Here is the next chapter. For future reference Tom Senior is Tom Riddle and Tom Junior is Harry Potter. For the purposes of ease in this story Tonks will be in her third year now not her last one. Please read and review thanks, love Angel x
Tom properly looked around now that he was here. The common room was gorgeous. The walls were painted a gorgeous teal green with silver going all the way around the tops and bottoms of each wall in a large strip. The ceiling was domed with some glass which looked directly up to the sky. It would seem the high domed window stuck out of the water and let the light of the day or night flood into their new common room making it way brighter than before. The floor was obviously new as it was now marble and sparkling. The furniture all looked new and very comfortable. There were chairs and couches in deep silver with green throw pillows on each one. They looked very comfortable. He knew that everyone would properly see them tomorrow as most of them were tired tonight and would be heading straight to bed. Well most of them anyway. Some of the older years still hung around claiming that they had lost some things. Severus calmly walked over to them.
"Gentlemen can I help you?" he droned seriously.
"Sir we think those Weasley twins have been at the pranking again. Some of our things are missing. We had them on the train and don't have them now!" they complained.
"That is indeed an interesting situation you find yourselves in gentlemen. Were those things dark because I can assure you as foolish as the Weasley twins appear they'd never touch anything dark! They don't have the stones for it" he sneered as they reeled.
"How on earth did you know that?" one of them called out before clamping his hand on his mouth and looking highly guilty.
"From now on nothing dark enters this house. Slytherin has always been accused of being dark and I don't wish for that to continue so we will no longer have dark items here. My word on this is final unless of course you wish to go to Professor Dumbledore about it. You may have whatever opinions you like I care not just don't ram your opinions down everyone's throats and we'll all be fine. Goodnight gentlemen" he sneered as they shrunk under his intense stare. He was rather scary after all. They'd just have to do without them from now on. Slytherin was changing and many people didn't like that. They'd just have to suck it up and deal.
He approached the first years who were all sitting on two sofas waiting for him to give them his welcoming speech.
"Welcome to Slytherin house. We honour each of you for being chosen to be in this illustrious if not misunderstood house. A lot of people all over the school resent Slytherins because they do not work the way we do and therefore don't understand us. They also don't try to understand us either. You will often hear that I single out and punish Gryffindor students in my lessons and I will tell you now that it is true!" he said as everyone present gasped in shock. Clearly they'd not expected honesty from him or for him to be so plain.
"I can guess you want to know why and I will tell you why. Professor Dumbledore himself is not inherently flawed man but because he was a Gryffindor in his own youth he favours his house and lets them get away with anything bad they ever do. I am a fair man mostly but I will not mollycoddle those who do not deserve it. Every house here has their own set of in house rules and now I will tell you mine!" he said as they all watched him enraptured by what he was saying.
"Rule number one is that we never fight outside this house with a fellow house member. If you don't like them keep all disagreements to this house alone. We show a united front outside at all times no matter what. Rule number two is that you should never get caught. Those who are caught by a teacher breaking a rule will get no sympathy whatsoever from me no matter what I elect to say at the time. I am not a dramatic man and if you are caught I may just order you to return here but know that once here you will be punished for sure. If you need to break any rule be sure you are never caught and remember if you're caught you're on your own!" he said seriously eyeing each of them.
"Rule number three is that everything we do here is done honestly. If you cannot do something honestly then get out. I do not tolerate cheating one iota but if you can do something to make someone else look bad always do it so long as you can be sure you will not get caught. Rule number four is that tantrums of any kind are not tolerated and the first person who throws one will earn a week's detention with me on the spot" here he paused staring at Draco who seemed to very suddenly realise that rule was targeting him and scowled deeply. That wasn't fair at all! Without his tantrums how could he be sure he'd ever get what he wanted to get straight away? How could he be the Slytherin kingpin like his father was in his day? He wanted to be cooler than his dad and do more than he ever had done in school and now it looked he was doomed from the beginning. As Severus moved his eyes away from Draco they scanned over all of the faces looking up at him before he continued.
"Ok than rule number five is that whilst at school you must always look comfortable and how you would wish to look. Please remember your parents are not here and how you present yourself can determine the kinds of jobs you can all get when you're older. Rule six is simple. Slytherin may have been the house of Lord Voldemort but it is not an inherently dark house. Therefore no dark items of any kind are ever permitted into this house. You will more than likely find that all rooms here have changed too so you can probably expect new beds and so on. Goodnight off to bed please. Mr Malfoy, Mr Potter, Mr Zabini, Miss Greengrass and Miss Davis stay behind a moment please!" he asked as the said students remained behind.
"Mr Malfoy if you wish the house elves to clean your clothing it must be taken into the bathroom where it will be left for them to collect. In the mornings it can be once more collected from the bathroom and brought to your room again. Goodnight!" he called out as a stunned Draco looked horrified. He went to protest heavily but stopped himself sighing deeply.
"Goodnight sir!" he said sullenly heading in the direction of his room. Severus sighed himself shaking his head at the boy as he retreated. He looked back at the others waiting for him and turned to them now.
"As you all are aware you are all contracted to marry one another. Miss Davis to Mr Zabini and Miss Greengrass to Mr Potter here. I must ask you now if you would like to room together as is permitted when you are contracted to marry. You are expected to responsible in every sense of the word if you elect to room together. If you do not wish to room together this year you may elect to do so at any other time!" he addressed them all. Daphne looked stunned when she looked at Tom. He was so good looking and left her rather speechless.
"Well um Mr Potter I am fine with whatever you decide!" she said sounding very submissive and making him frown deeply.
"Please call me Tom. I don't want some silly submissive person for a wife. I want you to make decisions with me deciding firmly what you want or do not want. Now what would you like?" he asked her looking intently at her as he took her hand and smiled at her. Butterflies erupted in her tummy at that and she giggled despite herself.
"I'd like that very much!" she said boldly as they all agreed to room together. They were shown the way to the marriage quarters with Tom obviously getting the Lords Quarters. When Blaise, Tracey and Daphne saw it they gasped and were stunned when Professor Snape made them give a vow that they wouldn't tell anyone else Tom was the Lord Slytherin. They all agreed and Daphne all but fainted however she managed to catch herself at the last second so thankfully that didn't happen. Their bedroom contained a large king sized four poster bed with the posts of the bed being mahogany snakes winding up at each end of the bed. They had their own en suite, walk in wardrobe and living room with a small kitchen/ dining room off to one side. It was like an apartment and Daphne loved it. As they got ready for bed they got in side by side looking at one another as she leaned in kissing his lips gently smiling at him. It felt natural to do it and he loved it too.
"Daphne I must tell you I am also contracted to another girl but just one other. I hope that is alright with you?" he asked as she looked thoughtful.
"Well as long as she is stylish and does all the right things it will be fine with me although I must stress that time with me should be just with me and on her days you can be with her or whatever we all agree on later on. Can I cuddle with you a while you look so comfy?" she asked as he opened his arms. She scooted over laying on his chest and was just about to nod off when a house elf popped in making her jump.
"I be Sooty the elf of the Slytherin Lord and his lady. If you be needing anything you be calling Sooty ok?" she asked as he smiled at her.
"You are very sweet Sooty. Thank you so much. For now all we will require is for you to wake us up at seven thirty each morning. If we need anything else we'll let you know. Go off now and find somewhere comfortable to sleep. Goodnight!" he said as she blushed and jumped up and down for a moment.
"Oh Lord Slytherin is such a good Lord yes he is! So sweet he be! Goodnight!" she said popping out. As Daphne cuddled back into his embrace he held her tightly and fell asleep. What a day!