It was fathers' day and Snape and the Snapelets made their way to the great hall for breakfast chatting excitedly about what they would be doing for the duration of the day.

They sat as usual at their different tables and conversed with their friends happily.

Then the post arrived.

Dylan felt the happiness slowly leave his body at the sight of the large black owl with the blue eyes and purple envelope, He knew who it was for and what it meant. Father had another mission from old Dumbledore.

Addie paled and her insides went cold the last time that bird had been here was when she was 6 and her mother and father had darted off immediately. When they came back mother was not the same and bordering on insanity. Father had promised never to go on another mission again and Dumbledore had promised not to send him.

Cory groaned. Bloody missions! Every now and then rogue Voldemort supporters would be spotted and Dumbledore would summon his owl and send Snape off to round them up. Addie was going to be so angry.

Milo shivered involuntarily Father couldn't leave- he just couldn't not on fathers' day! They had had so much planned for today!

Snape stood after reading the letter and walked toward the door only to have his children step in front of him.

"Your not going!" Milo stated

"I have to go." Snape replied

"We won't allow it!" put in Dylan

"I'd like to see you try and stop me" Snape growled

"Fine. Go. Ruin father's day." Pouted Cory

"I MUST go. One day you will understand." Snape told them sadly. He reached into his pocket and pulled out four necklaces. One was a golden lion with red gems for eyes he gave this to Dylan, next came a raven made of bronze with sapphire eyes this he gave to Cory, third came the yellow badger with the black stripes this went to Milo and finally the silver serpent with the eyes of emeralds he laced this round his daughters neck. She looked at him her eyes a mixture of disbelief and anger.

"You PROMISED." She hissed

"I know I'm sorry but I've got to go- I'll be back soon."

Addie's emotionless mask came down.

"Fine. But if you end up like mother – DON'T bother coming back at all." She snarled "Happy Fathers' day. Dad."

He recoiled as if struck and she stormed from the hall, Snape made to follow her.

"SEVERUS" came the voice of Albus Dumbledore

"What!" he spat lividly, refusing to face the man

"You have to leave now." Dumbledore stressed

Snape snarled.

"Behave and I'll be home soon." He ordered his children. "I believe it's Rolonda's turn to watch you."

With that he called upon Fawkes to flash him away and was gone.

The three boys faces suddenly paled drastically.

"OH NO" they said together

"She's-" D

"Really-" C

"Angry" M

The occupants of Hogwarts got the shock of their lives when suddenly on the morning of father's day every window in Hogwarts smashed unexplainably consecutively.

Fathers' day passed with no more hiccups though the Snapelets wandered round with thunder written on their faces, refusing to do most things.

Night fell and Addie found herself on the astronomy tower staring up at the stars.

"Hey." Said Professor Sinistra

Addie gave a grunt of acknowledgement of her father's secret best friend, in reply.

"He'll be home before you know it." Sinistra informed her

"I know. But what if he comes back like mum?" Addie whispered

"Your father loves you all very much and he would never do to you what your mother did. None of us would let him. Besides your mum was always a bitch it was just nobody knew"

"Thanks Professor."

"Your welcome now go to bed before Lily and Rolonda realise your gone." Grinned Sinistra

"I'm going" Addie stood up and left, leaving Sinistra staring after her.

Nobody really knew what had happened to Cassandra Snape only that Dumbledore had sent her on a mission and she had come back differently – little did they know this was the real Cassandra. Not much is know after that only that a few months after her return Addie had ran into the great hall yelling about her dad, tears streaming down her face. Trembling. Then her mother had run in. saying she was leaving, Milo had asked her to stay and she had tried to take him using a portkey but his siblings saved him. The four children had stared at the door for a while then Sev had emerged – shattered collarbone and broken ribs, bleeding all over the place. Trembling.

I know what happened- he told me once, told me how he had left Addie with her mother for two minutes whilst he went to get an ingredient only to return to his wife using the cruciatus curse on her daughter. So he had stopped her and then Cassandra had turned on him shattering his collarbone with a bone shattering spell and pulling out a knife. Snape told her how he had yelled for Addie to run but instead she had thrown her mothers' favourite vase at it's owner, turned and run screaming for help causing Cassandra to chase after her.

Gillian Sinistra shivered and went to her rooms.

Two weeks passed and the Snapelets had caused 14 fights, 28 nose bleeds and 3 teachers threatened to quit. Dumbledore sighed it was he mused his fault – how had he expected them to react to their father going off on a dark wizard hunt?

He needn't of worried so much though because that night Snape returned…just in time for dinner.

The owls had flown in hat morning and amongst them had been a black owl with piercing blue eyes. It had carried a glowing light that shone white.

For the rest of that day the Snapelets had been on tender hooks waiting for their father to return. When he did they shoved Addie forward to read his expressions – unease, hatred, and a glassy look was how their mother had returned. The three brothers breathed a sigh of relief when Addie hugged her father and they stepped forward too.

"We'll take dinner in our quarters Albus and I shall speak with you later." His gaze fell on Sinistra. " Sinistra I'm surprised you haven't thrown yourself off the tower with a reflection like that." He swept from the room.

A very angry Gillian Sinistra muttered under her breath

"Bastard!" and left the room faking anger.

Minutes later The Snapes and Sinistra were gathered in the kitchen of the potion masters' quarters.

"Nice touch insulting me to give me a reason to leave" scowled Sinistra

"Well I do have a reputation you know!" replied Snape

"So did you four learn anything interesting while I was gone, now I don't expect you to tell me anything about astronomy what with a touchy, starry-eyed twit for a professor." He smirked

Sinistra threw a book at him.