Alright, so this is another short chapter. However, it is probably my favorite so far! Please tell me what you think! :D oh, and I don't own Harry Potter or any associated paraphanilia and such... :P Enjoy!

Remus had finally flipped to the last page. There were a brief few stanzas of poetry and then an envelope which was tightly sealed and taped t the book's back cover. Selene's fingers brushed against the envelope and she tore it from the notebook. As she turned it over, she saw the gleam of ink scrolled across its back.

"Oh. My. God. Remus look at this! Remus-look!" Selene had a weird look on her face-a mixture of surprise and complete disbelief.

"What!" Remus said, hastily snatching the envelope from her fingers.

"Read it! Read who it's addressed to!" Selene was bouncing up and down-her hair whipping up and down around her-temporarily blocking his view of the envelope.

"Selene-Selene move out of the way!"

Remus looked down and read the scrolling letters aloud.

"For my one and only love-Albus Dumbledore. I shall love you eternally."

Remus looked up and gaped at Selene. Selene stared back with equally wide eyes.

"Do you really think…?" He asked her helplessly. "Could this really be for…?"

"This is almost a hundred years old!" Selene shook her head, "It's impossible!"

"From my years in the wizarding world, I've certainly learned that nothing where magic is involved is impossible…it's just…a bit extraordinary. Could it be…a…er…relative of his?" Remus turned to reread the page.

"I don't think there was ever another Albus Dumbledore. You know what we have to do now, don't you?" She looked up at Remus, as she closed the book.

"No," Remus shook his head, his amber eyes still alight with disbelief, "What?"

"We have to return it-to Professor Dumbledore."

After climbing into his bed and setting several silencing and un-penetrating charms around the curtains, Severus Snape did something that he'd never done before in his life-he let himself cry.

The fortified mask of intelligence and formality shattered around him as he let a few tears escape his eyes. He pulled out an old, battered potions book and began to read, trying to take his mind off the previous day's events. But, droplets of water splattered onto the pages and he was forced to stop. Finally, he buried his face into his pillow, shoved all the dark green blankets over his head, and pulled a vial of potion out of his bag. After unstoppering the vial, he tipped the pink, sparkling contents down his throat. He promptly fell into a dreamless, silent sleep.

"Password?" The giant lion's painting croaked sleepily.

"Ugh…I forgot that we needed a password…" Remus let his shoulders drop dramatically and his head droop significantly, as he tried to earn some sympathy from the lion guarding Dumbledore's Transfiguration office.

"No password, no entry." The lion said sleepily, laying down against its frame to rest its eyes once more.

"Hmm…perhaps I can guess it! That one time Professor Greenwhich sent me here the password was Sugarquill, and another time it was fizzing wizbee…its definitely another teype of candy…and if there's one thing Mauraders know, its candy!" Rmus grinned, running his fingers through his light brown hair in a very James-like gesture.

"Let's see…something unusual…Gushing Grape Gumdrops?"

"No."

Remus rubbed his chin in thought.

"Licorice Boot Laces?"

"No." The lion's painted face shifted into a grin.

"Chocolate Caramel Cauldron Cakes?"

"No." The lion lazily rubbed its eyes with an oversized paw.

"Still, the answer remains 'no.'"

"Exploding fruit-flies?"

"No…"

"Aw, come on!" Remus literally stamped his foot in frustration. Tests and essays he could do. Guessing Games were not his forte. Flicking his bangs out of his eyes, he took a deep breath before belting, "Red Vines! Cockroach clusters! Sugar quills! Terrified Toffee! Blistering Bonbons! Teeth Busting Sherbet? Leech Lollipops!"

"No. No. No…"

"Remus, it's alright, I've got this one." Selene pushed past an exasperated Remus and quite confidently looked the painted lion square in the eye.

"Honey-drizzled chocolate fairy dust…"

"Yes…and?"The gargoyle prompted.

"…with a dash of Romanian cinnamon." The gargoyle stepped aside as Selene spoke.

"Wha-! How did you know that!" Remus spluttered, following Selene into the waiting room of Albus Dumbledore's office.

"Intuition. Plus I overheard the teachers discussing Dumbledore's rather…unusual choices of passwords." She grinned widely, flicking her hair over her shoulder in a single, smooth motion.

"Well why couldn't you have told me that before I guessed all of those silly passwords!" He knocked softly on the office door, unsure whether to feel amused of hurt.

"Well, I found your imagination quite…entertaining. And cute." She added, blushing a little in the dimly lit room.

Remus blushed as well. Not even thinking-he leaned in and kissed Selene softly on the lips. It lasted two seconds, yet seemed like forever. The kiss was short and awkward, but Selene's eyes got really wide and Remus' heart seemed to explode into a million pieces and then magically put itself back together over and over.

"Er...sorry." Remus stepped quickly away from the wide-eyed, shocked Selene. Her long blond hair was in disarray and there were faded smudges of ink across her face from earlier that day, but Remus thought that she had never looked more beautiful.

Selene opened her mouth to say something, but the door had creaked open, revealing a tired-looking Albus Dumbledore.