[HP] Can you be gentle with me

Tahlia snapped her eyes open.

Although it doesn't make any difference to her whether she opens her eyes or not.

Just now she seemed to be completely asleep, now she heard the regular ticking of the second hand of the wall clock.This is very unusual... She hasn't had such a deep sleep for a long time. It's not that she has difficulty falling asleep, but since she woke up from a coma and left the magic world, she has always slept very lightly. She woke up with a start, and she didn't even have a clock in her room, because sometimes even the faint ticking could wake her up—

Fine, so she's not in her room right now.

"you're awake."

A voice suddenly came from beside her, causing her body to freeze unconsciously, and in the next second, all the memories she hadn't recalled just now suddenly flooded into her mind.

Anderson's crazy laughter, the smell of blood in the air, and the gradually cold palm──

There was also that familiar faint smell of damp parchment that emanated from the man's body, which made her so naturally relieved.

Tahlia shook her head, forcing herself not to get excited, before pushing herself up and sitting up, while the pillow behind her was adjusted so she could lean back without fear.

"Where is this?" She asked in a low voice.

"A safe enough place."

Tahlia then turned her head in the direction of the man's voice. "Severus, I don't need your protection."

The man was silent for a while, before speaking slowly. "I totally understand."

Then Tahlia stopped talking.

In fact, Snape's heart is far from being as calm and calm as he seems on the surface. He thought that the first thing Tahlia asked after waking up was Derek's situation. After all, she was thinking about him before she fell asleep. An Wei, and if she really asked—he hasn't figured out how to answer it yet.

But there was no emotion on her face at all, Snape couldn't be naive to think she didn't care at all, in fact, Tahlia only forced herself to maintain this indifferent expression when she was trying to hold back something, this recognition It seemed that there was always something blocked in his chest, and he had to deliberately suppress that sore feeling even when he was breathing.

"I failed to save him." In the end, he took the initiative to say it.

Tahlia shivered almost imperceptibly, but said nothing.

"He's a Muggle and the potion didn't work...I'm sorry."

Still no answer.

It's not right--

Snape took a deep breath, then slowly got up from the chair next to the bed, walked to Tahlia's side, half-kneeled on the ground, reached out to hold her hand that was exposed outside the quilt, and she was only stiff for a moment, but No plan to break free. "I am really sorry."

Tahlia felt very wrong to him.

Although she didn't withdraw her hand, she was silent and staring blankly ahead. Her hand was cold, and Snape subconsciously clenched it a little more.

"...too many apologies already."

It took a long time for Tahlia to speak softly, each word trembling uncontrollably.

"I don't want to hear anyone say that again—it's irreversible...it doesn't work at all—" She can't do anything, everything is wrong...she's always making mistakes.

Snape squeezed her hand even harder. "If you want to talk about—"

"No." Tahlia said abruptly, quickly withdrawing her hand. "Take me back."

Snape froze for a few seconds. "What?"

"I said, take me back there." Tahlia turned her head again, her black pupils tightly locked onto Snape's, giving him the illusion for a moment that she could actually see. "Take me back." She said again, this time in a tone that was even more irresistible.

"why?"

A sudden smile appeared on Tahlia's face, causing Snape to frown unconsciously, with an uncontrollable unease in his heart.

"I have something still there," she said softly. "a lot of things……"

There was a vague sense that something was wrong, but Snape agreed to Tahlia's request, helped her to her feet, and walked out of the room, just like before when their relationship improved a lot.

"This is your home—safe enough...?"

In the stairwell, Tahlia suddenly said something.

Snape didn't answer, but he didn't refute either, after all she was right, and he didn't know how to feel that she recognized the place even though she couldn't see anything.

Fortunately, Tahlia didn't say anything further, he quickly led her out the door, and Apparated.

It seems that Lupine really listened to his request. When they returned to the place, they happened to see that there were still a few Aurors cleaning up the scene. The blood on the ground had been cleaned, and Derek's body had been cleaned Moved away, the Muggles outside didn't seem to know what was going on here, and Lupine was standing at the counter, whispering to a witch beside him.

Lupine was clearly surprised that they had reappeared in such a short amount of time, mouths opening uncontrollably as they stepped into the shop.

Snape raised one eyebrow slightly, let go of Tahlia gently, and she said nothing, walked straight through the area that was a mess not long ago, as if she really didn't care at all, but after passing by Lupin At that time, he was called to stop.

"Remus?" Tahlia froze for a few seconds. "Why are you here?"

"I came here with Severus," Remus said softly, casting an undisguised glance at Snape. "Are you okay?" He was also watching the scene just now, and he wasn't quite sure how Tahlia was feeling right now.

"Hmm." Tahlia replied, obviously perfunctory, and then asked a question lightly. "Did they take Anderson?"

"Yes." Remus nodded. "I think there should be his trial in a few days. If there is no accident, he has already obtained a one-way ticket to Azkaban for himself—"

Tahlia nodded curtly as well, and then walked forward again, and after a while, Snape heard her hurrying upstairs.

"Is... is she really alright?" Remus watched Tahlia quickly disappear behind with a complicated expression, turned around and asked hesitantly.

"She looks okay?" Snape asked directly.

Remus silently closed his mouth, and then opened his mouth in embarrassment for a moment. "No, I'm just surprised... After all, you've only been away for a few hours—"

Snape didn't speak, and focused only on listening to what was going on upstairs.

"She asked you to bring him back?" Remus asked again after a while.

"...Obviously." Snape replied flatly.

"Do you know why?"

Snape scowled. "She said, I have to come back to get some things—" She shut her mouth suddenly, unable to hide her panic for a moment, because a thought suddenly flashed in her mind. "Damn it!" he cursed, and headed towards the stairs with one stride, and Remus was only taken aback for a moment, then realized that something was wrong, and stepped up to the second floor almost right behind Snape.

And Tahlia wasn't there anymore.

Her room is very tidy, everything is sorted and put away. There is a large bookcase next to the French window of the balcony, which contains books from the magic world, and one of the drawers of the bookcase is pulled open. , seemed unusually abrupt in such an orderly room.

The two walked over quickly and found several notebooks in the drawer, and a small bag was pressed on top of those notebooks.

It was Tahlia's interspatial bag, and Remus had seen her take out all kinds of things from that seemingly inconspicuous little bag more than once. She also had a fancy one in the past. It is said that it was given by Malfoy, but I don't know Since when, she has made one by herself, and people who don't know it will think that it is just a kind of crude beige cloth bag.

"As expected..." Remus heard Snape mutter as he grabbed the interspatial bag.

"what?"

Snape turned his head. "No wand."

Remus blinked and was about to speak, but Snape cut him off.

"She took her wand."

"……Feel sorry?"

"I think..." Snape softened his tone suddenly. "You should go get some old friends—"

"What do you mean?" Remus was a little confused, and his face was full of confusion. "what are you saying?"

"Inform them." But Snape didn't explain further, just continued. "Let them go to the Ministry of Magic..." After saying that, without giving Remus any chance to ask questions, he suddenly Apparated and disappeared into the room.

Now even Remus, who is always good-tempered, couldn't hold back and scolded Snape secretly. If they hadn't been working together for such a long time, and knew exactly how distraught Snape was when Tahlia was in a coma, he wouldn't have planned to scold Snape at all. How pleasant he is--

Thinking about it, he sighed softly, and the words Snape told himself just now appeared in his mind...

He said he wanted to find some... old friends?

Remus was a little taken aback. Those 'old friends' that Snape was talking about didn't mean Sirius, did they?No, he was supposed to be talking about Malfoy?Or Regulus...or the Headmaster?

He shook his head, deciding not to dwell on this issue any longer.

After all, Snape hadn't made it clear who exactly he was going to find, so he couldn't be blamed if he'd gone after everyone he could?

In the blink of an eye, he came to Grimmauld Square and knocked on the door.

The door opened quickly, and it was the youngest son of the Black family who answered the door.

"Remus?" Regulus looked surprised. "Why did you come? Isn't school starting today?" Even my brother had just sent Harry to the station and returned not long ago.

"I've got something for you—" Remus began, walking into the room. "It should be said that I have something to ask you, you and Sirius, it is urgent."

"What's the rush?" Regulus asked confused, and followed Remus into the house.He was indeed puzzled, the person in front of him usually came here looking for his brother, but this time he rarely expressed that he also had something to tell him, and he felt that something big must have happened──

Remus pushed the door straight to the living room, and was not surprised to see Sirius sitting there, frowning at the newspaper in his hand, and he was obviously surprised to see himself.

"Tahlia," Remus said directly.

"Huh?" Sirius looked dazed, and unconsciously threw the newspaper aside, looked up at Remus, completely unable to follow his friend's train of thought. What about Tahlia?He'd only just seen her—did Remus notice the problem with her eyes, too?

Remus shook his head, and spoke to Regulus first. "Please inform Malfoy."

"Notify Mal—sorry, who?"

"Lucius Malfoy," Remus said again. "You go to him, and ask him to come with you to the Ministry of Magic right away."

"Why—"

"This is very important." Remus interrupted Regulus, who was completely unresponsive, and urged him to push him towards the fireplace, and threw a handful of Floo powder in for him, and then, when the green fire burst out, he directly threw the man Pushed in.

After seeing Regulus off, Remus turned around and spoke. "We have to go see her."

"Meet Tahlia?" Sirius frowned. "In the Ministry of Magic?"

"Severus thinks she's gone there," Remus explained, quickly summarizing what had just happened.

Sirius looked shocked.

I don't know if it was because the amount of information Remus gave was too huge or too scary, but he was still a little stunned.

"So we'd better hurry over there."

Remus' words brought him back to reality, Sirius coughed lightly, then quickly led Remus out of his door, Apparated.