[HP] Can you be gentle with me

"No ────"

The Dark Lord fell, but no one had time to cheer before hearing this heart-wrenching cry.Some people turned their heads in astonishment. At the beginning, they didn't understand why Sirius Black would cry out like this. The Dark Lord is dead, they should celebrate, they should-

Then they saw it.

Saw the man kneeling next to someone.That person... that person seems to be the woman who restrained the Dark Lord just now──

And what happened to her?Was she attacked by... who?

"No no no no no no no—" Sirius was still crying in a panic, casting spells from the wand in his hand, trying to wake the woman up. "No... no no no ─ Tahlia... no ─ ─"

The few people on the side arrived a little later, but they could only stand aside silently.

Everyone can't believe it...

And Snape was standing by a tombstone further back, he found that he couldn't move half a step... It seemed that his body was no longer his own, the moment he saw the spell sinking into Tahlia's chest, he couldn't think anything, What should he do—he...he wanted to step forward, but a voice stopped him, he was afraid that it would be more difficult to face after passing...he was afraid to see Tahlia stop breathing in front of his eyes—

It's just a joke, right?

It took almost all of Snape's strength to finally move forward.

Step by step……

It's just a joke, isn't it?

one more step...

Who will tell him that this is just a joke they made together──

"Step aside."

"S...Snape?" Sirius looked up blankly.

That's when Snape realized the words had come from his mouth...but was it his voice?The voice seemed to come from far away, making it almost impossible for him to hear what he said.

But he shouldn't be obsessed with this, and he didn't have the heart to pay attention to Black, from the moment he walked over, his eyes were all on the woman lying on the ground.

"Snape...save her—please..." Black's voice came to Snape intermittently, and it took him a while to understand exactly what Black had said, his voice seemed equally distant from him. "Save her...you...you can save her, right?" Black said helplessly. "She...I know she's not going to die—but she, she can't hear me...she doesn't react—"

"Get out of the way..." Snape heard himself speak again, still with that hollow sense of distance.

"Save her...Snape—"

"I said, get out of the way!"

Before Snape could react, he was already on his knees and stretched out his hand, but stopped in the air the next moment, he hesitated.

He lost the courage to face it again.

"You can save her!" The next second, Snape's robe was grabbed by someone, forcing him to briefly face the man beside him, what's wrong with this man?Crying and breaking down in front of him...is he Black?

"Help her! Snape!" Sirius yelled suddenly, but ended up crying again. "I beg you... Only you...Only you can do it──You have the potion, right? There must be someone who can save her──"

only...he...

Snape gave Tahlia another blank look.

Only... him?

But what is he going to do?

Eyes fell on Tahlia again, and he couldn't help but bewildered.

How did Tahlia fall there?

Her eyes are still open, but her face is paler, but that's not important... If Black was making noises in her ears like this, she would definitely stand up and stop──

But why is she still... lying there?

Just... lying down, lying still.

"Are you kidding me?" He blurted out.

After a while, Remus forced out a sentence. "Severus—"

"You're kidding!" Snape yelled suddenly, leaving everyone else stunned for a moment.

"Severus—"

But Snape was unmoved, his hands were trembling, but he still held Tahlia slightly, letting her lean into his arms. "You should say something." He spat out, his voice trembling uncontrollably.

"Severus..."

"Hush!" Snape looked up sharply, glaring at Remus, then slowly lowered his head. "Did you hear me? Talk—" He squeezed Tahlia even tighter. "Talk to me."

Remus finally gave up talking, crouched down, and grabbed Snape's hand. "Severus, calm down."

Snape looked up, looking at Remus with an indescribably vacant look. "What do you mean?" He suddenly didn't understand why so many people were standing there in a daze at this moment, didn't they know that Tahlia didn't like being stared at like this? "What are you doing here again?"

Not right.

Something was very wrong with Snape.

Even Sirius, who had almost collapsed just now, noticed something strange...

"Snape, you let go of Tahlia first—"

"No." Snape refused almost instantly, and he held Tahlia's hand a lot harder. "she's fine……"

Remus called Snape's name again, speaking as calmly as possible after he looked at him angrily. "Severus...you should know that Tahlia has—"

"She's fine!" Snape growled. "What are you trying to do!"

"Severus!" Remus also turned up the volume. "Calm down! You have to admit—"

"You're wrong, Lupin!" he growled, still holding Tahlia tightly like a hen guarding her chicks. "Get out! You all get out!"

"She's not breathing! Severus Snape!" Remus couldn't hold back a growl, and almost at the same time, at the moment he yelled this sentence, a man rushed towards him, and the next second, he felt his He was punched heavily on the cheek, making his whole head seem to stop for a moment.

"How dare you!" Snape clenched his fists tightly and raised them high, as if he was about to strike again at any moment. "Remus Lupin! How dare you!"

Tahlia is not dead! Tahlia will not die!All of them are wrong...they are wrong!

"Snape, you—"

"Shut up!" Snape almost lost control, he turned back, half-lifted Tahlia again, and yelled at everyone. "Go away!"

Everyone doesn't know what to do...

They had never seen such an out-of-control Snape. For a moment, they could only stand aside, watching the man tightly hugging the man in his arms, lowering their heads and muttering something...

No one tried to convince Snape any more.

They found they couldn't help themselves, they couldn't tell him again that Tahlia was... dead.

"Severus."

Snape raised his head sharply, glaring at the old wizard who appeared at this moment.

"Tahlia isn't dead." He insisted. "She's just tired."

Dumbledore didn't refute anything, just walked slowly, crouched down, and waved his wand slightly under Snape's watchful gaze.

Some yellowish-white light softly enveloped the woman in Snape's arms.

Suddenly, the total chaos in Snape's mind finally returned to normal, and because of this, he suddenly realized what exactly Lupine and the others had said to him just now──

No, that wouldn't be true...

"How... how?" Snape asked in confusion, his voice seemed not to be his own for a moment. "Albus...tell me──" He began to tremble uncontrollably. "Tell me, Tahlia is...alive...I know...I know she's not dead—"

Dumbledore didn't answer right away, and stared at Tahlia quietly for a while longer before slowly raising his head, his blue eyes looking into Snape's, and speaking. "...she's still alive."

At this moment, the tension in Snape's whole body relaxed. He seemed to lose all strength in an instant, and he lost his balance and sat backwards on the ground, together with Tahlia.

"You...you didn't lie to me──" he said with difficulty. "Tahlia really didn't..." If the headmaster lied to him, if he was just thinking about himself—

"Yes, I didn't lie to you." Dumbledore said still flatly. "She's still alive."

Snape lowered his head absently.

Tahlia's face was still bloodless, her mouth was slightly open, but the big movement just now didn't make her respond...

She's... still alive, right?

still alive.

The next second, Snape jerked his head up, stood up with Tahlia in his arms, and the two of them disappeared together.

"What—"

Sirius let out an exclamation, then looked at Dumbledore. "Dumbleodre!" He didn't even have time to think about where Snape took Tahlia. At some point, he was sure that Snape didn't intend to harm Tahlia. He just wanted to make sure of one thing, Dumbledore just said—" Is Tahlia really...really alive?"

"Yes." Dumbledore nodded wearily. "It's not that she's not breathing, it's just that she's very weak... You're all too anxious to notice—"

"Really...really?" Sirius was ecstatic, if not for Remus' pull, he might have thrown himself on Dumbledore. "Then... where did they go?"

"Saint Mungo."

After hearing this, several people hurriedly planned to apparate as well, but what confused them was the last words Dumbledore said before they disappeared.

That sentence directly planted uneasiness in everyone's heart.

"You...you have to be mentally prepared—"

Mentally...ready?

Remus and Sirius stood on the street outside St. Mungo's, with a few people standing behind them, and they looked at each other.

"What does the principal mean?" Sirius asked first.

For some reason, he always felt that the headmaster was too calm...too──

"And why, he showed up so late—"

"Sirius." Remus interrupted Sirius. "Now is not the time to think about it," he said, taking a few steps forward. "Now what we should do is go see Tahlia..."

Sirius shut his mouth, and silently followed Remus' footsteps.

After a while, they stood in front of a door.

Remus knocked a few times before gently pushing the door open.

a mess.

As soon as he opened the door, he immediately saw a large group of therapists busy in a panic, while Snape stood blankly aside, unresponsive to what was around him, his eyes only focused on lying on the hospital bed, being treated by the group of therapists. The Masters healed Tahlia.

"Let it be..." A woman with her hair neatly tied back walked quickly, and Sirius hurriedly made a passage for her to pass through.

"What's going on?" Sirius looked confused.

Remus shook his head first, then remembered what Dumbledore had said earlier. "Sirius…" He hesitated for a few seconds. "I think—"

"Don't say it." Sirius interrupted him abruptly, as if thinking of the same point at the same time. "Don't say it." He repeated. "She's alive—there's always a way."

Even though Remus couldn't be that confident, he kept his mouth shut.

The last spell Voldemort cast will definitely not be a harmless household spell, the color of the spell alone is already clearly revealing the ominous, although there are many spells of purple light beams, and Remus has never seen such darkness in his life Not to mention that the color of the spell is very dark, and it continuously emits a black halo...

He suddenly wondered if it was good news that Tahlia was alive-

There are many very vicious curses in this world, if you fall into any one...

Death would definitely be a relief.

And Snape...

Remus couldn't help noticing that the black-robed man standing there was strangely strange, he had never seen Snape like this before, he never knew that Tahlia's influence on Snape would be so great──Tahlia's injury would cause Snape Became so distraught.

Could it be that he... fell in love with Tahlia?

"Sirius, do you think that Severus's behavior is too different from before?" he asked in a low voice.

Sirius froze for a moment, then lowered his face, and nodded slowly.

Treatment is still going on.

But no matter how many overwhelmed therapists St. Mungo's had rotated through, there was always one man standing silently in the corner of the room.

Even though Sirius and the others had left for a long time, the man still didn't move half a step, still standing there like a statue, as if he was thinking about something.

It also seems to be guarding something.