Sophia woke up at 6am with a start. She had had a nightmare about the wolf that attacked her. Her first thought was to go to Severus, but she caught herself before she came one of those love sick puppies that people write stupid romance stories about.
Leaning her head back she stared at the roof, heart beating still mildly faster than usual, her breathing fast also, the adrenaline running through her veins from the dream.
In her dream she was in Dumbledore's office. She waited, leaning against Albus's desk looking around. The door opened and in walked a man. She didn't see his face, but she felt the goosebumps rise on her skin. He slowly transformed before her eyes into the wolf, fangs huge and dripping with saliva, gums black in the darkened room. The bright red eyes and pure white teeth the only visible thing in the blackness. As the wolf pounced for her, she jumped to the side and ran around the desk. The wolf's claws dug into the top of the desk and dragged out runs in the wood with its claws. Suddenly, the wolf was gone, and Sophia looked around for it. She felt the smooth hot breath on the back of her neck and she felt her heartbeat humming in her chest. She felt the burning, screaming pain as the wolf sunk it's teeth into her skin.
She absently rubbed the bandage covering her bite. She got up and headed towards the bathroom. Staring in the mirror, she peeled the bandage off, and saw that it was almost healed. The deep red scarring, two large cuts and about seven little ones in stripes up her shoulder, almost like the stripes along Albus's desk in her dream. The seven small cuts were healed, but the two larger, from the wolf's fangs, no doubt, were still open, and one was bleeding slightly.
She searched the bathroom for some new bandages but found none. Deciding to just leave the cuts to air in the open, she headed back to her bedroom to have a shower, put clothes on and go to breakfast.
For the next few weeks, Sophia set herself into her work. She went to bed early, woke up early. But unfortunately, she was plagued by nightmares every night, and even though she went to bed early, she didn't sleep hardly at all for fear of the returning dreams.
By the week before the full moon, she was sick of being tired. She was doing everything slowly, couldn't concentrate and found it really difficult to teach. Luckily, her classes were few and far between, because of it being a specialised class.
She walked to Albus's office, wishing to ask him for some help. Sleeping tablets, perhaps. Maybe some counselling. She stood at the gargoyle, and frowned.
Suddenly it opened up and exposed a staircase. She walked up, and reached to open the door, but it opened without her touching it. Sitting at the desk, smiling up at her was Albus.
"Ah my dear. Come to finally work out how you can overcome the nightmares, hm?" Albus twinkled at her.
Sophia squinted at him. "How did you know about that?" She asked.
"Oh, I had a feeling you wouldn't be able to get over it too well. I requested Severus to bring you up some potions which will help you sleep. Also, he is brewing the wolfsbane potion that will help with your transformation this Friday." Albus said.
"Severus? Coming up here?" Sophia replied. She hadn't actually TALKED to Severus since that night when he made it clear that he didn't like her the way she though he did. He gave her all the signals, but it's obvious he didn't mean anything by it. He obviously had no idea what to do with women. Idiot.
"Now, now, no need to worry, I'm sure Severus will be here very soon and there will be very little interaction between you two. As much as I dislike the animosity between you two, I don't wish to make either of you purposely uncomfortable." Albus smiled comfortingly.
"Thank you Albus. You've been so lovely to me. Thank you" Sophia smiled.
"Oh, that's quite alright dear. I don't suppose you want to talk about why you and Severus are having friendship problems? You seemed to get on well when you first came to the castle." Albus raised his eyebrows.
It was at that moment that Severus decided to sweep into the room and placed 3 vials on Albus's desk.
"3 sleeping potions. As you requested, Albus. Now, if you'll excuse me." He turned. "Good evening, Miss Lennox." He nodded at her courtly and smirked at her.
"A good evening to you as well, Professor Snape." Sophia purposely used his formal title. 'If he wants to ignore me and play mind games, we'll all play mind games.'
Severus's face instantly hardened and he swooped out of the room.
Sophia smirked to herself as Albus told her how to administer the potions and she picked up the vials and left.