-----Chapter 6-----

Falweather sat very still for a few minutes, then stood and walked over to Albus.

"Headmaster, I cannot believe that you would allow a vampire in this school...it is a danger to the students!"

"Severus has been with us for eighteen years and I have yet to have a report against him for something like that."

"Well, wait...what did you say? Professor Snape is..." Falweather went quite pale. "I was talking about the child."

"Ah well, I can't expect that she'll attack anyone. She seems perfectly harmless to me." Albus said, looking pointedly at Sela who had crawled under a table and was reading the graffiti carved there by thousands of students. Falweather grumbled and went back to her work.

"RW was here, 1998, The Marauders - 1975, Pansy Parkinson is a...oooooooh, they're baaad." Sela said crawling back out and going under a different table.

"CD + CC, ES rules the world - 1978, Mary."

She crawled out from under the Hufflepuff table and went under the Slytherin table.

"LM - 1976, GS 1922, what's this?" Sela scooted around to get a better view. "It's a piece of paper." She picked at a corner of it and it began to come free. She tugged gently on the corner and it peeled off entirely.

"What did you destroy this time?" Severus asked, annoyed.

"It's a piece of paper with a dragon on it. It has some sort of inscription, see?" she put it on top of his lesson plans. Severus glanced at it, then picked it up.

"What does it say? What does it SAY?" Sela demanded, prancing on the bench opposite Severus.

"It says, "Beware those who would face the Dragon's Wrath"." Severus said shortly.

"Oh. Does it say anything else?"

"Nothing that concerns you." Severus snapped folding the paper and putting it into his pocket. Sela stuck out her tongue at him.

"You're mean." She said.

"I know. It's my job." Severus said scribbling another line onto his lesson plans.

"When do the other people get here?" Sela asked after about ten minutes of silence.

"This Sunday."

Sela watched the kitten flap it's wings wildly. She picked him up.

"I'm trying to name the kitten. Dragonhead?"

"Mew."

"Zombie?"

"Mew."

"Icarus?"

"Mew"

Sela sighed.

"Why don't you just call it "Stupid cat that meows too much?" Severus said without looking up from what he was doing.

Sela narrowed her eyes at him.

"Vamptor?"

Silence greeted her newest attempt at a name. The kitten looked at her with a devious gleam in his eye.

Sela climbed up on the table holding the kitten above her head.

"I've named the kitten! VAMPTOR!" she yelled. The kitten flapped wildly.

"I suppose you know what that means don't you?" Falweather said smugly.

"Um, no. I just said it and he liked it..."

"It means "Vampire." Falweather laughed. "I don't think you'll miss the irony in that."

Sela lowered the kitten and looked at him. "A cat named Vampire...pet of a vampire...I think it's cute!" Sela said. Severus looked up at her standing on the table.

"Isn't that sweet." he said.

"Really? Sela asked him.

Severus shook his head. "No."

"You didn't get hugged much as a child did you?" Sela said. She sat down on the table.