CH13

Once again Stacey had found herself sitting alone in the hospital wing waiting and talking to Severus, he wasn't awake, but she figured if she annoyed him enough then he would wake up to tell her to shut up. It wasn't working very well although she did manage to scare a couple of first years who thought she was going nuts. It was around 3:00 and the only thing to do was to count the cracks in the floor and try not to turn into a complete nutter. Although Stacey did find the time to come up with a new game called 'Things Professor Snape would never say' and thought up at least twenty different things, one of which was"20 points TO Gryffindor."

"Ahhhh, come on already wake up! You're not dead are you?" She yelled at him while standing up to open his eyelids. "Hello, anybody home?" She sat back down again when he didn't respond and figured since she had nothing else to do she might as well speak he mind to him now. "You know something? I have never met a more stubborn, thickheaded, bitter, solitary, and stiffer man then you. Watch, one day someone is going to write a book on you and label it 'The mysteries of Severus Snape' because that's what you are a mystery. I've also noticed that whenever I ask you something you seem to get all defensive and try to change the subject directly. Now why is that? Personally I-"

"Don't you stop to breathe?" Stacey nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard the all too familiar voice address her.

"You're awake!" She squealed happily, but then her voice took on a tone of regret. "Shit your awake!" Stacey was scared, she realized that he probably wasn't to happy being crushed by a 10 ton Quidditch hoop. Even though it wasn't her fault she was going to be the one blamed by him. "Look I'm really sorry about the ummm...accident." His face was impassive and it was making her neverous. "I swear to you that I will make it up...you saved my life and I'm not to sure what it means here in the wizarding world, but where I come from that is a deceleration of friendship and heroism."

'Friendship? Heroism? God Stacey just keep digging that hole of yours and pretty soon you'll hit China.' She mentally scolded. She was sounding pretty stupid right now and from the look that Severus was giving her, he seemed to be thinking the same thing.

"I do not need your thanks, nor do I want it. There was no deceleration of any kind Stacey, I just simply did not wish to be taken to Akzaban on the count of not being able to save Dumbledor's clumsy Granddaughter." He snarled with a sneer on his face while she fumed.

"You mean I sat up here for a whole week waiting for your sorry ass to wake up and all I get is an insult. You know what; it's a real wonder why nobody has taken the liberty of choking you in your sleep yet! I felt guilty for having you being crushed into a pancake and all you can say is you don't want my thanks!" Stacey was so mad that she was turning red in the face. In one swift movement she picked up the glass of water next to his bed and dumped it on his head. "There take that you pig headed bastard!"

Severus was in a state of shock, not only from the water, but from the yelling she gave him too. It wasn't even what she told him, but the fact that she had dared to raise her voice at all. She was still standing there glaring at him waiting for him to make one false move. He had no doubt in his mind that next she would throw the glass at him. He wasn't to sure how to act now and was quit sure that if he made one insult he would be unconscious for another week.

"Don't just sit there looking at me like I'm crazy!" Stacey yelled

"There is no other way to look at a crazy person." He shot back while attempting to stand up.

"Why you...you...you!" She was at a loss of words and instead settled with clutching the glass in one hand and pointing at him with the other. If Poppy were to come back she would have a panic attack on the spot. Severus was standing looming over her while she attempted to find something nasty to call him. He wasn't much taller then her though, meaby about a half a foot at the most.

She was tempted to punch him and hopefully put another notch in that big nose of his, but her mother had always said never to hit an ill man. When she was little she had once pushed her little cousin off her bed because she wanted to sleep, and since he was ill, couldn't' do anything about it. Well did she ever get in trouble; no T.V and friends for a whole month.(Aren't mother's great?) Even though her mother died she still was afraid that she would get that groundation for a whole month again if she laid a hand on him.

Suddenly the door flew open and in came Poppy who saw one look at the situation and dropped the tray of potions she was carrying. "Poppy, he got up on his own. I had nothing to do with it." She said nervously.

"Severus! What do you think you're doing out of bed! You need your rest, not looming over other professors and trying to scare them! And Stacey, since Severus is up and about I think you need to leave. The patient needs his rest-"

"I will not be staying Poppy as you can see I am fine and-" He was cut off by Stacey who tapped him on the shoulder.

"Severus, It doesn't work trust me I tried it myself. The woman is as stubborn as a donkey. If you want to get out I suggest that you listen to her otherwise she'll make you stay for two weeks." Stacey gave Poppy a nasty look remembering the amount of time the woman made her stay.

"Unlike you I do not have somebody telling Poppy to keep me locked up longer then necessary."

"Hah, Severus I think your running out of material. Meaby you should go watch a few movies and find some new insults."

"Woman! What in the bloody hell is a movie?"

"You don't have movies!? What kind of a world is this?"

"Would the two of you please be SLIENT!?" Poppy shouted ending their argument. "Severus I see that you are not as injured as you appear you may leave and please take her with you."

"Hey what is that suppose to mean?" But she was ignored and as soon as Severus was dressed called for her to follow.

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"Hey where are we going?" Stacey asked him. They had been walking all around the castle going into the deepest recess of Hogwarts. He knew where he was going, but she hadn't the faintest idea where she was. It looked like she was in the dungeons it was dark and cold. But not even the dungeons looked this menacing. It was a dark hallway and the only light was of that from the torches on the wall. There was a breeze blowing in the narrow and long hallway even though there were no windows and no possible way for that to happen.

"You will see." He said while his robes blew giving him the illusion of being a vampire.

"No I don't want to see."

"Stop acting like a child."

"I am not acting like a child. For your information I am a full fledged adult."

"Forgive me for not caring." Stacey muttered something nasty under her breath while Severus pretended not to hear. They had been walking for two more minutes like that, bickering back and forth between one another until finally something got into Severus's way and he tripped, startling Stacey.

"Hah, that's what you get for calling me a child. Neener,neener,neener." Stacey teased while sticking her tong out at him. She stood there laughing nonstop until he got up and took his wand out of his sleeve. It was then that she recknoized the ball of fur that was attempting to escape the nasty spells that were being thrown in it's direction.

"PEPPER!" She screeched after he nearly got his tail blown off. "Severus, stop, stop, that is my cat you're trying to blast into oblivation."

"That bloody cat, the damn thing has been following me ever since you brought him here!" He bellowed still attempting to blow it into the ground.

"Well meaby he likes you. Now stop trying to kill my cat and leave him be unless you want to be in that hospital bed again." He shot her a look that specifically said "I dare you"

"Don't give me that look! Now leave him ALONE!" He stood for a moment a little taken aback by her over protectiveness for the damned creature. That was all the time pepper needed to slip past him and into his mistress's arms." Aww.. did the big mean UGLY man try to blow you up." She cooed to her beloved pet. When she looked up at Severus again she found that he still had his wand out and was glaring at the cat that now began to hiss in her arms. "Don't you even think it!"

"Don't think what?" He asked crossing his arms and giving the cat a death stare as it still continued to hiss at him.

"Think about trying to get him when my back is turned, I know your kind. You think that just because you tripped over him gives you the right to torture my cat." He was about to say something but she cut in. "I am still talking! Your the one who stepped and tripped over him, it's not my cat's fault that your clumsy." Once again he tried to cut in. "Still talking Severus. If I find one hair out of place on his head I am specifically coming after you to, incase you've forgotten I can have you in 7 places at once."

"Fine, but if that thing comes near me again then he will end up being a lab rat (cat) for Mr. Longbottom's potions." Before she even had time to retort he turned on his heal and continued to walk down the dark hallway with Stacey muttering insults under her breath.

"A heart, a heart, the man has no heart they say. Oh he has a heart it's just in a jar like everything else he has." She muttered nastily under her breath while power walking to keep up with him..

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Stacey stood turning round and round looking at the room she was standing in. It brought back so many memories of home, when she use to teach karate. The room was twice the size of her classroom and covering the stone floor was a giant mat that hade a Chinese character on it.(character as in letter.) in the corner was an old punching bag hanging on a chain. It was a big change from the dark hall way that she had to walk through to get here. The one thing that was on her mind was why he took her here? What was he trying to get at?

"Why are we here?" She asked walking over to the punching bag. "Ok let me rephrase that. Where are we? I didn't think a place like Hogwarts had a room like this."

"We are here to continue your training; Albus feels that you still have a lot of work to do." He was standing in the door way waiting for her to say something.

"Ok, did he miss out on the part when you nearly died? It's impossible for me to control this...this..curse, you really have no idea what it's like to have so much power and to have it control you."

"No Albus did not miss out on anything. He feels you have what it takes to learn how to control you power, and you did not almost kill me. I was the one who jumped under there in the first place. Now stop acting like a child and sit down." He stepped inside the room, but then stopped when he saw that she was still standing. "What is it now Stacey?" He said irritated.

"It's such a nice room; it's going to be a shame when I blow it up." She was admiring one of the tapestries on the walls while he grew even more irritated.

"You couldn't blow it up even if you wanted to."

"Where have you been? I was the one who gave my Grandfather the new view of the lake in his office."

"This room has been charmed so that if you do manage to damage something it will reform again." She didn't believe him and he must have picked up on this. "Go ahead and try to destroy that wall over there." She hesitated for a moment, but then figured if it didn't reform then she could blame it on him. With a lazy motion she blew up the left wall and to her utter surprise it reformed again. Ok so meaby he wasn't lying.

"Woah! That is so cool; I wish my T.V had that charm when it exploded."

"T.V.?"

"Oh lord; don't you people even know what a Television is?"

"Tellefision?"

"Never mind, it's difficult enough to teach the students." She shook her head in expatriation.

"Stop prattling and lets get started."

"Let the bombing begin."

A.N: I will be a little slow..My school is having the state test so I have to prepare for that.thank you guys for reading and reviewing. It makes me want to write .:0)