Forgotten

Prologue

She walked slowly through the hallways, her memory assailing her with the sound of laughter that had once echoed harshly off the stone walls. A chill passed over her skin as the ghosts of the past made a fruitless grab for her mind. Clutching her cloak closer around her slim body, she quickened her pace.

She hadn't expected that the castle would so affect her. But then, it had been so long since she'd been there. It hadn't changed much at all. She almost expected to see Sirius around the corner mercilessly teasing someone weaker than himself. Her husband, for instance.

The dungeons loomed ahead and her heart lightened. She nearly ran through the door that led to the Potions classroom. The entire classful of students turned to look at the woman that had interrupted the meanest teacher that Hogwarts had ever seen.

She was young, a forest green cloak hiding whatever else she was wearing. Her hair was cut in a girlish style so that it bobbed lightly at her chin. Standing at just over five feet high, she was the type of woman who most men would want to hide behind glass and protect.

Not looking at the students who were so perusing her, she locked eyes with the professor and grinned widely, looking even younger. Severus Snape glowered rudely at the intrusion. Said intrusion ran up to him and, scowling not quite as hard, he opened his arms wide as she hurtled into them. She lifted her lips sweetly to his and, to the gawking surprise of his students, he accepted them hungrily, pulling her off the ground to deepen the kiss.

He placed her on the ground gently, reluctantly, his fathomless black eyes lost inside dancing violet ones. He leaned his head wearily against hers. "You shouldn't have come here," he whispered.

"I had to see you today."

"Why?"

"I'm pregnant." The words were whispered in his ear and he held her away from him, looking her up and down as though trying to memorize her.

With no warning, he picked her up in his arms again and spun her around. "Oh, Eddie!" He crushed her to him and she laughed.

The class stared at their austere professor.

"Blimey, he's married!" Ron's words were intended to be a whisper, but he'd whispered them at the top of his lungs.

The young woman laughed again, the sound lifting every heart in the stale room. "Did you think he was single? Or merely celibate?" Her husband's strong arms wrapped around her waist and she leaned into him.

"You married him? Why?" The questions came from a serious boy with bright green eyes and the messiest hair she'd seen since graduation.

"Harry. You look so much like James." Without warning she pressed back into her husband, as though in fear. "I married him because I loved him. I still love him."

Severus Snape turned her around to face him. His eyes searched hers again. "Go home," he said coldly.

Eddie wasn't fooled. She pinched his cheek and then kissed the spot lightly. "You're such a grouch," she whispered. "I still wonder how I fell for you."

But it was really no mystery to her. It was to him, but her love could be so dense sometimes. She walked out of the dungeons again, not looking back. There was no point to it. She would see him at home. He would prove to her again that he loved her.

A secret smile traced light across her face. She was pregnant. She laid a slim hand protectively over her belly. Now Severus would have to forgive Sirius. After all these years, her old friend would have forgiveness. She sighed in regret. He didn't deserve it. But she wasn't like him or James.


A/N: Hey peoples!! Just wanted to say I hope you liked it...If you didn't...well, then I don't particularly care...I will read and review you stories if you review mine. Because I'm nice like that.