Ch15
Disclaimer: No, I don't own Sailor Moon and nor do I own Harry Potter.
Oliver Wood had just arrived at Hogsmeade with hopes of seeing his old school during his vacation. It was then when he had spotted his old Potions professor on what, surprisingly, appeared to be a date. He called out his name and when the girl he was with turned around, Oliver felt his heart beat fast. The young woman was by far the most beautiful he had ever seen with long blond hair and big blue eyes, it was almost like the vela he had seen in his last year during the TriWizard Tournament.
"Mr. Wood," Severus said, "A pleasure to see you again." Underline meaning, 'what in the world are you doing here? You already graduated.'
"Oh is this someone you know, Severus?" the blonde asked.
"First name basis means that they must be pretty close, Oliver concluded silently, "Judging on age, I doubt it's anything romantically, rather than father and daughter relation."
Severus pointed at Olive and said, "This is an old student of mine that graduated two years ago, Oliver Wood." He then turned to the teenager and said, "This is Serenity Potter; she is the professor for the Defense Against the Dark Arts."
"Really, but you're so young," Oliver said in a shocked tone.
Usagi just laughed and said, "I'm just twenty years old. And I assure you that I'm no amateur for that subject."
"Ah," Oliver whispered. As he thought about her name, despite how lovely it sounded, he couldn't help but ponder over the last name. "Potter? Any relation to Harry Potter?" he asked.
Usagi smiled and said, "Yes, he's my younger brother." By the shocked and disbelieving look on his face, she knew what he was thinking. "Not many people knew of my existence other than the headmaster of Hogwarts and the head of the Gryffindor House," she said, "Also I've been in Japan for the past sixteen years, so that's why you've never heard about me." She held out a hand as Oliver took it and they shook. "May I ask what is your connection of Harry?"
"We were in the same house and I was his Quidditch captain since he was a first year," Oliver said.
"Since he was a first year, huh? What was his position?" she asked.
"A seeker, and the best Hogwarts had ever seen," Oliver replied with pride, almost as if he was the father of the boy they were talking about.
"Father was also a very talented seeker," Usagi said. She glanced over to Severus and added in a playful tone, "With a competitive streak against the Slytherins against Lucius Malfoy and Severus over here."
Severus rolled his eyes an began to head towards the direction of the school. "And he had a knack for breaking rules just like his father," he sneered in annoyance. "And as acquainted as you two are getting, we should head back before that man decides to trail after us and accuse me of doing something dishonorable to you." (1)
"Who are you talking about?" Usagi asked, "I know that Uncle Dumbledore would never do anything like that."
The pale man turned around and questioned her with a glance, wondering if she was joking. "I'm talking about Mr. Ten'oh," he said, "You know, the man who threatens me every single time he sees me with you, even if we meet by coincidence."
"Ruka-chan?" Usagi whispered. Her head tilted to the side in question.
Oliver scratched his head and wondered out loud, somewhat in a dejected tone, "I thought Ms. Serenity was going steady with you, Professor Snape."
"Call me, Mr. Snape, Mr. Wood, since I'm no longer your professor, there's no need to call me as such," Severus said in a cold tone, "And I am not 'going steady', as you would like to call it, with Serenity. I am just assisting her in buying supplies for her class."
"Severus, you are talking about Ruka-chan, right? The offensive professor?" Usagi asked.
"What other Ten'oh can I be talking about?" Severus asked.
"But…Ruka-chan's a girl," Usagi said.
The look on Severus' face was actually quite hilarious for Oliver. He had to bite his bottom lip tightly, in fear of laughing out loud, which would probably embarrass the potions professor and give him a reason to poison him. During the even years he had spent in Hogwarts, the only faces that Severus had ever made were those of seriousness, prideful, or smug kinds. When Usagi had corrected Severus about this person's gender, Severus's jaw dropped comically in a crooked manner and his eyes bulged out, almost like fish out of water.
"A woman? Are you sure?" Severus asked.
"I've seen her naked before, so yes, I'm sure," Usagi said.
"But she looks like a man, acts like one too," Severus shouted, acting nothing like his usual self, causing Oliver to wonder if he was drunk, "And she's in love with another woman!?"
"What's wrong with homosexuality? Love is love, regardless of gender," Usagi argued, "I don't know why everyone makes such a big deal over this. Back in Japan, BL is pretty popular with the girls and I'm sure that around the world as well."(2)
Trying to divert his attention from Severus so he could prevent himself from exploding from laughter, Oliver asked, "What does BL stand for?"
"BL stands for 'Boys Love' or as we would like to call it yaoi or shonen-ai(3)," Usagi replied, "Pretty much it's boy on boy." The men's faces grew paled, but Usagi didn't take notice as she continued, "There's also yuri or shojo-ai(4), which is girls falling in love with other girls. I don't know if it's as popular as yaoi, though." She smiled apologetically at them; finally taking notice of their pale faces, but not knowing the reason, she asked, "Are you two all right?"
"Please tell me that you're not interested in those genres of reading," Severus said in what almost resembled a pleading voice.
"I read them from time to time," Usagi replied, shrugging her shoulders, "But I'm not too obsessed with them. One of my old friends, Minako, loves to read them though; she'll read anything that deals with love and romance, but more specifically, she loves to drool over the hot guys in the books or over the 'hot sex scenes' as she would like to call them."
Severus just shook his head as he muttered, "All I want to do know is to get back to the castle and get this conversation out of my head." He quickly turned around and began to stride rapidly to his destination.
Oliver watched in puzzlement at his old professor's back. He turned his head over to Usagi, who was giggling, and grew amazed at how she could do something to embarrass that man and not get hexed or poisoned by him. When she turned towards him, Oliver jumped and felt his heart quicken. "He's a lot of fun to tease, isn't he?" he heard her ask.
"A lot of fun to tease," Oliver repeated. He just gaped at her as he added, "I'm surprised that you managed to survive after all this."
Usagi just laughed as she wrapped an arm around one of his. "Well, I am a survivor," she said.
Severus glanced back to see the two laughing and conversing as if they were old friends. He turned back around and made sure that his grip on the bags was strong before continuing on his way. "Those two should get together," he muttered, "They seem compatible with each other, personality and age wise."
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Setsuna watched as two warriors continued on their training with several people. "In just two more days, Endymion will attack," she said softly, "We must prepare for it immediately."
"Don't forget we also need the perfect timing or else it won't work," the shorter of the warriors said.
The other one just laughed and clapped her hands. "I can't wait to see the look on that bastard's face when he finds out," she said happily, "Hey, do you think it's possible for you to record it and send it to me."
Setsuna laughed as she shook her head. "I'll do more than that," she said, "I'll record his face and his beatings." Several cheers of agreement followed around the area.
"So, how's the princess's love life?" someone in the shadows asked.
Setsuna sighed as an annoyed look grew on her face. "Let's just say that we should just leave the courting to the gods and goddesses. Severus believes that he's too old for her and Usagi-hime believes that despite the feelings she might have for him, he won't look at her that way," she pouted.
Everyone in the area had to stop themselves from laughing, after all it's not everyday that you'll see the very mature guardian of the time gates act like a child. "Don't worry, everything will be all right," another warrior said.
"That's right, our king acted the exact same way towards our queen and now look at the two of them now. Madly in love with two kids and one more on the way," another one said.
Setsuna sighed and said, "I know, but sooner or later the gods up there will end up putting on bets to see when they'll admit their feelings for each other or until someone else comes along." All of a sudden feeling tired, Setsuna sat down on a nearby chair. "How did your king confess to her in the end?" she asked, silently trying to come up with a plan to help her princess's love life get back on track.
"Oh, nothing a little jealousy couldn't fix," one of them said, "Without the queen's intention, of course."
"Not to mention, her nearly dieing," another one added.
"Just let things go with the flow, Setsuna," one said, "Everything will turn out right in the end, you'll see."
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The minute Severus step foot into the castle, a stampede could be heard heading right towards him. Getting this dreaded feeling, he slowly turned his head to see Haruka running at him with murder in her eyes. "SNAPE!" she shouted at the top of her lungs, causing the poor man to fear for his life. Haruka grabbed him by the collar and began to shake him while screaming at the top of her lungs, "Where's Koneko-chan? What have you done to her?" Severus couldn't answer back, due to the constant shaking of his body, but Haruka could only think of the worst outcome. "I knew it! You did something to her! You probably raped her and dumped her body somewhere, didn't you? You filthy son of a…"
"What are you doing, Ruka-chan?" Usagi asked. She had just walked in to see Haruka demanding answers from the potions master and accusing him of rape, which she highly doubts the man would do.
Haruka continued to glare at Severus as she said, "Don't bother me now, Koneko-chan. I'm trying to figure out what this bastard did to you."
Oliver's narrowed slightly as he inched towards Usagi. "Is he always like this?" he whispered.
Usagi just sighed and shook her head. "Yep, and by the way, Ruka-chan's a girl," she replied. Oliver's mouth dropped open as he eyed the tomboyish woman, trying to see if she was telling the truth. Usagi walked over to Haruka and pulled her by the ear, away from the suffocating man. "Ruka-chan, for the last time, Severus didn't do anything to me, so I would really appreciate it if you would stop thinking that he's plotting with Endymion and trying to kill me," she scolded.
"But, Koneko-chan, this man arrived without you, so what else am I supposed to think?" Haruka whined, almost like a child whose parents kept insisting is lieing.
Usagi rolled her eyes and placed her hands on her hips. "I was only a few seconds behind him. Honestly, you really need to stop acting like this," Usagi replied, "I don't need you to go all crazy like this all year long."
Haruka was about to cave in to her princess's wishes when she noticed Oliver watching Usagi. Suddenly her overprotective radar began to spark as she stomped over to the confused and intimidated teen, shouting, "Who are you and what are you doing so close to Koneko-chan?"
Usagi slapped her forehead as she muttered, "She's never going to stop, is she?"
Severus fixed his collar as he said, "Better him than me."
(1) The reason why Severus uses male terms while referring to Haruka is because he still believes that she's a guy.
(2) Basically, I don't really understand why people go all crazy about the whole homosexuality relationships since I agree with Usagi and don't mind it much.
(3) Shonen-ai means boys-love (guy on guy)
(4) Shojo-ai means girls-love (girl on girl)