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Most of the stuff in bold is Severus' thoughts.

It had been a few days since Alyssia had been sick. It was getting on Professor Snape's nerves. She seemed physically well, but she just didn't act right.

'I can't believe I actually want her to be in pain. But if she isn't her normal self then something is wrong. As her guardian and Sky's friend, I need to try and fix it.'

Professor Snape thought about this as he walked into the common area. Alyssia was still sitting there reading a book.

'I never thought her to be somebody who would succumb to homesickness.' Professor Snape looked over at Harry and the twins. 'I hate you all. Nope still don't feel better. I want to filet and sear that hat over an open flame.'

Professor Snape cleared his throat and continued to walk over to Alyssia. "May I see you in my office?"

Alyssia without speaking got up and walked to his office.

'That's strange,' Professor Snape thought, as he followed her. "What's the matter?" Professor Snape asked in a rare used nice tone.

"Nothing." Alyssia sat there picking at her nails.

"Do you miss California that much?" Professor Snape asked again, trying to find something he could use to get something out of her. 'Why is she closing up? This completely unlike her.'

"No, I don't miss it, per say." Alyssia shrugged.

"Just what?" Professor Snape asked leaning over slightly. Suddenly an idea dawned on Professor Snape. 'Chemical withdrawal! She drank a lot of soft drinks. There was never time when there wasn't one in her hand.'

Professor Snape was unsure of where those drinks were purchased, or what kind they were. He sighed, thinking of what would probably need to be done to alleviate her gloomy state.

"I would like you to come to Diagon Alley with me. Get dressed in street wear and meet me back here in an hour."

Alyssia perked up/ "I actually get to leave?" She asked in a snippy tone unbecoming to her.

Professor Snape tilted his head slightly. "Is THAT what this is about?"

Alyssia got up and headed towards the door. "Well, I've been stuck in the same place for two weeks straight! How do you not get stir-crazy?"

Professor Snape remembered how Sky felt when he first arrived here, although, a thoroughwalk around the grounds sufficed for him. "I just don't. Sky felt the same way when he came here. It always bothered him. A thorough walk around the grounds seemed to do him a lot good."

Alyssia looked at him like he had lost his mind. "A walk?"

"Go get dressed." Professor Snape walked to his desk.

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Professor Snape may have been her guardian, but Alyssia was still a student at Hogwarts. Professor Dumbledore still had the last say, which didn't have Professor Snape worried in the slightest.

'Maybe I could…nah I don't think that's wise.'

He got a bit a parchment and wrote the Headmaster a note saying what his intentions were and if it bode well with him to take her along.

After a note had come back a little later, granting the trip, Professor Snape knew he would. His other request made him want to bang his head against something hard. Professor Dumbledore asked him to see if any other student from his house wanted to come. Knowing the old man had his ways, he would know if he didn't ask.

Professor Snape figured he didn't have to ask everybody, especially the Potter brat or the Weasley twins. He was NOT going to take them anywhere, and that was final.

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Professor Snape stood by the common room door, wanting to bang his head even worse. Potter and the twins were standing by the common room door waiting on Alyssia. To say Professor Snape despised Professor Dumbledore at this moment was an understatement.

'Bloody good time this will be! The nerve of that blighter ruining my day with this! Okay, it wouldn't be that great with Alyssia, especially if she's in a sour mood. She's the closest thing to family I have, her being my goddaughter. Oh, that sounded sad indeed. Still that nosey parker had no business…What on earth does she have on!

Professor Snape snapped out of his thoughts and stepped forward. It being Saturday, meant that there weren't too many students to see his overt father-like reaction to Alyssia's outfit.

"What do you think you have on!" Professor Snape stood there pointing at Alyssia, who stood there like nothing was wrong. 'I do NOT need a female version of Sky running around here!' he thought.

"What's the matter?" Alyssia asked, with an angelic smile. The pleated skirt she was wearing could almost pass for a mini.

"That thing is very…" Professor Snape was interrupted.

"Slytherin Sev-Sev? With the green and silver plaid, I completely agree," Alyssia said knowing she had won the argument. The only thing that kept her from being sent back up to change was the thick patterned wool tights she had on underneath. Topped off with her school shoes and a house sweater, it looked like a modern rendition of the current school uniform.

"It looks great!" Fred remarked.

"I think all girls uniforms should look like that!" George said. An extreme death glare was shot in their direction by Professor Snape and the two lowered their heads.

'You three had best be keeping your eyes off my goddaughter!' Professor Snape walked towards them and looked at Potter. "Why haven't you said anything yet?" he asked, in a foul mood over everything so far.

Harry looked at Professor Snape. "Can you for once think that I take after my mother instead of the asshole I've come to know as my Dad?" He stood there annoyed at Professor Snape's apparent lack of decency towards him.

Professor Snape stood there, hiding his surprise at the statement. "Why would you say something like that about your father?"

'Why would he say something about a man he didn't know? I have a ton of reasons to hate that man, but Potter has never met him.'

"I've heard some stories, none of which I liked," Harry said getting an angry glint in his eyes, although, his voice didn't reflect it.

Now, Professor Snape was curious. "Where did these stories come from?"

'No doubt, Alyssia ran her mouth to the first ear willing to listen.'

Harry looked unsure if he should answer but decided nothing would happen to either party. "Alyssia told me some stories about her dad's years here."

Professor Snape nodded him on, wishing for him to continue.

"I heard about my mother," Harry said, which brought a slight smile to both their faces, "and I heard about Lucius trying in vain to teach Sky to be a proper Slytherin."

The latter had Professor Snape coughing to cover up laughing. He remembered the unorthodox way Sky behaved ever since his first day here. It was the main reason Lucius hated him at first.

"You know lots of people." Harry was getting uncomfortable with the intense gaze Professor Snape was giving him. Alyssia decided to step in shift focus.

"The times I was in the hospital wing since I've been here, Harry came to visit me and he asked me what I knew of his parents."

'Just as I thought. That boy really should know more about where he came from, although, any stories about me had better stay unsaid.'

Professor Snape looked satisfied for the moment, "Let's go. It's already 10."

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"But why Dumbledore's office?" Harry asked trying to keep up with Professor Snape's long stride.

"Because that's where the portkey is. How else would we transport this many people to a place that far away?" Alyssia asked bored.

"Portkey?" Harry looked puzzled.

Alyssia looked at him astounded. "You're in your third year and you don't know what a portkey is?"

"Give him a break," Fred said.

"Yeah, they don't officially teach about it till you're in your fourth year," George said.

"Unless you know about them already," Fred finished, while George mimicked Fred's mischievous look with his own.

Professor Snape stood in front of the gargoyle. "Lemon drop."

The group of students piled onto the staircase, much to Professor Snape's dismay. "Do not shove."

'Get off of me!' Professor Snape thought vilely about the pile up.

Getting close to the office door, Professor Snape turned and yelled, "Cut it out you two or you'll stay here!"

"Well, he started it," George went off, trying to proclaim innocence.

"No, I didn't," Fred said back.

'ARGH! I can't believe I haven't even left the castle and I want to just turn and leave. I wanted to make Alyssia feel better; I do not care about anybody else. ESPECIALLY these three.' Professor Snape ranted in his mind about how this couldn't possibly get any worse.

'You, old man, bring a foul distaste to my mouth,' Professor Snape thought, as he greeted Professor Dumbledore with a stiff, "Morning."

"Good morning Severus," Dumbledore said with a twinkle in his blue eyes, and a smile upon his face.

Professor Snape knew he heard him. This encouraged Severus to continue his banter unbeknownst to the students.

"Morning Professor!" Fred and George exclaimed.

"It threatens to be an interesting day, doesn't it?" Fred quipped.

Professor Dumbledore laughed. "My suggestion to invite other students did not go unheard." Professor Dumbledore stood amused at the fact he was sending Severus Snape out in public with these four students.

'I hate you,' Professor Snape thought, as Professor Dumbledore retrieved the portkey.

Professor Dumbledore chuckled as he grabbed a weird statue thing.

"Why do you have a fertility statue in your office?" Alyssia asked cocking her head trying to figure out whose head was where.

'Dirty, old man, isn't it a bit late for you to be thinking such thoughts?' Professor Snape thought, as a rising sneer threatened to cut off his breathing.

"It was a gift from a friend of mine," Professor Dumbledore said as he looked at the statue.

"Sky?" George retorted.

"No, but it does seem like him doesn't it?" Professor Dumbledore smiled thinking of Sky's antics while at Hogwarts.

'He's going to be fine,' Professor Snape stated.

'You state that as if it's fact. Fact is something murky is up with his disappearance. If something happens to him...' Professor Dumbledore's thoughts hit a brick wall.

Professor Snape looked contemptuous, but evened his expression quickly.

"Well then, let's be off." Professor Snape spoke with authority and grabbed the statue, as did the other four students.

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I have the trip nearly written. I just wanted it on a separate chapter.

I hope you like it thus far, Reviews keep me motivated and can cause chapters to come faster!