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*This indicates thought*
Sorry people. Half yearlies are a pest! There will probably be a long gap between chapters now, seeing that my ex hasn't given my HP book back yet..
BTW. Some ppl seem to have forgotten what I had said at the beginning of the poll. Just because Snape won, doesn't mean that he and Usagi are going to be coupled. ^.~
New terms:
Gambare = good luck/ fight on/ try your best etc. Hiragana = one of the three alphabets used in Japanese (Hiragana (used for Japanese words), Katakana (used for foreign words), Kanji (Chinese symbols)) Kuso = Damn/ crap/ -insert appropriate swear word here- Wan-chan = puppy dog Konnichiwa = hello ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------
Chapter: 16 Potions class! Urgh!
Snape set the class up, making an antidote for chicken pox, sauntering through the classroom, commenting on the progress of his students. Usagi wasn't surprised with the favouritism Snape showed the Slytherins. As far as Usagi could see, Slytherin and Griffindor had detested each other since the dawn of the school. So, with Snape having apparently been a Slytherin when he attended Hogwarts, it is not hard to see that he would be bias towards his old house.
Usagi tried hard to keep her mind on the job at hand, but every so often, she looked around the room, thinking to herself, how bored she was. However, every time she raised her head, she spotted Snape watching her with a strange look in his eye that left her feeling scared for some reason she was not able to comprehend. *This guy is freaking me out!!*
Things went on this way until the end of the double. As Ty left with the rest of the Griffindors, he dropped a note on her table. Usagi snatched it up before someone else did, hiding it in her books until everyone had left. Snape sat down at his desk, studying what ever was in the folder he had brought in with him at the beginning of class. Usagi retrieved the note from her books and unfolded it on her lap. On the small piece of paper, there was but one word, written in neat Hiragana:
"Gambare"
Usagi smiled and went over her notes from class.
The next lesson seemed to pass quickly and before she knew it, it was lunch.
"Book!" Snape sneered as he slinked up to her desk after the last of the Hufflepuffs had left. Usagi handed the Potions teacher her book, and waited patiently as he checked her notes. After what seemed like a century, he picked up her quill, and scribed something in her book. After handing both items back to her, he left the room without another word.
"I guess that's my signal to go to lunch." Usagi said to herself as the door closed behind Snape. She opened her note book to see what he had written. At the bottom of the page, she read:
"Do you understand what you have written? This is good, but you could do better"
Usagi stared. She couldn't believe her eyes. Here she was, a Griffindor, and she had just gotten a compliment from the man so against her house, that he had tried to take points from them for correct answers. Caught up in the euphoric, she closed the book, and left the dank dungeon for the Great Hall to get some lunch.
==============================Great Hall===========================
Harry watched as Usagi wandered in with a look of bewilderment plastered to her face.
"Feel better?" Ron asked as she sat down next to him.
"Much, thank you." She piled some chicken salad onto her plate. Sitting back down, she amazed everyone, by finishing her lunch almost instantaneously.
"What's got you so happy?" Ron asked.
"Dunno" Usagi said with a shrug. *Amazement can do a lot for a girl's mood*.
The bell finally rang, and Usagi made her way back to the Potions classroom while the others went to their next classes.
==============================Potions Classroom===========================
The afternoon seemed to fly by, and suddenly, it was the last couple of minutes of the 1st year Griffindor/ Slytherin class.
"Pack up your equipment. There are only a couple of minutes left. I expect those essays on the side effects of the Draught of the living dead, by the beginning of the Potions class. Any late essays will be rewarded with a subtraction of a house point each day I am forced to wait for you to get you act together; as will less than five pages." Snape ordered in gun-shot fashion. Usagi packed up her things, and waited for Snape to dismiss them. "Miss Tsukino. Don't forget to wait for me to check your notes. The rest of you miserable excuses for Witches and Wizards may leave."
The class filed out of the room; the Griffindors with a perceptible sigh of relief. Harry mouthed a "Good luck as he walked past Usagi. Usagi sighed as she walked up to the front of the room, and waited for Snape to look up from the folder he was reading.
"Well? What are you waiting for, a written invitation? Give me your book." Snape snapped without looking up. Usagi handed him her book and stepped back as if either the desk or its occupant might bite her. Snape read through Usagi's notes as thoroughly as possible. After a while, he handed her book back to her. HE studied her for a moment before speaking. "You aren't as dumb as look. However, there are some things in your notes that I do not discuss with students until their fourth year."
"I apologise, sir. I will remove them tonight." Usagi said with a humble bow.
"Why? They were correct; and very good." Snape queried, interlocking his fingers on top of his desk. The sudden approval was making Usagi uneasy. Why was he being so nice all of a sudden? "Where did you learn such things as the effects of ambrosia?"
"Where did I learn that ambrosia, also known as the nectar of the Gods, was a substance used not to promote immortality, but to promote a long mortal life?" She asked. Usagi had had enough of this. What ever was going on, it was freaking her out, and she didn't like it. Snape nodded. "My Potions Master on the Moon."
"And..?"
"She was Princess Minako; Crown Princess of Venus, and second in charge of the Sailor Scouts. Ambrosia was what the Greeks called the silver crystal. Our grand parents were given an almost never ending life just by living on the Moon. They used the power to justify calling themselves Gods."
"Excuse me?" He asked, his hands coming up to his head as he tried to understand what Usagi had just said. Usagi smiled. She liked the idea that she had caught the pompous old man off guard.
"Our Grand parents, well most of them, claimed to be the Gods of Greece and Italy. Sailor Jupiter, Makoto's grand parents, was Zeus and Juno. Minako's were Aphrodite and Hephaestus. My grandparents didn't play that game, but my great aunt was Diana."
"And I suppose you are going to tell me that Dumbledore's brother was Ares." He said sarcastically. Usagi only nodded. "Good work. I'll see you next week."
Usagi bowed again, and took her leave. She paused as she closed the door. *The guy swings faster than a pendulum*. Usagi sighed as she walked towards Griffindor tower to deposit her books before meeting the others in the library.
She was walking up the stairs, being careful of the trick steps, when the staircase she was on, decided to move. Usagi grabbed onto the side rail, remembering how the other Griffindors had warned her that the stairs liked to change occasionally. She waited for the staircase to settle before hurrying into the corridor before it changed again. She hurried down the corridor as she looked for another way to get to Griffindor tower.
As she looked around, she noticed that the corridor looked as id it had not been used for a long time. She stooped in mid stride. "I'm on that corridor we were suppose to stay out of."
Usagi heard a cat's meow. Knowing that Luna only meowed around muggles, she gasped. "Mrs. Norris! Kuso!"
She sprinted down the corridor as fast as she could.
"What is it, my precious?" She heard Filch ask his cat, his footsteps falling softly as he hurried down the corridor on the same direction Usagi had gone. "Have you found another rule breaker?"
Usagi ran until she came to a door at the end of the corridor.
"Show me, my darling." Filch cooed, his footsteps gaining on her.
Usagi tried to open the door, but found it locked and Filch's footsteps drawing nearer. "What was that spell? What was that spell...?" Usagi pulled out her wand. "Alohomora!" Her wand glowed dark green and she pushed the door opened, darting into the room, closing the door behind her. She didn't dare breathe as she waited nervously for filch to catch her.
"There is no one here, my precious. Come on, let's go."
"Thank you!" Usagi said to whoever had just saved her bacon. "Whoever's there-"
A gust of hot wind blew past, smelling of rotten meat. Usagi slowly turned around. "Paws.Biiiig paws." She dragged her eyes up from the ground.
"Eh heh heh heh heh." She laughed nervously as she spotted the six pairs of angry eyes belonging to a particularly large three headed giant Cerberus. "Konnichiwa Wan-chan"
She darted out of the room and closed the door. She struggled against the Cerberus as she fumbled with her wand. The door slammed shut and the lock slid into place. Usagi collapsed against the door.
"What on Earth were you doing in there?!" An angry voice blared. Usagi reluctantly brought her eyes up to meet her saviour's, cursing as she found they belonged to none other than Professor Severus Snape, still holding his wand.
"It was an accident, let me assure you." Usagi said, climbing to her feet. "The stair case changed and I was hurrying to get off it before it changed again. I only realised I was in the forbidden corridor just before Filch- san's cat showed up. So I decided to run-"
"Why would you run if you were innocent?" Usagi gave him a you-really-think- he'd-listen-to-me look. "Yes, well, you know I have to deduct points from Griffindor for this?"
"Yes, Sir"
"Two points will be deducted."
Usagi stared at him. "Sir, may I ask you something?" Snape nodded. "Why are you so lenient on me?"
"What do you mean?" He asked, leaning against the wall.
"I mean, you minimise my punishments, and aren't as hard on me as you are on the other Griffindors-"
Snape straightened up. "You don't need punishment."
"The truth, sir." Usagi said, walking up to him "Why do you always seem to be where I am?"
"That's just coincidence." He said standing over Usagi.
Usagi stared up at Snape, a tired but serious look upon her face. "Don't bother lying or using stand-over tactics with me. I have faced up to enemies that would have you peeing in your pants." He staggered backwards, shocked by her bluntness.
"What is it about you that annoys me so?" she pondered.
Snape bent down, shadowing Usagi's face with his.
"Why do you-" Usagi couldn't finish her question, as Severus Snape's mouth had claimed hers.
"Why are you so curious?" He murmured into her mouth. "Why do you drive me so crazy?"
Usagi's mind went into over-drive. "What? Why? Wha.?"
Snape smiled as he pulled away. Usagi noticed that he wasn't that bad looking when he wasn't scowling. "And thus, the ever questioning princess is speechless."
Snape gestured for her to follow him, and they walked out of the forbidden corridor, and onto the third floor. Snape led her down to the ground floor, down the hallway, to his office. Usagi was too dazed to realise where she was going, or the people staring at the smiling Snape and the bewildered Usagi that followed.
Snape opened the door to his office and ushered Usagi inside. She sat down on in a chair in front of Snape's desk. He magicked a chair to sit beside her, turning the chairs to face one another. Usagi stared at him as he sat down.
"Why did you do that?" She asked when she found her voice; referring of course to his kissing her.
"I know that you used that crystal of yours on me." He stated.
"That has nothing to do with your kissing me."
"Oh! But it does." Snape said, holding her hands in his.
"How does it have anything to do with it, sir?" She asked, removing her hands from his.
Snape smiled. "You make me feel old. Severus, please."
"Er.okay. Severus. But why does the crystal have something to do with you kissing me?"
"I guess no one has ever told you what they feel when you use that crystal on them, eh?"
"It has never come up." Usagi shrugged. "Why? What did you feel?"
Severus leaned back in his chair and studied Usagi for a moment before answering. "When you healed my body, I was at death's door."
Usagi nodded. "It's why I chose to heal you myself instead of risking your death on a trip to the infirmary."
"Yes, well. Your heart was opened too me for a moment. I saw a woman in a girl's body. A woman who was hurting from the betrayal of her fiancée with her supposed best friend. A woman what had caught them in the act of deception, then ran away-"
"I didn't run away." Usagi said in quiet defence.
"You didn't? No, you just commanded the Guardian of Pluto's Gates to send you somewhere else, and for the rest of the outers not to tell anyone."
"What ever you think." Usagi said, crossing her arms.
"Usagi, you have to face it. You can't hide for ever." Severus said as kindly as he could.
"I know." She whispered, not liking having to think about it. "But what does this have to do with you kissing me?"
"I saw deeper. I saw your soul. And it is the most beautiful thing I have ever had the privilege to see. I have fallen for you. I cant stop thinking about how exquisite your heard, mind and soul are."
Usagi sat back in her chair, staring at him; his elbows resting on his knees as he stared at her as though mesmerised. "You know, Severus. You are a much better person than you make out to be."
"Shh. don't tell everyone; you'll ruin my reputation."
Usagi chuckled then and looked up at him with sorrowful eyes. "I'm sorry, Severus. But I don't reciprocate your feelings. You are a beautiful person, and deserve someone of your own age. I am sorry, but I can only see you in my mind as a friend."
Severus stared at her, his eyes filled with disappointment. "I understand. I do love you, Usagi Tsukino, Rabbit of the Moon. However, even if you do not, I would rather have you in my life as a friend, than not at all."
Usagi nodded as se rose to her feet. He walked her to the door. Just before she closed it, she looked back at the biggest pain-in-the-butt in the school, and could only feel pity for the poor man. She closed the door and headed for the Great hall and dinner.
"My life keeps getting weirder and weirder."
*This indicates thought*
Sorry people. Half yearlies are a pest! There will probably be a long gap between chapters now, seeing that my ex hasn't given my HP book back yet..
BTW. Some ppl seem to have forgotten what I had said at the beginning of the poll. Just because Snape won, doesn't mean that he and Usagi are going to be coupled. ^.~
New terms:
Gambare = good luck/ fight on/ try your best etc. Hiragana = one of the three alphabets used in Japanese (Hiragana (used for Japanese words), Katakana (used for foreign words), Kanji (Chinese symbols)) Kuso = Damn/ crap/ -insert appropriate swear word here- Wan-chan = puppy dog Konnichiwa = hello ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------
Chapter: 16 Potions class! Urgh!
Snape set the class up, making an antidote for chicken pox, sauntering through the classroom, commenting on the progress of his students. Usagi wasn't surprised with the favouritism Snape showed the Slytherins. As far as Usagi could see, Slytherin and Griffindor had detested each other since the dawn of the school. So, with Snape having apparently been a Slytherin when he attended Hogwarts, it is not hard to see that he would be bias towards his old house.
Usagi tried hard to keep her mind on the job at hand, but every so often, she looked around the room, thinking to herself, how bored she was. However, every time she raised her head, she spotted Snape watching her with a strange look in his eye that left her feeling scared for some reason she was not able to comprehend. *This guy is freaking me out!!*
Things went on this way until the end of the double. As Ty left with the rest of the Griffindors, he dropped a note on her table. Usagi snatched it up before someone else did, hiding it in her books until everyone had left. Snape sat down at his desk, studying what ever was in the folder he had brought in with him at the beginning of class. Usagi retrieved the note from her books and unfolded it on her lap. On the small piece of paper, there was but one word, written in neat Hiragana:
"Gambare"
Usagi smiled and went over her notes from class.
The next lesson seemed to pass quickly and before she knew it, it was lunch.
"Book!" Snape sneered as he slinked up to her desk after the last of the Hufflepuffs had left. Usagi handed the Potions teacher her book, and waited patiently as he checked her notes. After what seemed like a century, he picked up her quill, and scribed something in her book. After handing both items back to her, he left the room without another word.
"I guess that's my signal to go to lunch." Usagi said to herself as the door closed behind Snape. She opened her note book to see what he had written. At the bottom of the page, she read:
"Do you understand what you have written? This is good, but you could do better"
Usagi stared. She couldn't believe her eyes. Here she was, a Griffindor, and she had just gotten a compliment from the man so against her house, that he had tried to take points from them for correct answers. Caught up in the euphoric, she closed the book, and left the dank dungeon for the Great Hall to get some lunch.
==============================Great Hall===========================
Harry watched as Usagi wandered in with a look of bewilderment plastered to her face.
"Feel better?" Ron asked as she sat down next to him.
"Much, thank you." She piled some chicken salad onto her plate. Sitting back down, she amazed everyone, by finishing her lunch almost instantaneously.
"What's got you so happy?" Ron asked.
"Dunno" Usagi said with a shrug. *Amazement can do a lot for a girl's mood*.
The bell finally rang, and Usagi made her way back to the Potions classroom while the others went to their next classes.
==============================Potions Classroom===========================
The afternoon seemed to fly by, and suddenly, it was the last couple of minutes of the 1st year Griffindor/ Slytherin class.
"Pack up your equipment. There are only a couple of minutes left. I expect those essays on the side effects of the Draught of the living dead, by the beginning of the Potions class. Any late essays will be rewarded with a subtraction of a house point each day I am forced to wait for you to get you act together; as will less than five pages." Snape ordered in gun-shot fashion. Usagi packed up her things, and waited for Snape to dismiss them. "Miss Tsukino. Don't forget to wait for me to check your notes. The rest of you miserable excuses for Witches and Wizards may leave."
The class filed out of the room; the Griffindors with a perceptible sigh of relief. Harry mouthed a "Good luck as he walked past Usagi. Usagi sighed as she walked up to the front of the room, and waited for Snape to look up from the folder he was reading.
"Well? What are you waiting for, a written invitation? Give me your book." Snape snapped without looking up. Usagi handed him her book and stepped back as if either the desk or its occupant might bite her. Snape read through Usagi's notes as thoroughly as possible. After a while, he handed her book back to her. HE studied her for a moment before speaking. "You aren't as dumb as look. However, there are some things in your notes that I do not discuss with students until their fourth year."
"I apologise, sir. I will remove them tonight." Usagi said with a humble bow.
"Why? They were correct; and very good." Snape queried, interlocking his fingers on top of his desk. The sudden approval was making Usagi uneasy. Why was he being so nice all of a sudden? "Where did you learn such things as the effects of ambrosia?"
"Where did I learn that ambrosia, also known as the nectar of the Gods, was a substance used not to promote immortality, but to promote a long mortal life?" She asked. Usagi had had enough of this. What ever was going on, it was freaking her out, and she didn't like it. Snape nodded. "My Potions Master on the Moon."
"And..?"
"She was Princess Minako; Crown Princess of Venus, and second in charge of the Sailor Scouts. Ambrosia was what the Greeks called the silver crystal. Our grand parents were given an almost never ending life just by living on the Moon. They used the power to justify calling themselves Gods."
"Excuse me?" He asked, his hands coming up to his head as he tried to understand what Usagi had just said. Usagi smiled. She liked the idea that she had caught the pompous old man off guard.
"Our Grand parents, well most of them, claimed to be the Gods of Greece and Italy. Sailor Jupiter, Makoto's grand parents, was Zeus and Juno. Minako's were Aphrodite and Hephaestus. My grandparents didn't play that game, but my great aunt was Diana."
"And I suppose you are going to tell me that Dumbledore's brother was Ares." He said sarcastically. Usagi only nodded. "Good work. I'll see you next week."
Usagi bowed again, and took her leave. She paused as she closed the door. *The guy swings faster than a pendulum*. Usagi sighed as she walked towards Griffindor tower to deposit her books before meeting the others in the library.
She was walking up the stairs, being careful of the trick steps, when the staircase she was on, decided to move. Usagi grabbed onto the side rail, remembering how the other Griffindors had warned her that the stairs liked to change occasionally. She waited for the staircase to settle before hurrying into the corridor before it changed again. She hurried down the corridor as she looked for another way to get to Griffindor tower.
As she looked around, she noticed that the corridor looked as id it had not been used for a long time. She stooped in mid stride. "I'm on that corridor we were suppose to stay out of."
Usagi heard a cat's meow. Knowing that Luna only meowed around muggles, she gasped. "Mrs. Norris! Kuso!"
She sprinted down the corridor as fast as she could.
"What is it, my precious?" She heard Filch ask his cat, his footsteps falling softly as he hurried down the corridor on the same direction Usagi had gone. "Have you found another rule breaker?"
Usagi ran until she came to a door at the end of the corridor.
"Show me, my darling." Filch cooed, his footsteps gaining on her.
Usagi tried to open the door, but found it locked and Filch's footsteps drawing nearer. "What was that spell? What was that spell...?" Usagi pulled out her wand. "Alohomora!" Her wand glowed dark green and she pushed the door opened, darting into the room, closing the door behind her. She didn't dare breathe as she waited nervously for filch to catch her.
"There is no one here, my precious. Come on, let's go."
"Thank you!" Usagi said to whoever had just saved her bacon. "Whoever's there-"
A gust of hot wind blew past, smelling of rotten meat. Usagi slowly turned around. "Paws.Biiiig paws." She dragged her eyes up from the ground.
"Eh heh heh heh heh." She laughed nervously as she spotted the six pairs of angry eyes belonging to a particularly large three headed giant Cerberus. "Konnichiwa Wan-chan"
She darted out of the room and closed the door. She struggled against the Cerberus as she fumbled with her wand. The door slammed shut and the lock slid into place. Usagi collapsed against the door.
"What on Earth were you doing in there?!" An angry voice blared. Usagi reluctantly brought her eyes up to meet her saviour's, cursing as she found they belonged to none other than Professor Severus Snape, still holding his wand.
"It was an accident, let me assure you." Usagi said, climbing to her feet. "The stair case changed and I was hurrying to get off it before it changed again. I only realised I was in the forbidden corridor just before Filch- san's cat showed up. So I decided to run-"
"Why would you run if you were innocent?" Usagi gave him a you-really-think- he'd-listen-to-me look. "Yes, well, you know I have to deduct points from Griffindor for this?"
"Yes, Sir"
"Two points will be deducted."
Usagi stared at him. "Sir, may I ask you something?" Snape nodded. "Why are you so lenient on me?"
"What do you mean?" He asked, leaning against the wall.
"I mean, you minimise my punishments, and aren't as hard on me as you are on the other Griffindors-"
Snape straightened up. "You don't need punishment."
"The truth, sir." Usagi said, walking up to him "Why do you always seem to be where I am?"
"That's just coincidence." He said standing over Usagi.
Usagi stared up at Snape, a tired but serious look upon her face. "Don't bother lying or using stand-over tactics with me. I have faced up to enemies that would have you peeing in your pants." He staggered backwards, shocked by her bluntness.
"What is it about you that annoys me so?" she pondered.
Snape bent down, shadowing Usagi's face with his.
"Why do you-" Usagi couldn't finish her question, as Severus Snape's mouth had claimed hers.
"Why are you so curious?" He murmured into her mouth. "Why do you drive me so crazy?"
Usagi's mind went into over-drive. "What? Why? Wha.?"
Snape smiled as he pulled away. Usagi noticed that he wasn't that bad looking when he wasn't scowling. "And thus, the ever questioning princess is speechless."
Snape gestured for her to follow him, and they walked out of the forbidden corridor, and onto the third floor. Snape led her down to the ground floor, down the hallway, to his office. Usagi was too dazed to realise where she was going, or the people staring at the smiling Snape and the bewildered Usagi that followed.
Snape opened the door to his office and ushered Usagi inside. She sat down on in a chair in front of Snape's desk. He magicked a chair to sit beside her, turning the chairs to face one another. Usagi stared at him as he sat down.
"Why did you do that?" She asked when she found her voice; referring of course to his kissing her.
"I know that you used that crystal of yours on me." He stated.
"That has nothing to do with your kissing me."
"Oh! But it does." Snape said, holding her hands in his.
"How does it have anything to do with it, sir?" She asked, removing her hands from his.
Snape smiled. "You make me feel old. Severus, please."
"Er.okay. Severus. But why does the crystal have something to do with you kissing me?"
"I guess no one has ever told you what they feel when you use that crystal on them, eh?"
"It has never come up." Usagi shrugged. "Why? What did you feel?"
Severus leaned back in his chair and studied Usagi for a moment before answering. "When you healed my body, I was at death's door."
Usagi nodded. "It's why I chose to heal you myself instead of risking your death on a trip to the infirmary."
"Yes, well. Your heart was opened too me for a moment. I saw a woman in a girl's body. A woman who was hurting from the betrayal of her fiancée with her supposed best friend. A woman what had caught them in the act of deception, then ran away-"
"I didn't run away." Usagi said in quiet defence.
"You didn't? No, you just commanded the Guardian of Pluto's Gates to send you somewhere else, and for the rest of the outers not to tell anyone."
"What ever you think." Usagi said, crossing her arms.
"Usagi, you have to face it. You can't hide for ever." Severus said as kindly as he could.
"I know." She whispered, not liking having to think about it. "But what does this have to do with you kissing me?"
"I saw deeper. I saw your soul. And it is the most beautiful thing I have ever had the privilege to see. I have fallen for you. I cant stop thinking about how exquisite your heard, mind and soul are."
Usagi sat back in her chair, staring at him; his elbows resting on his knees as he stared at her as though mesmerised. "You know, Severus. You are a much better person than you make out to be."
"Shh. don't tell everyone; you'll ruin my reputation."
Usagi chuckled then and looked up at him with sorrowful eyes. "I'm sorry, Severus. But I don't reciprocate your feelings. You are a beautiful person, and deserve someone of your own age. I am sorry, but I can only see you in my mind as a friend."
Severus stared at her, his eyes filled with disappointment. "I understand. I do love you, Usagi Tsukino, Rabbit of the Moon. However, even if you do not, I would rather have you in my life as a friend, than not at all."
Usagi nodded as se rose to her feet. He walked her to the door. Just before she closed it, she looked back at the biggest pain-in-the-butt in the school, and could only feel pity for the poor man. She closed the door and headed for the Great hall and dinner.
"My life keeps getting weirder and weirder."