Author's Notes: I had alot of ideas for this story and I am trying not to use too many of them, sorry. Please give me any tips or ideas that you have, thanks for reading!

Disclaimer: All but a few characters and places of my own creation are J.K. Rowling's.

Slytherin Siblings

Chapter 2: Severus Has a Girlfriend?

Mahala's POV

I guess that's ok. Winnie will keep Luc busy, but, what to do about uncle Sev. Ha, he hates when I call him that; I think it sounds hot.! He'll be a little harder; I wish I had planned for this. Out of the corner of my eye I saw him. Wow, he looks pissed. Maybe he wouldn't come.

Winnie looked over to at me with pleading, eager eyes "That's fine with me Holly (a name many people have taken to calling me)." My gosh, she either doesn't realize that she's my brother's prey tonight, or she's looking forward to it. I'm leaning towards the latter. Yah, I know I should feel bad about bringing her into the lions den, I do a little, but a Slytherins got to do what a Slytherins got to do. She'll eventually get over the indifference he'll have towards her afterwards. I looked at my brother and ran my eyes up and down him. "Ok, but you have to give me some money for drinks because I don't want you buying me any front of people." He pulled out his wallet, score. I'll use his money to buy his Christmas gift; I never buy my own drinks, as if. I held out my hand and looked at what he gave me. "That's not enough, I'll have to have some strange guys buy me some, and what about Winnie, she didn't bring any money. Where would she put it, look what she's wearing?" Kudos to me; now he has to look at what Winnie is wearing. He did, of course. All of this was done without looking at Severus; I'm not going to let him figure me out. I know that boy's game. I had told myself a long time ago to never wonder if he knew what I was up to or what I was thinking, this just allowed him in.

Lucius gave me more money, of course, I rock like that, you know. No one knows him better than I do. I looked him up and down again, "are you going to wear that?" I couldn't resist it; he was so much fun to mess with.

"I think he looks great," Winnie said and then threw him a seductive glance. She was good at that, too good. I'd have to have her teach me that; seduction wasn't my forte.

"Ok, whatever, lets go." I had places to go and things to do tonight. I had a lot of time to make for. It had been more than a month since I had been able to get out. Damn McGonagall, I had a good thing going until she figured out what I was doing. I don't regret it, well, maybe a little. Detention with Filch, uncle Sev (hee, hee, hee) and Hagrid wasn't pleasant. I must have seen and cleaned every disgusting thing that you can imagine in the last few weeks.

As we were waiting for my brother to get his coat, I cleared my mind, replaced it with the most inicent of thoughts, like academics, and wondering if I was wearing the most sensible shoes and sweater for the cold weather, and looked at Severus. I caught his eyes with my own and a few moments later he looked away and snorted. He could be so much fun if you know how, and when, to play with him. Academics, sweaters, and sensible shoes, ha ha ha. It had been a long time since I'd worried about those kinds of things. I never could lie to his face, though, he always called my bluff. So, I never look at him without a plan, whether lying or not; I've got to be consistent.

"Ready." Lucius sounded so chipper. I couldn't help but love my brother; he was so blind to all my indiscretions, always blaming others for them. Everyone headed for the door but Severus. "Severus, my good man, you don't want to be left behind do you?" Lucius had the door open and was waiting for his friend.

"I could only hope," he growled. I looked at him. Oh, good, maybe he won't .come. "Fine, I'll come, but you're buying tonight, and I don't care if you have given all of your money to your rotten, mischievous little sister." Shit, he must have known what I was thinking. Damn it, I was usually on top of these sorts of things. He then marched by mumbling something about a lack of parental authority figures and disobedient, manipulative children. Whatever, who knows who he was talking about.

I watched him make his way to the front porch and followed behind him. Without turning around he mumbled, "Where are we going?"

Uh oh, previous plans had to be changed with authority figures tagging along. "We're going to the…uh…" think Mahala, think, somewhere busy, somewhere busy. "Um… Instant Tang; yah, Instant Tang is slammin' on Saturday nights." Don't look at Severus, don't look at Severus! I knew he was leering at me; I could just feel his gaze burrowing into my brain. I had to stay strong. Think Instant Tang is fun; Instant Tang is fun.

Winnie looked at me perplexed. I eyed her, and her face went back to normal. I was hoping that Severus hadn't seen her brief look of confusion but I didn't think so because I could still feel his gaze on me.

"You certainly don't mean Instant Tang the gentlemen's club in Ireland, do you? Severus, doesn't your girlfriend work there?" Lucius looked over at Severus for the second half of his comment. I didn't know Severus had a girlfriend; my interests were definitely peaked.

"She's not my girlfriend!" he sneered. I swear I saw a tinge of embarrassment cross his face, but in a moment it was gone. "I am not going to a strip club with students of mine!" Once again I marveled at my genius. I didn't even know that he knew anyone at Instant Tang; I just thought that the naked women would distract my brother and his nosy, suspicious friend. Even Winnie, I knew, would be into the sexy dancers.

Lucius turned his head and leaned over to whisper something in Severus's ear. Severus turned and whispered something back. Lucius stood still for a moment in thought and then turned and whispered something back. My plan had worked, my brother could not pass up a chance to ogle naked woman.

Severus stepped forward. "Let's get this over with." Before I could figure out the emotion present in his statement, he had already disapperated.

"What did you say to him?" I asked, attempting to hide the fear that they knew what I was up to.

He threw his arm around Winnie and winked at her. "Common, let's go." After saying that he looked into the distance and stated before disapperating with Winnie at his side, "They raise the door fee at nine."

I was standing there, finally, some alone time. After owling me at school this morning that he wanted to pick me up at the train station I knew that I was in for it. I figured that he was trying to make good on his howler that I would be grounded for the entirety of Christmas break, but he was just excited to see me. Apparently, Narcissa's wretched mother had died about a week earlier (you know, I vaguely seem to remember being owled something about that; she was a terrible woman though; I could tell you stories, but I won't), and I guess this made him miss me. He had been all over me since picking me up at the train station at two. Winnie had come over at six and we had been inseparable since, even while showering. So this was my first moment since I had gotten home.

After taking a quick look around to assure for myself that I was truly alone, I spread my arms high and wide, raised my eyes toward the sky, and left the ground. I was morphing into an owl, if only for a few moments before disapparating to the Irish club.

Authors Note: I really want to have some Severus POV in the next chapter but I am alittle afraid that I can't do it justice. Wish me luck!