A/N Hey! All my wonderful, to good for words, faithful reviewers…I, uh, am updating…(Looks uneasy) Finally. Sorry for the prolonged wait. But I have a good excuse, I promise! I had severe writers block and I was wicked busy! What with family, Hannah breathing down my neck, and scaring away my science teacher; I hardly had any time to breathe! The first part of this chapter is from Severus' point of view. It was so hard to write for him! Okay, onto the story!

Chapter 7: The Bloody Blade of Truth

"You're late Severus." Hannah pointed out. Uhg, how did I get stuck with a crush—no an interest, in a Gryffindor?

"More to the point I was deliberately late." I replied smoothly. "So as not to raise any suspicions"

"I'm sure. After all, we wouldn't want to cause a scene. A Gryffindor and a Slytherin, going out. It's simply scandalous!" She spoke sarcastically.

"I hope you realize that, if say, Lucious Malfoy, were to find out, I wouldn't survive till the Halloween Feast!" It was true Malfoy hated Hannah. And he would hate me even more if he found out I was dating her.

"My friends also would probably be angry." Hannah's grandparents were pure-blood fanatics and so were her parents. That is, before they became blood traitors eight years ago when Voldemort made his first devastating move. That was why Hannah was the first Gryffindor in a family of Slytherins. In Malfoy's mind that was the worst kind.

"Your friends wouldn't try to kill you, they'd come after me! No doubt Potter and Black would place the blame at my feet." I sneered.

"Not without reason…" Hannah mumbled.

Seething I replied. "Well at least I don't associate with mudbloods and bloodtraitors!"

"Oh, so now your true colors come out!" Hannah shouted at me, growing gradually louder as she went. "And are you not aware that my parents are bloodtraitors? Or did you forget?"

"I didn't forget! But I all I did was point out that you are better than that TRASH you hang around with!"

"TRASH? Do you know what they have suffered at the hands of the SLIME you call human beings?"

"SO WHAT IF I DO? Are you gonna sick Potter on me? Or wait, do they just not care enough that they don't even ask where you are all the time!"

"HOW WOULD YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HAVE SOMEONE CARE ABOUT YOU? No one would every care about a scum bag like you!" She spat the last word as if it tasted like slugs.

"What! YOU"—I was at a loss for words.

"Then I guess we're finished here!" And she fled from the room.

"Go on then! Go play with your Gryffindor pals!" Great comeback.

'What a gorgeous day. It's so nice to be able to walk around the lake again' Aden sat beneath the oak and watched the giant squid float languidly through the still waters. 'That girl is so busy. I never get a chance to talk to her. She really is a mystery.' Aden thought with a sigh.

He laid his head back and began to drift off. It was unusually warm for October, but no one minded the sunshine.

Before he could fall asleep fully, he heard footsteps. No running footsteps, headed right for him. But Aden didn't move, he lay there with his eyes closed not making sound. 'Maybe whoever it is won't notice me. I just don't feel like leaving.'

The unknown intruder was crying, and sitting on the other side of the tree.

"S-s-st-stupid S-s-snape! (sniff-sob) I c-c-can't believe h-h-him! (sob-sniff)" The voice although distorted by tears was undeniably Hannah's. ' And she was crying about Snape…Crying? Hannah never cried. I mean we all hate Snape, but what did he do to shake the unshakable Hannah?' She seemed to be calming down somewhat.

"Who does he think he is, saying that I'm better then my friends. That they're trash! I never should have gone out with him, next chance I get I'm going to break it off."

"Hannah?" Aden asked getting up. Boy was he surprised to hear Hannah was dating Snape. In fact he was downright furious, why would she date something as abhorrent and disgusting as Snape?

"Huh? (Gasp) Aden! Oh, no I didn't know anyone was there! You were bei" Aden cut Hannah off.

"Dating Snape? Is that where you keep getting off to? I don't believe it!"

"Look I know I shouldn't have! I should've known I would get hurt, so back off because it isn't any of your business anyway! What do you care, the Marauders are to cool to care about anything!"

"No, I shouldn't have yelled. Hannah what did he do, we'll get him back." Aden tried to comfort Hannah.

"Just leave him alone! This is why I didn't tell you guys about Severus, I knew that you would hurt him! Just don't! I can fight my own battles thank you very much, so don't interfere!" She yelled and went into the castle. (Doing a lot of that lately isn't she?)

"Damn that girl! Can't she stay in one spot for more than a minute?" Aden said to himself.

Later that day in the boy's dorm.

"Do we all know the plan for tonight?" James asked his fellow Marauders.

"Can we go over it one more time, I was in the bathroom." Sirius said abashedly.

"Very well. We meet down in the Common Room at Midnight. I'll bring the cloak and Padfoot," James looked pointedly at Sirius. "Will bring the map. Then we'll sneak down to the witch with the hump in her back and into Hogsmeade. We'll get our supplies from Zonko's, John is doing the night shift he won't bother us, and back to the Room of Requirement. Understand?"

"Understood, Sir!" Remus and Aden saluted James when Sirius said that.

"About face! Go down the stairs and report back to the Dorm by 2100 hours sharp!" James commanded teasingly. The four boys walked downstairs and were met by a glistening knife!

Jen came into view holding the knife and looking at it with a sort of rapt fascination. Andromeda and Lily were standing a few feet behind her looking on uneasily. There was something strange about this particular knife… It didn't have an edge. It was about seven inches long and shone as bright as a mirror. But the edge looked as if it couldn't penetrate butter.

The boys stood on the third stair and watched as Jen started to work on the blade. She took her wand and placed it at the tip of the knife. She started whispering and moved her wand along the edge. A faint red glow followed her wand, where the glow went the knife changed. It narrowed to a point and sharpened as she went. After going over the length of the knife Jen inspected the blade and nodded.

Before anyone could stop her she placed the point on her palm and pressed. The knife went in about a half inch before Jen pulled it out. Blood poured from her hand onto the floor, but she didn't flinch and cry out nor did she pay any attention to the small red puddle forming at her feet.

"Jen what the bloody hell are you doing?" Remus yelled. He tried to get closer but Lily waved him off.

"Have you all lost your minds? Jen has a fountain in her hand!" James said.

Jen lifted the knife to her face and watched as a drop of blood fell from the knife and disappeared.

"Yes! It worked!" Jen exclaimed and replaced the knife on her wound. The second it came in contact with the wound the skin closed up and the blood disappeared. She pointed at the red sea around her feet and said "Vaporade!" The blood was sucked right into the knife and everything looked normal again.

"Now will you explain what in Godric Gryffindor's name we just saw?" Sirius looked expectant and slightly terrified.

"Yes. What you just witnessed was an advanced vaporization spell. I transfigured a knife, sharpened it, and cast a basic retrieval and reversal spell. The two spells were based around anything the knife damaged. As you can see it repaired the cut and got rid of the blood. It was a complete success." Jen smiled triumphantly.

"That's great and all, but why did you do that? I don't remember covering cutting ourselves open and getting rid of the evidence in any of our classes. Didn't that hurt?" Aden asked still getting over the shock of it all.

"For your information, my dear brother, it is exactly as you say. Getting rid of evidence. Jen found a book in the library called Muggle Articles Made With Magic." Andromeda said sounding as if that was obvious.

"Actually it didn't hurt because I had Lily cast a numbing charm on my hand." Jen said thoughtfully.

"That still doesn't explain why you did it. So you found a book, I wouldn't try a spell that included self mutilation!" Remus said darkly.

"Well Lupin, in Muggle Studies we're studying crime scene investigation. I wanted to know the effects of magic on a muggle murder weapon. If a wizard could kill someone and destroy all evidence."

"Are you planning to kill someone? Is that why you want to know if you can get rid of the evidence?" Sirius asked.

Jen looked at him coldly. "Yes. I'm planning to kill you. Just in case you'd forgotten." Everyone stared at Jen; and Sirius paled. A lot.

"Psyche! I can't believe you fell for that!" She gave Sirius a hug, wiping tears of mirth from her eyes.

"I think it's that time of the month for Jen." Lily whispered to Andromeda.

"That must be why she's having these weird mood swings." Andromeda said. Hannah walked in and saw Jen holding the knife.

"Is she going to kill Sirius or is it that time of the month?" Hannah asked.

"Told you." Lily said.

"What are you guys talking about?" James looked confused.

"Oh just one of those bloody ridiculous things girls have to deal with." Hannah replied smiling.

"I'll have you know that I just dealt with it last week!" Jen said indignantly. "Besides I don't run at the same times as Lily."

"Thanks a lot!" Lily cried.

"Get over it! I'm scheduled for next week." Andromeda snapped.

"I'm done till November. The end of November." Hannah said smugly.

"Did we miss something?" Aden asked his friends.

"Maybe. I'm lost." Remus said.

"Girls are confusing." Sirius said scratching his head.

"Who wants to play Exploding Snap?" James asked out of the blue.

Midnight in the Common Room.

"Are we ready?" Aden looked around the group in the light of the dying fire.

"I've got the cloak." James appeared in front of them holding the cloak in one hand.

"I remembered the map!" Sirius said happily.

"And we're all very proud of you." Remus said sarcastically.

"Alright then, let's move out troops!" James said. As the boys traveled through the corridors beneath the invisibility cloak, they were finding it difficult to be as subtle as usual.

"Ouch! Moony you want to try not stepping on my toes?" Aden said.

"Sorry. Prongs I think we're getting a little too tall for this." Remus replied.

"I think you're right. But it doesn't matter because we're here." James said the password and they went into the passageway.

Once inside the village the notorious Marauders headed straight to Zonkos. Hogsmeade at night was not unlike a muggle town, but there was a sense of magic and mystery about it that was uncommon.

James walked in first and looked around. Perfect, absolutely empty. Well, except for John. He waved and James started for the potion prank supply aisle. Sirius signaled to Remus and Aden to follow. The Marauders quickly gathered everything they needed for the prank of the century.

A/N Sooo…How weird was that chapter on a scale of 1 to 10? Really I want to know. I just got like a bunch of new shirts and I'm so happy! That was kind of a long chapter what did you guys think of the length? Well…Please leave nice long reviews! We all know how much authors love them:)

Celina K2