The Serpent's Teeth:
His Desires
The right thing

Haylee

"So Hannah?"
The young healer did not move instead she just lowered her eyes.

Great, that's it, I'll be dead in a few days...

"Speak, or give me the results." Lily reached out to the test results in Hannah's hand.

The red-haired woman began to study the results with a serious expression that started to morph into an thoughtful one, until finally a small smile graced her lips. "Negative," she said.
"What is negative?" Asked Haylee.
"You...by Merlin... you don't have cancer!" Lily jumped up and threw her arms around a- highly perplexed, Haylee's neck.
"What?"
"You're not going to die!"
"What?! No!" Haylee shouted and stood up in a huf, earning some confused glances from the two healers.
"What the hell does that mean? That's... I mean... how can that be? There is no cure ... and ..." She looked at Hannah, who instantly looked at the floor again. "Don't I know you from somewhere?"
"She was the one who took your blood sample the last time," said Lily.
"But how can this be? Miracles only happen in fairy tales...unless..."
She threw Hannah a sideways glance.
"If I don't have cancer now, then I also didn't have it when I was here last time, right?"
"Haylee, please calm down..." Lily tried to appease her.
"Calm down? Do you have any idea what that means?!"
"Everybody makes mistakes!"
"Mistakes? MISTAKES?! It would have been a mistake if you had given me the wrong medicine. This is not a mistake but a catastrophic debacle!"
"Yes, it look at it this way: You will live"
No matter what Haylee said to the two, neither Lily nor Hannah would understand what these news meant for her!
If she hadn't gotten these bad news, she wouldn't need to worry about the fall of the Dark Lord and he would still be in power.
This mistake committed by a the healer in training named Hannah had completely changed Haylees world!
And not just her world... Who knows how many more victims this war would have demanded?
She dropped to the next best chair.

Haylee tried to resist the urge to laugh, but she didn't succeed.
She was almost hysterical...

"Isn't it wonderful? Think of all the things that you can do now!"
Lily said suddenly.
Haylee immediately stopped laughing.
"Oh damn! The letter!"
Ah, she could have kicked herself...
"What letter?"
"I have to go!" She said, a newfound excitement burning in her eyes
She was almost out the door when Lily called after her to come back next week, just to check.
****
"Oh, damn!" Haylee apparated in the middle of a puddle.
She looked around. This wasn't where she wanted to apparate.

That's what happens when you don't concentrate well enough !, Haylee scolded herself, but immediately started to run toward Spinner's End.
Completely out of breath and soaked to the bone, Haylee pounded on Snape's door.
"Severus! Severus!" She was slowly becoming aware of the cold clawing at her skin.
I should have Apparated in front of his house..., She rejected the idea again, because the door was opened and a surprised Snape looked at her questioningly.
Neither said a word.
Haylee made a step forward and stepped over the threshold.
Water dripped from her to the ground.
She approached him, closing the door behind her, by giving it a nudge with her hand.

"What..." Severus began, but he didn't get far, because Haylee placed her finger to his lips and shook her head, smiling slightly.
He trailed off and she took her hand away, only to kiss him immediately afterwards.
At first Severus was too surprised to react, but then he slung his arms around Haylee and pulled her closer to himself.
****

The two lay next to each other.
Outside the night broke through from the other side of the glass, and the rain drummed softly against the window pane.
"What now?", The silence was broken by Severus question.
Haylee put her head to his chest.
"I love you."
He put an arm around her.
"I love you too."
She looked briefly into his deep dark eyes, and smiled like she hadn't done in a while.
"Do you want to tell me about the strange letter that I got earlier ?"
Haylee hesitated, but decided to tell him everything.
She talked and talked, and he listened without a word.
It was far after midnight, as Haylee finished her story.

"Did you write my name on the list?" His voice was almost a whisper, but Haylee felt that he was concerned.
"No. Why do you even ask? You're not in Azkaban."
"Dumbledore vows before everyone that I'm on his side."
"But you're not, right?"
"I'm like you. Only looking out for myself and the ones I care for. Life isn't about doing the right thing, but to survive."
Haylee hugged him tighter.
He was right.

"Do you think that The Dark Lord will be back? That he'll get back to power?"
"I would be surprised if he didn't rise back to power." absently he ran his fingers through her hair.
Haylee began to think.
If he really came back... She could hardly imagine what that would mean.
But she wouldn't be here.
No.
She remembered what Nick had said.
"South America is apparently quite nice", said Haylee, and looked expectedly at him.
Severus nodded.
"Yes."
Happy that he would remain with her, Haylee finally fell into a well deserved sleep...

Alexander

"Have you seen Haylee ?", Alexander wanted to know from his two younger siblings.
Kathy and Tim shook their heads in unison.
"I haven't seen her since yesterday morning," said Tim.
"Strange." She normally let him know if she wouldn't come home for a while.
The last time that he had seen Haylee had been yesterday afternoon as she had told him that she would be away for a bit to do something.

Alexander went into his older sister's room once again.
The bed had been made, which meant that she hadn't slept in it the past night.
He didn't know what he should do.
What if something had happened to her?
After all, nobody really knew where The Dark Lord was... His gaze fell on his sister's desk, three letters lay on it.
Alexander stepped closer.

One of the envelopes had his name written on it. He opened it, took the sheet of parchment out and read it, but rather than a more accurate information on her whereabouts, Haylee simply wrote what he should do: search a secret keeper that he could truly trust, take care of Kathy, and if he needed help the best person to go to would be Dumbledore.
Alexander couldn't believe what he had just read. He checked the drawers and cabinets only to discover that most part of his sister's belongings were missing.
He switched his attention to the other two letters. One of which was for Kathy, the other for Tim, but they were only to be opened once they reached the age of 17.

For a moment Alexander played with the thought of opening the letters himself right now, but rejected the idea immediately after.
He would do what Haylee asked of him. After all, she had done so much for him...
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A/N:
It seems like ages ago that I uploaded anything to this story, I'm not even sure if any of the old readers are still interested in it or not... But I promised myself that I wouldn't be one of those writers who doesn't finish their stories, so even tough I'm still not fully my old self again I will try to finish this series as promised...
The next chapter will be in Toms / Voldemorts point of view, and is part of Hazels story.
So yes, Hazel will be back after that! :D

Also;
It would literally mean the world to Tom and myself if you guys could follow my second account AriIsMe and check out my story on there.

Until next time
Much love
Jamz