"Elira.." Her mother sighed, as he daughter passed her in the corridors as if she didn't exist. "Oh, Elira please! Why can't you just listen for once! You want me to treat you like a grown up and yet you refuse to act like one!"

Elira paused in her tracks and spun around, walking a few steps to be face to face with her mother. "Are you serious? You think that you have the right to talk to me after what you did to me with Bogdan? And how you spoke to Severus?" Elira laughed, shaking her head in disbelief. "What part of 'I don't want anything to do with you' is so hard to comprehend?" She seethed.

"I made a mistake sweetheart, that's all it was! I promise you it was only once... I was in a very bad place an..." "Oh, well that makes it alright then! Poor Gwen Argolli was in a bad place so it's ok to sleep with her daughters boyfriend!" Elira growled, cutting the witch off bitterly.
"You are twisting things Elira, you must believe me it wasn't like that..." Gwen sighed, looking at her daughter with a broken heart. "It's too late, and do you know what I think? That I will tell dad about what you really did. He deserves to know.. I tried to protect him but to be honest he doesn't need it at all because once he knows what you really are he will be glad you're gone."

Elira fell into the potions classroom in a complete state, her rant at her mother took every bit of emotional energy she had. "My love, what's wrong? Tell me.." Snape pleaded, pulling her weary body into his arms. "She just won't leave me alone, she is there in my face trying to explain all the time." She cried, her tears soaking his robes.
"Maybe we were hasty in our decision to stay?" He soothed, stroking her soft hair with his cold and calloused hands.

"No! Why should we run away? I refuse. Severus, there is no way I will let you give up all that you have worked for because of her. It's just hard to face her everyday when she refuses to stop talking to me." Elira sighed, sadly. "I don't want to see you this stressed Elira, it's not healthy to be constantly reminded of something that you're trying to move on from." Snape insisted selflessly. "Like you did you mean? Hmm? Severus you allowed yourself to be tormented for the past 17 years so you can hardly talk." Elira scowled.

Snape took a step back and stared at her with a painful look in his obsidian eyes..
"Can't you see that I don't want you to suffer as I did? I know only to well that I should not have allowed myself to wallow for all those years." Snape spat, starting to loose his temper with the witch he adored.

"I'm sorry." Elira sighed, sitting down on the edge of a desk and hanging her head. She never meant to be so mean.. she was just so frustrated.
It wasn't more than a few seconds before she felt strong arms wrap around her and envelope her in devotion and support. "My love... I know this is tearing you apart, I'm not taking any of this to heart. For deep down, for the first time in my whole life I know for sure that somebody loves me... "

Elira turned to face him slowly and straightened his robes, "I do love you Severus, I really do..."
Snape lost control of his heart and senses as her words resounded in his head, his lips attached to hers like a magnet before he could realise it was what he had wished for.
She moaned into his kiss happily, reaching her hands up to intwine with the long stands of black hair that adorned his scalp. He pulled her up and spun her around so that he rested on the desk, lowering her down onto his lap.

Their kiss deepened and his hands slipped under her shirt slowly, caressing the curves of her back. "Severus...." Elira gasped at the electricity of his touch. "I would call you beautiful but you are so much more than just that... you're perfection to me." Snape purred into her ear gently.

His words, spoken in his delectably deep and enchanting voice made her whole body quiver, Every hair stood on end and every nerve exploded with tingles.
"Sev... I can't." She gulped, backing away slightly once the breath returned to her weary lungs. "That's ok my love, I've waited my entire life so far for you.. we have all the time in the world." He mumbled, pulling her closer again to kiss her.

"Are you sure you can wait?" She smiled, looking deep into his entrancing eyes.. a hint of embarrassment taking over.
"I'd wait forever for you." He purred, his head cocked at an angle that made it quite clear she had no reason to explain herself nor feel ashamed in any way.