Severus gave the elf a bewildered look. What did she mean by noble blood? Is Florina royalty? 

'That's impossible, she cannot be royalty, she is a muggle-born for Godric's Sake. And who is that Rose she was speaking of?' He made a mental note to ask the pig tailed elf all those questions later.

Slowly, the lifeless body in his arms started to show signs of life as she coughed violently. David immediately sat beside the potions master. Severus however let go of Florina who spat a blood clot onto the snowy ground. In sync with the weather, the storm around them finally died down as she opened her eyes.

The grinning handsome wizard seemed uncontrollably delighted as he scooted closer to Florina. He whispered softly, "Are you feeling better Florina?"

In response, she moaned in pain and huddled closer to Severus's chest which he wasn't too pleased with. David gave a glare at the displeased wizard. He couldn't stop staring jealously at how Florina was basically glued to the wizard clutching onto his black coat firmly. 

"Oh it must be so difficult for you to have an angel like her in your arms," he whispered hotly.

In turn, the potions master smirked coolly, "My, my. Are we jealous?"

"Piss off Snape!" he yelled "The only reason all of this is happening is because she needs you to save her life. But imagine the look on her face if she finds out that you touched her. There is a huge mountain over there that she would jump off from."

Severus gave him an icy look, "You should consider speaking politer to the people who know all your secrets. We wouldn't want a cruel person like me to spill all your beans to the angel now would we?"

"That threat won't work anymore slime ball" David glared at him "She will accept me for who I am."

Severus snorted "Are you seriously under the illusion that she would still be interested in you?" He got closer to his face and hissed "After what you did to her in the past? After what you did to her partner?"

David was taken aback and swallowed hard. He wasn't expecting the dark haired wizard to mention that, they made an agreement with the headmaster not to. He automatically moved away from the smirking wizard and held his head low. 

"How dare you bring that up?" he whispered angrily "In front of her! We made a vow in the presence of the headmaster to not to. It has been long since then, I am not even sure she remembers. And besides, how is that any different from what you did to that Evans girl?"

It was his turn to smirk . The dark haired wizard went pale and was inches away from hexing him. David knew he struck a nerve and smirked even more. The onyx- eyed wizard however recovered very quickly. 

"You are trading on thin ice Dickenson," he spoke calmly "I am not the one whom his love life is at stake here. So tread lightly."

"Who said I want to have a relationship with her?" David whispered his cheeks red "I made a promise and I intend to keep it... that's all."

Just as Severus was about to insult the angry wizard, Florina steered in his arms and spoke incoherently. David at once lowered himself and spoke softly, "What is it Florina?"

Her voice was barely a whisper "Ple.... St... figh...."

"What was that?", he brought his ears closer to her mouth. Severus apparently heard what the witch said and let out a heavy sigh. He looked down at girl who gradually began to recollect herself. He wasn't sure if this was the time to let go of her or not.

She repeated herself for the third time but still the clueless wizard wasn't able to catch it.

"Florina, can you please raise your voice?" David whispered once more.

"She said please stop fighting, alright?" Severus whispered fiercely "Honestly how couldn't you hear that?"

David glared at him but chose not to reply, honoring Florina's request. Instead, he kept patting her head and back soothingly.

After what had seemed like an eternity, the fainted witch finally regained her composure as she slowly moved away from the wizard's arms. The still sobbing elf screamed in delight and crushed Florina in a bear hug. She had to be physically pried away from her by David who growled "She is still weak you midget!"

Florina gave them all a weak smile. Rose, who seemed to be speechless the entire time, flew to her and too crushed her so hard that both of them fell on the snow. To the wizards, it looked like Florina fell over by herself which immediately spiked their concern. This time however, there was no David to pry Rose away from the witch.

Rose exclaimed sobbing, "Florina! Oh my Lanta, you finally woke up! Oh I am very sorry dear. I am very very sorry. I didn't realize sooner what I had just done. I was so focused on making you three invisible that I got distracted. I let your energy fall more rapidly than what was intended."

Florina sat up and shook her head weakly, "It's not your fault Rose," she spoke in her head "you got us out of there."

"No Florina it was!" the sobbing fairy exclaimed "I should have been focused. I am your carrier for lord's sake! I am supposed to keep you alive not be the cause of your death."

The tired witch shook her head more weakly and turned to the wizards who were giving her doubtful looks. She turned to the elf whom her tears were replaced with happy ones and weakly held her hand in hers.

"Bubbles I am fine now," she said softly to calm the elf down "I promise."

In response, the little creature stood up and hugged the witch more gently running her scrawny hands through the witch's hair.

"I love Miss Flora so much", she whispered in perfect grammar for the first time"Please don't ever leave Bubbles....or Rose."

Both the wizards glanced quickly at each other in confusion and back at the scene unfolding before them. Severus, who heard the name Rose for the second time, stared at the couple with more intensity. With more concentration, he might get closer to whom that mysterious Rose is.

Florina on the other hand, was just as confused as Severus. She automatically got very close to the grinning elf and whispered softly, "Bubbles, how do you know Rose?"

Rose cursed under her breath 'Stupid elf!' 

The witch turned to her fairy friend and raised a brow, waiting for an explanation. The fairy however pointed at the two curious wizards as a silent gesture to stop talking about her.

'Fine I will stop but you have a lot to explain,' Florina whispered hotly in her mind.

The witch, slowly turned to face the wizards and scooted closer to where they sat. She turned to the onyx-eyed wizard and whispered weakly, "Thank you sir." Severus nodded in response.

"Who's Rose?" Severus asked her at once.

All Florina hoped at that moment was another energy drain that could unplug her from reality. 'How am I going to divert from answering,' she whispered to Rose.

'Just tell him I am a nobody,' Rose shrugged. Bubbles snickered which earned her an intense stare from the three befuddled individuals. Rose's joke was meant for only the witch to hear, maybe to lighten the mood. 

Why would Bubbles snicker at that same exact time? That seemed to be very peculiar to the witch, unless...

'She can hear you!' Florina exclaimed in her head 'I thought you are supposed to be invisible to everyone except me.'

'Oh my lord,' Rose sighed conflicted. 'Well that might have been a little white lie. Some creatures can...well.....Fine! Yes! She can see and hear me alright. Big deal!'

'Why didn't you tell me that before?' Florina asked in her mind sternly not aware that the two wizards can still see her arising anger. 

Of course no words were coming out of Florina's mouth as she and Rose were bickering non-verbally. But the mixed raw emotions that were morphing on the witch's face were definitely visible. Severus was still waiting impatiently for an answer and grew more impatient at being ignored.

'There was no reason to alright,' Rose replied crossly 'Besides, I didn't know the blasted thing was going to be at Hogwarts. It was astronomical for you AND her to ever cross paths and meet one day. EVER!'

Florina's POV:

What's gotten into her? I wondered.

I have never seen Rose that angry before. She is usually the one who is calm and rational. Wouldn't even raise her voice in the toughest of situations so why get angry now on such a simple thing?

"Hey!" Bubbles exclaimed loudly unaware that the two wizards can hear them "You are a mean fai..." 

Rose immediately did a lock hand gesture and the elf was muted at once.

'ARE YOU CRAZY?!' Rose yelled 'Were you seriously going to expose me in front of the humans?!'

Bubbles apparently wasn't too pleased with the treatment she received from the "mean fairy" and had a lot to say about the matter. Only she was muted and all that was visible were angry mouthing that alarmed the two wizards even more.

'Our kind had a strict agreement with your kind elf,' the angry fairy spat 'Your only job is to protect Florina and that's it. You don't get to interfere in my work, you don't let the humans know of my existence. And you definitely don't let Florina be aware of you being aware of my existence. And so far elf, you broke two of those rules. When the elfish lord Caesar hears about this, he won't be too happy with you, will he?'

Bubbles stopped abruptly at the sound of the threat and immediately fell to the snow weeping.

"Please no tell him," she whispered apparently getting her voice back "Bubbles be a good elf. Bubbles promise to be a good elf."

I was frozen in place by the encounter I witnessed between my sweet innocent fairy, whom suddenly turned to a bossy rude one, and the sniffling elf who was begging my fairy to give her a second chance. A lot of questions started formulating in my head but I was aware that asking any of them in front of the two gentlemen would be impossible.

Taking a sideways glance at the wizards, I saw an oddly calm and uncaring David and a poker faced Severus who was filled to the brim with impatience. He clutched my hand firmly to grab my attention, "You better speak up Woods and you better speak up now," he said coldly. "What's gotten into that stupid elf and who is that Rose?"

I visibly swallowed hard as I was at a loss of what to say. Am I going to expose Rose? Her fairy world would be so severe with her if I did so, but I won't really be harmed. My only punishment would be to... lose Rose. 

'But she lied to you,' my subconscious argued. 'She refuses to tell you all she got and on top of that she didn't tell you about the elf. Not to mention her sudden shift to a mean yelling fairy. She didn't honor her friendship so why would you want her to be with you?'

I nodded to myself in determination. Rose, who practically hears every thought that goes through my head, heard what my subconscious had to say on the matter and was wide eyed.

'Florina, you are not going to expose me, are you?' she asked gently but in fear.

I gave her a sideways glance refusing to make eye contact. She spoke again, 'Florina pl-please. I am your best friend, you cannot do that to me,' she pleaded.

I sighed and looked straight in impatient wizard's eyes, "Honestly sir... I have no idea."

Both Rose and Bubbles sighed in relief. The potions master however wasn't too satisfied with my response and continued to stare without blinking at me.

Severus held his intense stare for an uncomfortable while. After a few moments I noticed something strange in his eyes. He wasn't looking me straight in the eyes like he did before a while ago. His gaze started to wander across my face surveying every inch of it. Strangely as he did so, my heart started to pound faster feeling nervous. 

What's gotten into him? I recalled the many moments he held his gaze, it was almost always uncaring and invasive. Especially when it was just probing for answers.

But this time however, it was completely different. It was filled with...concern. Like it was trying to decipher if I was alright rather than to probe for answers. For a moment it touched my heart, moved me. 

It was the first time I felt concern radiating from the seemingly cold-hearted Professor. His gaze was still wandering across my face with more intensity until it briefly landed on my lips. My heartbeat grew even faster as I felt my anxiety rising. That connection didn't last very long however, as the potion's master abruptly broke his gaze and got up at once.

"I suggest we get going," He mumbled over his shoulders "Unless you and your crew over there want to be turned into frozen sculptures."    

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