At four like every other morning I have Tisa sitting on my chest and batting at my nose. "yes I know Tisa, you are hungry, but if you don't get off you won't get it" I groan, " off or I will let your siblings have it all." reluctantly she gets off and begins to jump around on the floor around the case. " yes I know I know just wait I still have to get off the bed before you can get in." I say as I magicked up my clothes again, waking up the others before opening up the case and going in after all the creatures other than Leon who walked back to my bed and watched the door. when I went down the stairs I find that everyone has left without me. grabbing the bucket from the door I go to each different habitat interacting with each creature before moving on to the next before I reached where the Nudus where to find all four of them wrestling with the phoenixes perched on a tree watching as the guardians they have been since I took them in. once the two caught sight of me they flew over and grabbed the meat I threw up for threw up for them before returning to their perch eating as they still kept an eye on what the kids were doing. "quiet down you four or you won't get breakfast." I say to get them to stop their playing, before all of them come over and jump on my legs. " okay fine you are all cute, here don't give Hana , or Fawkes any trouble you hear me, " I throw the meat back in the phoenix's eyesight as I walk back through the path to the house in the middle of the place. when I do I climb back up finding Leon exactly where I left him, glancing at the clock on the table I find that it is around five, which meant I needed to get Severus out before anyone figured out that he was not in his own room. thinking it would be interesting I let Leon do it resulting in Severus getting a cat landing on his chest as a wake-up call, with a groan he rolls off the couch holding his stomach, "Leon wanted to say hi," I say from the wall.
"now I remember that cat. you brought him here last time, he did the same thing than to. little hellspawn." he mutters the last part under his breath. after a few minutes he straightens up and sits down on the couch again. "he really does like to wake me that way, I remember him doing this before you left when you came when I got my job here. I woke up the exact same way every morning. really hated that cat by the end, yet oddly missed him too."
" Ya ya, you can tell me how you love my cat later, for now, you have to get changed before I take you through a passageway to the dungeons so you can make it to breakfast keeping your reputation intact. Oh, and if I find you in the same condition as last night someone is going to get hurt, but if I find you didn't come to me if that happens you are going to be the one who dies" I say glaring with all the fury I have in me. causing him to hold my eyes for only a second before flinching, if anyone else would have been here I wouldn't be surprised if they would fall over from the sight of Severus Snape the most intimidating teacher in school, flinch at the glare of someone shorter than him. "now follow me as I escort you back to your room." I say as I enter the room again to find him back in his daily robes. "if you would follow me," I say walking away from the door to my classroom
" aren't you going the wrong way?" he asks from his spot in the middle of the room.
"no I told you I know this place like the back of my hand, why do you think I never got into trouble more often, or why Professor Marigold never found out who was always changing her glasses for those that made her see everything in different colours. or Professor Smilin alway was late on every other Tuesday with his hair a different colour." I ask from the doorway.
" but the manners always took credit for that, no one could figure out how they did it. so you are saying that it was always you, how I got my hands on their map a couple years ago there were no passages to teachers private rooms," he says with/wonder in his eyes.
" who do you think helped them create it, I made sure there were still some that those pranksters didn't know about for everyone's own good," I answered smirking at the memory of the three after they pulled off a prank, and then frowned when I remembered how James was killed.
" what did those professors ever do to incur your wrath," he asks while we walk through the passageway behind a picture in one of my rooms.
" while she accused me of cheating on more than one test and giving me detention with Megonigal without even telling my uncle so he could clear everything up. he is a completely different story, actually, it was because I was standing up for you in one of his class for you. he told me off for you being in another house than me, and said that I should keep my opinions to myself, I told him off myself resulting in a couple detentions in which I was to clean the potions room by hand with a toothbrush until my uncle convinced Hagrid to take over my outstanding ones by taking care of some of his creatures, so I couldn't mouth off and get myself another with Smilin." I answer neutral as we take the last turn before I step aside in the opening, " here is your stop, I am only showing you this as an escape route, and don't let any students find out about it. your room will be right around the corner to the left." I say after I cast a spell to detect if there were any people or magical devices in the vicinity of the opening, " to get back in you have to put this in the hole behind the knight, I have to have some security against those students. maybe later I will show you the one into your room," I add right as the door is about to close on his shocked face before he could open it again I return to my room to get ready for the day myself.
i spent the day getting to know the other professors here and talking with Poppy about some of the remedies I have come across over the years before going to the positions classroom to ask Severus if he could help me with making a potion, when I come across a group of students cornering another in the hall by the dungeons. with closer inspection, I find that those that were a blonde that seemed to be hurt as he tried to protect a couple first and second years from Slytherin. those that seemed to be cornering them were from the other three houses. not liking the look of the Blonde I step up to intervene. " what is going on here all of you should be going back to your dorms by now or would you rather all have detention before classes even start." getting a mumbled reply they all leave sending lingering looks at the group still in the corner. " as for you all, you can go back to your dorm, but send the teacher in charge of your house to my room right away," I say to the group of Slytherins, " all except you that is." I say to the blonde, " I want to talk to you, follow me." I say as I turn and walk towards my classroom not turning to see if he was following. I could recognize that hair from a mile away he was a Malfoy, but if what Severus had said, he was different than his family, and I know he wouldn't get those cuts looked at by Poppy. plus he was protecting the younger students, and I know what the Slytherin house was like, he was too proud to show that he was hurting, but I could see through people's masks. I know how much those students had hurt him, both mentally and physically. " in and go sit in the chair over there." I say pointing at the couch that Severus was on last night but was currently holding only Leon. slowly he follows what I said. "now tell me where are you hurt." I ask one I sit in the seat opposite him. with wide eyes he looks at me surprised, " you mean you aren't going to give me a detention, or yell about he being in a fight at school." he asks skeptically. " Not if you tell me the truth," I say as I pour three cups of tea. secretly putting a potion in his cup before handing it to him, and asking again, after a minute he answers. " my ribs are bruised, and what you can see is the extent of my injuries."
"sit still then," I say as I grab the case I used on Severus last night. " I am just going to clean the cuts on your face, don't worry it won't hurt," I say as he moves slightly away from me when I come closer to him. with a nod from him, I come closer and sit down on the table before doing exactly as I said I was going to.