A/N: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the other characters. I might create characters of my own, but I still have yet to decide if I was to.

Sorry about the wait… again. School started and it's crazy. I'm stressing out about it. This chapter is really short!

Talking"

'Thinking'

*Parseltongue*

Chapter 10: Dea

Severus got started with class and everything went normal, until Harry started to hear hissing.

Harry sat up quickly and started to look around. Thinking that he was just hearing things, he relaxed and took out his potion's book. The hissing started again. Harry laid his book down on his desk, closed his eyes, and listened.

During this, Severus was watching him. He had already given instructions to the class and he sat down at his desk when he saw Harry sit up straight in his chair. When he saw Harry relax and start to read, he just thought Harry had remembered something. He looked back at the class then looked at Harry. This time he saw Harry sitting there, book closed on the desk, and eyes closed.

He quietly walked over to the boy and asked, "Harry, are you alright." He only received a nod. "Do you need to go back to the room?" Harry shook his head. "What's wrong?"

This time, Harry stood up, looked around, concentrating on the floor. He got down on his hands and knees and started to crawl around.

Severus looked up at his class hearing it go quiet and saw the students watching the both of them.

"Harry, what are you doing?" He only received a shaking of a hand and the boy continued to crawl until he got to a cabinet. There the boy stopped, lowered himself even lower to ground to look under the cabinet.

"Harry?"

Harry reached under the cabinet and then he took out a snake, a 2 yard long, black snake. "Harry! Careful!" Harry stood up slowly holding the snake. The snake wrapped itself around Harry's arm like it belonged there.

Severus walked closer to Harry. "Harry. Careful. That is an Australian Black Snake. They can be poisonous." Then Severus got a closer look at the snake wrapped around Harry's arm. "Dea?" The snake lifted its head, looked at Severus, and blinked. Severus looked at Harry and the boy nodded.

Severus was speechless. This was his snake, the snake that went missing at the beginning of the summer. He had been worried ever since he found the case empty. He had thought she had been killed, or worse, taken in by that half giant Hagrid.

Severus reached out to the snake and watched as she unwrapped herself from Harry's arm, slithered to his own arm, and there, she wrapped herself back up again.

He opened his mouth, ready to say something when he remembered there is a class, watching his every move.

He looked back at the class and snapped, "Back you work!" He took Harry back to his office. There, he sat down at his desk and Harry sat in the chair in front of his desk.

"I have been looking every where for Dea. Did she say she was hurt? Severus looked up at Harry as he said this.

Harry shook his head 'no'.

"Did she say why she left?"

Harry blushed and nodded his head. Severus then took some parchment from his desk and a quill from a drawer and gave it to Harry. Harry wrote:

MATING

"Mating?"

SHE SAID IT WAS TIME FOR HER TO MATE.

"So, is she… is she pregnant?"

Harry nodded. SHE SAID YOU CAN'T TELL BUT SHE IS ABOUT TO LAY HER EGG ANYTIME NOW.

Severus was shocked. His little Dea was going to have little hatchlings.

"Well, I'm glad you're back Dea." After some hissing Harry wrote:

SHE SAID SHE'S GLAD TO BE BACK TOO.

"I'm going to leave her in your care. I need to get back to the class." Severus gave Dea back to Harry and he walked back into the classroom.

A/N: Sorry this is soooo short. I only wanted to have Dea brought into the story. I have no idea what I am going to do next. I have a general idea of how I want this story to play out, but I have no idea how I am going to get there. I am in a major writers block.

Any ideas of what should happen in this story? If you have any ideas, leave a review talking about it. If you say something that I am already going to do, I will reply back telling you that.

Dea is Latin for goddess according to www . 20000- names . com. (minus the spaces).

Again, any ideas will be appreciated. :)