Before I know it a month has gone by and I have not gotten a word from Sev, that following morning I found a note the table telling me that he needed to think things over before he makes a decision but that he would. After that he didn't come around after class, I still sent students to serve detention with him and he never complained. I know that he was not shutting me out cause he would still meet my eyes in the halls when no one else could see and Leon would leave in the middle of the night and come back with a smooth coat and a flower.
The next morning starts the same as usual but I am able to catch Leon before he lands on me. "I know Crazy Furball I am up," I say as I put him down and pick up the clock beside me. "As usual you have impeccable timing, here is your food," I summon a bowl of food for him than continue after he is done, " now your highness if you would be so kind to watch the case for a bit I need to see the others and talk to Noah and Emma." Leon stretches and lays down on the bed watching the door. " thank you, your royal Fuzziness," I say as I walk down the case. "Noah, Emma, where are you two? I need to have a word with you two." I yell as I come out the doors. I walk as look for the twins, and feed some of the creatures as I go. " hm maybe they are out for a bit." I say to a Mooncalf as I feed it, " they will hopefully be back soon." I say as I sit down with the Nadu's beside me. " Hana, Fawkes I hope they have not been giving you too much trouble." I ask as I run I fingers over the quills on one of the creatures beside me. " we all know how much trouble they can be if at least someone is not here to keep them in check." I smile and rub another of them. I continue to do so until I hear some noise coming from the direction of the house in the centre of the environments. " looks like the twins are back, time to see what they have been up to before I go back, did one of you want to come?" I ask the birds over my head as I get up. As an answer they look at each other and Hana flies down to my shoulder. " okay fireball let's go." I walk towards the house with her jumping on my head. "I will not hurry up if you want to get there faster you can always fly there yourself, or you can be a lazy bird and we will get there when I walk there" I say as I walk not stopping as I am used to her antics by now, she soon stops and turns her head. "So now you are pouting, poor puffball" I rub her head until we reach the door.
"Noah, Emma you two here?" I yell as I open the door and walk through to the kitchen.
"Gwen we are over here." I hear Noah answer from the next room.
" Hey, I need to ask you two some stuff." I say as I enter the room to find them sitting on the couch as they are changing their shoes. " so where did you two go off to?" I ask as I sit in the chair across from them.
" we heard that there were some gillywicks that were being threatened by a muggle development, so we went and got them before they were discovered." Emma says as she holds her arms out to show the group of the creatures that were hanging onto her arms and hair. " also we heard of someone selling Dragon Eggs again so we went to find them and grab them before anyone bought some." she gestures at her brother as he holds up the bag that was beside him.
" at least I know that you both still know how to get back here one way or another, and you know how to handle dragon eggs without harming them," I say as I reach for the bag to check on the eggs. With a smirk, he hands me the bag so he can tie his other shoe.
" also it is good that I still have some connections with some of my old connections so we could find out about this." he says as he looks at the bag with some regret. " if not I don't even want to think of what would happen to them. So what will happen to this group?" he asks as he stands up again.
" since they are so close to hatching all we can do is keep them here until they are old enough for us to take them where they can be safe, or else they will not make it on their own since they no longer have their mother." I say as I close the bag again. " looks like a lot of long nights and burns for us for a while." I smile slightly at them as we all think of what it was like last time this happened. " and even better these are Egyptian Emberscale, Bulgarian Glowtusk, and German Irondart, so this will be even harder. Luckily there are a mixture and not only one, so they can be together for a bit, and after will still have some siblings as they grow up." I talk as we all walk towards the place where we have the egg nursery. When we reach it the three of us separate the eggs and put them in separate sections of the incubator so we can control the temperature of the environments for the different species. Once we do we return to the house. " so what did you need to ask us?" he asks as we sit down in the living room.
"I was going to ask if you both wanted to help me teach Defence Against the Dark Arts and if you would help me with handling the student's detentions, but since we now have the eggs hatching in the next couple days that will be hard. So now if both of you have to leave, or want to take a break just let me know so I can watch the dragons while you are gone. Oh and I don't think I have to say this again but if you are leaving, just let me know before. You both may be adults now but I still see the pair of kids that I found in Texas covered in dirt with smiles on their faces as tried to get me to take them with me as I travelled." I say smiling at them.
"And look what happened, we got our way and you are stuck with us for the rest of your life," Emma replies as He walks over to her from the back of the couch.
"That I am. Now I have to get back before anyone misses me. Remember if you need me send a message, I will be back after the classes are over to give you both a break." I say as I go to the ladder up.
" we know Gwen we have lived with you for a couple years, this is not the first or last time you are going to leave us here with the creatures" Noah says as he leans on the bottom of the ladder. " now I really want to know what is going to happen between you and that Severus person, cause you raced here last time when you heard that he was going to be hurt, and also you do have a smile whenever you talk about him." Noah teases as I reach the ladder and begin to climb up.
" what was that sorry, can't hear you I am too far up to hear you. Remember that for when you are fifty and we will talk about it then." I say as I climb up the ladder and they laugh at my reaction.
" you are not that far up yet," Emma says as she touches my foot seeing as to I am one two rungs off away from them.
" too far bye." I say as I open the door and walk out to find Leon where I left him. " do you want to come with me or will you be hiding here today again." I ask as I wave my wand and change my clothing. To which he jumps and walks to stand beside me. " just remember that you are supposed to be a normal cat, not a wild animal, so don't do anything that will make them question the fact that I have a cat." I laugh as he walks down the halls with me as we go to the Main Hall for breakfast. Still shaking my head at his antics I take my seat at the table and take a couple pancakes from the pile in front of me and gave half to the cat that had jumped onto my lap.