"Why do you care?" She snaps, only to gasp as Severus grasps her chin and jerks her face up toward his. He steps closer, feeling her warm, quick breaths fan against his cheek as he searches her wide-eyed gaze, reaching for anything that might give him a shred of ease as his chest begins to ache. But the scent of her hair is filling his lungs and he can hear her heart thudding viciously against her chest in the silence and he is suddenly drowning in molten amber and—