A/N: Please for thoses few that are reading this story submit a review so I know that someone besides myself is enjoying it. I promise it will get more interesting later on in the later chapters. Right now it's a build up and a few flashbacks to help you readers understand the history Snape and Pendragon share.

Disclaimer: I do not now, in the past or in the future own Severus Snape, or the other characters in the harry Potter world. They were created by the wonderful JK Rowling, and for this I thank her and the creators of the other characters that are not my own. I only own Yalva Pendragon.

Chapter Two: Answers

The next morning everything was fairly normal, except for two people. Their minds and hearts each racing with questions they so longed and yet were afraid to ask each other. All they could do was steal glances at each other at the breakfast table, as the staff and students talked around them. Of course only one other seemed to notice the slightly different silence that hung over the two.

After the Great hall was clear of students, each of the professors and Headmistress left to the rooms that held their respected classes. So the questions and answers would have to wait, for now.

After a long day of students and breaks, Yalva and the rest of the school was free to relax where and how they so wished. Taking the steps up to the faculty lounge after dinner, she mentally braced herself for the questions she would be asked. Yet her heart still raced as she wondered if he would be there and would he ask any questions.

Since that morning Severus had been thinking about one person, A girl no a woman that had been brought into his life, so long ago. Still to this day he couldn't explain how or why, but he knew he was thankful for the god or gods that had brought her to the school eight years ago.

Severus had been the first to reach the faculty lounge, and to the amazement of the other Professors that rarely saw him in here. Normally he chose to stay in his office during the times he was not in his Potions and DADA class, only coming here for staff meetings.
He sat more towards the back and in the shadows that occupied the room, which was ok with the others since they knew he clung to the darkness of the world as if it was a cloak or his brother.

All heads turned as the door slowly opened and there with a slight smile on her face, a rose hew to her cheeks and her eyes dancing with a magical shimmer that would have made any of the finest gems jealous, Yalva stood in the doorway in silence as she looked to each of the faces of the Professors and the Headmistress. She knew he was among them, some how she could feel the warmth from his body, she could hear his breathing that was so different from the others. But most of all she could hear and feel the beating of his heart slow as if something had stunned him or was calming him.

Professor Lily Fairydust, the school's resident fairy stood and walked over to the young woman she had watched grow up. Taking her arm she whispered. 'You might want to come and sit down before he gets worried and they get suspicious.' She then helped Yalva over to a chair. Yalva nodded thanks to the professor as she sat down.

"Now I promised to answer the questions you all had. So I guess the only thing I can say is let the questions begin."

"What have you been doing since you left Hogwarts?" Professor Delia was the first to speak up.

"Well I returned to Italy, and began to help my father with his work on Dragons. So only a month after returning home I was off to Romania, then to South America, and many other interesting places. Plus I used the traveling to collecting things I could use in discovering new potions, perfumes and other things."

Yalva noticed that a smile had creped up on Severus's face when she mentioned her discovering new potions. She was betting he would love to find out about them, if he hadn't all ready.

"So why did you agreed to come back if you had such an interesting lifestyle already? I mean you had a direct line to fame and fortune."

Yalva chuckled; of course Gilderoy would be the one to mention fame and fortune. "Gilderoy, My dear friend. I need not fortune because I am to inherit my family's riches and estates. And I can still reach fame by discovering things and teach students."

The questions went on and on the headmistress asked about her father and herself, how they were doing. Professor Fairydust asked about the cultures and people Yalva got to spend time around. Yalva did her best to answer them, finally after some time the Headmistress and the other professors left to turn in for the night. Yalva herself stood up after the last professor left she walked over tot eh door and stopped as a voice pierced the atmosphere of the room.

"Why did you come back, Yalva?" Yalva felt a shiver run through her body as soon as the husky voice said her name. She smiled as she remembered the many times he had said it before, it still had the same effect and he still said it with the same tone in his voice.

"I came back become PAD asked me too. Besides I loved the idea of teaching the students about a creature I hold so dear." She turned around to face the direct his voice had originated from.

"Do you still change into one of these creatures?" He asked as he moved from the chair to stand close to where she was standing.

Yalva looked up into his eyes, she knew what he meant; the curse that had been placed on her family many centuries ago. A curse he had helped her to see as a gift. A gift she now used to help farther her and her father's research.

"Yes, I still change into the Silver-tail dragon. But she has aged just as I have." She gave him her soft charming smile. She still remembered the night they had gone flying and he had pointed out that just maybe her curse was not truly a curse but a gift in disguise.

"I'm glad, I miss our night time flights, and the lullabies she would sing to me." He gave her a smile that was only for her. A smile she had uncovered.

"Dear Severus, I must return to my room." She gave him a wink as she began to turn the door's knob.

"Ahh then allow me to escort you back, My Lady" Severus presented his arm to the young ebony haired beauty, but on his face was a mixture of a smile and a sneer.

Taking Severus's arm she allowed him to lead her back down to the dungeons. As they walked she talked about her travels, her home and some of the potions she had discovered.

Severus listened in silence as she spoke, he could see the joy and excitement held deep within her dark green eyes. He smirked at the mention of the potions she had discovered. He remembered her days as a student in his potion classes. She was the top student in the classes. He had even added a potion she had discovered over the summer to one of his higher classes.

Upon reaching her chamber door she turned dot look at him. "Goodnight Severus and thank you for everything." She gave him a smile and another quick kiss on his cheek, before she disappeared behind the dark wooden door.

Severus returned to his room, but along the way he caught a first year out side of his common room. Sneering at the student he walked up behind the boy that was trying to hide behind a statue. "What do you think you're doing outside of your common room? It is past your curfew, return to your Common room tomorrow night report directly to the caretaker after the dinner meal." With a sneer her watched the boy run off to the Hufflepuff common room.

Yalva walked to her private bathing chambers. She smiled as she looked at the candles that lined the back and side of the roman stoned tub she had created in her room on the night she had first arrived on her return to the school. Removing her Professor robes, she slipped into a dark green silk robe that had a Slytherin house crest over the left breast area. Slipping her now bare slender feet into a pair of fuzzy slippers she walked back into the bathing chambers.

Sitting on the edge of the tub she turned the water on and to a temperature that would help her relax but that would not be too hot to burn. She sprinkled the top of the water with the petals of the Jade rose, poured in some purple colored liquid that smelled like the small fairy kissed lavender flower.

After shutting the water off she stood up and untied the belt on her robe. Letting the silk fabric slide down over the curves of her slender yet exotic body, she stepped out of her slipped and walked up the stone steps that lead up to the tub. Stepping carefully into the hot water a sigh of content was released. Laying her head back she allowed the hot water to massage the tension that held her muscles prisoner, free. Closing her eyes she drifted into a light slumber. A cat or in Yalva's case a dragon's nap.