Luna made her way through Snape's Manor, wondering what she was going to do for the rest of the day. Shortly after finishing breakfast she went up to take a shower while Professor Snape said that he was going to head down to his lab. Now she was walking around with nothing to do. She slowly made her way towards the library, thinking about her morning and her long conversation with Professor Snape.
Luna never expected that she would get along with Snape the way that she got along with Remus Lupin. Actually, her relationship with Professor Snape was different and more personal than the relationship she had with Lupin. After all she had never before confided in Lupin about the way that her mother died. As far as Lupin knew, Luna's mother died when she was young in a horrible accident.
The other difference was that she felt something completely different for Professor Snape than Lupin. When she saw Lupin, she would not get butterflies in her stomach, she would not feel warm when Lupin grabbed her hand, she did not feel happy to talk to Lupin about just anything. It seemed so strange that she had become close to Professor Snape. That Snape actually revealed to her things that she expected he would never tell any other student. Snape had confided in her in a way that Professor Lupin never had.
She wondered what was wrong with her to feel so giddy when seeing or spending time with Professor Snape. She'd always been fascinated with him. She just loved to listen to him speak in classes ever since she was a first year. She also always loved to see him brew his potions and she loved to imitate him, perhaps that was the reason that her marks were so high in his class. She was able to watch him the entire time and mimic his every move. She also loved the way that he walked, how he was so poised. As far as she knew, Professor Snape never stuttered or stumbled. It seemed that he was perfect, though she could see his imperfections.
When she was a second year she took to studying his face and compared it to it in her first year. The Chamber of Secrets had been opened in her first year and she noted how many of the teachers seemed worried, and despite the fact that she knew that Professor Snape was worried, she could find no trace of it in his features. The difference was that once she was in her second year, she could tell that he'd always been tense and angry. She knew that it had a lot to do with the disappearance of Sirius Black. Professor Lupin explained to her that he once attended school with Professor Snape and Sirius Black and he explained to her that they did not get along well at all.
Even in her third year, her fascination with Professor Snape grew. It was in that year that Professor Snape finally, really noticed her. He'd noticed her in her first year, he told her that she was the best in her year at Potions, however, his attention was very brief for it was always on Ginny Weasley for she was acting very strange in their first year (which was do to the fact that she opened the Chamber of Secrets). He also loved to try and humiliate Ginny, for she wasn't anything very special at potions and there were some occasions were she would completely blotch her Potions assignment.
In her third year, it seemed that he noticed her everyday, though, Luna did not truly understand why. Luna guessed that it was because she was sitting next to Ginny Weasley and Snape suspected that Luna was always helping Ginny with her potion, which wasn't at all far off base. Luna always helped Ginny in her potions that year, perhaps that was the reason that Ginny became nicer to her and tried to befriend her, even after class Ginny would sometimes ask Luna to help her with her potions essay.
Luna could specifically remember the Yule ball. She'd been asked by some very pathetic boy in Hufflepuff, he was a fourth year who apparently had no idea how Loony she was. He'd ditched her once they'd gotten inside for a very unpleasant fourth year Slytherin girl told him about Luna. But Luna really hadn't cared. She just remembered running into Professor Snape and she was very elated when she heard a compliment coming from his lips about her. Actually it wasn't much of a compliment but it was as close as Severus Snape would come to a compliment. His exact words were; "Miss Lovegood, is that really you? I hardly recognized you, you actually look normal."
His attitude towards her was always to either ignore her or compliment her on her potions. It all changed when she was a fourth year. He seemed to take notice that she'd become acquainted with the famous Harry Potter and seemed to find it a better use of his time to insult her for it. He seemed to refer to her as the newest addition to his entourage, something that she secretly resented.
"Miss, this has just arrived for you," Luna shook her head to snap out of her reverie and looked down and found large sparkling eyes staring up at her. A small house elf wearing a black pillowcase was holding out a letter to her. Luna looked down and slowly took the fancy white envelope with the sparkling golden calligraphy writing on it. Her name was written in sparkling gold and in perfect, curvy, handwriting.
"Thank you Turtle," Luna said as she looked into his green eyes. He merely smiled and scurried away quickly. Luna slowly opened the envelope and pulled out what looked like a very beautiful invitation. In the same gold calligraphy she found that there was to be a wedding on the following weekend and that the ceremony would take place around midday on Hogwarts grounds. Luna was pleased to see that Tonks and Remus were the couple that were to be wed and was pleased by the fact that she was invited.
"I see that you've received one as well," Luna looked up to find that Professor Snape was standing before her. Held in his hand she could see an invitation. She smiled as she looked at him.
"Will you be attending the wedding Professor?" Luna asked as she looked up at him. The look on his face told her immediately that he was not at all pleased to be invited and that he was slightly confused by the fact that he was invited in the first place. However, it seemed that there was a somewhat resigned look in his stance.
"Originally I would not be planning on attending, but if I do not take you there is no other way of you going, is there? I'm afraid that I will have to," he said as he looked down at her. She smiled as she looked up at him. Before she really knew what she was doing she had thrown her arms about him. His arms were pinned to his side and he froze in her grasp. His entire body was tense as she hugged him and repeatedly thanked him. However, she wasn't holding him for too long before he managed to release his arms and extract her from him. "Yes well, I'm sure that you need a distraction from being here for so long."
Luna merely smiled as she looked up at him. "Thank you Professor." She said as she looked up at him.
TBC…A/N: Sorry for the short chapter. Please Review.