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Remus had just recived a letter from Harry when Tonks entered the room and looked over his shoulder to the letter, "Oh! The summer festival? I love the summer festival, you ever gone?". Remus barely nodded, he was deep in thought about what had happened one time he had gone to the summer festival, it was the summer after his graduation from Hogwarts.

Lily had gone to James' house one day during the summer, they were both dating by then, and Peter had asked her about the festival in muggle London. "Oh, it's actually quite fun! Why? Do you want to go?" she asked, Peter couldn't hide his enthusiasm as he nodded his head and jumped up, ready to leave. James held Lily's hand as they both would whisper in each other's ears and giggle, Sirius and Remus looked around at all the muggle items in curiousity, while Peter seemed to be searching for something in particular, although he never said what it was.

It started to get late and they were heading back, Peter seemed dissappointed by this as he stormed ahead of us, but he suddenly stopped and waited then signaled for us to hurry towards him. That's when we saw Snape grab a frightened looking Cecelia and press his lips to hers, James flew over there faster than he ever moved during a Quidditch game. He grabbed Snape by the shoulder, turned him around and punched him square in the jaw, Cecelia squeaked and went to move but James gentley tossed her towards Lily, Peter and Remus while Sirius stormed forward to help James out.

"You bastard!" James screamed, the others were trying to calm Cecelia down, she was panicky and kept trying to say something but couldn't manage to speak. Sirius and James picked up a struggling Snape by the shirt collar and shook him violently, "What the hell were you doing to my little sister?" James' voice echoed in the narrow, empty street we were on. Snape suddenly narrowed his eyes and spat "What would I want with some stupid little kid?", he then seemed to go into shock of what he said and slowly looked over at Cecelia. Tears ran down her cheeks as she pushed her way out of Lily and Peter's grip and ran of, they both dashed after her where as I gave Snape one last glance before running off to help find Cecelia.

When James and Sirius caught up to us, they had told about how they beat him until he was near unconcious, Cecelia locked herself in her room for almost the rest of summer, crying. James managed to get in there and calm her down, he stayed by her side the rest of the summer, rubbing her back, smoothing her hair, telling her "I wont let that happen to you ever again". He became the best brother after that, Cecelia eventually started talking to everyone, but never spoke of that day ever again, but one thing has been bothering Remus, ever since that day...

'Snape, a sexual predator? Something just doesn't add up...' Remus was still reminiscing when Snape arrived, "Should I tell him you two will be going?" Snape's voice broke his thoughts. Tonks shrugged "I figured we'd just owl him back", Snape fidgeted for a minute "I don't think having an owl show up at breakfast with a letter attached to it is a good idea, if you know what I mean...". Tonks raised an eyebrow then smirked "You just want an excuse to go over there, don't you?", Snape blanched and backed away "Excuse? I'm just trying to make things easier on everyone!" he defended. Tonks playfully grinned "Well, then in that case, Remus and I can go tell him ourselves, right honey? Remus?" she poked her werewolf boyfriend, who had been staring at Snape as if trying to analize something.

"What? Oh, yes, right...go ourselves..." Remus shook his head, trying to regain his focus, Tonks pouted and wrapped her arms around him "What's wrong?". Remus thought for a moment then looked up at Snape "I've been wondering...what exactly happened that one summer, after graduation". Snape eyed him for a minute before frowning "What? You and your friends seemed to think you knew what was going on, why ask me?". Remus frowned now "I'm serious...I...I don't think we saw the whole picture..." he knew it was a 'duh' thing to say, especially after seeing the look on Snape's face after he'd said it. Tonks raised an eyebrow "What's this about? What're we talking about, now?", Snape sighed and sat down "Believe me or not, it doesn't make a difference, but...this is what happened..."

It was the middle of the summer now, Snape and Cecelia had been meeting up together everyday, like the last two summers, but things were getting awkward between them, especially since Snape came to the realization 'I think I'm in love with her...'. They both couldn't look each other in the eye without blushing or laughing nervously, but they tried to play it off with casual conversation, until one day when Snape was walking Cecelia towards the Leaky Cauldron to go home. A little bit down the road, she slipped her hand into his, Snape glance over at her but she was looking down, she looked up and opened her mouth to say something but struggled with the words. Snape made sure they continued walking, knowing that she'll eventually say whatever it is she was trying to, when he felt a tug on his arm bring him down and Cecelia went on her tip-toes, pressing her lips against his.

He was frozen, too in shock to move, let alone blink, she pulled away and stared up at him, Snape could only stand there blinking 'Oh...my...god...she just kissed me...'. Cecelia started to step away, her eyes widening with horror, her face completely pink with embarrassment, she turned and started to run away from him, snapping him to his senses. He darted off after her and when he caught up he turned her around and now kissed her, it was what he'd been wanting to do since he'd first realized he'd fallen for her, but he was then torn from her and punched.

While Sirius and James berated him, he could see Cecelia struggling to say something, he knew she had a hard time trying to speak, especially when she was nervous, or scared. "What the hell were you doing to my little sister?" James yelled at him, he narrowed his eyes at his old school foe and heard the worst words he could ever say spill out of his mouth "What would I want with some stupid little kid?". 'No!' he thought 'That's not what I meant to say!', but it was too late as he locked eyes with Cecelia, tears running down her cheeks just before she bolted down the road, Lily, Peter and Remus running after her. James and Sirius showed no mercy and used no magic, Snape layed there, not bothering to struggle 'I deserve this beating...I didn't mean what I said...I'm so sorry Cecelia...I love you...'.

Remus nodded sadly, Tonks wipe a tear from her eye "That is so sad...Remus, why'd you guys do that?", Remus' head snapped up "One, I didn't do anything, and two...we only saw him grab and kiss her...it did look like an attack...". Snape stared off at the wall, sorrow etched in his face, Remus raised an eyebrow suddenly "You were in love with Cecelia?", this snapped Severus back to reality, he hadn't meant to say that. "Is that where she was going ever summer? Were you two together?" Remus' curiuosity had been piqued, Snape fidgeted, trying to think of what to say to possibly cover it up. "I...I don't know if this helps any, but...I'm sorry...about what happened..." Remus finished lamely, knowing that this would either anger Snape more or do absolutely nothing, but Snape nodded "Like I said, Lupin, it doesn't matter anymore...Cecelia's dead...".

"But they never found her body!" Tonks piped in, trying to be helpful, but both men shook their heads, "If Cecelia were alive, she would've shown herself..." Remus sighed. An awkward silence fell over the room before Snape stood up suddenly "So, you two will be telling Harry yourselves? Or shall I deliver the messege?", Tonks was about to say something but Remus smiled "You go ahead, for us". Snape nodded and tried to hide the smile on his face, although to Tonks and Remus it was almost as if he jumped up and kicked his heels together hollaring "Woohoo!", "My, my...I do believe Severus Snape has found love again" Tonks smirked.

Snape whipped his head in her direction and tried to look taken aback "What the devil are you talking about?", Remus smiled and nodded his head "Face it, you're a sucker for brown eyes...". Snape snorted "Her eyes are blue", Remus and Tonks burst into a fot of giggles "You just proved our point!", Snape thought about it 'What? Damn them!' he turned and left the house as quick as possible.

Peter sat in Azkaban, thinking, remembering 'She was mine! No way I was going to let her fall for you, Snape! Thought no one was near when you two talked in the library, huh?'. He let his eyes dart about the cell, the new and 'improved' Azkaban would make it far too diffcult for him to escape like Sirius had done a few years ago, he was no longer able to use his animagus form 'They took it away from me...'. He felt quite lucky with how that one summer went, after hearing Cecelia and Snape talk in the library about meeting up again for the summer, he felt a surge of jealousy course through him. 'Those smiles, those laughs...I should be the one causing those! Not Snivellus! Never! I will make sure that you two are never together again!' he had thought back then, that was when he thought of what to do.

He was at James' house when Lily came over "Lily, do muggles do anything special in the summer time? Like have festivals or some sort of parties?", they all fell for it. The entire time they wandered around, he was searching for any sign of the two, but he was having no such luck that day, no sign of Snape or 'My Cecelia'. Everyone suggested they head back home, making Peter very disgruntled 'Doubt I could convince them to come back...' he stormed ahead of them 'Where the hell are they?', and that's when he saw them. He saw 'his' Cecelia pull Snape down to kiss her, he wanted nothing more than to puke, he felt sick 'Wait!' he saw he take off from him and him go after her, he quickly turned and signalled for the others. They all got there just in time to see Snape grab and kiss 'his' Cecelia, 'Oh, and how perfect how she looks scared...I should be the one kissing her, not that greasey, big nosed...yes! Punch him harder next time James!'.

He, Lily and Remus were holding onto Cecelia, Cecelia's mouth opened and closed a few times 'No! You can't say anything! That will ruin it all!' and then Snape said it..."What would I want with some stupid little kid?"...'Yes!' he looked down to see Cecelia was crying now, she then broke free of their grasp and took off, he and Lily took off after her 'It may have taken tears, but I will be the one that makes you smile again!'.

He tilted his head back and laughed "I may have never gotten you, Cecelia...but neither did he...", several people in their cells stared at him awkwardly. The new Azkaban guards came in to interrogate Peter, they entered his cell and pour the veritaserum down his throat and begin questioning. The cell across from Peter's, a pair of ice-blue eyes stared in disgust at what the formerrat was saying, then in a mix of confusion and curiousity at the next set of questions and answers.

The man with the ice-blue eyes raised an eyebrow and scowled when a guard came to his cell, it was his release day, he was not to use a wand or any form of magic, which he had no problem with, he was a changed man. "Mr.Malfoy...you do know that if you are caught using magic of any form before you are permitted to again, you will suffer a fate worse than the dementors kiss?" asked the guard, Lucius nodded "I will be stripped of all magic, leaving me like a squib...near muggle". He was led out, the blonde man strained himself to listen to more of the interrogation, he was stopped at a large desk, the man behind it handed a piece of paper with his parole...part of it being Muggle Interaction.

Ohohohoho! Lucius Malfoy's parole is Muggle Interaction, y'know, kinda like Community Service? Muahahaha! Is it really gonna be that bad? Who's his Parole Officer gonna be? Who knows? I know! Review and soon you'll know! That's right, I make you review so I can update...so please, review :smiles sweetly: