Introduction:

Raven Pegasus has always been fond of her potions tutor, and after not getting to see him for the past two years, she was thrilled to learn she would be attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, where is his Potions Professor. Imagine her surprise when she finds she has fallen in love with the man! And she's seen it in his eyes, despite his stubborness, he loves her too. Will an unschedule trip back in time let Raven win over the younger boy, so the man will love her in her own time?

Authors Note:
I want to give credit where credit is due. My darling sister Raya Lupin (known as: Malfoy's x Mistress around here) is the heart and soul of this idea. It was orginally part of her plot in roleplay and she was nice enough to bring me along for the ride (Hey any chance to get close to Severus, have to take it laughs). We both loved our time in the past, and since hinting at it in my previous fanfic of The Choice, I thought I'd expand on that bit of time. So, a big Thank you to my sis, who is a wonderful writer in her own right, and proof that the bond of the heart is a stronger bond than that of blood.

Prolog:

Raven Pegasus spent the first eleven years of her life in a Muggle orphanage. Shortly after her eleventh birthday, Professor Albus Dumbledore, and Professor Minerva McGongall agreed to take her up as their shared foster child. Raven didn't want a free-ride and insisted on earning the money she would need for her schooling. In the meantime, she was kept up to date with her peers by being tutored over the summer by various professors from Hogwarts. Raven was always fond of her potions tutor, and was overjoyed when she learned this would be the year she attened Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Apon arriving at Hogwarts for what would be her sixth year, Raven was sorted into Slytherin, much to the dismay of her foster mother, who had hoped she would be in Gryffindor. But much to her own delight, as she knew Professor Severus Snape would be her head of house. What came to a surprise to the girl is how she was finding herself feeling twords the Potions Master. She knew full-well the kind of teacher he was, strict, callous, and a bit on the caustic side at times. He was there to be a teacher, not a friend to the students. But over her summers at Hogwarts, she had also seen another side of the man, a side that many could never believe imagainable.

After trying several times to deny her feeling to herself, she decided to accept them, come what may, but expecting nothing. Nothing until the day, when caught off-gaurd by something the girl had done, she had seem something in those dark eyes, something Raven new very well to be love. Still the stubborn man that he is, Severus Snape, Hogwart's Professor refused to admit such things. Yet Raven, knowing better, started a pursuit to end all pursuits, pulling out the stops every chance she got.

Valentine's day offered up yet another of Raven's 'antics' (Showing up on the Quidditch Pitch, dressed as a Cheerleader for Slytherin...After all, he had told her she needed to show more 'House Spirit'). He denied her the detention she had been so longing for, yet she showed up anyway. And following some 'ill-gotten' advice from an 'un-likely source' (Remus Lupin, amused by the whole situation, had told him 'Kiss the girl, As it was bound to drive anyone away from him.'). Raven knew that night she was right, yet all she heard was denial, and when he'd aloud himself even the slightest addmitance it was with the thoughts that, she was too young for him, and that he was a Professor, and her his student, so it was just wrong. Not swayed by his arguement, Raven continued her pursuit...and then it happened...She was offered a way to get to the boy and win him over...and in hopes...the man in the future as well.