Raya and Severus were both away at classes, so Raven sat alone in the Slytherin common room, lost in thought. She wondered how everyone else was doing, exspecailly Ashton. Raven knew Raya and Ashton were close, and she couldn't imagine how he was fairing without his twin. On top of that, Raven knew Christine has been giving him nothing but trouble before she and Raya had 'disappeared'.
Ashton would need something to cheer him up Raven decided, and remebering the time he spent chasing the Marauders box of memories. A treasure hunt was just the thing to appeal to the pirate in him. "Now," Raven said to herself, "time to find some booty." 'Bloody hell...I've been hanging out with them too long.' she thought, half-smiling, half-smirking at herself, as she went on a search for something to 'send' to the future.
Strolling happily through the halls Raven came across Dumbledore and McGonagall. "Good afternoon Professors." She greeted them with a smile.
"Shouldn't you be in class Miss Pegasus?" McGonagall asked.
"I have a free period." Raven replied. McGonagall seemed a bit surprised to see a Slytherin being so openly friendly twords their rivals head of house.
"Minerva." Dumbledore spoke, "This is the one I told you about." He smiled at Raven. McGonagall regaurded her once more with a nod, then had some whispered words with Dumbledore before heading on her way. "So my dear." Dumbledore began, "How are you fairing through all of this?"
"Well...It's undoubtedly and adjustment." Raven replied. "And I miss my friends...but..." she let out a sigh.
"But..." Dumbledore pick up where she left off. "You are quite taken with our young Severus Snape."
"I'm quite taken with our old Professor Snape." Raven said without thinking, then a second later bit her lip, eyes going wide, she covered her mouth with her hands.
Dumbledore chuckled, Raven blushed. "And how does our old, Professor, did you say?" Dumebledore questioned. "Feel about that?"
Raven's head dropped, eyes falling to the floor. "He's bloody stubborn...but...I know he cares for me as well."
"And our young Severus?"
Raven lifted her head with a smile. "I'm not sure...but at least he doesn't run."
Dumbledore patted her shoulder. "So what were you up to before being interrupted by a couple of old professors."
Raven bit her lip, "Looking for somethign to send to my time?" She wasn't sure how he was going to react to that one.
Dumbledore smiled down at her. "Come along with me then dear. I think I have something you are in need of." A bit shocked, Raven followed her future foster father through the halls.
Pictures are always good memories to treasure it was decided. So when Raven left Dumbledore's office she had in her possession what the Muggles called a Poloroid...Some sort of 'instant' camera. 'Bloody hell...I'm going to pull a Creevey!' Raven thought momentairly with a bit of a sigh, and rolling her eyes. But after a few more minutes, she decided it might not be so bad after all.
By the time the day was pretty much over, Raven had a handful of pictures, some of which she had decided she got at great personal risk to her sanity. There had been a brief spat when Raven approached Raya and the Marauders. Somewhere along the lines, Raven declared that there wouldn't be room in the picture for both Sirius's and James's egos. But in the end, she had gotten a shot of the five of them...Peter and James on each end, Sirius and Remus in the middle, and Raya standing between the two of them. She had also managed to get a picture of Raya standing beside Emma before Coleridge came and convinced her to go somewhere with him. 'Ashton will love a picture of his sister and a young version of their mother.' Raven thought about that picture.
Raven also managed to frighten a first year into attempting to take some pictures for her...out of half a dozen, one came out. But she smiled down at it...Severus sat in on of the chairs in the Slytherin common room, not quite his usual dour mood, but still not impressed with the whole picture taking thing. Raven stood behind him, leaning down slightly, so her arms were drapped over his shoulders.
"What was with the Creevey act this afternoon, and what are you doing with all that stuff? Raya asked, coming across the mess that littered Raven's bed.
"Sending Ashton on a treasure hunt." She said happily. Raya looked at her questioningly. "Dumbledore already okayed it." Raven told her. "I'm going to put all this stuff together, and hide it, then give Dumbledore a letter to give to Ashton in twenty years." The girls discussed the treasure box, and other things for a little while, before Raya had to go finish some homework.
Raven reached up behind her neck, and undid the clasp to her necklace, the silver coyote danced on the end of the spinning chain. "You better take good care of this while I'm gone Ashton Lupin." she said, putting it in the box with the rest of what she had gathered. Aside from the pictures and her necklace, Raven had found a few other odds and ends, one being an 8-track tape of the Beatles. Not that it would do any good twenty years from now, the chances of finding a working player would be near impossible, but she knew Ashton liked music.
The hard part of her task done, she headed out to find a good hiding place. Raven remebered one of the high towers that she use to play in over the summers. 'Perfect' and climbing the stairs she was soon a the top of one. Carefully she chipped away some morter, just enough to slide a couple bricks out, placing the box in the wall, she slid the bricks back in place. That done, Raven returned to the Slytherin common room to write a letter that would lead her brother to the treasure box, twenty years from then.