Well I decided to update again today…I hope the last chaper was better than the first… but we'll see when you guys review…(hint)

Chapter 3

Not What I look like

Draco stood suddenly and left the Great Hall, dinner untouched. As he reached to open the door it was opened and Severus walked in, escorting Selena. He looked at the older man and gave him a strange look.

"You know what she is? Severus? You trust yourself around her knowing what she could do to you?" he hissed.

"Indeed I do, she is harmless unless she feels threatened." He replied calmly. Draco shook his head and took Selena's arm and dragged her out of the Hall where no students were. Severus followed them, shaking his head knowing that Draco was being extremely foolish. "I would stop, you don't want to start anything with her Draco." He ordered. Hermione walked out of the Great Hall and shook her head. Walking back in she spoke with another professor before joining her husband's side.

"Draco, do not start a fight with me." Selena said.

"Draco listen to her!" Hermione yelled.

"She's a murderer! She could kill you without a second thought!" he exclaimed. He drew his wand and let loose the first curse he thought of. Selena moved out of its way gracefully and lifted her hand.

"You should be wise enough to know that you've just given up your life to me Malfoy." Selena said. "I told you that while there is nothing holding me back from killing you that I have chosen not to. I am an elf of my word." She said before lifting her hand and sending a curse at Draco. Draco's wand burst into flames and exploded. He face gained a red hue.

"You little bitch!" he ran at her getting ready to fight her. His first punch was dodged and his upper cut had failed him, resulting in Selena's punch to his stomach and ribs. She punched hard, hard enough to make him spit blood on her.

"I have no reason to not kill you, you have threatened me, exposed things I have no desire to share with the general public and now you have begun a name calling bought. Tell me why I shouldn't kill you here and now for the students to find your corpse handing by your intestines from the highest peak in the ceiling." She whispered in his ear. Her voice was soft and like a razor, cutting him deeply with only the slightest feeling of a sting. Her hang held his throat, and the amount of pressure she applied revealed she wanted to tear his throat off of him.

"Because you considered me your friend?" he whispered.

"I never called you one. Only Severus and Hermione have that honor. You were almost a friend until you reacted this way." She replied.

"Selena! Stop, don't kill him!" Hermione cried.

"This man will destroy what I have worked to hide and protect! He betrayed my trust why should he remain alive? He holds all the qualities of the recently deceased Redding!"

"And what were those?" Draco asked.

"Greed, temper, wonder lust, corruption, a ruthlessness to gain what you believe you need that you would kill to get what you wanted, and a desperate need to fight that which seems too different or shady to you. Among other things." Selena replied. Severus walked over to her.

"Selena, don't kill him. He is a teacher here at the school and my adopted nephew, if you kill him you shall be trapped from whence you came!" Severus said. The pressure on Draco's throat left and he was lifted into the air.

"I won't kill him, however I shall make him regret his accusations before escorting him to nurse." She replied. Draco felt her punch his stomach again and he flew into a wall.

"Selena! Stop this instant! Draco overreacted, now he knows better! Stop immediately!" Hermione's voice pierced the air. Selena stopped mid step. Bowing before Hermione, she turned and left. Draco had slid down the wall and saw Severus and Hermione rush to him.

"You should have known better Draco. What were you told when you were younger about elves?" Severus snarled.

"Draco! Elves hold their pride, higher than you could hold your own, for a reason. They excel in everything far better than even Dumbledore could have! They life forever and if you do that again she might kill you despite what I say!" Hermione cried.

"How did you get her to stop?" Draco asked.

"She owes me a life debt, you could say, but that won't save you next time!"

"Listen to Hermione, she appears to know better than you do Draco!" Severus added. "You do not threaten elves when you see them! That was something your father and mother should have drilled into you!" he added.

"You know she's a cold blooded murderer and you let her live inside these walls? Near your very own chambers?" Draco asked surprised.

"She won't harm you unless she feels she needs to, or someone hired her to kill you." Hermione replied. "She wouldn't have harmed you tonight even until you cast that curse at her." Severus helped Draco up and escorted him to the nurse.

Selena sat in her home lodgings away from Hogwarts. She could not remain trapped those walls, not now especially that she was angered. She was sitting in a tree, watching the few water nymphs in the lake dance. She was sitting with a land nymph, discussing the forest.

"Selena, you know you were wrong to bring him to begin with." The nymph said.

"I know but something about him drew me to him and I felt like then I could not deny him." She replied.

"That's terrible! You know elves forbid that sort of a view on humans!" Terra said.

"I've already broken most of our customs, by carrying on my family's tradition of becoming assassins." She dully replied.

"Indeed, but do you need to give your family cause for alarm when you tried to kill a human for no true reason?

"Terra what should I do? Go back?"

"You have a responsibility there. Go back, and apologize to young Lord Malfoy. He will learn his lesson soon enough. But your reaction today showed that you are nothing above a ruthless killer." A water nymph said from the waters beneath the tree.

"How do I show him I'm no low life murderer Fontis?" she asked.

"Be the elegant, graceful creature Elves are known to be." She replied.

" I was."

"Be more mysterious." Fontis remarked. "You loose that when you allow him to follow you."

"True." Selena leaned against the main trunk of the tree and closed her eyes. When she opened them it was Sunday morning and she heard her name being called. Fontis and Terra had left when the sun had risen, they didn't want to be discovered by Selena's human companions. It was Hermione who found Selena in the tree.

"Selena, are you alright? When you didn't visit us last night after that fight we grew worried.

"I needed time to myself."

"Understood. You will not kill Draco I take it?"

"No. I should not have attacked him as I did last night. It only made him right. I shall show him and anyone else who questions me, that I am not bloodthirsty monster. I am a refined and proper Elf, I am the prize of my tribe." She said. She was standing by Hermione; the two women walked over to the elf's cabin and met Severus along the way. Selena smiled and held the door for her guests, before entering and making breakfast.

"Hermione, I believe before the end of this term you will find a pleasant surprise." Selena said, serving eggs and bacon to Severus and Hermione."

"Are you not hungry?" Severus asked her.

"I do not hunger for this. I am not hungry at the moment, I will eat when I am hungry Severus, now eat."

"What is this pleasant surprise you speak of Selena?" Hermione asked.

"The goddess will bless you in a way I have not yet been blessed." She replied.

"What do you mean?" Severus asked.

"When the time is right you both will feel this gift." She replied, sitting and sipping from her cup of tea.

"You speak in riddles now, why must you always be vague with us?" Severus asked.

"When I speak in riddles I leave you up to interpret what I say as you will. When I speak plainly my words hold less importance."

"Your words are always important." Hermione replied.

"So it would seem, however my riddles are for you to decipher what I know I cannot reveal to you. However trust me you two will be closer when this gift arrives." Selena smiled.

"For all can understand Selena Severus and I could fight over dinner and be closer after that." Hermione replied. "I do not like that elves have that 'inner eyes' thing. Fortune telling annoys me."

"This will happen before the New Years celebration, and after tonights argument over Draco's rash actions. I will tell you Hermione that tonight will be a night to remember." Selena said.

"Something you've never been blessed to do? I understand now." Hermione said. "You've never had sex and that's what will happen."

"You do not appreciate my honesty?"

"I do, but your riddles grow tiresome." Severus replied this time.

"Well it is time for us to return to Hogwarts, the headmistress is searching your rooms and mine will be looked into next. She needs not go into my rooms. They are as empty as the day I was given them." They took her hand and were suddenly standing before Minerva in the hall.

"You were searching?" Selena asked.

"Indeed, the three of you were about to miss lunch. I believed that you should make one appearance in the school this day before students believe their teacher dislike this place more than the students themselves."

"Minerva you know I only dislikes the stone walls." Selena replied walking off.

"That elf if a mystery isn't she?" Minerva asked.

"Indeed, but elves pride themselves for that." Hermione commented.

"True. Off to lunch then shall we?" Severus asked. The two women nodded and they walked to the Hall for lunch.

When they arrived, Selena was speaking with Draco, and Hermione could only imagine Draco's response.

Selena was speaking with Draco about the weather. "There will be snow tonight, it is early this year." She said.

"Indeed, how do you know? Kill a weather witch?" he asked.

"No, I was taught about the weather by my mother."

"Indeed, and she did what you do?" he asked.

"I take after my father. I was their only child."

"I see. Why did you become what you are?"

"I didn't know what to become until one day my father and I were fighting and he saw my future."

"Indeed."

"I apologize for last night, I was out of my place, I only proved you right. I should not have accepted your invitation for a fight."

"Alright."

"I take great offence of your comments about my being what I am. Please reflect upon what your own race does to my people before you call me that again." She replied, closing the topic.

"What-"

"And it has begun to snow." She off handedly commented. "Professor Sinestra, I suggest taking your students to the tower at eleven thirty five, there will be something in the heavens that is only seen once every fifty years."

"Indeed, I am not aware of it."

"A comet will make an appearance tonight, followed by a magnificent shower." She said before standing to leave the hall for her office to grade papers.

Draco followed her, he didn't understand her sudden change, but Hermione stopped him.

"Be careful with her. I know you are still upset and wonder what she's doing but she's different she does things differently than us." Hermione said. Draco nodded and continued down his path.

"Selena, why are you complicating things? You try to kill me then you apologize for that. What is going on?" he asked when he entered her office.

"I felt betrayed when you called me a murderer. You didn't understand what I did and why."

"Alright explain." He said, sitting.

"Redding, he hired someone to kill his wife so he could marry his lover to begin with. He also hires hit men to kill those who oppose him. I don't kill people who are innocent."

"Alright. I believe you. Why do you do that though?"

"He, for example, killed entire families if one of his employees or so called friends said something untrue about him, or if it was true and he didn't want people knowing. He had his brother murdered when his brother discovered his embezzling and wanted to fire him."

"What about others?"

"I am paid to kill some. Others I kill due to their actions, like I almost did with you."

"Alright. Why are you so cold to people."

"I am firstly an Elf."

"What does that mean."

"Your kind has done terrible things to us."

"Like what?"

"Your father had an Elvin sex slave until you were born, and kept her in a small dirty room until he died and I found her five months ago."

"But father died seven years ago!"

"Elves don't need food and water like you do, at least not in the same quantities. But she was living off the moss and fungi growing in the room."

"That's not all of it is there?"

"Not even a dent."

"Point taken. I apologize for being rude last night."

"Accepted."

"May I join you sometimes when you are hired to assassinate someone?"

"That will depend of how our future together is."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"If we are fighting or not speaking then of course you may not." He nodded and left the room to let her grade papers, he had some to grade himself.

AN

I hope this chapter was all right. I'll update again soon.