Chapter 8

Severus sat down on the couch back in his rooms, place two cups of tea infront of him and Liza on the table.

"Thanks." Liza said quietly, picking up a cup, she took a sip.

"Anytime." Severus replied, also taking a sip of the tea. The pair both placed their cups back onto the table.

"This is really nice, you know." The woman shifted over, leaning over on Severus' shoulder.

"I'm glad you like it." He wrapped her arm around her and they sat in silence for few minutes. Liza then slowly stood up, pulling Severus with her. " What are you doing?" He whispered.

"Ssshh." She replied, smiling softly. Liza leaned closer to him, kissing him gently. The man wrapped his hands around her waist, pulling her closer. They departed, Liza looked up at Severus, smiling. "You know what?" She whispered, and began playing with one of the clasps on his robes, "I don't think I want to leave tonight."'

"That's perfectly fine with me." Severus replied, kissing her again, and the tea was soon forgotten.

The next day had now dawned upon Hogwarts. Severus was awoken by a sudden rapping on the window . He rolled over, pushing the blankets off him, and let the owl in, then read through the letter. The man jumped, looking over at the clock, and sure enough, it was already past ten-thirty.

"Liza." He called gently. The woman slowly rolled over, squinting slightly.

"Mmpf." She replied.

"It's past ten-thirty, I've got to get to my classes." Liza looked over at the clock, then jumped out of the bed as well.

"I'll need to be going too." She began, throwing her robes on, on top of her clothing. "Minerva will have enough questions as we both missed breakfast, much less up until ten-thirty."

"Knowing Hogwarts, it will already be known amongst the staff and possibly some students."

"Most likely." The woman laughed softly, walking over to Severus. "You have no idea how much I've missed you." She whispered, kissing him gently.

"Only if you've missed me more than I've missed you." He replied, kissing her back.

"But of course." The couple shared one last kiss before heading off their separate ways to the classes.

As Liza entered her aunt's class, only Minerva looked up, everyone was used to having her pop in during lessons now-a-days. Minerva raised an eyebrow at her niece as she sat down.

"Someone's a little late getting up this morning."

"Yeah..." She replied, "Slept in a little late."

"Well I'm sure." Minerva stated, "After the ball last night, you must have been exhausted from playing chess."

"Oh shush!" Liza flicked her hair behind her shoulders, "You know very well what happened, and you also know that you partially caused it."

"And how would I have done that?"

"By not working with us last night. If you had been at the ball, you would have had to been supervising the halls afterwards, which means nothing would have happened."

"And my plan worked."

"Exactly!" The younger woman paused, realizing what had been said, "Wait a minute...what plan?"

"Liza..." Her aunt began, "Since the day you and Severus got together, everyone's been waiting for you to get married and start a family. You're perfect for each other, and everyone knows it, what happened before didn't cancel the plans, just simply postponed things."

"Yeah...I guess I kinda knew that." She sighed lightly, "Do you really think that it was meant to be?"

"The better question, is do you?" Minerva looked over at the younger woman, an eyebrow raised.

"Well...yes." Liza replied, looking up.

"Then make sure you tell him that." The older woman patted her shoulder.

"Okay..." Liza stood up, "I'm going to go get some breakfast, I'll see you later." She smiled, and left the room.