HP: Embrace the Darkness

"I..." The boy seemed a little embarrassed, and his voice was a little lower than before, "Is there anything to eat?"

I vomited everything in my stomach, so it was impossible not to be hungry.

Snape, who heard clearly what he said, looked at Athis, and Athis looked back at him with innocent eyes.

It's a difficult fact to talk about.

These two busy people never cook at home. Over the years, neither of them has learned any cooking skills.

"What are you looking at me for?" Snape narrowed his eyes. "You want me to do it?"

Asis thought of the potion whose taste was hard to describe and shook his head subconsciously.

Snape curled his lips in satisfaction and raised his chin slightly: "Go ahead."

On one side was the hungry young boy Snape, and on the other side was his complacent lover. Athis was furious... angry for a while.

"Okay, give me some time."

Ten minutes later, Ases came out of the kitchen with two plates of hot sandwiches.

Snape stared at the familiar dark heart on the sandwich, was silent for a moment, and then accused: "You told Nina you had finished eating."

Ases said, "If I don't say this, she will cry again."

The innocent and lovely house-elf took the words of his two masters as his guiding principles. One day, he heard one of the masters praising the delicious sandwiches, so he diligently made sandwiches for two weeks. During that time, the table was full of sandwiches of various shapes and sizes, and the two of them were almost eaten into sandwiches. In the end, they were forced to return to Cavendish Manor to eat for a few days.

These sandwiches were solemnly handed to Athis by Nina the night before Athis and Snape left home.

The naive elf was worried that his two masters wouldn't be able to eat their favorite sandwiches, so he spent a day making a week's worth of sandwiches.

Snape would never forget the expression on Athis's face at that time, a subtle despair between collapse and an effort to smile.

He couldn't help laughing every time he thought about it.

The afternoon sun slanted in through the window, and fine dust particles floated in the air.

Amid the scattered halos of light, the young Snape saw a gentle smile on "his" unfamiliar face, with a subtle smile and someone's reflection dancing in his eyes.

It all seemed so unreal.

It's like a grand, unattainable dream.

Ases accepted the ridicule from his closest people without any psychological burden and thought that there was nothing wrong with what he did.

"Even Dumbledore can't eat the same candy for a week. I'm just using a white lie to protect our family harmony."

"Well, you're right." Snape's voice was slightly raised with an unstoppable smile. He picked up a sandwich, handed it to Athis's mouth, and said calmly, "Eat it, a white lie."

Aces was at a loss for words as he took a bite of his sandwich and said incoherently, "You've changed, Sifu. You weren't like this before."

changed?

Maybe.

But he prefers himself and his life as it is now, and for this, he is willing to give everything.

Snape didn't want to eat the sandwich, so he fed Athis several mouthfuls in a row before he finished the remaining one-third, which was considered his lunch.

Aces didn't want to eat either. Sharing a sandwich with Snape was already his limit, so he stuffed the two large plates of sandwiches into the empty stomach of the young Snape.

"Eat slowly, don't be in a hurry. If it's not enough, I have more here."

Hungry and showing affection, Xiao Si picked up a sandwich and put it to the tip of his nose to smell it: "Aren't you afraid it will expire?"

"It won't expire." Snape explained in a good mood, "In the entire wizarding world, only Aces has mastered the magic of time and space. The moment the sandwich is placed in the alchemy ring, time stops at that moment. Before the magic loses its effect, nothing will change, let alone deteriorate."

Young Snape was filled with emotion.

You know, as far as he knows, apart from the time-turner, there are no other alchemical props involving time in the magic world, let alone magic. And from the meaning of this sentence, it involves more than just time.

time and space.

time and space.

How did you do it?

How was such magic, which is so close to being impossible, created?

All the questions came to my mind and turned into a question: "Can I learn it?"

Ases shook his head regretfully. "I want to teach you, but you can't learn it. Not only you, but no one else can learn it except me."

Not everyone is like him, who has planned his entire life over such a long period of time. Even if he is willing to teach, he cannot.

Grindelwald, the only one who had a chance to master the basics, was obsessed with love and had no intention of learning, otherwise the Potions Master would not have described him as only capable.

Young Snape did not doubt it, picked up a sandwich, and asked hesitantly: "Lunch... is this all you have?"

Ases felt a subtle sense of disgust and touched his nose awkwardly.

He swore he was better than that, but there was nothing in the kitchen and all he found when he searched through the ring was the sandwich Nina had prepared for him earlier.

Make bricks without straw.

Is this his problem?

No.

Ases convinced himself with a few words and consoled him, "Just make do with it. We can go out to eat in the afternoon or I'll buy some and cook it for you."

The young Snape, who had never experienced a sandwich attack, was not averse to sandwiches. He finished two sandwiches in no time, accompanied by hot cocoa. He could not eat any more.

Ases silently put away the remaining sandwiches, thinking that he could finish all the sandwiches in a few days and put his mind at ease.

Snape was even more ruthless and had already added a fixed daily intake of sandwiches to his schedule.

Without knowing it, the two reached a consensus - all the sandwiches must be finished before the end of the schedule.

After having eaten his fill, Little Si had no idea of ​​his miserable fate of eating sandwiches in the future, and was driven upstairs by the two men to rest one by one.

When there was no sound upstairs, Aces looked at Snape and asked, "What do you want to eat?"

Snape pondered for a moment and said firmly, "I want to eat the steak made by Nina."

"Don't let Nina hear this. I don't want to eat steak every day." Ases leaned over, gritted his teeth and bit Snape's lips, grinding them carefully.

Yes, the last compliment Nina heard was said accidentally by the Potions Master.

Assesse was simply an innocent victim.

You can imagine how devastated he was when he saw the table full of sandwiches.

Snape "good-temperedly" pulled Athis's cheek and pulled him away, "You could have denied it at that time, but you didn't say it."

"Because you like it." Aces grabbed Snape's hand, tilted his head and kissed it inch by inch, from the fingertips to the wrist, his peach blossom eyes curved into half crescents, "Actually, the sandwich is not bad, as long as you like it."