Raven bounded down the stairs from the girl's dorms, she looked longingly across the room at the wall, where her private room was in her own time. She missed her room, it was odd being in the actual dorms with the other girl's going in and out of their near-by rooms. But she could survive, she didn't have much of a choice. Her eyes scanned the room, falling to the figured sitting on the couch, a grin crossed her lips.
Making her way from the stair way to the couch she leaned over the back of it next to the boy who sat there. He was immersed in a large tome, 'Potions' written across the top of each page. With a sigh, Raven continued to hang half-way over the couch, waiting to be acknowledged.
"Do you want something, Miss Pegasus?" Even as a boy, he served to drive her to wits end.
"Bloody hell!" she uttered, "It's Raven. Raaaa-van. R-A-V-E-N. Raven!"
"I know." Severus replied with an actual smile. "You are so amusing."
Raven pushed a purple lock of hair from her eyes, coming around to sit by him, a smile well in place. "Tell me that again."
"Why?" he asked a bit curious.
"Please." she paused. "Just say it."
"You are so amusing." Severus repeated, pushing another lock of hair from her eyes. "Is it really purple?"
Raven shook her head no, allowing the hair to fall back into her face. "It's black." She told him. "Like yours." Smiling, she reached out to push his hair from his face. Severus likewise made to push her locks from her eyes once again. They paused, looking at each other, both smiling.
"Well, isn't this cozy?" A slippery voice interrupted. 'Couldn't I find a time without a Malfoy' Raven thought bitterly, as in her own time she had to deal with Draco, now, Lucius Malfoy now stood before them.
"Lucius." Severus said in acknowledgement.
"Severus." Malfoy said, then raised an eyebrow in question, "And?"
"This is Raven." Severus answered, although it seemed as if he'd rather not.
"Raven is it?"
"That is what he just told you." Raven replied coldly, pointedly ignoring the offered hand, thinking 'No way is that slimy git going to touch me.'
Lucius did his best to recover from the obvious snub. "Well, I will see you two around. Narcissa is waiting for me, and I mustn't keep Miss Black waiting." With that Lucius turned and strode out of the common room.
Raven had to fight the urge to roll her eyes and make a gagging sound. Severus regaruded her with curiousity. "You just snubbed Lucius Malfoy. He is from one of the wealthiest pureblood families."
"There are more important things." Raven replied. "Besides, I'm not here to impress that bloody git."
"Why are you here?"
"Maybe I'm here to impress you." She whispered with a smile. The two sat and talked for a while before heading off to classes for the first half of the day.
Before lunch Raven found Severus once more in the Slytherin common room, she was more than delighted, as she had plans. 'Now if I can only get him to agree to them, he's a stubborn man, I'm guessing he's a stubborn boy as well.' Brandishing a picnic basket before her, Raven smiled at Severus. "Fancy a picnic lunch on the grounds?" The look on his face said no, but she was determined. "Pleeeeeeeease?" She took on a pouty face, and attemtped to bat her eyes at the boy in front of her. It took nearly five minutes of this before she notices anything that resembled a break in Severus's resolve.
"I don't think so." He answered.
"Oh, bloody hell." Raven spat, she sat the basket down then threw herself backwards onto the couch. Severus hovered over her, smirk in place. "What?" Raven asked looking back up at him.
"You are so amusing."
"Then...Come with me." She insisted again.
"And if I tell you no?"
"I'll hang out and annoy you all day." She replied.
"I guess I have no choice then." Severus said in a resigned tone. A grin broke out across Raven's face, she jumped from the couch and into the startled boys arms.
A few minutes later found Severus Snape being practically dragged out on the school grounds. The fingers of Raven's one hand were intertwined with his, in the other, she carried the picnic basket. "I can't believe I let you talk me into this." He said for the third time, observing the vast ammount of students that seemed to share Raven's idea.
"It'll be fun." Raven insisted with a smile. Finding a vacant spot she spread out the blanket, and began to set out the food she'd gotten from the kitchens.
"Sure." He didn't sound convinced. "Until Potter and company show up." He continued with a frown.
"Don't think about them." Raven said, patting the blanket beside her. "Come on and sit down already." she smiled sweetly. "Besides, I think Raya has plans to keep the Marauders busy for the afternoon." Since Raya's inital talk with Remus, she had been spending more time with the four boys, wanting the chance to be around her cousin Sirius, since she had lost him in their own time. Plus delighting in time with a younger version of her adopted father.
"Marauders." Severus replied with a bit of a frown. "How fitting. What does your sister see in that bunch?" he asked.
"What can I say." Raven shrugged. "She's a pirate at heart." He gave her a skeptical look, but joined her on the blanket for the lunch she had arranged.