Severus began to lead Kennewick to where he started following the tracks the other day. She was still holding her wand, but no longer pointing it at him. If only she'd put it away...or maybe she didn't have to.

"You're certainly more cooperative than your girlfriend."

"She's not my girlfriend." He stated matter-of-factly.

She chuckled. "My mistake."

He stopped suddenly and turned to her. "I forgot to mention something, about the tracks…"

"What? What about them?"

"They were very small. I believe your werewolf might be…" He gestured with his hand, pretending to show the height of a child. "Expelliarmus."

It was too late when she realized he had cast a spell. Her wand tore out of her hand and landed in his.

The look of shock on Kennewick's face was priceless. "I-"

He petrified her with her own wand.

A wand the ministry wasn't tracing.

A mad smile grew on his face.

He'd have to return it, as to not raise suspicion, but he could do anything...for a short while.

He sprinted back to the shack, which wasn't terribly far, and re-upped all of his wards and the like, but better and stronger now that he had a conduit. A reluctant one, but a slightly less than compliant wand was still more effective than no wand.

Severus disillusioned the whole area, making it even harder for anyone, wizard or no, to find. He also added a repelling charm. It was now the safest place to hide in the forest, from just about anything, except perhaps a particularly determined Dumbledore or someone of comparable strength, and even then it would take a while. It was merely a secret keeper shy of a fidelis charm.

It was also now an even better, almost impenetrable prison, if he were to trigger it to be so if say: he tossed a werewolf inside of it.

His smirk was wild and he knew it.

He swiftly returned to Kennewick.

On second thought…

Severus apparated to his bedroom, startling a sleeping Amun. Realizing his trunk was currently in use, he transfigured a pile of books into a suitcase. He threw open his closet door, at the same time he cast a riddikulus and immediately locked a now familiar looking scarf into the portable containment device.

He popped to the edge of the forbidden forest, a featherlight charm escaped his lips as he marched into the trees until he couldn't see the edge anymore. He dumped out the suitcase and before the boggart could fully take shape, he sprinted back the way he came until he could see the sky and returned home with a resounding crack.

Amun made a quiet sound and he stroked the bird's cheek lightly before he turned the suitcase back into the books he needed.

Severus then apparated one last time back to Kennewick, who had regained the ability to blink and twitch her fingers.

"Can't have you remembering any of this, sorry." He pointed the wand at her. "I'll give you a few leads though, some of the muggles might help you if you're nice to them, so don't be too disappointed for the few seconds you remember this conversation."

He smirked at the look of fear that developed in her eyes and cast one of the few spells he did not trust to do without a wand for risk of irrevocable harm.

"Obliviate."

He then cast a few random detection charms at the ground to clear the wand if someone for some reason decided to check it before she cast something else. He then returned it to its master, curling her fingers around it, and hastily returned to his friend before Kennewick became lucid.

He entered so quickly it startled Lily into a battle stance.

"Sev?"

"Hey," he huffed, a bit short of breath for some odd reason, for he certainly wasn't just running about like a madman. He pointed to the potion, "how's it coming along?"