Torn Between Two Loves

Severus Snape had a secret which no one alive knows, but it won't be a secret for much longer as his past is about to catch up with him.

Love is a powerful thing, and this love is powerful enough to bring Sirius Black back from the dead. But in doing so open's the past and tares his love apart, the love of two men which only have one thing in common, which their love for the same woman.

But who is really willing to give up everything for the one they love?

(This song is by 'Evanescence' off the album 'Fallen', I thought that this song was quit fitting to the story you will read.)

Taking Over Me

You don't remember me But I remember you I lie awake and try so hard Not to think of you But who can decide what they dream? And dream I do.

I believe in you I'll give up everything to find you I have to be with you to live to breathe You're taking over me

Have you forgotten all I know And all we had? You saw me mourning my love for you And touched my hand I knew you loved me then

I believe in you I'll give up everything just to find you I have to be with you to live to breathe You're taking over me

I look in the mirror and see your face If I look deep enough So many things inside that are Just like you taking over me.

I believe in you I'll give up everything just to find you I have to be with you to live breathe You're taking over me You're taking over me

(The love of their lives, is based of the character which I've used in my other stories, if you were wondering who she was.)

Bad News from an Old Friend

The sun was already high in the sky, summer was finally here and school was over for another year until September. Nissa Tiania walked into the shop carrying an arm full of books and drawings, with her bag hang under them all. She had brown hair red tints which shun brightly in the sun light, and brown eyes which seemed to flash red when the light hit them.

The shop wasn't yet open, though they were used to opening up without, considering that for most of the year she taught at Hollow Magical School; but she still designed for them while she was there.

The walls were covered; there were ranks full of clothes of all different kinds and colours. There were two manikins on either side of the window, dressed in full magical dress robes but with a modern twist.

The counter faced the door as soon as you walked in, there was a young girl stood behind it, though she was only sixteen years old. She had long black hair with golden high lights, she came round to the front of counter, and was wearing a long sleeved dress with an under dress which made it flow as she walked.
(Now that it was the summer holidays, the shop took on a couple of student's to teach them how to design and make up, Nissa had three shops and there was two student's in each of them.)

"Good morning." Nissa said brightly.

"Good morning Miss Tiania." Jesse said standing up straight.

Nissa smiled at her as she closed the door with her foot and walked over to the counter and put her things down on top of it.

"You can call me Nissa, now that we're out of school." Nissa told her pleasantly. "We'll start off in the back for a couple of days, and then I'll be giving you some orders for you to really design."

Claire came out of the back at the sound of voice, carrying a couple of books and scrolls. She had short blonde hair with a small pointed had sat o top, of her neatly cut hair.

Lindsey also came out beside of her, the other student from her school wanting to learn magic design.

"Morning Claire." Nissa said. "I'll be in the back for a couple of hours, and then I'll be back out here after dinner."

"That's fine; I've got Elizabeth coming in in-between then and eleven." Claire informed her. "Have got go any more in the other shops?"

"Yeah, four more in the other two shops." Nissa answered. "I'm sure I'll be able to juggle myself between all the shops, I do it normally. And if they need me, they can always send an owl."

Claire smiled kindly at her as Jesse passed her to pick up the things off the counter and take them into the back following Lindsey.

They all went into the larger back room, which had a window on the far wall and two desk at the other side of the room and a couple of manikins stood next to the wall, the rest of the room was free so there was enough room to work and move about; because they normally used this room for fitting's.

"Well then, this is going to be your new classroom while you're here." Nissa told them. "This is where we doing our designing at the shop and where we doing the fitting's." She walked over to her desk and pointed for them to sit down at the opposite one.

Their table was a lot lager then Nissa's mainly because there was two of the, the girls didn't think that it was going to be big enough for them until they sat down and realised that it was magic table which could change its size for who ever sat at it.

"You'll be doing your work in here, just like we do." Nissa told them. "Though sometimes of course we do take it home with us. Now then this room as I said is for fitting, it's when a costumer wants a personalised design a one off. We ask them what they want and what they like of course. Today you'll be designing, you have a couple of templates in front of you to use until you find one of your own which suits you best."

Nissa went on explaining what they had to do and what they would be doing over the summer, if they did choose to stay on. And if they did want to take up design after school. Then she let them get started on the work she had set them, which she stayed in the back doing her own; and also debating weather or not to write the letter she had been putting of for so long.

The bell rang a couple of times during the morning, and Nissa checked on them all going through a couple of times, well really to stretch her legs then anything; she couldn't just sit there for hours on end.

Just as Nissa had come back into the office after saying hello to Elizabeth, the bell rang and this time a man walked in.

Both Claire and Elizabeth eyed the man thinking the same thing, this man needed new clothes straight away if there had ever been any one who need them it was him; though he didn't really look as though he could afford them.

He had greying brown hair, tiered but caring blue eyes, set in a young face that had aged far too soon. He had a patched and holed jumped and corduroy trousers on which looked very worn.

He walked up to the counter and smiled at them both, and said pleasantly. "Good morning, can I please speak with Nissa Tiania?"

The two ladies looked at him and then at one another and then back at him, wondering who he was and how he knew Nissa; but they hadn't taken much of a liking to him by the way he was dressed. (Though they didn't seem to know that your not suppose to judge someone on looks alone.)

"I'm sure that one us can help, with what ever it is you need." Claire said as pleasantly as she could.

"I'm afraid that you can't, is Miss Tiania in today? Or is she at one of her other shops?" He asked them. "It is quit important that I speak to her as soon as possible."

The two ladies looked at one another again and then back at the man, they thought that he seemed very polite and everything, but they still thought he was being off with them because he wouldn't tell them why he wanted to speak with Nissa.

"Miss Tiania is a very busy woman." Claire told him. "If you give me your name and details. I will get Miss Tiania to deal with your order or what ever the matter is at her earliest conceivers."

He just looked at Claire unmoving as though he was going to wait for her to coming out and speak to him. Claire was just about to say something when Jesse came out of the back and he turned round and smiled at her.

"Morning, I was wondering of you could ask Miss Tiania to come out here please." He asked her very politely.

Jesse smiled at him. "Of course." She turned round and went back into the office.

She walked over to Nissa's desk who looked up when she realised that she was standing over her, she bent down and whispered so that the man outside couldn't hear her.

"Miss Tiania, I mean Nissa, what ever." Jesse said as Nissa smiled at her slightly. "There's this odd looking man outside asking after you.

Nissa looked at her as did Lindsey. "He didn't say who he was then. So what does he look like then?"

"Old, but cute in his own way. And he needs new clothes." Jesse answered.

"This is a clothes shop." Lindsey reminded her.

This didn't really help Nissa figure who the man was, he could be anyone. She thought that she would have to would on that with the girls some time that week. She stood up and went to find out who it was, as did Jesse and Lindsey.

Nissa stopped in the doorway looking at them, he turned round and smiled at her, but it wasn't the normally way he smiled at her. But she didn't care, she was to happy to be seeing him here, he had been the last person in all the world though she shouldn't have thought that considering the pass couple of years; with the most unlikely of people turning up and surprising her.

They both smiled at one another without saying anything, and then without warning Nissa walked over to him and hugged him tightly, which at once he hugged her back. Though this surprised the others, because she wasn't really the sort to go around hugging people; and with this man of people, they wondered how they knew each other.

"It's wonderful to see you Remus, its been far to long." Nissa told him smiling and taking him by the arm. "Come in."

They both walked passed the quit speechless women and back into her office. Nissa let go of him and turned round still smiling brightly at him, though he wasn't smiling.

"So how are you?" Nissa asked. "Is Sirius with you? He knows that I don't that much about him being, is it snuffles?"

Remus looked sadly at her and then stepped forward, but Nissa stepped away from him as though she knew what he was going to tell her.

"No, that can't be why you're here." Nissa struggled to say.

"I'm so sorry." Remus told her and reached out for her again, but again she moved away from him.

"No, he can't be." Nissa told him. "He just can't be, its Sirius, Sirius Black. He just." But Nissa didn't finish as the tears leak out and Remus took him in her arms and held her tightly as she cried until she could cry no more.

It hurt her so much more because she hadn't seen Sirius in nearly two years when he was on the run from the Ministry of Magic, but before that it had been twelve years, but she had still let him back in and into her house. She knew that Remus would know this as well because they had been best friends since they had started at Hogwarts and told each other everything.

Remus sat her down as he collected her things, so that he could take her home. She sat there unaware of what was going on as he told Claire that he was taking home because she had just received some bad news. And of course he couldn't tell them what it was. They reluctantly let him take her home.