HP: Embrace the Darkness

Ases did not move, but the light on his chest flashed faster and faster.

Then, it was automatically connected.

Joel's anxious voice rang out in the light, "Master, return to the manor quickly."

Joel said only one sentence when there was a sudden crackling sound and a noisy voice over there, as if someone was calling Joel's name. Joel hurriedly said "Hey" and hurriedly reminded: "Come back soon, Master."

After saying that, Joel took the initiative to disconnect.

Ases was stunned for a moment, and his sluggish brain started to work again. He seemed to understand something, and his dead expression cracked a little, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly, as if he was half sad and half happy.

However, this slight emotional fluctuation only lasted for a few seconds before returning to dead silence.

Aces walked silently to Snape's side, his eyes greedily, describing Snape's sleeping face from top to bottom. Suddenly, he reached out and gently held the cold hand in the ice coffin, and whispered, "Sev, wait for me, I'll be back soon."

Snape lay motionless in the ice coffin.

Snape, who had just finished checking the surroundings, floated over and stared at Athis in condemnation.

"What are you waiting for? There's not even a book here. Are you planning to bore me to death?"

After a pause, he said again.

"I understand. Come back soon."

Snape knew that Athis couldn't hear him, so he didn't wait for Athis to answer. He just walked to the other side and sat down, studying the magic circles from time to time, and his eyes drifted towards Athis who was talking to himself.

Athis chattered to himself for a long time before he reluctantly stopped, took Snape's hand very gently, and gently kissed his fingertips.

"Don't be afraid, I'm always here."

The cold spread very quickly, and the body, which had been inside for more than ten minutes, was already covered with a thin layer of frost. The temperature of the lips melted a little of the frost, which slid down Snape's fingertips and dripped onto the back of Ases' hand.

Ases stared blankly, and for no reason he thought of the tears in Snape's eyes and the pair of tearful eyes in the darkness.

"So you really cried then."

"It was my fault……"

For fear of disturbing his lover in the ice coffin, Ases spoke in a low voice. No one except himself could hear these words filled with heavy despair, and no one knew how he was digesting the excruciating pain.

After a moment, Ases slowly closed his eyes, forced away the heat in his eye sockets, silently and gently covered the ice coffin, and turned away.

Snape was still sitting next to the magic circle. When he saw Athis was about to leave, he would be lying if he said he wasn't disappointed. However, before he could accept the fact that he was left behind, the invisible force appeared again and dragged him to catch up with Athis, almost kicking him.

Snape: "..."

Can't you say something nicely?

It's not like he doesn't want to follow Ases.

The force was unaware of Snape's inner complaints and threw Snape up the stairs and flew straight towards Athis.

The first thing Aces did after leaving the basement was to go back to his room to change clothes. The timing when Snape passively passed through the wall was just right. Aces had already taken off his shirt and was unbuttoning his pants with one hand. Soon, his pants were also unbuttoned, and they were loosely stuck below his waist and abdomen.

Faced with the temptation of male beauty, Snape retreated silently.

If he backs out now and says he didn't mean it, will Ases believe him?

Asseth continued to take off his clothes.

Snape hesitated for half a second, wondering whether to look or not, then turned around slowly.

The rustling sound of clothes rubbing against each other surrounded his ears in 365 degrees, but the Potions Master pretended not to hear it at all.

Wait until the sound died down before turning around.

After changing his clothes, Ases drank the potion again. The paleness on his lips and the dark circles under his eyes disappeared immediately. He looked radiant. With his shirt with two buttons unbuttoned, he looked like a nobleman who had just left a banquet, distant and lazy.

Ases pursed his lips, revealing the same faint smile as usual, and strode out of the room.

Snape followed Athis's shadow, relying on the fact that no one could see him, and stared at Athis's lonely back openly, feeling the dull pain coming from his heart as if in self-torture.

At a time when everyone could throw everything aside and cry, Ases suppressed all his emotions, buried all the pain deep in his heart, and went home pretending to be no different from usual, as if his lover had only been away for a short time.

"Don't be sad for me, Athis." Snape reached out his hand and lightly stroked Athis's face. "I'm always by your side."

Asis walked forward without noticing.

One person and one soul walked out of the safe house.

The sunlight was shining brightly in the early morning, not too hot or scalding, and just a faint warmth on the skin. Snape walked beside Aces, looking at the lonely figure on the ground, and suddenly remembered something - so it's not that he can't leave the body, but that he can't leave Aces?

why?

Snape thought for a moment and looked at the blessing mark on his finger.

Is it because of the bond between them?

While he was thinking, the scene around them changed, and he was taken back to Cavendish Manor by Ases.

The manor is unusually noisy today, or rather, the security is unusually tight.

Gavin, who had cleaned up the "garbage" all night, was happy as he led a group of burly men armed with various hot weapons to frequently shuttle back and forth in the manor. They had not even treated the wounds on their faces, nor changed their bloodstained clothes.

Seeing Ases, Gavin was even more delighted. He took two quick steps, then slowed down and greeted Ases from a distance, "Master, come up quickly. They are all waiting for you."

Ases nodded, and as he passed them, he suddenly raised his hand.

A silver light instantly enveloped everyone and healed their wounds.

"Treat the wound first next time."

"Okay, Master!"

Gavin smiled so hard that his teeth were showing and responded happily.

He turned around and angrily urged the big men who were still enjoying the healing effects of the silver light.

"Come on, everyone! If you are listless, I will trouble you to treat me. I will say it again! Don't let me see you distracted during patrol, otherwise - I will make you pay."

As if that wasn’t enough, Gavin kicked one of the big guys in the butt, knocking him to the ground.

Snape was amazed to see Gavin's face-changing skills from all angles.

He remembered Gavin. Apart from being a bit shameless in front of Umbridge, this rough man always looked like a ruffian. When they occasionally met him, he was always as respectful as possible. He didn't expect that he was so... stupid in private.

Listening to the fighting sounds coming from behind, Ases' fake smile became more genuine and he quickened his pace to walk inside.

Joel was standing at the stairs. He was happier than Gavin. He grinned happily, and his mouth corners couldn't be suppressed. Every wrinkle on his face was fully stretched. His usual seriousness had long been thrown away.

Seeing Ases coming over, Joel took two steps forward excitedly. Just as he was about to speak, he paused, then slowly restrained his smile, looked at Ases carefully, and asked suspiciously: "Master? What's wrong with you?"

"We'll talk about it when we get up."

Aces walked straight past him and up the stairs.

Joel had no choice but to suppress his worries and follow him.

Snape was two steps behind Athis, right between the two of them. He turned around and looked down at Joel, taking in his worry. The unknown pain in his heart finally eased a little.

The two of them went upstairs in silence. Asis seemed to know what was happening. He walked to the door of Anna and William's bedroom with ease, lowered his head, took a deep breath, adjusted his facial expression, then smiled and pushed open the door.

Snape had already passed through the wall when Athis took a deep breath and saw the scene inside before Athis - two old couples were standing at the end of the bed, arguing around two cradles. The gunpowder in their words could be smelled from a few meters away. To be precise, it was two old men arguing, and the other two ladies were smiling at the cradles, each one more gentle than the other. Anna was lying on the bed, leaning against William next to her. William was talking to her, and she seemed a little absent-minded until Athis pushed open the door.

Anna’s eyes lit up, and she raised her hand to push William away.

William's face was full of reluctance, but he could do nothing about his wife, so he could only go and compete with his parents and father-in-law and mother-in-law for the right to hold the child.

Anna patted the empty seat beside her and said, "Aces, come and sit down."

Ases' eyes suddenly felt hot and his nose felt sore. The sadness that he had suppressed with great difficulty struggled to burst out from his heart, venting out crazily and uncontrollably, almost forcing him to cry.

In panic, Ases lowered his eyelashes and tightened his grip on the door handle, revealing veins. He was unaware and continued to exert force.

The two old men who had been arguing just now quieted down, and everyone looked at the silent Ases. Anna was the first to notice something was wrong, and her voice trembled slightly.

"Aces?"

Ases closed his eyes, clenched his teeth and stabilized his emotions that were on the verge of collapse. He raised his head and raised the corners of his lips to Anna, pretending to be relaxed and said, "Mother, I'm back."

Children are most likely to feel wronged in front of their mothers.

Even though Ases tried his best to control it, the tail tone couldn't help but tremble.

Those standing in the room now are the ones who know Ases best and love him the most. How could they not hear the trembling in Ases' voice?

Snape reached out his hand again and again, in vain, and watched his hand pierce through Athis's shoulder again and again.

The eyes of the two elegant ladies suddenly turned red.

The two old men who had just been arguing so loudly that they were about to lose their temper took a step forward in unison.

"I knew it, I knew it."

Anna covered her mouth, tears streaming down her cheeks, and spoke incoherently that only she could understand. She threw back the quilt and was about to get out of bed. William, who was about to go over to comfort Ases, turned around and rushed over to push him back onto the bed, but was pushed away by the angry Anna.

"Just now you stopped me from going out to find Athis, and now Athis is here and you are still stopping me. He is my son! My son! Why are you stopping me from seeing my son!"

Snape watched Anna crying and throwing a tantrum, not hiding her concern for Athis in her words, and a part of his heart that had been silent for a long time suddenly ached.

Anna, who didn't know she was being watched, was so angry that her eyes turned black, her body swayed twice, and she fell to the floor.

William was so immersed in the autism of being scolded that he didn't react for a while. Snape did react and went to catch it, but he was a soul and couldn't catch it at all. The others were too far away and couldn't catch up.

In the end, it was Ases, who was closer and not autistic, who rushed forward in two steps and supported Anna.

Anna was like a drowning person grabbing at a lifeline. She touched Athis's cheek with trembling hands. Perhaps it was a mother's intuition, she subconsciously used the spell to remove the radiance agent.

As the spell took effect, the disguise on Athis's face disappeared, and the true appearance that was originally hidden underneath slowly emerged.

Anna opened her eyes wide, looking at the scene in disbelief - Athis's originally rosy face was now sickly pale, and his amorous peach eyes revealed a fatigue and pain that penetrated deep into his soul.

How could her son become like this after just one day?

Suddenly, Anna's tears flowed uncontrollably from her eyes, like pearls that had broken off a string, dripping onto Ases' hand that was supporting her, and then dripping down Ases' wrist, wetting the bed sheets.

"You - you actually drank the potion to lie to me, did you learn potions just to lie to me!?"

She gritted her teeth and cursed twice but couldn't curse anymore.

Then he touched Ases' pale cheek with concern and asked with a sob: "Where are you hurt? Let me see."

Arces shook his head silently.

Anna asked anxiously: "Are you really not hurt? You didn't lie to me?"

"Nothing's wrong." After a pause, Ases tightly grasped Anna's hand that was pressed against his face, as if drawing strength and courage to speak out. He closed his wet eyes and said, "Mother... Sif is in trouble."

"Severus?" Anna's face lost all color. No one knew better than her how much Snape meant to Aces. "What happened to Severus? Is he injured? Where is he? Why didn't he come back with you?"

Aces' lips trembled, ripples appeared in his hollow eyes, and his voice was filled with a wail that was neither crying nor crying.

"Sif may not be coming back for a while."

"He is in a very far place, waiting for me to pick him up and take him home."

In the end, Aces didn't cry, but both Snape and Anna hoped that he would cry. Crying would at least let it out. If he didn't cry, no one would know how much pain and sorrow he was holding in his heart.

Anna sighed, hugged Aces, and patted his back gently to comfort him, "It's okay, don't be afraid, we can find a solution together."

Snape looked quietly at the mother and son hugging each other.

"I'll bring him back."

As if taking an oath, Arces stepped back, looked Anna in the eye, and repeated himself once more.

"I will definitely bring him back."

Even if I give it all.

Anna saw the determination to die for the country in Athis's eyes, and was startled. She cautiously asked, "Where is Severus now? Can I go visit him?"

Hearing this, Snape took two steps forward and appeared in Anna's field of vision, but unfortunately Anna couldn't see him.

Ases gently raised his bloodless lips and revealed a gentle and affectionate smile, "Mother, please wait a little longer. I will visit you after I bring him back."

"That's fine." Anna forced a smile and nodded, but her smile couldn't hide her worry.