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【Severus knows that from anyone's point of view, his act of buying jewelry for Lucius is a sign that he is not short of money.However, he is really short of money.However, he also really wanted to buy expensive gifts for Lucius.

Now Severus can no longer undergo a large number of long-term surgeries like in the past, and he also has no extra income as the hospital director, let alone flying all over the country to attend expert consultations, which has greatly reduced his income.Although Severus had won some opportunities to appear in court as an expert witness and receive expert witness fees, but such opportunities were not many in the greater Boston area, and his health made it difficult for him to travel to other areas to earn extra money.This left Severus with a little over 40.00% of his pre-accident annual income.

In Lucius' case, after borrowing the influence of Kingsley Shacklebolt, who is the state attorney general, Severus reluctantly won work injury benefits for Lucius, who had a stroke more than a month after the car accident, at least allowing Lucius to cover himself Medical insurance with Draco, and monthly work injury disability income.

To be honest, the combined pre-tax annual income of Severus and Lucius of 24 US dollars can be regarded as the top 5000 percent of income in the Boston area. However, 2000 US dollars must be contributed to the federal and state governments. $[-] to buy medical malpractice insurance, $[-] for mortgage, home insurance, property taxes, and homeowners association fees, several thousand dollars for auto insurance and car taxes, and the rest is only over $[-].Of the rest of the money, Severus would have to spend thousands of dollars on tests, medicines, and medical equipment for two people not covered by health insurance, thousands of dollars on house repairs, snow removal when it snowed, and utilities. Thousands of dollars for cellphones, internet, and TV.Doing the math, Severus' annual disposable income was no more than thirty thousand dollars.

In order to save money, Severus thought about canceling the cable TV at home, but when Lucius came home every week, he would sit in front of the TV with a remote control. The operation of the TV is too complicated for Lucius now.

Severus tried to take care of the garden by himself, but the wheelchair fell into a ditch a few times, and Severus finally admitted that this activity was beyond his ability as he fell to the ground due to his unsteady center of gravity.As it turned out, Draco, who came home every week, took care of the garden chores.Of course, all that remained of Lucius' beautiful, magazine-winning, award-winning garden before the accident was the simplest of lawns and fences.

Since Lucius and Severus ate lunch and dinner every day, the dark-haired doctor couldn't even skimp on food. Lucius's tongue was raised, even when the two of them were the poorest, they only accepted organic food that was at least four or five times more expensive than ordinary food.As a result, Severus not only had no way to save money in this area, but also had to grit his teeth and go to Whole Foods, which is known for its expensive prices, to buy food.Sometimes, Severus even secretly resented how much Draco could eat when he was home for the weekend.

After much deliberation, the only thing Severus can do is to only turn on the air conditioner or heater in his bedroom from Monday to Thursday in winter and summer, so that the temperature in other parts of the room can only be maintained at a human-tolerable level to save money. Electricity bill.Of course, in order for Lucius to have a comfortable temperature when he got home, Severus would adjust the temperature settings of the entire house to a livable level before going to work on Friday.As a result of this, Severus, who was wearing a down jacket and cutting vegetables in the kitchen the winter before last, was severely scolded by Minerva who came by by chance. When Minerva was around, Severus made sure he would turn on the air conditioner; after Minerva left, Severus turned the heating preset back to the lowest temperature that would keep the pipes from freezing.

When participating in social occasions that cannot be avoided, Severus is thankful that he still has the skill of cooking: he can bring his well-known dishes in the circle every time he gathers, instead of spending money to buy wine and the like expensive stuff.As for holding a party at his own home, Severus even felt a headache when he thought about it: God, in addition to providing food, I also have to hire someone to help clean up after the party. It costs a lot of money every time!

In four years, Severus barely bought himself a single piece of clothing, and the few extra pieces in his closet were all random additions by Luciana when she was dressing up her brother and nephew.

Speaking of which, Severus felt very lucky to be able to make ends meet every month, and when he was lucky, he had a little surplus.That means that he can temporarily not touch the money in the life insurance and retirement accounts of the two people after the accident. Severus always felt that the money was money that Lucius could use for himself once he lost the ability to work or died, and it would be a great crime to touch any penny of it.

——You know, after the accident, Severus' medical malpractice insurance premium almost doubled, and the mortgage bank also came to join in the fun, raising interest rates under the banner of "declining ability to pay".Facts have proved that people will bend their waists for five buckets of rice.In order to deal with the vicious insurance companies and banks, Severus blushed and begged Lucius' ex-wife Narcissa, and under the banner of "discrimination against the disabled", he cheekily pulled the tiger skin of the state attorney general Kingsley Shacklebolt, and made medical malpractice Insurance premiums were capped at $[-] a year, and attempts by banks to increase lending rates were repelled.

Despite the family fund Abraxas had set up for Draco enough for the child, Severus was still rather ashamed that he couldn't afford Draco's tuition and living expenses.All he could do was prepare a large amount of storable food for his son, and let the child take it home every week to share with his girlfriend Hermione.

Besides Draco, Severus knew he owed a lot to everyone else:

Minerva, Pomona, and Poppy would take time out of their busy schedules to visit Severus' home, and help him with the chores that he had trouble sitting up alone, such as changing sheets, quilts, curtains, etc., and making sure Severus' Physical condition is fine.Since Minerva caught Severus wearing a down jacket at home in winter to save money, they had another task: to prevent Severus from freezing or heating himself to death to save money.Because of this, Severus often felt extremely uneasy.The only thing he can repay them is the very uncreative cooking.It's a pity that they now often reject the meals that Severus has worked so hard to prepare, and only accept those that are not too troublesome to prepare.This deepened Severus' guilt and self-blame.

Lucius' older sister, Luciana, would often send large bags of clothes to Lucius, or simply rush to Boston to look after her brother for a few days, and dress him up as a Christmas tree by the way.This saves a lot of money to buy clothes for Lucius. —God, Lucius smiled so happily every time he tried on new clothes, Severus really wished he was the one who bought Lucius clothes and made Lucius happy.For Luciana's kindness, Severus couldn't even repay with food: Luciana was far away in California, and it would be too troublesome to choose suitable food for delivery and send it so far.In desperation, Severus had no choice but to add an extra portion to Draco's cooking, and asked Draco to convey his kindness to Luciana's son Theodore Nott who was studying at Harvard.

There was one person Severus was least willing to admit to, and that was Abraxas Britten.

Not only did Severus and Abraxas fight over Lucius' custody, but they almost went to court.If Lucius, who was still sober at the time, hugged Severus in front of his father many times and said that he would never separate from her husband, which made Abraxas helpless to withdraw the lawsuit, Severus didn't think he had enough money to pay the lawyer's fees and continue to entangle Abraxas legally.

As a result of the compromise between the two parties, Abraxas has the visitation rights of Lucius. Lucius himself was quite happy about this.

Not long after being admitted to the hospital, Lucius once somehow started looking around for a Rolex he remembered. Severus' heart sank when he saw the photo Lucius had found online: it was Lucius' grandfather's watch that Lucius had sold to help Severus pay for medical school.Apparently, in Lucius' mind right now, the sale of his grandfather's inheritance had never occurred to him. Severus knew, he owed Lucius this.However, he really didn't have enough living money to buy a similar watch.So, Severus did something that made him feel extremely guilty: he bought a replica of the same watch.The watch that Severus couldn't tell the difference from the real one was thrown out of the window by Lucius without hesitation.The platinum-haired man screamed "liar" and "bastard" and didn't talk to her husband for days except to take food from Severus' hands.

Abraxas soon found out what had happened (Severus suspected he had bribed some of the nurses in the long-term psychiatric ward). Abraxas brought his son the Rolex he was looking for.In fact, that was the watch Lucius had sold.After comforting his son, who was enjoying the joy of regaining his loss, the old man condescended to Severus in the wheelchair: "I really can't imagine that after becoming a doctor, you didn't buy all the things for Lucius that he sold for you. Or Say, you expect me, who can't bear to let my father's things fall into other people's hands, to collect all the things Lucius sold, and give them to you without any damage?"

At that time Severus was so ashamed that he was suicidal: he seduced Lucius from his family, and he was not able to give Lucius the treatment he deserved. Lucius' spending habits got used to it.Even before the accident, didn't he even recover for Lucius his grandfather's inheritance that Lucius sold?How could he be so reckless?

Therefore, when Abraxas took out a few pieces of jewelry that Lucius had liked quite a lot, and tempted Lucius to go home with him, Severus did not object as strongly as before: he began to doubt that Lucius was allowed to live in the hospital under his supervision Is it a good idea to face the threat of inhuman coercive measures by strange and ruthless doctors and nurses at any time?If Lucius could have been happier in his childhood home, Severus felt he should let it go.

Unexpectedly, after spending most of the day in Britten Manor, which he hadn't set foot in for many years, Lucius suddenly started looking for Severus everywhere.He cried a lot when he finally figured out that Severus wasn't allowed in Britten Manor and that choosing Severus meant giving up all the lost jewelry and going to the horrible hospital.In the end, Lucius took off all his jewelry except his wedding ring, miraculously bypassed the servants and security at Britten House, and took a bus to Hogwarts Teaching Hospital.

Severus hugged Lucius standing foolishly in the doorway of his office, knowing that his husband always deserved the best in the world.

After being hugged by Severus for a while, Lucius suddenly remembered that he was still angry with Severus.So, he pushed her husband away and began to punish the other party for daring to lie to him with fake products, and for daring to leave him alone in Britten Manor.

Severus coaxed Lucius for weeks before he got his husband to stop.

To Severus' surprise, within a few days, Abraxas gave his son the men's accessories he secretly bought and sold by Lucius, without any strings attached.

After that, even though Abraxas himself despised men's excessive decoration, and even blamed his son's homosexuality on his daughter Luciana's dressing up Lucius as a girl when he was a child, he still bought jewelry from time to time to make his son happy.

Severus lost count of how much he owed Lucius.But he knew that he did owe Lucius a lot of jewelry.So, when Lucius occasionally made requests to Severus pointing to magazines and online things, Severus always tried to satisfy Lucius as much as possible.

Sometimes, Severus even judged himself viciously like this: I mean bastard, I buy things for Lucius just because I'm jealous of Luciana and Abraxas' ability to fulfill Lucius' wishes.I look forward to having sex with Lucius, but I'm content to be able to do something that Lucius' father and sister can't. 】

Lucius pouted slightly in front of Severus.The platinum-haired man tugged at Severus' arm and said, "Celebrate."

Severus secretly had a headache. He didn't know what Lucius was celebrating: perhaps a human bird hatched? ——Of course, for the old Lucius, there was really no reason to buy a new watch.

The dark-haired doctor was hesitating between trying to convince her husband to accept a cheaper watch or buying it in installments when Lucius suddenly said something that Severus thought must be crazy: "Harry is awake."

[The day after Lucius' stroke, Severus met Lily and James Potter with red and swollen eyes in the hospital corridor.From their mouths, Severus learned that Harry had suddenly fallen into a coma for unknown reasons the day before.After that, the Potter family changed many hospitals for Harry, but none of them could find out the reason why Harry suddenly fell into a deep coma.Finally, in desperation, Lily sent Harry to the long-term ward of Hogwarts Teaching Hospital.There, Harry, who needs life support from time to time, was able to get better care than he could at home.

Since Lucius and Harry had an accident on the same day, Severus had strangely linked their fates. Severus felt, and to a certain extent, Lucius himself thought so too.

Ever since Lucius was able to move, he had been visiting Harry often.After Lucius was hospitalized, he was more often in Harry's ward.It can be said that Lucius visited Harry more times than Harry's younger brother Alex and godfather Sirius Black combined.Of course, that also had a lot to do with Lucius' idle state when he was hospitalized.

Severus sometimes felt that Lucius had an inexplicable sense of guilt when facing the Potters. 】

Facing Lucius who insisted that "Harry is awake", Severus reluctantly proposed to visit the awakened Harry.Meanwhile, Severus wondered why Draco hadn't come yet.

So, Lucius excitedly pushed Severus in a familiar direction.

As soon as he arrived in the corridor of Harry's ward, Severus noticed a strange phenomenon: it was as lively as a vegetable market.Not only are the doctors and nurses on this floor gathered here, but even the medical staff whose workplace is several floors away from here are wandering in the corridor.

Seeing Severus and Lucius appear here, the small Doctor Flitwick who was surrounded by a group of people got out of the crowd.The excited head of the psychiatric department screamed: "Severus, this is a miracle! Your friend's son Harry Potter woke up today! Speaking of which, Lucius was the first to discover it!"

Severus glared at Flitwick, thinking he had heard wrong.

"It's pretty unbelievable, isn't it? I mean, we don't know how a healthy young man can suddenly go into a vegetative state at the beginning, and then suddenly wake up again. It's a case worth studying..."

Severus was happy for Lily: Lily seemed ten years older since Harry passed out.Now, should she be happy?

[Severus, who took care of Lucius, and Lily, who took care of Harry, looked up and down in the hospital, and their relationship was almost better than when they were children.But there was also a dissonant note: James Potter.According to the conversation between James Potter and Sirius Black that Severus inadvertently overheard, those two bastards who had been violent against Severus since middle school seemed to think that Lucius and Severus, two perverted gays, often visited Harry. Suspected of attempting to assault Harry.Of course, this suspicion was dismissed because it had absolutely no basis in fact, but Severus still reduced the frequency of his visits to Harry, and advised Lucius to visit Harry only when Lily was around.It didn't take long for Lucius to forget what Severus said, and he would go around whenever he remembered it as before. 】

[HP/Awake][LM/SS] Choice - BE Ending Awake Chapter-3