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A/N: I do now own Any Harry Potter character or Chuck E. Cheese, although if I did I would be rich, living off the invention of a robotic rat doing stupid songs for a bunch of six year olds. I don't think I would like that at all. If I owned Harry Potter, I would be J.K. Rowling, and she doesn't do fanfics, I guess. I mean it would be cool if she did. I do, however own the employees at the Chuck E. Cheese, because I made them up! HAHAHAH!







Poor Snape. The weekend seemed to melt away. He stayed at his house and relaxed, and he decided he wouldn't watch the television. He noticed that he had a computer, but he broke that when he got a little short with that. He cursed it and blew it up into pieces. On Sunday night, he had a nice dream. He was teaching the Gryffindors potions. When he woke up, he wondered why he felt so bad. Then he remembered he was on rat duty. The thought of interacting with children made him shudder. Traffic that morning was horrible. He barely moved five feet in twenty minutes of his time in traffic. By the time he got to work, he was late.

"Hey, Sev you're late buddy!" Kyle said. Snape was in no mood to be called "Sev", or "buddy", but he knew if he hexed Kyle or anything, he could very well be screwed and out of two jobs.

"Traffic was bad" Snape said

"Oh well that's okay! Ready to suit up?"

"What do you mean?" Of course, how could he forget? He was now dressing like a rodent to help him tolerate children better.

"Well, you're going to be our mascot!" Kyle said brightly. If the way he said it didn't make him sick, the look of pure excitement on his face was enough.

"Of course," Snape said pining, for last night's dream to be a reality. "I suppose I'm ready."

"Hey, uh by the way, Sev, where are you from?" Snape was in no mood to converse with an 18 year old kid about where he lives.

"London, England." Everyone is from London, right?

"Man that's so cool! My uncle has been there before. He said it rained a lot. I wish I could go there!"

And with that, Severus left to get ready, only because Kyle's enthusiasm was really getting to him.

The rat costume was nothing short of ugly. It's lurid colors and the rats stupid smile made him seriously consider apparating back to London, but he knew the consequences of running from his problems, so he put that stupidly happy rodent suit on, and heaved a sigh of relief. At least no one would know it was him. He went out to face the world, not as Severus Snape, but Cool Chuck: the exterminator's worst nightmare. His job was to entertain/scare little children before and after the muggle robot show. He took another deep breath and he opened the door. Kids flocked to him. He wanted to run, but he didn't. All of them squeezed him tight. He caught sight of Kyle, who motioned him to hug them back. When he patted a boy on the head, Kyle looked thrilled. He gave Snape the thumbs- up. Severus rolled his eyes as he was getting squeezed by a bunch of six year olds( yes, everyone in my fic is SIX!). That afternoon, while he was just about to go off for the show to start, he saw the most peculiar thing. A teenage girl, with braces, and the frizziest hair he had ever seen ran into the place, and with great relish and excitement ran over to the Whack the Alligator game, knocked the girl over who was playing it, and began to frantically hit it, regardless to whether there was an alligator to hit or not. The girl who was playing the game before this teenager took over, ran to her mom, crying, and they left. By that point, the girl had sprinted to the Pinball machine, and began to bang on the sides of it, attempting to play the game.

This child is possessed, Snape thought. He decided to go before this girl noticed him, but it was too late. Before he could get away, this girl sprinted over to him and gave him a huge hug.

"HI LARRY! HOW WAS YOUR WEEKEND?" He gave her a thumbs up like Kyle did, only because that stupid rat costume was smiling just like he did. The girl frowned.

"YOU AREN'T LARRY! WHO ARE YOU?"

"I'm-I'm new."

"Ooh hi! I'm LYDIA!!! I COME HERE EVERYDAY AFTER SCHOOL!"

And with that, Snape began to long about his job without Lydia there.

A/N: I have no clue what the rat for Chuck. E. Cheese is named. So I just assumed it was Cool Chuck, although if anyone could correct me, go ahead, and DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW SC-2 AN- I am so sorry I haven't updated everyday as I said I would try to do. * Walks away shamefully*