Discussions
Don't fear the dark; we feed on it.
Don't worship the light; we spite those who do.
Don't let your guard down; we enjoy a good fight.
Hermione slowly walked up to Roxanne's office. She heard the undertone of voices having a heated discussion. As Hermione tried to make out the words little did she know that the words spoken would help change her life.
Severus had decided to stop by Roxanne's office and integrate her.
Severus stopped by her open door. He surveyed the room, and spotted her lying on a couch reading the paper. He cleared his throat and said, "Diotrephes."
"Severus," Roxanne greeted in aloof tone.
"Call me Snape."
"Call me Roxanne."
"Diotrephes, what do you know about Ascondo?" Severus asked.
"Not much Severus," Roxanne answered, not looking up from her paper.
"Then tell me what you do know."
Roxanne sat up and thought. "Ascondo, Latin for coverage of stars, right?" Severus nodded and Roxanne continued with what she knew. "I think Ascondo always had a black scarf wrapped around her head, revealing only her eyes. She was a threat to You-Know-Who, but I don't know why. That's about all I know."
"What about your fiancé, did he know anything?" Severus asked with a grin.
Roxanne stared a Severus with an emotionless face. "Burn in hell Severus," Roxanne said quietly, but also dangerously.
"I don't believe you had a fiancé," Severus told her. "I think you made him up, so Dumbledore wouldn't be suspicious."
Roxanne got up and silently, and gravely, walked over to Severus. In one swift motion she pushed Severus against the wall. Severus over turned a table and a lamp as his head bashed into the wall, causing a sharp pain to spread rapidly down his back, and he slowly slid down the wall. Roxanne hovered over him and told him with a sharp, dangerous tone, "Don't ever mention Anguis like he didn't exist. Don't even let me hear his magnificent name pass over your vile lips."
Roxanne's hand wrapped around Severus's arm and jerked him upwards. "Now leave my office."
Severus pulled his arm away and walked towards the door. As he flung open the door, he spotted a startled looking Hermione. "Granger, what are you doing done here?"
"She's here for a meeting," Roxanne told him. "Now if you don't mind, leave."
Severus said nothing, gave one last glare at Roxanne, and then stormed off. "Good riddance," Roxanne mumbled under her breather. "Now come in, Hermione."
Hermione cautiously walked into the room. Papers were scattered around the room, and Roxanne had a dangerous sensation about her. Roxanne waved her hand and the door slammed shut and Hermione heard a click. Roxanne waved her hand again and the papers table and lamp resettled themselves. As Roxanne sat down, Hermione lingered uncomfortably by the door.
"So Hermione, do you want your soul back or not?" Roxanne asked, picking up her paper and starting to read it again.
Hermione gaped at her and asked, "What the hell's going on?"
"What do you mean?" Roxanne asked, as a smile crept onto her menacing face.
"I don't understand this, any of this," Hermione told Roxanne, stepping away from her. "All I know is I should stay away from you."
"Let me explain, I'm a vampire and you're a vampire," Roxanne told her.
"But I still don't understand how," Hermione said, on the verge of crying.
"Of course you don't. If you had understood, then your mind wouldn't have been able to go on in blissful ignorance. By you not knowing what happen, you were able to live like nothing happened," Roxanne told Hermione.
"So you're the one who turned me?"
"Yes, any other questions?"
"If I'm a vampire, how come I can go out in the sun?" Hermione asked, taking one small step towards Roxanne.
"Strong breeding," Roxanne said, rather proudly.
"But I thought all vampires were weakened by the sun," Hermione said, recalling every article she had ever read on vampires.
"If that vampire is a weakling, but we're not," Roxanne said with an eerie smile.
"Don't refer to you and me as an us, we aren't," Hermione told her.
"Good, keep your individuality. It will separate you from the rest of my fledging," Roxanne said, staring at Hermione with a dark gaze.
"I know why you did this," Hermione told her, taking a couple more steps towards her.
"Really? You found out I secretly want you right here on this couch?" Roxanne asked.
"You want to use me to kill Harry for Vol-Vol-Voldemort." Hermione stuttered as she said His name, which made Roxanne smile amusedly.
Roxanne walked up to Hermione and shook a finger at her. "Saying the Dark Lord's name out loud is a big no, no."
"I won't do it," Hermione told her, taking half a step backwards.
"I don't want you to. Well, I don't want to kill Harry," Roxanne said. "You won't have to kill anyone."
"What would I have to do?" Hermione asked, taking a step towards the door.
"I'll give you your soul, your essence, back, you just have to give me Severus Snape."