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Salazia Riddle - Wow, that is a cool name and I love your e-mail address! I am so glad you like it! I hope updated soon enough so that you didn't have to cry. Ok I have to admit Riddle in the film was pretty damned nice and I was on his side when he was trying to kill Harry but surely you don't like Voldy?! I actually have the whole thing written I'm just putting it up in stages, I am writing a sequel though.
Usako3000 - You reviewed again! Hooray! Sorry, I just love reviews! Narcissa does do a good ice queen, I mean think about the quidditch world cup. Draco is totally a mother's boy, but will he stay that way or will he turn to evil Lucius? You don't see him in this chapter but he's in the next one, aged six, and frankly I think he's adorable even though I wrote him.
A/N: This chapter is a little different from the others in that it's not from Narcissa's POV it's from Severus'.
*Severus' Thoughts*
Wedding Bells Just Turned to Rust
Chapter 15
Dear Severus,
I'm willing to bet a good deal of money that I'm the last person you want to hear from right now but please don't just throw this letter into your latest potion or something. I need to apologise to you, I don't know what came over me. I don't have an excuse to offer you I was just feeling angry and alone, I thought you'd abandoned me and who knows maybe you did, maybe you don't give a damn but I don't think that's true
That night, I was going to leave him, I was just going to take Draco and get out of there. You said I'd always have somewhere to go but then I got there and found a note from Dumbledore, because of you I'm still stuck here with a husband who is incapable of loving me, watching my son with the knowledge that Lucius sees him merely as a tool for his use. Why did you do it? Why did you leave me with him? I never wanted you dead but I have rarely felt so betrayed by everyone I know.
Do you want to know why I was going to leave him? Do you remember Morgana from Hogwarts? Well I just found out the reason I've heard nothing from her for years is she's dead, the deatheater's killed her and I'm bloody sure that Lucius was the one who ordered it.
Everyone in my life is either long gone or has betrayed me. I'm sorry for what I did to you but you single handedly destroyed my one and only escape route. I was so angry with you at first but then I remembered all the times you helped me, the way you healed my injuries when Lucius hurt me, the way you were the only person who visited me when I was in hospital with Draco. For the last two years you were the only person who showed any kindness to me and for that I am grateful. Whether you meant or not, and whether you knew it or not, you were a good friend to me, sorry I couldn't return the favour.
N. Malfoy
P.S. Please, don't reply to this.
Severus was incensed, *Typical bloody woman, has to have the last word, and was that really supposed to be an apology? For that matter what on earth gave her the idea that she could just apologise for this and make it all alright again? Couldn't return the favour? That's like saying Dumbledore likes Sherbet Lemons, the understatement of the bleeding decade!*
"Damn you, Narcissa!" Snape balled up the letter and threw it across the room before collapsing into a chair.
There was a knock on the door of his lab, "Go away!" he snapped.
"I'd really rather not Severus," Dumbledore, *(who else?)*, walked in.
There was silence for a while, Dumbledore began to hum to himself and appeared to have forgotten what he came down for in the first place, Severus sat at his desk and glared at the oblivious headmaster.
"Did you want something headmaster?"
"What? Oh, quite. Sherbet Lemon?" he extended a paper bag.
"No thank you," Severus replied feeling it would be somewhat beneath him to eat one of the damned things.
"Go on, they're really quite good," Dumbledore tried to persuade him.
"Did you come down here to offer me a Sherbet Lemon?"
"Partly yes."
"Partly? So there was something else?"
"Yes. I thought we'd have a little staff get together this evening.
"And you'd like me to keep an eye on the students."
"No. I'd like you to come."
"I'd rather keep an eye on the students."
"Oh, don't be such a party pooper Severus, Minerva says you don't socialise enough and I agree with her."
*Bloody McGonagall! Can she ever keep her nose out; she'll be telling me I'm not eating my greens next!*
"I don't really feel the need to socialise headmaster."
"You're a young man, it's not healthy for you to be cooped up in these dungeons all the time."
"It was McGonagall who said that wasn't it?"
"Yes actually it was. Are you sure about the Sherbet Lemon?" Dumbledore asked taking another one himself.
"Certain, and I am equally certain that I do not wish to attend tonight but as I will probably get no peace until I do, I will be there."
"Good, good." Dumbledore gestured once more with the bag of sherbet lemons which Snape merely glared at so Dumbledore left to annoy other teachers who he hoped would be more appreciative of his sweets.
Severus sighed heavily and continued to grade some papers written by Minerva's dunderheaded Gryffindors, but it wasn't long before, amazed at the new levels of stupidity his students had sunk to, he tossed down the quill and stood up to go to dinner. As he left the room he noticed the letter still screwed upon the floor and bending down he picked it up and pocketed it, just so that none of his students found it.
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A/N: I know you only got one chapter this time so I will update again soon, I just felt that as this chapter was a bit of a one off being from someone else's POV I'd be better putting it up alone. Anyone who wants to read more could always go read and review 'Turning Point' for me, *hint, hint*.
REVIEW! PLEASE!!!!!
Review Responses: I love my lovely reviewers!!!
Salazia Riddle - Wow, that is a cool name and I love your e-mail address! I am so glad you like it! I hope updated soon enough so that you didn't have to cry. Ok I have to admit Riddle in the film was pretty damned nice and I was on his side when he was trying to kill Harry but surely you don't like Voldy?! I actually have the whole thing written I'm just putting it up in stages, I am writing a sequel though.
Usako3000 - You reviewed again! Hooray! Sorry, I just love reviews! Narcissa does do a good ice queen, I mean think about the quidditch world cup. Draco is totally a mother's boy, but will he stay that way or will he turn to evil Lucius? You don't see him in this chapter but he's in the next one, aged six, and frankly I think he's adorable even though I wrote him.
A/N: This chapter is a little different from the others in that it's not from Narcissa's POV it's from Severus'.
*Severus' Thoughts*
Wedding Bells Just Turned to Rust
Chapter 15
Dear Severus,
I'm willing to bet a good deal of money that I'm the last person you want to hear from right now but please don't just throw this letter into your latest potion or something. I need to apologise to you, I don't know what came over me. I don't have an excuse to offer you I was just feeling angry and alone, I thought you'd abandoned me and who knows maybe you did, maybe you don't give a damn but I don't think that's true
That night, I was going to leave him, I was just going to take Draco and get out of there. You said I'd always have somewhere to go but then I got there and found a note from Dumbledore, because of you I'm still stuck here with a husband who is incapable of loving me, watching my son with the knowledge that Lucius sees him merely as a tool for his use. Why did you do it? Why did you leave me with him? I never wanted you dead but I have rarely felt so betrayed by everyone I know.
Do you want to know why I was going to leave him? Do you remember Morgana from Hogwarts? Well I just found out the reason I've heard nothing from her for years is she's dead, the deatheater's killed her and I'm bloody sure that Lucius was the one who ordered it.
Everyone in my life is either long gone or has betrayed me. I'm sorry for what I did to you but you single handedly destroyed my one and only escape route. I was so angry with you at first but then I remembered all the times you helped me, the way you healed my injuries when Lucius hurt me, the way you were the only person who visited me when I was in hospital with Draco. For the last two years you were the only person who showed any kindness to me and for that I am grateful. Whether you meant or not, and whether you knew it or not, you were a good friend to me, sorry I couldn't return the favour.
N. Malfoy
P.S. Please, don't reply to this.
Severus was incensed, *Typical bloody woman, has to have the last word, and was that really supposed to be an apology? For that matter what on earth gave her the idea that she could just apologise for this and make it all alright again? Couldn't return the favour? That's like saying Dumbledore likes Sherbet Lemons, the understatement of the bleeding decade!*
"Damn you, Narcissa!" Snape balled up the letter and threw it across the room before collapsing into a chair.
There was a knock on the door of his lab, "Go away!" he snapped.
"I'd really rather not Severus," Dumbledore, *(who else?)*, walked in.
There was silence for a while, Dumbledore began to hum to himself and appeared to have forgotten what he came down for in the first place, Severus sat at his desk and glared at the oblivious headmaster.
"Did you want something headmaster?"
"What? Oh, quite. Sherbet Lemon?" he extended a paper bag.
"No thank you," Severus replied feeling it would be somewhat beneath him to eat one of the damned things.
"Go on, they're really quite good," Dumbledore tried to persuade him.
"Did you come down here to offer me a Sherbet Lemon?"
"Partly yes."
"Partly? So there was something else?"
"Yes. I thought we'd have a little staff get together this evening.
"And you'd like me to keep an eye on the students."
"No. I'd like you to come."
"I'd rather keep an eye on the students."
"Oh, don't be such a party pooper Severus, Minerva says you don't socialise enough and I agree with her."
*Bloody McGonagall! Can she ever keep her nose out; she'll be telling me I'm not eating my greens next!*
"I don't really feel the need to socialise headmaster."
"You're a young man, it's not healthy for you to be cooped up in these dungeons all the time."
"It was McGonagall who said that wasn't it?"
"Yes actually it was. Are you sure about the Sherbet Lemon?" Dumbledore asked taking another one himself.
"Certain, and I am equally certain that I do not wish to attend tonight but as I will probably get no peace until I do, I will be there."
"Good, good." Dumbledore gestured once more with the bag of sherbet lemons which Snape merely glared at so Dumbledore left to annoy other teachers who he hoped would be more appreciative of his sweets.
Severus sighed heavily and continued to grade some papers written by Minerva's dunderheaded Gryffindors, but it wasn't long before, amazed at the new levels of stupidity his students had sunk to, he tossed down the quill and stood up to go to dinner. As he left the room he noticed the letter still screwed upon the floor and bending down he picked it up and pocketed it, just so that none of his students found it.
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A/N: I know you only got one chapter this time so I will update again soon, I just felt that as this chapter was a bit of a one off being from someone else's POV I'd be better putting it up alone. Anyone who wants to read more could always go read and review 'Turning Point' for me, *hint, hint*.
REVIEW! PLEASE!!!!!