Severe ( A Severus Snape fan fiction)

Chapter 1: "Happy NEWTS Season!"

"Professor I almost wish I had been put in Slytherin House" Athena said leaning over her desk closer to Severus.
He scoffed, humoring her as he scribbled his quill on a student's papers. "And why's that?"
She leaned back enthusiastically "So then I'd have more opportunities to annoy you!" She exclaimed, smiling.
Severus gave a smirk and an eye roll as she laughed triumphantly at her own joke. Athena was the only student Snape ever had that he actually didn't mind talking to. This didn't come easily of course, it took years of Athena being persistently terrible at potions and needing extra help for Snape to finally get used to her company; after all, she is a 7th year student now and she is finally on conversation-terms with the potion's professor.
"Shouldn't the students of Ravenclaw house be naturally intelligent?" he joked, glancing up at her to catch her reaction. Athena fake gasped "burn, professor" she winked, putting her thick Auburn red hair behind her ear, smiling big enough to show teeth.
They shared eye contact for half a millisecond before Severus cleared his throat and asked "Did you happen to notice the fairies being used as decoration for the annual Christmas tree in the dining hall?" He paused, Athena looked up from her potions text book.
"Yeah?"
"How would Mrs. Whittle feel about that?" Athena saw an interest for gossip in the professor's eyes, making her laugh and reply "My mother knows that fairies consent to being used for their light. Besides they're so vain it's flattering to them."
Snape's face suddenly showed slight concern, but a hint of curiosity.
"Are you planning to follow in your mother's footsteps and work in WHIFF?" (Witches Hollistic Institute for Friends of Fairies) her mother was one of the founders, and because of this Athena grew up around and learned a lot about fairies; Not so fortunately, she had some negative experiences with fairies, which led her to have a complicated relationship with them. Even so, she understood that fairies were not humans, so she learned to accept them.
"Ehhh, that would be a last resort for me. It's definitely not my goal." She replied, leaning back in her seat.
"Well what is your goal? With your grades I hope you're not planning to be an auror." The professor raised an eyebrow at Her.
"Ha-Ha. Honestly I'm not sure, I'd love to open up a divination shop. Professor Trelawney foresaw that in my future my first year and I've been interested ever since." Athena rambled.
It was quiet in the potions room for a second before Snape scoffed. "Boring."
"Not everyone can be professors and Aurors okay?" She rolled her eyes and laughed. Snape chuckled before showing her the time and shooing her out of his classroom and off to the dining hall.

Later at dinner, Athena sat with her friends Matthew Parker, a 5th year Gryffindor with gages, fluffy blonde hair, multicolored eyes and a goofy smile. Carlyle Bones, a fellow ravenclaw 7th year with slicked back black hair and 60's glasses and a groomed appearance. And Willow River, A hufflepuff with thick, messy golden strawberry red hair, amber eyes, freckles and thick red lips: tainted from the lollipop she was gnawing on.
Matthew came late and dramatically plopped down, sighing animatedly and exclaiming "I failed my potions exam!" Willow rubbed his back immediately, comforting him. "come join me in tutoring with Snape!" Athena suggested. "But don't you only get B's? I need perfect grades if I want to be an Auror." Matthew sighed. "You only make B's and you've been getting tutoring with Snape everyday since your first year? What exactly are you and the professor doing during your lessons?" Bones teased Athena, while battling a big bite of chicken and not making eye contact with her. "Didn't you know? We're madly in love and our lessons are just rendezvous," Athena mocked, making the crew chuckle. "I could tutor you," Bones turned to Matthew. "Oh! thank you!" Matthew was relieved to have extra help especially from Bones since he got all As.
"Aren't you already tutoring 10 other students? How are you keeping up with your studies, social life and doing all that?" Asked Willow.
Bones was quiet for a moment while he carefully considered his answer, but then shrugged and replied very matter-of-factly, "I'm a Capricorn." The group of friends laughed and Matthew passed him the biggest mug of coffee he could grab.
"Cheers, to not getting enough sleep."
"Happy Newts season." Clink!
Athena was suddenly reminded that she had barely studied at all. Even though she spent as much time as she could in Snape's classroom, she couldn't recall anything he'd taught her. And even worse she didn't know if it was because of her poor memory or if she'd wasted the past few sessions chatting.
There's no way that old stickler would let time fly like that... right? I must be a damn delight. I conquered THE Severus Snape Athena smiled to herself, She honestly loved being around him. Even though for a long time he had absolutely no interest in her, this year he was almost fun to talk to. Potions tutoring was something she looked forward to—even the highlight of her day. During classes she'd be daydreaming of conversation topics, she would even write down in her notebook things she didn't want to forget to ask him or tell him about.
It certainly was never Athena's intention to Conquer Professor Snape, at first she just needed extra help in class. And to be completely honest, she was amused and (completely innocently) interested in Severus: particularly his constant negative attitude. Athena was caught in deep thought by Bones who said "Do you want me to walk you back?"
She was surprised by the sudden jump back to reality, which is why she seemed startled when she replied, "What? Oh yeah, sure. Let's go."
"You okay?" Bones smirked as they started on their way back to the Ravenclaw Common Room. "Hm? Yeah, just thinking." She yawned and stretched. "Wanna talk about it?" He asked nonchalantly. Athena gulped. "Oh uh it's kind of personal."
Bones smirked again, this time being discreet. "Okay, Goodnight." They both waved their goodbyes and went their separate ways.