Must You Be So Miserable?
Chapter Three -Sevvy Snap
A/N: If you've read the note at the first chapter you can skip this bit. To put it simply this story is set before HP and co. and we've basically got a 30-year-old Snipe in 2002. This story starts off bad but its getting better! This chapter is a bit shorter than the last and the next chapter is on its way! These next two chapters are only short, especially the one after this, but they'll start getting long again soon. I think the last one was a bit too long.
Disclaimer: What you don't recognise as JK's is mine.
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Chapter Three - Sevvy Snap
After what had happened that early July night, they couldn't help being friends - or as close to friends as you could get with Severus Snape. The were completely different, yet they got on so well. He was dark and moody; she was bright and bouncy (most of the time.). It was as they walked through the grounds with their colleagues one mid August night, albeit with fair amounts of alcohol inside them, on their way back from the Three Broomsticks, that the nickname Severus Snape would never be allowed to forget was announced.
"Sev. Sevvie. Double S. Sev. I'll call you Sev." Beth announced as they passed through the gates.
"My name isn't Sev, Beth. I think that last cocktail has gone straight to your head," he told her sarcastically.
"I know it isn't `SevBeth', your name is Sevvy Snap!" the horrified look o his face was terrific. She was going to use this name forever.
" Don't you dare call me that," he hissed. This was the worst thing he could have said.
"Sevvy Snap. I'm going to call you that forever," she dragged out the word 'forever', fully aware of the laughter coming from Hilda and Minerva. There were another two people she'd made friends with over the past few weeks. He was doomed, and he knew it.
"So Sevvy Snap, do you, Sevvy Snap, have the time, Sevvy Snap, because my watch, Sevvy Snap, needs checking Sevvy Snap?" she was going to squeeze that name into everything she said to him. He groaned seeing the childish, mischievous determination on her face.
That had been at 9:05pm. By 9:30pm she'd stuck a bit of paper to his back saying `Call him Sevvy Snap' and he was yet to find it. Every single person in the staff room had to fight back a giggle or smile when they first saw it.
"What's the matter with everyone?" he grumbled. Minerva had just made a face at him and spun around to hide her face when he passed her, "And what's the matter with you?" he handed her her coffee seeing how low she was slumped down in her chair: she was nearly lying down.
"I'm reading a letter. There's nothing wrong with anyone." She sat up and swung her legs over the arm of the chair, letting her socked feet hang loosely.
"Who's it from?"
"Nosy. It's from my sister. The one in Australia," she let him glance at the letter before continuing her reading.
"I didn't know you had a sister."
"I have four and a brother," she told him, her eyes still scanning the parchment.
"Big family. Who's the oldest?"
"Me, by eight years. I've got twin sisters who are 21, my brother's 19 and my youngest sister is 9."
"What are their names?"
"Rosie, Donna, Darren and Aggie. What about you?"
"Only child," he replied flatly.
"Are you from a close family??
"No. You?"
"I'm close to my siblings and one of my grandmothers."
"What about your parents?"
"I never saw my dad much and, well lets put it lightly, none of us get on with our mother - at all," she added the `at all' as if it were an important point she wanted to get across.
"How come?"
"Just don't. Just because we resemble the woman doesn't mean we have to like her. You see my brother and sisters and I could all pass for twins etc. when we go out together we all look so alike. Darren looks like a tall, male me, me, Rosie and Donna are identical except for height and Aggie is a younger version of the lot of us. Do you resemble you parents?"
"Only in height. Are all of you family as tall as you?"
"Apart from Aggie, who should definitely be taller than me in a few years, I'm the shortest by about 2 or 3 inches," she told him casually as she turned the parchment over. His eyebrows rose. Beth was 5ft 7 and tall as it was. Her sisters were taller? The whole family must be tall.
"Where do your family live?" he asked.
"Everywhere. Australia, Chester, New York, England, Wales and Africa."
"Whoa."
"Summer holidays are cheap. We just go and stay with each other. I'm pretty close to some of my cousins too."
"Where do they live?"
"Africa, Wales, everywhere," she paused, "full of questions tonight aren't we?"
"Gentle curiosity. Are they all Muggles?"
"Not really. But it seems that my generation of the Caltos are magical though."
"Have any of your family come to Hogwarts?"
"No. My brother and sisters were forbidden, like me, to come here by our mother. My cousins all went and go to schools in other countries."
"Will we be seeing your youngest sister?"
"If I have a say in it, yes. I'm hoping to get mum to let her come and live with me so then she'll be able to come here. She should get in. She's managed to put the jelly legs on my brother now so I suspect we'll be seeing her in a few years."
"God help us, with Beth and a mini Beth running around the castle."
"Nice person, aren't we?"
"How's your sister?" he ignored her last comment.
"Fine. She wants to know if I'm coming to our grandma's for Christmas. I was supposed to fly out to Australia last week with my grandma to see her but I ended up here. She wants to be certain she'll see me around Christmas."
"Are you going?"
"Not sure. Its only August. Do you have an owl I can borrow if Gobbledygook is too tired when he gets back?"
"Borrow a school one. There's hundred here."
"Alright. I'll have a look in the morning."
"Have you sorted your classroom yet?"
"Yep. Not long left is there?"
"Two weeks. Nervous?"
"Its just starting to set in."
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A/N: Okay, so this chapter isn't very interesting. The next chapter is very short. It's actually more of a mini chapter bit. I should be able to get it up either today or tomorrow. Please leave a review! There's more on its way! The story isn't very interesting at the moment but it'll get better soon. I promise.
Chapter Three -Sevvy Snap
A/N: If you've read the note at the first chapter you can skip this bit. To put it simply this story is set before HP and co. and we've basically got a 30-year-old Snipe in 2002. This story starts off bad but its getting better! This chapter is a bit shorter than the last and the next chapter is on its way! These next two chapters are only short, especially the one after this, but they'll start getting long again soon. I think the last one was a bit too long.
Disclaimer: What you don't recognise as JK's is mine.
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Chapter Three - Sevvy Snap
After what had happened that early July night, they couldn't help being friends - or as close to friends as you could get with Severus Snape. The were completely different, yet they got on so well. He was dark and moody; she was bright and bouncy (most of the time.). It was as they walked through the grounds with their colleagues one mid August night, albeit with fair amounts of alcohol inside them, on their way back from the Three Broomsticks, that the nickname Severus Snape would never be allowed to forget was announced.
"Sev. Sevvie. Double S. Sev. I'll call you Sev." Beth announced as they passed through the gates.
"My name isn't Sev, Beth. I think that last cocktail has gone straight to your head," he told her sarcastically.
"I know it isn't `SevBeth', your name is Sevvy Snap!" the horrified look o his face was terrific. She was going to use this name forever.
" Don't you dare call me that," he hissed. This was the worst thing he could have said.
"Sevvy Snap. I'm going to call you that forever," she dragged out the word 'forever', fully aware of the laughter coming from Hilda and Minerva. There were another two people she'd made friends with over the past few weeks. He was doomed, and he knew it.
"So Sevvy Snap, do you, Sevvy Snap, have the time, Sevvy Snap, because my watch, Sevvy Snap, needs checking Sevvy Snap?" she was going to squeeze that name into everything she said to him. He groaned seeing the childish, mischievous determination on her face.
That had been at 9:05pm. By 9:30pm she'd stuck a bit of paper to his back saying `Call him Sevvy Snap' and he was yet to find it. Every single person in the staff room had to fight back a giggle or smile when they first saw it.
"What's the matter with everyone?" he grumbled. Minerva had just made a face at him and spun around to hide her face when he passed her, "And what's the matter with you?" he handed her her coffee seeing how low she was slumped down in her chair: she was nearly lying down.
"I'm reading a letter. There's nothing wrong with anyone." She sat up and swung her legs over the arm of the chair, letting her socked feet hang loosely.
"Who's it from?"
"Nosy. It's from my sister. The one in Australia," she let him glance at the letter before continuing her reading.
"I didn't know you had a sister."
"I have four and a brother," she told him, her eyes still scanning the parchment.
"Big family. Who's the oldest?"
"Me, by eight years. I've got twin sisters who are 21, my brother's 19 and my youngest sister is 9."
"What are their names?"
"Rosie, Donna, Darren and Aggie. What about you?"
"Only child," he replied flatly.
"Are you from a close family??
"No. You?"
"I'm close to my siblings and one of my grandmothers."
"What about your parents?"
"I never saw my dad much and, well lets put it lightly, none of us get on with our mother - at all," she added the `at all' as if it were an important point she wanted to get across.
"How come?"
"Just don't. Just because we resemble the woman doesn't mean we have to like her. You see my brother and sisters and I could all pass for twins etc. when we go out together we all look so alike. Darren looks like a tall, male me, me, Rosie and Donna are identical except for height and Aggie is a younger version of the lot of us. Do you resemble you parents?"
"Only in height. Are all of you family as tall as you?"
"Apart from Aggie, who should definitely be taller than me in a few years, I'm the shortest by about 2 or 3 inches," she told him casually as she turned the parchment over. His eyebrows rose. Beth was 5ft 7 and tall as it was. Her sisters were taller? The whole family must be tall.
"Where do your family live?" he asked.
"Everywhere. Australia, Chester, New York, England, Wales and Africa."
"Whoa."
"Summer holidays are cheap. We just go and stay with each other. I'm pretty close to some of my cousins too."
"Where do they live?"
"Africa, Wales, everywhere," she paused, "full of questions tonight aren't we?"
"Gentle curiosity. Are they all Muggles?"
"Not really. But it seems that my generation of the Caltos are magical though."
"Have any of your family come to Hogwarts?"
"No. My brother and sisters were forbidden, like me, to come here by our mother. My cousins all went and go to schools in other countries."
"Will we be seeing your youngest sister?"
"If I have a say in it, yes. I'm hoping to get mum to let her come and live with me so then she'll be able to come here. She should get in. She's managed to put the jelly legs on my brother now so I suspect we'll be seeing her in a few years."
"God help us, with Beth and a mini Beth running around the castle."
"Nice person, aren't we?"
"How's your sister?" he ignored her last comment.
"Fine. She wants to know if I'm coming to our grandma's for Christmas. I was supposed to fly out to Australia last week with my grandma to see her but I ended up here. She wants to be certain she'll see me around Christmas."
"Are you going?"
"Not sure. Its only August. Do you have an owl I can borrow if Gobbledygook is too tired when he gets back?"
"Borrow a school one. There's hundred here."
"Alright. I'll have a look in the morning."
"Have you sorted your classroom yet?"
"Yep. Not long left is there?"
"Two weeks. Nervous?"
"Its just starting to set in."
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A/N: Okay, so this chapter isn't very interesting. The next chapter is very short. It's actually more of a mini chapter bit. I should be able to get it up either today or tomorrow. Please leave a review! There's more on its way! The story isn't very interesting at the moment but it'll get better soon. I promise.