Authors Note: This is my first HP fic so please be kind, constructive criticism is always welcome.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the original HP characters nor am I making money off of this story. I own Nina "Marks" Snape and Hallie Lynn Snape. Do not sue me I'm a lowly college student with no money.

" You will be spending the summer at your aunt's in Romania." It was the next day and the first of her detentions with her father Lynn was a lot less then pleased.

"The whole summer?" She asked staring up at him.

"Yes the whole summer. While you are there your aunt and uncle will continue in your training, I expect to see results with your weapons training when you get back." He wasn't looking at her but at the family portrait that hung over the fire place in their chambers.

"But what about Harry?" She knew that her father wasn't going to send Harry back to his mum's relatives but she had no idea how he was going to pull off keeping him here. Turning around to face her he answered.

"Harry will be staying here, we will play it off as if he will be staying with Minerva if anyone asks, as though she is looking after him for the summer." Lynn sat silently pouting on the sofa. Severus glared at her.

"What did you expect, to have him come with you? That would blow everything; you know that your aunt and uncle believe us to be on the side of Voldimort. If they knew that I where the father of Harry Potter it would cause a riot among the remaining death eaters and we would have to go into hiding."

"I know." She responded flatly, she had heard this before not to long ago when she had asked about the coming summer events.

"Do you? Because the way you acted yesterday could make people very suspicious of us, you are supposed to act proper, threatening someone and snapping their wand is not very proper." Hearing this Lynn's temper started to flare.

"Oh yes because Pansy Parkinson is the queen of acting proper, she's the one who stuck her wand in my back and threatened me it was not the other way around! I just did what you taught me to do, I defended myself!" She glared at her father with such anger that he half expected fireballs to come shooting out of her eyes.

"I'm going to my room." And with that she quickly turned around and stomped through the kitchen to her room slamming the door behind her. Severus then proceeded to fall back on the couch and wish for a simpler life.

Mean while in the Slytherin Common Room

"I'm telling you, something is really off with Lynn lately." Draco confided in Crabbe and Goyle, they were really the only two other friends besides Lynn that he had.

"I don't know Drake she looks pretty normal to me. Well with the exception of the spastic freak out on Pansy but I guess that was to be excepted at some point in time." Crabbe said before ordering another piece to move in the chess game him and Goyle were playing.

"I guess your right about that, I mean her and Pansy have never really gotten along." Draco commented thoughtfully.

"Well of course not, Pansy has always wanted the one thing that she could never have, that would just happen to be you. So there for she is going to start being rude to Lynn." Goyle stated this fact even though it was extremely obvious to everyone who knew of Draco and Lynn's engagement.

"Oh you should have seen Pansy and Ms. Parkinson's faces when they saw the ring on Lynn, the two nearly died of shock. I wish I had had a camera." Draco smiled at the memory of the Christmas ball. Just then Lynn walked through the door into the room.

"So how'd detention go?" Draco asked as Lynn slumped down on the couch next to him.

"As well as a detention can go I guess, except I found out that I will be going to my aunt's for the summer." As she said this Lynn went to lay her head down on Draco's knee but once the words she had said registered in his mind he automatically shot up off the couch. This action sent Lynn falling off the couch and crashing to the ground upsetting the chessboard the boys were playing on.

"The whole summer!" Draco cried as Lynn, Crabbe and Goyle tried to re settle themselves.

"Ouch! And yes all summer. Good grief Drake did you have to freak out I nearly cracked my head open." Lynn scolded as she got up off the floor and brushed off her robes.

"Oops, sorry guys." Draco said sheepishly after he saw the havoc he had just caused by the simple action of standing up. Once they were all settled back into their previous places, Draco and Lynn sitting on the couch and Crabbe and Goyle starting a new game of chess the conversation continued.

"Yes I'll be gone the whole summer." Lynn said staring up at Draco from where she laid her head on his knee.

"Why does he always send you away?" Draco asked pouting at the thought of not being able to see Lynn for three months straight.

"I don't know." She responded taking his hand in hers and closing her eyes as she tried to memorize what it felt like. Though this time she did know why he was sending her away, he didn't say it out loud but she knew what his actual reason was. He wanted her away so he could spend time with Harry. She understood, but it still didn't make her any less jealous.

"Is this the aunt who is married to Count Vladimir?" Goyle asked his eyes sparkling at the thought of the great and very dark Count.

"Yes that would be her." The very tired and now annoyed girl responded. She was sick of people getting all excited about her uncle. So he's a vampire big deal. She had another great great great great great uncle who was a vampire, one who was actually related to them by blood. But she hadn't seen her Uncle William in a while. The last time was when she was six and he came to search for the people that kidnapped her. At the time he had brought his girlfriend Dru, Lynn didn't like her much, the girl's thoughts made no sense. She didn't see what he saw in her. She guessed it was the love of the kill that really sealed the deal for the two of them. The last she had heard through his monthly owl was that Dru left him again and he was now living on the Hellmouth trying to turn his life around. How you could turn your life around and make things better by living on a Hellmouth was beyond her, but to each their own.

"Lynn! Lynn!" The dazed girl blinked a few times and looked up at her boyfriend.

"I'm sorry,what?" She asked looking at him confused.

'What were you thinking about?' She smiled, she liked when they didn't speak things all the time, it was a lot more fun this way, more private.

'My Uncle William, I haven't seen him in forever.' Draco knew that she really loved her uncle as he was one of the few remaining relatives she had.

'I'm sure you'll see him soon, maybe he'll come to your Aunts this summer.'

'Maybe' She paused in her thinking and looked over at the two boys to making sure they weren't watching. After seeing that they were pre occupied in their game she sat up and leaned into Drake's arms.

'I don't want to leave you for three months.' He sighed.

'I don't want you to either but you know we can't exactly challenge your father and you know that you can't stay with me.'

'I know.'

'Don't worry the summer will be over sooner then we think. I promise to write you every day. '

'Swear it?' She asked staring at his steal grey eyes.

'I swear it.'

The end of term went rather quickly, end of year exams came and went, as did the stress and insanity that went with them. Sooner then anyone expected it was the night before everyone was to go his or her separate ways for the summer. At the moment Draco and Lynn were laying in his bed trying to cherish their last few hours together before they were forced apart. The two talked all night of the future, the past and what was to happen in the coming months. Lynn wished she could tell him the truth instead of having to fake fantasize about the future serving the dark lord. She wanted to tell him that she loathed everything about the man and that he was the reason she was nightly trapped in hell. But she stopped herself and just let him speak of all he wanted for them. All to soon it was morning and the students were heading down for there final breakfast at the school. It was a happy affair considering the circumstances. Everyone was happy that the year was over but at the same time upset to be leaving his or her friends.

Sitting at the table Lynn looked up at her father at the head table.

'Glad it's over?' She asked with a smirk already knowing her fathers answer.

'More then you could ever imagine.' She laughed quietly to herself before going on with her food. The day passed to quickly and soon enough it was time for the final dinner. The house cup was given out and rewarded to Gryffandor mainly because of what Harry and his friends had done. Lynn didn't see why the three get points for endangering their lives but she also knew that Dumbledore worked in mysterious ways.

After dinner everyone started to head to the train, Lynn stood on the steps of the school waving her friends off. She had said goodbye to Draco earlier that day as to not make a scene in front of everyone. Soon the only ones that were left at the school besides the staff, house elves and ghouls were Lynn and Harry. Luckily no one noticed Harry had stayed behind, though Lynn was sure Draco was going to be questioning it in his letter. She smirked to herself thinking of how bored he was going to be on the train considering he had no one to torture.

The two Snapes sat staring at each other in their father's chambers unsure of what to do next. They hadn't had to be in the same room with out people around them for a while unless they were training and even then their father was with them.

"So I hear your going away." Harry said looking over at Lynn who was sitting on a chair across from him. She nodded.

"Yeah dad's sending me to stay with Aunt Lydia, his half sister, for the summer. I guess he feels it will keep the cover up. Plus it will be good for the two of you to get to know each other better."

"Where does she live?" He asked glancing up from where he was staring at his hands. He was unsure of how he felt about his sister being gone all summer and having it be just him and his father. Granted the two had spent time together alone on Christmas that was only one day where as this was a whole three months.

"Romania, she lives there with her husband the great Count Vladimir." She replied waiting to hear the ever-present gasp that came with the mention of her Uncle. But this time none came, this in turn confused her.

"You have heard of him haven't you?" She asked eyeing him.

"No I don't think so."

"Well then this definitely proved that you were sheltered. You've never heard of Dracula?" Harry looked at her still confused.

"Oh come on! There are thousands of books on him, he's a famous vampire." She stated this figuring she could get some sort of reaction out of him.

"Vampire's don't exist." He said looking at the girl as though she had lost her mind. This in turn made Lynn crack up laughing.

"You've lived in the wizarding world for a year, you use a wand to cast spells and you are one of the few people in the world that can talk to snakes why on earth would you not believe that vampires exist?" She couldn't stop laughing at her brother's naive ness. His face became bright red and instead of arguing with her he just got up off the chair and left the room, Lynn's laughter following him the whole way.

Harry then decided not to talk to his sister for the rest of the time she was there. Which then made the next week a bit stressful.