Mirrim braced herself before knocking on the classroom door. After a minute it opened, she was surprised to see Alex.

"Oh Mirrim, thank god it's you. I'd already started opening the door before realising I didn't have an excuse for why I'm here come in." She stepped aside and let Mirrim in. She closed the door and turned. "By the way if you're looking for Severus he's not here." Trying not to smile at Alex's use of Snape's first name she shook her head.

"No actually Alex, I came to see you."

"Yeah I'm fabulous. Come into the living room it's actually warm in there, there's a fire."

"Thanks." Mirrim looked around Snape's living room as Alex led her inside. It wasn't exactly what she'd expected. For one thing there was a reasonable amount of colour and it looked like Snape enjoyed a lot of books. To her shock she saw quite a lot of Manga, then assumed it must be Alex's.

"So what's up?" Mirrim asked, flopping down on the sofa and gesturing for Mirrim to join her. Mirrim sat down and frowned before speaking.

"It's about Professor Lupin."

"OK."

"Well, I talked to Hermione about it and she said I should get a boyfriend and get over it. I tried it and just felt so guilty and he was a perfectly nice guy. I just don't know what's wrong with me."

"What's wrong with you is that you're trying to get over someone your completely in love with with out getting any closure. And you picked someone who's completely different from Lupin so you kept comparing them."

"How do you know who it was?"

"We eat in the same room Mirrim I'm not blind. I don't get it though. If it was still bothering you why did you talk to Hermione? You could have talked to me."

"I didn't want to Alex. You had just gotten together with Snape. We didn't have the same problem anymore. I didn't want to depress you or anything."

"Don't be so stupid Mirrim, I am your friend you know." Mirrim smiled.

"Yeah. Sorry Alex that was pretty stupid."

"Your face is stupid."

"Yeeeah."

"Good evening Miss Hallows." Both girls looked up to see Snape standing in the doorway.

"Good evening Professor." There was an awkward silence. "Soooo, I better go. Thanks Alex, I'll see you later."

"K bye." Mirrim left quickly. Snape turned to Alex and raised an eyebrow. "Don't look at me like that Severus. How'd it go with Dumbledore?"

"He has a plan."

"Really?"

"Yes. I'll just floo Lupin to let him know then I'll explain it, OK?"

"OK." Alex picked up a book and started to read. Snape dropped some powder into the fire. The flames went green and Snape stuck his head in.

"Remus Lupin's rooms."

"Good evening Severus."

"Good evening Remus, may I come in."

"Of course." Snape stepped through the fire and brushed his robes down. "Would you like some tea?"

"No thank you. I have a message from Dumbledore."

"Oh yes?"

"He wants you to teach Miss Hallows occulmency." Remus dropped his cup.

"You're joking."

"I'm not, he wants you to teach her."

"But why? I don't want to invade her thoughts."

"Whether you want to or not Remus is irrelevant. Dumbledore wants you to teach her."

"Why?"

"Well it's a good skill to have, especially these days with Voldemort growing stronger, we can't have him invading students minds and messing with them."

"I can understand his reasoning for the teaching Severus, but why me?"

"I expect it's because you're friends Remus. She will trust you and you will stop yourself before seeing anything too personal."

"I suppose. All right then, does she know yet?"

"No, Dumbledore's going to tell her tomorrow."

"OK. Thank you Severus."

"Goodnight Lupin."

"Goodnight." Snape disappeared back into the fireplace. Lupin sat down heavily and put his head in his hands. "Dammit Albus, what are you up to."

A/N Sorry it's another short I just wanted to end it there.