Konnichi wa! I've come to bother everyone again! MWAHAHAHAHA! Since I'm not
that creative, I decided to skip over the creation of actual lyrics to the
Sorting Hat's song. Sorry everyone. ¬_¬* Thanks to invisible2u and
DevilMalik's reviews! *peace* Oh! I'll also take this to say that I'll be
going slower with this fic since school's started and everything. *mutters
curses and glowers* Plus evil writer's block has so graciously decided to
visit me. *glares* Alrighty. . . on with the chapter! *peace*
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For the last remaining weeks before the starting school year, Severus and Alexandria were virtually inseparable. They were either dressing as muggles and doing muggle activities, chasing each other throughout the castle and later onto the grounds (Minerva forced them to do this outside after they had ran over her for the third time.), or flying around the Quidditch field with the Quidditch balls.
They particularly enjoyed doing the latter. Both had a blast trying to get the Quaffle past each other (Severus made the most goals; Alexandria was simply horrible at trying to make saves) and racing each other with the Snitch. Most of their time was revolved around this until Alexandria was knocked off her broom by a Bludger and fell face- first to the ground from sixty feet.
She was quite nervous when the day the students would be arriving finally dawned. Deciding to go with a Medieval theme again- wearing a dark plum velvet gown with golden embroidery and doing braids across her crown- Alexandria checked herself in the mirror for the last time. Placing a thin silver circlet upon her forehead, she straightened when she heard her door open, Severus appearing instantaneously at her side.
"You look ravishing," he said as he made the tiniest of adjustments to her circlet.
"Thanks, Sev," she turned to give him a hug, and then started towards the Great Hall holding hands.
"I don't see why you're so nervous," he said, "Just input fear into them."
"I don't want to scare them, silly," she retorted, "I just don't enjoy huge crowds; never have."
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"That must be our new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor," Hermione said, nodding to the woman sitting next to Professor McGonagall. She was quite pale, but not as pallid as Snape, which made her red hair and emerald green eyes stand out. She has a narrow face, with but a few freckles across the nose. She looked both kind and stern.
"Isn't she that woman we saw with Snape in Diagon Alley?" Harry asked.
"You're right!" Ron exclaimed.
"Would you look at Snape!" Ginny exclaimed and pointed to him, "He can't take his eyes off her!"
This was absolutely true. He kept shifting his gaze down the table to her, looking torn. Once he almost got up, but had decided against it and pretended to be getting more comfortable.
McGonagall had left by now to greet the first years and get the Sorting hat. The room was buzzing with conversation of what they had done over the summer, growing quiet as she returned with the hat. The first years milled into the hall, filed into a line at Minerva's order, and expectantly waited for the hat to sing.
After the Sorting was finished, Dumbledore stood up, "To those of you who have finally joined us at Hogwarts, welcome. To everyone who made it back from summer holidays, welcome back! That said and done, tuck in," he sat back down, earning clapping and a few laughter. Food magically appeared on the tables; and the hall was suddenly full of eating and chatter. When everyone had finally eaten their fill, Dumbledore stood up again and made the usual announcements, also introducing Alexandria as the new teacher. The hall filled with polite clapping, and she made a little bow of gratitude. Then everyone made their way to their respective common rooms; the teachers making their way to their quarters.
Severus waited just outside the entrance for her, giving anyone who looked at him a death glare. "That wasn't so bad now, was it?" he asked mockingly as she slid her arm around his.
"Oh, can it." she growled, making Severus chuckled quietly, not wanting the surrounding students to actually hear *him* laugh.
As they reached Alexandria's compartments, they both said their good nights. She entered her rooms beaming, while Severus stalked back downstairs to his own dungeons.
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The next couple of days Alexandria was kept busy with classes, what with learning everyone's names and explaining what she was planning to do in the following year. The only true time she was able to relax was the hour block of no classes and lunch period. She decided that today she would spend her lunch with Severus, who never seemed to talk or do anything else but eat. Severus indeed seemed quite happy that she had done this and asked her about her first classes.
"They were alright," she replied, taking a bite out of a large Caesar salad, "I don't know how you've managed it all these years, though. This is exhausting!"
"You better get used to it," he said, "You have a year to put up with. And you wonder why I'm so nasty." This was rewarded by a playful shove from his companion, as she knew he didn't want to damage his reputation, she made it barely noticeable, but enough to get the point across.
After two more classes, Alexandria slouched into her chair, sighing with relief of her break. 'Severus is having a class right now,' she thought wearily, 'I wonder if I'd be able to check it out?' With that, she stood up and marched purposefully towards the dungeons.
Moments later, she silently slid into the potions classroom, taking a seat at the back. Snape was instructing them on what potion they were doing today. It seemed extremely difficult, but she had always known her friend always strived to teach them correctly. She also noticed he kept favoring some group of Slytherins up at the front of the room. She was puzzled at this behavior. 'He never showed a liking to that. I'll have to ask him about that later.' She thought as she sat back comfortably on her chair, smiling slightly as the lesson proceeded.
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Severus tried to look disinterested as Alexandria slid into his class. 'Why is she here? Doesn't she have anything better to do?' he thought bitterly as he routinely harassed Harry's potion, waving his wand and putting down zero marks for his grade. He didn't want her to see him behave like this, but the students before him might think something was wrong if he relaxed even a little bit.
Giving them permission to leave, he strode around to his desk and sat down, folding his hands together and staring at the place where he knew *she* to be hidden in shadows.
The woman stood and walked towards him when everyone was gone, "That was very interesting, Sev," Alexandria said, "I didn't know you favored your house in classes,"
"Don't want anyone to be suspicious." He replied coolly as she summoned a chair next to him and sat down. "You know some people would ask questions."
"How so?"
"If I didn't favor Lucius' son, don't you think he'd want to know why?"
"Oh, is that who it was?"
"Yes, it was his son. Besides, if I coddle them, they're not truly learning anything, are they?" a malevolent glint appeared in his eyes, causing her to look surprised.
"I always knew you had loathed Malfoy, but I didn't think you'd take revenge with his son," she said somewhat coldly, not meeting his gaze.
"Come off it. What do you think they'll become when they come of age? Aurors? Ha! They'll be the next generation of Deatheaters, and I plan for them to know as little as possible," Severus said bitterly.
Comprehension dawned on her face, "Oh, so you're sabotaging Voldemort's new army, eh?"
"I'm glad you finally understand. I was beginning to think for a moment that you were losing your intelligence. And please don't say the Dark Lord's name!"
"I will say it and you'll just have to get used to it!" she said firmly, getting pushed off her chair in reply. This caused a huge shove war, with lots of laughter and yelling, until Alexandria said she needed to get back to her classroom before her class arrived and that she'd see him later.
"I'll be looking forward to it," he said, pecking her on the cheek, earning a blush from her. He inwardly smiled to himself as she left. 'Soon.' He thought, 'Soon.'
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There. I know that was short, but then again, I'm happy to have finished this with writer's block going on. Again, I want to say that it'll be slower going what with school and everything, so it might take even longer for me to update. Sorry people. Anyway, please don't forget to review!
~*Sakura- chan*~
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For the last remaining weeks before the starting school year, Severus and Alexandria were virtually inseparable. They were either dressing as muggles and doing muggle activities, chasing each other throughout the castle and later onto the grounds (Minerva forced them to do this outside after they had ran over her for the third time.), or flying around the Quidditch field with the Quidditch balls.
They particularly enjoyed doing the latter. Both had a blast trying to get the Quaffle past each other (Severus made the most goals; Alexandria was simply horrible at trying to make saves) and racing each other with the Snitch. Most of their time was revolved around this until Alexandria was knocked off her broom by a Bludger and fell face- first to the ground from sixty feet.
She was quite nervous when the day the students would be arriving finally dawned. Deciding to go with a Medieval theme again- wearing a dark plum velvet gown with golden embroidery and doing braids across her crown- Alexandria checked herself in the mirror for the last time. Placing a thin silver circlet upon her forehead, she straightened when she heard her door open, Severus appearing instantaneously at her side.
"You look ravishing," he said as he made the tiniest of adjustments to her circlet.
"Thanks, Sev," she turned to give him a hug, and then started towards the Great Hall holding hands.
"I don't see why you're so nervous," he said, "Just input fear into them."
"I don't want to scare them, silly," she retorted, "I just don't enjoy huge crowds; never have."
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"That must be our new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor," Hermione said, nodding to the woman sitting next to Professor McGonagall. She was quite pale, but not as pallid as Snape, which made her red hair and emerald green eyes stand out. She has a narrow face, with but a few freckles across the nose. She looked both kind and stern.
"Isn't she that woman we saw with Snape in Diagon Alley?" Harry asked.
"You're right!" Ron exclaimed.
"Would you look at Snape!" Ginny exclaimed and pointed to him, "He can't take his eyes off her!"
This was absolutely true. He kept shifting his gaze down the table to her, looking torn. Once he almost got up, but had decided against it and pretended to be getting more comfortable.
McGonagall had left by now to greet the first years and get the Sorting hat. The room was buzzing with conversation of what they had done over the summer, growing quiet as she returned with the hat. The first years milled into the hall, filed into a line at Minerva's order, and expectantly waited for the hat to sing.
After the Sorting was finished, Dumbledore stood up, "To those of you who have finally joined us at Hogwarts, welcome. To everyone who made it back from summer holidays, welcome back! That said and done, tuck in," he sat back down, earning clapping and a few laughter. Food magically appeared on the tables; and the hall was suddenly full of eating and chatter. When everyone had finally eaten their fill, Dumbledore stood up again and made the usual announcements, also introducing Alexandria as the new teacher. The hall filled with polite clapping, and she made a little bow of gratitude. Then everyone made their way to their respective common rooms; the teachers making their way to their quarters.
Severus waited just outside the entrance for her, giving anyone who looked at him a death glare. "That wasn't so bad now, was it?" he asked mockingly as she slid her arm around his.
"Oh, can it." she growled, making Severus chuckled quietly, not wanting the surrounding students to actually hear *him* laugh.
As they reached Alexandria's compartments, they both said their good nights. She entered her rooms beaming, while Severus stalked back downstairs to his own dungeons.
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The next couple of days Alexandria was kept busy with classes, what with learning everyone's names and explaining what she was planning to do in the following year. The only true time she was able to relax was the hour block of no classes and lunch period. She decided that today she would spend her lunch with Severus, who never seemed to talk or do anything else but eat. Severus indeed seemed quite happy that she had done this and asked her about her first classes.
"They were alright," she replied, taking a bite out of a large Caesar salad, "I don't know how you've managed it all these years, though. This is exhausting!"
"You better get used to it," he said, "You have a year to put up with. And you wonder why I'm so nasty." This was rewarded by a playful shove from his companion, as she knew he didn't want to damage his reputation, she made it barely noticeable, but enough to get the point across.
After two more classes, Alexandria slouched into her chair, sighing with relief of her break. 'Severus is having a class right now,' she thought wearily, 'I wonder if I'd be able to check it out?' With that, she stood up and marched purposefully towards the dungeons.
Moments later, she silently slid into the potions classroom, taking a seat at the back. Snape was instructing them on what potion they were doing today. It seemed extremely difficult, but she had always known her friend always strived to teach them correctly. She also noticed he kept favoring some group of Slytherins up at the front of the room. She was puzzled at this behavior. 'He never showed a liking to that. I'll have to ask him about that later.' She thought as she sat back comfortably on her chair, smiling slightly as the lesson proceeded.
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Severus tried to look disinterested as Alexandria slid into his class. 'Why is she here? Doesn't she have anything better to do?' he thought bitterly as he routinely harassed Harry's potion, waving his wand and putting down zero marks for his grade. He didn't want her to see him behave like this, but the students before him might think something was wrong if he relaxed even a little bit.
Giving them permission to leave, he strode around to his desk and sat down, folding his hands together and staring at the place where he knew *she* to be hidden in shadows.
The woman stood and walked towards him when everyone was gone, "That was very interesting, Sev," Alexandria said, "I didn't know you favored your house in classes,"
"Don't want anyone to be suspicious." He replied coolly as she summoned a chair next to him and sat down. "You know some people would ask questions."
"How so?"
"If I didn't favor Lucius' son, don't you think he'd want to know why?"
"Oh, is that who it was?"
"Yes, it was his son. Besides, if I coddle them, they're not truly learning anything, are they?" a malevolent glint appeared in his eyes, causing her to look surprised.
"I always knew you had loathed Malfoy, but I didn't think you'd take revenge with his son," she said somewhat coldly, not meeting his gaze.
"Come off it. What do you think they'll become when they come of age? Aurors? Ha! They'll be the next generation of Deatheaters, and I plan for them to know as little as possible," Severus said bitterly.
Comprehension dawned on her face, "Oh, so you're sabotaging Voldemort's new army, eh?"
"I'm glad you finally understand. I was beginning to think for a moment that you were losing your intelligence. And please don't say the Dark Lord's name!"
"I will say it and you'll just have to get used to it!" she said firmly, getting pushed off her chair in reply. This caused a huge shove war, with lots of laughter and yelling, until Alexandria said she needed to get back to her classroom before her class arrived and that she'd see him later.
"I'll be looking forward to it," he said, pecking her on the cheek, earning a blush from her. He inwardly smiled to himself as she left. 'Soon.' He thought, 'Soon.'
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There. I know that was short, but then again, I'm happy to have finished this with writer's block going on. Again, I want to say that it'll be slower going what with school and everything, so it might take even longer for me to update. Sorry people. Anyway, please don't forget to review!
~*Sakura- chan*~