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A Father's Love
Chapter 2
Emma and Severus walked into a restaurant called Moon Dance. It was a quiet little diner with navy blue velvet walls that appeared to have stars shining off of it. Emma looked around, awed by the realistic nature of the building. It made her feel as though she was walking through an enchanted garden at midnight.
"Do you like it?" Severus asked with a slight smile.
"I do," Emma replied, still gazing around. "I like it a lot."
"Wonderful," Severus grinned. The pair of them sat down at the table, and looked over the menus. "All you have to do is say what you want, and the server will bring it out to you. For example, I'll have the chicken cordon bleu meal with pumpkin juice to drink. Now it's your turn."
"I'll have the chicken salad sandwich on wheat bread with a side of fruit salad and iced tea to drink please." Emma said after a moment's hesitation.
A waiter appeared almost instantly with a tray of food. He set it down on the table, tried to glare inconspicuously at Severus and then walked away. Emma and Severus ate in silence for a while before either attempted to talk. Soon Severus broke the silence.
"Emmiline, there are going to be some things that you need to know about me, things that very few people know of. I can't tell you here, but I promise to tell you when we get back to Hogwarts. I'm very sorry if some of this comes as a shock to you."
"Dad, I don't think there is a whole lot that could surprise me after all that has happened in two days. If someone told me two weeks ago that my mother and her boyfriend were going to throw me out of the house to live with my father, I'd have said that they'd gone mental. And please don't call me Emmiline. Emma or Emmi works fine." Emma smiled at him.
"Okay, Emma," Severus said trying to hide his amusement at her description of the situation. "The whole mess sounds a lot worse than what it actually was when you put it that way."
Emma laughed and Severus couldn't help but think how much like his sister she sounded. He sighed to himself. He had to stop thinking about Kara. She was as far gone as she could be without being completely dead.
"What do you like to do in your free time?" Severus asked.
"Well, at IAW we didn't have a whole lot of free time, but we did have activities that were used as part of our course material."
"Really?" Severus asked. "Tell me about one of your normal days at your old school."
"All of us had to wake up at 6:30. Breakfast was from seven to seven thirty. We had class from 7:30 to 9:30 and a break from 9:30 to ten. Ten to noon was the second class, and then lunch was from noon to 12:30. Afterwards we had our activity classes. I took different forms of dance in the afternoon, and played quidditch in the evening. Then we did homework and went to bed. Everyday was like that except Saturday and Sunday. We just got to rest and relax over the weekend. I'm really going to miss it there," Emma said with a far off look in her eyes.
"What types of dance did you take?" Severus asked.
"Tap, Jazz, Ballet, a separate Pointe class, Lyrical, Modern, Hip Hop, and Pantomime." Emma recited very quickly. Severus was shocked that she had taken so many classes.
"Let's head back to Hogwarts," Severus said and stood up. He looked at Emma, fully prepared for her to follow his lead, but much to his shock, she pulled out a needle with some liquid in it and stuck it in herself. "What the bloody hell was that for?" Severus asked, completely shocked.
"I'm diabetic," Emma stated simply. Noting the questioning look on Severus face, she continued. "It means that my pancreas doesn't produce insulin, so instead of my body breaking my food down so I can use it, it all rushes into my blood stream, so my blood sugar sky rockets and if I don't take insulin, I could get really sick."
"I know what it is, I just didn't know that wizards and witches got it," Severus clarified.
"Well, they do. It just isn't very common, and there is no cure for it, as of yet anyway." Emma smiled. "It's not that big of a deal! I just have to watch what I eat, and take my shots and make sure I don't get too high or too low." She said as they were headed towards the castle.
Emma took a sharp breath when she saw the castle, and whispered, "It's amazing."
Severus laughed at her reaction. "It is, isn't it?"
The two entered the castle, and headed towards the dungeons. Severus turned left into his office and Emma followed him. She looked in awe at the jars of random potion ingredients that were carefully labeled floating around by the walls.
"This is my office. I'll show you the teacher's sleeping quarters a little bit later. I've got a little bit of work to do, but later on I can show you around the rest of the castle," Her father declared, "or since most of the teachers stay here over the summer, and if you would like to do a little bit of exploring on your own, you may do so. Dinner will be served at 6:00, so please do not be late. We'll talk afterwards. Alright?"
"Yah, I'll just walk around and try not to get too lost," Emma said with a smile.
Severus rolled his eyes as he said, "The ghosts are almost always happy to help too."
Emma smiled and shook her hair out as she exited the office. Where should I go first? she thought to herself. She saw a set of stone steps leading up on her left hand side and started up them. She entered a big hall with a marble floor. She glanced around, and saw an old man with very long white hair and a very long white beard walking towards her.
"You must be Emmiline," The old man said. When she nodded, he continued. "I'm Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts."
"It's a pleasure to meet you sir, and please call me Emma," She responded.
"Well Emma, I am delighted to welcome you to our school. I do hope that you will enjoy it here." Emma loved the way his eyes twinkled as he smiled.
"Thank you very much sir," Emma couldn't help but smile at the kind Professor.
"You're quite welcome Emma, and enough with this sir business, you may call me Albus. As it is summer, there is no need to be formal. Is there anything in particular that you are looking for right now?"
"No, I'm just exploring right now, but thank you very much si....Albus."
"Have a good day then." He gave Emma one last smile, and headed down to the dungeons.
Emma walked into a large room where four very long tables filled up the room, with one across the very front of the room. "This must be where they eat," she said aloud.
"Very good missy. This is the Great Hall," said a voice from behind her.
Emma turned and jumped at what she saw. "Thanks." Ah, ghost, she thought to herself.
"You must be Severus' little girl." Emma nodded her head. "I'm the Fat Friar, resident ghost of Hufflepuff. Pleasure to meet you Miss, now if you'll excuse me, I'm on my way to a meeting." And with a tilt of his head, he continued on his path.
Emma spent the rest of the afternoon walking around and exploring things. She was now able to find general things. She had met a lot of teachers, but she could hardly remember any of them except Professor McGonagall who taught Transfiguration, and tiny little Professor Flitwick who taught Charms. Everyone seemed really nice to her, and she was excited about the prospect of making a lot of new friends. During dinner, she sat quietly and listened rather than talked. It was interesting to hear the stories about what had happened towards the end of term, what changes they thought out to be made for the next year, and also, whom they thought was going to get the highest exam scores.
Emma was asked several times about her social life, her favorite classes, and what she liked to do in her free time. She always responded with a smile and cheerful answer. Inside, she felt, for the first time in her life truly accepted into a family.
At the end of dinner, everyone gradually broke away, but Severus was still involved in a conversation with Albus. Emma waited patiently for her father to get done, but at the same time, she was trying to overhear their conversation. She caught words such as "friends," "Potter," "know-it-all," and "Malfoy."
Severus, noticing that Emma was listening, stood up. "I'll talk to you later tonight, Albus."
"Very well, Severus. Good night Emma."
"Goodnight," Emma responded with one of her trademark smiles.
"Come along, we have a lot to talk about." Severus was walking very briskly. "Ah, here we are."
A/N Thanks for taking the time to read this! Please R/R, and I'll give you a cookie!!!! Not really, but if it is incentive, you can have an invisible one! Flames will be extinguished!!!!!
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Disclaimer: Everything you recognize from canon, I don't own. Anything you recognize from other peoples fics, I'm using it w/ their permission, and everything you don't recognize, or you recognize from one of my fics, I own!! If I owned Harry Potter, my baby would still be alive! Poor Puppy!
A Father's Love
Chapter 2
Emma and Severus walked into a restaurant called Moon Dance. It was a quiet little diner with navy blue velvet walls that appeared to have stars shining off of it. Emma looked around, awed by the realistic nature of the building. It made her feel as though she was walking through an enchanted garden at midnight.
"Do you like it?" Severus asked with a slight smile.
"I do," Emma replied, still gazing around. "I like it a lot."
"Wonderful," Severus grinned. The pair of them sat down at the table, and looked over the menus. "All you have to do is say what you want, and the server will bring it out to you. For example, I'll have the chicken cordon bleu meal with pumpkin juice to drink. Now it's your turn."
"I'll have the chicken salad sandwich on wheat bread with a side of fruit salad and iced tea to drink please." Emma said after a moment's hesitation.
A waiter appeared almost instantly with a tray of food. He set it down on the table, tried to glare inconspicuously at Severus and then walked away. Emma and Severus ate in silence for a while before either attempted to talk. Soon Severus broke the silence.
"Emmiline, there are going to be some things that you need to know about me, things that very few people know of. I can't tell you here, but I promise to tell you when we get back to Hogwarts. I'm very sorry if some of this comes as a shock to you."
"Dad, I don't think there is a whole lot that could surprise me after all that has happened in two days. If someone told me two weeks ago that my mother and her boyfriend were going to throw me out of the house to live with my father, I'd have said that they'd gone mental. And please don't call me Emmiline. Emma or Emmi works fine." Emma smiled at him.
"Okay, Emma," Severus said trying to hide his amusement at her description of the situation. "The whole mess sounds a lot worse than what it actually was when you put it that way."
Emma laughed and Severus couldn't help but think how much like his sister she sounded. He sighed to himself. He had to stop thinking about Kara. She was as far gone as she could be without being completely dead.
"What do you like to do in your free time?" Severus asked.
"Well, at IAW we didn't have a whole lot of free time, but we did have activities that were used as part of our course material."
"Really?" Severus asked. "Tell me about one of your normal days at your old school."
"All of us had to wake up at 6:30. Breakfast was from seven to seven thirty. We had class from 7:30 to 9:30 and a break from 9:30 to ten. Ten to noon was the second class, and then lunch was from noon to 12:30. Afterwards we had our activity classes. I took different forms of dance in the afternoon, and played quidditch in the evening. Then we did homework and went to bed. Everyday was like that except Saturday and Sunday. We just got to rest and relax over the weekend. I'm really going to miss it there," Emma said with a far off look in her eyes.
"What types of dance did you take?" Severus asked.
"Tap, Jazz, Ballet, a separate Pointe class, Lyrical, Modern, Hip Hop, and Pantomime." Emma recited very quickly. Severus was shocked that she had taken so many classes.
"Let's head back to Hogwarts," Severus said and stood up. He looked at Emma, fully prepared for her to follow his lead, but much to his shock, she pulled out a needle with some liquid in it and stuck it in herself. "What the bloody hell was that for?" Severus asked, completely shocked.
"I'm diabetic," Emma stated simply. Noting the questioning look on Severus face, she continued. "It means that my pancreas doesn't produce insulin, so instead of my body breaking my food down so I can use it, it all rushes into my blood stream, so my blood sugar sky rockets and if I don't take insulin, I could get really sick."
"I know what it is, I just didn't know that wizards and witches got it," Severus clarified.
"Well, they do. It just isn't very common, and there is no cure for it, as of yet anyway." Emma smiled. "It's not that big of a deal! I just have to watch what I eat, and take my shots and make sure I don't get too high or too low." She said as they were headed towards the castle.
Emma took a sharp breath when she saw the castle, and whispered, "It's amazing."
Severus laughed at her reaction. "It is, isn't it?"
The two entered the castle, and headed towards the dungeons. Severus turned left into his office and Emma followed him. She looked in awe at the jars of random potion ingredients that were carefully labeled floating around by the walls.
"This is my office. I'll show you the teacher's sleeping quarters a little bit later. I've got a little bit of work to do, but later on I can show you around the rest of the castle," Her father declared, "or since most of the teachers stay here over the summer, and if you would like to do a little bit of exploring on your own, you may do so. Dinner will be served at 6:00, so please do not be late. We'll talk afterwards. Alright?"
"Yah, I'll just walk around and try not to get too lost," Emma said with a smile.
Severus rolled his eyes as he said, "The ghosts are almost always happy to help too."
Emma smiled and shook her hair out as she exited the office. Where should I go first? she thought to herself. She saw a set of stone steps leading up on her left hand side and started up them. She entered a big hall with a marble floor. She glanced around, and saw an old man with very long white hair and a very long white beard walking towards her.
"You must be Emmiline," The old man said. When she nodded, he continued. "I'm Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts."
"It's a pleasure to meet you sir, and please call me Emma," She responded.
"Well Emma, I am delighted to welcome you to our school. I do hope that you will enjoy it here." Emma loved the way his eyes twinkled as he smiled.
"Thank you very much sir," Emma couldn't help but smile at the kind Professor.
"You're quite welcome Emma, and enough with this sir business, you may call me Albus. As it is summer, there is no need to be formal. Is there anything in particular that you are looking for right now?"
"No, I'm just exploring right now, but thank you very much si....Albus."
"Have a good day then." He gave Emma one last smile, and headed down to the dungeons.
Emma walked into a large room where four very long tables filled up the room, with one across the very front of the room. "This must be where they eat," she said aloud.
"Very good missy. This is the Great Hall," said a voice from behind her.
Emma turned and jumped at what she saw. "Thanks." Ah, ghost, she thought to herself.
"You must be Severus' little girl." Emma nodded her head. "I'm the Fat Friar, resident ghost of Hufflepuff. Pleasure to meet you Miss, now if you'll excuse me, I'm on my way to a meeting." And with a tilt of his head, he continued on his path.
Emma spent the rest of the afternoon walking around and exploring things. She was now able to find general things. She had met a lot of teachers, but she could hardly remember any of them except Professor McGonagall who taught Transfiguration, and tiny little Professor Flitwick who taught Charms. Everyone seemed really nice to her, and she was excited about the prospect of making a lot of new friends. During dinner, she sat quietly and listened rather than talked. It was interesting to hear the stories about what had happened towards the end of term, what changes they thought out to be made for the next year, and also, whom they thought was going to get the highest exam scores.
Emma was asked several times about her social life, her favorite classes, and what she liked to do in her free time. She always responded with a smile and cheerful answer. Inside, she felt, for the first time in her life truly accepted into a family.
At the end of dinner, everyone gradually broke away, but Severus was still involved in a conversation with Albus. Emma waited patiently for her father to get done, but at the same time, she was trying to overhear their conversation. She caught words such as "friends," "Potter," "know-it-all," and "Malfoy."
Severus, noticing that Emma was listening, stood up. "I'll talk to you later tonight, Albus."
"Very well, Severus. Good night Emma."
"Goodnight," Emma responded with one of her trademark smiles.
"Come along, we have a lot to talk about." Severus was walking very briskly. "Ah, here we are."
A/N Thanks for taking the time to read this! Please R/R, and I'll give you a cookie!!!! Not really, but if it is incentive, you can have an invisible one! Flames will be extinguished!!!!!
XOXO
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