Love
Actually, the missing scene
Author’s note:
Another one shot silliness. But at least I know
were it came from this time. I was watching Love Actually on video (I
must get the DVD) the scene between Harry and Sarah hit me. Since I love Alan
Rickman (I’m 21, I should begin to put this differently…) and Snape (Yes, I was one happy girl watching TPS) and the
AD/MM ship, this begged to be written.
Only, you must have seen Love Actually, or else this will make no sense.
BTW, this stands completely aside from ‘My best friends girl’, which is
also based on Love Actually. (Yes, I have such wide interests cough)
***
“Professor… sir, Professor McGonagall is
here to see Professor Snape, sir”, Winky said bating her eyes furiously.
“Thank you, Winky”,
Severus said curtly. “How are you settling in here at
Hogwarts?”
“Oh, Winky
loves it here, Professor Snape, sir”. More eye
batting and a rather terrifying smile.
“Well…,that’s…great”,
Severus answered his eyebrows raised. He breathed an
inward sigh of relief when he saw Minerva coming through the door, a bewildered
expression on her face.
“Severus?” she
asked, “What is the matter?”
He pulled a chair closer to his desk and
indicated for Minerva to sit down. “Have a seat”. Still looking
bewildered, she complied.
“Tuck away your timeturner
for one moment and tell me exactly how long you’ve been working here”, he said
rather nicely.
The look of bewilderment on Minerva’s
face only increased. She did some quick calculating and then answered in one
breath: “Thirty eight years , eleven months, three
days and I suppose… what? Two hours?”
He nodded. “Very well, and how long have
you been in love with Albus Dumbledore, our cheerful,
slightly mental headmaster?”
Minerva coloured a lovely shade of pink,
but she smiled a little when she replied: “ Thirty-eight years, eleven months,
three days and I suppose and hour and a half”. Her tone was resigned.
He nodded again. “I thought as much”.
Her eyes widened in surprise. “You
know?”
One of the corners of his mouth twitched
up. “Yes”, he answered matter of factly.
Her face showed panic now. “The whole
faculty knows?”
Another
twitch of his mouth. “Yes”.
She grasped the armrests of her chair
tightly. “Do you think… Albus
knows?”
He doubted for a second. “No…, he doesn’t know. If he did, we wouldn’t be here, having
this conversation”.
Minerva ignored him. She got up from her
chair and started pacing. “Oh, this is bad, bad news”, she muttered.
Severus shrugged his shoulders. “Well, since it’s so obvious
I thought that perhaps the time had come to do something about it”.
Minerva looked at him exasperated. “Like
what?”
“Invite the man for a drink and after
twenty minutes or so casually drop into the conversation the fact that you
would like to marry him and have lots of sex an babies”, Severus
suggested.
Minerva took a step closer to him. “You
know that?”
“Yes”, he replied, also stepping closer,
“and I think Albus would like to know it”.
Minerva rubbed her face with her hands. Then
she looked up. “I can’t believe you’ve just said sex”.
“Me neither”, he smirked.
“You are as bad as the Golden Trio”, she
said, shaking her head.
“Who?” he
questioned.
“Potter, Weasley
and Granger”, she explained.
“Oh yes, I’m bad Harry”, he said
sarcastically.
Taking her by her elbow he began to push
her towards the door. “Do something about it”, he said one final time. “For all our sakes. It’s Christmas”.