Forever there are Tears of Silver
By,
Aya of the ACLT
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling does. Yet I do own the character Pandora.
Severus Snape was never the type of guy that people thought would have girls falling for him every step that he took. In defense of these nonbelievers, he wasn't, and yet he did manage two get two girls in his life to fall for him. One was destined to marry a different man, and the other destined to end up with a strange contentment. This is their story, which starts, as some stories don't, in the middle of the beginning.
-1976-
Unsurprisingly, no more happiness came to Severus in his sixth year of Hogwarts than in the years prior to it. The so called 'Marauders' still existed to embarrass and destroy Severus, and the woman that Severus loved was still enchained to the man that Severus loathed. It was the natural spiral of Severus's life, for it seemed that he would never find happiness, even with the prospect of true happiness right in front of him and waiting for him to notice.
The weekend before winter break was a Hogmeade trip. And even though the snow fell mirthlessly, this dramatic weather did little to keep the students away from the town. Yet three students were purposefully staying behind. Not because of the weather, for one planned on going out there very soon. No, these students stayed for their own romantic reasons.
Two of the three Slytherins sprinted through the halls. Every once in a while one stopped to kiss the other, and the woman giggled the whole way. It was all paused when they got to the door-less hallway. Once there Severus paced three times in front of wall.
Once a door appeared Severus pulled a giggling Narcissa into the Room of Requirement, which had been set up as a dark study, with book cases lining three of the walls, large silk pillows tossed around the room, and a desk pushed up against the wall. Narcissa examined the room, still clutching to Severus's hand, while he led her to the side of the room that didn't have book cases. At this point, Narcissa stopped giggling and pushing Severus up against the wall, starting to deeply kiss him, from the lips to his neck.
"My love, you move to quickly," Severus said playfully, letting himself loose whenever he was with Narcissa. Narcissa had stopped her kissing, so Severus started to lightly kiss the side of her neck.
"Yes, well I want to get it all done quickly." She joked. Severus stopped his work and pulled back from Narcissa, which was hard for him since he happened to be pushed against the wall and Narcissa was refusing to let their bodies be separated.
"You know if someone catches us, like your sister, I'm doomed." Severus sighed. Narcissa stepped back and looked and Severus, with a roll of her eyes.
"Oh god Severus, no one's going to catch us. After all, weren't you the one with this idea in the first place? We're in the room of requirement, and Pandora, your loyal servant, is keeping guard. Now stop being so paranoid and kiss me before I have to get back to my 'fiancé'." Narcissa complained, pulling on Severus's tie.
"Narcissa, I believe this was your plot, and you do know Lucius will kill me if he finds out about us." Severus said with a laugh. "Pandora, my loyal servant? Please, Narcissa, don't you dare think something like that." He mused of this concept while slinking down to the ground and looking up at Narcissa, who had adopted a somewhat evil grin. She sat on his lap, her legs wrapped around his waist, and as the answer to his comment she lightly kissed him on the lips. Severus groaned in defeat and went back to kissing her neck.
"Good boy," Narcissa joked; sinking into Severus's body and letting him work with no complaints.
Pandora sat leaning against the wall working determinedly on the piece of parchment in front of her, although she'd do anything to get her mind off of what was happening in the room that she was guarding. Severus, her one true love, was in there snogging with another man's woman. Some girls got all the luck. Not only did Narcissa have Lucius, who was smart, hot, and amazingly malicious, but she also had the most amazing guy Pandora had ever laid her eyes on. Never mind his greasy hair and crooked nose; they just added to his aura of mystery.
The sixth year Slytherin girl flicked some black hair off her shoulder and stared up at the wall across from her. Just to feel what Narcissa felt with Severus, for just one moment would make her happy. But it would never happen, no matter how cold, beautiful, and thin Pandora made herself Severus would only have eyes for on girl, Narcissa Black. Yet Severus did use Pandora, which was good enough for her.
Ever since the first year, the moment that Pandora had laid eyes on Severus she had made no pause in becoming his friend. From that day on Severus used Pandora for everything that he wanted, and she would always do as he wished. It was in the beginning of the second year when Pandora got the crush on Severus and the middle of that same year when she had fallen in love. With out taking too long Severus found out about this and used it to his advantage, and yet he never gave Pandora any other chance.
Pandora was the only person that knew about this secret relationship, and she would guard them and help out Severus whenever she could. She would give her life for him. After all, she had gone anorexic so that maybe Severus would notice her over the sickening beautiful and skinny Narcissa. That had worked as well as the whole wearing make-up and dyeing her hair plan that she had done back in the 4th year. One day, if Pandora woke up and looked exactly like Narcissa she knew that Severus wouldn't care. He was always caught up in Narcissa's lips to even care to look at Pandora for more then a few minutes.
There were footsteps and Pandora pushed herself against the wall even more. James Potter and Sirius Black came walking and laughing to something that James had just said they passed Pandora as if she were only a shadow. "If only Remus could get over his furry little problem complex thingy." James was saying as they rounded the corner and left Pandora's sight.
'Remus's furry little problem? I wonder what that is. Maybe he's got a pet rabbit or something like that that's dying. I'll have to ask him. . .' Pandora stopped in her thoughts and sighed. When was she going to see Remus next, after all she was always with Severus and he was always with the rest of the Marauders? She sighed and closed her eyes, letting herself get lost in memories of the fifth year.
Moments later the girl was rudely awoken by the door opening behind her and her falling half-way into the room. Narcissa glared down at Pandora for a moment, then kissed Severus on the cheek and ran off to the exit of Hogwarts, where she would go to Hogsmede and meet Lucius.
Severus followed Narcissa out of the room and shut the door once Pandora was standing up and hurriedly putting away her parchment and quill.
"Hello Pandora." Severus said curtly as he watched her, and then started down to the dungeons. Pandora quickly muttered a 'hello' and caught up with him. "Did anyone come?" He asked out of habit.
"James Potter and Sirius Black passed by, but they didn't see me and just kept walking." She stammered. To compare the relationship between Severus and Pandora would have a result that Pandora was Severus's servant, or something of the such. Severus was taller and held himself with an air of mystery and egoism. While Pandora was short and wore her emotions on her sleeve, with no ego or mystery about her.
It wasn't that Pandora didn't have a mind of her own, oh no, alone without Severus near her she was witty and had a sharp tongue, but those abilities were long wasted on the girl, as she was normally never away from Severus's side. As she was smart and good at school she managed to be in all of his classes and Severus's allowed her to be there only because it was useful to have some one with you that would do anything for you.
"Them again," Severus growled.
Pandora opened her mouth to say sorry, but stopped as they had gotten to the dungeons and were passing Professor Slughorn and Professor Flitwick, who seemed to have just finished a drink and were now headed somewhere else to chat with some other teachers.
"Mr. Snape, Ms. Keeper, stay out of trouble," Slughorn said, with his words slurred and a slight wink to the two. Pandora nodded and continued by, walking in front of Severus this time. She sighed inwardly and walked up to the blank wall that was the entrance to the common room.
"Mamba Du Mal," Pandora said to the wall. It opened to the nearly empty common room and the two teens walked in. "Severus, why aren't you going to Hogsmede with everyone else?"
"I didn't want to see Lucius, isn't it obvious?" Severus asked coldly, as he sat down on the couch. "Why didn't you go?"
"I didn't want to be there in the snow," Pandora quickly lied. Truth was, she loved the snow and would love to be out there, but staying here would give her a chance to be alone with Severus. This rarely happened since Narcissa came into the picture.
Severus shrugged it off and opened a box of chocolates on the table next to him. Slowly he put one of the chocolates into his mouth and savored it. Pandora's watched him, her eyes on the chocolates and her stomach grumbled and Pandora had to hold it. "Would you like one?" Severus asked after he had realized Pandora was watching with a sort of greed in her eyes.
"N-no. I'm okay." Pandora quickly averted her eyes and stood up. "I have homework," She explained, running up to the dorm room that she shared with four other girls. No one was there, only Pandora's little black kitten. "Hey, Echo, I'm starving." She said, walking over to the cat and petting her. The cat, Echo, just opened her eyes to see who was petting her, then closed her eyes once again.
It had been five months since Pandora had gotten Echo, and yet she still was willing to talk to the cat freely and happily, as it happened to be very fun when no one else paid attention to you. The poor girl was practically invisible in Severus's shadow.
With those thoughts Pandora sighed and lay on her bed, quickly falling into a restless sleep with dreams of Severus and Narcissa getting married and leaving Pandora alone in a barren waste land to cry herself to death.
The next day Pandora woke up to Alice, the other half-blood in her dorm, shaking her. Pandora sleepily opened her eyes and looked up at the girl and the owl that was flying above Alice's head.
"The owl's for you, it was fluttering outside of the common room this morning." Alice said coldly. She pointed at the owl then left the dorm, leaving Pandora alone with the two animals. By this time Echo was trying to climb up the posts of the bed to attack the owl and finding it extremely hard. Pandora laughed and stood up, letting her baggy pajama pants fall far down her feet. She gently grabbed the owl and started to pet it softly.
"Well Owl dude, what's the letter?" Pandora asked taking the letter off of the owl's feet. It was one of the schools owls, meaning that whoever sent it didn't want people to know it was them (as nearly everyone in the school owned an owl). This only brought Pandora's curiosity up even more.
Echo had walked onto the bed and sat a little bit away from the owl, hissing at it. Pandora laughed again and opened the door of the dorm, letting the owl out. Quickly she ran back to the bed and tore open the letter.
Dear Pandora, meet me at the hospital wing tonight at 8. And no ditching me again to go Snape stalking, got that? If you aren't there by at least 8:15, then I promise you that I'll go get you. See you tonight. Remus Lupin. PS. I really need some kind of nickname or codename or something, you do too.
Pandora couldn't help but squeal. She was so happy that she had a secret, if only just a friendship where the person didn't see her as a ghost. Pandora hugged the letter and then stuffed it deep into her trunk. With a sigh Pandora picked up Echo and ran down the stairs, ending up on the couch of the common room next to Severus, still in her pajamas.
"You're going to classes dressed like that?" Severus asked, looking over Pandora with an eyebrow raised and smirk on his lips.
"No, it's Sunday Severus. I think your internal clock thingy is messed up because of you know who." Pandora smiled, looking around to see the people in the room.
"Oh. . ." Severus shrugged, realizing that his sense of time was messed up ever since Narcissa, and yet not thinking much of it.
Pandora sighed again, finding it to be her favorite pass time at the moment, or many moments.
"I'm getting breakfast." He announced, standing up and leaving the room.
Pandora sighed and lay on the couch, closing her eyes. A smile staying on her lips as she thought about how jealous Severus would be when he found out about her secret. It was a thought that could keep Pandora happy, even though she knew it wouldn't happen.
"Hey Pandora, help us out here!" Alice said, leaning over the back of the couch. "A rating 1-10, ten being the best, what do you think of Lockhart?" She asked a few of the girls behind her giggling uncontrollably.
"Negative twenty-thousand point five five five." Pandora said, rising and eyebrow as she opened her eyes back up and the smile disappeared.
"Mmm, okay. That's good enough. So you hate him too? So can we get you to go out with him?" Alice asked with a smirk.
"Ew! No way!" Pandora shivered at the thought and wrapped her arms around herself.
Alice laughed and walked back to the group of friends.
Pandora rolled her eyes and then closed them, going back to her happy thoughts.
For the rest of the day Pandora went in and out of sleep, finding it very refreshing and happy. About halfway through the day Severus had come into the Common room and sat down on one of the big comfy chairs, starting to do homework and that kind of stuff. Pandora managed to say Hi before she drifted back to sleep, and truth be told Severus didn't care much about it.
Most of the time the common room was pretty quiet, and Pandora got a much better sleep then she had that night, since this time she had dreams that were hopeful, which it always better then having that restless sleep that came with normal dreams.
Yet when the large grandfather clock stuffed in the corner struck eight, Pandora sat up suddenly and looked around in a frantic manner. Severus didn't notice this and just continued to do homework.
"I have to go," She said, looking at him to make sure he still had enough homework to not do anything interesting while she wasn't 'Snape Stalking'. Quickly Pandora ran out of the common room, holding on to the waist of her pajama pants so they didn't fall, and fixing her tank top so it was more comfortable. In her run, along with tripping over the bottoms of her pants and having her long hair swept into her face, Pandora got out side of the hospital wing as 8:13. She bent over and held her grumbling stomach, trying to catch her breath before walking into the wing to see Remus.
"Are you okay?" Remus's voice came from the corner. Pandora screamed and jumped back, looking at Remus like a deer in the spot light. Remus laughed and leaned against the wall to brace himself. "I didn't mean to scare you."
"No. . . I mean. . . I didn't see you. . . I thought you were in there." Pandora managed to mutter through gasps of air, she pointed a shaky finger at the door of the hospital wing.
Remus shook his head. "As you can tell, I'm not." He walked over to Pandora and putting a hand on her shoulder. "Breath. In and out."
Pandora nodded and calmed down a bit, bringing on laughter so she doubled over and fell on to the ground laughing.
"You're either in a good mood, or just insane," Remus muttered, finding it hard to not laugh. Soon both of the teens were sitting on the ground laughing for no reason whatsoever.
"I . . . think we . . . are both . . . insane." Pandora breathed, trying to stop laughing so she could be serious and scold Remus for calling her a Snape Stalker, yet every time she thought of it there just came more laughter right along with it.
"It's it obvious?" Remus asked, his own laughter dying down.
Pandora shook her head, and covered her mouth with her hands, in a hopeless attempt to stop laughing. They both sat there for minutes waiting to become serious again, which was harder said then done.
"So why did you want to see me?" Pandora asked once she had calmed down enough to speak correctly.
"I just wanted to. You said that we should talk again, and so I decided to set it up." Remus shrugged. "Anyway, my friends all have dates so I had nothing but charms homework to do."
"Oh, I'm sorry. I still have homework; I've slept all day, as you can probably tell because I'm still wearing my pajamas." Pandora said, glancing down at her pajamas in disgust.
"You do realize the pants are way too big for you," Remus mentioned randomly.
"No, really? I hadn't realized that, thanks for telling me." Pandora said with playful sarcasm.
Remus shrugged and scooted over so he was beside Pandora.
"We should actually hang out. I like you; you actually know I exist, which is a plus." She nodded defiantly.
Remus smiled. "Well that's a good thing. So when do you say we met?"
"Five-o-clock." Pandora smiled.
"But I have homework."
"No, five-o-clock in the morning, duh."
"Pandora, I'm not up that early, I stay up late." Remus turned his head to face her and rose and eyebrow.
"Oh really? Last I heard you were an insomniac." Pandora shrugged and turned her whole body to face Remus. "But I'm serious. We can wake up at five and then go for a run together every morning. It will be fun!"
"What's the point? I can't run!" Remus sighed.
"Yes you can Remus. You're athletic. You don't think I don't see you running around with your friends? You just need to do this and you could be in shape, healthy, and a fast runner. That's the point, so I can stay thin and in shape and you can do all those things. Come on, it will be a lot of fun! I used to run, back in the third year, but it was boring all alone, but with you it will be funnier. Please, please, please, please!" Pandora begged, clasping her hands together and resting them under her chin and putting on a little pout.
Remus laughed and shrugged. "Fine. Just don't start taking chocolate away from me. I'll never be able to survive." He smiled.
Pandora clapped and turned the pout into a smile of triumph.
"Don't go getting a big head. God knows I know too many people with too many big heads."
"I don't have a big head." She countered. She placed her hands on her head to make sure it wasn't growing or anything. "See, it's perfectly natural."
"Right." Remus smiled and stood up. "Well, what now?"
She shrugged and stood up along side him. "I'm just a Snape Stalker."
"Well you are. Every time I see you you're with him, or behind him." He smiled and looked out the window at the swirling snow that was still falling. "Are we really going to go running in this weather?"
"I'm not with him now am I?" Pandora said crossing her arms. "And yes we are. We don't have to run outside, I know routs in the school that we can take and never get caught. Or at least I used to. And if needed I can ask Professor McGonagall to let us run without getting in trouble. Yeah, I'll do that. So don't you worry Mr., we'll be okay."
"What will the Slytherin's and Griffindor's say when they see us together?" Remus mused, running his fingers down the frosted glass.
"Well we're only friends nothing more, and anyway, no one's out of their common rooms by five, they may be up, but only very few. That's why I said five. I used to go running at six when people are up and stuff. Just get lots of sleep." She said, still a bit too cheerful for talking about going running at five in the morning.
Remus rolled his eyes and started to walk down the corridor, Pandora following him curiously. "You're loyal." He said. He looked back at her with a bemused expression.
"No, I'm curious. And yes, I do know that curiosity killed the cat, don't bother about repeating it." She rolled her eyes.
"Okay, I won't bother about repeating it." He shrugged. "So, where do you want to go? I'm just kind of walking."
"Some where. . . I don't really care, you're the one that leading." She sighed and randomly stuck out her tongue. Remus nodded and just kept walking, still not going anywhere.
For the rest of that night they just walked and talked. Remus walked Pandora back to the Slytherin common room around 11-ish, and then he headed off to his own common room to most likely get some sleep so he could wake up at five and go running.
-1997-
One of the strangest things to do is to go to the funeral of the man that you killed. It is strange to see the man that you once respected lying dead in front of you and knowing that you were the one that killed him. Yet Severus sat there, cloaked, in the back of the funeral ceremony. He sat behind Gwarp and Hagrid with a few other hooded people who just didn't want their faces seen.
It was one of the most beautiful things that could have been done, and yet it was the most depressing. Especially to Severus, who knew that it was his fault, his own selfish act that had brought on all this depression. The only reason why Albus Dumbledore was dead was because Severus didn't want to die himself. Then again how many times before had he ever been selfish? That was in his nature, it didn't mean it was good, but it meant that it was what was expected of him.
Watching the people in the crowd, Severus couldn't help but feel out of place. There were Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny, sitting together as two couples while they leaned against each other and cried. Tonks, who looked so out of place with her bright pink hair, sat next to Remus. At the sight of Remus Severus shook his head. He was wearing an expression that Severus had seen three times before, each of those times while they were at school and it always had something to do with Severus and Remus's friends.
The rest of the important people in the crowd were teachers, and other students, and the ministry. Even Dolores Umbridge was there, although she didn't seem too remorseful. Severus sighed and looked back at where the body of Dumbledore lay.
The centaurs did their part for the funeral, aided by the Mermaids, which made the ceremony even more beautiful. Even the day seemed to be beautiful just for this purpose. But Severus couldn't help wishing that the day would mourn with every one else, not be so happy. Even if it would just sprinkle rain Severus would be content.
And then the ceremony was over. As everyone started to get up and talk or cry, Severus walked out of the grounds of Hogwarts and paused a little way out of the gate. Where was he to go? He was wanted in Wizardry Britain and at the moment The Dark Lord was plotting and in no need of the death eaters. So where was there to hide? Out of Britain, that was sure.
'How many times have I been selfish?' He asked himself as something came to him. Quickly Severus apperated away from Hogwarts and to his small, pathetic house. Peter was sitting against the bookcase reading a book when Severus walked in. Quickly Peter stood up and put back the book clumsily.
"Hello, Snape, where were you?" Peter asked, he wasn't used to actually coming right out and being so nosy when Severus was the one that he was being nosy about. After all, some of the hatred from their school years still lingered.
Severus rolled his eyes and threw off the cloak he had been wearing, letting it fall onto the couch. "Is that any of your business, Mr. Pettigrew?" He asked with mockery lacing his voice.
Peter pouted and walked up to the attic room, shutting the door loudly behind him in spite.
Severus rolled his eyes again, finding that action to be one of his favorites ever since Peter was forced to live with him. Quickly pushing those thoughts in the back of his head, Severus ran up to his room and grabbed a ratted suitcase, stuffing it with clothes, potions, ingredients, books of both muggle and text book kind, and other junk that he would possibly need.
Once done with that he quietly walked down and put the back at the door, then unlocked the door to his basement and walked down there. It was a very small and cluttered basement, filled with junk from Severus's teenage years and up until his life got too complicated to care about collecting stuff, which was about the time that Harry Potter was born.
The basement was far from organized, and hadn't been touched for years. So a thick layer of dust lay on everything. With a sigh, that disturbed the nicely set dust, Severus walked through the millions of boxes, looking for a specific one. The boxes were labeled by year, the Hogwarts years labeled with a 'Hogwarts year –blank-' and then everything past labeled with a 'Year –whatever age Severus was at the time-'. Passing the one's labeled for his years at school, which were just filled with the yearbooks, pictures, letters, old books, and the junk. He passed the ones for ages 18, 19, and finally got to the smallest and emptiest one for age 20.
"Aha!" Severus exclaimed as he opened the box and pulled out a letter from the box and sat down on the floor like a little kid about to be read a story. The dust swirled around him before settling back down on the floor. He had to stifle back a sneeze and dropped the letter for a moment to make sure he didn't sneeze. Soon all the dust was gone and Severus couple pick back up the letter. He opened it slowly and read it quickly.
My dearest Severus,
I know you have no care for me, or for my feelings, but I had a need to write you one last time. And yes I mean one last time. I know, ever since the wedding of Lucius and Narcissa you have fallen into a state of depression that I have no hope to cure, no matter how hard I try. Only she can cure you, only she can do anything for you. I have tried to break through that barrier that you put up and I have failed, yet with her you drop it in an instant. It makes no sense to me, but that's life. Get over her already Severus! She's gone from your life and she's not coming back. I know that Narcissa is a Slytherin and a pure blood but she is not the type of girl that would go off and cheat on her husband. Face the facts, they are in love. Even if Lucius will go to a prostitute every once in a while, that doesn't mean that they don't love each other, it just means that he's a freak that needs therapy.
Severus I love you so much. I know you already know this, and I know you don't want to hear it again. But you never paid any attention to me, ever! All I ever wanted for you to notice me for a moment, one moment! I went anorexic for the hope that you might notice me. And it worked, for a moment. We had those moments, remember? They were our moments and I'll remember them forever, but Severus that was the only time you ever cared for me with a reason other than your selfishness. You're selfish and I love you nevertheless. No, change that whole paragraph, Severus I used to love you, but someone has helped me see the light and I'm done with loving you until you decide to love me back.
As you also know I have moved away. (Yay!) I have decided to free myself of the bond I have to you and with this freedom I shall now no longer have a side in the war. I have quit the order, which Dumbledore will soon be announcing, and yet I have not completely detached myself from it. I will know what is happening because someone in the order shall be writing me and tell me, therefore if I am needed I shall come back and help you all out. Yes I am getting side tracked and you will learn this all at some point. Now, I moved out of Britain and I am living in Luxembourg, in a small town called Grevenmacher. (The pronunciation is hard and so I won't try to help you say it since, more then likely you won't be coming here.) It's a half wizard, half muggle town between the rivers of Moselle and Sure. Not that you care, but if you ever want me for any reason, you're welcome to visit. Just come to the town and ask for me, it's a small town and people know each other and where everyone lives.
Thank you Severus Snape, with all my heart.
With Love
Good Bye,
Pandora Keeper
"Gray-ven-man-cher." Severus said, trying his best to pronounce it and yet still managing to get far away from the real pronunciation. "Well I guess I'll have to get a train now." He smiled and stuffed the letter in his pocket, paying no attention to anything other than the last paragraph.
It took no time for Severus change into jeans and a button-down shirt, then to grab his bag and leave the house, heading for the muggle train station that was near by. Passing by little houses with lit windows as the Muggle families sat around and drank their coffee, or whatever they did, Severus couldn't help but feel jealous. He had always wanted to get married, have a kid and settle down to drink coffee at night with his family.
Starting to walk quicker in order to avoid envy, Severus got to the train station in record time. There was no line at the ticket station, which was surprising for 5-o-clock in the afternoon, but Severus took advantage of it never the less.
"Is there a train going to Luxembourg?" Severus asked coldly as he looked around the station. There were two trains, each one facing a different direction. Most of the muggles in the station were boarding the trains, one marked for France and the other marked for Scotland. A few muggles stood around waiting for their train, but the thing that really caught Severus's eye were three kids. There was a guy, who looked about to be 16 who was carrying the majority of the luggage that they had, and was wearing a paper boy hat. Next to him stood a girl, about 13, who was wearing many layers and was clinging to a little 5 year old girl's hand. They stood in a line seeming to be talking or something and watching the train headed to France. After squinting a bit Severus realized that they did have tickets in their hands.
"Yes. There's actually one leaving in a few moments. Would you like to buy a ticket? The train actually goes on the bridge that attaches Britain to France, and it does stop in France multiple times, then goes to Luxembourg. It takes a week." The man answered as Severus turned away from the kids and looked back at the man who was now pulling out a ticket. Severus nodded and looked at the prices for the ticket, then paid. He was silent when he grabbed the ticket and headed for the train.
A whole week with muggles, well at least they wouldn't hate him or treat him like hero. Oh yes, now Severus knew what it felt like to be Harry Potter, oh the sweet taste of irony. Or was it the stench of irony? Well what ever the irony had as a smell Severus smirked as he boarded the train and found and empty compartment, where he threw his bag on the baggage holder of the seats, and sat down by the window to watch the view.
The train started to move slowly and soon the door of the compartment opened and the face of the boy that Severus had seen before appeared at the door. "I'm sorry, Sir." The boys said timidly. "We're just looking for a compartment."
"You can sit here." Severus said his voice still cold and he, after glancing at the boy, looked back out the window.
"Oh thank you sir." The boy smiled and walked in, followed by the two girls. He put the bags up on the baggage holder of his side, and then sat down. The girl bowed a bit to Severus and sat next to the boy, who Severus guess was either her brother or boyfriend, and the little girl was either the other sister or daughter, although the latter seemed very unlikely and Severus was really just letting him mind drift away from it's normal train of thoughts.
As the train started to go faster and Severus could tell that they were out of his town and heading quickly out of Britain, or at least as fast as they could. The day was still sunny and happy and Dumbledore's funeral was still fresh in him mind. Dumbledore's funeral and Dumbledore's death.
"What are we doing, Al?" The girl said, laying her head on the boys shoulder. Severus watched them from the corner of his eyes, feeling jealousy engulf him and he didn't even know why. The Boy had put his arm around the girl's shoulders and rested his head on hers.
"We're doing something, that's all that matters." He murmured. Severus couldn't help but let a small smile play on his lips. Apparently the kids were doing something spontaneous, somewhat like Severus. And, from who the two older kids acted, he could tell they were probably not brother and sister. Letting the kids continue to think that they weren't being eavesdropped on, Severus closed his eyes and, without meaning to, fell into a soft sleep.