Here you are my love's! I hope you enjoy readying this chapter as much as I hope!
"What shop first?" Skyler asked as they entered Hogsmeade.
"Let's go there!" Vivian smiled, pointing to a fancy shop.
"Purrfect?" Skyler frowned. "I've never heard of it."
"Well, I have." Vivian said, pulling her friend to the door.
Vivian pushed the door open, a bell signaling their arrival. Gasping, Skyler looked around in astonishment.
It was a beautiful shop, every piece of clothing looked like it would cost your left arm.. Skyler couldn't help but think of one flaw. It was all pink.
"Hello, ladies!" a woman dressed from head to foot in pink chirped.
"Dolores!" Vivian screamed, throwing her arms around the short woman. "It's lovely seeing you!"
"And you, dear." the woman named Dolores responded, patting the girl on the back. "Who's your friend?"
"Oh, where are my manners?" Vivian scolded herself. "Dolores, this is Skyler Dumbledore."
"A Dumbledore?" Dolores giggled, almost evilly. "Well, then it's an honor!"
Skyler smiled shyly. "The pleasures mine."
"A pureblood, I'm guessing?" Dolores asked, her smile never faltering.
"Yes." Skyler said, her voice suddenly cold. "Not that it matters."
"Right." Vivian interrupted. "Dolores, do you have any memories for sale anymore?"
"Of course dear!" Dolores winked. "Come this way."
Vivian motioned for Skyler to look around before following the women to the back.
Sighing, Skyler turned to an atrocious looking scarf. Picking it up with her two fingers, before putting it back in disgust. Moving around the store, she felt sick with how much pink was contained in one area. Turning to look at the front of the store, she saw a sign above the woman's desk. Walking over, Skyler tore it from the wall.
"Employee's wanted." Skyler mumbled, looking at the purrfect job application. Running her eye's over the paper, she narrowed them on a bit of small print at the bottom of the page. "Only purebloods wanted."
Gritting her teeth, Skyler put the application on the womans desk and started to walk away before a book caught her attention. Leaning over to get a better look, Skyler gasped. She hadn't seen that book since she was a child in her Uncle's office. She knew from his stories that it was an extremely old and one of a kind book, and that if it fell into the wrong hands it could be fatal. So, why was it in this woman's store?
"This'll do, Dolores." Vivians voice said, growing louder as she walked closer to the front of the store.
Skyler quickly skidded away from the desk, trying to act casual.
"Thank you again, Dolores." Vivian said, turning to look back at the woman as she reached Skyler.
"You're welcome, dear." Dolores giggled. "Come back any time you need more."
Nodding, Vivian looked to her friend. "Ready, Sky?"
"Yeah, sure." Skyler nodded, glancing past her friend to look at Dolores.
Skyler stared into the womans eye's. Something about them make her uncomfortable, like they knew what she did only moments before. Blinking away her worries, she followed her friend out the shop door, the bell ringing again. Skyler couldn't be thankful enough it was for their departure this time.
"Vivian, what did you mean when you asked her if she had memories still for sale?" Sky asked a while later while they were sitting down for lunch.
"She has this excellent collection of memories from-" Vivian stopped suddenly, turning to look around at a few of the shoppers, before leaning in to whisper in Skyler's ear.
"Porn?" Skyler yelled, getting a few wizards attention.
"Shhhhhhhh!" Vivian said dramatically.
"Sorry.." Skyler mumbled. "But, porn Vivian?"
"It's not porn.." Vivian sighed. "It's like ready a musty book, but this is the actual stuff."
"So.." Skyler smirked. "It's porn."
"Pretty much." Vivian smiled, finishing her cub of pumpkin juice before standing. "Let's go shop some more!"
"Where to now?" Skyler asked, stuffing her freezing hands into the pockets of her coat.
Vivian paused to look Skyler up and down before getting a mischievous look on her face. "Close your eye's, I have a surprise for you."
"What surprise?" Skyler asked, eyebrows knitted together.
"Close them!" Vivian urged.
"Fine." Skyler relented, closing her clear blue eyes and letting Vivian guide her.
Soon, they were going up a few steps and through a door. "Okay." Vivian said. "Open them."
As soon as Skyler opened her eye's, she laughed. "A underwear store, Vivian?"
"Of course!" Vivian grinned, her eye's giving off their usual green spark. "We need to get you some proper undergarments."
"Proper?" Skyler frowned. "My undergarments are perfectly fine for what they're used for."
"Oh?" Vivian asked, raising an eyebrow. "And what exactly are they used for?"
"Well.." Skyler giggled. "Y'know, keeping things where they're supposed to be, and stuff." she continued awkwardly.
"And stuff.." Vivian smirked. "Like seducing a wizard or two, exactly right."
"That is not what I meant." Skyler practically yelled, her face growing red.
"Oh, c'mon, Sky!" Vivian urged, pushing her friend farther into the store. "With that cute little body of yours, you have to show it off!"
"I don't have a 'cute body', and even if I did, I don't have anyone to show it of for." Skyler sighed, looking around at the pairs of bra's and panties.
"Well, we'll just have to change that." Vivian smiled. "Who're you interested in? I know a few guys who would love to go on a date with you."
"Doubtful, most guys avoid me because i'm Albus Dumbledore's niece!" Skyler countered back. "They're too afraid of what he might do." she finished, giggling.
"Well, even if you don't show them to anyone, at least you'll know you look sexy under your clothes." Vivian said throwing a bras and underwear at her friend. "Now, see if you like any of those and then we'll go to a store you want to go to."
Two hours later, Skyler walked out of the underwear store with tree bags full of undergarments. "This is ridiculous!" Skyler sighed. "I have enough to last me three months without washing a pair!"
"Exactly, want to keep those wizards entertained." Vivian said, her face deathly serious. "Now, let's go to that Muggle store you like so much, and then we can go back to the -"
Skyler hit something hard and fell backwards on the ground. "Ouch.." she winced as her butt hit the hard ground. Skyler looked up to her friend for assistance, but noticed she was looking up at someone else. Turning her gaze, Skyler gasped and scrambled to her feet.
"I am so sorry, Professor Snape!" Skyler stuttered. "I-"
Holding up a hand, Snape silenced her. "That is quiet alright, Miss Dumbledore." he said, turning his gaze to her bags laying on the ground. When he saw the name, he glanced up at the store that they just came from before turning his gaze back to Skyler. "Sorry, I must be going." he turned around quickly, striding back to the castle.
"Merlin, that was embarrassing!" Skyler whined, covering her face to hide her pink cheeks.
"That, sweetheart, was hilarious!" Vivian screamed, running around her friend. "You have a potential wizard to show those off to!"
"What?" Skyler yelled. "Absolutely not, he is my teacher!"
"But, Sky!" It was Vivian's turn to whine this time. "Did you see the way he looked at you? It's like his face brightened as soon as he saw you!"
Skyler's eye's shot up to her friends, searching it for the truth. Sighing, she stood up and waved her wand to summon her bags back to her hand. "He's too old."
"Too old?" Vivian stopped running around her friend. "He's like, 28.. That's hardly too old!"
"He has almost eleven years on me!" Skyler turned to her friend, eyes wide.
"Age is just a number, Sky." Vivian sighed.
"Whatever, can we just finish shopping and go back to the castle?"
"Sure, let's go." Vivian yelled, her face brightening at the thought of more clothes."
Throwing the several bags on her bed, Skyler flopped on the space that wasn't covered. Sighing, she closed her eyes. It had been a long day, and it was nearing dinner time. Lazily waving her wand, Skyler sent all her new clothes to the closet and drawers before sitting up.
She let her mind drift back to the day of shopping, and blushed at what Vivian had said. Was it possible that they could be together despite their age difference? She would be out of school soon, and she wanted to be a teacher of sorts.. She could start working at Hogwarts, and she could be with him then.
Skyler let her mind wonder for awhile, before she jumped from her bed. She suddenly remember the book in that Dolores lady's shop. Grabbing her wand, Skyler dashed out of her dorm, the door shutting behind her.
"Jelly Beans." Skyler said quickly, gasping for breath. She had sprinted all the way down to his office on the 3rd floor. Climbing the stairs two at a time, she banged on the door when she reached the top.
Her uncles soft 'Come in' rang through her ears before she pushed open the door and ran in.
"Uncle Albus-" Skyler started, but stopped short when she saw Professor Snape sitting across from the headmaster, both of them turning to look at her.
"Yes, my dear?" Albus urged, standing to walk over to his niece. "What's wrong, why are you breathing so heavy?"
Snapping her eye's away from Severus', she looked into her Uncle's identical blue eyes that mirrored her own. "I ran from my dorm, I just got back from Hogsmeade, and I have something to tell you." she said quickly, turning back to her potions professor.
"Then I'll just go." Severus said, his baritone voice rumbled. Standing, he made his way to the door before nodding at Albus, then walked out the door.
Not giving his odd behavior of ignoring her, she turned back to her Uncle to notice him watching her intently, his blue eyes twinkling like mad.
Turning to look around his office, her eyes fell on the familiar bookshelf. Running over, she ran her fingers along the spine, searching for the book. "It's not here!" Skyler yelled, standing from the floor.
"What's not there, sweetheart?" Albus asked, walking over. "What're you talking about?"
"That book you showed me a few years ago!" Skyler continued, pacing in front of her uncle. "Remember? You told me that if it ever fell into the wrong hands, it could be very dangerous."
His eyes growing wide, Albus walked closer to the shelf, his eye's loosing their twinkle as he ran across the books.
Skyler watched her Uncle tense as he ended the bottom row before he briskly walked over to his desk. She knitted her eyebrows as she watched him scribble something on a note before sending his black owl with it out the window.
"Tell me dear, how did you come across knowing this?" Albus asked, walking back to his niece, grabbing her hand.
Taking a deep breath, Skyler explained. "When Vivian and I were in Hogsmeade, we stopped in this store called 'purrfect' ."
Albus nodded, recognizing the name.
"Well, Vivian went to the back of the store to purchase something from this woman called Dolores." Skyler continued. "I was look around the shop, disgusted about how everything was pink, when my eyes fell on a application for the store saying help was wanted.. I walked over to look at it, and that's when I noticed the book you showed me years ago sitting on her desk.. I remembered how you told me it was one of a kind, and that there wasn't another in the world like it."
"Yes." Albus urged her on.
"So, I was contemplating on taking it, but I heard Vivians voice growing closer, so I took off in the other direction." Skyler finished, taking a deep breath. "Uncle, what does this mean?"
"Nothing good sweetheart, nothing good.." Albus sighed, but continued when he noticed the look of fear on his niece's face. "What is it?"
Skyler closed her eye's, urging herself to tell him. "When Dolores followed Vivian to the front of the room, she was staring at me.. It was like she knew what I was doing when she was back there selling Vivian something.. The way she looked at me, Uncle.. I'm scared."
"Dear," Albus said, pulling her into a hug. "I won't let anything happen to you." he continued, rubbing her back to comfort her. "But, I need the night to think about this.. Why don't you go on up to your dorm and rest before dinner. I'll call you down to my office in the morning when I've thought this through."
Nodding, Skyler squeezed her Uncle before walking to the door.
"Goodnight, darling." he said.
"Goodnight, Uncle Albus." Sklyer smiled at him, before walking out the door. When it shut behind her, Skyler let a tear fall, wondering what this could possibly mean, and how her Uncle really would keep her safe.
Ahhhhhhh! What's going to happen to Skyler? Is there really someone that would hurt Albus' niece.. I dunno, you tell me!
I had a snow day today, so I guess y'all got lucky! Another will be home soon! Until them, Snape kisses to everyone that follows and leaves a review! Tell me what you like and don't like, what you'd like to see! Thanks! - Sarah