Chapter 2

Severus was due home tonight around 9, so that gave Minerva just enough time to prepare her request to go to the reunion. She made herself look presentable and made an exquisite evening meal for him to come home to and went over the speech in her head. It went along the lines of how she wanted to spend more time with him, and it would be great to go back to Hogwarts and a nice night out.

At 9 precisely Severus stepped out of the fireplace and dusted himself off. He sniffed the air as he could smell the aroma of roast lamb and some sort of wonderful sauce. He walked into the dining room and saw a table neatly laid out as if for a banquet. Just then Minerva walked into the room carrying a tray of tasty looking vegetables; she was wearing a beautiful teal knee length, sleeveless dress and an apron.
"Wow, Minerva this all looks wonderful, the place looks wonderful… you look wonderful." Severus said quite taken a back by the surprise. Minerva smiled pleased with this reaction and his words.
"Sit down, here let me take your cloak" she said a she putting down the tray and walked over to him. She helped him off with his cloak and took it and hung it up in the hall. When she came back he was sat down in the chair with his napkin tucked in his shirt.

They had a pleasant meal and Severus talked about his day, although he was enthusiastic about it he was a little vague, but Minerva didn't care because he seemed happy. She decided to ask him about the reunion now, you're a Gryfindor, she though your supposed to be brave, so just go on and ask him.
"Oh! Severus I had a visitor while you were away, Lily Evans, well Lily Potter now actually. Well anyway she wanted to invite us to a reunon for our graduating year in Hogwarts, I thought it would be an excellent idea to have a night out." She glanced at Severus waiting for his answer but his expression was unreadable infact he looked slightly dazed. Minerva made a polite cough to let Severus know she was waiting for an answer. Severus who at that moment was unsure whether he wanted to go back to Hogwarts were he had the best and worst times of his life, and the thought of showing what a success he was to the stupid quartet that had made his life at Hogwarts miserable was too good to be true.
"Sure, that sounds good to me." Severus said. He also thought his boss would be happy as he was looking for someone to enter Hogwarts for him.