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Persephone had gone to bed earlier that night and ended up falling asleep around nine. When she realized that she was starting to dream she tried to pull herself out of it but found that she was unable to do so. Images flashed before her eyes.

A happy, laughing Persephone, pulling a tiny, blonde five-year old girl into a closet.

Persephone watching as the young girl fell asleep.

Men in blacks robes and white masks rounding up a blonde woman of regular height and a slim figure, a slightly shorter brunette that had an almost doughy appearance, another woman of average height with fiery hair as well as a fiery temperament.

Two more figures entered the room an older, short blonde woman who was also slightly doughy and a tall redheaded male who had patches of grey in his hair. They were also seized and thrown to the ground.

A tall, robed figure with crimson eyes peering out through the shadows of the hood.

The newcomer hissed something to the rest of the robed figures.

The older two people were killed with a flash of green light.

The redheaded girl fighting off a robed figure, she hit the mask off his face revealing long pale blonde hair.

Persephone woke up, panting, a few tears leaking out of her eyes, which were squeezed shut. Grabbing her glasses off of her nightstand she put them on and then grabbed her watch, looking at it she groaned, it was 5:30.

"This is bloody brilliant, I'm not going to be sleeping anymore this morning." Persephone muttered, throwing off her covers and grabbing a pair of track pants along with a thick red sweater. She quickly changed and then pulled on a pair of socks and shoved her feet in her runners. She then walked down several flights of stairs stopping in front of a portrait of fruit she tickled the pear before walking in.

"Hello Miss, how mays Mitzy help yous?" Said a rather small house elf.

"A large cup of your strongest coffee please." Persephone said.

"Of course, Miss." Mitzy said, wobbling off towards another area of the large kitchen.

Persephone walked over to one of the tables and sat down; putting her head in her hands she allowed the swell of emotions to overtake her. Tears flowed freely down her cheeks and her shoulders shook. She barely noticed the house elf putting the mug of coffee in front of her. Her fist slammed on the table as she swore profusely, "I'm sorry, I fucked up real badly. Mermaid, Flower, Phoenix, I'm so sorry, so, so sorry."

After several minutes she started to calm down a little and she noticed the mug in front of her, picking it up she took a sip and smiled, relaxing. She didn't hear someone else come in, as she was lost in her thoughts, nor did she hear the house elves talking to another person, she didn't even hear that person stop right behind her. But after she swallowed her first sip of the coffee she heard someone speak.

"Here so early, Ms. Lisalm?"

She jumped visibly and turned around, eyes wide, seeing whom it was she closed her eyes and turned back around. "Please tell me you didn't see that whole thing."

"I did, mermaid, flower, and phoenix? What could you have possibly done to bother a mermaid and a phoenix let alone a flower?"

"None of your damn business."

"I believe it is."

"Shit, not this again."

"It is impossible to bother a flower unless flowers suddenly decided to have feelings."

"Could you go away?"

Severus walked around the table and sat across from Persephone holding his own mug of coffee and drinking it.

"It's quarter after six, what are you doing in the kitchens?" He asked.

"You're not going to leave me alone until I give you some kind of answer are you?"

"No."

Persephone sighed angrily, "I fell asleep to early."

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"I don't sleep well and if I fall asleep to early I tend to…have nightmares." Persephone sighed. "Why do you care anyway?"

"I don't."

"Then why ask?"

"Because you were sobbing." Severus sneered, "It only seemed polite to –"

"You're never polite, you don't care about anything! So why bother asking?!"

"You think you know so much about everything, and yet, in fact, you know so little."

"I know more than you think, now if you'll excuse me." Persephone stood up and left the kitchens, running up the stairs to the seventh floor. She paced around for a bit, muttering to herself, and a door appeared to her left. She jumped a bit but walked over to the door and opened it. Entering she saw a beautiful garden along with a bench and several books in a pile on the bench. "Oh right, the Room of Requirement."

Persephone spent the next several hours curled up in a corner of the garden reading some of the books that were laid out. Once she realized what time it what, she dropped the book, "Jeez, it's two o' clock that is not good. Well, Potions starts in ten minutes." She ran out of the Room of Requirement and up to her dorm. Getting dressed in her robes and putting her hair up in a clip she grabbed her books and ran down to the dungeons.

In her haste she ran into somebody and then fell back onto the floor.

"Watch it, Mudblood." She heard a cold voice above her.

"Oh, sod off Malfoy, today really isn't a good day,"

"Well, then I guess I should make it better shouldn't I?"

"What are you on about?" Persephone asked, grabbing her books off the floor. "Oh, I'm late now."

"I can make your day better, Mudblood."

"You are aware that you fiancée's best friend is a Muggleborn, Ginny won't be happy with you calling Hermione 'Mudblood' every time you see her."

"I don't care. I don't want to marry the filthy blood traitor anyway."

"What do you have to complain about? At least she's a Pureblood right? I mean, you Malfoy's usually only marry to breed, it seems."

"True."

"Exactly," Persephone then started walking and passed Draco before turning around, "Oh, and if you hurt Ginny, I know it's not likely but it is still possible, I'll hurt you. Make no mistake Malfoy, I know how to guarantee that you will never have children."

She ran off to the Dungeons, Draco following along at a rather leisurely pace, entering the room she ran to her seat and dropped her books on the floor beside Hermione.

"Finally decided to join us Ms. Lisalm, how nice. 20 points from Gryffindor." Severus said, before returning to the lesson. Draco wandered in some time later without a word from Severus.

The rest of the day passed by uneventfully, Persephone picked at her dinner and then read until four in the morning, she thought about her day. And the last thought to run through her head before sleep claimed her was 'I'm getting married on Friday.'

Okay, next chapter's the wedding! Yeay!

There's going to be a very akward moment between Persephone and Severus, and two surprise visitors which make Severus have completely the wrong assumption about something. You're going to have to keep reading to find out what happens, and please review!