Dumbledore smiled. Everyone looked so nice tonight. The ball was going beautifully, and the students looked happy. Even the faculty looked excited for tonight, especially a one potions master. He kept looking towards the door, and seemed nervous. It looked as though he was restraining a smile, and he kept twitching his finger.
"Um, Headmaster," he started.
"Yes Severus, you can invite your lady friend in and you two can leave early if you want to," Dumbledore told him.
"Thank you," Severus said, and then went to retrieve his "lady friend".
Dumbledore smile, all was going well. Severus was dancing with a woman in all black, who had an elegant look to her. She smiled all the time Severus was around her, and even Severus cracked a smile once. Severus whispered something to her, and she nodded excitedly. He led her away, and this made Dumbledore smile even more.
Ah, Kyla indeed had come. She removed all of the bows that were originally on Sarah's dress, but then again, Sarah never did like the bows. Dumbledore remembered when he first saw Sarah in that dress. It was many years ago, at a dance similar to this.
Sarah had walked in with some Hufflepuff. She knew that both Dumbledore and Danniel like her, and she didn't want to hurt either of them, so when ever anything that need a date had come up, she already had one. Sarah's dress was covered in bows of all sizes; she was constantly pulling at them when she was bored. It was at that dance Dumbledore realized he was losing the fight for her heart.
When Danniel went up to ask her to dance, instead of say she already had a date in a nice polite way that made you think she really would dance with you if she didn't have that date, she smile and asked her date if it was alright if she dance with Danniel for a song or two.
Dumbledore sighed, remembering her. It was truly astonishing how much Kyla looked like Sarah. She had Sarah's eyes, hair, and her grace. Her grace, funny how those two little words hold so many memories, ones of Sarah running into people and things. Sarah's grace wasn't very graceful, and neither was Kyla's the way she tried to sneak over to a corner and run into a chair.
Dumbledore looked around and saw in a corner, what looked to be a cartoon on the wall of a leprechaun riding a unicorn. Dumbledore smiled as the cartoon faded away, and then turned to Professor McGonagall. "Minerva, would you please be a dear and enjoy yourself while I get something from my office?"
"Of course Headmaster," she answered, and Dumbledore knew full well that she wouldn't not relax and enjoy herself like he hoped.
Dumbledore headed up to office after giving the password, "chocolate frogs", and looked around to see if everything was in order. His chair was swirled around and his globe was missing. Dumbledore smiled and said, "Danniel, you've found the brandy."
The chair swirled around, revealing a little man with thin white hair all awry and blue hazel eyes. He smiled a half crocked smile and gave Dumbledore a wink. He got up, and surprisingly enough, he wasn't plump, as one would expect him to be so. He was rather lean and looked as though he still had some muscle left in his old age.
"Well, it wasn't to hard to find," he explained. "You hide it in the same place our headmaster hide it. Remember all the times we come up here, swipe it and got sloshed?"
"I don't remember the afterwards to well, but I still remember swiping the brandy," Dumbledore told him with a smile. "So Danniel, how have you been?"
"As good as a dead man can be," he told him. Then he asked, "Are you ever going to offer an old friend some brandy?"
"You haven't drank it all yet?" Dumbledore asked. "Well, what a shock. However, in order for me to pour you a glass of brandy, I will need my seat back, see how I am the headmaster now."
"Keep throwing that in my face why don't you," Danniel murmured, when giving Dumbledore back his chair, and sitting in one on the other side of the desk. After he took a sip of the liquid Dumbledore gave him, he asked, "So, who's this Sarah look alike?"
"Pardon me?" Dumbledore asked innocently.
"I got the message about you miss the luck of the Irish and you found a Sarah look alike," Danniel explained. "So, who is she?"
"Oh that. That was months ago, it doesn't matter now. Tell me again, why did we pick a leprechaun riding a unicorn as our signal?"
"Don't you remember?" Dumbledore shook his head, and Danniel explained, "I was trying to set you up with my cousin who is a full leprechaun-"
"Not a half like you," Dumbledore told him with a smile.
"Right, well, you got that pimple so big, it looked like a horn. You called off the date because of it, and I told you, you shouldn't have because my cousin really likes unicorns."
"I believe you exact words were, 'She liked to ride an unicorn.' Yes now I remember," Dumbledore told him. They started talking about their old school days, and all the pranks they would play. Then Dumbledore asked, "So, have you talked to anyone since your disappearance? Like a son-in-law, a daughter, granddaughter?"
"My daughter and her husband died," Danniel told him sadly.
"Do you know what happened?" Dumbledore asked kindly.
"Kyla wouldn't tell me details, she kept saying food poisoning though," Danniel told him.
"You've talked to Kyla recently?"
"No, about a month before Ireland's cheerleader, or what ever the politic leader name was disappeared," Danniel told him.
"Did you know who the Chairman was?"
"No, I know they wanted me to do it, but you know about my strong feelings for democracy, so I did not do it," Danniel answered. "Did you know that Kyla feels the same way? She kept talking about how if she was the ruler she give it all up and turn the castle into a shelter for the homeless and sick. Little angel that one is."
"Did people know that Kyla was talking to you?"
"No Kyla, bless her heart, would have to sneak away from her home to meet with me."
"Did Kyla ever mention what Helen did for a living?" Dumbledore questioned.
"I assumed still working for the paper. What's all this about Albus?"
"Can't an old friend just ask another old friend about his family?"
"No Albus he can't. What is all this about?" Danniel questioned again.
"Well after Sarah's death, Helen feared for her life and the life of her daughter," Dumbledore explained. "So, I assume that she took the job of Chairman to help protect her family."
"Come again?"
"Well, if someone was afraid Voldemort would send people after their family, someone would gladly take a position that included protection. Of course I can only assume so," Dumbledore told him.
"Are you telling me that my Helen would take a position that I explained to her, since she was a pup, that was wrong?"
"Well, she took it," Dumbledore told him.
"You raise the kids the best you can, but they still don't listen," Danniel said, smashing his fist into Dumbledore's desk. Then his face from anger to fear and he asked softly, "If Helen was Chairman, but she died, doesn't that mean Kyla took over?"
"In a way," Dumbledore said.
"But they said the Chairman disappeared, so what happen to Kyla?" Danniel asked panic rising in his voice.
"Relax," Dumbledore said.
"Relax? I just realized the reason Kyla didn't see me when she said she would was because she disappeared!"
"Relax, she's the Sarah look alike. We found her, she's safe in the Hogwarts," Dumbledore enlightened him.
"Kyla's here?" Dumbledore nodded and Danniel punched him in the arm. "Kyla's here and you didn't tell me!"
"I assume by now she's in the Gryffindor tower," Dumbledore told him.
"What's the password?"
"I'm not telling you that the password is fletick," Dumbledore told him with a smile and then Danniel was gone.
"What do you mean no?" Danniel asked, with shock.
"I won't let you hurt her." Ron glared, at this unknown stranger.
"I'm not going to hurt her," Danniel told him.
"I'm not going to let you take her away."
"Son, I've dueled with some of the most powerful wizards in the world and won, now move," Danniel commanded.
"I don't care," Ron told him, his voice holding strong and steady.
Kyla opened her eyes and blinked a couple times. She looked at the man pointing his wand at Ron. She gasped and jumped up from the couch. She threw her hands around the stranger and half whispered in disbelief, "Papa."
"Kyla, darling angel," Danniel said, giving her a hug.
"Kyla, who is this?" Ron asked.
"I'm her papa."
"I thought her father was dead," Ron said, thinking about it.
"Her papa, grandfather," Danniel explained. Kyla hugged him again and Danniel asked, "How about we get some food? I know where the kitchen is."
Kyla nodded and the two of them walked off smiling.
A/N: ok Snape's Gurl, there Snape has a lady friend! and thanks to everyone else who reviews! and eckles, Ron is going to deal with his problem about Hermione and Kyla. ok hoped enjoyed this chapter, it was short, I know.
