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Severus woke up next to a boy who'd been found in the morning covered in rashes.
Apparently, he'd been forced to spend the entire night in the forbidden forest, but Madam Pomphrey didn't know this.
Snitches get stitches the boy had whispered when he'd caught Severus staring a bit too hard at him when he'd told the nurse he'd gone out to look for faeries.
"This place is such a mess" he'd told him when she left. "Just the other day, my friend got caught in the stairs and they used him as a practice target."
"Dumbledore swore me to secrecy." Snape said, gesturing at his bandages.
"I'm telling you, they don't give a shit."