Eye Of The Wolf

Disclaimer: Don't own Harry Potter or John Rain- I do however own right's to Maria

Author's Note: Yes sorry, first two bits are confusing and they really are just filler for the story, Had to start it off some how right? To those of you who wondered about the time line, here's how it is- Severus was bitten by Remus (Who wasn't killed, just expelled)

Severus finished up school, and didn't join the death eaters-doubt they would have let him, Then we end up at the point of the Prologue. I'll fill in other parts of his life as we go along though lol

On with the show!

Chapter Two: Run In

"I see you've made your way here early Severus." I blinked as we came upon the headmaster walking in the twilight. The wards must have warned him of our coming. Or maybe me using magic to transfigure my shirt had done that. "Yes, well things happened and I needed to come early." Dumbledore looked down at Maria who was looking at him like he was the strangest thing she had ever seen. Thankfully she had put her gun away.

"Hello there." Maria hid behind my leg and muttered to me, "Who's this poof?" I wanted to chock to death, why did Maria think that Dumbledore was gay? "My name is Albus Dumbledore dear, and it's not nice to use that word." Maria shrugged; "You're wearing bright canary yellow, flamboyant doesn't even cover it." Dumbledore chuckled, "My my your quite spirited, what is your name dear." Maria took a deep breath, "Sophia." That was not her name, what was she playing at?

"Sophia, do you have a last name?" Maria nodded; "My name is Sophia Wallace." Another blatant lie! Thank god I was so good at masking my emotions, because I was sure my eyebrows would be in my hair line other wise. Dumbledore took that in stride, "And how do you know Severus?" She blinked up at him and frowned; "Because mommy knew him." He nodded and looked at me, a twinkle in his eyes. "Why do you have her Severus?"

I took a deep breath, "I was handed this brat to look after while her father looks for the people who hurt her mother." Close enough honestly, Rain was as much a father figure as Harry was a brother figure. "Ah, I see- and how old are you Miss Wallace?" Maria grinned; "I'm eight years old!" Dumbledore nodded, "What school do you go to?" She frowned. I'd never once seen her go to school, no bus stopped on our street. "I don't, mommy home schools me."

She had all the answers that was for sure, at least one of us did. "I take it you left in a hurry?" I glanced at my clothes, yep. "Yes, the people who hurt mommy wanted to hurt me too." I nodded that was a fact alright. "They had guns." I muttered. Not that they would be much of a problem to a wizard but I really hadn't been thinking first thing in the morning. "Ah, well I suppose we could go later to gather some of your things." I nodded and Maria smiled at him.

Dumbledore led us up to his office and Maria's eyes got huge, kind of like the first year when I had been in school here. She waved at the fat friar and giggled as the stair cases moved around us before looking struck by the amount of books Dumbledore had collected. "Is that a Phoenix?" She muttered as she pointed at the pretty red bird. "Ah yes, his name is Fawks." She cooed over him and completely ignored us. Of course she would.

"I suppose she's muggle." I nodded, "As far as I know. M-Sophia, has anything strange ever happened to you?" She blinked and frowned, "Um, well there was this one time where I thought I was seeing farther than I'd ever seen before…and another where I found myself somewhere really far from home and I don't know how it happened?" I supposed those counted, now were they just things that happened or did she make them happen?

"I happen to have a device that can detect if you have magic my dear." She glanced at me and I shrugged, if he did he must have made it himself and wasn't sharing with the world. She picked her way over too him and he pulled out a spindly device. "What's it do to figure it out?" Dumbledore smiled; "Oh, not much smoke comes out the top of it when I open it and it will come towards whoever I want it to. Then it will either turn blue if the person has a little bit of magic, not enough to be a wizard or witch, Green if they do have enough and if they are a muggle, it will not change color at all."

He flicked it open and the smoke wafted its way towards Maria, she looked slightly scared, there was nothing I could do for her…It was strange, had I really grown so close to Maria that I would fear for her? Want to comfort her when she was distressed? When had that happened? I'd only known them for a year, a whole year where I was oblivious to them being assassins, or at least two of them were, Harry didn't seem like he was anything more than a computer nerd-but I'd judged Maria wrong hadn't I?

The smoke whirled around Maria and turned a vivid shade of green, the same as Lily's eyes… Maria had magic enough to become a witch. "I'm a…wow, I'm a mage." Maria blinked and tears welled up to her eyes, "What dose that mean?" I couldn't help it as I drew her close and hugged her, she needed me-I was all she had here, Rain and Harry would need to know now…She needed them more than ever, in the one moment they weren't able to be there for her.

"I think it would be best if everyone went to bed, I already have your rooms ready." I followed Dumbledore down to the dungeons with Maria safely in my arms. Students were still out and about, so not yet curfew, Maria shifted and called out. "Harry?" A boy with messy black hair much like James' and eyes the same vivid green as Lily's. Oh my god, Harry Potter. How did Maria know him? "Sophia? Oh my god! Sophia it's been forever!"

Maria hopped out of my arms and hugged Potter, like he was her best friend. But, I didn't expect him to be…well I don't know what I expected out of him…Lily's son. "Harry you know Sophia?" Dumbledore asked softly. Potter nodded, "Yeah I haven't seen her for three years though!" Maria giggled lightly, "Yep, how's your life been?" Potter got this guarded look on his face. That might have something to do with people calling him crazy.

"Things are alright, what about you? Where's Rain and Harry?" Maria blinked; "They're doing work stuff." She was caught out in her lie just a bit. "Harry doesn't still baby you dose he?" Maria turned red, "No! He's a good mommy but he's not babying me!" Well, that could cover up the lie but Dumbledore looked amused, amused because of her being caught out or not was up for debate. "Harry, I'm sure their tired from traveling here."

Potter flushed and hugged Maria goodbye and we were back on our way down to our quarters. Maria did look tired, she was lagging behind a bit. I scooped her up and she complained that she wasn't a little kid. She may have been in the body of one but she really wasn't a child anymore. Not with seeing, causing death the way an assassin would.

"Here, the password is 'There Be Dragons'." Stupid password, Dumbledore bid us goodnight and walked away.

"There be Dragons." Maria muttered and the door opened for us, Maria giggled; "Here there be dragons named Severus and Maria." Of course Maria would liken us to dragons. She hopped out of my arms and stretched, no longer looking quite so tired. "Tea and biscuits are the norm in Britain right?" I shrugged; "I've never really been properly introduced to society." She shook her head, "What are we going to do? Neither of us trained to think like a zombie?"

I shook my head and then my stomach growled. I still hadn't had breakfast. "You too huh?" I frowned, it was time to remedy that. A sudden crack startled Maria, a house elf smiled at us. "Headmaster Dumbledore told Winky to see if master Snape and Mistress Wallace needed anything." Good grief, we weren't hopeless. "Can I have breakfast please." Maria said her eyes wide and she decided that hunting was in order as she slowly made her way over to Winky.

"Yes, bring both of us breakfast and hot tea." Winky eyeing Maria nodded and then disappeared. "What the hell was that thing?" I was never going to get use to Maria cursing. "That Maria, was a house elf." She grinned at me, "Not everyone needs to know my real name Severus. In fact Sophia is actually a code name of mine, I don't share my real name with just anyone." She shared it with me easily enough, but why not with others? Like Potter for instance, they seemed to get on fairly well.

"Remember how much I disliked you in the beginning?" I nodded, she'd been a right terror for sure. "I'm pretty much that way with everyone, and anyone who doesn't take my crap like you did…Like Rain did get to know the real me." She smirked and then flounced off to look at the rest of the rooms. Well, I guess that made some sense, anyone who stood up to her was putting their own life at risk and she liked it.

Winky showed up a moment later and I called Maria, I would most certainly need help with how much food the house elves had brought us. I'd forgotten how much they liked to stuff us full. Maria's jaw dropped, "Who do they think their feeding? The whole of the shire?" I snorted, "Shire?" She nodded; "Haven't you ever read the hobbit or the lord of the rings?" Ah, that shire. "Yes, now lets eat-they like it when we eat lots and lots."

She frowned at me, "You've been here before?" I nodded as I added some milk to my coffee. "I use to go to school here." She looked intently at me. "What was it like?" I shrugged, "Good enough being trapped with dunderheads." She smiled, "Yeah, I know how that goes. I had a job once that made me go to school for six months." Well, learned new things all the time. Maria chocked as the sound of music floated around us.

"Center of attention, even when we're up against the wall. You got me in a crazy position if your on a mission you got my permission now we can go down like there's no ones around, we keep on rocking keep on rocking rocking, cameras are flashing while we're dirty dancing they keep watching keep watching lets make the crowd say gimme gimme more gimme gimme gimme more."

Maria was a bright shade of red, I think I was a little scared of her right now. Why did an eight year old have a lewd song like that? "What?" She barked, wait her phone…it rang! "Uh I'm having breakfast with Sev…uhhuh we're good, tell Harry we are. Nope, he's got it all covered. Yep, yeah… No! I'm not, now on to business. Who we killing and how long can I take with them?"

She listened intently and nodded a few times. "Alright, talk to you later." She clicked her phone closed and noticed me staring at her. "If it's about the song that was totally not the ring tone I use…much." I chuckled; "You used your phone." Maria's eyes got big, "Oh, holy smiling fish batman! My phone worked!" She had a crush on batman as far as I was concerned. "Well, at least we know that works." I nodded; "They figure anything out?"

Maria nodded; "Yeah, the people after me are connected, with some pretty big fish. Would you mind terribly putting up with me for at least a month?" That didn't bother me as much as it should have. "Sure, so long as you don't shoot anyone." She held out her pinky, a pinky promise later and we went back to eating breakfast. "Their pancakes aren't nearly as round as yours." I shrugged, nothing I could do about that.

"So…its night time here, but we just woke up." I blinked, well that would be a bit of a problem getting use to their schedule. "Well, we should find something to do." Maria frowned; "There's no, um…telly here." I nodded; "Those things, like your cell phone don't normally work here-I'm actually pretty surprised it did work." She looked down at her pocket where the phone was. "I just really wanted to hear from them." Some how her magic had allowed that to happen.

"Anyway, what's up with this world?" I shrugged; "I've been pretty much out of it since I was seventeen…being a werewolf is frowned upon. But, before I left a war happened…a dark wizard was attempting to take over." Maria rolled her hand. "I know that bit. Harry Potter some how stopped the dark lord yadda yadda. What's been going on now?" I glared at her and she giggled, of course Maria would. She wasn't scared of much apparently.

"As far as I know, Dumbledore and Potter said that you know who came back somehow. People thought they were crazy and then we found out that no, he had come back from the dead." I sipped some coffee before continuing. "So he's out and about causing mayhem and what not and people are simply freaking the hell out." Maria snorted, "People are fucking stupid." True, but she could have used different wording. "You're not going to curse while we're about the school."

"No, I'm not stupid either. They expect a little girl, sweet and cute and not with a potty mouth or able to shoot them dead." She had shown me that she could fake it after all. Not that it really went in her favor that time, I guess it would have been easier if Potter hadn't been here to contradict her. "So, Potter-How did you meet him?" Maria smiled at me; "What jealous?" I glared at her; "You're just a child." She blinked, confusion on her face.

"You know I'm teasing you. I would never think…You're not that kind of person." I rubbed my temple and sighed. "Yes, I know Maria-I'm just overwhelmed at the moment." She nodded; "I'm in shock at this world…It's too much, and it's going to be taken away." Why would she think that? It was her world too now, why would magic be taken from her? "You know I can't stay…I have my world." but she needed to learn how to deal with her magic. She needed to be taught how to harness it.

"Severus, I love knowing you…and now that I've gotten to know that you're a wolf. That you have magic. It scares me because you won't just be some bloke I know…You'll be someone I can turn to…someone with skills that could help me." I frowned, she was talking about herself as an assassin...that I could be useful to an assassin. I never wanted to do that. "No, I won't help you." She nodded; "I know."

The End

Author's Note: Yeah sorry stops pretty short of a full story but, that's what my muses came up with-but that wasn't the story I was intending on writing lol Anyhow, thanks for reading it was fun!