Globes & Maps

Chapter Three
Now You Want To Talk

And all I wanna do is look at you
And know I'm OK
...Bad Day

"David!" Ginny called from their kitchen, where she was busy cooking lunch, "Where's the salt?" She left her wand stirring the pot on the stove and opened the nearest cabinet. Ginny and David had moved in together a month ago and she still didn't know where anything was in his -now their- apartment. Right now David was taking a shower and so Ginny was safe to use her wand for a few minutes. She sighed and closed that cabinet, opening the next one and rummaging around for the salt.

"Gin-baby it's in the cabinet by the fridge," said an amused voice from the doorway. "I've had to tell you that at least 20 times in the past week..." David's voice trailed off as his eyes fell on Ginny's wand, which was still stirring the soup.

Ginny followed his gaze to the stove. "Oh! I must've been stirring so hard that the spoon kept spinning." She walked quickly over to the pot and grabbed her wand and started to stir with it. Under her breath, Ginny muttered the spell to transfigure her wand into a spoon and then pulled it out of the broth. "You want to try it?"

David shook his head, water droplets flying everywhere. "No, I'm all right." He left the room and Ginny sighed, leaning back against the counter.

"That was a close one," she whispered to herself, but somehow Ginny couldn't get the strange look in David's eyes out of her head.

What's with me
And the way that I've been lately?
What's with you
And the way you make me feel?
...Inside the Pocket

Ginny entered their apartment that afternoon, balancing a bag of groceries on her hip, to hear voices coming from the living room. She narrowed her eyebrows, one voice she could recognize as David's, and the other seemed incredibly familiar. She eased open the door quietly but accidentally spoke out loud as soon as she saw who her boyfriend was talking to.

"SNAPE?!" What are you doing here?"

David whirled around. "How do you know Severus?"

Snape pursed his lips. "Oh dear. I certainly wasn't expectin this."

And no, I don't feel right
I can see but I've lost my sight
...Ben Franklin's Kite

"So you two are dating?" Snape asked, pointing his finger first at Ginny and then moving it to David.

"Yeah," David answered. "Why?"

Snape sunk down onto th eir couch. "Out of all the people in the world, the two of you had to pick each other to go off and shag?"

David still looked confused. "But I don't understand. How could you know Snape, Gin?"

"I could ask the same of you," Ginny replied. "Well isn't this just grand? We're both confused and it seems as though old Snivellus here is the only one who knows everything."

Snape grimaced at Ginny's use of h is old nickname but sighed. "David, you called me here because you had suspicions that your girlfriend was a witch. Oh come on, Ginny," he smirked at the look on Ginny's face, "don't look so shocked, we won't expose you."

Ginny shut her mouth. "I know I can trust you but him, too?" She jerked her thumb at David, who was standing next to her.

"He won't tell anyone because if he does, he would have to admit that he himself is a wizard, also."

"What!?" Ginny whirled around to face David, "How come you never told me?" she half-shouted, forgetting that she herself had never told him.

David opened his mouth to speak but Snape spoke first. "Perhaps he has the same reason you do."

And it's not what it seems
Nothing's the same when you give it away
No, it's not what it seems
It's just what you think it is
...Not What it Seems

"What do you mean?"

"Perhaps you were both sent to America to hide," Snape replied calmly. "Perhaps that was why neither of you told the other what you really were."

Ginny opened and closed her mouth several times before finally managing to speak. "But- so you don't really look like you look now?"

"No," David shook his head. "This isn't my real name either."

"I want to see who he really is," Ginny told Snape stubbornly. "You can change us back right?"

Snape nodded slowly. "Are you sure you want to do this?"

Ginny met David's eyes and he nodded. "Yes," she agreed, "And I want him to see who I am, too."

"All right." One of Snape's eyebrows rose up. "This should be quite interesting."

Don't forget I'll hold your head
Watch the night sky fading red
...As You Sleep


David stepped forward. "I'll go first."

The corner of Snape's mouth twitched upward. He pulled out his wand from underneath the black robes he was wearing and pointed it at Ginny's boyfriend, muttering "Cambiarpersona." And then, before Ginny's eyes, David's brown hair turned a bleach blonde and lengthened, his blue eyes turned grey, and his height grew by about 3 inches.

Ginny stared, her wide eyes not blinking for several seconds. "No way. There is no way that you are who I think you are."

"Ginny," Snape started to say, "This is-"

"I know who it is," Ginny interrupted. "I'm going to go out for a while now, and I'd better not have either of you two trying to follow me." She walked to the door, grabbing her keys and with her hand on the doorknob, she turned around one last time. "Not you, Snape. Nor you, Draco Malfoy."

And you don't wanna look much closer
'Cause you're afraid to find out all this hope
You had send into the sky by now had crashed
And it did
Because of me
...Konstantine