The sun was beginning to rise, casting an orange glow over the sleeping pair. Severus was lying on the stone of the tower, Christine half sprawled across his chest, his arm around her waist as if he was trying to protect her. Christine was the first to wake up, eyes blurry, she vaguely remembered the night before. She lifted her head slightly to see Severus above her, sleeping peacefully, a slight smile on his face.

'He sure does look different when he sleeps.'

She tried to sit up but found his hand was wrapped around her waist. She smiled to herself and lifted herself off of the sleeping boy as gracefully as possible and stretched out her aching limbs. The sound of cracking joints filled the calm air of the morning, waking Severus. Christine laughed as she herd him groan. Seems sleeping on a stone floor with a girl on top of him most of the night did not do him a bit of good. She watched as he stood and stretched out, bones cracking everywhere, she couldn't help but cringe.

"That sounded like it hurt."

"Not a bit."

They stood there a moment, neither knowing what exactly to say. They had spent the night laughing and talking and arguing over the different uses of plants in potions, completely comfortable in each other presence, but now it seemed neither party was exactly comfortable. Sighing to herself, Christine walked over towards the door, bent down, and grabbed her bag.

"Well, I guess we should go. I bet Lucius was having a fit when we didn't come back last night."

Severus grabbed his bag and let out a slight laugh as he slid past her and began walking down the stairs. Christine rolled her eyes and waited for a moment before walking down herself. It just wouldn't do for her to be seen walking down with Severus, hair all mussed and in yesterday's clothes, especially since her brothers were known to be early risers. Christine strode gracefully down the stairs and was at the main entrance hall when she heard someone calling her name. Sighing she turned around to face three dismal looking marauders.

"What do you boys want? It's early and I'm not in the best of moods."

Sirius lifted his head slightly, trying to meet her eyes, "I just wanted to apologize for yesterday, and you know I didn't mean it like that. It's just that Snape is well, Snape! He's a greasy gryffendor hating git; I just don't get how you could even be nice to him."

Christine brought her fingers to her temples, massaging them, "Look, Sirius, I would love to talk to you about this another time, but my brothers could come around at any minute and I don't need to give Jordan an excuse to be mad at me, you of all people should know that."

Sirius looked back down at the floor again, "Yeah I know, I'm sorry, I guess ill talk to you later."

Christine turned around, about to walk away when an idea hit her. "Sirius! Come back here for a second." She ran back to the retreating figure and shoved a piece of parchment in his hand, "Bring this to Charms ok? Don't give me that look, I'm not insane, just trust me ok?"

She turned around and walked back towards the dungeons and into the common room, thankful that no one in her house seemed to be early risers. She walked towards her new room and cautiously opened the door; she peeked in to see if anyone was sleeping, thankfully, all of them looked to be. She pushed the door completely open and walked over to her trunk, removing the wards, and grabbed her books for the day, along with a change of clothes, she desperately needed to shower. She walked towards the bathrooms, once more, grateful that everyone seemed to be asleep, at least the girls were. She took of her robes and stepped into the shower, cursing the fact that she knew there was no time to lounge about. After fifteen minutes, she stepped out and put on fresh clothes. She walked over towards the mirror and looked at the girl who was staring back at her. She wasn't to pretty, her face was pale, though she still had a bit of color left from when she had laid out by the lake. The bruises and cuts had finally healed up, so there was no need for a potion. Her eyes were still the normal brown they had always been, though there seemed to be an odd twinkle in them that hadn't been there before. But why was it there now? Sighing she muttered a quick drying spell on her hair and walked out of the bathroom to see a few sour looking students mulling about the common room. She shook her head and walked back down to her room. She once again opened the door cautiously, not wanting to wake anyone up and glanced around. Once she saw that no one was up yet, she walked once again over to her trunk, lowered the wards, muttered a quick cleaning spell on her robes and packed them into her trunk before putting the wards back up. Sighing to herself, she once more left the room, only this time, she was confronted with an absolutely livid Lucius. He quickly grabbed her by the arm and took her out of the common room, pushing her up against the nearest wall.

Christine swore she could see steam coming from his ears as he glared at her, "Where the hell were you last night?"

"I was studying with Severus, though I don't see why it would be any of your business."

Lucius raised his hand and slapped her across the face, leaving a clean red mark on her cheek. "What the hell was that for?"

"You know damn well what that was about Christine. You spent the night with Severus, alone! I can't believe you would do such a thing, especially with him of all people! Good God Christine! What will your brothers do when they hear about this? God, and here I thought you were the last decent girl in the house, I guess I was wrong."

"Whoa, whoa, what the hell are you talking about?"

Lucius averted his eyes, "You, you. Oh god, you slept with Severus!"

Christine couldn't help but laugh how could she not? Her sleep with Severus? It was just preposterous! Lucius stared down at her, clearly annoyed. He was considering slapping her again when she finally decided to speak up, "Oh god I can't believe you thought that I slept with him! We were studying for god's sake, and then we feel asleep studying. Dear lord Lucius, I'm the freaking last untouchable Slytherin, and do you think I would throw that away?"

Lucius just looked down at the floor, "Oh."

"Heavens to Betsy Lucius, don't fret about it, it's not like you told anyone right?"

Lucius just stared around the room, doing his best to avoid eye contact. Christine prodded her finger into his chest, pushing him towards the opposite wall, "Right?"

"Well, um...uh..."

"OH GOD!" She pushed him up against the wall, fury burning in her eyes, "Who the hell did you tell Lucius? Remember, I do have the option of ending your family line at any given time."

Lucius gulped loudly, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down, "Well, um, see, I was standing in the hall waiting for you, and I was really angry so I was pacing and what not when your sister came up behind me and asked what was wrong. You see it didn't exactly register that she was your sister until I had, well, 'spilled the beans'."

Christine had sunk down onto the floor, just on the verge of tears. 'Oh god, Ashley knows I'm dead, I'm just dead. She's going to tell Alex and Jordan and ill be dead. They won't listen to me, they never have. Oh god, OH GOD! Ok Chris, pull yourself together, your not a bloody Slytherin for nothing, you have to think of something.'

"Lucius, what time is it?"

"Um, 7."

Christine stood up, staring off into space, "Ok, if I can get to her before she sees Jordan and Alex I should be ok." Before she left the corridor she turned back to Lucius, "Oh, by the way, you can forget about me doing your potions homework."


jordisonfreak808-yep, finally no more cissa, at least, for now :)

FAeOfDaRkNeSs-ah, thank you! I'm glad you enjoy it :) yay! And yes, the next couple chapters promise to have more Severus/Christine stuff...espically 19...which should be out sometime in the next week so.

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