(Author's Note: I'm so depressed that I only got one review that I didn't want to write any more, but my imagination got the better of me, so if anyone out there's reading this, please review me!)

Chapter 2 Meet the Roses.

"Aaaah!" Severus Snape woke himself up in the usual way. Only this time, he didn't wake up screaming because of nightmares, he woke up screaming because someone had announced into his dream world, "Rise and Shine Severus! Today's the day you go to miss Grangers! You wouldn't want to be late would you?"

Severus moaned audibly and shoved his head under the black pillowcase, all the while mumbling "It's only another nightmare, It's only another nightmare, It's only another nightmare…"

"Now Now, Severus, if you insist on acting this way I may just have to levitate you out of bed again!"

Snape jumped out of bed.

"Ah, good. I see you haven't packed, so if I may take the liberty…" Black everything came flying out of the drawers and into a trunk that hadn't been there a second ago.

"And seeing as you can't appear as a "bat from hell" I think you'll wear this!"

In a glow of green light appeared a gray suit, gray silk top hat and oddly enough, a pair of blue sunglasses. Snape inspected the clothes and realized they looked exactly like the suit worn by Dracula in the movie with Gary Youngman or something.

"You want me to show up at Miss Grangers residence looking like Dracula?!"

Dumbledore's blue eyes twinkled so much they could generate a nuclear power plant.

Snape groaned and pinched the bridge of his nose while Dumbledore left the room with a chuckle, stating "I'll let you get dressed and I'll expect you in my office in a ½ and hour!"

(look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a page break!!)

Severus Snape, stood in his "traveling clothes" outside a very posh London apartment building, staring at the buzzer. He took a chance and pushed the button with "H. Granger" next to it.

An educated feminine voice answered,

"Professor Snape? Is that you?"

He took another chance and pushed the "speak" button.

"Yes Miss Granger. Dumbledore has instructed me to say as a sort of pass phrase, The Children of the night, what beautiful music they make."

Laughing, Hermione replied "I'll be right down!"

The front door opened and Hermione stepped out to help him with his luggage, when she stopped dead in her tracks.

"Merlin's beard, you're dressed like…"

"Dumbledore's idea."

"Like the password"

Hermione grinned, picked up a few bags and ushered him inside, saying

"This way, Prince Vlad!"

Severus glared.

They stepped into Hermione's apartment and Snape was mildly impressed. The entire front room was covered in floor to ceiling cherry wood bookshelves, stocked with old and new volumes. All the furniture was red Victorian brocade. Directly opposite the door were huge French doors leading out to a balcony.

"Why Miss Granger! It's not as pink as I imagined!"

"Thank you for that critique, Prince Vlad."

Severus Snape glared.

"Your room's through that door, you might want some thicker curtains in there to protect you from sunlight, and my cousin Katina will be arriving this afternoon."

"I assure you Miss Granger-"

"Wait, what cousin?"