Authors note: Spooky? Eh? I don't own none of the charecters mentioned in J.K. Rowling's: Harry Potter series...Merci.

Chapter Ten.

"Lovely place you've found here Twilight..." Snape ducked down into the old torcher chamber they had just found.

"These are in fine condition...care to try one out, Severus?" She opened an old Iron Maidan.

"No thanks..." He shook his head.

"Wow...wands..." Twilight bent over the old pile of wands on the floor, "Some of them are even inscribed."

"Doesn't that do something to it?"

"What?"

"Having your name sketched into your wand..."

"No." Twilight shook her head.

"Oh..." He shrugged, "C'mon Twi. I think we should go..."

"No..." She shook her head, "Lets stay..."

"I don't think that that's a good idea, Twi..."

"Why not?" She turned suddenly.

"Be-because..."

"Because why?" She was looking down at her map, walking along the walls, and stopping every so often. Suddenly, she stopped, and touched a brick with her hand, and pushed on it, "Coming?"

"Yes..." He sighed, and followed her through the passage way.

"Wow..." She had stepped into a larger chamber, filled with chains, and shackles.

"Why do you keep leading me into torcher chambers?" He sighed, staring at the ceiling, and then shivering.

Above, the ceiling was dotted with leering skulls, and skeletons. Mutated, and writhered.

"This is discusing..." Twilight was strictly amused, as she touched a mutated sketeton, which bones where intertwined together.

"Yes, it is...Lets go?"

"Are you a wussy, Snape?"

"No," He shook his head, "I'm just saying, lets go..."

"All right...fine...hold on..." She walked around the walls again, and then tapped another brick, "Opanaia."

The wall slid back, and they walked through into an old, musty classroom.

The tables where covered with spider webs, and dust, but you could see the culdrons that sat above flame pits, and the old stools beneath the tables.

"Old Potions class room I take it?" Twilight begain walking around, and opening cupboards and things, "Interesting...dried Gillyweed...interested Severus-dear?"

He raised an eyebrow, and shook his head, "No thanks...I dout if any of those ingrediants are any good anymore..."

"Lets try some..." Twilight grabbed a few viles out of a closet behind the desk, and walked to a front table, with a culdron, and lit a fire easily with her wand, "Now lets see..."

"I don't think you should-"


"Whats going to happen?" She asked, shaking her wand, and a spout of water poured out, "It's going to explode?"

"It may..." he shrugged.

"Relax..." She shook her head, "It'll be fine..."

He sighed, and shook his head, as she poured ingrediants into a couldrun, "What exactly are you making?"

"Sleeping potion..."

"A sleeping potion?"

"Its the only full ingredints that are in there...Would you like to try?" She held up a spoon full.

"Where did you find the spoon?"

"It's called conjour." She told him, "Care to try it?"

"No, I think we both need to be wide awake in order to get back to the main-"

"I think I made a mistake..." Twilight leaned on the table, dropping the spoon.

"What? What's wrong?"

"I-I don't know..." She turned over, and fell down onto the floor, hugging her knee's.

"You drank it?" Snape knelt down next to her.

"N-No...I think we ought to go."

"I've been saying that for the last half an hour..." He pulled her up from the floor, "C'mon. Lets go."

Reluctantly she followed, and they soon found themselves at a the foot of some winding stairs.

"Lady's first?" He motioned her up the stairs.

"I think you just want me to be the first to be killed if we come apon something dangerous. Sorry to bust your bubble, but it's not that easy."

"Unless anyone has any stakes or such, I don't think so..."

She stared at him for a moment, then continued on, "Hurry up. I think we're almost back to a main corridor."

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"Meet me in the Three Broomsticks later?"

"How about no?"

"C'mon Twilight..."

"No thanks Professor." She continued to walk down the street to Kinnder's shop.

"Please? I want to talk to you. Can't we get re-aqanted?"

"No."

"Why not?" She pushed open the door of the shop, and turned to him, "Stay out here."

"Why? What's this?" He begain to follow her, but she pushed him back into the dirt.

"Stay." She went inside, and let the door close behind her.

"'oblem's Twilight?" Kinnder asked, looking up at her.

"No! What ever made you think that?" She asked sarcasicly, "One crate, please Kinnder."

"Ten galloens."

"Ten? It's not a holiday Kinnder."

"I'm lowering' moi prices. Don't 'estion me."

"All right." She shrugged, and pushed the money she had set on the counter at him, "Have a nice afternoon Kinnder."

"'Ou too, Twilight." He watched her pick up her crate, and walk out of the store, and begin bickering at Snape again.

"You need to get a life." She stopped a few feet away from Kinnder's store, "I'm sorry, but I don't want to talk to you anymore! Now, or ever!"

"Talk to me! Just talk!" He begged, wringing his hands together, "Please? Twilight? Hunny?"

She gave him an odd look, and began walking again, turning back to stare at him every so often, before ducking into Honeydukes, and running right into Draco.

"Having fun?" He asked coolly.

"I suppose..." She looked over her shoulder out at Snape, who was waiting for her to come out.

"Care to join me for a drink later?"

"Perhaps, but not right now Draco." She pushed past him.

"All right...don't be so pushy..." He let her past, holding his hands in the air.

She shook her head, collected what she wanted, paid, and walked back out, to where Severus was in conversation with Dumbledore a few feet away.

She took that passage, and slipped past, back up the worn path, twinning through the other students, and suddenly bumped...into nothing?

"Oh, hello Twi..." that "nothing" spoke, and she saw a hand suddenly.

"What the hell..." She pushed back an invisable hood, and Harry's face appered, flouting, "Nice cloak Potter...you scared the hell out of me..."

"Sorry Twilight." Harry gave a half smile, and shrugged, "I have people following me all over the place...I find it's better to have this on when I'm in public..."

"Ah...All right...well I must be on my-" She winced as she heard Snape calling for her behind her.

"Rough day?" Harry asked, taking the cloak off, and drapping it over his arm.

"You can say that...I really must be going...until later Harry..." Twilight walked quickly past him, and ran up to the gate seperating Hogsmead, and Hogwarts, flinging it open quickly, and walking up to the castle as fast as she could, Snape still yelling at her from behind.

She sighed, walking through the large doors, and quickly down to the Slytherin dungon common room, scaring the few 1st, and 2nd years that where scattered among the room, as she, then followed quickly by Snape, who watched her climb up the stairs to the dormitory.

He sighed, and leaned agenst the wall, staring across the Slytherin common room, waiting patentially..She'd have to come down at some point...

Little did he know...she had her ways...

Not only did she NOT come down, when dinner was called, she was there...he watched as she walked back into the common room, talking to Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle close behind, their arms crossed like huge body gaurds, protecting Draco from everything that may come along...

He silently rolled his eyes, and left the common room hurriedly, angry, hurt, and depressed...how the hell was he going to get her back?!