Authors note: Hehe...Yea I'm pure evil, I know. I'm also bored, and I have bored relitives! lol. OK, I don't own any of the charecters...'sept the ones that aren't mentioned in the books! Hows that!

Chapter Nine

"Twi...Twilight..." Snape shook her awake, desiding to not notice that Draco's arm proctivly tightened around her waist when she shifted to face him.

"What do you want?" She whispered, yawning, setting Draco's arm aside.

"We need to talk...now..."

"About what?"

"About us..."

"Can't this wait?"

"I would suppose, but why put off to tomorrow what you can do now?"

"I'm trying to sleep..."

"Sleep in my bed..."

"No...This is quite comfortable acctually..." Twilight snuggled back down into the sleeping bag.


Of course the offer sounded good, but of course, she wasn't speaking with him...Oh, what am I thinking?! She thought, hiding her face, and rolling her eyes.

"C'mon...five minutes...thats all I'm asking..."

"I'd really like to get some sleep now, if you wouldn't mind..."

"Dumbledore needs to speak with you also, if you don't mind..."

"About what? I know nothing." She shook her head, "If he wants information, he's going to have to wait until tomorrow...There's nothing he can do right now."

"Come with me all the same..." Snape grasp her hand, "Please?"

"We can talk tomorrow..." Twilight pulled the cover over her head.

"Meet me in the Three Broomsticks tomorrow? Say a half hour before we leave?"

"We have a Hogsmead trip tomorrow?" Twilight sat up suddenly.

"Yes...did you forget?" He asked.

"Oh no..." Twilight shook her head, "They need to cancel it..."

"Why?"

"He knows...He probably saw the notice in the common room. He knows!"

"He can't-"

"He can."

"How do you know-"

"I know."

"All right..." Snape got up off the floor, and begain to walk out of the Great Hall, and Twilight fell back agenst the invisiable pillow.

Beside her, Draco's eye's flickered, "Some-fink wrong?"

"I'll say..." She sighed, massasing her forehead with her fingertips.

"What is it?"

"Hogsmead will be called off tomorrow..." She whispered, "He knows about it."

"How?"

"The notice in the common room...He probably saw it."

"How do you know he went inside?"

"I just know..." She sighed, and looked up at the enchanted ceiling, at the scatterd stars, and dark clouds that filled it.

"All right...all right..." He pulled her close, "Go back to sleep..."

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"You need to what?" Snape was following her out of his class room.

"Go..."

"Go where?"

"Where do you think?" She was half way down the hall way, and out of the castle when he caught up with her.

"Take me with you..." He spun her around.

"What do you mean take you with me?"

"Take me with you..." He said calmly.

"No...get away from me!" She pulled herself away from him.

"You can't stay away from me forever! Your going to have to talk to me!"

"No I'm not..." She continued on.

"I can just follow you...I'm a deatheater at heart, I know where to find him..."

"Then why don't you just come on your own?" She turned, and crossed her arms.

"Fine...I will..." He continued to follow her, and they apperated at the same time.

He took a step back, as he landed in the Riddle living room, where there where Deatheaters around them in a circle, Wormtail cowered in a cornor, and Voldemort himself was looking down at Twilight.

"Your sister got mouthy with me yesterday..." He spoke to her, "Told me that I couldn't control you anymore. You don't think I control you, do you, Twilight?"

"No." She stood up to him.

"Good...Teresa is here..."

"Why isn't she in America with the exchange family?" Twilight crossed her arms.

"Got a bit mouthy with one of the teachers at the school...Almost blew her to smitherines..." Voldemort had a look of amusment on his face, "Unfortunetly, one of the other teachers interfered..."

"Where is she?" Twilight asked.

"In the backroom...Afraid she gave Wormtail a bit of a fright this morning...She's curled up on bed..." Voldemort motioned backwards, and the deatheaters split into two lines, so she could see the little figured huddled in the room behind them.

"What did you want?" She asked finally, wanting to leave as soon as possiable.

"Oh, nothing really..." He turned and pased around the circle, "Heard anything from Black lately?"

Snape stood there, as though he wheren't there at all, listening to the cool, even, way Voldemort was talking to his daughter about his son, and his youngest daughter.

"No. Should I have?"

"Just wondering..." He stopped suddenly, and turned to Snape staring him in the eye, as he walked around him, "Bring us a present deary?"

"He came on his own..." Twilight refused to look at Snape.

"So, what do we owe this plesant suprize to, Severus?"

He didn't blink, or look away, but he didn't answer him either.

"Not talking are you? Well, we could always-"

"Don't hurt him..." Twilight broke in, "He's just being stupid, and thick headed like usual..."

"Is that right, Severus? You always did have that stupid sort of aura around you. Quite intelligent for the most part of course..." He stopped right in front of him, and took out his wand from a robe pocket, "We could finish you off right here if you like."

"No thanks. I'd much rather die for a reason, rather just for kicks..." Snape stared at him.

Voldemort's eyebrow twitched, "Ah, yes...Of course. But, Severus, you always did like those mass killings. Even suggested a few of them..."

"I guess it was a short lived..."

Voldemort sniffled, "Get out of here, before I do kill you...You too Twilight."

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"Why do you let him do that to you?" Snape was following Twilight down hallways, trying to get her to talk to him.

"It's none of your business..."

"He can't treat you like that..." He walked in rythem with her, and almost walked into a wall as she took a sharp turn.

Easter holidays had arrived, and the castle was basicly empty exept for a few odds 'n' ends people.

"He's my father, he can treat me how he pleases...Not that it's any of your business."

"Whose Teresa."

"Why?"

"I'm asking. Who is she?"

"She's my youngest sister. Why?" She turned suddenly, and stared at him, crossing his arms.

"Just wondering..." He stopped in front of her, "Why are you so angry with me?"

She didn't answer as she turned on her heel, and begain walking back down the hallway.

"Do you even know where your going? This castle is huge. Your going to get lost."

"I don't care..." She tossed back of her shoulder, "Ever heard of exploring?"

"I think it's time we turned back..." The atmosphere was cold, and dank.

"Why? Are you afraid?" She turned around, and stared at him.

"Of course not." He would never admit to being frightened in front of her.

"Are you a weakling? Not being able to handle a little humid air. A little darkness here and there between candles?"

"Of course not..." he shook his head again, "Lead the way."

She shrugged, and continued to walk.

Soon, they where enwrapped in darkness.

"Severus?" She asked, not hearing him behind her.

"Here..." He replyed, feeling his way along the walls.

"I can't see anything..." She bumped her hip into a wall, "Ouch!"

"Are you all right? I told you this was a bad idea..." He put an arm around her shoulder.

"Please refrain from touching me..." She shrugged off his arm.

"Sorry..." He held his hands up, "Just thought that maybe as long as we where touching some how, we wouldn't loose each other..."

"I think I see a light up there..." She nodded at the faint glow a few yards ahead.

"C'mon..." He begain walking ahead of her.

"Why are you still walking with me?"

"Because. I figure if you get lost, I can probably figure out the way back."

"I won't get lost..." She told him, taking out her want, "Lumos."

"Good idea..." Snape took out his own wand, "Lumos."

"Sure..." She stared at the cracked walls around them, "Feel like an adventure Snape?"

"Sure." He shrugged.

"This way...." She walked across the hallway, and down a short passageway, until they came to some stairs, faintly lit by some candles.

"Lady's first..." He waved her down the stairs, and boldly she begain walking down the winding staircase.

"What do you thinks down here..."

"I don't know...probably some old room, that hasn't been seen in years apon years..." Snape ducked under some low beams.

"Hold on..." Twilight leaned across the railing. "These stairs end soon, but I don't know what's on at the bottom..."

"Well, lets find out..." He pushed her back slightly.

She continued downward, and stopped infront of a large stone wall, "What do you think?"

"Try a password."

"Like what?"

"Try house names..."

"Slytherin.." No reaction, "Gryffindor." Still nothing. "Hufflepuff. Ravenclaw?"

"Okay, maybe not."

"Hold on..maybe I can find where we are..." Twilight reached into her robes for her map, and found it deep within one of the pockets.

Slowly she blew across it, and the image of Hogwarts appered. At the near bottom of the map, she found them...although the stone wall she was in front of did not exist.

"Try some of the bricks..." Snape begain looking for loose stones, pressing on them, looking for some sort of a contraption to open a trap door or something.

Twilight rolled her eyes, and blew across where the wall should be, and a line appered...

Diricks appered across it.

"Diricks..." Twilight tapped her wand agenst the stone wall.

Slowly...the wall slid back, and emitted a doorway...