Severus sat in his usual seat in the Great Hall, leisurely looking at the ceiling. The weather today was wonderful, a crystal clear blue sky, not a cloud in site. Everything seemed like it was headed for a good day, well as good a day as you can have being Snape.

"Snape," someone shouted from behind the other side of the hall. Snape looked down from the ceiling and looked at his daughters and Holly. They were wearing the weirdest muggle clothing that Snape had ever laid eyes on.

"What are you wearing?" he asked, a look of disgust on his face.

Raven looked down at her shirt. 'Made' was stamped across the black fabric. Her pants were normal black jeans with chains. Her studded bracelets were in the usual places, and her arm warmers weren't crooked.

"Nothing out of the ordinary." she said looking confused.

Snape turned to Krystal. She was wearing almost the exact thing only she had more 'studs' and accessories. "I'm wearing clothes," she said simply.

Across the hall someone laughed out load, making the laugh echo across the empty hall. Everyone turned to see Professor Dumbledore, with the usual twinkle in his eyes.

"Ah, Severus, the joys of teenagers." he said taking his usual seat at the head of the Hall. The girls smiled and Snape scowled.

"Anyway," Raven said, continuing the conversation. "We're going to explore the castle."

"No, you're not!" Snape said firmly.

"What? Why?" the girls said in perfect unison. Snape would have smiled but he was a bit angry at the moment.

"Because there are too many things that you could get into. And you would need someone to show you around the castle." he said as if it ended the conversation. Obviously, since he was new to this parenting thing, it didn't end the conversation.

"No, we have you." Raven said smiling. Krystal nodded.

"Me?" Snape asked.

"Well who else?" They asked in unison.

Snape didn't answer. No one else was around to do it. Albus was far too busy with preparing for the school term to start. So were all the other teachers. Snape being the person he was already had his plans laid out for the entire year. There was no excuse for him to back down.

"After breakfast, I suppose we'll be going then." he said looking sadly at his oatmeal. The girls squealed and Albus smiled.

"I do think that you're changing, Severus." he said.

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"Oh, what's this room?"

"It's the transfiguration room."

"Oh, and this one?"

"It's the defense against the dark arts room."

They never stopped talking. Going on and on about the changing staircases, and ghosts. Everything that he took as ordinary was extraordinary for them. Finally they asked a question that Snape didn't know the answer to.

"What this one?" Holly asked reaching for the knob of a large oak door. Snape reached over and stopped her hand from turning the knob.

"I don't know," he said. Should he go in? What if it's something dangerous? Think of all the things that could go wrong! Damn curiosity. Snape slowly opened the door and found something that made him sigh a breathe of relief.

It was just a room, plain and simple. There were large comfortable looking couches, in the alignment of a large circle, and hot chocolate steaming from mugs on the coffee table. It's almost as if this was planned...

"Whoa!" Raven said bounding into the room and plopping down on one of the couches. Insignificantly enough she choose the Gryffindor colored couch. She grabbed a mug of steaming hot chocolate and started sipping happily away on it.

Krystal walked coolly over to the Slytherin couch and took a mug of chocolate too. Holly stayed by the door with Snape. When Snape started moving toward the couch with the Hogwarts, Holly followed. Snape stopped. So did Holly.

"She admires you." Raven said smiling.

Snape rolled his eyes and sat down on the couch, quickly followed by Holly.

Raven and Krystal sipped their hot chocolate in silence while Snape sat and tried to figure out what room this was. "Mmmm, this is good. I wish I had some more marshmallows, though." Krystal said. Instantly there was a pop and marshmallows were overflowing her steaming cup.

The girls marveled this and Snape rolled his eyes. "The room of requirements." he said aloud distracting the girls.

"Room of what?" Holly asked looking at Snape with a smile playing on her slightly rosy cheeks.

"Requirements," Snape repeated losing patients quickly. "If you want something then it will come into the room," he said sounding rather bored.

Holly's eyes widened and suddenly the room was filled with pink frilly lace and a pony. Holly squealed and jumped off the couch, running over to the pony and petting its fur softly cooing in its ear. The pony stood and looked down at the small child.

Snape quickly waved his wand and said a spell sending the pony and the frilly pink decorations away. Holly turned to face him and tears filled her eyes. 3...2...1...

Holly burst out in a screaming fit. She fell to the floor and started kicking and pounding her fists on the floor trying to make as much noise as possible. Snape stared at her, his face a mixture of confusion and bewilderment. How could someone so small create such a noise? Raven and Krystal jumped up and ran to their sister, trying to calm her down. Snape just stood there waiting for her to stop crying.

"We have to do something funny." Raven said standing up leaving Krystal sitting on the floor next to the screaming Holly.

"And what do you suggest we do?" Snape asked coldly. Raven glared at him for a moment before snapping her fingers. Instantly a black box made of glass and plastic appeared. Holly ran to it and pushed a button. Instantly a picture turned on. It was of a cat chasing a mouse around a kitchen, throwing knifes and other hazardous items around.

Holly instantly stopped crying and looked at the screen, her small wet eyes sparkling against the neon colors of the box.

'What is that thing?' Snape wondered.

"Ah, Tom and Jerry will cheer anyone up." Raven said rubbing her hands together to get rid of the imaginary dust from working from her hands. Snape rolled her eyes at her dramatic ness.

"What is that?" Snape asked moving closer to it.

"It's a T.V." Krystal said sounding bored.

"What does it do?"

"You sound like us, asking questions about magical things." Raven laughed. "It's a form of entertainment."

Snape decided that the conversation was best left off there. "Wait a second," Snape said walking over to the 'T.V.' "Electronic devices don't work at Hogwarts. They go haywire."

"Well, this one does, and now that we have one, Holly will not be torn away from it."

'Great,' thought Snape coldly to himself. 'This is just another thing lying around in my house that I don't need.'

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The days went by uneventfully for the next few weeks. Everyone had met the girls and fell instantly in love with them. The girls seemed to really like tormenting Snape too. On this uneventful day in late August, Snape sat in a leather chair in his living room reading the 'Daily Prophet' He couldn't bring himself to concentrate on the paper though, now that so many questions were zooming around in his mind.

Like how did the T.V. work in Hogwarts? Are the girls squibs? Are the witches? Why haven't they started school? Why didn't Jasmine tell him she was pregnant? How come Jasmine never told the girls she was a witch? Where did she go all those years?

What had he done to screw up the relationship with Jasmine?

That was the question that bothered him the most. He didn't know what went wrong. One day Jasmine decided that it just wasn't working out between them and she left his apartment and never talked to him again. Snape set down the paper as he remembered what happened that day...

"Severus, we need to talk." Jasmine has said entering the living room of his apartment.

"About what, Jazz?" He had answered putting down the paper.

"About us." She said not looking him in the eyes.

Snape wasn't expecting that one, anything but that. "Us?" he asked uncertainly.

"Yes," she said pacing around the couch. "I don't think this is going to work out between us."

Snape remembered almost crying. "What? Why?" he asked calmly. He was only calm around Jasmine; she had that effect on him.

"Because, there is just too much going on in this world. No one's safe, we're not safe being together."

"Jazz, I would die to protect you."

"But there may be a time, when you wouldn't be there, I don't want you getting hurt. It's for the best, Severus."

"Nothing's for the best when we're not together!" Snape said standing up.

Jasmine had backed up toward the wall. Her eyes glistened with unshed tears. "Severus..." she whispered. "I can't stay. I know he knows I'm here."

"He can't know." Snape had said trying to convince her to stay.

"He does. He'll kill us!" Jasmine had shouted at him.

"Then we'll be together in Heaven! Jasmine we have to be strong."

"Not US, but," she had started.

"Us who? If not us then who?" Snape shouted coming closer to Jasmine. She held her ground and started into his eyes. Her eyes were the prettiest things in the world according to Snape. They sparkled with happiness almost all the time and when she was sad they had a shine to them that made you get lost in them.

"Goodbye, Severus Snape." She had whispered gently kissing him on his lips. When she pulled away she was out the door before Snape could say anything.

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As Snape remembered this, he subconsciously put his fingertips to his lips remembering the soft butterfly kisses that Jasmine gave to only him. She was the only thing in his life that made him complete.

Tears had sprung to his eyes. Jasmine was gone forever now. But how had she gone? The letter didn't say. No it did. 'Unknown causes.' What did that mean? Before Snape could think about it more, there was a knock on the door. Snape angrily wiped away his tears so no one would see him crying. Snape didn't cry. "Come in," he said in a low crackly voice.

"Severus, are you alright?" Dumbledore's head appeared in the doorway.

"Yes, Headmaster." When Dumbledore was fully into the room, standing there looking at Snape, Snape continued, "What is it that you need Headmaster?"

Dumbledore smiled. "I wished to talk to you about the school year." Dumbledore came and sat on a couch opposite from Snape. "I wanted to talk to you about the girls."

"What about them?"

"It's just that I have found something interesting about them," Dumbledore said catching Snapes full attention.

"What did you find?" Snape said now sitting on the edge of his chair.

Dumbledore just smiled.

A/N: Aren't I evil? Ok well since I'm sure ya'll want to see what happens, I'll update soon. Less than a week I promise I wouldn't keep a cliffhanger like this out. So anyway Plz review!
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