Snape froze in his tracks. Ahead of him Lucius Malfoy, Minerva McGonagal, and Albus Dumbledore stood screaming at each other. It didn't shock Snape that Minerva was yelling; she seemed to yell a lot actually. What shocked him was that Dumbledore and Malfoy, of all people, were yelling at each other.

"What do you mean, remove Albus from his position? You know what that will do don't you? It will ruin Hogwarts! Nothing will be alright!" Minerva screeched at Lucius.

"I can't ignore the ministry, Minerva!" Lucius spat right back at her.

"I will not back down! This place will be in enough turmoil with Voldemort back, me leaving will only make the problems bigger!" Dumbledore shouted at Lucius who didn't back down.

"If you don't back down the ministry will make you!" Lucius said with a sneer. "They have interesting ways of doing so, I might add." He said his smile growing louder.

But before anyone could hex or say anything else, Holly had awoken with all the screaming and shouting. All heads turned in her direction as she started to cry and scream. Snape almost dropped her, not expecting her to wake up.

"Severus?" Lucius and McGonagal said in unison. They turned to look at each other with a glare.

"Ah, you are back, Severus. And with Krystal and Raven no less. You seem to have a 'guest' too." Dumbledore said a slight twinkle returning to his blue icy eyes.

Snape would have glared at the Headmaster, but he had sense not too. "Yes, Headmaster. Holly, she's Jasmine's youngest daughter." Snape said trying to keep the anger from his voice at how calm the Headmaster was now.

"Ah," Dumbledore replied. "And they look just like their mother." He said practically beaming at the twins. They smiled their smiles and slightly blushed.

"Mother?" Lucius and Minerva said again. This time when they turned to each other they sent each other death glares.

"Yes, it turns out that these two, are Severus and Jasmine Baker's daughters." Dumbledore said looking at the girls with a smile.

Whatever Minerva and Lucius were expecting, it certainly wasn't that. Anything would have been less shocking than to hear that THE Severus Snape had children, nonetheless with the beautiful Jasmine Baker. Minerva opened and closed her mouth several times. Lucius however, turned to Dumbledore.

"I shall be leaving now. I'm sure you have a lot to do, with arranging your departure." he said with a smile, that would frighten the bravest of men.

Dumbledore didn't respond. Lucius took his cue and left the castle clutching his left arm slightly.

"Well, I'm sure that you three have some catching up to do." Dumbledore said turning to Snape. "I'll leave you to it then."

"Headmaster---" Minerva began looking at him pleadingly asking with her eyes for answers. But she was cut off.

"Minerva," Dumbledore interrupted. "I think I need something to eat, will you accompany me to the kitchens?"

"But---I mean to say---oh, well, sure." she said after seeing the look on Dumbledore's face.

And so Dumbledore and Minerva left walking down the halls chatting not so softly about Lucius and Snape's visit.

"That was interesting." Raven said looking thoughtful.

"Indeed." Snape said, watching the headmaster and the transfiguration teacher turn a corner.

"What does Lucius mean, Dumbledore leaving?" Krystal wondered aloud.

"That is something that is none of our business." Snape snapped turning to his daughter.

"It's also something that you don't know the answer to." Krystal smiled.

Snape rolled his eyes and tried the counting to ten method. This child was going to drive him mad. "Let's just go to my headquarters," he said taking off at a brisk walk.

"Headquarters? Doesn't that sound--" Krystal began.

"Like an old vampire movie?" Raven finished her sentence.

"Or just extremely creepy." they said in unison.

"I hope you two don't do that often." Snape said turning right and walking faster.

"You're out of luck, then," they said again smiling widely.

Snape rolled his eyes as he reached the portrait to his 'headquarters'.

"Password?" The man in the painting said.

The painting itself was of a man who goes by the name Higs, sitting on a hill with his Labrador. The Labrador was hardly ever in the painting; it was usually in some field on the second floor running after butterflies.

"Potions." Snape said sounding rather bored.

"Why would you have your password, potions?" Raven asked raising an eyebrow.

"Because, I'm the Potions Master here." Snape said entering his headquarters. Raven nodded her head and stopped walking when she saw what his headquarters looked like.

There was little color anywhere. The only color other than gray, black, or white was the color of the potions on shelves high up on the walls. This did little to bring more life to the rooms though. There was a black leather couch and a black leather oversized seat to the right of the entranceway. In front of the couch and chair there was a fireplace with a small fire going. To the left of the entranceway were two doors. The door on the left was black and looked like some sort of heavy wood. The door on the right was similar but didn't look as heavy. In front of them, was a huge room, filled with bottles and books. To the girls, or any person who grew up with muggles or in fact were muggles themselves, this room would look like the experiment room for the mad scientist to test his experiments.

"That would be my potions room. I do all my experiments there. No need for you three to go in there. Countless troubles occur there." Snape said saying a simple spell so that the potions room was behind a wall and a very large, heavy door stood with a snakehead handle.

"The door on your right will be your room." Snape said opening the door next to his bedroom. Inside there were two twin beds on opposite sides of the walls. The color did not change at all and it was still rather gloomy. Snape seemed to be very proud of himself for making a room like this, the girls however tried to hide their dislike, well, that is Raven tried, but Krystal didn't.

"This place sucks." she said turning up her nose.

"Krys, don't be rude. It will be alright once we put up all of our stuff." Raven pleaded with her sister.

"No, Rave," she said and then turned to Snape. "What about Holly?" she asked looking at her little sister who was still in Snape's arms. Holly had long since stopped crying. (A/n sorry I failed to mention that a while ago...)

"Here," Snape said he waved his wand and a small bed was now in the middle of the room, the headboard touching the opposite wall from the door. On either side of the little bed were the twin's beds.

"I'll leave you to it then." Snape said. Right as he said these words all of their trunks magically popped into the room. Snape turned on his heel and left the girls to unpack. He turned left once he left and entered his room.

Now, Snape's room is the most welcoming room of the whole house, although to most it certainly wouldn't look welcoming. It was the only room, so far, that had the slightest bit of decorating. Beside Snape's large bed with green and black comforters and sheets, was a small side table with the single decoration of the whole house. A picture. You may think that the Severus Snape doesn't keep pictures. But he does. There is only one picture in the whole house that was worth keeping in his opinion.

It was a picture of Jasmine and Snape, outside on a snowy day. Every once in a while Snape would throw a snowball at Jasmine and she would laugh and tackle him to the ground playfully. It was perhaps the only thing that could make Snape truly smile.

Snape thought about Jasmine a lot. The way they knew what the other was thinking was something that always made them smile. They had the same outlooks on life and shared a lot in common. Although Jasmine was far more popular and people looked down on her for associating with Snape, Jasmine saw what no one else saw in Snape, she saw....

"Snape?" Krystal or Raven shouted through the wall, whoever it was, Snape couldn't tell. "Snape, where's the bathroom?" she shouted again.

Snape sighed. 'What did I get myself into?' he thought before going to answer the girls call.

A/N: Ok guys I know this isn't really a long chapter...Ok well maybe it is. :) Ok time to thank those reviewers!

Nic: Hey questions are fine by me! I'll answer them as good I can.
1. A lot of people ask that question...are they witches or not...never fear though, I wouldn't make them not witches...well maybe but then my story (according to me) would go down the drain.
2. Um...they don't know Snape because they didn't know Hogwarts...well they did but hold on a sec, and I'll answer that.
3. They could enter the Hogwarts Express because.... well refer to the answer the question number one.
4. That one will come out in a later chapter.... To be honest I forgot that little detail *blush* well I have it worked out now.
5. Well...they haven't gone to school...yet.
6. Well...refer to answer number five.

Seth S: Aw, so sweet aren't ya? Actually I'd like to thank you for taking time out of your day to tell me you didn't like my story :) you make me laugh.
Luceid: Thanks, Ya I agree with the space, thing. Hopefully if this chapter isn't spaced the way that makes it better, the next chapter will be.
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