her sneaking glances at him, noticed her staring at him when she seemed to think he wasn't looking. Even out of class he'd noticed her occasionally looking at him for a little 'too long'....though the more he'd noticed her doing that, the more he'd noticed himself seemingly doing much the same back to her...letting his gaze linger perhaps longer than was appropriate. It had gotten to the point that Severus himself was being affected...he had found himself distracted, momentarily forgetting things that should have been second nature to him by this point. He knew how inappropriate it was...she was a student after all, he shouldn't feel this way about someone so much younger than himself, the girl was 16 after all, but the more he denied himself the worse it became. Finally though...he had decided enough was enough...things couldn't go on like this. One way or another things were going to be resolved this very evening, and if it ended his career then so be it. But damnit he had earned some small happiness after everything he had been made to go through. All the unsung victories of his.....all he had done to safeguard these people and earned nothing but hatred in return... Well, it was time to change that now. As the last of the other students left it was now only Fala and Severus in the potions classroom, the door loudly slamming shut behind the last student to leave. For a few moments, there was just an eerie silence that filled the classroom, broken by the occasional bubbling of a potion at the front of the room on Severus' personal workstation. He let the silence hang there for a few moments, back to Fala as he pretended to organise things on his desk, before finally beginning to turn, slowly turn, looking at Fala in another moment of silence. ....Miss Takoya... His voice pierced through the silence like a hot knife through butter. I think the time has come that we had a little chat....one on one... He was approaching her desk slowly, his footsteps echoing loudly in the empty room as he came closer and closer, until he almost suddenly seemed to be standing right infront of her desk, leaning forward slightly, looking down at her as she was still sat. ....I have...noticed...how you have been watching me recently...and....I believe it is time... His hands were on the desk, agonisingly close to her own. ...that we discussed this. I must say...I do not mind you looking at me....however...looking is no longer enough. Do you...understand what I am saying...Miss Taokoya? No....Fala For Severus to refer to someone by their first name was a rarity indeed. It would either indicate something very very good....or very very bad....