Disclaimer: I owned none of the characters (JKR owned them), except for a few of them which is created by me.

I quite like this chapter because our heorine is going to meet Severus Snape. And I have arranged quite a stir between her, Remus and Severus. Enjoy. And give me some comments.

Sarah Black, thanks for your comments. I am still not sure whether I like it or not, as it is a little fantasy I have dreamt of... By the way, I like your story 'Damien' very much.

Never had a dream come true

Chapter 8 The lunch

After Dumbledore and McGonagall left her, Eve started to put all her clothes into her wardrobe and closets in the bedroom. There were not much, so it didn't take her a lot of time. The tricky thing is the study room. She got quite a lot of teaching materials, and her study room seemed not to be enough for all of them. Maybe she need to go have a look of her office later on, see if she could store some of them there instead.

Then she went for a quick shower, changed into a brown blouse and a check long skirt. She still felt a bit weird wearing robes, didn't really think it would do any harm with wearing muggle clothes, as she was going to teach muggle studdies anyway. The time was still early, still got some time before lunchtime, so she went into her study to write a short letter to Fayanna saying that she arrived in Hogwarts safely, and ask her to tell Bertha and Miranda about it too.

"Calbee, want to go out for a bit of flying?"

She flew towards her and landed on her shoulder. "Take this to Fayanna, okay?" She flew out of the window with the letter in her beak.

There was a knock at the door. She went over to open it, and saw Remus standing there.

"Hi, Remus."

"Hi, Eve, Minerva asked me to come get you to the Great Hall for lunch. Are you ready?"

"Almost, hold the door for me first." She ran towards the coffee table and grabbed her wand, and back. "I am ready."

She closed the door behind her and ready to go.

Remus led her through some corridors and stairs, and there they arrived in the Great Hall. This hall was really really big, and it seemed even bigger with just a few of them there. They got to the table, and Eve noticed that except for Dumbledore and McGonagall, there was another man at the table, which gave her quite a jump. He got dark hair and dark eyes. He kept reminding her of someone... someone she once loved, hated and feared.

Remus noticed that Eve shivered once she saw Severus at the table, but he was sure they hadn't met before. Interesting.

Not just Remus, Severus noticed that too. Severus thought, "What is wrong with this... muggle-girl? Acts like a mouse seeing a cat. Does he look that scary for her?"

"Eve, Remus, take a seat." Dumbledore said. Eve took the seat next to McGangall, and Remus next to her. "This is Severus Snape, our potion professor." Severus nodded at her, which was quite a shock to everyone. Severus normally just ignored new teachers! "This is Eve Ho, the new Muggle Studies teacher." In return, Eve nodded to him only, and didn't saw anything.

"Well, everyone's here, so let's eat." Dumbledore announced.

The meal went well, but the tension between Eve and Severus was so strong that everyone could feel it. Before everyone was almost finishded, McGonagall noticed, "Dear, you look great in brown colour too, I should have advised you to get some brown robes yesterday."

"Thanks, Minerva. I don't like brown much, but this set of clothes are my presents from mt friends for me getting this job."

"Don't you have other things to wear rather than muggle clothes?" Severus sneered, thinking that it could ease the tension.

To everyone's surprise, Remus defended for her, "Snape!"

"Thanks, Remus. But I think I would answer this myself." Eve said, whose face now was extremely serious. "Professor Snape, I am here as a teacher, not as an object of criticism. As you know, I am going to teach Muggle Studies, so what else should I wear aside from muggle clothes?"

At this, she stood up and nodded at Dumbledore, McGonagall and Remus, and left her table. Before she headed for the doors of the hall, she said, which obviously was directed towards Severus, "After all, I am a muggle girl with excellent taste and fashion, while what I wear is none of your business. No matter it's witch or muggle female, will do EVERYTHING to depend for one's taste. I hope you won't be offended by this, Professor Snape."

With that she left the hall and headed for her room.

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Eve was still angry about Severus criticizing her clothes when it was time for dinner. Although she fought back, she was still angry with no reason. She didn't want to ruin everyone's appetite, so she went to Dumbledore's offie to tell him that she was not going to join them or dinner tonight. Before she reached Dumbldore's office, She came face to face with Severus.

"Professor Snape."

"Miss Ho."

Both were silent after this. While Eve decided to move past him towards the office, Severus said, "I... I am sorry about what I said during lunch..." Severus wanted to knock himself out, he shouldn't be saying this. "I noticed that you seemed really afraid of me, so I was trying to easen the tension." For Merlin's sake, why was he explaining to her? Sigh. Maybe because of the threats from Remus, Minerva and Dumbledore... He just didn't act like himself anymore... What the hell was wrong with him...

Oh my god, he was apologising?! "It's not really your fault, just that your image reminded me of someone I know in the past... sorry for misleading you."

"Well, I better get going. So you want to see Dumbledore? He's not in his office."

" Well, I just want to tell him that I am not going to join you all for dinner tonight. Could you tell the him for me, please?"

"Okay. I will."

"Thanks. See you at breakfast tomorrow." she smiled back to Severus, and headed back for her room.

God, she looked so bright with her smile. What was he thinking? It was none of his business with her smile, just like what she said about her clothes, god, what the hell was wrong with him?

"Eve."

"Huh?" She turned back to him, a little shock that he was calling her name.

Before he could regret, he said, "Call me Severus."

TBC

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Oh god... what have I done? Severus is not supposed to be like that!!! I have rewrote this scene for at least 5 times, but it's still so WEIRD... Sigh... I just hope it will go well for the next chapter, back to normal.