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Evera sat in front of the slytherin common rooms large stone fireplace, the green flames castings a dim glow in the otherwise dark room. She sat there in her long tank top and black leggings with her dark hair in unusual disarray and her legs bent underneath her. She was staring into the fire with a glazed and confused look, her customary cig hanging from between her fingers. It had been a week since the ball and her big “touchy feely show” with Sev, and thankfully no one has brought it up. Except for Walden who’d of course started asking questions which she immediately answered with a death glare that promptly told him to shut it! She’d also successfully been avoiding Sev since then, although to be fair she had a sneaking suspicion that he was also trying to avoid her. God what a mess she’d made of things, she shouldn’t have kissed him in the first place when she knew nothing would come of it. ‘Good going Eve scare him away completely…’ she thought to herself with a sign and a deep inhale of her cig. She passed her fingers through her hair as she let the smoke out, her frustration clear to anyone who could see her. Thankfully it was about 11:45 on a school night so not many people would be coming down from their rooms till morning. So she decided to sulk in self pity down here and away from her gossiping dorm mates. Probably for the best, they couldn’t keep their mouths shut and she did her best thinking when alone anyways. Evera went back to staring into the green flames and was so enthralled with her own thoughts that she didn’t hear the footsteps coming down from behind.
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Evera’s head snapped to the side as she was brought out of her musing by the all too familiar voice of Sev and saw him sitting down in a chair to her right, lighting up his own cig. She’d been dreading the day when she’d have to face him, not sure what she should say or how she should act. It was completely plausible that he would reject her outright and perhaps even act distant with her, a fact that would undoubtedly hurt her. As a matter of fact she was expecting him to stumble of his words as he rejected her and told her that he didn’t like her that way, or perhaps he’d go with ignorance and pretend it didn’t happen. She didn’t know which one would be worse. With a tentative smile she blew out another cloud of smoke “Hey Sev…” she replied in a low unsure voice. Evera wasn’t exactly used to rejection, hell guys usually never said no to anything that was offered to them so she wasn’t sure how to stile herself for the moment when he turned her down. She’d never heard so much doubt in her voice and it irked her to no end that she could allow herself to care so much. After all it was just a stupid school girl crush and Sev was her friend. However that was probably what made it so bad in her mind. She didn’t want to think about the possibility in losing his friendship when just the other day she’d counted him as one of her most trustworthy friends. “How you been…?” she questioned to fill in the awkward silence.

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Evera nodded a bit when he said he’d been alright, wondering whether he would bring up the reason for their avoidance the past week of if she would have to. She dragged her eyes away from the floor and towards him giving a light shrug, “I’ve been ok…couldn’t sleep” she says while brushing her loose hair out of her face and behind her ear. She saw his smirk and returned it before looking down at her cig as she rolled it between her fingers. Heaving a big sign she looks up at him again her mouth opening for a moment before closing again. She might as well bite the bullet and start of the conversation that was long overdue. “Uh…I’ve been meaning to talk to you…about the ball and all…” she starts off, biting her lip with uncertainty. Should she pretend it was nothing and tell him likewise…or go with honestly and hope it doesn’t make their friendship anymore strained. After all hadn’t she been telling herself that Sev was one of her most trusted friends, one of the few she could be honest and open with? Hell the kiss should have said it all but she had no way of knowing what Sev’s mind would make of it. Last thing she wanted was for him to think it was charity, or pity or something. “My intentions weren’t to make things uncomfortable or anything…I just thought you should know that someone out there does have feelings for you…” she explains, her eyes diverted the whole time as she prayed she’d gone with the right choice.

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‘Yeah?!...that it?’ she thought to herself with a frown hoping this encounter wouldn’t turn out to be as quick and awkward as the last one, with her running off to sulk or worse him running off. She was about to tell him to forget about it when he started to speak once more, her head turning towards him now. She couldn’t help the smirk and chuckle that made it past her lips at his first question. “Well if you don’t remember then we’ve got a more serious problem. Yes I did kiss you and…yea I do.” she says with her ever present teasing smirk now on her lips. Slowly however her smirk dropped and softened to a small, kind smile. “Is it really that hard to believe? I mean I know were close friends but I’d always thought I’d made my crush on you quite obvious…” she says with a slight shrug of her shoulders, her eyes now set on his. She couldn’t help but think of his clueless expression as cute, when in other people she just found it frustrating.

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Evera watched the expressions play across his face as he mulled over what she’d just said. Her little confession seeming to surprise him just as she’d expected. Still when he said he’d noticed her flirting and just thought it had been her messing around with him she wasn’t at all surprised. Evera was very sarcastic and enjoyed teasing people just for fun, sometimes people couldn’t tell whether she was being serious or just fooling around as usual. “I figured the frequency in which I teased you would have given it away. Or you probably just weren’t interested…” she says mumbling the last part a bit with a crooked smile. She took great pleasure at seeing the color rise in his face when he mentioned her flirting and flashed a quick smile at him. She tilted her head at his question and brought her cig to her lips for a deep inhale. She slowly blew out the long stream of smoke, a smile slowly stretching her lips. “It means I’d like to get to know you as more than just friends.” she says before once again brushing her hair away. “But this is a two way street Sev…it all depends on how you feel about it. How did the kiss make you feel?” she asked him, her last question purely to satisfy her own curiousness.

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Evera grinned as he explained how he felt during the kiss and she couldn’t help but feel pride at the fact that she was his first kiss. She honestly would have expected Lily to have been his first but knowing that she wasn’t made her feel better about the fact that she was kind of trying to upstage her relationship with Sev. “Yea…you looked like you’d been petrified I would have been worried if I hadn’t suspected it.” she says with a teasing smirk. She loved making boys nervous and knowing she had some sort of power over them but with Sev it was different, cause it wasn’t really like having power. “So I’m your first kiss huh? You ok with that?” she asked, hoping he was and that he didn’t secretly wish it would have been Lily. She signs at his next comment assuming that he thought people had noticed them kiss and were going to start up the grapevine. She wasn’t sure whether anyone else had seen, only knowing about Walden since he’d brought it up once, but to Evera such things didn’t bother her. After all she could care less what other people wanted to think about her. “I don’t think as many people as you think took notice but I understand where your coming from…” she says hesitantly trying not to read too far into his next words. “Sooo you liked the kiss…? What does that mean then, in the greater scale of things and all?” she says with a raised eyebrow and tilt of her head. “Care to try the kiss again? Just to make sure and all.” she says with a small smile as she blew out another stream of smoke into the air.

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Evera kept close watch of his face and how his cheeks flushed once more at her comment. She grinned at this before taking another hit of her cig and blowing it out. By now she’d turned in her seat at the end of the couch, seating near the end and closer to him in the other chair. She returned his smile when he said he was okay with her being his first kiss and she couldn’t help it, she felt her face heat up and wondered if she was really blushing. Gods no one has made her blush in years! She tilted her head down a bit her hair hiding her face a bit without turning away from him all together. Once she was sure she was over her girly moment she shook her hair away and smiled at him, glad that he was willing to see where this was going. However it was his next comment that made her smile dim down as she big her lip and chose her next words. “Well…honestly Sev I don’t think our friendship would suffer if anything were to happen, I honestly think we’d be a bit closer if anything. You see I also know how to guard my feelings.” she says will staring down at her cig as she twirled it around with her fingers. “Still I don’t want to get into anything unless you’re sure it’s ok with you, I mean as long as it won’t disrupt anything else in your life…” she says trying to be subtle about whether or not he had anything with Lily or not, without really coming out and saying it. She would never say it but hearing him mention her did kind of hurt.

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Evera’s own smile grew has she noticed his, it would seem she’d said the right thing. She took in his body language and overall expression when he finally said he was okay with it and that she wouldn’t be disrupting anything. She stayed silent for a moment, pensive about what might be going through his head. Had he given up on Lily? She had been sure that nothing would come of them both because of his unrequited feelings for her, but if he was truly fine with the idea and giving them a chance then was he convinced that it was all a lost cause? The thought saddened her because she wouldn’t want to see him in pain and longing for someone else, but at the same time it was good for him to move on. Hell perhaps this could even change his current relationship with Lily for the better. That is if Lily was done with the whole Potter thing she so insistently denies. Bringing the remainder of her cig to her lips she breathed in until there was nothing left but the bud and crushed it into the ash tray, the cloud of smoke coiling in the air. She looked over at Sev and smiled, a true smile, nothing teasing in it. “Okay then, if your sure. From this moment we are officially dating I suppose…” she grinned before her usual glint of mischief made it back and she stood up and strolled over to him. “Want to practice that first kiss again?” she teases him with a wink, telling herself to take it slow but not being able to help herself.

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She watched his smile turn into a playful smirk and couldn’t help but return it. It would seem now that everything has been straightened out Sev’s nervousness was slowly vanishing, a fact in which she took great delight in. She met his eyes and followed them as he stood up, her head now tilted upward to keep his gaze. She’d been contemplating sitting on his lap but hadn’t been sure whether he would freak out and close up on her again so she was party grateful for him taking the choice out of her hands. The other part of her was slightly whining at loosing the chance. She brought up on of her hands and rested it against the back of his neck, her fingers weaving into his hair as she smiled up at him. Standing up on her toes a bit she brought her own lips mere inches away from his before descending into a soft kiss. The kiss started off as gentle as it had at the ball but this time with more confidence and less doubt in her mind she pressed on, deepening the kiss a bit more but still leaving it open for him to do what he wishes.

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Evera felt his arm snake around her waist and she smiled into the kiss, her body coming up closer to his as she felt him kiss back. She remembered their first kiss and how his body had gone rigid with shock and nerves, how glad she was that those feelings were gone now as she brought up her other hand to place it on his shoulder. Sev was a tall guy so she was grateful when he’d leaned down a bit for her, less work on her part. Once she felt as if she could push her luck a bit more she let her tongue snake out and swipe at his lips for entrance, whether he let her in was up to him. She wondered how far he was willing to go, considering a week ago was his first kiss, and wasn’t sure herself whether she should press too hard. After all she had much more experience in that department and it was a whole new experience for her to have to take it slow on the count of someone else.

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He hadn’t opened up for her but she was okay with that, her eyes opening when he pulled himself away ending the kiss. She stared up at him as he spoke almost taken aback by his suggestion, hell it wasn’t every day a guy turned her down to talk so she took a minute to register this. Evera really shouldn’t have been shocked by this, Sev had never been like most guys to her, especially the guys she’d gotten drunk and fooled around with. She had to remember this wasn’t just fooling around, and she had also planned on taking their time together to get to know him better. A slow smile made its way onto her lips as she stepped down flat and let her hands drop. “Your right. We should do more than just kiss…” she laughed lightly at his idea and nodded her agreement. “I’ll take you up on that offer!” she exclaims with a grin while grabbing his hand and bringing him over to take a seat on the couch with her. She sat sideways facing him with her legs tucked underneath her and an arm over the back of the couch. “So what do you want to know about me that you don’t already?”

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She bit her lip in deep thought when he asked her to tell him something she hadn’t before, not sure where to start. She could always go with her big dark secrets but those were full of consequences and better left for later, like once she knew she could undoubtedly trust him and that he felt the same way as to share his own secrets with her. So instead she pondered on the many other things she could possibly tell him, things that weren’t to revealing. “Uh well…when I was fourteen I snuck away for a day and went wandering around muggle London, I found a book shop and started snooping when I came across a book of poems by Edgar Allen Poe and another on William Blake. Strange and dark fellows they were in my opinion but I actually enjoyed it. And well since I didn’t have any muggle money I stole them!” she says with a sheepish grin and shrug of her shoulders. Not many pureblooded slytherins would ever confess to having gone into muggle territory let alone actually enjoy it much but hell you got to start somewhere right. Not to mention this all had a big part in shaping who she is today. “Your turn…”

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She smirked when he snorted no doubt finding her choice in secrets funny or boring. Hell that would be better than him finding it scandalous in anyway. If word got back to her brother about her escapades to muggle London he would surely tell their parents and there was no way that news would go well. She raised an eyebrow when he confessed to also reading muggle books, something she was definitely not expecting. A smile broke out on her face when he mentioned his favorite poem by Poe being The Raven. “Really? Yes it was there and I love it, not sure which ones my favorite but still a very good choice…” she says with a nod of approval before smirking. “My turn again? You mooched off my secret.” she says with a mock glare and gave a chuckle. She wondered how far he would take this secret thing. How deep into his life he was willing to let her go. She was enjoying herself immensely as of yet.

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She returned his smirk and shrugged when he offered to tell another one of his secrets. She leaned her head upon her right hand; her head tilted to the side a bit as she listened to him speak. Evera took great interest in watching the emotions play out on his face, reading into them and his ticks, like how he’d started to draw random shapes on the leather of the couch, head down and eyes averted. The small smile that had graced her lips slowly faded as she listened; remembering that holiday break, and how he’d also gone back home. She bit her lip and couldn’t help but feel remorse for him and his loss. God what would she do if she’d ever lost her parents? Granted they weren’t the most affectionate and close parents but still, she could only try and imagine the pain of losing once mother. “I’m so sorry Sev…I can’t imagine how hard that must have been…” she says as she glanced down and caught his gaze with her own. Soon she was leaning over and hugging him lightly for a moment before pulling aback and trying to offer a small smile. “Thanks for telling me…I know it probably isn’t easy to talk about with others. Were you close with your mother?”

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“Yea…I’m not all that close with mine either, still I can’t imagine losing them…” she says with a far off look. She knew deep down that were she ever going to get away from her parents’ wishes and live her own life, she would lose them. Maybe not to the extent of death, but she’d be forever lost to them, and vice versa. She shook her head quickly at him, “No no! it’s fine…I mean we said we wanted to get to know each other…and I’m glad you trust me enough to tell me about something so personal.” she reassured him, with kind smile before sitting back the way she had been and contemplating what she should tell him. She’d never lost anyone dear to her and really the only issues in her life were her inner struggle and her impending doom in the form of a stuck up jerk for a husband. Looking up at him she heaved a sign. “My turn…this isn’t exactly a secret, more of a fear but anyways…one of my biggest fears is to end up like my parents. In a lifelong loveless marriage filled with regret, to lose my independence and freedom to some elitist controlling ass.” she says with a shrug of her shoulders and a huff. “Well you know pureblood families are well into arranged marriages and I’ve recently gotten word that my family has already started the search for my suitor. Lucky me…” she says with a sad sardonic smile and a shake of her head.

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Evera shrugged, “Yea I know but it’s just worse knowing exactly what kind of person I’m going to be stuck with. He’ll be a pompous jerk who most likely buy’s into his family’s whole high and mighty bullshit and will be just the same as every other guy my parents have tried to steer me towards.” she says with a shake of her head, and a eye roll that showed just what she thought of the traditions held by purebloods. For a diminutive moment Evera’s face went blank as she stared at Sev with the realization that she might have said tipped him off on her beliefs about the blood supremacy. However she quickly tried to change the subject, stopping when he started speaking again. Her eyebrows scrunched up in confusion and she tilted her head for a moment. “So your dad won’t try and pair you off with some pureblood witch who can carry on the name by giving you lovely pureblood babies?” she asked with a hint of sarcasm in her tone and a wave of her hand. She knew her father was most likely looking over the selection for her as well; making sure whoever married into her family was of proper nobility and the like.

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This time Evera couldn’t hid her expression of shock at his confession. Her eyebrows rising and her mouth opened slightly as to say something. ‘He’s a halfblood? Well that’s one hell of a secret.’ she thought to herself while mulling over this new information. God’s if other slytherins were to find out they’d alienate him for sure, his life would be hell. She understood perfectly why he would keep that information to himself and suddenly felt a burst of pride at the fact that he had confided such a big secret with her. After all Evera was still a slytherin and they weren’t very well known for their trustworthy nature, however she wouldn’t dare tell anyone. She knew what it was like to keep secrets from her own. Only one question plagued her mind now. “Wow…that’s a big secret. I’m going to assume you haven’t told anyone about that right, except for Lily?” she asked him for her own awareness. She bit her lip pensively as she searched his face and thought back to the few years she’d known him. “Feel free to ignore this question if you want but I’m just…curious I mean if you’re a halfblood then why do you try so hard to fit in with Malfoy and the likes of them. You know…dark and sinister.” she asks his with a perplexed expression. I mean was his friendship and interest in them all an act or was he seriously on that path himself?

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Evera nodded her head slowly a lot of her old curiosities cleared up at this revelation. She'd always wondered what made Severus so different from the rest of their pure blooded housemates. Most slytherins don't even like to associate with muggleborns in class let alone outside of it, and yet Sev had always been very close friends with Lily a known muggleborn and gryffindor. This news cleared it all up some what, after all why would he hate muggleborns on site if he's part muggle himself. She wondered whether anyone else had ever had their suspicions about him, however it's not as uncommon to come across a slytherin who doesn't judge based on such superficial things...well okay maybe that's an exaggeration. Slytherins are after all notorious for being stuck up and superior. She tilted her head to one side as he spoke about why he is the way he is, not really expecting him to answer such a forward question. "That's actually a very smart moto, especially in the house of slytherin. I'm not so ridiculous to care as much as most of our peers but I do understand your motives...Were not the most trustworthy at least most of us. You can trust me Sev, I just want you to know that. As for your dark side...I have noticed you take an interest in the dark arts. I just wasn't sure weather it was purely educational with you." she says with a shrug and crooked smile to release some of the tension from their deep discussion.

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“I suppose most of my interest in the dark arts, however minimal is mostly educational. For me dark magic gives me a sense of being wicked when in reality my bark is worse than my bite. I can be real nasty and evil sometimes but most of it’s just my tough girl act…I’m really a sweetie at heart.” she says giving him a playful wink at the last part and laughing lightly. She knew most people thought of her as just another slytherin girl, snobby and self-righteous but really she wasn’t. Perhaps it was such things like her sarcasm and general nonchalant attitude that made her out as such. She once heard it be said that she thought she was better than everyone else simply because she usually chose to be alone, when really she just wasn’t that sociable of a person. Sure she had friends and she loved to party, but most people don’t get to see that side of her until they’ve really started to get to know her. “I suppose it’s my turn now and I should give you something just as juicy in details.” she says with a sign. Where to start? She’d been trusted with so much information by Sev so it was only fair of her to entrust him with her own secrets right? She thought of the people he hung out with occasionally and wondered whether there was any chance he’d spill even by accident. She couldn’t afford any of this getting to her brother. Hell she knew if he did say anything she’d have equally enough chance to ruin him in return, but she knew deep down he wouldn’t, whether out of fear for his own secrets or trust and respect she’d find out sooner or later. “I think all this dark lord shit is bollocks.” she says while looking down at her hands as she picked at her black chipped nail polish. “I come from a family who fully supports the dark lord and his “cause” but I believe it’s somewhat wrong… Sure purebloods are superior in the sense that the magic in our bloodline is strongest and it’s deeply rooted but where would the wizarding world be without muggles to help us breed. We’d be nonexistent without them…we need them .” she says with a shrug. "I've defied my family and interacted with muggles, and I've actually enjoyed myself doing it..." she says in a low voice.

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Evera looked up from messing with her nails and looked at Sev when he said he understood what she meant. ‘Why wouldn’t he understand, after all he is partly muggle. He might just be one of the only few in her house who understood, except for Andromeda that is.’ She thought with a tiny smirk. Andromeda Black, who came from an even more well known pureblood family and wasn’t afraid to be openly different. How many times had Evera called her a blood traitor since they’d started here at Hogwarts, quite a few? She didn’t anymore but only because of the knowledge that if it weren’t for her keeping secrets she’d also be a blood traitor. She’d lose her family and her friends…at least most of them. “I’m a complete coward you know…I’ve always wanted to just say fuck all to everyone and what they think. Hell that’s my motto don’t worry about what others think of you. But I’ve never counted this. I guess it’s because the thought of being an outcast in my own family kinda terrifies me.” she says with a sad smile as she brushed her hair away and behind her ear. “So you see I’m also very good at pretending even though I know that if I ever want to live my own life for me…I’m going to have to come out to everyone as a fraud.”

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