Disclaimer: I am almost feeling sorry for JK...I hope she never sees what I have put her boys through.
Rating: Bizarre
A/N: My darling boy finally uploaded the drawing of Viper if you want to see it the address is in my bio under homepage.
Chapter 13 oooh unlucky number 13
Snape gave up trying to grade papers. He stared into his office's fireplace wishing he could get her damnable face out of his head. 'She is going to drive me insane.' He rose out of his chair and walked into his personal potion lab. As he was debating which sleeping potion to use he heard a knock on the door. Growling he made his way to his desk.
"Come in." The words came out as a snarl and the door hesitantly opened.
"Severus...I need to talk to you." Snape's face softened at the sound of Draco's voice and he motioned for the boy to sit in the other chair. Snape waited patiently for Draco to organize his thoughts enough to speak. "I think I might not hate Potter anymore. I think it has something to do with that Viper." Snape stiffened at the sound of his tormentor's name.
"She has power over emotions?"
"I don't think so. I just think she did something to push us together."
"That means there would have had to be something there already." Snape looked at Draco a small smile flitted over his face
"You are taking this rather well. I thought you would well disown me or something." Draco looked as if he were about to lose 50 house points for breathing wrong.
"Dumbledore has informed me of your predicament. I can't say that at first I wasn't surprised, but upon reflection I realized it was perhaps for the best."
"Is this your polite way of saying my problems are hard but you have some yourself so you aren't particularly concerned with whomever I involve myself in as long as I don't end up making things harder on you?" Draco's eyes gleamed with humor as his godfather's head nodded.
"Now if you wouldn't mind get out." Draco sighed and left the office.
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"Hey Seamus!" Ron's voice rolled over the hallway and Seamus turned around to see Ron jogging up to him. "Have you seen Hermoine about? I checked the library and the common room already with no luck."
Seamus shook his head. "I haven't seen her mate; maybe she is doing some extra work for McGonagall. That being said I need to hurry and not miss my detention with Madame Hooch." Seamus turned again and walked out to the Quiddich pitch.
'How odd. I guess I can always talk to her during dinner.' Ron sighed and made his way back to the common room wondering how he was going to finish his Transfiguration essay without Hermoine to help him out.
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Hermoine was actually in the Forbidden Forest. She knew she wasn't supposed to be there but she just couldn't stay away from the glade were she found the most wondrous thing ever. She heaved a sigh when she realized the time unwilling to step away from the faerie home. 'I hope that they will stay even if a human has found their house.' She got to her feet just missing the slight sound behind her in the noise of her movement.
"Hello there, little girl. You go to that school over there do you not?" A soft spoken voice sounded from over her left shoulder. Hermoine whirled around whisking out her wand as she did so.
"Who are you?" Her voice sounded steadier than she thought it would.
"My name is Uasi. I am a friend of Viper's. I really must talk to her." Hermoine paused and really looked at the intruder. He looked about 6'4 with yellow-green eyes and very dark bronze skin. Her eyes flitted over his well tone body from the tips of his worn brown boots, up his dark green pants over his lighter green shirt and finally to his chin length blonde hair with green streaks running through it. She smiled.
"Come this way." She never saw the faerie house transform back into an old tree stump.
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She felt him coming. Slowly step by step as he got closer her anger grew. He wasn't supposed to come back. He would make her remember what she tried so hard to forget. He would make her remember what she really was. She could hear him now. Entering the school from the huge oak doors, following that mortal girl that Harry happened to be so fond of. She could hardly bear it. She always hated waiting. Finally the door to the common room opened and everyone in it went silent. He had arrived.
"Viper." The word was barely whispered yet it resounded around the room as if he had shouted. She shielded her expression and turned around.
"Their golem hardly did you justice." Hermoine shivered at the barely concealed anger in Viper's voice. She was regretting bringing the stranger here.
"This has to stop Viper. Your grandfather would be proud of your actions for the past couple of years." Uasi tried keeping calm it was becoming harder as she continued to stare at him.
"Remember what happened last time you mentioned him? Do you want me to make this castle into no more than a ruined fortress of ghosts?"
"No, I...I don't want you to do that. We need to talk. There are some things that you need to know."
"Just give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you...again." The room was as silent as a tomb as everyone was bonded into complete stillness. Viper's fangs gleamed in the firelight, her threat hung ominously in the thick air.
"Your grandfather made another child." Viper's eyes widened.
"Another one like me?"
"Not quite...This time he used," Uasi paused unsure if he should continue. "He used a water nymph and a wood elf." A low unearthly laughter came tumbling from Viper's lips.
"He expects to make another like me out of a nymph and an elf?"
"I am sure he had his reasons." Uasi went to sit in one of the chairs. "If you wanted you could send him a reproving letter telling him how disappointed you are in him." His slow drawl brought out a slight smile from Viper.
"I killed you once. Don't make me repeat myself."
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"Where is Harry?" Viper had calmed down enough to notice that her favorite human was not in attendance.
"Oh I suspect he is still moping around in his room. He has been like that ever since after breakfast when he went up there and Malfoy had gone." Ron said from the corner where he was playing chess with Dean."
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Harry slapped the hand that had been shaking him awake. He happened to be enjoying sleeping with his arms wrapped around Draco and was in no mood to be pulled from said activity.
"Harry if you do not get up right now you are seriously going to regret it." Viper's voice was menacing almost as if she were about to snap with rage. Harry opened one eye and came fully awake. Viper was a body of flame, the only thing that remained of her former shape were her black eyes floating in the midst of the fiery form, her light flooded over the faces of all the upper classmen Gryffindors. He unwound his arms from Draco's body noticing for the first time that he did not seem to be alive. Harry backed out of the bed so quickly that he landed with a thump on the floor.
"What happened to him?"
"It isn't a him anymore." Harry looked at Viper confusion clearly stamped into his green eyes. Viper moved to the bed and placed her burning palm onto Draco's forehead.
"No!" Harry screamed and lunged towards the bed. Ron and Seamus jumped to Harry and held him back twisting his arms behind him. A crack appeared in Draco's skull exposing the gray matter that made up his brain. Hermoine and several others began to feel sick watching Draco's brain ooze out from the ravine on his forehead. Viper stopped burning and searched through the matter with an expressionless face. Harry slumped to the floor he remained on his knees unable to look away from the horrible spectacle. Viper's fingers came to a halt as evidently they found what they were looking for. She pulled out a small silver box with runes engraved all over it. "Damn." Everyone jumped slightly as the word came out of her lips. The only other noises in the room were Harry's spasmodic sobs.
A/N: Don't hate me please!