Author Note: So I fixed up the last chapter and changed some things around. Thanks for those who reviewed, I probably would not have continued posting without your support...whoops. Getting into the Snape/OC stuff hope he stayed true to character let me know if you think his personality does not fit. Hope you like it, if so let me know.
Everything belongs to J.K Rowling.
I awake to Asle's wet tongue going over my face I look up to his blue eyes.
"Ughhh! Asle!" I jump up. Well I'm up! I groan as I pet his head.
He try's to pull his head back into his stall but his large silver horns catch for a moment on the frame. I laugh at his momentary frustration. While he yanks his head back and gets caught again. He frees himself with a turn of his head and chirps.
I look at my clock that I unpacked to see it's 7:30. Crap. I jump up and grab my stuff and jump into the shower that's located in a little room off the bedroom. The small bathroom has a nice bathtub, a sink and a toilet. Thank god!
Once I'm done putting on my light makeup that matches my green eyes. I attempt to wrangle in my hair and throw on some of my nicer wizard apparel.
I wear black riding boots grey leggings, a black fitted button up dragon leather vest with a grey long sleeve shirt underneath. Then I whip on my floor length dark blue cloak.
I walk out my door without a moment to spare. Hagrids just walking up to the door as I open it. He looks at me eyes raised.
"Now you look like a wizard!" He grins.
"Ya,ya,ya. Thanks" I shrug off. He laughs.
I pause him for a moment as I jog around my house and open Asleners door. He comes jogging out almost running me over. I giggle. He comes back around and pushes his head into my chest. My head between his horns.
I laugh. "Now you stay here! Only in this yard! Okay!" He grumbles but sits. I give him a pat as I go to the front of the house to meet Hagrid.
We start to walk up to the school and I turn around to see that Asle has already started to roll around and enjoy himself. I smile.
By the time we finally get to the grand hall I am speechless. The place is amazing, I am shocked and speechless.
"Wow!" My mouth hangs open as my eyes survey the room.
The four huge tables that take up the whole room and the ceiling that looks like it part of the sky, are amazing. Hagrid grins and pats me on the back. I scan the room, my eyes then land on the group of people at the other end of the hall.
I blush. "Umm." Fish balls that's a lot of people! Hagrid pushes me in that direction.
As we walk up all eyes are burning into me. I greet Albus Dumbledore first, he smiles and gives me a hug. Ummmm a hug okay right I'm good.
"Great to finally have you here Delacour." He says in my ear.
I smile. "Good to be here sir."
"This is not all of the teachers, only these ones come early." He whispers in my ear then addresses the other teachers. "EVERYONE THIS IS DELACOUR DIPPET THE NEW TEACHER!"
I stand face red as everyone gives their "Hello's".
Everyone seems great. Put that on my list I think as a guy with a weird eye and the last name Moody gives me a scowl. I smile in return.
"Well sit! Sit." Dumbledore motions to a seat.
A nice older woman by the name of Minerva pulls out the chair next to her.
"Hey." I say with a smile.
She looks back at me grin. "Hello, are you excited to teach the new class."
I nod "Yes very, I hope that students will be interested."
She smiles wider. "Of course they will my dear." She pats my back.
There were only three seats empty I realize as I sit down next to an empty one. Hagrid already causing a ruckus on the other side of Dumbledore.
"Okay we are ready to eat now." Says the headmaster.
I hear multiple pops as elves appear holding trays. They set down my plate and I start in on the best meal I've ever ate. I'm so famished that I don't notice that the last person has joined us.
I feel wind move as they sit down next to me.
I hear Dumbledore clear his throat. "Severus have you met our new teacher yet?"
I hear nothing, then a clear and irritated voice saying "No I have not".
I turn to greet him. I see a dark man with a prominent scowl. His nose dominates his face but in a good way and his dark hair frames his masculine features. His eyes are even darker than his hair if that is possible. He's not an overly handsome man but he's got nice feathers besides his overpowering dangerous looking expression.
He is sitting straight as a rod in his seat. I'm in the middle of a bite and I try to swallow quickly as I offer him a smile and my hand.
He scowls down at me and my smile falters. He looks down at my hand and shakes it briskly.
"I'm Delacour Dippit, nice to met you!" I say regaining my smile.
"Severus Snape" he says uninterested.
I nod and turn back to my food. What's wrong with him? Notice tread carefully. Let's investigate. After I'm almost done I slip a glance down the table his way and act like I'm interested in the other teachers. I notice that he did not touch his plate and is sipping on a tea looking miserable.
Being brave I say "So what do you teach Severus?"
His black eyes lock onto mine. "Potions, and it's Professor Snape." He snaps.
If I was not used to dealing with dragons I probably would have flinched but I scowl right back at him. So he wants to play it like that!
"Well then good to know" I say curtly with a quick roll of the eye.
I turn to Minerva before I see the look on his face. No one noticed our little conversation, I see with a glance around the room.
"The ride here was nice!" I say to Minerva and she starts talking about the weather and dragons. I zone out.
Okay never mind stay away from Snape! After breakfast Hagrid shows me around the castle. It takes us almost the whole morning. We are heading to the gardens when a phoenix's fly towards us. I turn and put out my arm. He lands and drops a scroll into my other hand. I pat his head before he flies off.
"Phoenix's are such awesome animals, whose is he?" I ask Hagrid.
"That's Fawkes, he's Dumbledore's." I nod as I open the scroll.
Hello,
This is Professor Dumbledore. I would like to talk to you in my office, Hagrid will show you where it's located.
See you soon,
Albus Dumbledore
I finish reading it and it bursts into flame.
"WHOO!" I jump and drop it.
Fawks chirps in frustrated alarm and flies of my arm. I hear Hagrid laughing as I jump up and down on the fire that now had caught some grass on fire. I finally stomp it out and suck in a breath.
"Wizards and there games! Ughhh." Hagrid has doubled over in laughter. I slap him on the arm. "Quit laughing and show me where Dumbledore's office is mister!"
His laughter dies down to chuckles and puts his arms in the air in defeat as he starts to walk back to the castle. I giggle and jog up behind him.
I walk into Dumbledore's office after climbing the stairs from the entrance where Hagrid left me.
"Come on in Delacour!" He says in a sweet old man way with a twinkle in his eyes. "Sit down! Would you like a sherbet lemon?" He motions for the chair.
"Don't mind if I do." I pop the candy into my mouth. I cross my legs and look expectantly at him.
"I'm so happy that you will be teaching this year. But we have the issue of your non-magical abilities and if a fight breaks out or the students gets out of control you won't be able to deal with it."
I cast my eyes down. "So I'm going to connect an alarm that will summon another teacher to help you. The thing is I need something you always have on you, to connect to it."
I think for a moment then shrug. "I don't really have anything like that." I confess.
"Well you will have to find something before tomorrow, just bring it to me and all you will have to do is say a few words and hold onto it and a free teacher will be alerted." He smiles.
"Okay sounds good." I say.
"We also have to discuss what creatures you will be bringing in and what you will need." He continues.
An hour later I step out of the office to head to lunch. Well that's covered. What can I use for the alarm…. I'm thinking on this when I realize that I am utterly lost.
I laugh at myself as I'm totally lost. I wander for about 20 minutes and still have to clue where I am. I find the same door that I tried to open 10 minutes ago.
"Ugghh come on! How big can the castle be!" I continue walking and soon I hear the clipping of shoes against brick.
I brake into a run less I lose my one chance to get myself unlost. I come around a corner and run straight into a large person who is also walking quickly around the corner.
"Umph" I fall backward and my rump hits the ground then my head. "Ouch! Ahh!"
The same person I ran into stands above me. "Get up."
My head is killing me as I sit up. I put my hand to the back of my head and cringe at the pain and the blood. The world looks a bit blurry for a moment. Who did I run into? Ouchhhhhh! Fuckin bloody hell!
"Fuuuc…. Ughhh." I try to stand and a hand quickly pushes me back down roughly. I look up to see the formidable scowl of Professor Snape.
I scowl back. "I'm fine!" I spit
"Sure. If you weren't such a childish fool running around the halls I would maybe care, but now you wrinkled my clothes from your behavior."
I look up open mouthed at the tall black cloaked figure. It's probably the shock that makes me do it but before my mind processes it I've stood up and...SMACK. My hand stings.
"I'm sorry that I've been a bother to you and wrinkled your precious clothes PROFESSOR SNAPE!" I snap.
The red mark on his face is nothing compared to the anger in his eyes. I've been trained on how to approach an angry dragon and hitting it was not on that list. Shit! He presses closer to me until my back is against the wall. He looks like he's going to explode. He grabs my chin so roughly it might bruise.
"You need to understand one thing….." He hisses. "I don't deal well with disrespectful people."
At this point I'm actually scared. I have to get away! GET AWAY! I rip out of his hands before he can do much and start to run down the hall. I don't get far though as my head starts to spin. I crash into the wall and slide down it. I don't give up though as I reach into my boot for my knife. Before I get to it he's grabbed my wrist.
"Girl! Stop it!" I'm fighting him with all my might and trying wriggling away.
I'm pretty strong for a woman but no match for him. He slams my hand onto the floor making me release the knife. I'm sucking in breaths of air big enough for a dragon. His tall muscular body pins me down and I'm stuck. Don't cry! No don't let them see that your weak. Don't beg. It brings back memory's of the last time something like this happened, I try to continue fighting but it's no use. Not again. I give him a look that would kill, before a tear slips down my cheek.
If only I could use my magic! I'm staring at his chest which has probably 20 buttons strictly holding his vest together, he's heaving in air too I notice. Why did he not just use magic? After a moment I look up and meets his black eyes. I don't see anger there anymore.
"Sit still!" He orders. I stop moving.
For a split second I actually think I see a bit of concern on his dark face. His death grip on me lessons as he grabs his wand. He puts it to my head.
He must see the flicker of panic in my eyes as he says "Calm down, you fool. I'm going to fix it." I see his full lips pronounce a few words and the pain is gone.
I look at him confused. "You chit."
He snaps without anger. He sits back and slides against the opposite wall, giving me some space. His black hair is a bit messed up and wild, and his robes are a bit disheveled. I sit up and straighten out my cloths.
"Thank you." I say quickly. He does not say anything.
A long pause ensues until he says "Can you stand?" I look at him skeptically. I use the wall for support as I pull my feet underneath me. I stand tall so that I don't look weak. Just tough it out.
He nods "Good follow me." He orders.
He starts to walk away. I look at him as his cloaked billow around him but take no action to follow. He does not even turn around.
"Come on. I could just leave you here…." He says.
I give up and follow at a distance. A couple times I get light headed and lean against the wall. Once I mistakenly hit the hand he smashed to get rid of my knife, against the wall and hiss. He does not stop but if I'm not mistaken I see his steps slow as he waits for me.
Eventually we make it down some flights of stairs and down to a large black door with snakes on the frame.
He looks back. "Stay here! I'll be right back." He does not even look for consent as he shuts the door behind him.
It's less than a minute before the door opens. He comes back out. I was leaning against a wall but stand up straight again. If he notices he does not mention it.
"Here drink this." He orders. I give it a look of disgust and mistrust. "Just drink it."
He looks at me with an irritated look. I pop the top and down it. It tastes like ass. I make a face and stick out my tongue. When I look back up at him I see the corner of his mouth fall from what could have been a grin.
"Ughh, that better not have been poison." I say.
"What if it was?" He says back hopefully jokingly. I let out a scuff.
My headache starts to fade and I start to feel much better within seconds.
"So, I'm going to guess you had somewhere you had to be, by the way you were running." He says trying to get rid of me.
I stand a little straighter and try to hide my blush. Well I better tell him or I'll be lost for another hour. "I was actually lost and heard your footsteps so I was looking for help….what good that got me."
The last part I say under my breath. He scowls at me. I look at him expectantly. He does nothing but stare back.
I let a huff of air out of my lungs. "Fine I'll figure out my own way back, sorry to bother you." I start to walk back up the stairs.
"Wait…" I hear him sigh behind me. "Follow me." He quickly passes me and I struggle to keep up.
Soon though I see the entrance to the great hall.
"Thank.." I turn around and he's gone. Weird. I walk into the great hall and I see Hagrid jump up.
"Ghee, Dela I was wondering where ya wandered off to!"
I smile. "I got lost." I say as a get to the table and sit down.
I then realized that he got my knife from me. I sigh, well that's gone. That could have also been the charm Dumbledore wanted! Ugh stupid!
