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At dinner that evening Severus found that he actually wanted to watch Persephone, 'Damn Albus for making me curious.' He thought, as he watched her out of the corner of his eye. He noticed that she mostly only picked at her food, making sure to eat small bites of it when she saw Hermione looking at her. About halfway through the meal she feigned being full and then left the Great Hall.

When Persephone got back to her room she grabbed the homework that she had yet to do and brought it down to the common room along with a quill and inkpot. She slowly worked through the homework, checking to make sure that everything was spelled correctly and such, and only stopped for dinner. Looking down at her watch Persephone saw that it was close to 1:30 in the morning. Sighing she brought her stuff up to her dorm quietly and put it away, she then changed quickly, taking the elastic out of her hair, and laid down to await sleep.

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Persephone awoke to an incessant tapping on her window, grumbling she got out of bed and stuck her glasses on her face so she could see. Walking over to the window she opened it and a barn owl flew in with a letter attached to its leg.

"Hey Jess," She said, petting the owl's head before taking the letter off its leg.

Ms. Lisalm,

I would like you to come up to my office around 11, there is something that I meant to discuss with you yesterday before you left but never got around to it. The password is the same as it was yesterday.

Professor Dumbledore

"I don't have any food for you Jess, sorry." Persephone said while walking over to her nightstand, she picked up her watch and swore, "He can wait." She then grabbed a towel off of her trunk and walked over to the washroom.

When she had finished her shower she dried her hair with her wand, making it rather messy, and then dressed in a pair of baggy jeans, a navy blue tee and a black sweater. She ran a brush through her hair and shoved her feet in her runners before running down the stairs and past the crowd in the common room, up to Dumbledore's office.

"Twix." She said to the gargoyle, trying to catch her breath before going in, taking a deep breath she walked in and sat down to the right of Severus yet again.

"So good of you to join us, Ms. Lisalm." Severus sneered.

"Well excuse me for trying to get as much sleep as I can." Persephone retorted. "What is it that you called me here for, Professor Dumbledore?"

"Ah, yes, seeing as you ran out before Cornelius was finished with his speech you missed part of what he had to say." Dumbledore then pushed a piece of paper towards Persephone; she picked it up and began to read it in her head.

The consummation of the marriage must happen, at most, six months after the marriages take place on November 15th. The only exception to this being if someone in the marriage is not of legal age yet, if that is the case then the consummation must take place, at most, six months after the younger party turns 17.

Persephone dropped the paper on Dumbledore's desk and promptly walked out of his office. She headed down towards the Black Lake forgetting that it was November and she didn't have her cloak.

"I think she took that rather well." Dumbledore said, looking at the doorway that Persephone had just stalked out of.

Severus just looked at Dumbledore, one eyebrow raised, "How so?"

"She could have yelled as she's been doing for the last two days." Dumbledore sighed, "Go talk to her Severus, she needs to talk to someone, keeping everything to herself isn't a very good idea."

"Surely she has other friends whom she can talk to? Ms. Granger, for one."

"Not exactly, Ms. Granger is barely more than an acquaintance to the girl, go talk to her."

"Alright, fine," Severus stood up and left, muttering something under his breath about old men who never shut up.

Persephone was leaning against a tree methodically lifting her head up and then bashing it against the bark. "Well this is just bloody great, I have to…okay, no, I am not going to think about that. That's just wrong, completely and utterly wrong. Stupid, stupid, stupid me." She paused for a few minutes, rubbing her hands up and down her arms before continuing.

"He's so sarcastic, and he pretty much hates me because I'm a Gryffindor of all things, well, I'm sarcastic too…oh I don't know. Maybe he's like me, sort of, sarcasm and stuff up front to hide pain…whatever, I don't know, he's not going to tell me.

"He actually asked if I wanted to invite anyone to the…wedding…urgh, this is going to be so complicated."

"I was still wondering about that actually." Severus said.

"Holy shit!" Persephone said, flinging herself off the tree and falling sideways, landing on her backside in a mud puddle. "Oh nice, very graceful, Persephone" She muttered to herself before standing up. "Still wondering about what exactly, and why are you out here?"

"If you were planning on inviting anyone," He still stood there, watching as she fell into the mud and making no move to help her.

"No, I'm not." She pulled her wand out from the front pocket on her jeans and pointed at her back, "Scourgify." She muttered.

"And why is that?"

"I really don't believe that that's any of your business."

"Afraid your Muggle family won't accept you? Can't say I blame you, they aren't well versed in these types of…situations."

"Listen, I really don't give a damn if you mock me, but do not mock my family and please do not ask me why I'm not inviting anyone again." She moved to walk past him and into the Forest when he grabbed her arm. "Let go of me."

"The Headmaster sent me out here because apparently you need to talk about something, or so he thinks."

"Of course he thinks so, he can't help but poke his nose into everyone's business," She twisted her arm out of his grasp, "Now if you'll excuse, Professor." Persephone started walking towards the Forest again.

"Students are not allowed into the Forest, Ms. Lisalm."

"I don't give a shit." She called over her shoulder.

"10 points from Gryffindor for your blatant disrespect," Severus said, as he turned and followed Persephone, his long legs allowing him catch up rather quickly. "Just where do you think you are going?"

Persephone rolled her eyes, "If you must know I'm going to visit the Thestrals, one of them had a foal a few weeks ago and I wanted to see how it was doing."

"You can see them?"

She nodded sadly, "Why are you following me?" She took a slight turn to the left before continuing to walk forwards.

"Because students are not supposed to be in the Forest."

"So you said, but that doesn't answer my question. You could just take house points off and order me to return to the castle, not like I'd care or listen but still."

Severus chose not to comment. The walked in silence for the next few minutes, turning every so often, "Your marks have gone up lately, any particular reason?"

"I have nothing better to do." Persephone turned again and they came to a small clearing, she smiled at the Thestrals before approaching the foal slowly. She stretched her hand out towards it, smiling as it lipped at her palm, her other hand ran along its back, feeling the spine and rubbing its sides. Giving the foal's head one last rub she turned to go back towards the castle.

"Do you even know where you're going?" Severus said, now walking beside Persephone again.

"Sort of, I usually find my way eventually"

They found their way out of the Forest about 10 minutes later and then started to head up towards Hogwarts. When they entered the castle Persephone turned towards Severus slightly, "I think I can find my way to my dorm from here, Professor."

"Of course."

Persephone nodded and then walked up a set of stairs, "Thanks," She quietly called over her shoulder before disappearing around the corner. Severus nodded curtly before walking down to the dungeons. After wandering around the castle rather slowly for an hour Persephone found herself at Dumbledore's office, muttering 'Twix' before she entered.

"Headmaster?" She called out, when no one answered she walked over to Fawkes and held out her arm, the Phoenix climbed on and made a soft singing sound in its throat as she stroked the bird's head.

"Ah, Ms. Lisalm how was your walk?" Dumbledore asked her.

"Fine, I'm sorry I've been acting like a brat these past few days it's unnecessary and really stupid so I came to apologize. That and I think there's something that I missed during Fudge's speech and you left out earlier today, I'd like to know what that is."

"I was wondering when you'd ask. But yes you did miss something; you must have a child within the first three years of the marriage."

Persephone closed her eyes and sighed, "Joy, alright then, whatever." Putting Fawkes back on his perch she turned and left leaving Dumbledore smiling knowingly behind her.

The rest of the day passed uneventfully, Persephone was in the Library for the rest of the afternoon, though she left for dinner, and after it closed she went up to her dorm and read Pride & Prejudice until about four or so in the morning. Finally falling into a deep sleep that only lasted three and a half hours.

Wow...I think that was a pretty bad chapter but whatever Severus and Persephone didn't fight, which is good...for them. Yeah, R&R!!!