However, her husband would most likely be in his office all day working on lesson plans. Morgan had every intention of making the most of his absence and lounging outside by the lake. The sun would feel wonderful after a week spent lying in bed. Blast! Of course he would choose to come back now! Morgan screamed in her head as she ran smack into a solid wall of black on her way out the door.
“Where are you going?” Severus asked in a dangerously silky voice.
“Out,” Morgan replied as she took a step back so that she could look up at her husband more easily. “Unless I now need your permission to leave our rooms,” she added in a rather nasty tone when Severus did not move out of her way.
“I would rather you did not go roaming around the grounds,” Snape replied, standing firmly in spot.
Morgan’s mouth fell open in shock, “do you really mean to keep me locked up down here?!”
“Do not let your Gryffindor mentality cloud your judgment. I have no intention of locking you up in our quarters. I simply do not want you wandering around the school now that the students are here.”
“Why not?!” Morgan demanded, starting to look thoroughly angry.
“You have only just graduated Morgan, think about what the students would think and ask if they see you here.”
“And why can’t I just tell them the truth?”
“You know it is necessary that we keep our marriage as low key as possible.”
“We’re at Hogwarts Severus! This is the safest place for both of us. Why can’t I simply be myself?!”
“This is the way it must be for now, hopefully will we soon be able…”
“I am your wife! Dammit Severus, why can’t you treat me as such? Or perhaps it’s because you’re ashamed of me?”
“At the moment you’re acting like a spoiled brat.”
Morgan quickly quelled the temptation to stomp her foot in frustration and complain that this whole thing wasn’t fair. She knew it would only prove her husband right. “I can’t stay down here for an entire year. I’ll go mad.”
And will likely drive me mad in the process. “I have no intention of keeping you down here all the time, however I will decide when and where you go. Is that clear?”
“You can’t take away my freedom like that! You have no right!”
“I have every right, and you will do as I tell you.”
“Or what? I’m not a child that you can order around!”
“You may be an adult according to wizarding law, but you are also my wife, and as such will do as I tell you. Especially if you insist on acting in this childish manner.”
Morgan felt the tears welling in her eyes and quickly turned away. She felt her husband lay a hand on her shoulder, but she refused to turn around. Instead she shrugged him off and stomped into their bedroom, slamming the door closed behind her.
Severus didn’t flinch as Morgan slammed the door in his face. However, he couldn’t help but think that his young wife would benefit immensely from a good spanking. She was certainly acting the part of the petulant and spoiled 5 year old. And as he made to follow her he realized that she had hexed the doorknob completely off. Severus improvised and transfigured the door into a curtain, which he roughly pushed out of the way as he stepped into their bedroom to find Morgan pacing furiously. “Stop this nonsense at once!” he commanded in the voice that even made his 7th year Slytherins shake with fear.
Morgan stopped her pacing, but refused to turn around and look at her husband. She wouldn’t look at him, she couldn’t look at him.
“Morgan…”
“Severus.”
Snape sighed, “Morgan, you knew when you married me that our marriage would have to be kept as secret as possible, it is safest that way. You also knew coming into this that I am not an easy man.”
Morgan snorted, that was certainly an understatement. “Are you every going to let me out of these rooms?” she asked bitterly.
“Of course. I believe it would be safe for you to wander about after curfew and during the hour immediately after lunch, there are no free periods then, as long as you are careful.”
“Would you…” Morgan turned around and tentatively raised her eyes before lowering them quickly again, and suddenly sounded very young, “you wouldn’t… ward these rooms to lock me in, would you?”
“I wouldn’t dream of it. Besides, I doubt I could keep you in here by force. I seem to remember you having a rather unique talent for sneaking out of Gryffindor tower after hours. When I consider the disregard for the rules that you had as a student it is almost enough for me to appreciate Potter.”
Morgan swore she caught a glimpse of a smile on her husband’s face, but it was gone before she was certain. She was completely shocked when she realized that he was teasing her. So shocked that she couldn’t come up with anything to say in response, and merely watched, her mouth hanging open, as Severus turned on his heel and left their bedroom.
After a few moments Morgan finally shook herself out of the stupor that her husband’s teasing had put her in and followed him out into the living room. She chewed on her bottom lip as she watched Severus staring into the flames as they danced in the fireplace, a book held idly in his hand. Before she could stop herself she bent over the back of the couch and quickly brushed a kiss across her husband’s cheek before turning and fleeing back into the bedroom, sincerely hoping that Severus would not follow her as she had no idea what to do next.
