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"What was that?" He asked, sounding completely lost. Later he would realize he hadn't felt that pang of guilt and disappointment he would have gotten in the past when thinking the girl he was kissing wasn't Lily.
"That went well." Harry said blankly before collapsing on the bed, shaking with laughter. Severus looked at him as if he had gone crazy before giving up himself and smiling. His smile soon turned into chuckling and chuckling turned into laughing and before he knew it he was trying to catch his breath.
"That did go well, if I may say so myself." The potions master commented between gasps. From all the things that could happen…
"So are we leaving?" Harry asked, his eyes gleaming.
"Yes." Severus asked wiping his eyes. "Why wouldn't we?"
"I thought that maybe you and Asmae would like to spend some time together." Harry said, looking more innocent than Severus thought was possible.
"That's it, kid! You're forbidden to mention anything of the sort about girls until you're thirteen and you're never staying in the same room with that mutt again." Damn that Sirius Black and the influence he had on his poor, innocent Harry! Harry's eyes widened again and he added a pout for a good measure. Severus turned away and levitated the trunks so that they could go, with a single thought in his mind; must not look Harry in the eyes. Must not look Harry in the eyes…
They left the hotel, Severus putting all the avoiding techniques he had developed during the war in use, and apparated away. They spent a few days in Marrakech visiting its famous wizard bazaars -souqs Severus had said was their proper name- before heading north to Fes and even northern up to Tangier. It was there where Severus realized Harry had never swam in the sea before so he made it his goal to visit as many beaches as they could in the week they had left. And they did, Harry finally putting the swimming skills he had acquired from swimming in the lake back home to good use.
They had decided to spend their last night in Morocco in Tangier again, seated at the porch of their hotel room, looking over the see. Harry closed his eyes for a moment thinking back at his first journey out of England. It had been more than he had hoped for really. He opened his eyes again to peer over the see, to the faint lights from the European coastline; it had been a very clear day after a surprising rainfall and Gibraltar had been visible throughout the day.
"We should go there sometime." Harry stated sipping from yet another cup of tea. He couldn't even recall how much of the hot beverage he had consumed but he didn't complain.
"Hmm? There? Where exactly?" Severus asked startled; he had been doing some thinking back himself, specifically their two day excursion to the Atlas mountains. He still couldn't believe how much fun he had had; it seemed to have been years -actually it had been years- since he had been able to be himself in front of people who weren't Harry as he had during the past month. But it had happened and he had the pictures to prove it; Harry was actually planning to arrange them into albums once they got back home. That had put a smile on his face; Harry didn't know, but that would be his first family album ever.
"You know across the Gibraltar Strait? I would like to see Gibraltar." Severus nodded with a smirk.
"It can be arranged." In his mind he was already making plans for a weekend excursion somewhere down the line. "Anyway, you should better be prepared; I have not the faintest clue about what ingredient I might need next for the Wolfsbane. Or were we'll have to go to get it for that matter." The potions master winked conspiratorially as he spoke. Harry laughed.
"Well, I'm hoping for India. Or Norway." Harry offered with a smile. "Anywhere in Scandinavia really."
"Who knows maybe we'll end up in the Arabian peninsula next." Severus offered, they had looked around for war-unicorn sightings in Morocco but rumors seemed to have been just that; rumors. And Harry really wanted to see a war-unicorn up close, even if he didn't press the matter. He never would, it was in his character, but Severus could tell.
"We might." Harry answered with a bright smile and raised his glass in a toast. "To our first vacation abroad!" Severus laughed and clicked his glass with Harry's.
"And to the ones to come." He added as the boy nodded vigorously. The next morning was bitter-sweet. Both wizards had missed the castle they called home but returning meant having to hide again. It was for the best though, Harry decided as he made sure he hadn't left anything behind; he had, after all, just spent an amazing moth travelling.
"All packed?" Severus asked as similar thoughts played in his mind too. It wasn't going to be easy, turning himself back into the distant and cold-hearted man that had been his façade for so long, he imagined.
"All packed." Harry agreed. "Ready to go home!" Severus couldn't resist smiling at that. He levitated his trunk and looked expectedly at Harry; the boy had asked to be taught the spell and Severus had complied. Harry pulled out his wand and said the incantation out loud, causing the trunk to lift steadily from the floor, the spell executed perfectly.
"Well done, Harry!" Severus praised the green eyed wizard as they both walked out their room and checked out from the hotel. The apparated to an empty field outside of the city where Severus pointed at a rock with his wand to create the portkey they would use. "Portus!" They both held onto the rock and in a few seconds Harry felt the now familiar pull as the portkey activated. When he opened his eyes he was back at the castle. After a month away, the boy was surprised by the happiness that gripped him as he stepped foot inside the halls. He had been more homesick than he had thought.
"Master Severus, Master Harry!" The small form of Minnie greeted them, the house elf bristling with excitement. "Yous have returned sirs!" She exclaimed and, before Harry could help himself, he had launched forward and hugged her.
"Missed you, Minnie!" He said and let her go, startled to see the tears brimming in her eyes. Severus smiled fondly at the scene.
"We have missed you." He stated in agreement. "Without you, who's supposed to yell at us if we skip any meals?" He joked as the house elf observed them with an appraising eye.
"You have gained some colour sirs." She stated happily. "And master Harry has grown again!"
"I have?" Harry asked confused.
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