I know the story is slow getting started but trust me it is a good story and I hope you like it.
Keaira was going over her lessons that night in her classroom. The school finally gave her a rooms and a class room in exchange for being placed in a house. She was promised it would just be a formality and since her birthday was in October it shouldn't be long. Keaira was relived, she loved school and excelled in all her classes but potions. She blew up more cauldrons than anybody in the known world. She just couldn't grasp the idea. Maybe if the potion master here was nice and understanding she wouldn't have a problem but she didn't think she could handle Severus as her teacher. He was cross all the time and from what Professor McGonagall told her a terror to his students.
She was going over her lessons in her classroom after taking an hour to find them, she was going to be hopelessly loss this year. She had on black shorts, a black t-shirt and a dark blue sweater. She enjoyed the cold feeling of the stone under her feet, so she opted out of shoes. She had painted her nails black and wore some black make-up. She had black hoop earrings in and her nose ring, her hair was pulled back out of her face. She was sitting on the floor in the middle of the room going over some books when her marked hurt for the first time, her mother said it was going to but it felt like her skin was ripping apart. She sitting on the floor of her classroom holding her arm, she had no idea what to do about the pain. Was she supposed to tell somebody but where she was in the castle? Severus pushed the door open and glared at her.
"What are you doing sitting there?" He walked towards her and lifted her off the ground.
"I didn't know what to do, it was the first time." She looked into his eyes.
"What is in your nose? Never mind we have to go." He started pulling her again out of the room. "Where are your shoes?" The mark was searing into their skin. "We don't have time." He grabbed her and pulled her close, with a large crack of thunder they were gone.
The apparated in the middle of the drawing room at the Manor, the room was full of people. Severus let her go as he made his way to his corner to talk to the blond man from the other night. Keaira scanned the room and found her mother talking to a tall pale, man with brownish, red hair. He was dirty and she could smell him as she walked closer. He had on plaid pants and black boots, on his left hand he had a large ring.
"Where have you been?" Her mother looked at her.
"Working." Keaira dare not tell her she had no idea what to do about the pain.
"Keaira, this is Scabior." Her mother smiled at the man.
"Monsieur Scabior." She bowed her head some.
"Nah, 'ust call me Scabior." He moved closer to her and smiled.
Keaira didn't like the way he was looking at her, she moved further away from the man. "Keaira." Keaira was thanking Merlin when her mother started talking. "You couldn't have worn clothes? Why are you wearing make-up and dear Merlin we talked about that nose thing?"
"Mom, it's a nose ring and I like it. I was working on a lesson plan, I didn't know I was going to be called."
Her mother grabbed her arm and held on tightly, Keaira knew this was going to bruise. "I have no issue taking you upstairs and teaching you a lesson. Now go sit down over there while mommy gets to know this man." Keaira was pushed forward and found a place to sit and wait to find out why they were all called. She found people would find her in the room and talk to her. She figured out they wanted her to talk to her father for them, one man was begging her for her help with her father. Keaira didn't talk to Dark Lord why would she do it for this man.
She was watching Severus, she had no idea why but she wanted him. She was going to need to take a cold shower when they got back. Some women was telling her how it wasn't her husband's fault about something and Keaira was trying to listen, all she could think about was things she wanted him to do to her. He was talking and seemed occupied, maybe she would just see what he thought about her. She slipped into his mind as he shot her a look, with a swift pain she was thrown out. She rubbed her head and tried to listen to the witch next to her. She was going to have to figure out why that didn't work. She tried it on the women in front of her and it worked, she saw everything the women was telling her was a lie. It wasn't like she was paying attention anyway.
Severus was glaring at her once he found her in his mind, he pushed her right out but damn she was good. Lucius was talking low to him. "Severus are you listening?" Lucius looked at his friend.
"Yes I am." He tried to enter her mind, he had done it the last time. As soon as he went in she glared at him and he was out. She smiled as he was the one rubbing his head. So she was going to play, he could play with her but he was going to see what secrets she kept.
"I think you were busy looking at our new little princess." Lucius was looking at her over his drink. "She is curvy little witch isn't she." Severus wanted to smack Lucius with that comment, only Lucius would dare look at the Dark Lord's daughter that way. Severus had to agree she was pretty, curvy and she made something in him stir but it would be death to touch her. "What is she wearing? Mind you I am not complaining she looks good I just wish it was a tad bit less."
"You dare go there?" Severus looked over his glass.
"I can look old man. It's not like I'm touching, although I did talk to Narcissa and we both agree if that is what she wishes Cissa wouldn't stand in her way."
"Anything to not have to deal with you." Severus shook his head. It was common knowledge in their circle that their marriage was not of love but more combining two powerful families.
"You know my wife well." Lucius laughed. "What is that is her nose?"
"I have no idea, it looks like it would hurt. When the pain started I found her holding her arm in the classroom. I don't think she knew what to do. I guess she wasn't wearing shoes." Severus put his drink to his mouth. The more he looked at her the more he like the thing in her nose and no shoes. She looked care free, he hadn't seen that in a long time. She looked over at him as he watched her blush. He wondered if she would blush if he had her in bed under him. Severus was taken aback by that thought, she was sixteen he had to keep telling himself that. "Where is Draco tonight?"
"I told our Lord he was busy getting ready for school."
"He is parting with Blaise." Severus looked at him.
"Yes." Lucius laughed.
The snake came in followed by the Dark Lord, the room stood up and bowed to him as a table appeared. Keaira found a chair at the far end of the table away from him. She kept her hands folded on the table looking down at her nails. She really didn't have nails, she bit them when she was nervous.
"Keaira my dear, come sit by me child." She looked towards the end of the table at Dark Lord.
"Oui my Lord." She walked towards the front of the table slowly with her head down. That way she didn't have to see the glares she was getting. The chair next to him was empty she pulled it out and sat down. She was now sitting next to the crazed women with the black hair, this was going to be great was all she could think. She wanted to push the women off when she hugged her but she could tell this women had favor from the Dark Lord. She smiled and patted the women's arm around her as she let Keaira go.
"Where you belong my princess." He touched her hand, she could tell he wasn't use to human contact. Hell, she could tell he wasn't human at all anymore, something was wrong with his soul. Her eyes darted around the room at those at the table.
She caught Severus eye and smiled at him, he sneered at her. She guessed he must still be upset about her trying to get in his mind. She went back and was looking at her hands again He was talking next to her, she wondered for a moment if the Dark Lord would noticed her in his mind. If he did catch her she could just say she couldn't control it, maybe he would have Severus teach her to control it better. She could spend time with him, she wanted to spend time with that wizard for some reason. She slipped in just as her Master had taught her, he didn't feel her. She knew better than to pull up old memories he would know for sure she was in. It was dark in His mind, it was evil and something was wrong. She pulled out quickly, she didn't want him to know she was there. Keaira had no idea what he was talking about or what was being said, it wasn't till she heard a women screaming did she come back to reality. She looked down at the end of the table and saw a women being levitate in, she was screaming at those around her to help her. Keaira had to laugh some, it was like a mouse begging a snake to free it. The women had no chance not in this room.
He leaned into Keaira. "My child do you see?" He hissed in her ear, she was still staring at the women above them. The room was looking at Keaira as he continued to hiss in her ear. "Do you see why you are better than she is?"
"Is she magical?" Keaira looked at him, her eyes were wide. This wasn't the first time she had seen something like this and now she was sure it wouldn't be the last.
"She thinks she is, she is muggle born." He was watching her, she knew she had to answer correctly.
"Then she is a freak of nature." She smiled at him. Inside she was rolling her eyes, the same garbage she learn to spout off since she was four. The witch in front of them was no more a freak of nature then the man sitting next to her.
"You are a fast learner." He touched her hand again. "Nagini attack." The snake moved to the table and killed the women. Severus looked over at Keaira to see if she was repulsed or not, nothing on her face registered anything. She wasn't in shock, happy or sad about the sight in front of her. He knew not to go looking, she would send him out again. The meeting was over as he left, Keaira was standing talking to her mother when Lucius and Severus made their way over.
"Mom, my clothes are falling apart most of them. I need some money from my pay." They watched as she was looking at her mother.
"My dear, if you take your pay what will I live on?" Her mother glared at her.
"Mom, I have outgrown most of my clothes."
"That is because you are fat, you eat too much." The women was walking away from her. Severus and Lucius looked at each other.
"That child is not fat, she has the curves of a women." Lucius whispered to Severus. Severus rolled his eyes as they kept watching.
"I eat the way you tell me and how you tell me to eat. I'm not growing that way, my shirts are getting tight over my chest. My skirts I have fixed so many times, I don't think I can magically fix them anymore." Keaira looked at her mother. "Momma I need new clothes."
"You may take some of mine and fix them so they fit you. I don't want to hear about this again." Her mother turned and headed up the stairs. Keaira sighed, it was one victory. She would have preferred new clothes but she was use to fixing her mother's to fit. She spotted Severus and Lucius standing close by, she guessed he was ready to head back.
"If you're ready I am." She had her hands behind her back as she was rocking on her toes.
"Lucius, till next time." Severus bowed his head and sneered at her.
"Princess." Lucius grabbed her hand and kissed it. Severus felt something burning inside him for a moment. Before she could say anything Severus wrapped his cloak around her and they were gone. He let go of her in the hall.
"Princess." He sneered at her and walked away.
"Wait." She grabbed his hand. It was soft, she thought it would be rough from making potions. "I don't know where my rooms are, can you help me?"
"Fine." He started up the stairs, she was trying to follow quickly.
"It was rude what you did to Mr. Malfoy back there." She was getting out of breath with how fast he was climbing the stairs.
Severus stopped almost sending Keaira down the stairs. "You were throwing yourself at him. May I remind you he is married?"
"I wasn't throwing myself at him. I hardly talked to him tonight, I asked you if you were ready and he kissed my hand. That's it, he was being nice to impress the Dark Lord." She looked back at him. "Anyway, nobody notices I exist so it doesn't matter."
"Keaira." He looked down at her. "Never mind."
"What?" She looked up at him.
"Nothing come on." He started up the stairs again. He turned down a hall and after a few doors pointed to hers. "Your rooms and your classroom are next to each other."
"Thank you Severus." She smiled at him as he turned away, that is when she watched as a bowl of water and flour fall onto him from the ceiling. A ghost was taunting the professor above him.
"Peeves!" Severus shouted as the thing disappeared.
"Are you ok?" She moved closer to him.
"Do I look ok you blast chit." He shouted at her.
"Why don't you come in and get cleaned up. You can't walk around like that." She had no idea what to say to make it better.
"I am fine." He glared at her.
"Please, I insist. What was that thing?" She held her door open as he growled some while he walked in.
"What is that?" He pointed to the blue snake by the fire.
"Apep, my pet." She looked at him. "Here the bathroom is through there. You didn't answer me."
"That was Peeves, he is a poltergeist and loves pranks." He looked down at her as she held the door to the bathroom opened.
She smiled some as she moved away from the door. "I will leave you to it." She walked into the front of the room. She sat by the fire reading as she listened for the water to stop, it dawned on her he had no clothes up here but he was a bright wizard he would figure something out. She heard the water stop and the door to the back open she turned around and saw him wearing a towel around his waist. His hair was dripping wet and he had water running down his chest. He wasn't overly muscular but he was well built. She knew she was staring but she couldn't help herself. "Um." She wanted him but had no idea how to get him to want her, if only she was her mother.
"Did the house elves leave any clothes out here?" He looked at her, she was turning shades of red as she looked at him. Something inside of him like that and wanted her to turn redder before it was over with.
"I don't see any." She moved over to her desk to look over there. She was having a hard time breathing, she wanted him to grab her and hold her. "Where are your old clothes?" She was trying to look anywhere but at him.
"They took those." He was liking making this girl uncomfortable. He moved closer to her as she looked up at him. "I guess I could transform something to fit." He was looking down at her, her chest was moving up and down looking at him. She wanted to touch him, it was taking every ounce of self-control she had not to touch him.
"Oh, let me check in the bedroom." She turned quickly and darted out of the room. He started chuckling as the snake looked up at him and moved closer to him. Leave it to the Dark Lord's child to have a snake for a pet he shook his head. "They left them on my bed but I don't think this is what you were looking for." She handed him a small pile of black clothes trying not to look at him.
"This will do." He was just looking down at her, his mind was playing out if taking her at that moment was worth dying over. He knew it would be worth it, he would make it worth it for her. He couldn't do it, he wouldn't mind being killed but he knew the Dark Lord would hurt or kill her also. He turned quickly and left for the bathroom again.
Keaira sat down by the fire again as the snake moved closer. "That was interesting huh?" She ran her hand on the back of the snakes head. "Maybe working here will be interesting, nobody ever was in our rooms like that before huh?" The snake moved its head as it nodded it at her. "Maybe." She looked at the snake. "I wonder if he would let me." The snakes head rose higher and started hissing. "No your right, not him. It would be someone else. I want him though." The snake laid its head in her lap. She heard the door open again and him mumbling under his breath. "Is something wrong?" She called out.
"I'll say." He walked out in black silk pants and no shirt. "Blasted elves brought my sleepwear." Merlin, he looked as good in that as he did in just the towel.
"You can use my floo to go back to your classroom, right?" She was hoping he would say no, why she had no idea. Even if this wizard was interested, which she was sure he wasn't, she wouldn't know what to do with him anyway.
"I should." He was standing in front of her. "What in the name of Slytherin is in your nose?" He was looking down at her. She was so small next to him, he could pick her up with no problem if he wanted to.
"Oh that is my nose ring." She removed it and showed him.
"Why would you wear that?" He smirked. "You look good with it on but why do you wear it?"
"Drive my mother insane." She looked up at him, she had no idea he was standing so close to her now. She could smell him, he smelled like citrus and sandalwood. Her heart was racing some as she realized she was in his way. "Um, I'm in your way. I'm sorry." She moved over some to allow him to access the floo. He stepped in. "Um, thanks for helping me find my classroom and rooms." She was rocking on her toes again.
"No problem." He grunted as he called his rooms and was gone in a blast of green.
She looked at the fireplace and sighed, she was going to need a long shower after that.