Chapter 2 He's Back!!

*Melita's POV*

Melita sat in the Potions dungeon grading homework. It was raining outside as it the clouds were determined to beat every building to the ground. She shuddered and looked out the window.

Suddenly the door to the dungeon opened. A soaked figure in a cloak stood in the doorway. Melita was to shocked at the say anything. The figure didn't seem to see her as she sat at her desk still as a statue. He walked to the office and closed the door without saying anything or even looking around.

Melita rose from her chair and went to the office. She silently opened the door and looked inside. Her eyebrows rose as far as they would go when she saw whom it was.

Severus Snape had lowered his hood and was now taking off his cloak. The cloak hadn't done much good in the pouring rain and he was about to take off his shirt also.

"Please spare my eyes and leave your shirt on, Snape," Melita drawled.

Snape turned around sharply at her voice and his eyes bulged.

"You?! What are you doing here?!" he snapped at her.

"I've been teaching while you, oh so fearless hero, have been away," she said sarcastically.

"I've been away on business for Dumbledore, so cut the crap," he snarled at her, glaring.

"Does Dumbledore know you are back?" she said flatly.

"Why does it matter to you? If you would kindly leave my office, I was about to change to go to see him!" he hissed.

"You keep clothes in your office?" she asked skeptically.

"My office is sometimes closer than my quarters! Out!" he pointed out the door.

Melita didn't move. "Why are you back so early?" she demanded.

"OUT, MIKAELS!" he shouted.

She scowled at him, flipped him the finger, then turned and left, slamming the door. She turned and saw Dumbledore standing in the dungeon doorway, a small smile playing on his lips.

"I see Severus is back and has come to visit one of his most favored people," he said cheerfully.

Melita scowled. "You said he would be returning tomorrow," she growled.

"Ah, yes, an unfortunate mistake I see," he said his eyes twinkling.

Melita's scowl deepened.

Behind her the office door opened and Snape came out in fresh robes. He looked at Melita and then spotted Dumbledore.

"Dumbledore! I was about to come see you," he said.

"Happened to come upon Mr. Longbottom in the halls. He seemed suddenly to be in a state of shock, so I came to see what happened," Dumbledore said matter-of-factly.

It was Snape's turn to scowl.

Dumbledore smiled. "Well, I'm sure you have things to report, so shall we go to my office?" he stood to the side of the doorway.

"Alright," Snape, still scowling, walked to the door with a backward glance at Melita. She glared at him.

"Take as long as you want!" she called as they left the room. Snape shot her one last glare as the door shut.

With a huff, she sat down at her desk again and began to grade papers again. She didn't know how or when it happened, but she was in the middle of grading Draco Malfoy's essay on the uses of dragon blood, when she dozed off.

She was walking in a black mist. She heard hooves galloping all around her, but she didn't see anything. The mist swirled looking like fingers reaching to grab her. Then she heard cold high laughter. She began to run. There was a light just ahead of her. The laughter got louder. Then she felt a sudden pain in her fore arm. She grasped it trying to run faster, but the mist was holding on to her, keeping her from moving. There was a flash of green light and-

"Mikaels! MIKALES! Wake up damn it!"

She was being shaken and suddenly her eyes popped open to see a man bending over her. It didn't really get into her head that it was really Snape bending over her, she just clung to his chest, shaking uncontrollably and she had somehow ended up on the floor. She continued to cling to Snape as if something was pulling her away.

"Mikaels! Get a hold of yourself!" he growled.

She didn't hear him. She just pulled him closer to herself, only hearing the malicious laughter in her head and trembling like mad.

"Mikaels!" Snape repeated sounding slightly worried now.

She finally cleared her mind of the laughter and looked up into his face. She saw frustration mingled with worry in his eyes. Her eyes were big with fright. They continued to stare at each other for a while. She couldn't help but feel rather comfortable...

Wait... she suddenly realized she was practically lying in Snape's lap. He had his hand on her arms supporting her while her hands clung to his chest. With a sudden squeak of surprise she sat up pushing him slightly from her.

"What are you doing, Snape!" she snapped.

Snape glared. "I simply came in and saw you convulsing on the floor, so I tried to wake you."

"Well, I'm fine now, so you can leave me alone," she said standing up and going to the desk.

Snape stood also and walked to the other side of the desk.

"Now that you have finally gotten in your right mind, I would like to discuss this insane plan of Dumbledore's about or teaching together," Snape said glaring at her.

"Oh... yeah... that... well, I'll let you know I don't like it anymore than you do, so you can't go blaming about it!" she said sharply.

"How are we going to work this out? It is originally my class so I think I should teach and you be an assistant or something like that," Snape said sourly.

"I will be no such thing!" she demanded.

"Either that, or you can sit in a little hole in the wall and disappear!" he snarled.

"Why don't we be sensible and unselfish and make a schedule, smart one," she hissed glaring.

Snape blinked.

"Oh... right... then let's. let's start on a schedule..." he said bashfully.

Melita smirked and looked through her papers again.

"You work on one, and make sure it's fair. I have to grade these papers," she said concentrating on Draco Malfoy's essay she still need to finish grading.

Snape just glared at her, then went into the office slamming the door.

Melita growled, annoyed.

"I hate him."

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Sorry if she seemed a bit to... faultless. I hate it when characters are like that and they're always better than the original character, so I tried not to make her like that. Well, Snape is back. What will the students think? Oh no! okay, I'm really bad at these ending author notes, but oh well. REVIEW!