A/N:  I have just about no idea what I'm writing at this moment…so tired.  I'm updating now though, because I have to do marching band in a few days, EVIL.

Chapter Fourteen:

      Aeria flooed over to the American Embassy, and took an ITP to D.C.  She walked the way to Monica's office building, got a visitor's badge at the front desk, and made way to correct office.  "Hey, Mon!  How are you doing?"

      "Aery!  I haven't seen you for ages, what brings you to this part of the U.S. of A.?"  Monica was talking as if it had been five years since seeing her best friend rather than five weeks.

      "Came to deliver a message actually, from Severus.  Thought I might want to come over here and visit you while I still can.  School's still not in."

      "Yes, I know.  What did you say about Severus, and of course, Harry Potter, I assume?"

      "Oh, that.  He said that they would be rather late.  Apparently they have something better to do," Aeria answered.

      "Ah," Monica nodded, "so, what do you think of him?"

      "Well, he's rude, stuck up, and kinda good-looking in a way."

      "So, you like him?" Monica asked slyly.

      "Well, um, sorta.  I mean, I don't know what about him there is to like, but I just like him.  I met him first in Diagon Alley, and all-wizarding alley with shops and all, but anyways, he was in a hurry, getting all these Healing Potions and stuff, and we talked for a bit.  I thought that he was kinda cute then.  I mean, he's really tall, pale skin, long black hair, but it's kinda greasy, so, if he just washed it a bit, then it'd probably look great.  Also, he's got these dark, dark eyes, not that he lets you really stare into them for too long.  I don't know it's something about him that's just, I don't know, special."

      "He doesn't sound anything like Josh, I thought, if you were ever be attracted to another man, it'd be like him.  Sandy brown hair, blue eyes, medium height.  I'm glad you've moved on, so, does he seem to like you, or are you guys going out, or what?"

      "Well, right now, we have an entire castle to ourselves, and of course Thespia, his daughter, and Harry Potter.  He doesn't seem to though, but he's just one of those unreadable people."

      "Where's Chory?"

      "Josh's parent's house.  They didn't mind keeping her until the beginning of the school year."

      "Oh, good, so what else about him?"

      "Well, he saved Thespia from an Arboreus Depasco.  But, he wouldn't let me help, even though I have the Defence Against the Dark Arts position, and he's just a Potions Master.  It was like he was trying to prove he's better than me."

      "They keep those things around at Hogwarts?" Monica asked, raising her eyebrows raised.

      "They have an entire 'Forbidden Forest' right next door.  Of course, Thespia didn't know that it was forbidden then, nor did Severa, Severus's daughter, obviously."

      "Wait—he's married?"

      "Oh, no.  Divorced.  Just got custody of Severa like a week ago," Aeria answered.

      Monica took a file that had been sitting on her desk, flipped through a few pages, and took one out, and wrote a note on it, and placed it back in the folder.  "Sorry about that."

      "Oh, it's quite all right.  Thespia is in Gryffindor House, Severa in Ravenclaw," Aeria said, then added, "At Hogwarts, there are four Houses, Gryffindor for the brave, Ravenclaw—the wise, Hufflepuff—kind and Slytherin, the House Severus is Head of, is for the ambitious."

      "I see, Monica answered with a nod."

      "Well, I'm going to visit a few other places, and then head back to Hogwarts," Aeria announced, standing up to give her best friend a hug.  They embraced each other before she walked out the door of the office.

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      After changing and exiting the shopping mall, Severus hailed a muggle taxi to take them to the FBI headquarters where they could get to the FBMI.  Severus thanked the driver and Harry had to remind Severus to pay the man with American Muggle money, as he had began to pull out his wizarding coin bag.

      "Harry, you are not to answer any questions, unless they are directed at you, understood?" Severus said to the boy with one of his death stares.

      "Yes, Sir," Harry answered.  Severus led them through a maze of hallways and they then took a stairwell down to what Harry guessed had to be a sub-basement because it was so long.  Finally they went through a maze of file cabinets and shelves of assorted things, Harry guessed that had to do with the cases.  They arrived at a wall.  Severus whispered something and then proceeded to walk through the wall.  Severus noticed that Harry didn't quite follow and reached one arm back through the wall and grabbed his arm and pulled him through.  They were in a long corridor of doors.  They looked for the one with 'Agent Monica Harrison' on it.  It was near the end of the corridor and Severus knocked on the door.

      "Hello, Professor Snape, Harry Potter.  How are you two?"

      "Fine," Severus answered shortly.  Harry just shrugged.

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      Aeria flooed straight to her office with her arms full of bags with American labels.  She set them down on next to her desk and took out a few things from each bag and put them into one.

      She walked down the to the Slytherin Common Room in a rather good mood.  "Raedergit!" she said to the wall, which opened up.  "Thea?  Thespia, I got you some stuff in America, and some stuff for Severa."  Aeria saw that they were both on the couch…still asleep?  It was nearly 1:00 P.M.  "Still abed at this hour?  Come on, wake up!"  She said, gently shaking her daughter.  "Thespia!  Come on, stop joking.  Wake up, now!  Or you'll be in trouble."  Her daughter remained asleep, and Aeria frantically checked for a pulse and made sure she was breathing, both of which were affirmative.  "Severa?  Severa, can you wake up?  Please?  Wake up, girl!"

      "Darn you Severus!  I need you here!  What was that antidote you gave them?  Why isn't it working?"  Aeria realised she was talking to thin air, but didn't really care in the midst of her anger.

      Aeria went down to Snape's office, hoping to find a book on the antidote he gave them, but she found nothing sitting open.  "That guy must have memorised that stupid potion!  Argh, stupid men with too much time on their hands!" 

She slightly tore the room apart, trying not to be too nosy and trying to put mostly everything back for several hours.  She looked through bookshelves, around his desk, in his desk, but found nothing.

"Do you enjoy tearing people's rooms apart, or are you actually looking for something?"  Snape said in an icy tone.

"Severus, thank goodness you're here.  The girls…the antidote, they won't wake up!"

"I'm assuming that would be the girls, not the antidote that won't wake up?" he asked with a slight grin.

"Severus Snape, I am serious!"

"As am I.  Harry, go lay down on the bed, I'll be back soon."  Harry groaned but did as he was told.  "He is rather obedient for a Gryffindor," Severus thought to himself, "at least now."

Aeria almost ran to the Common Room and Snape lengthened his stride and quickened him pace to keep up with the frantic woman.  She breathed the password so quickly, Snape barely caught was she was saying, but the wall opened anyway.  The girls were on the bed asleep, it appeared.  Severus went to his own daughter first.  "Severa?" he asked quietly.  "Severa Audacia Snape wake up this instant or you will be in so much trouble you can't even imagine!"

"Severus!" Aeria interjected.

"Try to wake up your own daughter, see if it's the same," Snape ordered.

"Thespia?  Thespia, please wake up for me.  Please?"

Snape inhaled deeply and swore profusely for a long while it seemed.

"Do you plan on telling me what's going on or begin making up new curse words so that you don't have to repeat yourself?"

"I know several more," Snape said coldly.  "You're the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor, why don't you figure it out?

"Oh, I know.  You just made the simple antidote, didn't you.  For common poisonings, right?"

"That assessment would be correct.  Now then, this wasn't Arboreus Depasco, it's something else, would you mind figuring out what that is?"

"I bet it's Die Fleischessenbaum.  A hybrid of the Arboreus Depasco, except it's just a living tree.  It's poison is also different, and only some rare potion can cure it."

"Die what?"  Severus asked.

"Oh.  German name.  In English it means "Flesh Eating Tree", but it's real name is…Carniabore!"

"Great, now the students are going to be learning German as well as the Dark Arts they're already behind in!"

"I plan on teaching them the English names.  Now then, don't you think you should stop playing games, and start on that potion?"

"Yes, if I can find the recipe to the antidote!"

"You mean you don't have it?"

"Not that I've read within the last ten or fifteen years, no.  But the Hogwarts library may have something.  I need you to help me though."

"All right," Aeria said, slightly relieved, though all more stressed at the same time.  Why didn't she come up with that, the answer was perfectly obvious, she just didn't take the time to realise it, and made herself look like an idiot at the same time.


And thus endeth marching season.  Yep, this is really sad, I've had NO TIME WHATSOEVER during marching season, and now concert season is starting up (should have time to write).  Well it's Christmas holidays and I am happily writing.  EVERYONE NEEDS TO THANK CORGI FOR ENCOURAGING ME TO WRITE WHEN I WAS SICK AND FINISHING THIS CHAPTER, I COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU, CORGI…1 now…CORGI1 EVERYBODY!


Oh, yes, and read Jai Lupin's fanfics they're extravagantly good!!!


And onto answering kind reviewers…


Anora—We are interesting..interessant wir sind!


David M. Potter—Danke!  (Thank you, Ich liebe die Deutsch!)


Mikee—Danke, und you'll see (Random Bilingualicity ist macht Spass!)


Lady Giggles of Gryffindor—Danke, and I'm sorry you don't get to actually see what happened at the FBMI, but you'll hear about it later.


all who wander—I'm sorry this isn't very soon.  I plead "Marching Season"!


Jai Lupin—Aww, thank you.  We still need to work on DotW.  I'll go ahead and get Ch. 1 of Yr. 1 finished and we can probably post it with out finishing the prequel yet, there's enough intro so far, and the first part's just for fun anyway.  See above for ad.


the thorn in your…let's not go there—I like your name…interessant.  Well, we couldn't exactly do that to Snape, now could we.  Twins are fun, aren't they?  Zwillinger is macht Spass!


Read my conjoined pen names LupinTwins and Loony Bin Escapees!