Nissa walked into the Great Hall with Remus, they were both dressed in new
robes; they walked up to the staff table where most of the teachers were
already sat. Nissa smiled at Severus as she sat down next to him and Remus
on her other side.
"So Sev how was your summer?" Nissa asked him. "We didn't see you once."
Severus looked at her, he had given in years ago letting her call him Sev; but she was the only one who was aloud to call him that.
"I guess it was alright." Severus answered. "And I have been busy with you know what."
"Oh right, how is that coming?" Remus asked leading forward so that he could see him.
"Not as good as I would like." Severus admitted, but they stopped talking about it as the students started to piled into the hall talking loudly.
"Remus guess what?" Nissa said excitedly turning back round.
"What?" Remus said smiling.
"Harry, he called us mum and dad today." Nissa said. "You should have seen Sirius' face, he was so chuffed. I know that he cares a lot about James and Lily and would never want to take their place, but we..."
"They would be pleased that the two of you are looking after him that was why they made you his godparents." Remus told her.
"I know that, it's just...with him calling us mum and dad...oh I don't know." Nissa said.
"Nissa, he loves you and Sirius as he would his mum and dad; that's why he wants to call you that." Remus told her. "And I'm sure that James and Lily wouldn't mind, he knows who they are doesn't he?"
"Yes of course." Nissa said.
"Right then." Remus said and then looked out over the tables, Harry and Cassandra were sat with their best friends; they waved at them. And both Nissa and Remus waved back at them.
After the feast was over, Nissa and Remus made their way through the crowd to talk to Cassy, Harry and their friends.
"Mum!" Cassy shouted. "Oh sorry, Professor Black and Professor Lupin."
"Personally I don't know why you changed your name." Severus said as he walked past them, Nissa turned round suddenly.
"I didn't if you remember, but Dumbledore thought it best that I go by Professor Black." Nissa told him.
"What ever." Severus said making his way through the students with ease, because they just moved out of his way not wanting to cross him.
"I'll see you in the morning then Sev!" Nissa shouted after him, making the student around them laugh; but stopped when he glared at them.
"I still can't believe that you're still friends after all these years." Remus said.
"You mean a Gryffindor and a Slytherin getting along; anything is possible." Nissa told him brightly, and then linked his arm. "He's alright really; he's a good man deep down."
Remus looked at her as though she was mad. "Don't you remember after the two of you got married, that wasn't an accident, please he almost killed Sirius."
"But he didn't, and everyone was fine." Nissa said as they started to walk.
"Yeah all because you stopped it all from happening, with that magic that you're not supposed to use." Remus said smiling at her.
Cassy and Harry came forward at this point, over hearing what they were talking about.
"What do you mean, magic that you're not supposed to use?" Cassy asked her.
"We've never seen any of this, have we?" Harry asked excitedly.
"It doesn't matter, and if I'm not supposed to use it; that I'm not going to use it in front of you all." Nissa told them firmly.
"Just the Marauders." Remus said smiling.
"What then why can't we know, we're way more sensible then what we've heard about them." Harry said stopping in front of them.
"That's why, too sensible." Remus told him smiling still.
"Thank you Remus, you're not helping." Nissa told him. "Matter over and done with, is that clear. And I know that you'll still want to ask questions, but another time; now go to your common room and bed."
"Good night mum, good night uncle Remus!" Methos shouted from the stairs, he just saw Snape. "And good night uncle Sev!"
Severus stopped and turned round.
"I'll talk to him, though really you should take it as an complement." Nissa told him before she carried on with Remus.
"Good night mum, I can call you that right?" Harry said.
"Of course you can dear if you want too." Nissa told him and then hugged him, he didn't mind as much as the others being hugged in public; though it was different for him because they weren't his real parents.
"Good night uncle Remus." Harry said before he walked off with Ron.
"Yeah good night Remus." Ron said.
"Good night mum, good night uncle Remus." Cassy said hugging them both.
***
Next morning Nissa got up and got dressed early and went down to the dungeons, the school was empty because everyone was still in bed. She knocked on Severus' office door, and only had to wait a minute before he opened it.
"Morning Sev." Nissa said brightly, but he wasn't as cheerful which of course wasn't anything new. He stepped aside so that she could past, she smiled at him as she walked in and over to his desk where she sat down on the chair in front. "So why aren't you your cheerful self, I can sometimes get a smiled from you; but it didn't work this morning."
He smiled at her, but it wasn't a friendly smile so she smiled cautiously back at him.
"What's there to be cheerful about?" Severus asked her as he sat down on the other side.
"What do you mean; you said that it was going alright." Nissa said. "Unless Infidus as said anything?"
"No he hasn't, he doesn't seem to care that much; well he doesn't seem too." Severus told her. "But that's it; it's like you sometimes I can't get anything from you as though you're hiding from me."
Nissa smiled at him slightly. "I know this isn't what you want to hear, but it is because I'm hiding part of myself; but it isn't just from you but everyone. You know that I'm different, so is Infidus not completely like me but still different."
"What about Sirius, I bet that you told him everything about you haven't you?" Severus demanded.
"Severus you really do need to learn to calm down." Nissa told him. "And to your question, no he doesn't know everything; he knows a lot but not everything. And he knows that."
"Yes well if you were my wife I would want to know everything there was to know about you." Severus told her.
She smiled at him and lent on the desk. "If I was your wife? If I remember correctly you never asked me out once, and you did have more then one chance. Let me think, let me think..."
...Sirius looked at his watch and then out of the window and then back at his watch.
"Do you think it will be over yet?" Sirius asked.
"It could be why don't we go down and meet him?" Remus suggested.
"Yeah we can get a bit of practise in our selves before class." Sirius added, Peter pulled his face but still followed them anyway.
They made their way down to the entrance hall passing a couple of the other team member's, James spotted them and ran up the steps towards them with his broom still in his hand, he pulled them back into the shadow's.
"What the hell are you doing, have you gone mad?" Sirius asked and tried to get pass him but James pulled him back.
"Michael and Nissa are coming." James told him.
"I don't want to watch them, together." Sirius told him and tried to get out again, but James still kept a firm grip on him.
They all fell silent as Michael and Nissa walked through the great doors hand in hand, Nissa though was looking around as though looking for somewhere to escape too.
"We should have gone for a walk; no one would have missed us." Michael told her.
"I've got class, north tower you know." Nissa said.
Michael rounded on her and grabbed hold of her other hand, but Nissa stepped back but he followed, she hit the wall and he was inches away from her.
"There's no where to go." Michael said softly and then led in to kiss her.
Nissa kissed him back thinking that it wasn't so bad, but it only lasted for a moment. He stopped kissing her and then flew across the hall and hit the wall and slumped down to the ground. Nissa looked at him and started to walk over to make sure he was alright, but she stopped and looked up to see who had done it.
"Severus!" Nissa said sounding very surprised.
He was glaring down at Michael who was trying to get to his feet and still had his wand pointed directly at him, she turned and started up to Severus. Michael was outraged, this wasn't happening to him. He pulled out his wand and pointed it Severus but he was too quick, and before Nissa could stop Severus, Michael was flying back into the wall and painful bleeding boils were erupting all over his face and body.
Nissa ran up to the steps and grabbed hold of Severus and tried to take his wand off of him. None of them could hear James, Sirius, Remus and Peter laughing in the broom-cupboard.
"Severus, you shouldn't have done that." Nissa told him still trying to get his wand off of him. "Why?"
"What about me!" Michael shouted, making both Nissa and Severus stop and look over at him.
"I'm sorry Michael, but I can't leave him. I'm sure that you'll be able to get to the hospital wing." Nissa told him and then turned back to Severus and started to pull him along the corridor.
"What you're not coming with me?" Michael shouted after her.
"No she isn't!" Severus shouted down to him while Nissa pulled him away and Severus looking quit pleased with himself.
Michael slowly got to his feet and started to make his way on his own up to the hospital wing, talking to himself loudly. "I can't believe that bastard, and she left me. She's supposed to be going out with me!"
Sirius and James fell out of the cupboard laughing after Michael disappeared, Remus pushed Peter out before he could get out himself.
"I know I hate Snape and everything, but at less he's good for something." Sirius found himself saying, they talked about the whole thing over and over as they collected their things and headed with the rest of the class up to the north tower...
"Oh wait, I've got an even better one." Nissa said smiling at him.
... Severus went around to Nissa's as often as he could, to make sure she was alright and she sometimes came to his. She spent most of her time out of the house away from Infidus at the shop in the village keeping busy, which was where Severus and his friends often went to see her instead of the house.
"Why don't you just move in here?" Lestrange asked her leading on the counter. "You seem to spend more time here then at the house anyway."
Nissa didn't answer him, for the fact that she wouldn't have minded moving out but she was too young to do so, there was no point.
"So you've gone back to the blue look." Rosier commented.
"Much better then red, it's too Gryffindor." Avery agreed.
"I'm glad that you like it." Nissa said.
"I'm not sure that I do, I think I do like the red, or black." Severus suggested.
Nissa smiled at him. "I'll have to see what I can do for you when we get back to school then won't I."
"So that settles that." Rosier said to Avery.
"No it doesn't" Avery argued.
"Course it does." Rosier told him. "There was never any doubt."
"What are they talking about?" Nissa asked Lestrange.
"You two of course." Lestrange answered...
"Well and that's just two things that I can remember, though I'm sure there are more." Nissa told him.
"I can think of one thing that you didn't mention." Severus told her, but she knew what he was talking about. "That night, it meant more then you'll ever admit."
"Did it really?" Nissa said. "Then like I said maybe if you think that, then you should have done something about it then shouldn't you?"
Severus looked at her for a moment, she always got him like this so confused wondering what she really meant; was she telling him that she would have had him instead of Sirius if he would have done something about it, or was she just telling him that he lost out but there was never really a chance for them? He didn't have a clue, but he would figure her out if it was the last thing he ever did.
(A/N:- hey there, thanks for the reviews really glad that you like the story so far; and hoped that you liked this chapter as well. Next chapter coming soon to a computer near you!
Thanks to lazy Anji, really glad that you're enjoying the story and my other one as well. I'll try and update that one as well soon, but I've gone back to work now so I haven't got as much time; so just hang in their. And I hoped that your exam went alright the other day, and everything else.
And thanks to Hoku-aenan, wow thanks. The best fanfic you've ever read, that's something considering how many stories there are on the site; I just hope that the rest of the story can live up to that now.
"So Sev how was your summer?" Nissa asked him. "We didn't see you once."
Severus looked at her, he had given in years ago letting her call him Sev; but she was the only one who was aloud to call him that.
"I guess it was alright." Severus answered. "And I have been busy with you know what."
"Oh right, how is that coming?" Remus asked leading forward so that he could see him.
"Not as good as I would like." Severus admitted, but they stopped talking about it as the students started to piled into the hall talking loudly.
"Remus guess what?" Nissa said excitedly turning back round.
"What?" Remus said smiling.
"Harry, he called us mum and dad today." Nissa said. "You should have seen Sirius' face, he was so chuffed. I know that he cares a lot about James and Lily and would never want to take their place, but we..."
"They would be pleased that the two of you are looking after him that was why they made you his godparents." Remus told her.
"I know that, it's just...with him calling us mum and dad...oh I don't know." Nissa said.
"Nissa, he loves you and Sirius as he would his mum and dad; that's why he wants to call you that." Remus told her. "And I'm sure that James and Lily wouldn't mind, he knows who they are doesn't he?"
"Yes of course." Nissa said.
"Right then." Remus said and then looked out over the tables, Harry and Cassandra were sat with their best friends; they waved at them. And both Nissa and Remus waved back at them.
After the feast was over, Nissa and Remus made their way through the crowd to talk to Cassy, Harry and their friends.
"Mum!" Cassy shouted. "Oh sorry, Professor Black and Professor Lupin."
"Personally I don't know why you changed your name." Severus said as he walked past them, Nissa turned round suddenly.
"I didn't if you remember, but Dumbledore thought it best that I go by Professor Black." Nissa told him.
"What ever." Severus said making his way through the students with ease, because they just moved out of his way not wanting to cross him.
"I'll see you in the morning then Sev!" Nissa shouted after him, making the student around them laugh; but stopped when he glared at them.
"I still can't believe that you're still friends after all these years." Remus said.
"You mean a Gryffindor and a Slytherin getting along; anything is possible." Nissa told him brightly, and then linked his arm. "He's alright really; he's a good man deep down."
Remus looked at her as though she was mad. "Don't you remember after the two of you got married, that wasn't an accident, please he almost killed Sirius."
"But he didn't, and everyone was fine." Nissa said as they started to walk.
"Yeah all because you stopped it all from happening, with that magic that you're not supposed to use." Remus said smiling at her.
Cassy and Harry came forward at this point, over hearing what they were talking about.
"What do you mean, magic that you're not supposed to use?" Cassy asked her.
"We've never seen any of this, have we?" Harry asked excitedly.
"It doesn't matter, and if I'm not supposed to use it; that I'm not going to use it in front of you all." Nissa told them firmly.
"Just the Marauders." Remus said smiling.
"What then why can't we know, we're way more sensible then what we've heard about them." Harry said stopping in front of them.
"That's why, too sensible." Remus told him smiling still.
"Thank you Remus, you're not helping." Nissa told him. "Matter over and done with, is that clear. And I know that you'll still want to ask questions, but another time; now go to your common room and bed."
"Good night mum, good night uncle Remus!" Methos shouted from the stairs, he just saw Snape. "And good night uncle Sev!"
Severus stopped and turned round.
"I'll talk to him, though really you should take it as an complement." Nissa told him before she carried on with Remus.
"Good night mum, I can call you that right?" Harry said.
"Of course you can dear if you want too." Nissa told him and then hugged him, he didn't mind as much as the others being hugged in public; though it was different for him because they weren't his real parents.
"Good night uncle Remus." Harry said before he walked off with Ron.
"Yeah good night Remus." Ron said.
"Good night mum, good night uncle Remus." Cassy said hugging them both.
***
Next morning Nissa got up and got dressed early and went down to the dungeons, the school was empty because everyone was still in bed. She knocked on Severus' office door, and only had to wait a minute before he opened it.
"Morning Sev." Nissa said brightly, but he wasn't as cheerful which of course wasn't anything new. He stepped aside so that she could past, she smiled at him as she walked in and over to his desk where she sat down on the chair in front. "So why aren't you your cheerful self, I can sometimes get a smiled from you; but it didn't work this morning."
He smiled at her, but it wasn't a friendly smile so she smiled cautiously back at him.
"What's there to be cheerful about?" Severus asked her as he sat down on the other side.
"What do you mean; you said that it was going alright." Nissa said. "Unless Infidus as said anything?"
"No he hasn't, he doesn't seem to care that much; well he doesn't seem too." Severus told her. "But that's it; it's like you sometimes I can't get anything from you as though you're hiding from me."
Nissa smiled at him slightly. "I know this isn't what you want to hear, but it is because I'm hiding part of myself; but it isn't just from you but everyone. You know that I'm different, so is Infidus not completely like me but still different."
"What about Sirius, I bet that you told him everything about you haven't you?" Severus demanded.
"Severus you really do need to learn to calm down." Nissa told him. "And to your question, no he doesn't know everything; he knows a lot but not everything. And he knows that."
"Yes well if you were my wife I would want to know everything there was to know about you." Severus told her.
She smiled at him and lent on the desk. "If I was your wife? If I remember correctly you never asked me out once, and you did have more then one chance. Let me think, let me think..."
...Sirius looked at his watch and then out of the window and then back at his watch.
"Do you think it will be over yet?" Sirius asked.
"It could be why don't we go down and meet him?" Remus suggested.
"Yeah we can get a bit of practise in our selves before class." Sirius added, Peter pulled his face but still followed them anyway.
They made their way down to the entrance hall passing a couple of the other team member's, James spotted them and ran up the steps towards them with his broom still in his hand, he pulled them back into the shadow's.
"What the hell are you doing, have you gone mad?" Sirius asked and tried to get pass him but James pulled him back.
"Michael and Nissa are coming." James told him.
"I don't want to watch them, together." Sirius told him and tried to get out again, but James still kept a firm grip on him.
They all fell silent as Michael and Nissa walked through the great doors hand in hand, Nissa though was looking around as though looking for somewhere to escape too.
"We should have gone for a walk; no one would have missed us." Michael told her.
"I've got class, north tower you know." Nissa said.
Michael rounded on her and grabbed hold of her other hand, but Nissa stepped back but he followed, she hit the wall and he was inches away from her.
"There's no where to go." Michael said softly and then led in to kiss her.
Nissa kissed him back thinking that it wasn't so bad, but it only lasted for a moment. He stopped kissing her and then flew across the hall and hit the wall and slumped down to the ground. Nissa looked at him and started to walk over to make sure he was alright, but she stopped and looked up to see who had done it.
"Severus!" Nissa said sounding very surprised.
He was glaring down at Michael who was trying to get to his feet and still had his wand pointed directly at him, she turned and started up to Severus. Michael was outraged, this wasn't happening to him. He pulled out his wand and pointed it Severus but he was too quick, and before Nissa could stop Severus, Michael was flying back into the wall and painful bleeding boils were erupting all over his face and body.
Nissa ran up to the steps and grabbed hold of Severus and tried to take his wand off of him. None of them could hear James, Sirius, Remus and Peter laughing in the broom-cupboard.
"Severus, you shouldn't have done that." Nissa told him still trying to get his wand off of him. "Why?"
"What about me!" Michael shouted, making both Nissa and Severus stop and look over at him.
"I'm sorry Michael, but I can't leave him. I'm sure that you'll be able to get to the hospital wing." Nissa told him and then turned back to Severus and started to pull him along the corridor.
"What you're not coming with me?" Michael shouted after her.
"No she isn't!" Severus shouted down to him while Nissa pulled him away and Severus looking quit pleased with himself.
Michael slowly got to his feet and started to make his way on his own up to the hospital wing, talking to himself loudly. "I can't believe that bastard, and she left me. She's supposed to be going out with me!"
Sirius and James fell out of the cupboard laughing after Michael disappeared, Remus pushed Peter out before he could get out himself.
"I know I hate Snape and everything, but at less he's good for something." Sirius found himself saying, they talked about the whole thing over and over as they collected their things and headed with the rest of the class up to the north tower...
"Oh wait, I've got an even better one." Nissa said smiling at him.
... Severus went around to Nissa's as often as he could, to make sure she was alright and she sometimes came to his. She spent most of her time out of the house away from Infidus at the shop in the village keeping busy, which was where Severus and his friends often went to see her instead of the house.
"Why don't you just move in here?" Lestrange asked her leading on the counter. "You seem to spend more time here then at the house anyway."
Nissa didn't answer him, for the fact that she wouldn't have minded moving out but she was too young to do so, there was no point.
"So you've gone back to the blue look." Rosier commented.
"Much better then red, it's too Gryffindor." Avery agreed.
"I'm glad that you like it." Nissa said.
"I'm not sure that I do, I think I do like the red, or black." Severus suggested.
Nissa smiled at him. "I'll have to see what I can do for you when we get back to school then won't I."
"So that settles that." Rosier said to Avery.
"No it doesn't" Avery argued.
"Course it does." Rosier told him. "There was never any doubt."
"What are they talking about?" Nissa asked Lestrange.
"You two of course." Lestrange answered...
"Well and that's just two things that I can remember, though I'm sure there are more." Nissa told him.
"I can think of one thing that you didn't mention." Severus told her, but she knew what he was talking about. "That night, it meant more then you'll ever admit."
"Did it really?" Nissa said. "Then like I said maybe if you think that, then you should have done something about it then shouldn't you?"
Severus looked at her for a moment, she always got him like this so confused wondering what she really meant; was she telling him that she would have had him instead of Sirius if he would have done something about it, or was she just telling him that he lost out but there was never really a chance for them? He didn't have a clue, but he would figure her out if it was the last thing he ever did.
(A/N:- hey there, thanks for the reviews really glad that you like the story so far; and hoped that you liked this chapter as well. Next chapter coming soon to a computer near you!
Thanks to lazy Anji, really glad that you're enjoying the story and my other one as well. I'll try and update that one as well soon, but I've gone back to work now so I haven't got as much time; so just hang in their. And I hoped that your exam went alright the other day, and everything else.
And thanks to Hoku-aenan, wow thanks. The best fanfic you've ever read, that's something considering how many stories there are on the site; I just hope that the rest of the story can live up to that now.