[hp] warm as jade

When she woke up, it was almost dinner time.

After sleeping all afternoon, she felt better and calmed down. When she met Draco in the auditorium, she was able to greet Draco calmly.

"What's wrong with you this morning? It looks like you've eaten dynamite." Draco bit his fork and looked at her curiously.

Rong Jiu smiled and said, "If you don't want this explosive to blow you up again, don't ask."

Draco shut up quickly.

Since there are very few people staying in school, everyone sat at the same table to eat, so they didn't say anything else, just buried their heads in eating, and then went to the common room. The small Christmas party was also declined.

"By the way, thank you for the gift." Walking out of the auditorium, the voices of those people were left behind, and Draco spoke again, "I tried it, it looks good and is very comfortable."

"You're all wet." Rong Jiu smiled, "I wanted to knit a couple's style for Aunt Narcissa and Uncle Lucius, but I bought too much thread, which is cheaper for you."

"Otherwise, what are you going to give me?" Draco suddenly became unbalanced when he thought of the beautiful black scarf with the delicate silver snake pattern and the crest of the Malfoy family on it.

"I wanted to give you the model of the Quidditch pitch." Rong Jiu remembered that when the professor took her and Draco to Diagon Alley to buy things to use before school started, Draco once stared at a model of the Quidditch pitch. I looked at the model for a while, but in the end I didn't want to buy it.Although she didn't know the reason, but she was concerned, the thing had already been packed in her dormitory.

Thinking of this, she laughed: "When I wait for the Spring Festival, I can give you a gift."

In order to take care of her, the Malfoy family has always lived for two years.

"The difference in treatment is too big!" Draco was moved in his heart, but he protested, "I can just spend some money on my gifts, but you can design or do it yourself for my parents'?"

"You know how expensive that shit is!" Rong Jiu rolled his eyes, "I saved enough money by helping to make many batches of potions, and the salary for a whole semester was all spent on it. Is it easy for me? I?"

The two walked downstairs talking and laughing.When they reached the basement, Rong Jiu inadvertently raised his head before taking two steps, and was stunned.

Standing there alone, he was covered in dust, his face was black, his hair was messy and greasy, and he was deeply tired, as if he hadn't rested for a long time.

"……professor?"

"En." Snape let out a soft breath, without looking at Draco, as if he didn't exist, "Did you just eat?"

"Yes, how about you?"

"not yet."

"What do you want to eat? Shall I go and prepare it for you?" Rong Jiu greeted him naturally, her tone softened unconsciously.

Draco couldn't stand it anymore, retched, clutched his stomach and walked towards the common room.But what made him even more angry was that those two people still didn't even look at him, as if he didn't exist.

Oops, my heart hurts so much, it takes a kiss from Pansy to get better!

But what he didn't know was that when he left angrily, Rong Jiu stopped talking and burst out laughing.

"Bullying Draco again." Snape scolded her softly.

"On purpose, who told him to make out with Pan Xi every day in front of me." Rong Jiu wrinkled his nose, "And professor, you were not the same just now?"

Snape choked.

"Professor, will you leave later?" Rong Jiu smiled like a little fox, and didn't continue to dwell on this topic.

Snape shook his head, with a faint smile in his eyes: "I'm leaving tomorrow."

"Then you go to rest first, okay? I'll go get something to eat?" Rong Jiu's eyes lit up immediately, but his eyes fell on his mess, and his heart ached immediately, and his voice became softer, just like crying Like a child asking for candy.

"Yes." Snape nodded.

When Rong Jiu walked into the office with a big bowl of hot tomato and egg noodles, although Snape still looked very haggard, he was already much stronger than the previous appearance that just crawled out of the grave.

It seemed that while she was cooking the noodles, he had already tidied himself up briefly, and the mint smell on his body was very obvious, even overshadowing the smell of the potion.

After Snape finished eating, his face looked even better.For a while, Rong Jiu suspected that he was the one who starved for the poor appearance just now...

"Why are you back?" She sat beside him, watched him wipe his mouth, and then asked.

Snape looked at her: "Today is Christmas."

"Huh?" Rong Jiu was a little confused.Isn't Snape someone who misses holidays?

"Didn't you say that you want a gift from me?" Snape was still a little uncomfortable when he said this.

Rong Jiu didn't understand what he meant at all, and just sat there, staring at him blankly.

"Hold out your hand." Snape coughed lightly, a blush appeared on his pale face.Seeing that Rong Jiu still didn't react, he simply held her hand, gently pulled it to him, then took out a silver chain from his pocket, put it on Rong Jiu's wrist, and then carefully fastened it for her. superior.

It was a silver bracelet made up of tiny clasps with a little snake on the side and the word "JS" engraved on the back of the little snake.

Seeing Rong Jiu staring there, Snape coughed again and explained, "It means, Slytherin's Jiu."

"Really?" Rong Jiu finally came back to her senses at this moment, her eyes were bent into beautiful crescent moons, happiness and sweetness could almost overflow from there, "I thought it was..."

Snape turned his head away and snorted, "What else could it be?"

"Well... For example, Snape's..." Rong Jiu said to herself, her face turned red, and she quickly changed the subject, "That, Professor, thank you, I like it very much!"

Snape nodded pretending not to care, but quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

"So, Professor, you came back in such a hurry today...is that why?" Rong Jiu asked softly.After getting an affirmative answer, he bit his lip: "Actually, it's okay to let the owl send it over."

Snape gave her a white look: "It's from the owl."

"Yes, but..." Rong Jiu's voice suddenly stopped.

So, in "My gift to you", the "I" itself is also a gift?

Rong Jiu caressed the chain on his wrist, dazed for a long time, then suddenly jumped up, hugged Snape's neck, and threw him directly on the sofa.Before Snape could react, Rong Jiu's laughter came over: "Professor, why are you so cute!"

"..." Snape's face darkened.

He is almost 37, if you use "cute" to describe him, doesn't this girl feel disgusted?

He originally wanted to slap the girl on the head, but the warmth and softness of her body made one's heart soften involuntarily, not to mention that she was still buried in his shoulder, giggling, never The joy she exudes is really contagious.

He paused, and put his arms around her.He put his big hand on her little head and rubbed it: "Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas!" Rong Jiu said with a smile in his arms.

For the rest of the time, the two of them didn't speak any more, quietly enjoying the snatched moment of warmth and tranquility.

I don't know when it started, the breathing floating in the room became gentle and long.The lights in the office also gradually dimmed, and the remaining thin points fell on them, the scattered black hair was entangled, and the closed eyes could vaguely see tenderness and peace of mind.

……

When Rong Jiu woke up, she only felt that the sleep was unusually sweet, but felt uncomfortable all over.This contradictory feeling made her struggle to open her eyes, and Snape's sleeping face fell into her eyes like this, which made her heartbeat stop for two seconds.

After her shyness passed, she began to seize the opportunity to seriously trace the man's face with her eyes.

Stretched eyebrows, closed eyes, dark blue eyes, iconic aquiline nose and thin lips are embedded in the sallow, no longer young face at his unique distance.There are lines at the corners of his eyes and between his eyebrows, his skin is a little loose, and there are faint wrinkles on his neck—these are all the traces left by the years and sufferings, and Rong Jiu can be sure that there are more of the latter.Because in terms of the lifespan of wizards who are hundreds of years old, 40 years old is really just a young man. Dumbledore is already over a hundred years old. If he shaves his beard, he looks like a 60-year-old Muggle at most.If he dyes his hair again, it is possible to say that he is in his 40s.

His so-called harsh, eccentric, gloomy, cruel, etc. impressions are actually created by him deliberately, right?He used this appearance to conceal the heavy burden and deep emotions in his heart.If you break into his world, you will find that he is actually an awkward and shy person, careful, gentle, dedicated...honest.

Since last week, he has rarely stayed at school, and he almost missed class a few times.With such sudden busyness and the embarrassment of rushing back today, how could she not guess that he deliberately wanted to be with her in order to spare this little time?

She lives in his house, and she likes him so much. If it's someone else, nothing will happen.For this reason, Draco gave her a lot of science, and repeatedly told her to protect herself.But he just studied his potion obediently like that, and he didn't even get into an embarrassment once.Although character is one aspect, after her observation, she came to the conclusion that he didn't think much about it at all.

What an idiot... Thinking of this, Rong Jiu couldn't help laughing.I heard that the professor and Lily were childhood sweethearts, they got along day and night, and their relationship was very good.In this context, Harry is not the professor's son, which shows how stupid and honest he is.

"What are you laughing at?" Snape still closed his eyes, his voice was a little hoarse, a little lazy, full of sleepiness.

"Happy." Rong Jiu whispered.

Snape snorted.

"Are you happy with your gift?"

When he opened Rong Jiu's gift, he almost threw it out - what the hell is a knitted hat with cat ears?

Rong Jiu chuckled.She would give this, because she was talking to the professor that day, and somehow felt that if he had a pair of cat ears, which could show his true feelings, would he stand upright when he saw her again?

But she didn't dare to say this, she just pursed her lips: "I'm happy with the gift you gave me."

Snape's lips curled up slightly.

"what time is it?"

"Ten ten at six." Rong Jiu glanced at the time and replied.

"You can still sleep for a while." Snape held her head and pushed her back into his arms, "Go to sleep."

"Hmm." Rong Jiu muttered softly, but she really felt sleepy again.

The author has something to say:

I wake up in the middle of the night to catch mosquitos...by the way.

By the way, I would like to ask a question that basically has no answer: one thing, your mother wants you to do it, but you don't want to do it, should you do it or not?

good night.