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A Tad of Turbulence

"Someday, everything will make perfect sense.

So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason .

"Barnett..." Severus's hallowed, dangerous voice echoed off the cold stone walls of the dungeon as Kayne picked up her speed, destined for the shelter and solitude of her office.

"Don't do this.." Her voice wined over her shoulder, sounding more pathetic than she wanted as she heard his steps closing in, "I don't want to do this. I just want to be alone." She pushed again knowing it was no good as his footsteps only met to hers.

He had caught up behind her, and on her turn around the corner, he grabbed the back of her robes angrily and pulled back to stop her frenzied stride. At Kayne's yelp of objection, Vex spun around and gave a controlled lunge at the teacher's holding arm. Severus dropped his hand and gave the dog a dangerous look that sent it's ears flat back and knees to bend in submission. He took hold of her again just as they went to pass his portrait door which, Kayne had noticed, had been opening at their approach. Without a fight from what was obviously going to happen regardless, Kayne near stepped into his office all on her own free will, and not so much by his force.

"First off," Severus began sharply once the doorway was closed and sealed. Before saying anything he had swept across the office and stopped by his personal bar. Once with glasses were met, he then turned to face her wordlessly, crossing his arms over his chest as he attempted to delay the drink his mind called for.

"Two events.." His voice dropped dangerously, "Two events in a row with you as the main attraction, and all before any explanation of your previous over reactions. You have yet to inform me of of the contents of the necklace besdies, 'it's dangerous', and why you decided to run from the staff room.. But now.. Now I can only ask what the hell happened out in the courtyard?"

"First off, " She mimicked his pose and voice, grinning against his snarl, "You already know what was on the necklace..I don't need abilities to know Lucius already informed you of everything.. Just like me.. or you...Lucius is very predictable. Second. What happened in the courtyard is exactly what you saw. I'm not playing the quiet game, you will not shove me in the corner of house issues that I am no longer apart of."

"You will always be apart of, Slytherin." He was stern, his voice nearly insulted.

"But, what portion of Slytherin do I want to be apart of, professor?"

Severus silenced and fixed his jaw in defeat, bringing Kayne to nod and take her place in the reliable armchair by the fireplace that had became her favorite place in his office. He watched her pout for a minute as he poured drinks, his own feelings a mixture of some sort of anger and… he didn't know, and the refusal of insults in his mind irritated him further.

He liquidity moved to the sitting space and lowered to the disgruntled Slytherin, a heavy drink.

She ignored the cup he hung in her peripherals, but his lingering persistence had her turning her lip angrily and taking the cup just to lower it on the small table at her side. When he didn't step away from her, she looked up to see him glaring down his nose at her while raising the cup to his mouth.

"What?" She asked raising her eyebrows, feeling irritated at his towering form.

He only gave a smirk and adjusted his footing while taking another sip as he glanced away and forced down the burn with ease.

"Merlin's beard," She gave a sigh and turned back to the licking flames, "are you just getting drunk in front of me?"

"Nothing new." His voice was graveled and he gave a slight shrug before finishing the glass where it would be magically refilled as he continued to hold his angry scowl.

She smiled a small smile that she didn't want to smile, one not directed at him, or one she wanted him to see. But, of course Severus saw and of course the irate man continued to push. He continued his looming behavior that drove her to lean away as a slow rising irritation of personal defense and his aura of danger made her feel small and vulnerable.

"Stop." She stated as his energy began rising in the room.

"Stop what?"

"What your doing."

"What am I doing?"

"Severus.."

"Kayne."

He knew what she ment, he knew what he was going. But, he kept his voice stern, and his demeanor harsh. They stared at each other for a moment again before Kayne stood up bringing herself nose to chest with the taller, darkly dressed man who's height forced her a single step back that she wished she didn't have to give.

"Stop." She stated again as his position reset and another sip was taken from his side in anticipation.

"What?" His voice sounded more dark with a sense of accomplishment at his attempts to pester.

Now she found her irritation rising much faster, and her anger before-hand only made her more sensitive to his obvious games that he played now.

"Severus, -" Her voice warned his name as she let the bubbling rise her stomach.

"What?" His voice dripped with mockery behind the lip of the glass, as his eyes gleamed at her curling defensing.

His interruption made her bite her cheek slightly, and she took a breath before continuing,

"Remember when I put you down in my seventh year?" She whispered through teeth and lowered eyes.

"No?" He narrowed his eyes.

"Yes you do. Anyway, If you don't stop this, I'll do it again."

"Oh..? And what exactly are you going to be, 'doing again'?"

She closed the space expecting him to take his steps away, but when he didn't she found herself cast under his chin and a raised eyebrow at her attempt to intimidate.

Kayne raised her hand and drove her finger into the soft spot of his shoulder, "Severus Snape, if you don't stop being a git, I will take you down just as I did the last, and the only time, we dueled."

"I believe I won that one." Severus recalled in drone, as his fingers swirled the booze in the glass.

"You won on technicality and interruption. If you didn't take my sight.."

"And swiped you from your feet."

His words quieted her as her heart skipped a beat and her breathing caught at the sentence. It was said as a chilled winded voice that sent a shiver through her back. A verbal slip, a show of drunken weakness now publicly apparent. Severus found himself taking a final sip and placing his glass next to hers on the side table.

"Are you asking for another duel?" He pondered out-loud, slipped away from her peripherals and into the shadows of the dark office.

Nothing was said and her breath caught in her chest as the sudden force of his power came from the shrouded shadows behind her chair. There was no noise but her own, no real sign he was looming at her from over the back of the chair. But she felt the evil and malice which was Snape, and she held her gaze on the active fire in front of her as, after a quiet few minutes, she felt his fingers slip over her shoulder and pull her back into the chair. Holding his fingers around her shoulder and nape, he tilted her head forward with his thumb pressed into the back of her neck.

"I'm asking you to accept fact, that I was born better then you," Her voice lowered in volume but not strength as his fingers traced a sensitive pressure point on her throat, "and I will always win regardless." She forced the final words more than she would have liked to admit.

The try of dominance in a situation she was clearly lost in, brought a gaudy grin from Severus that would go unseen. His wrist pulled upwards, the fingers of his hand slipping now under her jaw bone.

"What you want from me, Acolyte ?" He asks her as his index and middle finger trace over the skin of her neck, his voice coming from above her head

Of course her body stiffened as she felt Severus's fingers slip back to the hold on the side of her neck. The other hand, which had gone ignored to the touch she succumb under, before awearness brought her to feel the pulsing magic of his wand that had been pulled from it's holster.

"Out with it, Barnett." His low, darkened voice skipping her heart and holding her breath.

It was a moment of silence where she could hear his labored breathing that he held deep in his chest that nearly started matching her own.

"I guess not." His voice came under his breath after she said nothing more, and he pulled his words from a dry throat as his contact slipped away leaving a cold chill on her skin.

"No more of what?" She asked as her hand raised up to his left arm in attempt for him to keep contact. Contact was made and the sliding of her palm moved to slip over his covered Dark Mark without thought. Without warning though, the man yanked violently away as a shock of pain ripped through every vein that crossed the black imprint before numbing his arm completely with a static feeling.

"What's going on? Kayne was out of her chair, and had stepped away as Severus turned away from her. She watched his curled his back twitch in agony as his right hand squeezed his left forearm as strong pins and needles erupted from his elbow to the tips of his fingers.

"Severus..." She closed the space and attempted to place her hand on his shoulder.

Before her fingers touched, he violently swept her arm out of the way and stepped back.

"I need to go… You.. You need to leave here, right now." His voice was gone and darkly airy.

"Severus.." She asked confused, still attempting an approach.

"Get out.." His voice hissed while his eyes glazed to images in his head.

"Severus."

His body straightened so quickly that Kayne jumped back a step. His eyes that turned to address looked liquid coated as his anger struck her before words could be released.

"GET OUT!"

His bellow jumped Kayne and brought Vex to his feet. She looked at Severus quietly for a moment before turning and leaving before the man could say or do something he could never take back.