All the characters except from Selene Black belong to JKR.

Chapter 1

It was the first day of the school year and the students would soon arrive to Snape was sitting in his office

with his face hidden in his hands trying to enjoy the last minutes of silence before Hogwarts fill with the voices of these dunderheads as Severus used to call last thing he could stand at that moment was the laughter and the stupid pranks of these idiot children around him.

Thid summer was dark lord is back now and Severus had to spend many hours trying to convince Voldemord that he was loyal to him as Dumbledore had told him to do. He had almost done it although the dark lord is not trusting him at all course he didn't avoid being tortured.

Voldemord used a lot of times the cruciatus curse to Severus making him suffer to extract the truth about his Severus was a master in occlumency and in the end Voldemord believed him.

He stood up, his occlumancy shields up so no one suspect that something has changed this summer and left his his way to the Great Hall he saw Dumbledore

coming towards him."Oh great!"he thought.

"Severus"the old man smiled and looked at him with his kind blue eyes."You look very tired,you must find some time to rest."

His glance turned concerned as he watched Severus's face who was more pale than usual.

Spare me the drama!Severus sent me to him knowing what will happen and now he is pretending that he cares.

Dumbledore smiled making him understand that he knew what he was thinking.

As always...

"I know what you've been through you know that i appreciate now i think that students arrived and we must go to welcome them."

And with these words Albus walked through the Great Hall and sat in his chair at the center of the staff most of the other memebers of the staff

were already there except Hagrid and McGonagal who had gone to take the first sat next to the headmaster.

This is gonna be a difficult year, well more than usual for crossed his hands as the doors opened and the students entered the Great Hall and sat at their tables.

Snape noticed Potter next to his turned his head and saw that Snape was staring at exchanged a glare full of hate.

The "saint" Potter!How much he looked like his father?Every year he looked like James more.

How can i keep doing this?I hate is so looks like he is more angry than usual this year, maybe this has something to do with Albus' orders

to his friends to not inform him about what is happening in Grimmauld caurse he is angry about that, Potter thinks that the whole world spins around him,

he wouldn't even try to think that maybe owls are being monitored by the he must always act like an arrogant child and we must always let him do whatever he wants.

And then...his ,almond eyes in James Potter's body are always there to remind me the reason i keep doing this, the reason i sacrifice so much.

The reason i will never be happy.

His attention got distracted as the gates of the Great Hall opened again and the first years entered following Minerva McGonagal with mixture of excitement

and fear was so apparent on their faces that made Severus think that none of them will never achieve occlumency even for a simple thought, such as where they hide their

dungbombs and hiccough sweets from Zonko' was sure these dunderheads would do their best to make his task as a teacher and double agent worse.

Professor McGonnagal shouted the first name and a little boy sat down in the stool and wore the shorting hat which immediately shorted him in Gryffindor. The shorting

ceremony continued without his attention. His mind was at the meetings with the dark lord,the torture he endured, the other deatheaters' comments on him. They had all enjoyed

his Dark Lord's cold eyes, considering whether he should trust him or just let him die a painfull death. "Maybe death will show me more mercy than my two masters",

Severus thought. His stare was now at his Slytherins who where clapping their hands for their new addition, a pureblood black haired boy who sat quickly on the table next to

an older girl with extraordinary beautifull long, silver hair and breathtaking eyes at the colour of ice with green flames in the center...What? Wait! He didn't remember this

student. And he was absolutely sure he remembered every student in his house. He felt his tember rise." But i'm absolutely sure that Albus knows her. I am absolutely sure

he wouldn't waste a chance to burden me with one more dunderhead who came to Hogwarts for Merlin knows what reason". No, he wouln't let this happen without a word with the

old goat.

His tember kept rising after the feast when Albus announced that the new Defense against the Dark Arts' teacher would be Dolores Umbridge. The pink terror with the awful voice and the

even more awful laugh made every member of the stuff understand that she was here to make sure nothing would happen without the ministry know and aprove it. Severus wasn't

sure what was worst facing Voldemort or facing this pink thing everyday.

After the feast he went straight to Albus' office. He waited ten minutes outside and then he saw Umbridge leaving Albus' office with a half striken and half angry face.

"And you haven't talk with Minerva yet", he greeted her with a fake kindness and entered the headmaster's office. Closing the door he aproached his desk.

"She will cause us a great problem Albus", he told the headmaster who was pushing his bowl with sweets to offer him a lemon drop.

"Do you want a lemon drop Severus?".Dumbledore smiled. Severus wanted to shout him where to put his lemon drops but he kept his face straight and his voice low.

"No thank you, but as i see you are always so kind and generous, would you care to give me an explanation for the girl at Slytherin table because i don't remember

her being a student here and for sure not in Slytherin.

"Ah! You are talking about Selene Black. She is lovely, isn't see? Albus looked amused missing Severus irritation.

"I don't care how she is, I am asking you what is she doing in my house without my permission. Have you shorted her?" he asked now apparently annoyed.

"No i didn't. You know Severus i want to ask one more favor of you.

Here we are.

"You have already asked too much from me Albus", he was shouting now.

"Severus, she is in danger and alone. Her parents were killed by Voldemort two weeks ago, I couldn't short her or announce her in front of Umbridge she would ask thing i couldn't answer.

I thought it is better to be under your protection."

"Do you think my Slytherins won't notice her? They will ask what if someone recognize her and report to the Dark Lord? She will be a target and i will lose his trust "

"Voldemort doesn't know she exists, she was living in France and she was homeschooled, her parents were pureblood from the ancient house of refused to

join Voldemort like most of their relatives and they became his target. They knew this may happen so they had sent their daughter to her grandmother ten years ago. Her parents had told

everyone that she was ill and was living abroad, receiving therapy from the best healers. After Voldemord's return they announced her dead."

"You know Albus that's a great story but what about her last name? It will cause suspicion. And her appearence is...well she won't go unnoticed...she is...", Severus strugled with the words.

Her silver hair, grayish-green eyes, porcelain skin... What the hell was he thinking?

"Extraordinary beautifull"

"Is she a Veela? Do you intend to let a little minx with that kind of magic in a school full of hormonal teenagers? Have you lost your mind?

"Severus..."Albus warned him to stop.

The door had opened and Selene was standing there looking at him. She had heard him talk about her. Severus took his time to look at her too. She was tall and thin but with

well-shaped curves and with a face shining and was expecting her to be offended by his words and act like any other child but she was calm and her eyes were warm. She looked

straight in his black eyes.

"I'm not a Veela sir" said only the girl with a soft but steady voice. She wasn't afraid of him but she wasn't arrogant was so...so..."innoscent", he thought.

"Beautifull and innoscent, a perfect jewel." He suddenly felt like he was looking into something he didn't deserve to look. He turned his back at her to hide a painfull

look that crossed his face.

"What do you want from me Albus?" He asked after a minute remembering that the headmaster was there whatching him.

"I want you to accept her in Slytherin and let her use your mothers' last name, I have already told the stuff that she is a distant relative of yours."

"You seem to have already thought about everything",he spat angrily, "What if i refuse?"

"She may be in danger Severus, you are the only one i can trust with this information. You are a master in Occlumency and you have proved it many times. I don't want to imagine

what would happen to her if Voldemort find out about her."

Snape turned again at the girl. She didn't say anything, she neither begged him nor accused him for his denial to protect her. For a reason he couldn't understand, this

was making him feel more angry about Albus.

"Allright headmaster", he said with a cool voice" I'm taking my niece Selene Prince to show her the Slytherin Common room and her dormitory." And without any other word he

exited the office with a gesture to the girl to follow him.